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VERTRAUTES TERRAIN
Contemporary Art in / about Germany
May 22 - September 21, 2008

ZKM | MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART

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THE PROJECT

“German art” or “art from Germany” is a label with tradition which is fiction, because the reality of artistic practice usually has little to do with national codifications. Although the question about the background and production site Germany has been treated by numerous international exhibitions, a topical cultural discussion has thereby hardly taken place.

The idea behind the project “Vertrautes Terrain – Contemporary Art in / about Germany” is to be a resonance board for a sophisticated discussion on the work of artists who have reflected in very different ways about Germany as a territory of history, art and society. Questions about history, cultural location, identity, references of forms, symbols and clichés constitute the project’s starting-point. The ZKM has selected German and international artists whose work formulates a contemporary answer to these questions.

Parallel developments in other branches of culture such as music, theater, film, literature, design, fashion and architecture will be also included in the “resonance space” developed together with the artist Heiner Blum. The exhibition will be accompanied by an extensive program: discussions, presentations, lectures, performances and tours, organized in cooperation with numerous partners, offer diverse paths by which to approach the theme.

A further view of the project will be offered by the exhibition “Vertrautes Terrain – Collectors’ Choice”, located on the second floor of the museum and showing works from the holdings of the Boros, Grässlin and LBBW private collections in cooperation with the ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art.

Curators: Gregor Jansen and Thomas Thiel

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Kunsthaus Graz

Joe Colombo
Design and the Invention of the Future
June 7 - August 31, 2008
Opening: Friday, June 6, 2008, 7pm

Kunsthaus Graz am
Landesmuseum Joanneum
Lendkai 1, A–8020 Graz
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Televisions that retract into the ceiling, pivoting walls with a built-in mini-bar, underground “nuclear cities” – the works of Italian designer Joe Colombo could have emerged directly from the set of a contemporary James Bond film or from the Kunsthaus Graz itself. They exude the spirit of the shrill Sixties yet also impress with their functionality and striking forms.

One of the most successful designers of his time, Colombo produced design classics such as the “Elda” armchair, the “Universale” chair or the lamp “Alogena”. The exhibition Joe Colombo. Design and the Invention of the Future is the first international retrospective dedicated to Colombo’s work. Produced in close cooperation with the estate of Joe Colombo, the exhibition presents an abundance of never-before-shown materials on Joe Colombo’s body of work. These include early original objects and prototypes of Colombo’s most important furniture designs as well as many original rough sketches, architectural models, several films and original photos. Colombo was not only one of the most important designers of his time but also a gifted communicator and self-promoter. Always elegantly dressed and never without a pipe in his mouth, Colombo furnished fitting images to accompany his designs: that of a “designer dandy” who was fascinated by the possibilities of new
technologies and the improvement of everyday life.

An exhibition of Vitra Design Museum in cooperation with the Triennale di Milano and the Studio Joe Colombo, Milan, within the program of Intermezzo Italiano at Landesmuseum Joanneum.

More exhibitions in Kunsthaus Graz:

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, Madrid
arquitectura concreta
Opening: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 at 6pm
June 26 - August 3, 2008
Kunsthaus Graz, Foyer

For years, the Madrid architects Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano have numbered among the most distinguished representatives of Spain’s contemporary architectural scene. At Kunsthaus Graz they now provide an overview of their projects, all characterized by fascinating spatial configurations and incisive formal idioms. In Graz, whose Old Town has been designated a World Heritage Site, Nieto Sobejano are involved in two projects – the expansion of the Landesmuseum Joanneum and the construction of a new roofscape for the Kastner & Öhler department store.

Although consistently contemporary in design and choice of forms, Nieto Sobejano have nonetheless succeeded in realizing an architectural language that is simultaneously responsive to the surrounding historic buildings yet independent of them. This achievement is also exemplified by their highly acclaimed Madinat al Zahara Archaeological Museum in Córdoba (Spain) and the Extension of the Moritzburg Contemporary Art Museum in Saxony-Anhalt.

The overview of Nieto Sobejano’s current activities at Kunsthaus Graz is embedded in an ambitious exhibition design, one that mirrors the forms of their current projects. Enthralling spatial effects, sophisticated materiality, and sculptural design are united here in conjunction with the featured projects to form an unmistakable architectonic approach.

In cooperation with Kastner & Öhler Warenhaus AG and Graz University of Technology.

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Collection as Aleph
March 6 - October 26, 2008
Kunsthaus Graz, Space02

FIAC 2008

FIAC 2008

Paris
From October 23rd to 26th, 2008

Vernissage: Wednesday October 22nd
& Tuesday October 21st (Preview at the Cour Carrée)

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The 35th edition of FIAC will take place from October 23rd to 26th 2008, at the Grand Palais and the Cour Carrée du Louvre. FIAC brings together approximately 200 international galleries specialized in modern art, contemporary art and design.

Modern and contemporary art galleries exhibiting at FIAC 2008:
(Index 05/30/08)

• 303 GALLERY New York • 1900-2000 Paris • A ARTE STUDIO INVERNIZZI Milano • MARTINE ABOUCAYA Paris • AIDAN GALLERY Moscow • AIR DE PARIS Paris • ALFONSO ARTIACO Napoli • APPLICAT- PRAZAN Paris • ARNDT & PARTNER Berlin • ART ATTITUDE HERVÉ BIZE Nancy • ART:CONCEPT Paris • BARONIAN-FRANCEY Bruxelles • CATHERINE BASTIDE Bruxelles • BEAUMONTPUBLIC Luxembourg • BELLWETHER New York • BERNIER / ELIADES Athens • MARIANNE BOESKY New York • BORTOLAMI New York • ISABELLA BORTOLOZZI Berlin • BUCHMANN GALERIE Lugano – Berlin • ATELIER CARDENAS BELLANGER Paris • CARLIER│GEBAUER Berlin • CHANTAL CROUSEL Paris • CHEIM & READ New York • CHEMOULD PRESCOTT ROAD Mumbai • CHEZ VALENTIN Paris • CLAUDE BERNARD Paris • SADIE COLES HQ London • JOHN CONNELLY PRESENTS New York • CONTINUA San Gimignano – Beijing • PAULA COOPER New York • RAFFAELLA CORTESE Milano • CORTEX ATHLETICO Bordeaux • LUCILE CORTY Paris • COSMIC (BUGADA
& CARGNEL) Paris • MONICA DE CARDENAS Milano • MASSIMO DE CARLO Milano • DENISE RENÉ Paris • GUILLERMO DE OSMA Madrid • DIANA STIGTER Amsterdam • DI MEO Paris • DISTRITO CU4TRO Madrid • ERIC DUPONT Paris • DVIR Tel Aviv • FRANK ELBAZ Paris • ELLEN DE BRUIJNE PROJECTS Amsterdam • ESTRANY - DE LA MOTA Barcelona • ENRICO FORNELLO Prato • JONATHAN VINER / FORTESCUE AVENUE London • JEAN FOURNIER Paris • FOXY PRODUCTION New York • GALERIE DE MULTIPLES Paris • GB AGENCY Paris • FRÉDÉRIC GIROUX Paris • LAURENT GODIN Paris • MARIAN GOODMAN Paris – New York • KARSTEN GREVE Paris – Köln – St.Moritz • M&J GUELMAN Moscow • CRISTINA GUERRA Lisboa • ALAIN GUTHARC Paris • HAAS & FISCHER Zürich • HAUSER & WIRTH Zürich - London • ERNA HECEY Bruxelles – Luxembourg • HENZE & KETTERER Wichtrach – Bern • EVA HOBER Paris • HOHENLOHE Wien • HOPKINS-CUSTOT Paris • MARWAN HOSS Paris • XAVIER HUFKENS Bruxelles • IBID PROJECTS London • GRITA INSAM Wien • IN SITU FABIENNE LECLERC Paris • RODOLPHE JANSSEN Bruxelles • JEANNE-BUCHER Paris • JOUSSE ENTREPRISE Paris • ANNELY JUDA FINE ART London • JULIETTE JONGMA Amsterdam • IRIS KADEL Berlin • KBK Mexico • KEWENIG GALERIE Köln • KLERKX Milano • JOHANN KÖNIG Berlin • GALERIE KRINZINGER Wien • LA B.A.N.K Paris • LA BLANCHISSERIE GALERIE Boulogne • LAYR:WUESTENHAGEN CONTEMPORARY Wien • GEBR. LEHMANN Dresden – Berlin • GALERIE LOEVENBRUCK Paris • LELONG Paris – New York - Zürich • LISSON GALLERY London • LOMBARD FREID PROJECTS New York • LUHRING AUGUSTINE New York • LUMEN TRAVO Amsterdam • MAX LANG New York • SERGE LE BORGNE Paris • SIMON LEE London • YVON LAMBERT Paris – New York • MAISONNEUVE Paris • GABRIELLE MAUBRIE Paris • HANS MAYER Düsseldorf • GRETA MEERT Bruxelles • KAMEL MENNOUR Paris • GALERIE MEZZANIN Wien • FRANCESCA MININI Milano • MOTIVE GALLERY Amsterdam • NACHST ST. STEPHAN ROSEMARIE SCHWARZWÄLDER Wien • NATURE MORTE / BOSE PACIA New Dehli - New York • NELSON-FREEMAN Paris • NEW GALERIE DE FRANCE Paris • NOGUERASBLANCHARD Barcelona • JÉRÔME DE NOIRMONT Paris • NATHALIE OBADIA Paris • ORIOL GALERIA D’ART Barcelona • FRANÇOISE PAVIOT Paris • PATRICK PAINTER Los Angeles • EMMANUEL PERROTIN Paris – Miami • PERUGI ARTECONTEMPORANEA Padova • GREGOR PODNAR Berlin • PERES PROJECTS Los Angeles – Berlin • PRAZ – DELAVALLADE Paris – Berlin • PROJECTESD Barcelona • ALMINE RECH Paris – Bruxelles • MICHEL REIN Paris • THADDAEUS ROPAC Paris – Salzburg • PERRY RUBENSTEIN New York • LIA RUMMA Napoli • SALVADOR Paris • ESTHER SCHIPPER Berlin • SCHLEICHER+LANGE Paris • THOMAS SCHULTE Berlin • NATALIE SEROUSSI Paris • SFEIR-SEMLER Hamburg • SHANGHART Shangaї • SIES + HÖKE Düsseldorf • FILOMENA SOARES Lisboa • FRANCO SOFFIANTINO Torino • SOMMER CONTEMPORARY ART Tel Aviv • SOMMER & KOHL Berlin • PIETRO SPARTA Chagny • SPERONE WESTWATER New York • CHRISTIAN STEIN Milano • SUTTON LANE London • MICHELINE SZWAJCER Antwerpen • T293 Napoli • SUZANNE TARASIEVE Paris • TIMOTHY TAYLOR London • DANIEL TEMPLON Paris • THE PROJECT New York • TORNABUONI ARTE Firenze • TRACY WILLIAMS, LTD New York • SASSA TRÜLZSCH Berlin • TUCCI RUSSO Torre Pelice • GEORGES-PHILIPPE & NATHALIE VALLOIS Paris • VAN DE WEGHE New York • BOB VAN ORSOUW Zürich • VAN HORN Düsseldorf • VEDOVI Bruxelles • ALINE VIDAL Paris • NADJA VILENNE Liège • ANNE DE VILLEPOIX Paris • NICOLA VON SENGER Zürich • WADDINGTON GALLERIES London • JAN WENTRUP Berlin • WHITE CUBE London • MAX WIGRAM London • MICHAEL WIESEHOEFER Köln • JOCELYN WOLFF Paris • XL GALLERY Moscow • XIPPAS Paris • HIROMI YOSHII Tokyo • DONALD YOUNG Chicago • ZLOTOWSKI Paris • ZÜRCHER Paris – New York • DAVID ZWIRNER New York •

In the context of their partnership for FIAC 2008, the Louvre Museum and FIAC will present a program of installations and monumental sculptures in the Tuileries gardens. Co-hosted by the Musée du Louvre, the Jeu de Paume and FIAC, a program of artist’s performances will likewise be presented.

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