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Bonniers Konsthall

Against Time
September 12 - November 25

Bonniers Konsthall
Torsgatan 19, S-113 90 Stockholm
Tel: 46 87 36 42 42 Fax: 46 83 02 387

http://www.bonnierskonsthall.se

On September 12 this autumn’s main group exhibition Against Time opens at Bonniers Konsthall. The exhibition gathers 20 artists and authors who, from different perspectives and using different methods, work with time, history and storytelling. Common to them all is a fascination to recreate the past; a past that is reinterpreted, re-used and given new meanings through creative rewritings and new writings. The exhibition questions the methods of storytelling: how is continuity created, how is it broken down, are there other ways of telling? But it is also concerned with the way we create history through our narratives and with the function that the image and the reconstruction of the past performs in the present.

A main theme in the exhibition is an interest for literature’s forms of narration and its function in contemporary visual art. The exhibition is devised as a crossover between visual art and literature in which several of those contributing to the exhibition also work as fictional authors. An important element in the exhibition is the comprehensive anthology Anachronisms in which the artists and authors participate. Their respective roles overlap in some cases in the same way that their contributions shift between text and image.

Against Time is an exhibition where time is an expressed dimension. The architecture devised for the exhibition by the Swedish architectural firm SPRIDD emphasises this by leaving a space for reading to occupy the heart of a labyrinthine series of rooms. It underscores the artists’ play with time and history, and counteracts the Konsthalle’s transparency and clarity by using textiles to create darkness. A wide-ranging programme of readings, performances, discussions and lectures will be given during the course of the exhibition. Several of the contributing artists have produced new work especially for the exhibition.

Contributors:
Ulla von Brandenburg (Germany), Gerard Byrne (Ireland), Marcel van Eeden (The Netherlands), Annika von Hausswolff (Sweden), Johannes Heldén (Sweden), Leif Holmstrand (Sweden), Martin Karlsson (Sweden), Fabian Kastner (Sweden), Joachim Koester (Denmark), Robert Kusmirowski (Poland), Lotta Lotass (Sweden), Ján Mancuska (Czech Republic), Melvin Moti (The Netherlands), Gerald Murnane (Australia), Lina Selander (Sweden), Marie Silkeberg (Sweden), Johan Thurfjell (Sweden), Dubravka Ugresic (Croatia), Per Wizén (Sweden) and Ulrika Minami Wärmling (Sweden).

Curator for the exhibition is director of Bonniers Konsthall, Sara Arrhenius.

For more information and high-resolution images please visit http://www.bonnierskonsthall.se

Wednesday Evenings at Bonniers Konsthall
Five Wednesday evenings during Against Time.
Upcoming evenings in September and October:

Wed Sep 19
Matter Out of Time
Something is happening with literature. No longer contained by the covers of a book, it takes its place in space and becomes a part of visual art. Some of the writers and artists from the exhibition will read and perform. An expanded literature makes its voice heard.

Participants: Leif Holmstrand, Johannes Heldén, and Marie Silkeberg.
Introduced and concluded by Director Sara Arrhenius.

Wed Oct 3
Copying Correctly
There is an ongoing discussion on authenticity and plagiarism. The writer Fabian Kastner has published the novel Oneirine which consists of quotations without references. The artist Martin Karlsson draws our attention to anachronistic details in a series of photographs with motifs from the open-air museum Skansen. We will discuss recycling and copyright in art and literature.

Participants: Sara Arrhenius, Magnus Bergh, Martin Karlsson, and Fabian Kastner. Moderator: Gabriella Håkansson.

For more information go to: http://www.bonnierskonsthall.se

Frac Bourgogne

Frances Stark
The Fall of Frances Stark
September 22th to January 12th, 2007
Opening : Friday 21th
September from 6 pm

Opening Hours: Monday to Saturday from
2 pm to 6 pm (except December 24th and 31th)
Guided Tour : Saturday 10th November,
2007 - 3 pm - free entry.

http://www.frac-bourgogne.org

The Burgundy Regional Contemporary Art Collection [FRAC Bourgogne] is playing host, for the very first time in France, to a solo retrospective of the West Coast-born American artist, Frances Stark (born in Los Angeles in 1967). Titled The Fall of Frances Stark, this exhibition describes her approach, between 1993 and today, and brings together some fifty works either belonging to the artist or coming from different collections, public and private alike. Frances Stark’s work includes paintings, collages and videos, combined with bits of writings and letters. The artist thinks and rethinks about the artistic process in her writings, questioning the concept and praxis of repetition, reproduction, and accumulation. So in her obsessive and fragile collages, language is forever taking on different malleable forms, producing an unusual oeuvre somewhere between poetry, visual arts and references to her own life.

Through her activities as both artist and writer, in which she invests herself equally, Frances Stark strives to create close links between art and literature. The springboard for this show (presented successively at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, and then at Culturgest in Lisbon) is, incidentally, the publication of a book about her visual works, titled Collected Works, complementing the book Collected Writings 1993-2003 published four years back.

Collected Works has been devised in tandem with the preparation of the exhibition. Frances Stark experiments in this dual project with the difference between reading a text on a wall or in a book, and the difference between touching and seeing a visual work in a book. (…)

Frances Stark’s method is deeply contemporary in the way in which it links together essential thoughts and stories, which are apparently opposed, and no longer have any validity as such in the present-day world. Her references to modernity and its radical practices do not prevent her from referring to her debt to romanticism. There is real lyricism in her evocation of nature, sketched landscapes, forests of lines and sentences, and trees of letters, and in the recurrent presence of animals (monkey, skunk, snail and various birds) as metaphors of man and his fragile condition. But we also find categorization, that well known reflective praxis of conceptual artists, by way of boxes, file cabinets and other computer age symbols, which are at once places for organizing everyday things, including masses of papers and many things in progress, as well as the construction of thought with its "pigeonholes" and its arborescences.(…)

Frances Stark’s different works come across as small successive forms in an apparent discontinuity, and yet they form a large unit. Through the various scattered features, which give the onlooker/reader free rein in their movements, she describes the distance of the subject from herself and from the world. The surprising title chosen for this show is "The Fall" and below, in smaller lettering, "of Frances Stark". Through her reference to the eponymous rock group, Frances Stark plays with this reference to a tour by a musical group (whence the choice of the poster stuck on a wall to illustrate the invitation), because this exhibition is being shown in three venues, as she also plays with the meaning of the name of the group itself, fall or autumn. She thus has some fun and games with what ordinarily would represent a first retrospective exhibition, the highpoint of a career.

Text by Claire Legrand, manager of the visitor’s department
Translated by Simon Pleasance

To see the whole text: http://www.frac-bourgogne.org/

Burgundy FRAC
(Regional Contemporary Art
Collection of Burgundy)
49 rue de Longvic / F-21000 Dijon
T : +33 (0)3 80 67 18 18
F : +33 (0)3 80 66 33 29
infos@frac-bourgogne.org

Supporting Bodies : The Minister of Culture (DRAC : Regional Direction of Cultural Affairs of Burgundy), the Regional Council of Burgundy and the General Council of the Côte d’Or.

The Fall of Frances Stark is being organized by Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, in association with the FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, and Culturgest Lisbon.

For more information go to: http://www.frac-bourgogne.org

ART FORUM BERLIN 2007

ART FORUM BERLIN 2007
The International Fair for
Contemporary Art
29 September - 3 October, 2007
Opening: 28 September, 2007

http://www.art-forum-berlin.com

ART FORUM BERLIN 2007 proudly presents a stunning line-up for its 12th edition

The 12th edition of ART FORUM BERLIN - International Fair for Contemporary Art — opens its doors September 28th, 2007.

Presenting a more stringent line-up of international galleries than ever, the 12th ART FORUM BERLIN confirms itself to be the most fascinating and innovative art fair in Europe dedicated to contemporary art. Works by more than 2,100 artists in all media will be on view, presented by 136 galleries from 23 countries drawn from four continents. A wide range of extraordinary stand concepts and individual presentations, and a full range of discoveries compose the outstanding character of the Berlin art fair. The Berlin Senate for Economics’ "Project Future" will honor the achievement of participants by donating two prizes for the best gallery stands.

For the first time the fair introduces all Freestyle Gallery Stands on a joint platform in Hall 11.2, adjacent to the regular galleries’ parcours. In a brand new setting each project will be presented in the best possible ways.

Collectors, curators, and critics from around the globe have announced their visit to the fair and
Berlin — Europe’s most progressive art metropolis. Riding a wave of immense popularity, Berlin has attracted more professionals and art lovers than ever to come and enjoy contemporary art and the city.

Galleries:
Abel, Berlin | Adamski, Aachen | Akinci, Amsterdam | Alon Segev, Tel Aviv | Amerika, Berlin | Andersen, Copenhagen | Anhava, Helsinki | Anita Beckers, Frankfurt/Main | Arndt & Partner, Berlin/Zurich | Asbaek, Copenhagen | Hubert Bächler, Zurich | Anne Barrault, Paris | Guy Bärtschi, Geneva | Guido W. Baudach, Berlin | Jürgen Becker, Hamburg | Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen | Marianne Boesky, New York | Bortolami, New York | Breeder, Athens | Broadway 1602, New York | Spencer Brownstone, New York | Ellen de Bruijne, Amsterdam | Lena Brüning, Berlin | Buchmann, Berlin | carlier|gebauer, Berlin | Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles | China Art Objects, Los Angeles | Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin | Christina Wilson, Copenhagen | COMA, Berlin | CONTEMPORARY FINE ARTS, Berlin | Cortex Athletico, Bordeaux | Crone, Berlin | Isabella Czarnowska, Berlin | Erika Deák, Budapest | Volker Diehl, Berlin | Dogenhaus, Leipzig | doggerfisher, Edinburgh | Anselm Dreher, Berlin |
Dvir, Tel Aviv | EIGEN + ART, Berlin/Leipzig | Frank Elbaz, Paris | Elizabeth Dee, New York | ESPAI 2NOU2, Barcelona | FrancoSoffiantino, Turin | Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Cologne | Friedrich, Basel | Gazonrouge, Athens | Annie Gentils, Antwerp | Vera Gliem, Cologne | Laurent Godin, Paris | Goff + Rosenthal, Berlin/New York | Alexander Gray, New York | Christopher Grimes, Santa Monica | Grimm|Rosenfeld, Munich | Karin Guenther, Hamburg | Hammelehle & Ahrens, Cologne | Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart | Erna Hecey, Brussels/Luxembourg | Anna Helwing, Los Angeles | i8, Reykjavik | in Situ, Paris | Michael Janssen, Cologne/Berlin| Johnen, Berlin | K Galleri, Oslo | Iris Kadel, Karlsruhe | Kamm, Berlin | GEORG KARGL FINE ARTS, Vienna | Ben Kaufmann, Munich/Berlin | KICKEN BERLIN, Berlin | Peter Kilchmann, Zurich | Kirkhoff, Copenhagen | Andrew Kreps, New York | KRINZINGER PROJEKTE, Vienna | Krobath Wimmer, Vienna | Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin | Stella Lohaus, Antwerp | Patricia Low, Gstaad | magnus müller, Berlin | Mai 36, Zurich | Marc Berville, Paris | Martin Asbaek, Copenhagen | mirko mayer, Cologne | Kamel Mennour, Paris | Martin Mertens, Berlin | Karlheinz Meyer, Karlsruhe | Francesca Minini, Milan | MOGADISHNI, Copenhagen | MOTIVE, Amsterdam | Christian Nagel, Cologne/Berlin | Nathalie Obadia, Paris | Nina Menocal, Mexico | Alexander Ochs, Berlin/Beijing | oechsner, Nuremberg | Patrick Painter, Santa Monica | David Pestorius, Brisbane | PIEROGI, New York/Leipzig | Praz-Delavallade, Paris | Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Hamburg | Michel Rein, Paris | RONMANDOS, Rotterdam | Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg/Paris | Rubicon, Dublin | Jette Rudolph, Berlin | Aurel Scheibler, Berlin | André Schlechtriem, New York | Thomas Schulte, Berlin | Otto Schweins, Cologne | Senda, Barcelona | Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg/Beirut | Suzy Shammah, Milan | Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf | Slewe, Amsterdam | Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow | Springer & Winckler, Berlin | Olaf Stüber, Berlin | TaiK, Helsinki | Barbara Thumm, Berlin | Tim van Laere, Antwerp | VAN HORN, Düsseldorf | veracortes, Lisbon | Susanne Vielmetter, Culver City | Nadja Vilenne, Liège | VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam | Wako, Tokyo | Ursula Walbröl, Düsseldorf | Klara Wallner, Berlin | Jan Wentrup, Berlin | Johann Widauer, Innsbruck | Eva Winkeler, Frankfurt/Main | Jan Winkelmann/Berlin, Berlin | Wohnmaschine, Berlin | Thomas Zander, Cologne | Zderzak, Krakow | Michael Zink, Munich | Zwinger, Berlin

The presentation is completed by ART FORUM BERLIN’s signature. Site-specific artist lounges will be conceived this year by Mladen Bizumic, Coco Kuehn, Daniela Brahm and Joel Morrison, as well as Dharmesh Patel and Marty McElveen, prize winning artists of Cranbrook University.

The fair’s fourth special exhibition is curated by Ami Barak, the Artistic Director of the Art Department of the City of Paris. His show House Trip focuses on the intimate relationship between art, architecture, and design resulting from a growing artistic interest in Modernism. On nearly 2000 sqm exhibition space, 56 artists from 18 countries will be presented in a setting of a temporary house.

Participating Artists: Saâdane Afif / Atelier van Lieshout / Maja Bajevic / Ulla von Brandenburg / Eric Brown / Mircea Cantor / Keren Cytter / Jan De Cock / Krijn de Koning / Marcelline Delbecq / Götz Diergarten / Jürgen Drescher / Tim Eitel / Jean-François Fourtou / Fabrice Gygi / Jitka Hanzlová / Swetlana Heger / Séverine Hubard / Jim Isermann / Lisa Junghanss / Talia Keinan / Mark Kent / Peter Kogler / Susanne Kühn / Lamarche & Ovize / Marko Lehanka / Lucas Lenglet / Zilla Leutenegger / Anna Malagrida / Victor Man / Rita McBride / Wesley Meuris / Ivan Moudov / Shahryar Nashat / Warren Neidich / Fritz Panzer / Maria Pask / Katja Pfeiffer / Marjetica Potrc / Ricarda Roggan / RothStauffenberg / Vittorio Santoro / Yorgos Sapountzis / Bojan Sarcevic / Gitte Schäfer / Zineb Sedira / Miri Segal / Wael Shawki / Francesco Simeti / Markus Sixay / Veron Urdarianu / Els Vanden Meersch / Ina Weber / Franz West / Erwin Wurm / Joseph Z
ehrer.

Visitors will experience inspiring fair days with 10 excellent ART FORUM BERLIN TALKS featuring renowned international art experts. On the panels will be seen and heard the curators and museum directors Hans Ulrich Obrist, Adam Szymczyk, Jean-Hubert Martin, Christian Schoen, Nina Moentmann, Doreet Harten as well as auction house experts Michaela Neumeister, Cheyenne Westphal, art critics Rose-Maria Gropp, Georgina Adams, André Rottmann as well as artists Angela Ferreira, Danius Kesminas and Ene-Liis Semper and many more.

Berlin’s institutions beckon with a series of major exhibitions by international artists parallel to the 12th ART FORUM BERLIN. On September 27th the Prize of the National Gallery for Young Art will be awarded to one of the short-listed artists Ceal Floyer, Tino Sehgal, Jeanne Faust or Damián Ortega. Solo exhibitions of Brice Marden and Roman Signer will also be on view at Hamburger Bahnhof. These are complimented by Phoebe Washburn (Deutsche Guggenheim) and the visiting exhibition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York with its extraordinary collection of 19th Century French Masterpieces (Neue Nationalgalerie) to mention only a few.

The evenings after the fair hours will be busy with a multitude of openings, receptions, and related events all over Berlin. One of the highlights will be the ART FORUM BERLIN Party on September 29th.

ART FORUM BERLIN 2007 - The International Fair for Contemporary Art - will take place for the 12th time from September 29th - October 3rd, 2007 at the Berlin Exhibition Grounds. The Professional Preview will be held on Friday, September 28th, 2007.

Constantly updated and instantly accessible information can be found on our website http://www.art-forum-berlin.com

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Tel. +49 - 30 - 3038 1834
Fax +49 - 30 - 3038 1830

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For more information go to: http://www.art-forum-berlin.com