artbrussels 2008

artbrussels 2008
Friday 18 - Monday 21 April 2008

Daily from 11am to 7pm

Preview and Vernissage on Thursday 17 April (by invitation only)

Finissage on Monday 21 April, from 11am to 10pm

Venue: Brussels Expo – Hall 1 & 3
Place de Belgique 1 – 1020 Brussels

http://www.artbrussels.be

Artbrussels. The European platform for contemporary art.

Located in the heart of Europe, artbrussels will welcome 170 galleries from 23 countries, representing contemporary art by more than 2000 international artists. More than 30.000 visitors will travel to Brussels to be part of the spring’s most exciting contemporary art event.

Next to the great number of exhibitors participating for many years, artbrussels is proud to announce the arrival of 59 galleries participating for the first time and thus contributing to the uniqueness of the fair. Other than works by internationally renowned values, collectors, art critics and curators love the fair for the multitude of new talent and trends to be discovered.

An impressive number of Belgian established artists and upcoming talent such as Hans Op de Beeck, Koen Van den Broek, Jan Vercruysse, Wim Delvoye, Jan Fabre, Michel François, Panamarenko, Walter Swennen and Marthe Wéry , are joined by great artists from abroad amongst who Louise Bourgeois, Wang Du, Damien Hirst, Julian Opie, Tony Oursler, Robin Rhode, Ed Ruscha, Sam Samore, Cindy Sherman, Stephen Shore, Su-Mei Tse, Franz West and Erwin Wurm.

The exhibition ‘Ephemeral Fringes’, a project curated by Filip Luyckx, consists of art works and installations created especially for the event and spread throughout the fair.
Participating artists are: Georges Adéagbo (Benin), Michaël Aerts (Belgium), Philip Metten (Belgium), Veronica Brovall (Sweden / Germany), Rainer Ganahl (Austria), Fabrice Gygi (Switzerland), Honoré d’O (Belgium), Nedko Solakov (Bulgaria) and Koen Vanmechelen (Belgium).

Interesting debates concentrated on Saturday 19 April and an extensive OFF-programme including great exhibitions in museums and visits to private collections add an extra value to the fair and turn it into the exciting event it has become.

PARTICIPATING GALLERIES

Aeroplastics Brussels | Aidan Moscow | Albion London | Aliceday Brussels | Andersen_S Copenhagen | Asbaek Projects Copenhagen | Aschenbach & Hofland Amsterdam | Baronian-Francey Brussels | Bärtschi Geneva | Bernier/Eliades Athens | Bitforms New York | Bjerggaard Copenhagen | Blancpain Geneve | Bodhi Art New Delhi | Box Brussels | Brolly Paris | Brown London | Buchmann Berlin - Lugano | Bugdahn und Kaimer Düsseldorf | Carreras Mugica Bilbao | Cerami Couillet | Chinese Contemporary New York | Conrads Düsseldorf - Berlin | Crown Brussels | Cueto Project New York | D&A Lab Brussels | De Brock Knokke | De Villepoix Paris | De Voldère New York | Deweer Otegem | Diaz Madrid | Espai2nou2 Barcelona | Faurschou Copenhagen | Fiat Paris | Fournier Paris | Galerie 1900-2000 Paris | Galleri K Oslo | Geukens & De Vil Knokke | Giroux Paris | Godin Paris | Grimm Amsterdam | Grusenmeyer Deurle | Gutharc Paris | Hécey Brussels | Hoet Bekaert Gent | Hufkens Brussels | Hussenot Paris | In Si
tu Aalst | Insam Vienna | Invernizzi Milano | Jamar Antwerpen | Janssen Brussels | JGM Paris | Karpio San José De Costa Rica | Kleindienst Leipzig | Koraalberg Antwerpen | Krinzinger Vienna | Kudlek van der Grinten Köln | La Citta Verona | Le Borgne Paris | Lee London | Leo Koenig New York | Les Filles du Calvaire Paris - Brussels | Lia Rumma Napoli - Milano | Loevenbruck Paris | Lorcan O’Neill Roma | Maes & Matthys Antwerpen | Maruani & Noirhomme Knokke | Mauroner Vienna | Max Estrella Madrid | Meert Brussels | Mennour Paris | Menocal Mexico | Minini Brescia | Moser Geneve | Mulier Mulier Knokke | Nelson - Freeman Paris | Nicolai Wallner Copenhagen | Nosbaum & Reding Luxembourg | Obadia Paris | Papillon Paris | Paviot Paris | Photo & Contemporary Torino | Pieters Knokke | Polaris Paris | Praz-Delavallade Paris | Rech Brussels - Paris | Regina Moscow | Rein Paris | Rolt Amsterdam | Ronmandos Amsterdam | Rubenstein New York | Rubicon Dublin | Rumpff Haarlem | Ruzicska Salzburg | Schmidt Maczollek Cologne | Sels Düsseldorf | Senda Barcelona | André Simoens Knokke | Stephane Simoens Knokke | Soskine Madrid-New York | Sparta Chagny | Stolper London | Svestka Prague | Szwajcer Antwerpen | Tache-Levy Brussels | Tanit München | Tarasieve Paris | Taylor London | Templon Paris | Thoman Innsbruck | Transit Mechelen | Triangle Bleu Stavelot | Tucci Russo Torre Pellice | Upstairs Berlin | Vallois Paris | Van Laere Antwerpen | Vanhoegaerden Knokke | Vidal Paris | Vilenne Liège | XL Moscow | Zander Köln | Zürcher Paris | Zwarte Panter Antwerpen

YOUNG TALENT :
1/9 unosunove Roma | AD Gallery Athens | Adamski Aachen | ADN Galeria Barcelona | Alice Brussels | Amaro Lisboa | Apartment Athens | Arquebuse Geneva | Art Agents Hamburg | Bischoff/Weiss London | Cortes Lisboa | Cortex Athletico Bordeaux | De Bruijne Amsterdam | De March Milano | Dependance Brussels | Desimpel Brussels | F A Projects London | Figge Von Rosen Cologne | Lynch New York | Gazon Rouge Athens | Gold London | Grimm München | Groeflin Maag Zürich | Hauff Stuttgart | Hustinx Liège | Klemm’s Berlin | Levy Brussels | Low Gstaad | Mertens Berlin | Metis_NL Amsterdam | Milliken Stockholm | Mitterrand + Sanz Zürich | Mogadishni Valby | Motive Amsterdam | Low Gstaad | Parker’s Box Brooklyn | Rokeby London | Salon 94 New York | Scharmann Cologne | Skuc Ljubljana | Sutton Lane London | The Agency London | Wentrup Berlin | Zwart Huis Knokke

FIRST CALL :
Cosmic Paris | Duvekleemann Berlin | Fruit and Flower Deli New York | Ibid Projects London | Jozsa Brussels | Luxe New York | Andreiana Mihail Bucarest | Office Baroque Antwerpen | Pollazzon London | Rotwand Zürich | Shugoarts Tokyo | Upstream Amsterdam | Van Zomeren Amsterdam | Klara
Wallner Berlin

For more information http://www.artbrussels.be

All enquiries to: Nele Verhaeren - +32 2 740 10 20 - nele.verhaeren@artexis.com

Nosadella.due

Nosadella.due - 6:30 pm
Via Nosadella 2, Bologna
info@nosadelladue.com
+39 339 8751134
http://www.nosadelladue.com

neon-campobase - 9:30 pm
Via Zanardi 2/5, Bologna
info@neoncampobase.com
+39 051 5877068
http://www.neoncampobase.com

Nosadella.due
Residency for artists and critics in Bologna

presents the two artists in residence

NICO DOCKX
in collaboration with MAMbo/neon-campobase
invited by Andrea Viliani

and
ANDREAS GOLINSKI
invited by Daniela Cascella

on show from January 25 to February 23, 2008

January 25 opening

On Friday January 25 Nosadella.due presents the two artists selected for its fall program of residencies, Nico Dockx (B) and Andreas Golinski (D), inaugurating Blackout, an exhibition curated by Elisa Del Prete – artistic director of Nosadella.due – that brings together the work carried out by the two artists during their stay in Bologna.

The exhibition will continue until February 23, 2008, on the premises of Nosadella.due, a residence for foreign artists, critics and curators based in Bologna that offers itself as a vehicle for artistic production and a workspace in which to share and discuss methodologies, projects and processes of production and thought.

The invitation made to Nico Dockx, selected by Andrea Viliani, in turn invited by Nosadella.due as curator of MAMbo, has given rise to an unprecedented project of collaboration, a joint convergence on a single mode of action, however temporary and occasional, between entities as different as Nosadella.due, MAMbo (Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna) and neon-campobase, the historic Bolognese platform for artistic experimentation.

MAMbo – the only museum in Bologna devoted to contemporary art – has made itself the catalyst for a confrontation between different aspects of the city’s art scene. neon>campobase and Nosadella.due, which have handled the production phase of Dockx’s work in parallel, are hosting in their venues the dual project through time & today, the outcome of the artist’s research in Bologna.

Nico Dockx’s project is a further development of the work that the artist has been carrying out for almost ten years on the assembly of an archive of his own life, a “kinetic instrument for communication and connecting with the ‘other,’ a mixture of many different private constellations and personal uncanny alchemies.” A work that investigates the impossibility of arriving at a unique and definitive solution for the interpretation of events which spring from a complex tangle of situations, dialogues, images, relationships, exchanges and points of view.

At neon-campobase Dockx presents a triple version of the video through time & today – the definitive version of a video already shown, the one previously discarded and the new version that reveals the original process of shooting – in which three different but equally possible approaches to narration are outlined, suggesting through the simple passing of time the impossibility of a definitive codification. For Nosadella.due, through time & today is enriched by the experience of his two months’ stay in Bologna and is transformed into an artist’s book, created in collaboration with Belgian writer and artist Helena Sidiropoulus, that illustrates a twofold and divergent reading of the same documentary materials, belonging to a common time but necessarily to different perceptions and interpretations. Douglas Park’s reading at the opening will provide a vocal, and therefore yet another, interpretation of these documents. Complementary to the presentation of the book, a co
llection of images from the same archive, selected and arranged by the two artists on the basis of two different approaches, will be projected in the private space of Nosadella.due, which will be shared with the public during the exhibition. On the outside of the building a childish scribble, found in the same archive, becomes a luminous sign, a written page on and facing the city.

The project by Andreas Golinski, the German artist selected by Daniela Cascella, a journalist and independent curator from Rome, confirms the common root of the research carried out by the two artists in residence. In fact memory is developed as a guiding thread, transforming and reinterpreting the spaces of Nosadella.due.

Starting out from an approach to memory as a dilemma between the necessity of recalling and the need to forget, Golinski brings events forgotten by the collective memory back to light. His is an investigation that, through installations able to involve every one of the visitor’s senses, deepens the individual’s degrees of awareness of what he or she experiences, hears and knows.

Drawing on a recent novel by Adriano Prosperi, Dare l’anima. Storia of un infanticidio, which tells the true story of Lucia Cremonini, a young woman executed in papal Bologna in 1709 for the killing of her newborn child, the artist tackles a forgotten past that, at the same time, prompts us to take a new look at a condition and an experience of great topicality. Yet the evocation of the historical drama is made without any narrative intent. Rather it uses suggestions with a strong impact that, as in the monolithic installation on display, are capable above all of arousing states of mind. Making their way through the disquieting atmosphere of dimly lit rooms, visitors find themselves in the dark, amidst impressions of a story that is never revealed.

Through this re-activation of a certain consciousness of and sense of responsibility for facts that tend to melt away and fade from our minds in order to make room for others, which pour into them relentlessly, the artist also reflects on the current modes and strategies of mass-media communication in relation to the long time spans of memory and narration.

Stroom Den Haag

the invitation card showing a detail of the ‘Historical Table’ (1935) by Rudolf Steiger, Wilhelm Hess, Georg Schmidt

After Neurath: The Global Polis
February 10 - April 6, 2008

Stroom Den Haag
Hogewal 1-9
2514 HA The Hague
The Netherlands
Opening hours: Wednesday-Sunday 12-5 pm
T +31-70 3658985
info@stroom.nl
http://www.stroom.nl

Otto Neurath (1882 -1945) is a long-neglected giant in the history of the Information Age. He was a philosopher who despised academic philosophy, a museum director who hated conventional museums and a city planner who was critical of the city. He was especially eager to promote participatory forms of democratic exchange (he wanted to create a ‘global polis’). The exhibition ‘After Neurath: The Global Polis’ looks at how he attempted to do so in disciplines as varied as architecture, urbanism, graphic design and planning. It concentrates on Neurath’s collaborations with Cornelis van Eesteren, Le Corbusier, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Paul Otlet, and other seminal modernists, and tries to raise the question of what a global public space could mean today. The exhibition is part of Stroom’s ‘After Neurath’ programme, which focuses on the historical background and the actual relevance of
Otto Neurath.

The exhibition is structured in three ‘acts’. The first act, ‘The Communal City’, examines Neurath’s role in Vienna’s extraordinary ’self-help’ cooperative settlement movement, which inspired tremendous optimism in architects and planners. The second act, ‘The World City’, examines Neurath’s efforts to internationalize mass education and social enlightenment through collaborations with Paul Otlet, Le Corbusier and others. The third act, ‘The Functional City’, looks at his work with the Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM) and the planner and architect Cornelis van Eesteren specifically. This section explores Neurath’s struggles with the mass media and modernist architecture on the eve of the rise of fascism in Europe. It also raises deeper questions about the links between culture and politics today.

The show includes a combination of graphic charts, brochures, posters, portfolios, films and models. One of the signature pieces in the exhibition is a 5-meter-long ‘Historical Table’ which shows the development of the city -from prehistoric cave to modern metropolis. The CIAM architects Rudolf Steiger and Wilhelm Hess made it in 1935 in collaboration with Georg Schmidt for an exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. It was shown for one day before it was taken down by exhibition organizers who feared political persecution. This is the first time it has been shown in Holland since.

The exhibition is curated by Nader Vossoughian, Assistant Professor of Architecture at the New York Institute of Technology and author of the publication ‘Otto Neurath. The Language of the Global Polis’ (NAi Publishers, in collaboration with Stroom Den Haag, 2008).

Exhibition design: Project Projects, New York.

The exhibition is made possible in part by: Mondriaan Foundation; Casema Culture Fund; NAi Rotterdam; Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (Switzerland); University of Reading (UK); Wienbibliothek im Rathaus, Vienna (Austria); Imperial War Museum (UK); Universität für angewandte Kunst (Vienna), Fondation Le Corbusier (F); Mundaneum (Mons, Belgium).