Annie Anawana Haloba Hobøl participates in the Sharjah Biennial 8 (SB8), scheduled to open on 4 April in the United Arab Emirates. SB8, directed by Jack Persekian and curated by Mohammed Kazem, Eva Scharrer, and Jonathan Watkins, integrates a theme that proposes art as a way of creating a better understanding about our relationship with nature and the environment, whilst considering its social, political, cultural, and subjective dimensions in an interdisciplinary way. Among artists included — Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla; Roy Arden; Peter Fend; Tue Greenfort; Group Tuesday; Leopold Kessler; Joachim Koester, Cornelia Parker.
Jan Freuchen, Narve Hovdenakk, Lotte Konow Lund, Torbjørn Rødland, Martin Skauen, and Bjarne Melgaard will participate in the upcoming 1st Athens Biennial entitled Destroy Athens, taking place from 9/10 September to 18 November 2007.
Bodil Furu, Anders Eiebakke, and Talleiv Taro Manum, are among artists selected to participate in Don't Worry — Be Curious!: The 4th Ars Baltica Triennial as curated by Dorothee Bienert, Kati Kivinen, and Enrico Lunghi. The exhibition which "addresses the problems and fears resulting from upheavals in present day society" is launched at the Stadtgalerie Kiel in Germany on 30 March and continues thereafter with venues at KUMU — Estonian Art Museum in Talinn, and the Pori Art Museum in Pori, Finland.
Martin Skauen
Felix Culpa, A Handmade Massacre, 2007
Drawing size; 190 x 140 cm
Videoversion: 5:10 min
Martin Skauen participates in the recently opened group exhibition entitled Whenever It Starts It Is The Right Time, curated by Chus Martinez, Director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein. The exhibition, at the Frankfurter Kunstverein from 23 March through 6 May, 2007 explores if imagination is a useful notion for a new way to define the role of artistic pratcie and its connection to social research. The project integrates the notion of the enacted imagination as it relates to the avant-garde project of the early 20th century — in conveying how to relate art to life and how to imagine the world differently. Skauen is one among other artists that include — Ibon Aranberri, Thomas Bayrle, Luke Fowler, Ryan Gander, Adrian Piper, Setareh Shabazi, Sue Tompkins. Skauen participates with a newly commissioned work made possible with the support of an OCA grant entitled Felix Culpa — A Handmade Massacre, in addition to a former work entitled Polarbear Split.
Silvia Cubina, Director at The Moore Space in Miami and Scottsdale Center for the Arts Curator Marilou Knode have invited Torgeir Husevaag and Andrea Lange to participate in the group exhibition entitled Peer in Peer Out that will take place at The Moore Space in Miami from 12 May through 2 September, 2007. The exhibition includes artists Matts Leiderstam, Egill Sæbjörnsson, and Ragna Robertsdottir. Andrea Lange will participate with a new work in addition to Countdown for 2000 Broken Dreams.
Andrea Lange
Stills from Isfahan mon amour, 2007
Curator Mami Kataoka has invited Trine Lise Nedreaas to participate in All About Laughter at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan from 27 January–6 May, 2007. Nedreaas participates with video and photographic work Forget Me Not 1, 2, 3 in an exhibition which explores the role of "humour in depicting worlds that are not possible in real life". The exhibition which is divided into three sections — 1) avant-garde and laughter, 2) laughter in everyday life and 3) laughter across different cultures — includes among others works by George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, Erwin Wurm, Peter Land, Gabriel Orozco, Damian Ortega, Mark Bradford, Carlos Amorales, Alora and Calzadilla among others.
The exhibition Into Me/Out of Me continues to be shown at MACRO (Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma) from 20 April–30 September. Norwegian participants are Trine Lise Nedreaas, Knut Åsdam and Elmgreen&Dragset
Frankfurter Kunstverein Director, Chus Martinez, will curate a major solo exhibition with the works of Gardar Eide Einarsson, that will open 27 July and run through 16 September 2007 at the Frankfurter Kunstverein. Martinez notes that Einarsson's work refers to the notion of utopia understood as "the impossibility of a place". On the other hand, the artist also addresses the notion of the "future" — or better, "the near future" — as the social ground we are already sharing and constructing for our collective tomorrow in the sense that we live in a permanent negotiation of different cultural and social backgrounds. Therefore, the solo presentation of Gardar Eide Einarsson should serve as a terrain to imagine this new territory. A place where different aesthetic premises co-exist.
Chus Martinez has also invited Lene Berg to participate in the exhibition Pensée Sauvage that will be shown in the Frankfurter Kunstverein from 25 May through 8 July, 2007 and parallel in the Ursula Blickle Foundation, 20 May–1 July, 2007.
Knut Åsdam was selected as the Artist in Focus as part of Rotterdam's International Film Festival. His contribution to the festival is a particularly versatile one. Not only will he be showing his own recent short films, he will also produce a large installation in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, entitled The Care of the Self Finally Edit, which will take the form of a dingy little urban park at sunset. This realistically constructed "hangout" is a synthesis of various motifs from his oeuvre: architecture, the urban setting, cinematographic mise-en-scéne and, above all, attention to mental processes (desire, politics, the everyday). In addition, Åsdam has integrated two installations — the video work Abyss and the new series of slides Smooth City, Smooth Space in the auditorium and conference spaces of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi). In the Bilderberg Park Hotel nearby, Åsdam found the perfect context within which to integrate a small selection of his early video work. Finally, he will also participate in the exhibition Borderline Behaviour at TENT with a graffiti work. During the festival, Åsdam will not only be introducing his own work, but also a number of his favourite films.
The exhibition, This is the First Day of My Life, by Ingar Dragset and Michael Elmgreen opened recently at the Malmö Konsthall as a comprehensive presentation of the artist duo's sculptural works from 1997–2007. Several new productions are shown together with well known works from the artists' production and installed into a disorienting complex environment of arcades and secret rooms. Curated by Lars Grambye, the exhibition will be accompanied by an upcoming publication by the same title with contributions by Brian O'Doherty, Kristian Kracht, and Dennis Cooper to be published by Hatje Cantz.
Synne Bull and Dragan Miletic have been invited to participate in the Video Exhibition Exchange — a project at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. Invited by Wesley Jessup, the Museum's Director and Kathleen Quinlan, Director of Artists' Television Access, the event takes place on 28 April.
Håvard Boland (c-Lab) participates in a project entitled The Martin Rose at the Andalusian Centre for Contemporary Art in Sevilla, Spain from 19 April through 1 July. The project is curated by Elvira Dyangani Ose.
Line Bergseth participates in a solo exhibition Fraktaler — nya målningar at the Konstnärshuset in Stockholm from 12 April though 13 May.
Anna Gudmundsdottir has been asked to produce a new work entitled The Leftover Images from the Theatre Stages After the Suburban Massacre in the Mellich City, 1909, at the Living Art Museum in Reykjavik. The project is curated by Larus Vilhjalmsson and will open in June, 2007.
Roddy Bell has been asked to intervene into the collection of the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford University in the UK with his work The Book of the Imaginary Science in September 2007.
Helge Sten (aka Deathprod) has been invited by Daniella Cascella to participate in Inaudito at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome. The project is scheduled to be realized in Spring 2008.
Tom Sandberg's exhibition as curated by Bob Nickas continues at P.S.1 MoMA in New York City through to 7 May. The exhibition includes more than thirty photographs taken over the past ten years, this will be the photographer's first major exhibition in the United States. Nickas writes:"Sandberg has produced a remarkable body of work that is consistent in its vision, imbued with a sense of mystery and great depth of feeling ... Sandberg's work is about photography, about the act of seeing, and ultimately about being in the world."
Gentlemen & Arseholes
Lene Berg, 2006
John Rasmussen, selected Lene Berg's Gentlemen and Arseholes to be shown at Midway Contemporary in Minneapolis from 17 March to 5 May. The work shows together with Carey Young's Consideration.
Lene Berg has also been selected to present a new work entitled The Weimar Conspiracy at the ACC Galerie, a not for profit space in Weimar, Germany. The project which opens on 30 March will use Weimar as an image, or example of established ways of presenting and remembering European history and culture.
Independent Curator Hanne Mugaas curates Paris Was Yesterday — Stories of Art and Culture at La Vitrine in Paris. According to Mugaas' statement, the project includes "artists working on and intervening with stories and histories of culture, while keeping a conscious look at their own role as artist. Placed within a system of art, and in the world at large, the artists draw connections as well as disassemble systems of media, technology, commercialism, and art, to create comments or new narratives. The exhibition takes its title from the book, Paris was Yesterday by Genet, an early gossip columnist, reporting from the social life of Paris to the magazine New Yorker in New York." The artists included in the exhibition are: Charles Broskoski, Marcel Dionne, Marius Engh, Ida Ekblad, Simon Goldin and Jakob Senneby, and Jane Veeder.
Neptune ... Larissa, Proteus, Triton, Nereid, 2006
Ida Ekblad and Marius Engh
Martin Braathen, a resident of the Whitney Independent Study Program in NYC, has invited Marianne Heier to participate in the exhibition, The Price of Everything ... /Perspectives on the ArtMarket, a project organized by the Whitney Independent Study Program and scheduled at the Art Gallery of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 17 May through 24 June, 2007.
Kalle Runeson participates in the group exhibition, This Is Not A Fairy Tale, curated by Edi Muka and Joa Ljungberg at the Tirana Institute for Contemporary Art through 30 April. The project "features a diversity of narratives that tell stories of "anti-heroes", pointing to the sometimes destructive consequences of inherent legends and tales." Runeson participates with the installation "Wizard Equals Wisdom and is Measured by the Length of a Beard."
OCA supported Norwegian curator Leif Magne Tangen in curating a project entitled I will never make it at Kunstraum D21 in Leipzig, Germany. The exhibition, writes Tangen, is born out of the necessity of failing. Built upon an original work by Jan Christensen from 2000, the project includes artists Mikkel McAlinden, Mark Hamilton, Paolo Chiasera, and Reto Pulfer. The show was open through 8 April
Leif Magne Tangen has also curated Synthetische Natur with works by Kjersti Berg, Sveinn Fannar Johannsson, Einar Horsberg, Marte Johnslien, Mikkel McAlinden, Eline Mugaas, Jenny Rydhagen, Børre Sæthre, Per Christian Brown and Anders Valde. The exhibition will open at Kunstraum D21 19 April, run through 10 June, and will then be open from 20 June through 24 June.
Tilman Heopfi, Curator, at the Nieuwe Vide in Haarlem, Netherlands has selected Kjell Bjørgeengen to produce a new work for the exhibition My Eyes Keep Me in Trouble, scheduled to open on 15 April and to run through 6 May, 2007.
Jan Christensen is invited to participate in the group exhibition, Vorstellen, formulieren — Sprache als Modell der Wirklichkeit, at K3 Project Room in Zurich. Curated by Susanne Sauter, the project opens 5 May and will run through 20 June, 2007.
Kalle Runeson and Marlene Lindmark (as Kultivator) have been invited by Gijs Frieling to have a solo exhibition at W139 in Amsterdam in November 2007.
Dr. Barbara Steiner, Curator and Director of the Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst Leipzig, Germany, invited the artist Stefan Schröder to participate in a public project entitled Plagwitzer Sand in Summer 2007 in Leipzig.
16 April, 2007