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Laboral

Laboral Centre for Art and Creative Industries is specifically focused on the production and exhibition of art, science, technology and creative industries. This interdisciplinary space pays special attention to workshops for vocational and professional training, and to research into the intersection between creativity and new technologies.

Opening Programme

FEEDBACK
An exhibition focusing on art responsive to instructions, input, or its environment and creates one possible narrative of the history of ‘new media art’. Featuring historical and current art works that are all based on technology and systems of response, the exhibition traces the history of contemporary artistic practice involving digital technologies.

Curators: Christiane Paul, Curator of New Media Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Jemima Rellie, Director of Digital Programmes, Tate Modern, London
Curatorial Advisor: Charlie Gere, Research Professor in New Media, University of Lancaster
Exhibition Design: Leeser Architecture

GAMEWORLD
Curator: Carl Goodman, Deputy Director, Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria (New York)
Associate Curator: Daphne Dragona
Curatorial Advisor: Helen Stuckey
Exhibition Design: Leeser Architecture

Gameworld explores the videogame as a designed experience and cultural force. The exhibition features a selection of historical games recognized for their design innovation, alternative and experimental games that explore the possibilities of the medium, and artworks that demonstrate videogames’ influence on modern life.

LABcyberspaces
Following an open invitation to artists all over the world to present works with a major component of digital creation and net art. The entries received will be evaluated by a jury and the 10 selected works will be put on show as a snapshot or overview of artistic creation associated with technology and cyberspace as new challenges and new frontiers.

Jury: Alex Adriaansens, Director, V2 and DEAF, Rotterdam; Rosina Gómez-Baeza, Director of laboral Centre for Art and Creative Industries, Gijón (Asturias); Christiane Paul, Curator of New Media Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Gerfried Stocker, Art Director, Ars Electronica, Linz
Exhibition Design: Quero-Kawamura-Ganjavian

EXTENSIONS-ANCHORS
This project is an open coordinated network of exhibitions and/or interventions conceived to connect the new Centre for Art and Creative Industries with its surrounding environs and artists, with a goal of recovering the tradition of dialogue between arts and industry. The project will feature work by young artists or those particularly engaged with non-commercial and minority idioms, with a total of fourteen exhibitions or interventions in two phases.
Curator: Francisco Crabiffosse, independent curator, Oviedo

THE E-IMAGE ERA
International essayists and thinkers ponder the reach of the electronic image in art today. Pencilled in are François Bucher, Jordan Crandall, Pedro A. Cruz, Alexander Galloway, Anna María Guasch, Lev Manovich, Juan Martín Prada and Jose Luis Brea, Siegfried Zielinsky
Series Director: José Luis Brea

Other Programmes

LED THROWIES WORKSHOP
Collaborators: Graffiti Research Lab at Eyebeam R&D OpenLab
Two members of the Graffiti Research Lab will lead a workshop to instruct monitors in the basic principles of putting together LED Throwies. The workshops will be open to youth organisations to show young people how to make them. The workshop will conclude with a LED throwing session with large numbers of young people throughout the whole of Asturias.

LEV FESTIVAL (Laboratorio de Electrónica Visual)
Organised: Datatrón
Contemporary digital art and experimental music show, a first in Asturias, with the participation of precursors of electronic music and up and coming names.

For more information go to: http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/portal.do?IDM=23&NM=1

Austrian Cultural Forum New York

FOR A SPECIAL PLACE:
DOCUMENTS AND WORKS FROM THE GENERALI FOUNDATION COLLECTION

February 21 – May 3 | 2007
Gallery hours:
Monday – Saturday | 10 am – 6 pm

Austrian Cultural Forum New York
11 East 52nd Street
New York, NY 10022
212 319 5300
http://www.acfny.org

Opening reception: Tuesday, February 20 | 2007 | 6 pm – 8 pm
Remarks at 7 pm
VALIE EXPORT will perform her expanded cinema film action Up+ Down+ On+ Off (1968)

Panel Discussion: Saturday | February 24 | 2007 | 5 – 7 pm

Exhibition dates: February 21 – May 3 | 2007
Gallery hours: Monday – Saturday | 10 am – 6 pm

Gottfried Bechtold
Ernst Caramelle
Maria Eichhorn
VALIE EXPORT
VALIE EXPORT / Peter Weibel
Harun Farocki
Andrea Fraser
Isa Genzken
Dan Graham / Robin Hurst
Hans Haacke
Hans Hollein
Werner Kaligofsky
Klub Zwei
Jaroslaw Kozlowski
Edward Krasinski / Eustachy Kossakowski
Dorit Margreiter / Mathias Poledna / Florian Pumhösl
Gordon Matta-Clark
Dora Maurer
Gustav Metzger
Ewa Partum
Walter Pichler
Adrian Piper
Martha Rosler
Allan Sekula
Franz West
Heimo Zobernig

On February 20, 2007 the Austrian Cultural Forum will open FOR A SPECIAL PLACE: DOCUMENTS AND WORKS FROM THE GENERALI FOUNDATION COLLECTION. The Generali Foundation, based in Vienna (http://foundation.generali.at/), presents a small but exclusive selection of its extensive collection at the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York (ACF). Contrary to most public collections, the Generali Foundation Collection is very specific, with a focus on Conceptual art, crossovers between art, architecture, and design, and artistic practices critically analyzing (mass) media and addressing social and political issues.

Established in 1988, the Generali Foundation promotes critical dialogue between the public and contemporary works of art, pursuing a distinctive program of exhibitions and publications, often in the context of broader research projects. The Generali Foundation Collection, which has been expanding steadily for nearly 20 years, represents the core activity of the Foundation and comprises more than 2,100 works by approximately 170 artists. Installation works, film, photography, and video; in general, media that allow the production of art as a process have defined this unique collection for many years. Key works by pioneering Austrian artists of the 1960s and 1970s, such as VALIE EXPORT, Hans Hollein, Walter Pichler, Gerhard Rühm, and Peter Weibel comprise the core of this collection. These works, some of which were considered radical in their time, are juxtaposed with works by international artists, such as Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Gordon Matta-Clark, Martha Rosler, and yo
unger artists including Maria Eichhorn, Andrea Fraser, Klub Zwei, Dorit Margreiter, Mathias Poledna, and Florian Pumhösl. Over the past years, special attention has been paid to artists and works from former socialist countries near Austria dealing with these topics. An important group of works by artists including Sanja Ivekovic, Július Koller, Jaroslaw Kozloswki, Edward Krasinski, Ewa Partum, Marjetica Potrc, and Goran Trbuljak has thus entered the collection.

FOR A SPECIAL PLACE is obviously a reference to the extraordinary site of the Austrian Cultural Forum. It also refers to space as the element that connects the displayed documents and art works while at the same time reflecting the special context of the Generali Foundation in general. The reference to space is sometimes present in artistic procedures related to the possibilities and methodologies of art practice; some of the works offer a pointed and concrete critique of contemporary social constructs or sociopolitical situations. Within the very limited space at ACF, this exhibition is not intended as a "best of" show of the Generali Foundation Collection, but rather, the exhibition’s discursive presentation highlights links between individual works in this "corporate" collection.

Exhibition Curator: Sabine Breitwieser, Director, Generali Foundation
Assistant Curator: Bettina Spörr, Generali Foundation

An exhibition catalogue will be published in conjunction with the exhibition.

Concurrent with the exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum, seminal works by
Gordon Matta-Clark from the Generali Foundation Collection are on view in the exhibition Gordon Matta-Clark at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The Austrian Cultural Forum will be exhibiting Untitled (Proposals for Museum of Modern Art, New York) - ten drawings Matta-Clark made in 1978 featuring his ideas for a then planned extension of the MoMA.

Panel Discussion
Saturday | February 24 | 2007 | 5–7 pm
Organized by the Generali Foundation Vienna in cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum, New York

TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN? – CAN POLITICAL AND SOCIO-CRITICAL ART "SURVIVE" IN
AN INCREASINGLY COMMERCIALIZED ENVIRONMENT?

Welcome by Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Director ACF, New York
Introduction by Sabine Breitwieser, Director Generali Foundation, Vienna
Alexander Alberro, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Florida, Gainesville
Andrea Fraser, Artist, Los Angeles
Mathias Poledna, Artist, Los Angeles
Martha Rosler, Artist, New York
Elisabeth Sussman, Curator, and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Ann Temkin, Curator, Department of Painting & Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Moderator: Chris Dercon, Director Haus der Kunst, Munich

Free admission. Reservations are required for the panel discussion.
Contact rsvp@acfny.org or 212 319 5300 x 222.

This exhibition is supported by

Generali Group Austria | Generali Group Poland | Generali US Branch

Admission to all ACF exhibitions, concerts, and other events is free.
Gallery Hours: Monday through Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm.

The Austrian Cultural Forum is located at 11 East 52nd Street in Manhattan. For additional information call 212 319 5300 or visit http://www.acfny.org.

Directions
Subway:
E, V Train to Fifth Avenue/53rd Street
B, D, F, V Train to 47-50 Street/Rockefeller Center
E, V, 6 Train to 51st Street/Lexington Avenue
Bus: M 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 to 53rd Street

For more information go to: http://www.acfny.org

ZKM | Center for Art and Media

Imagination Becomes Reality
Expanded painting.
Works from the Goetz Collection
February 17, 2007 through
May 1, 2007

ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Lorenzstrasse 19
76135 Karlsruhe, Germany

phone:+49(0)721–8100–1200
info@zkm.de
http://www.zkm.de

Painting has long been more than oil on canvas. As a source of inspiration and confrontation, it marks a point of departure for numerous contemporary artistic trends. The borders between the various artistic genres and media are hereby fluid: mixing and expanding one another, developing synergies and rendering the usual categories obsolete are not only the classical genres of architecture, sculpture, and painting, but also of more recent media such as photography, video, computer, and installation art. Collector Ingvild Goetz remarks: “Interesting in this is that many artists expand the medium of painting in sculpture, photography, and video; that is, they ‘paint’ on different surfaces, whereas conversely, painters often first generate their pictures on computers to then ultimately transfer them to canvas.”

The five-part exhibition series “Imagination Becomes Reality” by the Goetz Collection, Munich focuses on the crucial influence that painting has had on other areas of art. For the past two years, this series has offered the opportunity to discover painting in its most various expressive forms and techniques and has clarified, based on astonishing juxtapositions with contemporary artworks, the differences as well as the shared features of these media. Each of the exhibition’s sections, divided into theme-based groups, including new media, architecture and spatial experience, borrowings and subjective appropriation, and narration, presented works by five to ten artists.

The sixth and final exhibition in Karlsruhe will now show, on the entire ground floor of the ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, a selection of works by the 39 artists who have participated thus far, rounded out by eleven additional artists.

This makes it possible to point out connections between individual sections of the series that were hitherto expressed only in the catalogues. The programmatic work “Restoration” (1993) by Canadian artist Jeff Wall will introduce this summary exhibition. In Wall’s work “the painted panorama as mass media and precursor to film is present as is photography and picture production”, as Head of the Museum of Contemporary Art Gregor Jansen explains. Jansen continues: “A stringent link to Western art history of the past fifty years thus arises in an interplay with the collection presented at ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, which, at the same time, provides an excellent way to enter into the issues of current art’s understanding of images.”

Following the success of the exhibition “fast forward. Media Art Collection Goetz” in Winter 2003/04, this is the second cooperation with this internationally prominent private collection, whose collection activities extend to the entire diversity of media used in contemporary forms of artistic expression. Whereas “fast forward” at the ZKM | Media Museum concentrated exclusively on the collection’s video works, this time, painting is at the forefront as a component and starting point for artistic creation in all media.

Ingvild Goetz is responsible for the exhibition concept and will curate the show together with Stephan Urbaschek, Director of the Goetz Collection, and Gregor Jansen, Head of the ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art.

Accompanying the exhibition will be the sixth and final catalogue with essays and statements by internationally renowned authors. Also offered as a package are all six catalogue volumes together with a limited artist’s edition graphic work by André Butzer, Thomas Helbig, Markus Selg, Tal R, and Veron Urdarianu.

Participating artists:
Franz Ackermann, Olaf Breuning, André Butzer, James Casebere, David Claerbout, Nigel Cooke, Brice Dellsperger, Peter Doig, Inka Essenhigh, Barnaby Furnas, Julian Göthe, Wade Guyton/Kelley Walker, Eberhard Havekost, Mathilde ter Heijne, Thomas Helbig, Lothar Hempel, Barnaby Hosking, Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchler, William Kentridge, Jochen Kuhn, Mark Leckey, Zilla Leutenegger, Rosilene Luduvico, Loretta Lux, Fabian Marcaccio, Ivan Morley, Frank Nitsche, Jacco Olivier, Hans Op de Beeck, Raymond Pettibon, Lari Pittman, Magnus Plessen, Michael Raedecker, Jörg Sasse, Wilhelm Sasnal, Thomas Scheibitz, Dana Schutz, Markus Selg, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, Thaddeus Strode, Hiroshi Sugito, Tal R, David Thorpe, Veron Urdarianu, Jeff Wall, Matthias Weischer, and Xia Xiaowan.

Opening hours:
Wed-Fri 10 am – 6 pm
Sat, Sun 11 am – 6 pm
Mon, Tue closed

Guided tours:
Sun 1 pm

More information:
http://www.zkm.de/imagination; http://www.sammlung-goetz.de

Press contact
Irina Koutoudis
phone: +49(0)721–8100–1220
fax: +49(0)721–8100–1139
e-mail: presse@zkm.de

For more information go to: http://www.zkm.de/imagination