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Melbourne Art Fair

Melbourne Art Fair 2008
30 July – 3 August

Opening night Vernissage 30 July

Royal Exhibition Building
Melbourne Australia

http://www.melbourneartfair.com

Melbourne Art Fair returns to the World Heritage listed Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton Gardens Melbourne from 30 July to 3 August 2008. Leading galleries representing over 900 living artists, exhibiting some 3,000 artworks gather together at the 11th Melbourne Art Fair, Asia Pacific’s premier contemporary art fair. Melbourne Art Fair 2008 is presented by the Melbourne Art Fair Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation promoting contemporary art and the ethical representation of living artists.

Held biennially, this exciting event features over 80 leading galleries from all states and territories of Australia as well as from Auckland, Wellington, Beijing, Hong Kong, Osaka, Seoul, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, New Delhi, Lucerne, Cologne, Frankfurt and Dublin. Gallery exhibitions are by invitation only and showcase premier galleries from Australia alongside their international peers from Asia and beyond.

Melbourne Art Fair 2008 also includes Artist Commissions; Project Rooms supporting independent artists and curators; and free public Forums and Lecture featuring artists, curators and international guests. All components of the Melbourne Art Fair 2008 program directly benefit the work of living artists.

Exhibiting artists include; Brook Andrew (Aust), James Angus (Aust), Billy Apple (NZ), Lyndall Brown & Charles Green (Aust), Daniel Buren (France), Ian Burns (Aust), Martin Creed (UK), Li Dafang (China), Hayden Fowler (NZ), David Griggs (Aust), Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro (Aust), David Hookey (Aust), Callum Innes (Scotland), Silvana & Gabriella Mangano (Aust), Samuel Namunidja (Aust), Tomoko Sawada (Japan), Julie Rrap (Aust), Sally Smart (Aust), Louise Weaver (Aust), and Ai Weiwei (China).

The Project Rooms include; Damiano Bertoli (Aust), Jonas Dahlberg (Sweden) and Pat Foster and Jen Berean (Aust) curated by Mark Feary (Aust); Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (Aust); Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, (Aust); Kyungah Ham (South Korea); Joint Hassles (Aust); Next Wave Festival (Aust); The South Project (Aust); and Anne Zahalka (Aust).

One of the highlights of Melbourne Art Fair is the commissioned works, which are positioned within the Royal Exhibition Building and gifted to an Australian institution at the conclusion of the Fair. Melbourne Art Fair Foundation is delighted to announce that two Australian artists, David Griggs and Peter Hennessey are creating large-scale works through the 2008 Commissions.

Melbourne Art Fair 2008 key events and dates are detailed below:

Melbourne Art Fair 2008 Lecture
Monday 28 July
BMW Edge Federation Square
Cnr Flinders & Swanston Street
6 – 7.30pm, entry from 5.30pm
Free Entry

Melbourne Art Fair Forums
Wednesday 30 Julyb
An afternoon of informative and lively discussion on contemporary art.
Clemenger Auditorium
National Gallery of Victoria International
180 St.Kilda Road Melbourne
12.30 – 5pm
Bookings essential. For bookings contact NGV International
Tel +61 3 86621555

Melbourne Art Fair 2008 Vernissage
Wednesday 30 July
Royal Exhibition Building Melbourne
7 – 10.30pm
Bookings essential
vernissage@melbourneartfair.com
Tel +61 3 9417 5871
For online bookings visit http://www.melbourneartfair.com

Public Hours:
Thursday 31 July - Sunday 3 August 2008
Royal Exhibition Building Carlton
Thursday 31 July 11 am – 7 pm
Friday 1 August 11 am – 8 pm
Saturday 2 August 11 am – 7 pm
Sunday 3 August 11 am – 5 pm
Catalogue available for purchase
Day Entry tickets at the door

Melbourne Art Fair Foundation
Tel 61 3 9416 2050
Fax 61 3 9416 2020
mail@melbourneartfair.com
http://www.melbourneartfair.com

Portland Art Focus

Visit the City that Creates. Portland.

http://www.portlandartfocus.net

Portland Art Focus is a group of art and cultural institutions in Portland, Oregon, who have come together to raise the national and international visibility of the vibrant culture happening in the city. From collecting museums to contemporary art festivals, Portland’s art programming creates a haven for exemplary art and our city is home to some of the world’s best artists. Visit Portland Art Focus http://www.portlandartfocus.net, the arts enthusiasts’ first stop to learn about the world-class art happening in the city. Portland Art Focus members include the following organizations.

Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed College enhances the academic offerings of Reed College with a diverse range of scholarly exhibitions, lectures, and colloquia. In its role as a teaching gallery, Cooley Gallery presents exhibitions with attention to the needs and interests of Reed faculty members and courses, and the larger Portland and Northwest arts communities. Three to four exhibitions during the academic year bring to Reed and the Portland community artists and work that would not otherwise be seen in the region.

Feldman Gallery+Project Space at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) is dedicated to bringing national and international contemporary artists to Portland and showcases stellar artists who fully participate in a collaborative, creative dialogue that includes studio visits, gallery talks and culminates in a public First Thursday opening. The Feldman Gallery is enriched through the College’s partnerships with leading artistic and educational institutions throughout the city and the region.

Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, at Lewis & Clark College, opened in 1997, the Hoffman Gallery emphasizes work at the forefront of the contemporary tradition: challenging, provocative, and international in scope. Its unparalleled site - adjacent to a historic formal garden overlooking Mount Hood - gives the gallery a distinctive place among the venues for contemporary art in the Pacific Northwest.

The Hoffman Gallery, at the Oregon College of Art and Craft, brings the work of regional, national and international artists to the Portland community. Exhibitions are selected to reflect current trends in the arts, as well as the historical and cultural aspects of art and craft. Common to all Hoffman gallery exhibitions is the goal of providing a forum to promote dialogue and education. As OCAC enters its 102nd year of fine art and craft education, the college offers an intense studio experience, personalized and rigorous instruction, and an active ground for exploration.

Museum of Contemporary Craft continues to be guided by the core goals of the organizations founders—to present excellence in contemporary craft, to support artists and their work, to connect the community directly with artists, to deepen the understanding and appreciation of craft, and to expand the audience that values craft and its makers.

Portland Art Dealers Association (PADA), a group of Portland’s foremost contemporary art galleries, presents regional and international artists in exhibits year-round. Galleries include: Augen, Blackfish, Bullseye, Butters, Charles Froelick, Elizabeth Leach, New American Art Union, PDX Contemporary Art, Pulliam Deffenbaugh, Quintana, Laura Russo, and Mark Woolley. Public receptions are held monthly during our remarkable First Thursday evenings of art.

The Portland Art Museum is the seventh oldest museum in the United States and the oldest on the West Coast. The Museum is internationally recognized for its permanent collection, programs, and ambitious special exhibitions, drawn from the Museum’s holdings and the worlds finest public and private collections. An active collecting institution, dedicated to preserving great art for the enrichment of future generations, the Museum devotes 90 percent of its gallery space to its permanent collection.

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art presents the annual Time-Based Art Festival, which features performing and visual arts in venues throughout the city. Through year-round residencies, exhibitions, performances and installations, which culminate in TBA, PICA acknowledges and advances new developments in contemporary art while fostering the creative explorations of artists and audiences.

The year round arts offerings of the members of Portland Art Focus http://www.portlandartfocus.net emphasize and improve Portland culture by showcasing cutting edge contemporary art as well as classic fine arts offerings that enrich our citizens, educate our children and make the city and the region a desirable home for residents and an exciting destination for cultural tourists.

XV Rohkunstbau

THREE COLOURS – RED
17.07. - 05.10.2008

Official Opening 13.07.2008 at 3pm

Villa Kellermann/ Potsdam

http://www.rohkunstbau.de

The XV Rohkunstbau annual festival of contemporary art is entitled “THREE COLOURS – RED”. In the third and final part of this trilogy, designed by Rohkunstbau co-founder and artistic director Arvid Boellert, the acclaimed Rohkunstbau exhibition has invited ten contemporary artists to explore the complex issue of “Fraternity”. In analogy to Three Colours – Blue, White, Red, the eponymous film series by Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski, the Rohkunstbau exhibition also sets out to highlight the personal perspective of each individual artist on the fundamental democratic principle of brotherhood and sisterhood. The festival has always highlighted the relationship between the exhibits and the location – and this year’s exhibition venue at the Villa Kellermann, located directly on the banks of the Heiliger See lake in Potsdam, has a chequered history of nobility, wealthy commoners and proletarian artistic circles that offers a unique projection surface.

Rohkunstbau curator Mark Gisbourne has taken the colour red as the leitmotif for the exhibition, adding the extra dimension of referencing this year’s 60th anniversary of the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the General Assembly of the United Nations. Red has been closely associated with fraternity for years, just as much as with political ideas such as socialism and collectivism. Yet, at the same time, red is ambiguous, without a single defined reference, a colour not only evoking love, warmth and energy down the centuries but also epitomising the devil, and symbolising sin and danger. The artworks presented in Potsdam reflect just such a diversity.

Exhibiting Artists
Marc Bauer, Switzerland/ Drawings, Installation, Guy Ben-Ner, Israel/ Video, Installation, Richard Hamilton, UK/ Painting, Collage, Britta Jonas, Germany/ Objects, Installation, Alexandra Khlestkina, Russia/ Video, Jonathan Monk, UK/ Installation, Objects, Performance, José Noguero, Spain/ Objects, Installations, Photography, Bettina Pousttchi, Germany/ Photography, Video, Installation, Cornelia Renz, Germany/ Painting, Brigitte Waldach, Germany/ Painting, Drawing, Installation.

Rohkunstbau – Benefit – Auction, 13.07.08 at 4pm, Villa Kellermann/Potsdam

Auctioneer: Prof. Dr. Peter Raue

Most of the works in the auction have been donated by artists shown at previous Rohkunstbau. exhibitions including: Norbert Bisky, The Blue Noses, Sergej Bratkov, Micha Brendel, Maria Chevska, Thomas Florschütz, Laura Ford, Via Lewandowsky, Melanie Manchot, Boris Michailov, Steffen Mühle; Berit Myreboee, Thomas Rentmeister, Cornelia Renz, Cornelia Schleime etc.

They are planning to donate the money from their auctioned works to help establish a Stiftung Rohkunstbau Foundation to secure the continued existence of Rohkunstbau as an acclaimed private non-profit project. In that sense, this is far more than just an auction of works – it is the chance to ensure Rohkunstbau’s survival as an independent institution for new works in location-based art.

Further information: +49 30/ 486 20 800 or online at http://www.rohkunstbau.de

Patron of THREE COLOURS – BLUE WHITE RED from 2006 to 2008: José Manuel Barroso,
President of the European Commission

Artistic Director: Dr. Arvid Boellert, Exhibition Curator Mark Gisbourne

Venue: Villa Kellermann, Mangerstrasse 34 -36, 14467 Potsdam/ Germany

The Exhibition is open to the public from 17.07. to 5.10.08.
Official opening: 13.07.08 at 3pm

Opening times: Thursday and Friday 2pm 7pm, Saturday and Sunday 12noon 7pm

Online at: http://www.rohkunstbau.de Infoline: +49 30 / 48 62 08 00

Admission: Free admission under the age of 16.
Concessions for pupils and students, registered unemployed people and people with severe disabilities (at least 50% MdE - registered disability).

Press Office: Bluhm PR, Sylke Bluhm and Ron Bloch, info@bluhmpr.de

Media partners: zitty, rbb Radio Eins

Organised by the Brandenburg Branch of the Foundation SPI.

The XV Rohkunstbau is generously funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation, the Land of Brandenburg, the Ostdeutsche Sparkassenstiftung together with the Mittelbrandenburgische Sparkasse in Potsdam, the city of Potsdam, Cision, and EMB.

Image above:
Cornelia Renz and Anna Renzthrills, 2008
Pigment pencil on acrylic glass, 100 x 100 x 6 cm incroyable + merveilleux, 2008
Triptych, pigment pencil on acrylic glass, 260 x 520 x 8 cm
Exhibition view: Villa Kellermann/ Potsdam
Photography: Roland Horn
©VG Bildkunst, Bonn 2008
Courtesy Cornelia Renz und Goff+Rosenthal Berlin/New York

Stroom Den Haag

After Neurath: A Safe Place -
International System of Disaster Pictograms
June 29 - August 31, 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

The number of victims of extreme weather and terrorrist attacks is growing at an alarming pace. Everyday we see images of refugees trying to escape the violence of war or the helpless victims of floods and earthquakes. Aid organizations must act fast to help these people, to supply them with food and water, to direct them to a safe place. Giving people in disaster areas good and accurate information can save many lives and reduce damages and the amount of panic. Pictograms can be of help. With ‘After Neurath: A Safe Place - International System of Disaster Pictograms’ Stroom Den Haag presents the first attempt at an international system of disaster pictograms.

In 2007 graphic designers Derk Dumbar and Gert Dumbar presented the pilot version of their series of disaster pictograms ‘A Safe Place’ within the framework of Utrecht Manifest. The pictograms are especially designed as a tool for communication between aid workers and victims of disasters. They form the start of the development of a universal picture language to be used worldwide during natural disasters, epidemics, human failure, armed conflicts, terrorism or combinations thereof. It is a search for visual answers to universal problems.

The exhibition of Derk Dumbar and his team at Stroom Den Haag focuses on the recently developed disaster pictograms, the sources and the research that is supposed to lead to a standardized system. ‘A Safe Place’ is an ideological enterprise showing the belief in images as a basis for a universal communication transcending cultural differences. As such the project builds on Otto Neurath’s body of thought. ‘A Safe Place’ concludes the event ‘After Neurath’.

The ‘After Neurath’ project is inspired by the life and work of the Austrian science philosopher, political economist and sociologist Otto Neurath (1882-1945), who lived in The Hague from 1934 till 1940. Collaborating with Gerd Arntz and Marie Reidemeister, Neurath developed a system which in the course of the thirties became known as ISOTYPE, a system of picture diagrams that converted data concerning social developments into appealing icons. ‘After Neurath’ includes lectures, workshops, exhibitions and other activities Stroom has been organizing off and on during the period 2006-2008.

The exhibition ‘A Safe Place’ is made possible by: Mondriaan Foundation, City of The Hague, Utrecht Manifest, Rieme Gleijm, Gerda Blees, Gert Dumbar, Anke van der Kwaak (Royal Institute for the Tropics).