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.
Annie Anawana Haloba Hobøl participates in the Sharjah Biennial 8 (SB8), opened 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. The biennial runs through 4 June.
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 through 28 May and continues thereafter with venues at KUMU — Estonian Art Museum in Talinn, and the Pori Art Museum in Pori, Finland.
Silvia Cubina, Director at The Moore Space in Miami and Scottsdale Center for the Arts Curator Marilou Knode have invited Lars Laumann, Knut Åsdam 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 1 July, 2007. The exhibition also includes artists Jesper Just and Pia Lindman. This video programme is also part of an exhibition entitled Contemporary Scandinavian Art from 12 May–2 September at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. Other artists participating in this exhibition are Torgeir Husevaag, Matts Leiderstam, Ragna Róbertsdóttir, and Egill Sæbjörnsson.
Matias Faldbakken is among 25 artists invited by the ICA in London to participate in a "Memorial to the Iraq War" – an exhibition involving artists proposing a memorial to the ongoing conflict in an attempt to encourage a debate about "how this episode of history might be remembered". The project opens to the public in London on 21 May.
Leander Djønne presents with a performance in the project entitled In Search of the Lost Self to be held at the Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm on 14 May as part of a project lasting from 16 May through 17 June with 15 other art students. The project has been curated by Marianna Garin, Camilla Larsson, and Sinziana Ravini.
A. K. Dolven participates in two European venues – in the anniversary exhibition Critical Mass at the Kunsthalle Bern through 20 May and also within the exhibition Pain at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin 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.
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.
Anna Gudmundsdottir has been asked to produce a new work entitled Bread and Animals, at the Living Art Museum in Reykjavik. The project is curated by Larus Vilhjalmsson and will run from 26 May to 8 July 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.
Martin Braathen, resident of the Whitney Independent Study Program in NYC, together with colleagues Stephanie Fabre, Minnie Scott, and Mike Sperlinger (the 2006-07 Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellows) have organized an exhibition The Price of Everything ... Perspectives on the Art Market to open at The Art Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue on Thursday, May 17. The exhibition addresses the "different overlapping micro-economies that comprise today's expanded art market, structures that are often invisible to the casual observer". Marianne Heier and Elmgreen & Dragset have been invited among other artists – Fareed Armaly and Christian Philipp Müller, Fia Backstrom, Conrad Bakker, Fine Art Adoption Network, Hans Haacke, Kari Haendel, Christian Jankowski, Louise Lawler, Robert Morris, Danica Phelps.
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.
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.
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.
11 May, 2007