At the Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland: Knut Henrik Henriksen participates in the exhibition entitled Poor Thing at the Kunsthalle Basel in Switzerland together with artists Karla Black, Robert Breer, Martin Heldstab, Dagmar Heppner, Karin Hueber, Ian Kiaer, and Kilian Ruthemann. The exhibition is curated by Simone Neuenschwander and brings together artists who engage in a dialogue with the specific space of the Kunsthalle, in an "alteration of architectural space that combines with the transformation capacity of the "poor" materials which can refer back to their everyday use and build up narrative structures". The opening takes place on the evening of 9 June at 19:00. The exhibition runs through to September 2, 2007.
At the Frankfurter Kunstverein in Frankfurt Lene Berg participates in the exhibition Pensèe Sauvage. The exhibition takes place at the Frankfurter Kunstverein from 20 May–1 July and in parallel at the Ursula Blickle Foundation from 25 May through 8 July, 2007. The exhibition uses the title of the well known book by the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss to present an take on the actual fact of meeting the stranger and the notion of freedom, to reinforce the importance of being involved in reality, and of underlining enthusiasm as an extremely difficult but desirable form of freedom. The exhibition curated by Chus Martinez will include among other artists — Lucas Bambozzi, Andrea Buttner, Henrik Hakansson, Marine Hugonnier, Deimantas Narkevicius, Rosalind Nashashibi, Markus Oehlen, Aida Ruilova.
At the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston Camille Norment participates in Black Light/White Noise, at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, Texas as curated by Cassel Oliver. The project presents the work of a new generation of artists who are working with sound and light not only as an audiovisual landscape, but also as an interactive form. It also includes recent works by Sanford Biggers, Louis Cameron, Kianga Ford, Kira Lynn Harris, Satch Hoyt, Arthur Jafa, Jennie C. Jones, Yvette Mattern, Kambui Olujimi, Karyn Olivier, Nadine Robinson, and SoundLab. The exhibition will also feature select canonical works by George Lewis (in collaboration with Douglas Ewart and Douglas Irving Repetto), Tom Lloyd, and Benjamin Patterson that place these 21st-century sound and light works in context with the history of the genre. The project will run through 5 August.
Matias Faldbakken
Untitled (Slayer Upon Slayer Upon Slayer), 2007
Black isolation tape, 180 x 300 cm
Courtesy of the artist and STANDARD (OSLO)
Photo: Samantha Hart
At the ICA London: Matias Faldbakken participates in the exhibition entitled Memorial to the Iraq War at the ICA in London — a project that curated by ICA Curator Mark Sladen and that involves artists proposing a the means to memorialize the ongoing conflict in Iraq in an attempt to encourage a debate about "how this episode of history might be remembered". The project which opened to the public in London on 21 May will run through 27 June. Other artists participating include Christoph Buchel, Yael Davids, Jeremy Deller, Sam Durant, Liam Gillick, Sanja Ivekovic, Nate Lowman, Michaela Meise, Roman Ondak, Khalil Rabah, Collier Schorr, Sean Snyder, Jalal Toufic, among others.
At Scottsdale Museum for Contemporary Art in Phoenix: Senior Curator Marilu Knode includes the projects by Knut Åsdam, Andrea Lange, Lars Laumann, Torgeir Husevaag within an exhibition and video programme entitled Contemporary Scandinavian Art from 12 May through 2 September at the Scottsdale Museum for Contemporary Art.
At Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin: A.K. Dolven participates in the exhibition entitled Pain at the Hamburger Bahnhof through 5 August. The exhibition curated by Eugen Blume explores the "manifold depictions and expressions of pain" and includes works by Birgit Brenner, Julio Gonzalez, Mathilde ter Heijne, Gary Hill, Bruce Nauman, Sam Taylor Wood among others. A.K. Dolven also participates in a project entitled Samling '07 at the Museet for Samtidkunst in Roskilde, Denmark from 29 June through 9 September, 2007.
Lars Laumann
Fleetwood Bac
from the Tribute Band Series, 2007
At the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco: Bull.Miletic are invited by Renè de Guzman to participate in a group exhibition entitled Dark Matters: Artists See the Impossible scheduled to open in San Francisco on 28 July. Bull.Miletic will participate with the installation Heaven Can Wait, in a larger project that delves into "the obscure and often sinister, testing the limits of the imagination to offer a range of work including internet-eavesdropping installations, surveillance projects." Other artists participating include Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen, Sergio Prego, Walid Raad, Kambui Olujimi, Alison Sant, Richard Johnson, Richard Barnes, Alex Schweder and Charles Mason.
At MoMA, New York: Lars Laumann's Morrissey Foretelling the Death of Diana participates in MoMA's Automatic Update, a film series held throughout the duration of 27 June through 3 September as organized by Barbara London, Associate Curator in the Department of Media in MoMA. The festival is intended to reflect upon the "momentum of the dot-com era infused media art with a heady energy, artists, many switching from analog to digital equipment" into newly invented art forums. For the complete programme, please visit http://moma.org/exhibitions/2007/automatic_update.
At the Salzburger Kunstverein in Austria: Ingrid Book and Carina Hedé participate in a project at the Salzburger Kunstverein from 20 September–25 November at the invitation of its director, Hemma Schmutz. The project entitled Stories for Empty Shopwindows originates in a series of stories from Scheibbs in Austria in exploring "to construct evidence and to play on the questioned capacity of photography to act as a testimony of truth." An artists talk will be held on 21 September.
At Neue Gesellschaft for Bildene Kunst in Berlin: Rachael Dagnall participates in the exhibition, Syntropia, with work from Tatlin's Tower and the World Project. The exhibition opens on 29 June and runs through 30 September.
At Midway Contemporary Art in Minneapolis: Matias Faldbakken participates in a solo exhibition at the non profit space Midway Contemporary in Minneapolis from 8 September thorugh 27 October, 2007. The exhibition is curated by John Rasmussen, Director of Midway.
Willy Wonka in Zürich: Willy Wonka (Ida Ekblad and Anders Nordby) will curate The Corny Show (a.k.a. The Art is in the Heart), a project to open at KARMA International in Zürich on 28 June through 29 July. The artists Nils Bech, Lina Viste Grønli, Ida Ekblad, Lars Laumann, Camilla Løw, and Anders Nordby represent a project that the curators claim "aims to research the peculiar expression "corny" and its significance and menaing within urban jargon."
At W139 in Amsterdam: W139's director Gijs Frieling has invited the artist group Kultivator (which include Kalle Runeson and Marlene Lindmark) to have a solo exhibition opening 12 October. The subject of Kultivator's work is agriculture and ecology, rural versus urban culture, food production and distribution, global trading and economy.
In Ecuador: Vibeke Tandberg participates in Border Jam, a project curated by New Museum (NYC) curator Gerardo Mosquera as part of Regional Encounter of Art/Montevideo 2007. Border Jam will respond from the standpoint of contemporary artistic practices the social and cultural environment of solidarities and exclusions, not necessarily inscribed by territorial limits. Other artists participating in the project — Monica Bonvicini, Shilpa Gupta, Mona Hatoum, Teresa Margolles, Fernando Sanchez Castillo and Santiago Sierra. Tandberg will participate with her work Sunflower from 2001.
At Sparwasser HQ in Berlin: Geir Tore Holm presents the project of nord land Sorfinnset which has been inspired by the Land Foundation, a rice farm outside Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand. Both in Thailand and in Nordland, the emphasis is placed on exchange, involvement, and experimentation within a sustainable development context. The presentation at Sparwasser will take place between 29 July and 2 August.
Adriana Alves at Fuzuê Arte e Cultura in Rio de Janeiro: José Loyola has invited Adriana Alves to exhibit in the new art center Fuzuê in Rio de Janeiro. In addition to Alves' two floor-exhibition there will be a Norwegian contemporary video art programme and a seminar. The exhibiton will run from 12 October through 12 November.
In Sweden: The artist group El Parche (Herman Mbamba, Olga Robayo, and Marius Wang) will produce a site specific work for the exhibition Earthworks at Kultivator to take place between 8 July and 12 August.
22 June, 2007