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Malmö Konsthall

Gelitin/Urs Fischer
Overview: Gelitin/Urs Fischer.
Venedig 2007

The Hamsterwheel
17.5 - 17.8 2008

Malmö Konsthall
S:t Johannesgatan 7
Box 17 127
SE-200 10 Malmö
Sweden
info.konsthall@malmo.se

http://www.konsthall.malmo.se

John Bock, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Marcus Coates, Urs Fischer, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Olivier Garbay, Gelitin, Douglas Gordon, Rachel Harrison, Georg Herold, Christian Jankowski, Mark Leckey, Erik van Lieshout, Sarah Lucas, Jonathan Monk, Maurizio Nannucci, Paola Pivi, Rudolf Polanszky, Anselm Reyle, José Ruiz Gonzalez, Tamuna Sirbiladze, Annika Ström, Una Szeemann, Piotr Uklanski, Hans Weigand, Franz West, Toby Ziegler, Ralf Ziervogel, David Zink Yi, Thomas Zipp.

The Hamsterwheel is an exhibition initiated by the Austrian artist Franz West, and was originally presented at La Biennale di Venezia, 2007. The exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, installations, films, text works etcetera by some thirty artists. The video works are selected in collaboration with Veit Loers. The exhibition has since then travelled to the Festival de Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, and Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona. At each exhibition venue the presentation of the works and relation to each other changes dramatically.

Hamster wheels are exercise toys used by hamsters and other rodents. Hamster wheels allow rodents to run even when their space is confined. It is a movement that does not go anywhere and which does not intend to. Moving just for the sake of moving. Moving due to the need to do so – for example as we humans do in fitness centers (some machines even include televisions for our entertainment).

“As a title The Hamsterwheel is really about play. It pokes fun not only at the art scene, but also at the artists themselves. We’re all scurrying around at breakneck speed and getting nowhere at the same time [….] a giant new game was set in motion each time, without curator’s directives, just from of our own auto stimulation.“ Jean-Marc Bustamante, April 2008.

The Hamsterwheel can be seen as a playful comment to the wheel of life – the life as an artist. A wheel where we struggle to go forward, to get ahead. That always takes us forward, and still – at the end – nowhere. The exhibition attempts to show art as turbulence. Art as a spontaneous and non-hierarchical collaborative installation. Art as a chaotic stage where genres and expressions are installed next to, and overlapping each other.

The fine arts are increasingly subjected to the torment of interpretation and group exhibitions are usually held pursuant to a recognisable plan; illustrating a purpose, elucidating a theme, or serving a motto. The Hamsterwheel puts the question of art’s meaning to the test.

The exhibition brings together artists whose works are connected in cryptic ways. Is it chance that brought them together? Serendipity? Old Boys’ networks? Pitfalls along a career trajectory between dementia praecox and dementia senilis? Contexts, in any case, reveal themselves when concrete life situations are being looked at, bringing together artists from various directions. The works are meant to develop their aura on the basis of, precisely, a lack of thematic connections. No selection has been made on the grounds of present criteria. Artists selecting other artists, friends, curators, according to their own lights, whims, predilections, and discretions, as they saw fit for this exhibition. Encounters between the artists and their works are the most important issue in The Hamsterwheel.

Throughout Franz West’s artistic practice the viewer’s participation is important, and encouraged to handle and interact with his sculptures. In The Hamsterwheel West himself participates with sculptural sitting arrangements, which also poke fun and contradict his own title – since the act of sitting (enjoying the other artists’ work in the exhibition) is far from the endless motion of
The Hamsterwheel.

Press preview Thursday 15 May, 11 a.m.
Opening Friday 16 May, 7-9 p.m.

Digital art

Dimitrios Loumiotis

The range of the Greek artist Dimitrios Loumiotis covers pictures of the earth as a technical Utopia. He prefers computer graphics as a way to express himself.His ‘Manipulation’ series (2003 and 04) reflects the pictures in his mind of a future world consisting of technology only.Barren landscapes, stale grey sky, planets floating in mid air… Figures stand in between the fantastic world, or grow out of the ground itself. Similar to humans, but yet altogether different; skin having been replaced by moss, ceramic or shining metal.No dark prediction of future, the artist proclaims, just something to open your mind to a different world. A poetic interpretation of the thought what humans are actually made of and their connection to nature and the Earth itself.

Fundação
Calouste Gulbenkian

EVR
A project by Anton Vidokle and Julieta Aranda
Opening: May 21st, 19:00

May 22 - June 18 2008
Tuesday - Sunday 12 - 6 pm

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Avenida de Berna, 45
1067-001 Lisboa
Level -1 of the Foundation Headquarters

SCREENING PROGRAM

21.05….17:00 Anton Vidokle and Julieta Aranda

27.05….18:00 Miguel Amado

10.06….18:00 Jürgen Bock

24.06….18.00 Jean-François Chougnet

15.07….18:00 Miguel Wandschneider

Gulbenkian Foundation and Maumaus are pleased to present e-flux video rental in Lisbon.

e-flux video rental (EVR) is a project by Anton Vidokle and Julieta Aranda, comprising a free video rental, a public screening room, and a film and video archive that is constantly growing. This collection of over 750 works of film and video art has been assembled in collaboration with more than 100 international artists, curators and critics.

In the 1960s and 70s, artists were drawn to working with video in part because it was cheap to use and easily reproduced and distributed. But video art has become increasingly assimilated to the precious-object economy of the art market. EVR is a poetic exploration of alternative processes of circulation and distribution of video art, and it is structured to function like a video rental store, except that it operates for free. VHS tapes can be watched in the space, or, once a viewer fills out a membership form and contract, they can be checked out and taken home.

Orignally presented at a storefront in New York, in 2004, EVR has traveled to venues in Amsterdam, Berlin, Frankfurt, Seoul, Paris, Istanbul, Canary Islands, Austin, Budapest, Boston, Antwerp, Miami and Lyon. Following the its stay in Portugal, the project will travel to Brazil and Argentina. After these final venues, having outlived the technology that made it possible (VHS video tape players), the project will be permanently archived with the Arab Image Foundation in Beirut and Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana, in 2009.

Every time EVR is installed in a new city, local artists, curators and writers are invited to serve as selectors, choosing artists whose work is added to the collection. In addition, a special program of screenings of works from the EVR collection is part of the project. In Lisbon, the program will continue with the selections from In keeping with this, Maumaus and Gulbenkian Foundation have invited Miguel Amado, Jürgen Bock, Ana Pinto, João Ribas and Ricardo Valentim to select additional videos for
the collection.

The opening evening’s program will include a screening of a selection of EVR staff picks and a conversation with Anton Vidokle and Julieta Aranda.

works selected by: miguel amado, fernanda arruda, marilyn arsem, defne ayas, gabriel pérez barreiro, rene barilleaux, regine basha, thomas bayrle, katrin becker, ariane beyn, cis bierinckx, daniel birnbaum, jürgen bock, osman bozkurt, adam budak, cac tv, annette dimeo carlozzi, luca cerizza, binna choi, mariana david, catherine david, marie denkens & wim peeters, nikola dietrich, power ekroth, mai abu eldahab, esra ersen, jose luis falconi, hedwig fijen, elena filipovic, lauri firstenberg, susanne gaensheimer, gabrielle giattino, massimiliano gionni, julieta gonzález, francesca grassi, andrea grover, cao guimaraes, alfred guzzetti, jörg heiser, arne hendriks, sofia hernandez, maria hlavajova, jens hoffmann, teresa hubbard & alexander birchler, anthony huberman, pierre huyghe, eungie joo, yu hyun jung, christoph keller, sung won kim, adam klimczak, anders kreuger, carrie lambert-beatty, pablo león de la barra, fernando llanos, omar lópez-chahoud, jaroslaw lubiak, bill
lundberg, christine macel, ives maes, karen mahaffy, raimundas malasauskas, franco marinotti, vincent meessen, viktor misiano, stéphanie moisdon, edit molnár, kassandra nakas, molly nesbit, hans ulrich obrist, lívia páldi, november paynter, wim peeters & marie denkens, zsolt petrányi, natasa petresin, stephen prina, risa puleo, alia rayyan, joão ribas, karyn riegel, michel ritter, maria inés rodríguez, david rych, hyun jun ryu, esra sarigedik, nermin saybasili, itala schmeltz, stefanie schulte strathaus, basak senova, henk slager, hajnalka somogy, ali subotnik, ana teixeira pinto, christine tohme, nicolas trembley, ricardo valentim, regina vater, gilbert vicario, florian waldvogel, franciska zólyom, nathalie zonnenberg

artists: 24/7 tv, a-clip, gabriel acevedo velarde, vahram aghasyan, doug aitken, lucas ajemian, nevin aladag, kamal aljafari, jennifer allora & guillermo calzadilla, paulo almeida, can altay, carlos amorales, andré amparo, j tobias anderson, ziad antar, alexander apóstol, vasco araújo, john armleder, assume vivid astro focus, michel auder, sven augustijnen, alexandra bachzetsis, miriam bäckström, zanny bagg & oliver ressler, lucas bambozzi, alberto baraya, edson barrus, pedro barateiro, judith barry, yael bartana, taysir batniji, thomas bayrle, sarah beddington, patricia belli, elisabetta benassi, kazimierz bendkowski, guy benfield, roberto berliner, janet biggs, colectivo bijari, marc bijl, johanna billing, julien jonas bismuth, alberto bitar e leonardo bitar, john bock, manon de boer, zoulikha bouabdellah, mike bouchet, frank boue, andrea bowers, osman bozkurt, ulla von brandenburg, pavel braila, candice breitz, wojciech bruszewski, christoph büchel, francois bucher,
martin butler, chris caccamise, rui calçada bastos, yane calovski & FOS, mircea cantor, domenico cappello, ana cardoso, carolina caycedo, alex cecchetti & christian frosi, nuno cera, filipa césar, alejandro cesarco, juan céspedes, paul chan, terry chatkupt, marcos chaves, mina cheon, loulou cherinet, olga chernysheva, ali cherri, sunah choi, heman chong & isabel cornaro, kerstin cmelka, cecilia condit, joost conijn, marie cool & fabio balducci, alexander costello, alfredo b. crevenna, carlo crovato, roberto cuoghi, federico curiel, keren cytter, hubert czerepok, marilá dardot, brice dellsperger, simona denicolai & ivo provoost, marta deskur, angela detanico y rafael lain, stefaan dheedene, wilson díaz, christoph draeger, christoph draeger & gary breslin, melissa dubbin & aaron s. davidson, ivan edeza, effi & amir, james elaine/william basinski, fouad elkoury, hala elkoussy, shahram entekhabi & mieke bal, annika eriksson, espacio la culpable, patricia esquivias, marcell esterházy, extrastruggle, héctor falcón, matias faldbakken, harun farocki, jeanne faust/jorn zehe, rochelle feinstein, jakup ferri, dirk fleischmann, oriana fox, alicia framis, jonah freeman, gabrielle fridriksdottir, anna friedel, peter friedl, yang fudong, bodil furu (in collaboration with beate peterson), rene gabri, rubén galindo, nikolas gambaroff, andrea geyer, gilbert & george, jérémie gindre, christoph girardet, piero golia, emilio gómez muriel, francis gomila, dominique gonzales-foerster, rogelio a. gonzáles, rogelio a. gonzáles jr., jacqueline goss, laurent grasso, loris gréaud, renée green, johan grimonprez, sagi groner, christian grou & tapio snellman, eva grubinger, cao guimaraes, dmitry gutov & radek group, joanna hadjithomas & khalil joreige, driton hajredini, yang-ah ham, jan hammer, adad hannah, sharon hayes, daniel herskowitz, shere hite, karl holmqvist, christian holstad, judith hopf & stephan geene, vlatka horvat, laszlo hudak & imre lenart, jane hudson, oliver husain, kristina inciurait, las indestables, matthew day jackson, christian jankowski, evaldas jansas, tom johnson, ilya kabakov, gülsün karamustafa, franka kaßner, christoph keller, leopold kessler, hassan khan, nesrine khodr, laleh khorramian, heidi kilpelainen, changkyum kim, se-jin kim, shin il kim, tae-eun kim, szabolcs kisspál, leszek knaflewski, seung wook koh, jeroen kooijmans, korpys/löffler, katarzyna kozyra, elke krystufek, pawel kwiek, tim lee, cristobal lehyt, dominik lejman, joão leonardo, jesse lerner, xavier le roy, erik van lieshout, deborah ligorio, khoór lilla & will potter, minouk lim & frederic michon, lana lin, lin + lam, sebastián díaz morales, daniel lima, petra lindholm, fernando llanos, dora longo bahia, polonca lovsin, cecilia lundqvist, mary lucier, maria lusitano, jorge macchi, cynthia madansky, gintaras makarevicius, joanna malinowska, marcellvs l., marepe, teresa margolles, gilberto martínez solares, trish maud, marssares, eileen maxson, mc messiah, mc liezuvis, vincent meessen, jonas mekas, bjørn melhus & yves netzjammer, john menick, ohad meromi, wieslaw michalak, simone michelin, christopher miner, lim minouk & frederic michon, sarah minter, aleksandra mir, mixrice , viatcheslav (slava) mizin / alexander (sasha) shaburov, avi mograbi, naeem mohaiemen, lutz mommartz, frédéric moser & philippe schwinger, olivier mosset, melvin moti, tova mozard, rabih mroue, felipe mujica, matthias müller, takeshi murata, juan nascimento&daniela lovera, deimantas narkevicius, argentino neto, sergio & rivane neuenschwader, tuan andrew nguyen, jesper nordahl, love nordberg, filip noterdaeme (homu), sophie nys, yoshua okon, antónio olaio, bjargey ólafsdóttir, anneè olofsson, yoko ono, els opsomer, anna orlikowska, tanja ostojic & david rych, the otolith group, miguel palma, chan-kyong park, philippe parreno, sean paul & david dempewolf, jenny perlin, diego perrone, alessandro pessoli, walter pfeiffer, michael pfrommer, pablo pijnappel, john pilson, steven pippin, michelangelo pistoletto, shannon plumb, elodie pong, rafael portillo & manuel san fernando, linda post, liza may post, dean proctor & michael laub, oda projesi, the atlas group/walid raad, judy radul, orit raff, anne-britt rage, arturas raila, khaled d. ramadan, tere recarens, reynold reynolds & patrick jolley, mandla reuter, jae oon rho, robin rhode, józef robakowski, camila rocha, d. n. rodowick, tracey rose, douglas ross, karl ingar røys, julika rudelius, daniel rumiancew, david rych, natascha sadr haghigian, anri sala, samir, fernando sánchez castillo, beatriz santiago muñoz, julião sarmento, julia scher, markus schinwald, andrea schneemeier, karin schneider & nicolás guagnini & jeff preiss, meggie schneider & bin-chuen choi, corinna schnitt, noé sendas, solmaz shahbazi, wael shawky, matt sheridan smith, taro shinoda, santiago sierra, silverio, guy richards smit, gregg smith, michael smith, sean snyder, rita sobral campos, aaron steffes, a.l. steiner, hito steyerl, deborah stratman, jános sugar, özlem sulak, superflex, pál szacsva y, joão tabarra, josé carlos teixeira, mathilde ter heijne, tetine, kika thorne, rirkrit tiravanija, maciej toporowicz, ana torfs, cecilia torquato & andré amparo, mario garcia torres, kerry tribe, caecilia tripp, stefanos tsivopoulos, nasan tur, alexander ugay, johanna unzueta, utopia station, michael van den abeele, mona vatamanu & florin tudor, mark verabioff, katleen vermeir & ronny heiremans, dmitry vilensky, joe villablanca, gitte villesen, barbara visser, jenny vogel, sharif waked, marek wasilewski, ryszard wasko, douglas weathersby, clemens von wedemeyer, lawrence weiner, suara welitoff, aleksandra went & alicja karska, klaus weber, adrian williams, marten winters jordan wolfson, tin tin wulia, erwin wurm, cerith wyn evans, sislej xhafa, haegue yang, adnan yildiz, carey young, akram zaatari, olivier zabat, florian zeyfang, igor zupe and others.

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I thought you might like to know about this performance piece involving Visual Art, Dance, Music & Poetry, on stage LIVE @ Tilles Center.

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Artmosphere at Tilles Center for the Performing Arts

On September 4, 5, 6, 7, 2008 at 8pm, “Artmosphere” will come to the stage at Tilles Center, a live piece of art, with the involvement of the visual arts in a dynamic way. The dancers will be “in the face” of the patrons, the music and sights will wash over them, stimulating their senses and drawing them into the performance. This showcase of Long Island talent consists of: Debra Ann Kasimakis, Immersion Dance Company, music director Matt Flood, lighting designer Tom Pascarella, Andrew Leipzig (planetzig.com) Visual Art Director, in addition, we are working with the unofficial Poet Laureate of Nassau County, Maxwell Corydon Wheat Jr., as our literary consultant and will have original music by Jay Jii and Jane Leslie as well as music composed by noted guitarist Joe Satriani.

The show is being presented with the support of the C.W. Post Department of Theater, Film and Dance.

This exciting project involves dance, music, visual artists and performance poetry with state of the art lighting and multi media technology.

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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Many Times, 1999
Polyester and resin
Dimensions variable
Private Collection
Photo by Jean Luc Lacroix
Copyright: The Estate of Juan Muñoz, Bilbao 2008

Juan Muñoz: A Retrospective
May 27 to October 5

Curator: Sheena Wagstaff

Location: second floor

http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es

• The most important retrospective in Spain of works by this Madrid-born artist, who is also represented in the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection.

• A selection of outstanding works from Muñoz’s entire career that reveals some previously neglected aspects of his innovative idiom.

• Sculptures, installations, drawings, radio works and writings feature in an exhibition that highlights Muñoz’s mastery in creating tension between the illusory and the real.

From May 27to October 5, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will be staging the most important retrospective exhibition in Spain of works by Juan Muñoz (Madrid, 1953 – Ibiza, 2001), widely considered one of the world’s finest contemporary sculptors and installation artists.

Curated by Sheena Wagstaff -Chief Curator at Tate Modern- this exhibition is organized by Tate Modern, London, in association with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. The second floor of the museum will host the most outstanding works from Muñoz’s entire career, and will include a number of extra works for the Bilbao venue, throwing new light on the complex nature of his artistic endeavors.

With a selection of nearly 80 works, including sculptures, installations, drawings, radio works and writings, the selection reveals some neglected aspects of the Madrid-born artist’s broad, innovative register. Muñoz studied art in London and New York, living in both cities for a number of years after a brief period spent studying architecture in Madrid.

In the mid 1980s and early 90s, after major exhibitions all over the world, Muñoz had established himself on the international art scene as one of the most important sculptors of recent decades. In Spain, however, true recognition came late, finally arriving in the year 2000, when he was awarded the country’s Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas.

From his early architectural works—staircases, balconies and banisters—located in impossible settings, by way of his optical floors that dissolve the limits of space and time, to his dramatic, theatrical installations involving groups of human figures that evoke the solitude of the individual in society, Muñoz’s works play with the spectator, enticing him into relating to them, even awaking feelings of unease and isolation. Muñoz described himself as “a narrator”, and his ability to propose new forms of contemplation and thought, to create tension between the illusory and the real, made him one of the few artists capable of renewing contemporary sculpture.

For more information:

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Marketing and Communications Department
Tel. +34 944359008
Fax: +34 944359059
media@guggenheim-bilbao.es
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Montehermoso Cultural Centre

Freee, Don’t let the media have the
monopoly on the freedom of speech, 2007.
Photography: Louise Downes // Courtesy of the artists.
From the exhibition Terms of use, curated by Lisa Rosendahl.

From 23 May to 31 August-2008
Montehermoso Cultural Centre
Fray Zacarías Martínez, 2
01001 Vitoria-Gasteiz SPAIN
+34 945 161 830

http://www.montehermoso.net

The Montehermoso Cultural Centre will be showing the prize-winning projects selected from the more than 300 entries submitted to the ART AND RESEARCH 07 annual competition from 23 May through to September. The eight artists’ projects and one curatorial project selected, produced by Montehermoso in the 2007-2008 season, will be presented in the centre’s exhibition rooms.

Curatorial project:
TERMS OF USE, curated by Lisa Rosendahl. (Limhamn, Sweden, 1974)
Stefan Brüggemann, Minerva Cuevas/The Mejor Vida Corp., Maria Eichhorn, Chris Evans, Freee, Mieke Gerritzen, Goldin+Senneby, Lise Harlev, Michele Masucci, Santiago Sierra, Superflex, Måns Wrange/OMBUD, Carey Young.

The group exhibition Terms of Use explores contemporary art’s entanglement with post-industrial capitalism in its many forms, bringing together works by artists who in their practice negotiate the terms and conditions for the production, mediation and consumption of art. Aiming to raise questions concerning art’s autonomy and the possibility of critique, the exhibition includes artistic positions ranging from the overtly entrepreneurial to the covertly resistant, and vice versa. Including projects intervening directly with state and business structures to effect real social and economic relations, alongside works emulating the fluidity of corporate discourse or the fictitious constructs of global capital, the exhibition aims to articulate a field of enquiry beyond the symmetry of inside and outside.

Eight solo projects:
Boris Achour (Marseille, France, 1966), CONATUS: A FOREST.
Miren Arenzana (Bilbao, 1965), BOLA DE CRISTAL.
Amaya González (Sanxenxo, Pontevedra, 1979), OSADÍA (Quiero ser un poco como On Kawara).
Adrià Julià (Barcelona, 1974), INDICIOS PARA OTRO LUGAR.
Loreto Martínez Troncoso (Vigo, 1978),…PERO ¿DÓNDE ESTÁ(I)S FÍSICAMENTE?
Amalia Pica (Neuquen Capital, Argentina, 1978), ROBINSON CRUSOE.
Miguel Ángel Rebollo (Madrid, 1970), PLAY>REBOLLO.
Tere Recarens (Arbúcies, Girona, 1967), KULTUR KARMA.

In addition, in keeping with the centre’s policy of providing a forum for debate on the areas of research covered by its exhibition programme, there will be a seminar on 11, 12 and 13 June that will be analysing creators’ situation vis-à-vis current cultural policies, and the framework of production in contemporary art and thinking. Speakers: Arlandis and Marroquí (curators, Valencia); José Luis Brea (Professor of Aesthetics and the Theory of Contemporary Art, Carlos III University, Madrid); Julieta de Haro (Director of the Visual Arts Association, Madrid); Kit Hammonds (Professor, MA Curating Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art, London); Amalia Pica (artist, Art and Research 07 prize-winner); Lisa Rosendahl (curator, Art and Research 07 prize-winner); Jaron Rowan (researcher and cultural manager, Art and Research 07 prize-winner); and Els Van Odijk (Director of the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam). Chaired by: Miren Eraso (Director of ARTELEKU, San Sebastián); Eduardo Ga
rcía Nieto (Montehermoso Cultural Centre); and Fermín Moreno (artist, Bilbao).