Gijs Frieling, Director of W139 in Amsterdam has invited the artist group Kultivator (Kalle Runeson and Marlene Lindmark) featuring El Parche (Herman Mbamba, Olga Robayo, Marius Wang) and Floor Wesseling into a solo exhibition entitled Supermodel that opens on 12 October and runs through 11 November. The subject of Kultivator's work is agriculture and ecology, rural versus urban culture, food production and distribution, global trading and economy.
At the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco: Bull.Miletic were invited by René de Guzman to participate in a group exhibition entitled Dark Matters: Artists See the Impossible that will run through 11 November. Bull.Miletic participate with the installation Heaven Can Wait, 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 and 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.
Also in San Francisco: Lars Laumann participates in the interactive exhibit of work sourced from and inspired by the Internet, There is always a machine between us, through to 17 November at SF Cameraworks galleries. Organized by curators Kate Fowle, Karla Milosevich, Chuck Mobley and Dan Orendorff, the project is designed to generate new material as it evolves.
At the non-profit space Midway Contemporary Art in Minneapolis, Matias Faldbakken has a solo exhibition entitled I don't think so from 8 September through 27 October, 2007. The exhibition, curated by John Rasmussen, Director of Midway, notes that for his solo presentation "Faldbakken presents a recently completed body of new work. Prominent within the installation are two large-scale photographic works that are pasted like billboard advertisements to the gallery walls. Radically dialed back on content, the images are enlarged digital scans of the margins and ads of newspapers. Through this zeroing out, the reverse text from the back side of the originals gain (an albeit illegible) prominence amidst the overall pattern of visual static picked up via the scans."
Ingrid Book and Carina Hedén are having a solo exhibition through to 25 November at the Salzburger Kunstverein in Austria by invitation of its director, Hemma Schmutz. The project entitled Stories for Empty Shopwindows originates from a series of stories from Scheibbs in Austria in exploring "how it is possible to construct evidence and to play on the questioned capacity of photography to act as a testimony of truth."
Jan Freuchen participates in the exhibition Objet Perdu in Pierogi, Leipzig, through 10 November 2007.
Unni Gjertsen
Hanna Arendt is the Most Read
Western Philosopher
from Creative History
10 silk screen prints, 70 x 100 cm, 2003–2004
Courtesy the Artist
Unni Gjertsen participates in the final episode of the second edition of If I Can't Dance I Don't Want to Be Part of Your Revolution focusing on Feminist Legacies and Potentials in Contemporary Art Practice within a large scale exhibition at the MuHKA — (Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp). The exhibition assembles works by artists who were expressive about feminist issues during the '60s and '70s, such as Sanja Ivekovic, Lili Dujourie, Jef Geys; artists who built up a critical body of work during the '80s, such as Jutta Koether; the generation born around 1968 including Hito Steyerl, Cathy Wilkes, Karl Holmqvist, and a younger generation including Frances Stark. The exhibition is curated by Frédérique Bergholtz opens on 27 October, 2007 and runs through 6 January, 2008.
Anna Sigmund Gudmundsdottir presents a solo project in the non profit space Galleri 54 in Gotenburg in Sweden from 23 November through 16 December. The expansive project includes a theatre performance, wall paintings and installation objects.
Kjell Bjørgeengen and Salvatore Panatteri collaborate on Project 33 in a composition of images from disjointed areas of logic to refer to a common interest in the economy of noise and its conceptual underpinnings. The project will open at SNO (Sydney Non Objective) Contemporary Art Projects in Sydney, Australia from 2 November through 7 December.
Rachel Dagnall within the context of Henry VIII's Wives (together with Bob Grieve, Sirko Knupfer, Simon Polli, Per Sander, and Lucy Skaer) realize a new work at Spike Island in Bristol through to 25 November. The new work is entitled The Returning Officer and is inspired by people and their relationships to specific places. In this specific film, the locations were all in eastern Europe: The Legacy House in Belgrade, an organ builder's adapted house and workshop outside Vilnius, and an opium poppy field in Austria.
Trine Lise Nedreaas and Jannike Låker participate in Reality Crossings in Mannheim, Ludwigshafen and Heidelberg, Germany, as curated by Christoph Tannert, director of the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. The project which takes the form of a photography festival which runs through 21 October 2007 to focus on current trends in the areas of photography and video, concentrating here on the documentary perspective.
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 January 2008. Adriana Alves will exhibit two installations and three sculptures. Her project is entitled Tragedy of the Common Man. The exhibition is supported by 03–Funding — Funds for the Exchange with Countries in the South.
Stefan Schröder participates in Über Tage_07, which is a site specific project, reflecting urban landscape development and site specific interventions after several decades of coalmining activities in the former East-German region of Sachsen. The project opened 1 September, and will expand into the summer of 2008. The project is curated by Susanne Altmann.
Centre D'Art Contemporain Geneve will hold the first solo exhibition of work by Gardar Eide Einarsson in Switzerland as scheduled from 18 January through 16 March, 2008. The exhibition, co-produced with the Frankfurter Kunstverein, is curated by Katya García-Antón. García-Antón writes: "The theatrical vocation of the artist's practice reveals correspondence, art historically speaking, to modernity's crisis with the social". A full catalogue co-produced by the Kunstverein Frankfurt and published by Revolver will be released in December 2007.
From The Telling Orchestra, Verdensteatret, 2007
Courtesy Verdensteatret
Verdensteatret has been invited to exhibit a large-scale installation Fortellerorkesteret — The Telling Orchestra in the China International New Media Arts Exhibition 2008 at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing. The exhibition curated by the NY based media curator, Zhang Ga, is organized around 4 distinctive yet interrelated themes that testify to the incessant and obsessive pursuit of an ideal world through artistic intervention into media and communications technologies as well as bio-cultural spheres. The 4 themes are: Beyond Body, Emotive Digital, Blur: The Recombinant Reality, and Here, There and Everywhere. The exhibition will include approximately fifty media works and is scheduled from 30 June through 30 July, as one of the more important cultural events leading up to the Olympic Games in Beijing. The project is supported by 03–Funding — Funds for the Exchange with Countries in the South.
Norwegian curator Hans Askheim together with Claire Davies, Tom Keogh and Miranda Pope, graduates of the 2007 MA Creative Curating from Goldsmiths University of London, are developing a curatorial research project entitled Overland: London to Beijing. The curators will travel for six week in 2008, by train from London to Beijing, transporting a commissioned artwork. Along the route, the work of art will be exhibited at local venues. Through the physical transportation of the artwork Overland: London to Beijing, the curators strives to challenge the practical, geographic, historical and political connotations and value of the artwork. The project is supported by 03–Funding — Funds for the Exchange with Countries in the South.
26 October, 2007