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MADRID ABIERTO

MADRID ABIERTO 2008: CALL FOR ARTISTS

Limit Date: 15th June 2007

For more information:
Web: http://www.madridabierto.com
E-mail: abierto@madridabierto.com

The program of public art MADRID ABIERTO ( http://www.madridabierto.com ) opens the call for the project presentation for its 5th edition that will take place during the month of February of 2008. The program will produce a series of interventions of ephemeral or temporary character in the center of Madrid that will be selected among the offers received from this international opened summons. Also we include an specific call for audiovisual and sound works.

PARTICIPATION BASES:

The aim of this summon is to select artists to carry out temporary or brief interventions, including two specific projects for the builidings of La Casa de América and the Círculo de Bellas Artes, which will be included in Madrid Abierto with other invited projects and the sound and audiovisual works selected.

Interventions will take place at the same time as the ARCO fair, in February 2008, in Madrid, within the axes of Paseo de la Castellana - Paseo del Prado and Calle de Alcalá – Gran Vía.

The sound works will be broadcasting on Radio 3, of Radio Nacional de España, and audiovisual on the Canal Metro channel.

Artists from every country may participate, whether individually or in groups. In which case, they must name a representative.

Artistic interventions
Each participant must include the following documents:

B.P.S.22 space for contemporary creation

Kendell Geers
Auto-Da-Fé

17 March – 3 June 2007

B.P.S.22 space for contemporary creation
22, boulevard Solvay
6000 Charleroi, Belgium
Phone: 00 32 71 27 29 71
Fax: 00 32 71 27 29 70
http://bps22.hainaut.be

Since its opening in 2000, the B.P.S.22 space for contemporary creation of the Province of Hainaut, in Belgium, has always given priority to the forms of contemporary expression that focus on our current society. Therefore, the exhibitions programme attaches particular importance to those artists who treat global issues or socio-cultural phenomena, typical of our time (e.g. Jota Castro, Patrick Everaert, Johan Muyle or Fernando Alvim and Simon Njami’s project Next Flag. Reexistencia cultural generalizada). Conscious that curatorship today depends upon a local re-contextualisation of global issues, the B.P.S.22 team approaches its projects from a critical perspective of the world we live in today. This concept of culture as a vector of democracy also determines the museum’s acquisition policy. The collection is not only comprised of old art (e.g. Constantin Meunier) or modern art (e.g. René Magritte), but also a number of contemporary works (e.g. Félix Gmelin, Ar
t & Language, Deimantas Narkevicius). This mutual relationship offers an original perspective. By the end of 2008, the B.P.S.22 will become a permanent contemporary art museum.

Currently the B.P.S.22 is hosting the first solo exhibition in Belgium of the South African artist Kendell Geers. At each of his exhibitions, Kendell Geers draws his inspiration from the regional context to nourish his thoughts. For the exhibition of Charleroi, two distinct subjects, which can nonetheless be linked, emerged through historical anecdotes: the political use of violence and the fire. The first comes from a legend according to which two members of the Bonot gang, Edouard Carouy and Octave Garnier, are supposed to have lived in Charleroi, at the beginning of the last century, before joining the famous French anarchist. The second gave the exhibition its title, “Auto-Da-Fe”, in reference to King Charles II of Spain who, in 1666, had a fortress, named “Charle-roy” in his honour, erected in the village of Charnoy. In addition, Charles II was the backer of the largest auto-da-fé of the Spanish Inquisition.

The theme of fire, in the context of Charleroi, acquires a special connotation by referring to the industry whose high furnaces form an integral part of the landscape and the history. The historical ambivalence of fire, at the same time purifier and destroyer, is rediscovered in the allusion to the industrial landscape, where fire retains the same double meaning. This subject also serves as the guiding principle for the scenography which, thanks to the flexibility of the enormous stage (1200 meters squared) B.P.S.22 offers, is reconsidered for each exhibition and transforms the space.

Originally from Johannesburg in South Africa, Kendell Geers was profoundly affected by apartheid. He will always bear the guilt of this shameful past that he incorporates into his art. Provocative, through his works he inevitably approaches moral and political problems, while setting up critical reflection on the context of art, his methods of exhibition, on the artistic institution and its actors. A multidisciplinary artist, he creates objects, installations, and video works and gives performances. A product of his times, he explores and critiques our world head on, while putting people on guard against the alienation, subversive or obvious, that the objects, the images and the situations of our daily life can generate.

This exhibition results from a co-production between B.P.S.22 (Charleroi), the S.M.A.K. (Ghent), the Baltic (Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Lyon and the MART (Trento). On the occasion of this cycle of exhibitions, a new catalogue will be published in June 2007 (texts : Paulo Herkenhof, Christine Macel, Rudy Langmans and Jérôme Sans).

Contacts and information also available at our website: http://bps22.hainaut.be

B.P.S.22 space for contemporary creation
22, boulevard Solvay
6000 Charleroi, Belgium
Phone: 00 32 71 27 29 71
Fax: 00 32 71 27 29 70

For more information go to: http://bps22.hainaut.be

PRAGUE BIENNALE 3

PRAGUE BIENNALE 3
Glocal & Outsiders: Connecting Cultures in Central Europe

24 May - 16 September 2007
Opening: 24-26 May, 2007
Karlin Hall - Thamova 14 - Prague 8

In the labyrinth of Central Europe, collective memory and the boundaries of painting meet in Prague for the third year running.

Now in its third year, PRAGUEBIENNALE re-launches itself once more. Through a vast display of both recent and past works (from painting and photography to performance and installation art) this year’s edition aims to explore and pinpoint the most significant aspects of Central European art. The show displays works by artists young and old, new and affirmed, as well as covering the very movements that shaped the sixties and seventies.

Special exhibitions have been dedicated to Czech minimalism and Slovak actionism, which, hitherto, have not been documented on an international level.

Following upon the success new artists have achieved after participating in ‘Expanded Painting’ (PRAGUEBIENNALE veritably ‘baptised’ or, so to speak, ‘consecrated’ Andro Wekua, Matthias Weischer, Dana Schutz, Tal R, Victor Man and Wilhelm Sasnal), Expanded Painting 2, will present twenty emerging European artists.

There will be a special focus on the ‘School of Cluj’ in Romania, which, after Leipzig and Dresden, is proving to be a veritable goldmine of contemporary painters.

Moreover, the fair pays homage to three seminal artists: Above all, however, the true stars of PRAGUEBIENNALE3 are indeed the very cultures and minor stories of Central Europe.

Special Guests:
Marina Abramovic, Vanessa Beecroft, Shirin Neshat

EXPANDED PAINTING 2 (Curated by Helena Kontova and Giancarlo Politi):
Special homage: Carla Accardi
Dimitrios Antonitsis, Michael Bauer, Pablo Bronstein, Bonnie Camplin, Valerio Carrubba, Radu Comsa, Jiri David, Jules de Balincourt, Igor Eskinja, Adrian Ghenie, Charlie Hammond, Nate Lowman, Angelo Mosca, Djordje Ozbolt, Daniel Pitin, Pietro Roccasalva, Alessandro Roma, Matthieu Ronsse, Stefan Sandner, Serban Savu, Josh Smith, Ulla von Brandenburg.

DER PROZESS. Collective memory and social history. (Curated by Marco Scotini):
Janis Avotins, Zbynek Baladran, Chto Delat? / What is to be done?, Harun Farocki / Andrei Ujica, Luca Frei/Gruppo Parole e Immagini, Kaspars Goba, Ion Grigorescu, Dmitry Gutov, Iosif Kiraly, Armando Lulaj, David Maljkovic, Dan Mihaltianu, Ciprian Muresan, Vlad Nanca, Deimantas Narkevicius, Roman Ondak, Adrian Paci, Cristian Pogacean, Ian Tweedy, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, Vanghelis Vlahos, Martin Zet.

WHAT WENT WRONG (Curated by Andrea Bellini):
Four top Californian artists will explore Prague, its culture and history in their project in situ prepared during their three-week stay in Prague. Chris Beas, Pentti Monkkonen, Eric Wesley, Mario Ybarra Jr.

STORY TELLERS (Curated by Gea Politi and Sonia Rosso):
Art as Narration. Massimiliano Buvoli, Jeremy Deller, Luke Fowler, Mathew Sawyer, and Jonathan Monk.

ALIAS/ALIASES (Curated by Virginia Hackermann):
The project concentrates on different aspects of identity: specifically, on virtual identities. Kathleen Cleaver, Virginia Hackermann, Victor Lucas, Massimo Poma, Lilith Pomme.

GLOCAL OUTSIDERS (Curated by Jiri David, Vasil Artamonov):
provides a large view of recent contemporary art in the Czech and Slovak Republics. Jasper Alvaer, Vasil Artamonov / Alexej Klyuykov, Daniela Barackova, Ondrej Brody / Kristofer Paetau, Lada Gaziova, Eva Kotatkova, Jiri Kovanda, Ladvi, Dominik Lang, Vaclav Magid, Jan Mancuska, Marek Meduna, Jan Nalevka, Petr Pisarik, Reality, Evzen Simera, Jiri Skala, Vladimir Skrepl, Vaclav Stratil, Marek Ther, Jiri Tyn.

GLOCAL GIRLS. Young Czech and Slovak Women Photographers (Curated by Vladimir Birgus):
Barbora Balkova, Zuzana Blochova / Dita Lamacova, Daniela Dostalkova, Katerina Drzkova, Petra Feriancova, Sylva Francova, Sona Goldova, Andrea Kalinova, Marketa Kinterova, Alena Kotzmannova, Monika Kovacova, Barbora Kuklikova, Andrea Lhotakova, Barbora Mrazkova / Filip Lab, Lucia Nimcova, Martina Novozamska, Dita Pepe, Silvia Saparova, Stepanka Stein / Salim Issa.

LEMON BAR. Site Sensitive and Context specific Art from Slovakia (Curated by Juraj Carny and Lydia Pribisova)
Michal Cernusak, Anetta Mona Chisa / Lucia Tkacova, Mario Chromy, Juraj Dudas, Richard Fajnor, Viktor Freso, Miroslava Gaberova, Marian Grolmus, Lukas Harustiak, Dorota Kenderova, Marek Kvetan, Matus Lanyi, Stano Masar, Michal Moravcik, Ilona Nemeth.

CZECH MINIMALISM (Curated by Martin Dostal):
The development of the movement between the ’60s and ’80s: Milan Grygar, Stanislav Kolibal, Jiri Kovanda, Karel Malich, Karel Miler, Jan Mlcoch, Petr Stembera, Zdenek Sykora.

BETWEEN ACTION AND CONCEPT (Curated by Juraj Carny):
Milan Adamciak, Peter Bartos, Robert Cyprich, Stano Filko, Michal Kern, Julius Koller, Milos Laky, Alex Mlynarcik, Rudolf Sikora.

MONUMENT OF TRANSFORMATION, FRAGMENT#3 (Curated by Vit Havranek and Zbynek Baladran)
Zbynek Baladran, Kajsa Dahlberg, Sanja Ivekovic, Alexander Kiossev, Milica Tomic.

BALTIC MYTHOLOGIES (Curated by Laima Kreivyte and Luigi Fassi):
Emerging artists from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the context of a New Europe. Coolturistes, Merike Estna, Laura Garbstiene, Ugnius Gelguda, Kristina Inciuraite, Alice Kask, Kristine Kursisha, Katerina Neiburga, Mark Raidpere, Kriss Salmanis.

MACHO PAINTER (Curated by Andreas Schlaegel):
A reaction to the return of neo-academic male painting in Germany: Heike Beyer, Susanne Bürner, Berta Fischer, Marten Frerichs, Tine Furler, Jukka Korkeila, Kirstine Roepstorff, Andreas Schlaegel, Gunna Schmidt, Milena Vrtalova, Christine Würmell, Haegue Yang.

THE NEW ROMANIAN SCENE (Curated by Simona Nastac):
Presenting the most unusual Romanian artists. Matei Bejenaru, Victor Man, Ciprian Muresan, Sebastian Moldovan, Ioana Nemes.

BIZART TRAVEL AGENCY (Curated by Xu Zhen and Davide Quadrio):
Experience China and its contemporary society and culture. An agency specialised in tailored travel for museums, curators, artists, collectors and anybody who is interested in investing in Chinese Art.

FROM KOSOVO TO KALININGRAD (Curated by Aaron Moulton):
An extraordinary journey through Central Europe and the Ex-USSR. Luchezar Boyadjiev, Alexey Chebykin, Jakup Ferri, Ciprian Muresan, R.E.P. Group.

HUNGARIAN PROJECT (Curated by Kati Simon and Gergely Laszlo):
An exploration of new Hungarian art. Istvan Csakany, Andrea Schneemeier, Aniko Lorant, Marcell Esterhazy, Zsolt Fekete, Miklos Mecs / Borbala Sarai / Csaba Vandor.

Existential Mysticism
Existential tendencies through four generations of Czech artists.
(Curated by Dadja Altenburg-Kohl)
Vaclav Blaha, Bedrich Dlouhy, Daniel Pesta, Adam Stech.

Kinetic Art in Eastern Europe (Curated by Getulio Alviani)
Poland: Janusz Kapusta, Jerzy Grabowski, Ryszard Winiarski
Slovak Republic: Milan Dobes, Stepan Pala, Pavel Rudolf
Czech Republic: Hugo Demartini, Jean Kubicek, Radek Kratina
Hungary: Imre Bak, Janos Fajo, Istvan Haasz

Refusing Exclusion (Curated by James Colman)
‘Refusing Exclusion’, a short essay by Dr. Thomas Acton, will include five artists from two families of Romani and Irish Traveller extraction.
Daniel Baker, Celia Baker, Damian le Bas, Delaine Le Bas, Damian-James Le Bas.

OPEN SPACE 1 2007 (Curated by Giancarlo Politi, Helena Kontova, Jiri David, Juraj Carny)
Andrea Chrenova / Monika Haima Kovacova, Eja Deveckova, Pavla Gajdosikova, Lukas Machalicky, Jakub Matuska, Tereza Severova, Erik Sille, Tereza Velikova.

For further info: http://www.praguebiennale.org; info@praguebiennale.org; press@ praguebiennale.org
Tel. 39 02668 6150, 39 026887341 (Flash Art) or 420 224254435 (Prague Biennale Foundation)
http://www.praguebiennale.org
http://www.flashartonline.com

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