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The 7th Gwangju Biennale

HANS HAACKE
Wide White Flow, 1967-2006
Copyright: Hans Haacke
Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

The 7th Gwangju Biennale
Annual Report:
A Year in Exhibitions

http://www.gb.or.kr

Duration: September 5 – November 9, 2008
Professional Preview: September 4 and 5, 2008
Artistic Director: Okwui Enwezor
Co-Curators: Hyunjin Kim, Ranjit Hoskote
Position Papers Curators: Patrick D. Flores, Jang Un Kim,
Abdellah Karroum, Sung-Hyen Park, Claire Tancons
Venues: Biennale Hall, Gwangju Museum of Art,
Uijae Museum of Korean Art, Cinema Gwangju, Daein Traditional Market

Annual Report is developed around three principal components. The first part, On the Road, through a series of travelling exhibitions will serve as a report on cultural manifestations occuring between 2007 and 2008. The second component, Position Papers, is a platform dedicated to a series of five focused, small scale curatorial proposals and experiments in exhibition practice by a diverse group of curators. The third element, Insertions, will take the format of a series of new projects commissioned or invited specifically for the biennale.

Participating Artists

On the Road / Insertions / Position Papers
Adel Abdessemed (Algeria, lives in Paris)
Bani Abidi (Pakistan, lives in Delhi, Karachi, London)
David Adjaye (Ghana/UK, lives in London)
Raymundo Albano (Philippines, 1947-1985)
Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla (USA, live in Puerto Rico)
Lara Almarcegui (Spain, lives in Rotterdam)
Francis Alÿs (Belgium, lives in Mexico City)
Area Park (South Korea, lives in Seoul/Tokyo)
Stefano Arienti (Italy, lives in Milan)
Kaoru Arima (Japan, lives in Nagoya)
Mario Benjamin (Haiti, lives in Port-au-Prince)
Sadie Benning (USA, lives in Chicago)
Huma Bhabha (Pakistan/USA, lives in New York)
Ursula Biemann (Switzerland, lives in Zürich)
Bingyi Huang (China/USA, lives in Buffalo and Beijing)
Tania Bruguera & Arte Conducta (Cuba, live in Chicago and Havana)
Mariana Bunimov (Venezuela, lives in Caracas)
Gerard Byrne (Ireland, lives in Dublin)
Byron Kim (USA, lives in New York)
Chen Shaoxiong (China, lives in Guangzhou)
Chen Qiulin (China, lives in Beijing)
Chung seoyoung (South Korea, lives in Seoul)
Bruce Conner (USA, lives in San Francisco)
Thomas Demand (Germany, lives in Berlin)
Atul Dodiya (India, lives in Bombay)
Donghee Koo (South Korea, lives in Seoul)
Lili Dujourie (Belgium, lives in Brussels)
Felipe Dulzaides & Roberto Gottardi (Cuba and Italy, live in Havana)
Eunji cho (South Korea, lives in Seoul)
Seamus Farrell (Ireland, lives in Paris and Cadiz, Spain)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1945-1982)
Daniel Faust (USA, lives in New York)
Vincent Feria: Françoise Vincent & Eloy Feria (France & Venezuela, live in Caracas)
Nina Fischer & Maroan El Sani (Germany, lives in Sapporo, Japan)
Peter Friedl (Austria, lives in Berlin)
Gao Shiqiang (China, Llves in Hangzhou)
Marlon Griffith (Trinidad and Tobago, lives in Port of Spain)
Hu-ju Gu (Korea, lives in Busan)
Tamar Guimaraes (Brazil, lives in Copenhagen and Mälmo)
Shilpa Gupta (India, lives in Bombay)
Hans Haacke (Germany, lives in New York)
Lothar Hempel (Germany, lives in Berlin)
Jan Henle (USA, lives in New York and Puerto Rico)
Chi Young Hwang (South Korea, lives in Gwangju)
Iman Issa (Egypt, lives in Cairo)
Haejun Jo and Donghwan Jo (South Korea, live in Seoul)
Isaac Julien (U.K., lives in London)
Taehun Kang (South Korea, lives in Busan)
Hassan Khan (Egypt, lives in Cairo)
Sonia Khurana (India, lives in New Delhi)
Kim, Sung Hwan (South Korea, lives in New York)
Seung wook Koh (Korea, lives in Seoul)
Abdoulaye Konaté (Mali, lives in Bamako)
David Lamelas (Argentina, lives in Los Angeles)
Larnet: In Ae Lim & Eun Young Hong (Korea, live in Busan)
Jin Won Lee (aka GAZAEBAL), Musician (Korea, lives in Seoul)
Seulgi Lee (Korea, lives in Paris)
Sherrie Levine (USA, lives in New York)
Christelle Lheureux (France, lives in Paris)
Glenn Ligon (USA, lives in New York)
Jarbas Lopes (Brazil, lives in Rio de Janeiro)
Reagan Louie (USA, lives in San Francisco)
Ken Lum (Canada, lives in Vancouver)
Mun-ho Ma (Korea, lives in Naju)
MAP Office: Laurent Gutierrez and Valérie Portefaix (France, live in Hong Kong)
Kerry James Marshall (USA, lives in Chicago)
Mona Marzouk (Egypt, lives in Cairo)
The Masked Portrait (Group Exhibition)
Gordon Matta Clark (USA, 1943-1978)
Steve McQueen (UK, lives in Amsterdam)
Daniel Medina (Venezuela, lives in Caracas)
Luis Molina Pantin (Venezuela, lives in Caracas)
Matthew Monahan (USA, lives in Los Angeles)
Movement, Contingency and Community (Group Exhibition)
MY-DA-DA (based in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego)
HwaYeon Nam (South Korea, lives in Seoul)
Oil 21 (Germany, based in Berlin)
Karyn Olivier (Trinidad and Tobago/USA, lives in New York)
Els Opsomer (Belgium, lives in Brussels)
Jina Park (South Korea, lives in Seoul)
Jooyeon Park (South Korea, lives in Seoul)
Munjong Park (Korea, lives in Damyang)
Kiyoung Peik (Korea, lives in Ansan)
Redza Piyadasa (Malaysia, 1939-2007)
Apinan Poshyananda (Thailand, lives in Bangkok)
Jo Ractliffe (South Africa, lives in Johannesburg)
Mandla Reuter (Germany, lives in Berlin)
Jewyo Rhii (South Korea, lives in Seoul)
Walid Sadek (Lebanon, lives in Beirut)
Joachim Schoenfeldt (South Africa, lives in Johannesburg)
Fatou Kande Senghor (Senegal, lives in Dakar)
Ho-yoon Shin (Korea, lives in Gwangju)
Taryn Simon (USA, lives in New York)
Dayanita Singh (India, lives in New Delhi)
Praneet Soi (India, lives in Amsterdam)
Hiroshi Sugito (Japan, lives in Nagoya)
Catherine Sullivan (USA, lives in Los Angeles)
Sungyoon Yang (South Korea, lives in Seoul)
Jim Supangkat (Indonesia, lives in Bandung)
Koki Tanaka (Japan, lives in Tokyo)
José Toirac (Cuba, lives in Havana)
Caecilia Tripp, Filmmaker (Germany, lives in Paris)
Uijae Huh, Baikryun (South Korea, 1891-1977)
Jacques Villeglé (France, lives in Paris)
Alfred Wenemoser (Austria, lives in Caracas)
Sislej Xhafa (Kosovo, lives in New York)
Lynette Yiadom Boakye (U.K., lives in London)
Bruce Yonemoto (USA, lives in Los Angeles)
Kohei Yoshiyuki (Japan, lives in Tokyo)
Zarina (India/USA, lives in New York)
Dolores Zinny & Juan Maidagan (Argentina, live in Berlin)
John Zurier (USA, lives in Berkeley)

For detailed information on the biennale and participating artists please visit the website: http://www.gb.or.kr

For press information please contact:

The Gwangju Biennale Foundation
Jin-Kyung Jeong
Biennale 2-gil Buk-gu Gwangju, South Korea
Tel +82 62 608 4264 / Fax +82 62 608 4269
1212jjk@gb.or.kr

Curator, The Hayward
33,000 GBP per annum

http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/jobs

Southbank Centre is the UK’s largest arts centre, occupying a 21-acre site that sits in the midst of London’s most vibrant cultural quarter on the South Bank of the Thames. The site has an extraordinary creative and architectural history stretching back to the 1951 Festival of Britain.

As the hub of visual arts activity at Southbank Centre, The Hayward plays a vital role in the UK and internationally by presenting a wide range of ground-breaking art exhibitions, project exhibitions and outdoor installations. Boasting one of the largest and most versatile exhibition spaces in the UK, The Hayward aims to place artists at the heart of its every activity and to offer visitors adventurous encounters that defy expectations.

As Curator, you will work with the Director and Chief Curator of The Hayward to deliver a series of exhibitions and installations in The Hayward Project Space, outdoor spaces around Southbank Centre’s site and in the gallery. You will be responsible for curating and writing about each project as well as supervising design and installation and managing project budgets.

With demonstrable knowledge of and interest in international modern and contemporary art, you will have significant experience of working in an art gallery or museum at all stages of curating an exhibition from conceptualising, planning, and administering exhibitions to their installation. Outstanding interpersonal skills and the ability to manage relationships at all levels are also essential.

You will be available to start in November 2008.

For further information and details about how to apply, please visit our website http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/jobs or phone 02079210641. Application forms should be submitted to recruit@southbankcentre.co.uk or posted to HR, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX by 5pm on the closing date.

Closing date: 17th July 2008

CURRENT GALLERY

baltimore vs. the world
deadline: August 15 (postmark)

Current Gallery invites video artists and enthusiasts to submit videos of all genres (experimental, animation, music video, documentary, short, home video, outtakes, unfinished films, scientific studies, etc). Works selected from this call will be featured in baltimore vs. the world DVD publication due out this winter.

baltimore vs. the world will incorporate two separate DVD compilations. One DVD will feature selected works from around the world and the other DVD will focus on selected works from Baltimore, Maryland. Accompanying the DVDs will be a booklet with interviews and support materials.

Visit http//www.currentspace.com to download an application

Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art

Mark Ashley (2008)

DAMN YOUR EYES
the infinite dimension of sound
July 3 - August 17, 2008

Public Reception:
Thursday, July 3rd

Darren Copeland (Canada), Walter Kitundu (U.S.A.), Emmanuel Madan (Canada)
Matmos (U.S.A.), raster-noton (Germany), Tara Rodgers (Canada) and [The User] (Canada).

Curated by Camilla Singh

Wade your way out of the heavy summer city air and into the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art to hear the exhibition Damn Your Eyes: the infinite dimension of sound. A departure from visually oriented presentations of contemporary art, this exhibition features spaces forged to contain and combine sonic artworks by Darren Copeland, Walter Kitundu, Emmanuel Madan, Matmos, raster-noton, Tara Rodgers and [The User], from July 3rd to August 17th, 2008.

On your path from the gallery door to its farthest reaches, you will encounter a series of transitional environments marked by extremes of light and dark, open seated space and stark enclosures. Works are presented in three distinct formats: a lunging four-channel installation, a stereo sound booth and theatrically set headphone stations. Sound is experienced in isolation or in the company of others. As one piece is exited another is entered, an interstitial conflation of programs occurs. The setting is conducive to leisure and devised for repeat visits. The exhibition holds its mass in our aural anatomies.

Sound art related publications are provided by Pages Bookstore in Toronto
http://www.pagesbookstore.ca

Also, join us at the Music Gallery on Monday, July 21st to see world-renowned Matmos live in concert for The “Supreme Balloon” Tour with guests Leprechaun Catering. Tickets are available from Ticketmaster, Rotate This, Soundscapes. The Music Gallery at St. George the Martyr Church is located at 197 John Street in Toronto. Doors open at 8:00 p.m. Co-presented with the Music Gallery and
RMS Concerts.

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

And, at 1:40 p.m. on Saturday, July 26th, Nicole Rampersaud (trumpet) and Evan Shaw (alto saxophone) will play an improvisational 20 minute musical set in the gallery, accompanying the pieces in the exhibition as part of the annual MUSIC (in) GALLERIES event on Queen Street West.

All MOCCA programs and activities are supported by Toronto Culture, the Ontario Arts Council, BMO Financial Group, individual memberships and private donations.

Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
952 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON
M6J1G8
http://www.mocca.toronto.on.ca/

Public Information: (416) 395-0067
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Pay What You Can

For media information contact Camilla Singh: (416) 395-7430 or csingh@toronto.ca

Torino Triennale

Matthew Brannon

50 Moons of Saturn
Second edition of the Torino Triennale

6 November 2008 - 18 January 2009

Opening: 5 November 2008

Curated by Daniel Birnbaum

http://www.torinotriennale.it

I am the man of gloom-widowed-unconsoled
The prince of Aquitaine, his tower in riun:
My sole star is dead-and my constellation lute
Bears the black sun of melancholia.

Gérard de Nerval – “El Desdichado”

The second edition of the Torino Trienniale, T2, will run from 6 November 2008 to 18 January 2009 and is curated by Daniel Birnbaum. Art critic and independent curator, Birnbaum is currently Rector of the Städelschule Art Academy and Portikus Gallery in Frankfurt and Director of the 53rd Edition of the Venice Biennale.

T2 will be split into two parts:

The first part will feature two solo shows dedicated to mid-career, internationally acclaimed artists.

For this edition, the Danish artist Olafur Eliasson will be presented at the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art and the Chinese-American artist Paul Chan at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo centre for contemporary art in Turin.

The second part will feature the work of fifty young artists from all over the world who will be showing new experimental works.

Of the first ten artists selected, seven are European (Italy, Germany, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Scotland and Poland), two are from Asia (South Korea) and one from the United States.

The first ten artists that have been selected are: Ulla von Brandenburg, Matthew Brannon, Gerard Byrne, Simon Dybbroe Möller, Annika Von Hausswolff, Lara Favaretto, Haegue Yang, Koo Jeong-a, Wilhelm Sasnal, Donald Urquhart.

The Torino Trienniale is organised and promoted by Castello di Rivoli Museum of Conteporary Art, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and by Fondazione Torino Musei (the Turin Foundation of Museums). This second edition of “T” further strengthens the commitment of the organisers to work together for contemporary art.

“T” aims to create dialogue between young experimental art and that of mid career artists who are already internationally acclaimed for their work.

Entitled 50 moons of Saturn, the exhibition will take place in three venues: Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and the Promotrice delle Belle Arti. The choice to concentrate on three major spaces for the whole exhibition aims at making the exhibition concept clearer and more immediate for the public.

T2 curator Daniel Birnbaum, has been inspired by Saturn, the slow and melancholic planet, for this second edition, creating a new geography in the contemporary art world…a constellation of artists who work under the sign of ambivalence.

T2 Exhibition venues: Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli-Turin; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Palazzina della Società Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Turin

T2 Sponors: Città di Torino, Regione Piemonte, Compagnia di San Paolo, Fondazione CRT, Camera di Commercio Industria Artigianato e Agricoltura di Torino.

MUSAC

Nocturama
(with Benoit Lalloz & Martial Gafione)
View of the Installation at MUSAC,
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León
May 17th - September 7th, 2008
Copyright: The artists
Photo by Francisco Arnoso “Pixi”
Courtesy of MUSAC

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster,
Ana Laura Aláez, Carmela García, Hedi Slimane
May 17th - September 7th, 2008

MUSAC
Avenida de los Reyes Leoneses, 24
24008 León
(T) +34 987 09 00 00
(F) +34 987 09 11 11
http://www.musac.es

MUSAC TO HOST SIX NEW EXHIBITIONS UNTIL SEPTEMBER 7th

Acclaimed French artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster inaugurates at MUSAC Nocturama*, her first one person project in Spain. Vasque artist Ana Laura Aláez returns with Pabellón de Escultura (Sculpture Pavilion) to the medium of her origins and the one in which she has produced the bulk of her work: sculpture. Carmela García unveils Constelación (Constellation), her most recent project, where she continues her ongoing exploration of gender and identity. Artist and designer Hedi Slimane continues his personal exploration of youth aesthetics in relation to music in a specific project for MUSAC. The space Laboratorio 987 will host from July 24th the show As Simple As a Line or a Circle by Salvador Cidrás and Nicolás Paris.

Exhibition Title: Nocturama*
* and promenade, cinelandia, solarium…
Artist: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Curator: Marta Gerveno
Venue: Halls 4.1, 4.2, 5 and 6
Dates: May 17 - September 7, 2008
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MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, presents Nocturama*, the first one-person project in Spain by the acclaimed French artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. Through both the spatial intervention in the halls of Leon’s museum and the publication titled Nocturama, the creator will unfold myriad paths to help visitors position themselves within the contemplation and perception of a sophisticated work, full of references and essential in the international art scene.

Title: Pabellón de Escultura (Sculpture Pavilion)
Artist: Ana Laura Aláez
Curator: Agustín Pérez Rubio
Coordinator: Carlos Ordás
Venue: Hall 3 (3.1 and 3.2)
Dates: 17 May - 7 September 2008
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Opening on 17 May, MUSAC is to host Pabellón de Escultura, an exhibition project where artist Ana Laura Aláez, loyal perpetuator of the Basque tradition, bravely explores her own past with a project that reflects upon the formal essence as a pure artistic manifesto, where sculpture and architecture meet in a spatial vacuum. Pabellón de Escultura is a project that reclaims the very act of artistic creation: a political stance that confronts the artist’s world with the audience and the artistic environment.

Title: Constelación (Constellation)
Artist: Carmela García
Curator: Alberto Martín
Coordinator: Helena López Camacho
Venue: Hall 2
Dates: 17 May - 7 September 2008
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MUSAC is to unveil Constelación, Carmela García’s most recent project, where she continues her ongoing exploration of gender and identity. Produced specifically for the exhibition venue at MUSAC, Constelación addresses the relationships between a group of women who shared a specific place and time: Paris as a city, the Rive Gauche as a specific location, the years between the wars (the 1920s and 30s) as a timeframe. Working within these parameters, the artist documents and reconstructs the presence of a group of female identities who, through their cultural, artistic and social activities –and indeed their very lifestyle– shaped the debate on the modern woman, defying convention and the dominant hierarchies surrounding the roles of male and female, and modifying socio-cultural references and behaviours in a way that remains entirely relevant today.

Exhibition Title: HEDI SLIMANE_MUSAC
Artist: Hedi Slimane
Curator: Agustín Pérez Rubio
Coordination: Marta Gerveno
Venue: Hall 1
Dates: May 17 - September 7, 2008
With the support of Maraworld
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MUSAC presents on May 17 the project that the artist Hedi Slimane has produced ex profeso for the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León. Through a publication and an installation created expressly for this occasion, Slimane continues his personal exploration of youth aesthetics in relation to music as a factor of construction and transformation of identity.

Exhibition title: As simple as a line or a circle
Artist: Igancio Uriarte and Nicolás Paris
Curator: Tania Pardo
Venue: Laboratorio 987, MUSAC
Dates: 17 May - 6 July 2008
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Ignacio Uriarte (Krefeld, Germany, 1972) and Nicolás Paris (Bogotá, Columbia, 1977) are to establish a conversation that will confront their work at MUSAC’s project space Laboratorio 987. Both artists share the use of paper as their medium of choice, and subtlety and wit as their premise.

Exhibition Title: Campo de Agramante
A Project by: Rafael Doctor & Araceli Corbo
Display Design: Kristine Guzmán
Venue: Showcase Project
Dates: May 17th - September 7th, 2008
Collaboration: University of Salamanca Photography Centre
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The books selection reflects nacional and internacional photographers as Bleda y Rosa, Per Barclay, Rhona Bitner, Gregory Crewdson, Milagros de la Torre, Sarah Dobai, Ferran Freixa, Pierre Gonnord, Bill Henson, David Hilliard, John Hilliard, Sarah Jones, Delphine Kreuter, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Wendy McMurdo, Deborah Mesa-Pelly, Sarah Moon, Xavier Ribas, Paul Seawright and Alexander Timtschenko

Press releases and high resolution images at http://www.musac.es/prensa/
MUSAC Press office: prensa@musac.es/ (T)0034 987 091103

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CCA Andratx

SUPERNATURAL
10th May - 10th August 2008

CURATOR: Dr. Friederike Nymphius

VENUE:
CCA Kunsthalle
C/ Estanyera, 2; 07150 Andratx; Majorca; Spain
http://www.ccandratx.com

After re-opening in March 2008, the Majorcan art centre CCA Andratx, dedicated to the creation and exhibition of contemporary art, is pleased to announce the opening of the second international exhibition produced for the CCA Kunsthalle.

SUPERNATURAL is curated by Dr. Friederike Nymphius (DE), a corporate art curator at EPO and member of the CCA curatorial team managed by Patricia Asbaek (DK). Participating artists will be staying and working in the CCA Studios.

SUPERNATURAL is conceived especially for CCA Kunsthalle. It features painting, sculpture, video, film, installation, photography as well as new media by 24 international contemporary artists.

Our idealistic concepts of nature are proving to be archaic, and we are re-awakening to a new version of nature. The exhibition SUPERNATURAL reflects the vision of a nature strangely altered through cross-pollination with popular culture, technology and romanticism. While “nature” refers to both real and fictional ideas of nature, “super” relates to constructed images, artifice, utopia or to scientific research.

SUPERNATURAL explores nature as a site, as an object of perception and a symptom of fascination, while acknowledging that it is also a culturally produced concept coded in a specific time and space. At the interface of nature, reality and artifice the exhibition develops new visions of nature that prove their contemporary critical background as well as a new particular romantic sensitivity for nature.

The works presented are multidimensional and multilayered, what they share are the almost paradoxical references in their exploration of theme. Their subversive, incisive and sensitive commentaries on the subject create a highly varied SUPERNATURAL imagery.

ARTISTS IN THE EXHIBITION:

Emmanuelle Antille, 1972 / CH
Jordi Bernadó, 1966 / E
Cor Dera, 1961 / NL
Graham Fagen, 1966 / GB
Hans-Peter Feldmann, 1941 / D
Tue Greenfort, 1973 / DK
Sabine Groß, 1961 / D
Uwe Henneken, 1974 / D
Peter Land, 1966 / DK
Roman Lipski, 1969 / PL
Stefan Löffelhardt, 1961 / D
Markus Karstieß, 1971 / D
Gabriel Kuri, 1970 / MEX
Soren Martinsen, 1968 / D
Paul McDevitt, 1972 / GB
Paul Morrison, 1966 / GB
Jean-Luc Mylayne, 1948 / F
Dan Peterman, 1960 / USA
Fredrik Raddum, 1973 / NOR
Thomas Ruff, 1958 / D
Gerwald Rockenschaub, 1958 / A
Thomas Scheibitz, 1968 / D
John Stezaker, 1949 / GB
Roman Signer, 1938 / CH

CCA Kunsthalle / CCA Gallery / CCA Studios / CCA Restaurant / CCA Shop

For any further information and/or images please contact press officer Suzana Mihalic
Tel. +34 971 874450 / +34 619 028 386
Email: bmcomunicacion@gmail.com

CCA ANDRATX - 07150 Andratx, Mallorca
Tel: + 34 971 137 770 / Fax: + 34 971 137 691
E-mail: info@ccandratx.com

http://www.ccandratx.com

Centre of Contemporary Art
Znaki Czasu in Torun, Poland

Centre of Contemporary Art
Znaki Czasu in Torun, Poland
New venue for Polish and
international contemporary art

Opened on June 14, 2008

http://www.csw.torun.pl

Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu (CoCA) in Torun is Poland’s first completely newly built venue dedicated to contemporary art since 1939. Located away from the largest urban agglomerations in a city famed for its unique gothic architecture, CoCA intends to influence the understanding of the artistic periphery and dynamically join the European contemporary art circuit. With its inter-media and interdisciplinary formula, a multi-format program and international cooperation, CoCA will present the most interesting facets of contemporary art and related discourse. The modern building and over 4 000 m² of exhibition facilities provide expansive opportunities for experimentation and technologically advanced projects. CoCA’s cutting-edge web offer, with its virtual gallery, community service and art database, opens doors to creative artistic and informational activities and fulfills one of its fundamental aims – to link local and global phenomena.

Through exhibitions, artist talks, seminars, artist-in-residence, publications, education programs as well as establishing a permanent collection, CoCA has committed itself to supporting contemporary art
in Poland.

CoCA Torun was opened on June 14, with three art events:

FLOWERS OF OUR LIVES
14.06.-31.10.2008

Artists: Jesper Alvaer/ Kutlug Ataman / Walerian Borowczyk / Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkáčová / Oskar Dawicki / Wojtek Doroszuk / Lilla Khoór & Will Potter / Robert Kuśmirowski / Goshka Macuga / Łukasz Skąpski / Janina Turek / Andrzej Urbanowicz

The Flowers of our Lives exhibition examines the phenomenon of collecting and the collector from the sociological and psychological perspectives. Participating artists investigate motives that drive people to collect. The artists examine the moments when fascination turns into a raison d’être, an obsession to gather and an inner compulsion. The works deal with the dichotomy between gathering and collecting, explore the frontiers of these phenomena and the definition of what a collection actually is. The exhibition is a new voice in the current discourse on contemporary collections – not just art collections – and collecting strategies.

CoCA’s Subjective Guide to Collections, a book that depicts and describes private collections of various objects discovered in the local region, offers an enhanced perspective on this project.
Curator: Joanna Zielińska

The Way Things Are… Works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection
14.06.-31.10.2008

Artists: Los Carpinteros / Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkáčová / Julian Rosefeldt / Allan Sekula /
Andreas Siekmann

The Way Things Are… explores the question of artistic representation of today’s precarious work spheres within advanced economies. These multi-voiced “work histories” reflect the radical shifts in production and work processes and larger social re-stratification deriving from the changing orders of social representation. They are the symptoms of transitional states, where larger, planetary readjustments create localized distortions and conditions of morbidity in which entire sectors of skilled labor are at risk of displacement or disappearance.

The exhibition is complemented by a daily film series, True [Hi]stories of Work, with films and videos both from the holdings of T-B A21 and many other selected cinematic works framing the topic within various geographical and contextual parameters. Founded in Vienna in 2002 by Francesca von Habsburg, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary is committed to supporting the production of contemporary art.

Curators: Daniela Zyman and Barbara Horvath

ICEBERG
Installation by Angelika Markul
13.06.-14.06.2008

Angelika Markul’s installation, presented during CoCA Torun’s inaugural exhibition, focuses on isolated icebergs adrift near arctic circles. The artist draws equally important inspiration from the fantasies and dreams of her childhood ideal world. The poetic installation graces the black marble basin in CoCA’s lobby. The ‘time encapsulated’ white form contrasts with the new building’s architecture and the surrounding ‘hard’ black stones – it is monumental but will disappear within several hours. Its natural destruction is an inherent part of the work’s process and performative nature.

Visit us!

Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu in Torun
Waly gen. Sikorskiego 13
87-100 Torun, Poland
For more information:
Kaska Bittner
kaska.bittner@csw.torun.pl

SUPPORTERS:
Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
Meinl Airports International
Trias Event Engineering
Panasonic

SHContemporary08

SHContemporary08
September 10th - 13th 2008

THE Asia Pacific Art Fair

Shanghai Exhibition Center
1000 Yan’an Zhong Road. 200040

http://www.shcontemporary.info

From September 10th-13th, ShContemporary returns for its second edition to the spectacular Shanghai Exhibition Center. The only major international art show that provides a comprehensive top quality overview of the artistic scene in Asia and creates a cross over with the works of western artists. ShContemporary coincidences with the opening of the Shanghai Biennale – opening just one day after the biennale, making this September the hottest month for all art enthusiasts to be in Shanghai!

Best of Galleries

Over 130 carefully selected exhibiting galleries, coming from both Asian and western countries, will present and intriguing dialogue between Eastern and western art scenes, and will guarantee the highest degree of quality and creativity ( see Participating galleries’ list at: http://www.shcontemporary.info ).

Best of Discovery

30 artists from Asia Pacific region, selected by ten specialized curators, will show their artworks in a museum like, sales exhibition, offering visitors an insight of the artistic developments in Asia, and the chance to be the first to discover the new generation of Asian artists (for Best of Discovery selection, visit: http://www.shcontemporary.info ).

Outdoor Special Projects

A new and exciting component to this year’s edition! Installations and sculptures will be the heart of new section Outdoor Special Projects, surrounding the grounds of Shanghai Exhibition Center, providing a greater insight to the developments in contemporary art (Outdoor Special Projects selection still in progress).

ShContemporary is organized by a strong team of leading experts in the field of modern and contemporary art, international art fairs, and trade show business:

BolognaFiere spa, organizer, One of Europe’s leading fair organizers and experts in large-scale exclusive lifestyle fairs. Headquartered in Bologna, Italy, it has branches in the US, Russia and particularly China, where it has become one of the main foreign trade show organizers. The fair is organized in cooperation with SICCA (Shanghai International Culture and Communication Association), a non-governmental agency affiliated to the Public Communications Department of the Party Committee of the City of Shanghai, and Shanghai Art Fair.

Lorenzo A. Rudolf, fair director, former director of ArtBasel, and one of the finest fair directors and experts in the world, with an international experience spanning Europe, the US and Asia.

ShContemporary 08

Opening: Tuesday, September 9th
Public: September 10th to 13th, 2008
Venue: Shanghai Exhibition Center (SEC)
1000 Yan’an Zhong Road. 200040
Information: http://www.shcontemporary.info

Shanghai Biennale: Opening day: 8th September 2008, Shanghai Art Museum

Shanghai Art Fair: 10th to 13th September 2008, Shanghai Mart

Make sure you stay up to date on our website http://www.shcontemporary.info . Take advantage of all services and keep updated on exhibiting galleries, artists and on the full programme of art events that will take place during the fair.

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To enjoy ShContemporary, we are pleased to offer you a VIP card!
VIP card will allow you an unlimited access to the fair and special VIP events. To request your VIP card, please download the reply form at the link below and send it to the following e-mail address: vipcard@shcontemporary.info :

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Europe, Americas, Middle East Office

BF China Fairs S.r.l.
c/o Fairsystem International Exhibition Services S.p.a.
Via Maserati 16 – 40128 Bologna – Italy
Tel: +39 051282 848
Fax: +39 051 282 895/ 96

Asia Pacific Office

BolognaFiere (Shanghai) Exhibition Ltd.
1st floor, Business Mansion, No. 1333 Nanjing West Road
200040 Shanghai, P.R.C.
Tel: + 86-21-322 203 81
Fax: +86-21-322 203 38