Victor Mutelekesha,
The Human Condition, 2006
Courtesy of the artist
Rubén del Valle Lantarán, Director of the 10th Havana Biennial, has invited Victor Mutelekesha to exhibit within the biennial, which takes place in Havana, Cuba from 27 March to 30 April 2009 and is titled 'Integration and Resistance in the Global Age'. According to Lantarán, the biennial will focus 'on the complexity of a real and active integration to a global order, on one side, and on the capacity of resistance in the face of the homogenising farce that it presupposes, on the other'. Within 'Integration and Resistance in the Global Age', Mutelekesha will exhibit the installation Pangea, which nostalgically refers to the hypothetical landmass that existed when all continents were joined.
This project is supported by 03–funding*.
Elmgreen & Dragset, Boy Scout, 2008
Courtesy Galleri Nicolai Wallner,
Copenhagen, Denmark
Agustin Pérez Rubio, Chief Curator at MUSAC (Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain) has invited the artists' duo Elmgreen & Dragset for a solo exhibition entitled 'Trying to Remember What We Want to Forget' at MUSAC from 31 January to 3 May 2009. The exhibition will focus in the gap between the personal and the collective, the unbalanced of 'the private' versus the drama of 'the public' in the immediate world. The exhibition will be composed of ten installation art works in in a display created specifically for MUSAC – six of them will be new productions and the previous works will be displayed in a new arrangement, according to the curatorial concept.
From 28 January to 22 March 2009, Rachel Dagnall, as part of the artist group Henry VIII's Wives, will the holding a solo at The Pumphouse Gallery in London, UK. Within the exhibition, organised by Sandra Ross curator of The Pumphouse Gallery and titled 'Henry VIII's Wives', the group will present the works The Returning Officer and a two-screen work titled Mr. Hysteria.
Renske Janssen, curator at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, the Netherlands has invited Ina Blom to present a lecture on Lynda Benglis titled 'An Instance of Videosociality' at Witte de With. In the lecture, Blom considers Lynda Benglis's 1972 video Mumble, focusing on an artistic dialogue between Benglis and Robert Morris, and raises fundamental questions concerning the artistic medium of video as a social machine. The lecture takes place Thursday 29 January at 19:00.
Dag Alveng, Light Tubes, 2005
From the series 'I love this Time of Year'
Courtesy of the artist
From 26 March to 03 May 2009, Dag Alveng will hold a solo exhibition at Centro Cutural da Caixa in São Paulo, Brazil. The exhibition will present a retrospective of Alveng's works, including the projects The Farm, Summer Light, This is MOST Important and I love This Time of Year. This project is supported by 03–funding*.
Chus Martínez, Chief Curator of the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain and a guest at OCA's ISP Programme in August 2006 has invited Matias Faldbakken to participate in the project 'The Malady of Writing. A Project on Text and Speculative Imagination'. The project consists of an exhibition and an active space for reading, discussion and production of writing, and will include, among others, Seth Price, Falke Pisano and Will Holder. 'The Malady of Writing' takes place at the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona from 13 March to 31 May 2009.
Matias Faldbakken and Leif Tangen have been invited by Ruba Katrib, Assistant Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, USA, to exhibit within 'The Possibility of an Island' at MOCA from 4 December 2008 to 15 March 2009. According to the curator, the exhibition takes as a starting point the recent novel The Possibility of an Island, by Michel Houellebecq to pose existential questions in the face of a never-arriving future. For 'The Possibility of an Island', MOCA commissioned new works from Matias Faldbakken and invited Leif Tangen to take part in the public programme of the exhibition with a talk about the process of writing the novel Phillip. 'The Possibility of an Island' takes place at Goldman Warehouse in Miami. Among other participating artists are Claire Fontaine, Peter Coffin and Cao Fei.
Raimundas Malasauskas, curator at Artists Space in New York, USA has invited Morten Norbye Halvorsen to exhibit within 'Paper Exhibition', taking place at the Artists Space from 14 January to 7 March 2009. According to he curator, the exhibition will 'explore a number of modes of artistic and curatorial production dedicated to potential, speculative, imaginary virtual, etc'. Within 'Paper Exhibition', Morten Norbye Halvorsen presents a sound installation that draws from various sources amongst them Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation and the new autobiography of Clifford Irving Phantom Rosebuds. Among the artists exhibiting are Mario García Torres, Mariana Castilo Deball and Loris Greaud.
Kjell Bjørgeengen,
still image 2007, 2007
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Kjell Bjørgeengen has been invited Paul Lagring, Artistic Director, Netwerk vzw, in Aalst, Belgium to exhibit within 'Fuzzy Electronics', taking place at Netwerk vzw from 14 February to 4 April 2009. The exhibition focuses on the importance of accidental change within the filed of 'new media'. For 'Fuzzy Electronics' the artist will produce a new series of video and audio works that incorporate a method of instability. Other artists exhibiting are Frederik De Wilde, Jerry Galle and Doris Kuwert.
Karl Ingar Røys has been invited by Mika Hannula to exhibit within 'Happy Together', taking place at Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia from 28 January to 1 March 2009. The exhibition proposes an investigation on the concepts of collective identity and contemporary nationalism. Within 'Happy Together' Karl Ingar Røys exhibits the video installation Radio Yerevan, which challenges and juxtaposes different perspectives on of a political demonstration in Armenia.
Hanneline Røgeberg is currently exhibiting within 'Form and Story: Narration in Recent Painting', at University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, USA. According to the curator Elisabeth Schlatter the exhibition 'includes approximately forty paintings by four artists who convey narrative content in their work through a synthesis of representational subject matter and the materiality and application of their medium'. 'Form and Story: Narration in Recent Painting' is on view until 15 May 2009.
At the invitation of Suzan Rosseler, Conservator of Exhibitions, Audax Textile Museum Tiburg, the Netherlands, Heidi Kennedy Skjerve will exhibit within 'Knitted Worlds'. The exhibition, which takes place at Audax Textile Museum Tiburg from 14 March to 4 June 2009, will present artworks where knitting is used to express social, political and formal artistic questions. Within 'Knitted Worlds', the artist will exhibit the works Grunn/Ground and Sommer/Summer II.
Ståle Stenslie, World Ripple, 2008
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Ståle Stenslie is currently exhibiting the works Artgasm and World Ripple within the festival 'Touch Me – Feel Better'. The project Artgast 'is a public performance where two males are having an orgasm induced by a medical team, using a special medical vibrator' and World Ripple 'is a sensual, invisible and immaterial sculpture maze sensually senseable by a tactile, wireless and mobile bodysuit'. Curated by Suncica Ostoic, the festival presents contemporary art production at the intersection of science and technology, and its thematic framework refers to the imperative of happiness, pleasure and hedonism in contemporary society. The festival is on view until 23 February 2009 at Old Factory Badel, Zagreb, Croatia.