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SCOPE

Private View: Monday, June 11, 10am-4pm
Daily Entry: Tuesday, June 12th – Sunday, June 17th, 2007 from 10am-8pm
Location: E-Halle, Erlenstrasse 15, CH-4058 Basel, http://www.e-halle.ch

Building on the success of its international art fair program, Scope is proud to announce the launch of the first SCOPE Basel Contemporary art fair, June 12 – June 17, 2007. Located in a 27,000 square-foot, post-industrial warehouse within walking distance of Art Basel 38, Scope Basel will present its most international fair focusing on emerging galleries from all over the world.

Alongside featured curation, screenings, and special projects, Scope Basel is an invitational fair chosen by an elected selection committee. Each committee member will be a representative from a particular city or region, inviting the most significant emerging galleries, curators, and artist projects, striving to scout the most emerging contemporary talent. Scope’s sixty-five international exhibitors will uphold its unique tradition of one-person and thematic group shows, bringing visitors a real-time international survey of the emerging contemporary art world available nowhere else.

Consistently redefining what an art fair is, Scope Art will introduce the Urban Nomad Project (UN Project), an underground grassroots film festival. Founded in Taipei in 2002, the festival will concentrate on films from North Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Myanmar, and Indonesia, and will include artists such as Chen Chieh-ren, Eko Nugroho, and Wholphin. Featuring alternative digital, DVcam, Flash and web-based films, The UN Project is fueled by a desire to create a community-oriented film event for alternative views, The Urban Nomad Project aims to break down the isolationist ‘black box’ theater mentality and spur awareness and debate.

Alexis Hubshman, President and Founder of Scope, is currently heading discussions with Verinigung interessierter Personen (V.i.P), a Basel-based non-profit for a joint project-launch. In an effort to connect neighborhoods to the planned city district of Erlenmatt, V.i.P organizes and oversees social and cultural activities, such as Sunday Markets and children’s programming.

Scope’s continued dedication to support the local artistic communities in which it visits is unprecedented: Scope Basel 2007 will work with local Swiss artists who will create large-scale installations that initiate viewers into the fair. Continuing its partnership with V.i.P, in 2008 the Scope Foundation will introduce the Emerging Architect Grant. A committee will choose nine to twelve international emerging architects to realize an eco-friendly village on a 25,000 square-foot outdoor space adjacent to Scope Basel; an alternative habitat in which Scope artists will live and work during the 2008 fair.

Since 2002, Scope presents at its International Art Fairs up-and-coming dealers, curators, and artists, alongside museum quality programming at locations in New York, London, Miami, Basel and the Hamptons. Scope’s continued mission is to turn viewers into users. Scope is dedicated to not only supporting the international emerging artistic community, but local artistic and not-for profit institutions.

Scope Basel Exhibitors
Ambrosino (Miami) • Anna Klinkhammer (Dusseldorf) • Annie Gentils (Antwerp) • Art Affairs (Amsterdam) • Art Space Witzenhausen (Amsterdam) • Birch Libralato (Toronto) • Bonelli Arte Contemporanea (Mantova) • brot.undspiele Galerie Berlin (Berlin) • Bryce Wolkowitz (New York) • Caren Golden Fine Art (New York) • CHARLIE SMITH london (London) • Chinese Contemporary (Beijing/New York) • Christopher Cutts (Toronto) • CR3MA (San Juan) • Cynthia Broan (New York) • DNA Galerie (Berlin) • Douz & Mille (Washington, DC) • Dunn and Brown Contemporary (Dallas) • Eric Dupont (Paris) • Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie (Zurich/Basel) • Feinkunst Krueger (Hamburg) • Fernando Pradilla (Madrid) • Forster Gallery (London) • Galerie Andreas Binder (Munich) • Galerie baer • Galerie Brigitte Schenk (Cologne) • galerie | christian roellin (St Gallen) • Galerie Karin Sutter (Basel) • Galerie Roemerapotheke (Zurich) • Galerie Roepke (Cologne) • Galerie Schuster (Berlin/Frankfurt) • Galerie Ulr
ich Fiedler (Cologne) • Galleria Barbara Mahler (Lugano) • Gregory Lind (San Francisco) • GRIZZLY (New York) • heliumcowboy artspace (Hamburg) • Houldsworth (London) • JACK THE PELICAN PRESENTS (Brooklyn) • Katharine Mulherin (Toronto) • Karpio Projects (San Jose) • Leo Bahia Arte Contemporanea (Belo Horizonte) • Magnan Emrich Contemporary (New York) • MARCdePUECHREDON (Basel) • Marlborough Chelsea (New York) • Mike Weiss (New York) • Moti Hasson Gallery (New York) • Priska C. Juschka Fine Art (New York) •,RARE (New York) • Regis Krampf (New York) • Sandroni Rey (Los Angeles) • StuArt gallery (Santiago) • Stux Gallery (New York) • TAKEFLOOR 404 & 502 (Tokyo) • The Flat Massimo Carasi (Milan) • The Storehouse Group (San Juan) • Umtrieb Galerie für aktuelle Kunst (Kiel) • Ursula Walbroel (Dusseldorf) • Vane (Newcastle Upon Tyne) • VANINA HOLASEK (New York) • Westbrook Gallery (London) • Yossi Milo (New York)

For a schedule and list of events, please go to http://www.scope-art.com/images/stories/basel.pdf

Scope Hamptons
July 26-29, 2007
Daily: Noon-8pm

East Hampton Studios–77 Industrial Road, Wainscott, NY 11937

EAST HAMPTON— Returning for its third year to the East End, Scope Hamptons will transform the 25,000 square-foot East Hampton Studios into a world-class art fair and destination-location for seasoned and fledgling collectors. With over 50 international established and emerging contemporary galleries from over 20 countries, Scope presents a full schedule of special events, performances and screenings, alongside museum-quality programming, creating what has become “The Hamptons weekend of Art”. Scope Hamptons and the Socrates Sculpture Park are proud to present Kids Scope, free Summer Outdoor Artmaking Programming. Taught at the fair by past and current exhibiting artists, the children learn fundamental and contemporary art-making techniques through hands-on activities. The Socrates Sculpture Park will be the main beneficiary for the Scope Hamptons benefit, which will take place on July 26th. For tickets, please contact Ellen Staller at Socrates Sculpture Park at 718.956.18
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For a list of events, please go to http://www.scope-art.com/images/stories/hamptons.pdf

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Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum

China Welcomes You …
Desires, Struggles, New Identities
Curators: Peter Pakesch, Katrin Bucher Trantow

Opening: Wednesday, June 6 / 7pm
June 7 – September 2, 2007
Tue – Sun 10am-6pm

China
Perspectives for the 21st Century
Symposium: June 22/23, 2007

Kunsthaus Graz am
Landesmuseum Joanneum
Lendkai 1, A–8020 Graz

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Everyone is talking about China. Reports on the development of the economy, the political situation, and also about the booming Chinese art market feature almost daily in the media and serve as a kind of attractant for curious Westerners. One major point of interest is the question of the Other, an emerging image of this unknown, massive, new player on the global field.

Beyond this general question, the exhibition China Welcomes You … at Kunsthaus Graz presents a selection of some fifteen artists, setting out to explore new identities that present China from very different perspectives, confirming some stereotypes and refuting others. At the same time, the exhibition sets out in search of the roots and precursors, bridges between here and there, between such a rich heritage of major historic upheavals in the twentieth century and the dynamic present situation. The exhibition, that fills the whole Kunsthaus Graz up to the panorama terrace Needle, features a broad spectrum of very different genres from installation to projection, painting and ceramic art that display and challenge their origin, sometimes subtly, sometimes unexpectedly ostentatiously. They induce us to rethink our own image of a stable, global present and its rules of art by examining such polarities as singularity versus copy, mass versus individual, or ethics versus artistic
freedom.

All of the exhibits are on show in Austria for the first time, indeed most of the projects were created specially for Kunsthaus Graz. Ai Weiwei, for example – who is even now causing quite a stir at this year’s Documenta with his project in which he invites 1001 Chinese people – presents a magnificently monumental piece in Space01 with his imposing porcelain installation created for Graz. Feng Mengbo brings his latest project about Chinese shadow theatre to Graz, building a bridge to the history of the Chinese world of gestic poetry with new media. Cao Fei, who will also be appearing at this year’s Venice biennial, focuses on the subject of economic boom and the question of individuality in her Whose Utopia installation (2006), thus addressing questions that have not only concerned China for decades but that are rather of world-wide relevance in the context of global economic systems. With these and other works, the exhibition China Welcomes You … shows that China – both in t
he past, reaching back to Marco Polo, and in the present – is a mirror in the definitions of culture, a country that both disturbs and attracts us. Different and yet so similar.

Artists:
Ai Wei Wei, Chen Zaiyan, Cao Fei, Duan Jianyu, Feng Mengbo, Guo Fengyi, Hu Xiao Yuan, Lu Hao, Sun Qinglin, Sun Yuan und Peng Yu, Yang Fudong, Wang Jianwei, Xie Nanxing, Xu Zhen, Zhang Peili, Zheng Guogu

As part of the exhibition, Kunsthaus Graz is organising a symposium entitled China. Perspectives for the 21st Century in co-operation with Akademie Graz and the daily newspaper Der Standard. The symposium focuses on different questions from the spheres of politics, economy and culture, bringing together such outstanding figures as Uli Sigg (former Swiss ambassador to China and important collector of contemporary Chinese art), Tao Bailiang (embassy counsellor for economy and trade, embassy of the PR China in Austria), or the expert on international law Gerd Kaminski (professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, at Beijing University, at Vienna University, and chairman of the Austrian-Chinese Society and consultant to the foreign ministry). The participants will discuss hopes, dangers and global differences in connection with the subject of the People’s Republic in its cultural and economic awakening.
Date: June 22/23, 2007
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Biennale of Sydney

16th Biennale of Sydney

REVOLUTIONS – FORMS THAT TURN

18 June – 7 September 2008
Artistic Director, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

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Presentation at Venice Biennale: Friday, 8 June 2007, 7.00–7.30pm at the Teatro Piccolo near the entrance to the Arsenale – in collaboration with Yokohama Triennale and Shanghai Biennale

The Biennale of Sydney has showcased contemporary art from Australia and around the world since 1973 and is one of the largest and most exciting contemporary visual arts events. The 2008 Biennale will be held at venues and sites throughout Sydney, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Museum of Contemporary Art.

REVOLUTIONS – FORMS THAT TURN
‘The impulse to revolt. Revolving, rotating, mirroring, repeating, reversing, turning upside down or inside out, changing perspectives. I imagine the 16th Biennale of Sydney as a constellation of historical and contemporary works of art that celebrate and explore these dynamics, both in art and life. Through installations, performances, films, texts, an evolving online venue, conversations and other events, Revolutions – Forms That Turn articulates the agency embedded in forms that express our desire for change. Such literal and formal devices are charted for their broader aesthetic, psychological, radical and political perspectives. Piero Manzoni’s Socle du Monde (Base of the World, 1961) lies more or less on the opposite side of the world from Sydney. What happens if we turn it upside-down?

‘The “space” explored by this exhibition is the gap between the first part of the title – revolutions – which suggests a directly political and content-based exhibition, and the subsequent phrase – forms that turn – which alternatively suggests the autonomy and isolation of the art object, spinning on its own and detached from daily life, or the energy and potential latent in forms themselves (turns that form). The first term collapses (is over-turned) into the second and within that gap perspective suddenly shifts, as when a joke is understood – causing unexpected laughter, a release of tension and a collapse into the comic dimension of radical and absolute presence. It is a space of rotation, confusion, revolt, insubordination, anarchy and disruption of order, a space of revolution.’ – Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is Artistic Director of the 2008 Biennale of Sydney and has been Chief Curator of Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art in Turin, Italy, since 2002. Christov-Bakargiev has written extensively on Italian and international art and is interested in the relationship between historical avant-gardes and contemporary art. Previously Senior Curator at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre, an affiliate of The Museum of Modern Art, Christov-Bakargiev is currently based in Turin, Sydney and New York.

For the 2008 Biennale of Sydney, Christov-Bakargiev will correspond with a number of curatorial comrades, including Gridthiya Gaweewong, Massimiliano Gioni, Raimundas Malasauskas, Jessica Morgan, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Russell Storer.

ANNOUNCING ART COMPASS 2008
Please join us for a presentation in Venice on Friday, 8 June 2007, 7.00–7.30pm at the Teatro Piccolo (near the entrance to the Arsenale)

The concepts for the 2008 Yokohama Triennale, 2008 Biennale of Sydney and 2008 Shanghai Biennale will be presented at the Teatro Piccolo. Art Compass 2008 – a collaboration between the Yokohama Triennale, Biennale of Sydney and Shanghai, Singapore and Gwangju Biennales – will also be announced.

For further information, please contact marketing@biennaleofsydney.com.au or visit http://www.biennaleofsydney.com.au

The Biennale of Sydney is supported by Transfield, the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy – an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments – the Australia Council for the Arts, Arts NSW and the City of Sydney. The Biennale of Sydney gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the many organisations and individuals that make the exhibition and its programs possible.

For more information go to: http://www.biennaleofsydney.com.au