Vibeke Tandberg,
Albert Camus, L'étranger, 2006
Courtesy of the artist
Ivo Mesquita, Chief Curator of the 28th São Paulo Biennial and a guest at OCA's International Visitor Programme (IVP) in May 2008, together with curator Ana Paula Cohen, have invited Vibeke Tandberg to exhibit in the 2008 São Paulo Biennial. For the exhibition, taking place until 6 December 2008, Ivo Mesquita proposed to rethink the way in which the São Paulo Biennial Foundation has been producing the successive editions since 1951, opening up an interlude of reflection in the exhibition's history and what role biennials play for the cultural, tourism and event industry. In São Paulo, Tandberg is exhibiting the work Albert Camus, L'étranger, Roman, Gallimard 2003, Prémier dépôt légal: juin 1942. ISBN 2-07-021-200-3, in which the artist dissects an edition of the book L'étranger by Albert Camus in cutting out each of the 32 000 words comprising the text and subsequently alphabetizing each onto separate formations divided into individual framed works. Tandberg draws from Camus' story about the ultimate meaninglessness of life to evolve a work that gives another form to that connoting what is effectively formless and functionless. Among other invited artists are Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Sophie Calle and Joan Jonas.
For media inquiries please contact Felipe Taboada at felipe@bienalsaopaulo.org.br or Bruna Azevedo at bruna@bienalsaopaulo.org.br. For more information, please visit the biennial's website.
Closely related to the Brussels' initial modernization project and organized under the conceptual umbrella devised by its artistic director, Barbara Vanderlinden, the 1st Brussels Biennial for Contemporary Art incorporates exhibitions curated by eight contemporary art institutions. Within the exhibition curated by L'appartement 22 in Rabat, Morocco, the Norwegian curator Anne Szefer Karlsen has invited HC Gilje to exhibit the public art work Wind up bird (working title). Marius Engh has been invited by Nicolaus Schafhausen and Florian Waldvogel to exhibit within the Witte de With Contemporary Art Center section of the biennial. The artist will exhibit Lead, follow or get the hell out of the way, a series of 14 photographs taken on details of Teufelsberg – a symbolic mark in Berlin. Among other art institutions participating in the biennial are MuHKA, Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst in Antwerpen, Belgium, Drik, Images, Communication &Information Technology in Dahka, Bangladesh and BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
For media inquiries, please send an email to press@brusselsbiennial.org. For more information visit the biennial website or send an email to office@brusselsbiennial.org.
The project is also supported by 03–funding*.
The 6th edition of the Taipei Biennial, curated by Manray Hsu and Vasif Kortun, a guest at OCA's International Visitor Programme (IVP) in April 2008, takes place between 13 September 2008 and 4 January 2009 in various venues throughout the city of Taipei, Taiwan. According to the curators, this year's biennial does not have 'a single theme, but a constellation of correlated themes, most of which address the chaotic states of things in this time of globalization'. The threads of investigation in the exhibition are processed and witnessed through do-it-yourself practices, individual stories, and humor. Within the biennial, Lene Berg is exhibiting Stalin by Picasso, which, according to curator Kristine Jærn Pilgaard is 'about how two icons from the 20th century, Stalin and Picasso, once were perceived and how much their public personas have changed since then. On another level, it is about art and artistic freedom, or un-freedom, and of ways of reading and using images, particularly images of so-called great men'. Other exhibiting artists are Superflex, Nevin Aladag and Mario Rizzi.
For media inquiries please contact Juillet Lu at juillet@tfam.gov.tw, or contact the biennial at info@taipeibiennial.org for more information.
The project is supported by 03–funding*.
Hans Hamid Rasmussen has been invited by international curators Gao Shiming, Sarat Maharaj and Johnson Chang Tsong-zung to exhibit within the Third Guangzhou Triennial. The triennial takes place from 6 September to 16 November 2008 at the Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China under the title Farewell to Post-Colonialism. According to the curators, the title and framework of the triennial refers to a desire 'for the renovation of the theoretical interface of contemporary art, to depart from its all pervasive socio-political discourse, and work together with artists and critics to discover new modes of thinking and develop new analytical tools for dealing with today's world'. In addition to the exhibition, the Third Guangzhou Triennial will present an International Symposium and a Round-table forum in November 2008. For the exhibition, Hans Hamid Rasmussen produceed a new textile work, that addresses the perception of geographical places in relation to social bodies.
For more information please refer to the triennial website or contact Tang Xiolin and Asea Dai at gztriennial@gmail.com.
Until 26 January 2009, P.S.1/MoMA presents Børre Sæthre's solo exhibition. Curated by Lia Gangitano, P.S.1 Curatorial Advisor and entitled Børre Sæthre, the exhibition presents the artist's highly aestheticized immersive environment, in which 'anachronistically frozen in space, Sæthre's mythological taxidermy hybrids insinuate elements of surrealism, drawing from an ancient register that collides with futuristic settings'.
Lene Berg,
Sketch for banner for façade of
The Cooper Union School of Art
From 29 October to 6 December 2008 The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art School of Art presents a solo exhibition by Lene Berg titled Stalin by Picasso or Portrait of Woman with Moustache. Curated by Saskia Bos, Dean and Sara Reisman, Associate Dean of Cooper Union School of Art, the exhibition primarily comprised of works related to two projects – Stalin by Picasso and Gentlemen and Arseholes – that reflect on artistic and cultural production during the Cold War era. Berg's exhibition provokes discussion on the relationships between art and politics, in recent history and in the contemporary moment.
Kjell Bjørgeengen presents a new a life video project in collaboration with Keith Rowe and Phillip Wachsmann within the Kill Your Timid Notion Tour. Curated by Barry Esson, Curator of Arika, the tour will take place between 29 November and 7 December and will visit important international institutions in the UK such as the British Film Institute, BFI IMAX, ICA, Arnolfini, Spike Island and the Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow.
The exhibition If you won't fly, try using it as a reducing machine is a collaboration between Stian Ådlandsvik and Lutz-Rainer Müller taking place concurrently at the galleries Trottoir, Elektrohaus, HfbK Galerie in Hanburg, Germany from 13 November to December 2008. The project derives from the desire to fly and the manufacturing process of the A380 – the biggest aircraft ever built – to approach theories regarding time and the impossibility/desire to be in different places at the same time.
Maia Urstad,
Sound Barrier, 2004/05
Courtesy of Malmø Konsthall and the artist
Torbjørn Rødland, Goksøyr & Martens (Toril Goksøyr and Camilla Martens), Bodil Furu and Maia Urstad are exhibiting within Disturbance – Contemporary Art from Scandinavia & South Africa, at Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa. Curated by Maria Fidel Regueros and Clive Kellner, Director of Johannesburg Art Gallery and a guest at OCA's International Visitor Programme, the exhibition examine the relationship that Scandinavian and South African artists have to notions of identity and place. Disturbance takes place at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa between 26 October 2008 and 1 March 2009. The project is supported by 03–funding*.
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 Michael Houellebecq to pose existential questions in the face of a never arriving future. For The Possibility of an Island, MOCA will commission new works from Matias Faldbakken and Leif Tangen will partake in 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.
Åsa Sonjasdottir have been invited by Veronica Wiman and Berin Colonu, Associate Visual Art Curator at YBCA to exhibit within The Gatherers: Creating Our Urban Spheres, taking place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA, from 31 October 2008 to 11 January 2009. According to the curators, the exhibition 'looks at the diverse array of practitioners and their motivation for greening the urban sphere'. Åsa Sonjasdottir will be exhibiting the long-term project Potato Perspectives, in which the artist uses the potato plant as a starting point for investigations in cultural and societal relations.
Øystein Aasan has been invited by curator Fanny Gonella to exhibit within The Repetition of Sigs at Alte Fabrik in Rapperswil, Switzerland. According to the curator, the exhibition addresses 'the process of how a group becomes visible in our surrounding'. For the exhibition, Øystein Aasan developed a new project based on the campus of Cité Universitaire, in Paris, France where each house is representative of a nation. The Repetition of Sigs takes place from 25 October to 21 December 2008.
Samba Fall has been invited by curator Olivier Couqueberg to exhibit within The Man Is a Mystery 3, a biennial exhibition of Contemporary African Art, taking place at Saint-Brieuc, France, from 10 to 17 November 2008. The curator invited nine artists who, by their works, question the notion of happiness and the views of Africa as a continent of sadness, or as said by Couqueberg, the exhibition will show works by artists who 'can speak about the happiness because it is present everywhere in their countries, as of its impossibility'. The project is supported by 03–funding*.
Book and Hedén,
From Geschichten für leere Schaufenster, 2006
(the work also include a text)
Courtesy of the artists
Ingrid Book and Carina Hedén have been invited to participate in the lecture series This is Tomorrow – Urban Utopias, Dystopias and Heterotopias at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Visual Art Program, Cambridge, USA. The artists will be presenting a lecture entitled Clearing Land in Affluent Society during an evening of lectures titled Urban Agriculture. The lecture series is curated by Ute Meta Bauer, Director, MIT Visual Arts Program and Yvonne P. Dodererisiting Professor, MIT Visual Arts Program in collaboration with Amber Frid-Jimenez, Lecturer MIT Visual Arts Program. Book and Hedén's lecture will take palce on 1 December 2008.
Siri Hermansen has been invited by Ekaterina Zvorykina, Director Non/fiction Fair, Moscow, Russia to exhibit the project Bipolar Horizon within the anual book fair Non/fiction n. 10. The project focuses on the abandoned mining town of Pyramiden and was a solo project at the Sternesen Art Museum in 2006. The fair taked place from 26 to 30 November 2009. The project is supported by 03–funding*.
Tove Pedersen to exhibit within the 5th International Fiber Art Biennale, curated by Deng Lin and taking place at Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China from 25 November to 25 December 2008. Within the biennial the artist will exhibit the works Sunrise and Stardust.