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NADA Art Fair 2007 05.-09.12.07 Miami

2007-11-25T10:52:00.000-08:00

Shanghai Art Fair 2007 until 19.11.07

2007-11-14T16:24:00.000-08:00

As the closing event of Shanghai International Art Festival, Shanghai Art Fair 2007 will run from Nov. 15 through 19 in the venue of ShanghaiMART. This year's eidtion is joined by over 150 art galleries that are coming from 17 countries on all continents include: Germany, France, Spain, Italy, The Netherlands, Russia, Monaco, Israel, Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Australia, United States, Canada, Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina. About 10,000 pieces of modern and contemporary will be on display and over 50,000 art collectors, art dealers, artists, curators and art lovers will be expected to attend the annually one of the most significant art shows in Aisa.

Cyberfest 2007 25.10-11.11.07 St.Petersburg

2007-10-21T12:37:00.000-07:00

Cyberfest 2007 is a new cyber art festival in Peter And Paul Fortress in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Cyberfest is organized by National Center for Contemporary Art (Saint Petersburg) and St. Petersburg Arts Project (New York) Dates: 25 October - 11 November 2007. Location: Exhibition hall and Lectorium at Johann Ravelin, Peter And Paul Fortress, Saint Petersburg Opening: Cyberfest 2007 will open on 25 October, 4 pm, at the Exhibition hall at Johann Ravelin, Peter And Paul Fortress, Saint Petersburg Contacts: phone +7 812 7177967, phone/fax +7 812 4319905, email: art@ncca-spb.ru Directors of the festival: Marina Koldobskaya (Director of NCCA St.Petersburg), Anna Frants (Director of St.Petersburg Arts Projects) All news and reports from the opening will be broadcast in the official webTV of the Cyland Media Lab: http://cyland.ru/index.php

The Streaming Festival

2007-10-09T18:38:00.000-07:00

The Streaming Festival is a four-day-long online festival for audio-visual art.
Films are presented in carefully selected programs. The programs play on separate servers with high image quality and of course full screen on streaming media servers.
Programs have a limited duration and play non-stop in a loop until the next program starts the next day.
This system makes it possible for viewers to switch back and forth easily between the servers (each server showing a different program), thus the viewer can watch one program after the other without missing anything. With a decent connection like broadband, but even dial-up is sufficient, it's possible to plug into one of the festival streams at any time and start watching top contemporary films, made by independent filmmakers.
An unique feature of the festival is the collaboration with several influential audiovisual art, and film related organizations. Each of these organizations will present their own special program during the festival.

The Streaming Festival is organized by the isfth foundation. (http://www.isfth.org)
http://www.streamingfestival.com

ARTSingapore 4.-08.10

2007-09-29T09:42:00.000-07:00

ARTSingapore is a much sought-after contemporary art fair held annually in Asia. It is both a trade fair and the place for art collectors to discover and acquire new artworks under one roof. Since the first fair in 2000, ARTSingapore has established a reputation as the place to see contemporary art and museum-quality pieces in Asia. Here, leading art galleries launch new pieces by young artists that will set the trend for the next few years.

As it is the only major art fair in Southeast Asia , ARTSingapore is the platform where gallery owners, collectors, artists and art aficionados gather to forge business alliance, acquire new contemporary artworks, share ideas and exchange information - all under one roof.

ROBODOCK FESTIVAL 2007 19.-22.09.07 Amsterdam

2007-09-15T18:35:00.000-07:00

The 10th edition of the Robodock Festival will be held from 19th to the 22nd of September, 2007 at the NDSM dock in North Amsterdam. The theme of this years edition is Rhythm and Time / Ten years Transformation. This is the guide for the programming and serves as source of inspiration for the participating artists. This 10th year edition is celebrated with a festive pick from the highlights of the past and present, but also looking closely at the future, where everything is possible. Robodock will show how the festival has evolved over the past ten years. While it started out as a modest experimental festival, it is now transformed into a major event, with almost 12,000 visitors in 2006. In these ten years Robodock has evolved into an internationally renown festival at the fringes of the industrial era! Robodock is a unique international festival with technology, art, spectacle theatre, multimedia and industrial installations at its core. In co-operation with artists, technology students, architects, designers and theatre makers the festival is spectacularly designed by recycling scrap metal and other industrial waste products. This is an important part of the Robodock way of working and creating.

ART COPENHAGEN 21-23.09

2007-09-09T13:43:00.000-07:00

ART COPENHAGEN is the leading Nordic art fair devoted to contemporary and modern art.

ART COPENHAGEN 2007, the biggest art fair in Scandinavia, proudly presents 73 leading galleries from Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, and more than 550 artists are showing at the fair.

ART COPENHAGEN focuses on Contemporary and Modern art and is attended annually by art collectors, art dealers, artists, curators, art critics and art lovers from all over Europe, and is a unique meeting place in the heart of the Nordic art scene.

Contour 2007 until 21.10. Mechelen, Belgium

2007-08-18T14:10:00.000-07:00

Contour 2007 - third biennial for video art has been given the subtitle Decoder. The exhibition presents a number of video and film works in a double-edged line of enquiry. It investigates the perceptual and rhetorical mechanisms that exist which affect and shape how people assimilate their comprehension of the world. Within this investigation it also analyses the contemporary tendencies within lens-based media art practices for looking at the particular issue above, whether self-reflexive or not.

The exhibition is used as a means to touch on subjects that are perceived to be shaped through the prevailing mechanisms for understanding - subjects that are legitimate and candid, topical, revelatory, and even antagonistic. But Contour 2007 also possesses a series of gestures beyond art's current relationship with internationalism. The exhibition looks at the contemporary conditions and desires for consuming through the visual, and questions the capacity for effectively debating socio- and geo-political issues through this consumption. It is not intended to be a political biennial as such. Rather it looks at the means that exist through which we consume political concerns, and then interrogates itself to ask the reason why this act is relevant within contemporary art in the first place.

Lyon Biennal 2007

2007-08-05T16:10:00.000-07:00

THE 00s – THE HISTORY OF A DECADE
THAT HAS NOT YET BEEN NAMED

Thierry Raspail, Artistic Director

LET’S TALK BIENNIALS:
A few decades ago art historian George Kubler came up with the notion of the “Prime Object”: a form, picture or building whose factuality is acquired retrospectively, as the product of a long lineage.
Isn’t this one of the corniest commonplaces ever? Yes and no. Yes because, pace Francis Fukuyama, history still exists and its central role in the shaping of memory is in no way called into question. No because factuality for the historian is that which escapes oblivion. Factuality is what lasts: it’s the work that stays on the wall, or the benchmark image. From this point of view it’s an authority figure. But it’s also a way of asserting that the present only ever exists via the supposed future we endow it with. The work only exists after the event; otherwise it evaporates, disappears. This is why the historian only ever works in the future perfect tense. Not in the present moment. But this is not the case of the curator, whose job it is to get the current situation organised.
Distinguishing the present from the topical is the critical issue in the here and now. With the end of the traditional historicity rationales and the appearance of François Hartog’s “perpetual present” the distinction has become blurred and this is why the biennial system, the actualisation of the topical, has become such a success in thirty years. The here and now amounts to some 110 biennials, each of which draws up a map of an exponential, interchangeable, endlessly renewable topicality. Consequently flow prevails over singularity. 110 biennials, 110 lists of artists, 110 titles — a biennial every week, each overriding and cancelling out the one before. The biennial mechanism lives in and generates an infinitely extensible future.
Seen in this light, how can a biennial still be a critical institution or a flash of discernment in the languor of the flow?
Can we claim that art is now imitating the vacuity and rhythmicity of political and sporting events which, as we know, often describe themselves as “historic”, but which, as we know even better, only become events retrospectively?
Is the system now playing along with a kind of googleisation, with the place at the top of the screen tied to the number of clicks and, as a result, quality no more than an expression of quantity?
In brief, are we victims of our own search engines, which play up the information atavism and naturally stress immediate communication at the expense of the slow business of sedimentation?
Nonetheless, isn’t the work of art the established, archaic drag on the flows, just as the literary and the author might be elsewhere? If the answer to this question is yes, we must conclude that the time frame of the biennials is not that of the works and that there is even a deep antagonism between the two. This is what is at stake in the 2007 Biennial.

LET’S TALK HISTORY:
In his story “The Library of Babel”, Borges offers a fine description of public euphoria when at last all the books are brought together. Then he shows the same public utterly at a loss, faced with an accumulation such that individual books have become unfindable.
Since its creation in 1991, the Lyon Biennial has always sought to be, first and foremost, an exposition: that is to say, to declare its allegiance to history. Since 2003 it has been treading the terrain of temporality, an all-purpose word as general as it is malleable – ductile – and was initially intended less to give an account of the current situation than to try to pin down its components. The results were “It Happened Tomorrow” in 2003, then “Experiencing Duration” in 2005.
In 1993 the second Lyon Biennial tried to name the century, borrowing its title “And Together They Changed the World” from Julian Beck. We were on the threshold of history, seven years before the 00s. And now, seven years after the 00s, the Biennial is out to name the decade. This is the same project – once again on the threshold of history – but with time’s arrow moving in the opposite direction. To claim that one is associating history with the present and the topical, when we have seen that the obvious gap between the two is very much an historical issue, is simultaneously
inevitable and a source of confusion.
The problem of topicality for biennials has a factuality about it which, as for the work of art, gives it a retrospective truth. As for the historical side, with Marc Bloch, Pierre Francastel and François Hartog we must associate, retrospectively Paul Ricoeur et Paul Veyne.
My intention was to round off the 2003/2007 trilogy with the question of temporality, by examining the historicist micro-processes which, to paraphrase T.S. Eliot, lead us through ongoing decline from Wisdom to Knowledge, then knowledge to Information, and ultimately from information to News.
What exactly is the news – today’s replacement for news items – that will make the present, which is to say, history? What “time frame/narrative” is to be constructed? How, so to speak, are we to visualise a form of archaeology of the topical?
Somewhere there has to be a history for the topical, and an archaeology for the topicality of the topical (the undifferentiated present).
This is why we must construct now a historical biennial, one looking retrospectively to the future with the intention of bridging the gap between the three conflicting binomes: the present and the topical, the birth of the work and the biennial system, and history and temporality. Because Stéphanie Moisdon and Hans Ulrich Obrist entered the series of filiations – what Kubler calls the “systematic age” – in the 1990s, the
former to “artify” them sequentially, as Alain Roger puts it, and the latter to give them shape as global flow, both seem to me to represent the dual critical authority capable of meeting this challenge.
This is what triggered our dialogue. They riposted with globality to globalisation, plot to history, futurism to the present, the gamble to the mechanics of selection and polyphony to topicality.
There are two kinds of players in this Biennial, artists and curators whose separate roles are founded on two sets of temporal rules which, while different, have the same abundantly clear purpose: to assert the central position of the artist. And there are two gaming tables to match the procedures of different exhibitions.
The scenario has been prepared by Stéphanie Moisdon and Hans Ulrich Obrist from the basic ideas I outlined to them, bearing on history, memory, topicality and oblivion, and their “presentification”.
Have we succeeded in being of our time? The future will decide.

ART Santa Fe 12.-15.07

2007-07-01T09:30:00.000-07:00

The international art fair circuit is the most glamorous part of the art world today – the place where collectors and purveyors of fine contemporary art come from around the world to meet and do business. A rising star in this constellation of sophisticated events is ART Santa Fe, a biennial art fair that will be presented July 12-15 at Santa Fe’s El Museo de Cultural
ART Santa Fe is known as a "boutique" fair. Big enough to be interesting, small enough to be intimate and digestible, the fair offers visitors a highly selective overview of the contemporary art market. Visitors to ART Santa Fe have found it to be a gem among art fairs.The 2007 lineup of exhibitors will include galleries from Asia, a strong contingent of Europeans, an exciting array of work by Latin American artists, and outstanding galleries from the United States. Exhibiting galleries range from edgy to established. Cutting edge media groups return with a fresh matrix of interactive installations.

Documenta12 16.06-09.09 Kassel

2007-06-09T15:16:00.000-07:00

documenta is regarded as the most important exhibition of contemporary art, drawing attention from all over the world. It was initiated in 1955 by the artist and art educator, Arnold Bode, in Kassel. After the period of Nazi dictatorship, it was supposed to reconcile German public life with international modernity and also confront it with its own failed Enlightenment. Nobody would have thought at that time that the exhibition, often called the Hundred Day Museum, would become an unparalleled success. Nevertheless, the twelfth documenta will be taking place in summer 2007. The singular character of the exhibition has been preserved. Every five years, a new director is chosen and the exhibition is reinvented, a concept which to date has been affirmed by the public's interest. The number of visitors has continually risen. More than 650 thousand visitors came to Documenta11. Under continually changing directorship, and in the equally leisurely and inexorable rhythm of five years, documenta has advanced to become an authoritative worldwide seismograph of contemporary art. At documenta it becomes manifest whether art is succeeding in grasping the world in images and whether these images have validity for its public.
Roger M. Buergel is the artistic director of documenta 12 The artistic director of documenta 12 is Roger M. Buergel, an internationally active exhibition organiser and curator who was born in Berlin in 1962. Together with the art historian, Ruth Noack, as curator, he will, in line with documenta's claims, show art from the most various regions of the world and in all conceivable media. The works should not be shown simply unrelated to each other in a line, but be put into relationship with each other. The Leitmotifs: Three questions posed for art but also for its public To initiate such a productive exchange, documenta poses three questions for art, and also for its public: Is humanity able to recognise a common horizon beyond all differences? Is art the medium for this knowledge? What is to be done, what do we have to learn in order to cope intellectually and spiritually with globalisation? Is that a question of aesthetic education and cultivation? What constitutes life, when everything is subtracted which does not belong essentially to life? Does art help us to penetrate to what is essential? For further information on the Leitmotifs click here. These leitmotifs and questions which influence the curatorial process already require resonance space in the lead-up to the exhibition, both on local and international levels, which will be generated by two documenta 12 projects: documenta 12 magazines — a platform and three issues "The documenta 12 magazines will provide an interested public with the knowledge required to be able to move competently and therefore leisurely through the space of the exhibition." (Roger M. Buergel) One important project of the exhibition are the documenta 12 magazines, a magazine of magazines. More than 70 periodicals, magazines and online media from all over the world will enter into a dialogue. They will discuss and reflect the topics and theses of the exhibition. They will react to them and question them on the basis of their particular knowledge.

Scope Basel 12.-06

2007-06-03T12:00:00.000-07:00

Building on the success of its international art fair program, Scope is proud to announce the launch of the first SCOPE Basel Contemporary art fair, June 12 – June 17, 2007, (with a FirstView for VIP on Monday, June 11 10am-4pm). Located in a 27,000 square-foot, post-industrial warehouse within walking distance of Art Basel 38, Scope Basel will present its most international fair focusing on emerging galleries from all over the world.Alongside featured curation, screenings, and special projects, Scope Basel is an invitational fair chosen by an elected selection committee. Each committee member is a representative from a particular city or region, inviting the most significant emerging galleries, curators, and artist projects.

VOLTAshow 03 11.-16.06 Basel (CH)

2007-05-28T13:29:00.000-07:00

VOLTAshow is a platform for presenting the vision of contemporary art galleries of global repute whose artists represent new and relevant positions for curators and collectors alike. Conceived to bridge a gap between Basel's pre-existing fairs, VOLTAshow showcases mature galleries who choose as their mandate to work with the most exciting emerging artists. Continuing the original concept of reaching beyond a marketplace atmosphere and creating an event that is even more exhibition than just an art fair, for the third edition of VOLTAshow -- this June and positioned right between the openings of the Venice Biennale and Documenta 12 -- we have instituted a Curatorial Board, which will secure the independence of the choices.

Pocket Films Festival. 8,9 -10.6 Paris

2007-05-19T14:40:00.000-07:00

During the last two years more than 800 films shot with mobile telephones were screened at the Pocket Films Festival. Short films or full-length features, from imaginary tales to real-life drama, will be presented once again at the Pompidou Centre in Paris on June 8, 9 and 10, organised by the Forum des Images. For the third edition, come and meet filmmakers and artists from around the world and discover the “4th Screen” a new program of the latest international works made especially for the mobile telephone. More innovation than ever before and a festival open to all !

CRACK THE SKY: THEME OF THE 5th EDITION OF LA BIENNALE DE MONTRÉAL, MAY 10 TO JULY 8, 2007

2007-05-17T18:32:00.000-07:00

The 5^th edition of La Biennale de Montréal, organized by the Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal (CIAC), will be held from May 10^th to July 8^th, 2007, under the theme Crack the Sky. Featured will be a selection of recent and unpublished works, created by well-known and emerging artists from around the world, with more than 60 artists from Quebec, Canada and many other countries including South Africa, Brazil, China, Denmark, USA, Peru, the United Kingdom and Uruguay.

Grouped together under various themes, the exhibits, which will be presented over an area spread over more than 50,000 square feet, will be seen in six venues across the city: École Bourget, the Galerie de l'UQAM, the Galerie Liane and Danny Taran at the Saidye Bronfman Centre, the Parisian Laundry, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Cinémathèque québécoise. Works using various techniques will include painting, sculpture, video, photography, film and mixed media.

International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 3.-08.05

2007-05-08T05:53:00.000-07:00

"Short film is a great first step for a budding filmmaker. That’s how I made my beginnings and Oberhausen was an important step on my path to become a Director." Roman Polanski

"I smoked my first cigarette here. For years, I saw every single film at the Westdeutsche Kurzfilmtage, looking forward to those days in Oberhausen every year. These events were important for me, for my decision to become a filmmaker." Wim Wenders

"There can be no doubt that the Oberhausen Short Film Festival has written film history... The short film has kept itself young, and so has Oberhausen. This atmosphere, this creative power are what still distinguishes short films today." Gerhard Schröder (German Chancellor 1998-2005)

arteBA'07 18.-22.05.07 , Buenos Aires, Argentina

2007-05-01T18:06:00.000-07:00

arteBA Foundation presents arteBA'07, focuses attention and acts as a platform for promoting the art of our region. It is a space that displays the strong presence of curatorial projects, the participation of art galleries, institutions and organisations that support and promote the art of our time. Furthermore, it enables participation and open discussion through the extensive program of discussion sessions.

THIS DAY: Recent Film and Video from the Middle East 4.-13.05 Tate Modern

2007-04-29T08:41:00.000-07:00

This Day is a series of short films and video works by international artists whose work responds to the cultural, social, historical and political contexts of the Middle East. Nine screenings will present work by more than forty artists from Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria, in addition to artists from Europe and the United States whose work relates to the Middle East. Featured highlights include an opening performance by Rabih Mroué and a survey of work by Akram Zaatari. The ongoing events in the Middle East produce a flow of images that often represent war, destruction and conflict. Channelled through television and the internet, this imagery constructs and distorts the global understanding of the region, facilitating stereotypes and contaminating efforts to reconstruct a collective memory left in ruins. This Day hopes to challenge these representations by showing moving image work that offers new critical viewpoints onto the region’s rich visual culture. More than ever before, film and video-making from the Middle East interrogates cineamtic and photographic images to consider fundamental ethical and political problems and to question the limits of freedom. Curated by Predrag Pajdic & Samar Martha.

méxico arte contemporáneo until 29.04

2007-04-27T15:27:00.000-07:00

Mexico´s art fair

The Sharjah Biennial 8 04.-04.06

2007-04-10T10:05:00.000-07:00

The Sharjah Biennial 8 (SB8) will present various attempts in visual arts and film that address the growing social, political and environmental challenges the world is facing due to excessive urban development, pollution, political ambitions, and the thoughtless misuse, abuse and exhaustion of natural resources.

SB8 will focus on the renewed role of art in addressing a wide range of issues that directly and radically affect, and in an alarming magnitude the human existence on this earth (man's relation to earth and earth's relation to man). The biennial will not only stand for these issues as a venue and a platform for presentations, exhibits and discussions, but will take an active role in commissioning artists to produce new work corresponding to the topic at hand and will also partner with institutions to and will also partner with institutions to stimulate wider involvement with the issues brought up particularly amongst educational institutions.

FINE ART FAIR FRANKFURT 13.-15.04

2007-04-09T02:09:00.000-07:00

The second fine art fair frankfurt, "QUALITY STREET®", is dedicated exclusively to sculpture. It will showcase some fifty international galleries, featuring artworks from the 20th and 21st centuries. By focussing on a single (and in this case highly relevant) topic, an incomparable event awaits both visitors and exhibiting galleries. The future editions of the fair will also be limited to a specific form of artistic representation. As a curated art fair, limited to one specific form of artistic representation – sculpture - fine art fair frankfurt holds a unique position in the art fair landscape. While other art events often choose or are forced to focus on quantity, fine art fair frankfurt deliberately concentrates on the QUALITY of the works, and explores the ways in which sculpture can best be displayed in an art fair context. This unique selling proposition strongly distinguishes the Frankfurt event from the competition. Wilfried Kühn, head of the prestigious Kühn/Malvezzi architectural office in Berlin, has developed an architectural layout and a theatrical lighting scheme to show sculpture at its best. Visitors will be treated to a dramatic display of spot-lit works in QUALITY STREET’s® darkened exhibition hall. As with “High & Low” fine art fair frankfurt in 2006, this year's title QUALITY STREET® once again questions the quality of art on show at international Fairs. Nestlé has given their kind permission to use QUALITY STREET®, the name of their bestselling 1970s confectionery, as the title of the 2007 art fair.

CIRCA Puerto Rico '07

2007-03-31T16:36:00.000-07:00

CIRCA Puerto Rico ’07, the first international art fair in the Caribbean and Central America, will be held from March 30 – April 2, 2007 at the new Puerto Rico Convention Center in San Juan, and will feature some 50 exhibitors from Puerto Rico, Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Australia. CIRCA Puerto Rico ’07 will bring the best of Modern, and particularly Contemporary art to a local and international audience of collectors. It is the only art fair of its kind in the Caribbean and Central America, where an important group of collectors, such as Diana and Manolo Berezdivin, Alberto de la Cruz, César Reyes, John Belk, Rosalia and Humberto Ugobono, and Chilo Andreu, has emerged in the past few years in response to the bourgeoning and dynamic artistic community. Prominent museums like the MAPR, el Museo de Arte de Ponce, and private galleries such as Galería Comercial, and Walter Otero Gallery have been a platform for young emerging Puertorican artists like Allora & Calzadilla, Melvin Martínez, Javier Cambre, Bubú Negron, and Enoc Perez, among others. What the press said about CIRCA ‘06: • “a highly enthusiastic venture into art and commerce” (Contemporary, London) • “the confirmation that... Puerto Rico has the potential to become the economic epicenter of visual art and culture in the region” (Arte al día, Buenos Aires) • “Whatever reservations one might have about art fairs in general, it is hard to begrudge Puerto Rico its moment in the sun.” (artnet.com, New York) • “a commercial enterprise with considerable aesthetic punch” (Artnexus, Miami) Curated exbitions at CIRCA ‘07 Two curated exhibitions will be among the highlights of this fair: Caribe Mix, a show of ten international galleries displaying art from the Caribbean, in response to the exciting and creative art of the Caribbean exhibiting artists from Miami, Mexico, Costa Rica, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, to the Antilles; and In the Spot: What you see is what you get will constitute a revolutionary focus towards curatorial practices today and the meaning of an art fair as a valid and intrepid exhibition platform. Conceived by independent curator Paco Barragán, everyday a different curator will put together a concept based exhibition from works exhibited at the fair; at the end of the day the curator will engage in a critical dialogue with the audience. Invited curators for this year’s edition are, among others, Silvia Karman Cubiña, director of the Moore Space, Miami, and David Liss, director of the MoCCA, Toronto. On another level, District CIRCA will host museums, independent art spaces, and magazines, offering information on their programs, curatorial practices, and services.

5th ART Shanghai 18.-22.04

2007-03-25T10:48:00.000-07:00

The 5^th ART Shanghai will be held in Shanghai Mart from 18^thto 22^th April, 2007. After having been held successfully for four times, as a famous annual art exhibition and domestic art fair, ART Shanghai is on its way again. This year, in an exhibition hall of nearly 10000 square meters in area, you’ll feast on thousands of wonderful artworks which belong to more than one hundred worldwide galleries and art institutions from China, U.S, Italy, France, Belgium, Israel, Japan and Korea. Besides, you may purchase your favorite artworks there as well. As the first domestic large international art fair to open in 2007, ART Shanghai will certainly become the weathercock of Chinese art fair and international art trend.

In this year’s art fair, you can not only appreciate the masterpieces from western masters of art, like Chagall, Buffet, Corot, Dali,etc; the Japanese traditional paintings from their painting master----Hiroshi Senju, but also meet the artworks from the artists active in current international art fair, like Zhang Wuji, Yayoi Kusama, Takashi Murakami, Zhang Xiaogang, Zhou Chunya and so on. In addition, we recommend you three thematic art exhibitions of Chinese contemporary young artists: “The Variation of Pictures---invited exhibition of Chinese contemporary oil painting artists”, “The Very Image---exhibition of China young oil painters’ outstanding paintings” and “The Very Wash---2007 invited exhibition of the contemporary era wash artists”. These three exhibitions will show you the artworks from the new generation of Chinese art field, such as Yi Zhaoyang, He Seng, Wei Jia and Li Jikai; also a united exhibition “Expressions and Moods” including the artworks from Guo Runwen, Fan Bo, Deng Jianjin and Chen Zijun is recommended by Shengling Gallery. These high quality artworks include oil paintings, Chinese traditional paintings, sculptures, photography, engravings, etc.

The particularly worth mentioning things are the photographic works on show this year. There are artworks from Belgium most famous photographic maters, Marie-Francoise Plissart, Christian Carez and Vincent Dubois, which are brought by Belgium Dayin Tang Art & Culture S.P.R.L.; the artwork called “Digital Flowers” from Italy B&B Arte working together with Dany Vescovi; Shanghai photographer Shen Jianhua’s Zen Buddhism theme artworks brought by Shanghai Art Labor Gallery which are recreated through digital technique; the artworks recording actual events from famous photographers Hou Dengke, etc, brought by Beijing Kingart Visual Culture Communication Co., Ltd. It manifests that art market is going to pay special attention to such kind of new medium like photograph.

OPEN CITY: Tools For Public Action until 07.04 NY

2007-03-16T17:45:00.000-07:00

Eyebeam announces its long-anticipated 2007 exhibition season and commences its 10th Anniversary year with Open City – a glimpse into the current media and tactics of artists who take their practices into the street. Be it through projection, writing on walls or robotic pamphleteering, Open City presents the work of artists who communicate through the surfaces and structures of our communal spaces and offers a deeper look at the means and motivations of urban action and creativity. Join participating artists for the Opening Reception March 1, 6-8pm to launch this series of screenings, presentations and workshops exploring tool building, tactics, techniques and approaches to communication by any means necessary within the urban context.

Open City: Tools for Public Action is an exhibition and series of public programs that focus on the ingenuity of graffiti writers, artists, protesters, pranksters and hackers reclaiming the public realm. Together with the Graffiti Research Lab, a collaboration formed in Eyebeam’s R&D OpenLab in 2006, Eyebeam has invited a NYC and international roster of artists and collaborative groups to exhibit documentation of their work together with the tools they used – and often invented – to make their voices heard. The artists featured in Open City create their work outside the confines of the gallery. Respecting the original context for this work, Open City considers the culture of its creation through the artifacts of its makers. Among the means and materials presented will be: digital projection, spray paint, urban pranks, robotics and custom machinery, site-specific sculpture, homemade markers and ink recipes, the internet, hacking and re-appropriation of existing urban systems. Open City hopes to inspire its audience to make their own tools for public action. A series of screenings, presentations and workshops exploring tool building, tactics and approaches to communication by any means necessary within the urban context, will turn Eyebeam into an active and participatory environment for the duration of the show. Invited participants include: Aram Bartholl (Berlin) BORF (Washington D.C.) Graffiti Research Lab (NYC) Institute for Applied Autonomy (USA) Improv Everywhere (NYC) Mark Jenkins (Washington D.C.) KATSU (NYC) KR (NYC) Object Orange (Detroit) Leon Reid (NYC) Matthias Wermke (Berlin) Krzysztof Wodiczko (PL/NYC)

Art Fair Tokyo 10-12.04

2007-03-15T11:09:00.000-07:00

After a highly successful launch in 2005, Art Fair Tokyo returns to Rafael Viñoli's sleek glass and steel complex, the Tokyo International Forum, conveniently located in central Tokyo. The fair runs for three days from April 10 to 12, 2007. During its trailblazing debut in August 2005, Art Fair Tokyo brought over twentyeight thousand visitors to the Forum, an exceptional site for modern and contemporary art to intersect with traditional Asian art and antique objects. The success of the First Art Fair Tokyo attests to the renewed vitality of the local art market as the Japanese economy enjoys an increasing prosperity. Now in its second year, Art Fair Tokyo will feature over one hundred exhibitors from five countries presenting works by more than six hundred artists. Among participating contemporary art galleries are Tomio Koyama Gallery, Gallery Koyanagi, Shugoarts, Taka Ishii Gallery, SCAI, Taro Nasu, Tokyo Gallery, Nishimura Gallery, Maru Gallery, Mizuma Art Gallery and Takashi Murakami's Kaika Kiki. Modern art galleries include Ginza Yanagi Gallery and Yayoi Gallery. Galleries that exhibit traditional and modern Japanese painting include Sagamiya Art and Gallery Hirota Bijutsu. While Ginza Kuroda Toen specializes in ceramics, T. Edo Inoue & Son Oriental Art offers Asian antiques. From overseas, Galerie Bhak (Seoul) and Art Beatus (Hong Kong) will return to the fair. Fortythree galleries will be participating in the Fair for the first time, including Galeria Continua (San Gimiginano/Beijing), Galeria Pepe Cobo (Madrid), Gallery 55 (Shanghai), and Wako Works of Art (Tokyo) for contemporary art; Galerie Nichido (Tokyo/Paris), Togo Fine Art, Taimei Gallery, Umeda Gallery, and Kyobashi Gallery for modern art; Kobayashi Gallery for traditional and modern Japanese painting; Shibunkaku (Kyoto) for Japanese antiques and works of art; and Mitochu Koeki (Tokyo) for modern ceramics. Emerging galleries such as Nanzuka Underground and Yuka Sasahara are also included. Fair Director Misa Shin states, "Showing a wide range of art from cuttingedge contemporary works to modern painting and traditional Asian art objects, Art Fair Tokyo transcends art genres to bring exquisite works of art to a highly discriminating public that demands true quality. We are proud to host once again this celebration of art in Tokyo, one of today's most vital cultural metropolises." Art Fair Tokyo will host several cultural and educational programs, bringing together artists and other art professionals both within and outside of Japan. A guided tour of the fair will be available for small groups of visitors. Art Fair Tokyo aims to attract wider international participation as well as encouraging collectors and curators to visit from around the world. With this mission in mind, Art Fair Tokyo will take place annually in early April, a time in which the world famous cherry blossoms in Japan are in full bloom.

DiVA Fair 22.-25.02. NY

2007-02-21T17:43:00.000-08:00

For the third consecutive year, DiVA New York returns to the Embassy suites Hotel in Battery Park. For 4 days, the Atrium of the Embassy Suites Hotel will host Digital and Video Art presented by 16 international galleries. Each gallery will occupy one suite to display the work of artists they represent. Galleries are encouraged to dedicate one room of the suite to a single artist while using the second room to showcase more work from the same artist or works and projects by other artists. All works must be done with Video or New Media.

ARCO´07 15.- 19.02 Madrid ,Spain

2007-02-13T17:23:00.000-08:00

In 2007, ARCO begins a new phase, with a project combining continuity with the necessary innovation to face the demands of the contemporary art scene. A project inheriting an excellent reputation, and an enviable starting point from which to take on the new challenges opposed by the art market, and to responds to issues like the growth of collecting in Spain, the consolidation of ARCO as a marketplace, and the increasing competitiveness of international art fairs.

ARCO is opening a new phase, and this upcoming edition will see the first signs of the new guidelines for the future. That said, it will be 2008 when we see a real change, coinciding with a change of location to the brand new exhibition halls (12 and 14) at Feria Madrid, which will serve as a new starting point to redesign the layout and set new actions in motion.

Keys to the New ARCO Project.
In this new phase, ARCO will focus on three priority areas. First of all, its internationalization, with an action plan targeting Latin America and the emerging Asian market. In this context, the guest countries Korea (2007) and Brazil (2008) will undoubtedly help to open up access to Asia and to boost ARCO’s reputation as the gateway for Latin American art to the European market.

The second goal is to reinforce ARCO as a generating and dynamising element in the art market, devoting special attention to private Spanish and international collecting, as well as to institutional and corporate collections.

And thirdly, something much more visible in this edition, is the articulation of the artistic contents of the fair. And though it will embrace the whole spectrum of creative tendencies, these will now be organised in three sections. Firstly, the General Programme, with the fair’s official selection of galleries; secondly, Projects will host all the artistic alternatives selected by independent curators, and finally, The Black Box will maintain its format specialising in audiovisuals and new technologies.

The Fair.
Like other years, the General Programme is the core of the art fair, with a top quality selection of galleries, a comprehensive representation of art and artists, with a strong emphasis on the Historical Avant-gardes, and many big names from the international gallery world ranging from Modern Art to cutting-edge contemporary creation. Particularly worth underscoring is the wide representation from Austria, the guest country last year, together with a significant number of galleries from Germany, Portugal, Latin America and Asia.

Korea will play a central role this year as the focus country, with a project devised by Jung-Wha Kim, director of Museums Korea in Seoul, in collaboration with Jeong Ah Shin, chief curator of the Sungkok Art Museum and lecturer at the Dongguk University, who is in charge of the selection of galleries and artists’ projects in this section. The Korean presence will be rounded off by several exhibitions in museums and art centres in Madrid.

In turn, the sections set aside for emerging art will, as usual, be curated by leading independent curators, although we are introducing a significant new feature as far as the structure is concerned. More experimental creation will be showcased in one single programme called PROJECTS, which will no longer use thematic or conceptual leitmotifs for selecting galleries and artists, with a shift towards a more global presentation of contemporary creation. The team of curators comprises Carol Lu, David Liss, Moacir dos Anjos, Paola Santoscoy, Fernando Cochiarale, Tadeo Chiarelli, Ricardo Resende, Virginia Pérez-Ratton and Chus Martínez.

On the contrary, audiovisual, technological and new media art will continue to be presented under the umbrella of THE BLACK BOX programme, maintaining its philosophy as a space for the diffusion of new technological, electronic and audiovisual art, but with a new formal presentation. The curators Carolina Grau and Marc Olivier Wahler will be in charge of the selection.

Vic Muniz until 15.04 Baltic, Gateshead (UK)

2007-02-04T07:42:00.000-08:00

Pictures of People will also be the first significant exhibition to focus exclusively on his remarkable portraits and has been made possible with the support of Albion, London and Renos Xippas Gallery, Paris. With over 30 works on display, it will showcase several series of work from the period 1996 – 2006, including his famous series Pictures of Colors, Pictures of Chocolate, Pictures of Magazines and Monsters and Divas.
With a strong sense of irony and a playful vitality, Muniz breathes a breath of life into iconic figures – both past and present. Hollywood stars appear alongside artists, revolutionaries and mythical creatures, not forgetting a few self portraits.
Presented as photographs, Muniz’s portraits are drawings with a difference and never cease to amaze. From chocolate and ketchup to diamonds and caviar, his artists’ palette is nothing if not extraordinary. Though his images are familiar – borrowed from popular culture and Old Masters artists – they are never what they seem.
Using an approach that the artist calls ‘the worst possible illusion’, he transforms the mundane into the magnificent through his masterful manipulation of his cleverly selected materials. Marlene Dietrich and Sophia Loren sparkle in diamonds whereas Che Guevara emerges from the dark in cooked beans and the Creature from the Black Lagoon appears to us in drops of black caviar.
Muniz constructs these images in his studio and captures the often temporary result on camera, preserving his ‘drawings’ as photographs; pictures of pictures.
In Pictures of Magazines, hole-punched paper circles from glossy magazines are used to portray both Brazilian celebrities and ordinary people. Muniz developed this series as a response to his time spent in Brazil, a country in search of its own identity in the face of an ever encroaching cult of celebrity.
Muniz is compelled by the role of images and the way in which they circulate in our media saturated world. By raiding and responding to the conventions of art history, he consciously uses and appropriates images for his own purposes, while his use of unconventional materials undermines the role of the original image and questions art historical tradition. His portraits and self portraits are just one part of a diverse practice that has encompassed skywriting, land art projects and photographs of the microscopic.

Aperiatur Terra Anselm Kiefer until 17.03 White Cube, London

2007-01-28T10:10:00.000-08:00

White Cube Mason's Yard is pleased to present a new body of work by the internationally acclaimed artist Anselm Kiefer. The exhibition will be staged both at White Cube Mason’s Yard and the Royal Academy of Arts. The title of the exhibition, Aperiatur terra, is a quotation from the Book of Isaiah, which translates as ‘let the earth be opened’ and continues ‘and bud forth a saviour and let justice spring up at the same time’. These contrasting themes of destruction and re-creation, violent upheaval and spiritual renewal underpin much of Kiefer’s work. The focal point of the exhibition is Palmsonntag, an installation in the ground floor gallery comprised of eighteen paintings, hung as a single entity on one wall, with a thirteen-metre palm tree laid on the gallery floor. As its title suggests, the work evokes the beginning of Christ’s journey into Jerusalem prior to his arrest, Passion, death and resurrection. The paintings read almost as the pages of a book opened to reveal multiple layers and narratives. As is common in Kiefer’s practice, organic materials form the palette through which landscapes are created. These are then overlaid with texts which do not point to one single interpretation but rather suggest a rich, philosophically charged and resonant multiplicity of meaning and experience. Palm Sunday has a pivotal place in Christian theology but has rarely formed the subject of major painting. It adds a further dimension to Kiefer’s already diverse and complex range of sources in his art, which have included Teutonic mythology and history, alchemy, Greco-Roman mythology, ancient Gnosticism and Kabbalistic mysticism. In the lower gallery, three epic canvases are hung to create a single installation. Each is a vast panoramic landscape whose visceral surface appears strewn with flowers or perhaps on fire, at once apocalyptic and redemptive. References are made to the poetry of Victor Hugo, the fall of Troy, the Nazi campaign on the Russian front and to the prophet Isaiah amongst others, a range of sources that suggest an ongoing pattern of veneration, degeneration and renewal. As an extension of the exhibition at Mason’s Yard, the Royal Academy of Arts is displaying two of Kiefer’s monumental towers, entitled Jericho, for the first time in Britain. These five and six storey concrete constructions continue a series begun in the artist’s extensive studio-without-walls in Barjac, Provence. To some, these ‘twin towers’ evoke the precariousness and the bombast of great Empires past and present; to others they read as a bridge between the earth and the heavens. In his catalogue essay for the exhibition, the Royal Academy’s Exhibitions Secretary Norman Rosenthal quotes from Walter Gropius and Bruno Taut: ‘To build in fantasy, without regard for technical difficulties; to have the gift of imagination is more important than all technology, that always adopts itself to man's creative will today, a true architect really does not exist, all of us are only the forerunners of the one who will some time again deserve to be called architect, a name signifying Lord of Art, who will make gardens of the desert and will heap wonders to the sky.’ Anselm Kiefer was born in 1945 in Donaueschingen in Southern Germany. He has lived and worked in Barjac in the south of France since 1991. Kiefer is regarded as one of the most important and influential artists working today. Exhibitions of his painting, sculptures, drawings and installations have been staged extensively over the past four decades and his work is included in the world’s most prestigious public and private collections.

Flash Art jan-febr. 2007

2007-01-21T13:56:00.000-08:00

Almost two years after the last Special Focus China, Flash Art uses the Shanghai Biennial as a springboard to newly report on the Chinese art scene and its artists, galleries and not-for-profit spaces with a new FOCUS CHINA. Andrea Bellini comments on the Shanghai Biennial that opened in early September and, along with Giancarlo Politi, does “China Planet” a round up of interviews with some of the key figures in contemporary Chinese art. September was a dense moment for Asian biennials indeed: reviews of the Singapore and Gwangju biennials by Sonia Campagnola, and of the Taipei Biennial by Susan Kendzulak in the Spotlight section, provide complementary points of view on ‘Asian fever.’ This issue’s covers are dedicated to two US-based artists: Mark Grotjahn and Seth Price. Maurizio Cattelan supplied Seth Price with unexplained quotes that operate as parameters for a peculiar series of reflections on international politics. Mark Grotjahn, on the other hand, gave a rare interview when he answered questions by Jan Tumlir about the origins of his work, its points of reference and its significance. “New Tendency” is a feature written by Getulio Alviani, one of the protagonists of this ‘70s art movement that generated a variety of declinations in names and smaller movements, from Kinetic to Optical art. Alviani, an Italian artist and theoretician, brings to light this fascinating fragment of art history. This issue also provides insights into the work of Danish artist John Kørner, whose paintings are examined in a feature by Angela Rosenberg, and Polish artist Robert Kusmirowski, in a feature by Katerina Gregos that points out the role of 20th century history in his complex installations. This issue’s Reprint is devoted to Gordon Matta-Clark. In this feature article Ted Castle considered the many diverse aspects of Matta-Clark’s ‘social’ work and personality. The reprint of this essay is in the occasion of the comprehensive retrospective that the Whitney Museum is dedicating to him. In the regular column “New York Tales,” Andrea Bellini proposes a round up of some of the most exciting shows recently opened in New York. The Collecting column features a conversation with Jason Rubell, who explains his and his family’s engagement in collecting and the role of their private foundation in Miami. The January-February issue also includes a report on the 27th Bienal de São Paulo, provided by Rodrigo Moura, and a review of Sevilla’s BIACS2 by Joaquín Barriendos. Ouverture is dedicated to Huma Bhabha and Global Art reflects upon a work by Pietro Roccasalva, recently presented in Turin, Italy. Group shows reviews include: Liverpool Biennial 2006; Skier at the Bottom of a Well, Colección Jumex, Mexico City; 2006 Momentum: Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway; SCAPE: Don’t Misbehave! Christchurch, New Zealand. Solo show reviews include: Raha Raissnia, Stefan Brüggemann, Tierney Gearon, Angela Strassheim, Edgar Arceneaux, Charles Gute, Jonathon Keats, Christoph Büchel, John Stezaker, Giuseppe Gabellone, Julian Rosefeldt, Helen Maurer, Hildur Bjarnadóttir, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Eugénie Goldschmeding, Karla Black, Kristina Girke, Allan McCollum, Mungo Thomson, Luca Vitone, Maja Bajevic, Jason Rhoades, Leda Papaconstantinou, Mark Raidpere, Anthony Goicolea, Geoffery Farmer, Tom Nicholson.

ARTEFIERA ART FIRST 2007 DISCOVERING THE LATEST TRENDS IN INTERNATIONAL ART Bologna, 26 - 29 January 2007

2007-01-14T09:47:00.000-08:00

ARTEFIERA ART FIRST is a unique event where visitors can explore the latest trends in the world of modern and contemporary art through the proposals of more than 200 leading international galleries. At the same time it is a major opportunity to directly experience art in the exhibition centre and in the city of Bologna, which is hosting a wide range of initiatives specially for the more than 40,000 visitors to the show.

Organised by BolognaFiere, the 31st edition of the pre-eminent Italian exhibition of contemporary and modern art will be held in Bologna from 26 to 29 January 2007 and will feature an increasing number of events and initiatives.

The participating Galleries from all over the world will be selected by the International Committee and will provide a preview of the most innovative trends alongside the works of the leading Italian artists, who are also prominent figures at a world level.
Most importantly, however, ARTEFIERA ART FIRST is a meeting point between Italian and international art, a role that lends much to its appeal and makes it of great interest to collectors.

This edition of ARTEFIERA ART FIRST will be strongly exhibit oriented and will host more than 200 galleries (35% of which are from outside Italy) and about sixty publishers, museums and institutions. The Galleries are meticulously selected by the International Committee and the event continues to pursue its goal of creating exhibit spaces that enhance the works on display.

Participants include LONGSTANDING AND FIRST-TIME EXHIBITORS
ARTEFIERA ART FIRST 2007 will see the participation of both longstanding and first-time exhibitors. One prestigious new entry is the JAMES COHAN GALLERY from New York, which will exhibit an installation by Bill Viola, an artist who garnered enormous success at the last Venice Biennale.

BOLOGNA ART FIRST, ART IN THE CITY OF BOLOGNA
At ARTEFIERA ART FIRST, international visitors will be able to admire modern/contemporary art works at the finest venues in the city of Bologna. The first BOLOGNA ART FIRST initiative in 2006 was highly successful and the event will be repeated at ARTEFIERA ART FIRST 2007 with an even broader programme.

From 25 January onwards, the works selected by the Artistic Committee from the projects submitted by exhibiting Galleries will offer art enthusiasts a fascinating journey through the world of modern art and the architecture of the past.
The venues will include the Museo Civico Archeologico, Palazzo del Comune, Museo Civico Medievale, Palazzo Re Enzo, Cortile dell’Archiginnasio, Museo della Musica, Museo della Sanità di Santa Maria della Vita, Oratorio dei Filippini, Museo Ebraico, Musei Universitari, Accademia di belle Arti e Pinacoteca Nazionale and Palazzo Magnani.
The BOLOGNA ART FIRST 2007 Artistic Committee comprises: Gianfranco Maraniello (Director of GAM Bologna), Gaetano Maccaferri (collector), Marino Golinelli (collector) and Silvia Evangelisti (Artistic Director of ARTEFIERA ART FIRST).

A.B.O. (Art Before Obvious) AT ARTEFIERA ART FIRST 2007
For the 2007 edition of ARTEFIERA ART FIRST, Achille Bonito Oliva has organised three days of meetings for the A.B.O. (Art Before Obvious) stand where internationally renowned artists will put questions to other leading players in the art industry. This initiative underscores the fact that contemporary artists are both creators and thinkers and that, instead of providing answers, art constantly poses questions about the world in all its aspects.

"Going Public '06. Atlante Mediterraneo" 18.01.2007

2007-01-07T09:27:00.000-08:00

Book presentation: "Going Public '06. Atlante Mediterraneo" at Tapies Foundation/Barcelona

The book gathers the results of 18 mounth of public art and territorial project, the site specific artistic interventions, and the researches of partners and contributors from six mediterranean cities: Istanbul, Beirut, Nicosia, Tel Aviv, Alexandria, Barcelona.
250 pages, it+eng

"Art in Motion" MOCA Shanghai

2006-12-26T16:38:00.000-08:00

"Art in Motion" is a joint initiative of the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai and BMW China, and is a product of a vibrant international cultural exchange. Through the works of 30+ most famous Chinese contemporary artists and four BMW Art Carts created by four international masters of art, the exhibition has illustrated the constantly developing relations between Chinese and Western contemporary art.

Drake Hotel, Toronto (CAN)

2006-12-17T14:50:00.000-08:00

HOTBED FOR CULTURE The Drake Hotel is more than a place to eat and sleep: it is a cultural experience and artist inspired destination. Locals and non-locals regard The Drake as a third place, a community cultural centre to hang out + get inspired. Housing beautiful contradictions, where highs meet lows and the healthful coexist with the decadent, the Drake embodies urban wildness.

Contemporary Istanbul 20.-24.12.

2006-12-03T07:02:00.000-08:00

Contemporary Istanbul, Turkeys and the regions premier modern and contemporary art fair, will take place on December 20-24, 2006. Approximately 50 galleries from all over the world will show paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs and digital art by more than 150 international and Turkish artists at the Istanbul Convention and Exhibition Center, located in the heart of this magnificent city.

Contemporary Istanbul is expected to attract more than fifty thousand visitors who have been loyally waiting for this annual event. Hundreds of art critics, local and international members of the media, and curators will also make their way to the modern halls of Istanbul Convention and Exhibition Center this December, to review the works by emerging artists and the masters of 20th and 21st century art.

The mystical city of Istanbul sets the perfect backdrop for an international contemporary art fair. Art lovers and collectors from all over the world, and especially from the region will visit Istanbul for the fair. This years dates coincide with the Christmas Holiday, which makes a trip to this fascinating city of all faiths more attractive than ever.

Each evening will also be filled with special musical events, ranging from classical music recitals to jazz concerts.

Contemporary Istanbul, in its brand new format, will continue to be an extremely rewarding experience for the artists, galleries, collectors, and occasional art buyers, alike. Please join us in Istanbul this December.

DiVA Miami Beach 7.-10.12.

2006-11-26T12:10:00.000-08:00

For the first year in Miami Beach, DiVA will find home in a specially built container village right on the beach. The village is located along the side of Ocean Drive, across from Hotel Victor between 11th and 12th street. Each shipping container will host a project by a gallery. A total of 24 containers will be on display. This outdoor exhibition will exclusively feature artworks created in Digital & Video formats from an international selection of artists. This exciting format is in line with our goal to provide access to Video and Digital Art to the greater public. DiVA Miami Beach also gives Video Art collectors a unique opportunity to become directly involved with this field.

Alien Nation ICA London

2006-11-19T14:31:00.000-08:00

Featuring Laylah Ali, Hamad Butt, Ellen Gallagher & Edgar Cleijne, David Huffman, Hew Locke, Marepe, Henna Nadeem, Kori Newkirk, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Eric Wesley and Mario Ybarra Jr.

The first project of its kind, Alien Nation is a timely, ambitious and thought-provoking exhibition co-produced by the ICA and the Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA) that explores the complex relationship between science fiction, race and contemporary art.

In sci-fi cinema of the 1950s and '60s, Cold War fears of invasion, communism and nuclear war were played out in films that projected the anxieties of the present onto the future. In recent years many artists have similarly used science fiction and extra-terrestrial forms to explore racial difference and as a potent metaphor for the threat of the outsider.

Alien Nation is curated by John Gill, Jens Hoffmann and Gilane Tawadros and presents the work of twelve contemporary international artists who explore themes of 'otherness' and 'difference' through the language and iconography of sci-fi. The witty and provocative artworks on display encompass film, sculpture, photography, multi-media installations - even 3-D painting - and expose a disturbing contemporary narrative in which the media perpetuate a terror of 'invasion' from immigrants, asylum seekers (or any racial, cultural or ethnic 'other'), making such 'outsiders' as the dominant threat to both family and national stability.

Mingling fact and fiction, science and art, Alien Nation will also show a collection of original sci-fi film posters from the 1950's to present day, courtesy of The Reel Poster Gallery, as well as extracts from contemporary and archive science fiction films as part of this unique exhibition that reveals our innermost fears and fantasies about the outsider.

aMAZElab until 3.12. Milan (I)

2006-11-11T14:40:00.000-08:00

The 5th stage of Going Public 06 will take place in Formigine and Modena (Italy) with the aim to encourage a genuine exchange between cultures and youth through an international workshop with artists and students, the lecture "Explotions and cities" by the lebanese writer and journalist BILAL KHBEIZ about Beirut and the reconstruction and a series of urban installations in Modena Railway Station.

Paris Photo 16.-19.11 Paris

2006-11-09T16:56:00.000-08:00

In November 2006, Paris Photo is celebrating its 10th Fair. Overview of the finest photography the market has to offer, Paris Photo has selected 106 exhibitors to present the art of photography, from the early masters of the 19th century right through to contemporary discoveries. This 10th Fair is characterised by the demanding nature of each of the exhibition projects. Created specifically for the event, the projects highlight works or groups of works that are rare, exceptional or new. Through the 21 countries represented, Paris Photo is undertaking to support and promote the very best photography from around the world. Devoted to revealing the latest trends from a particular country or region of the world the Statement section at the fair this year is presenting a selection of Nordic artists. Their one-person shows are organized by 8 galleries from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. This exploration into the photography scene up north extends into the Central Exhibition and the Project Room, which respectively reveal the best photography and video collections found in the Nordic countries.

Sculpture by the Sea until 19.11 , Bondi, Australia

2006-11-07T12:24:00.000-08:00

bondi, australia
2 - 19 november, 2006

now in its tenth year the exhibition features
108 artists from 15 different countries,
and is australia's largest free outdoor
exhibition of contemporary sculpture.

images:melting ice cream van from this year and
(artist unknown)

Tate Online Events Turner Prize Artist's Talk: Tomma Abts

2006-11-05T07:25:00.000-08:00

Webcast Tate Event Time*
7 November 2006 18.30

Tomma Abts approaches each canvas without any preconception, and each of her abstract paintings is the result of a long process. The strict geometric compositions of the works do not refer to things seen, but develop from the generative logic of the multiple layers of paint. She describes her finely calibrated compositions as ‘having to do with holding and unfolding the space in the way that every part of the picture plane is active.’

In a unique event, Abts joins Jan Verwoert of the Kunstverein Munich and the Academy of Umeå and a contributor to frieze, Springerin and Camera Austria to talk about her work.

Animatronica Microwave International New Media Arts Festival 4.- 15.11. Hongkong

2006-10-31T07:12:00.000-08:00

Animatronica showcases classical and cutting edge media-arts in the technical context of surveillance and real-time interaction. The exhibition is set out to explore the many dimensions of animated space: the public, the private, and the social. It is presented as a situation within which the audience's own imagination and willful exploration ignites the new dimension of seeing. The exhibition space becomes the matrix through which audiences discovers new ways of interacting with surveillance devices, and expand our repertoire of dynamic visceral experiences.

This year's Festival highlights the critical nature of animated images, both in the form of animation and by way of surveillance devices. Surveillance, usually perceived in a negative context, is being presented to the audience in a fun, enigmatic manner. The devices, mobilized by artists' creativity, allow viewers to witness extended dimensions of their physical existence: fantastic interactive elements emerge while they navigate through the exhibition space.

The exhibition venue is constructed as a technological laboratory where the public is invited to engage, participate and experiment: to explore the interactivity within an inviting social context and referential space. The show could not be defined without the active participation of audiences. The exhibition would not be complete without the interaction of the public.

Hot Button New Museum, NY

2006-10-28T09:21:00.000-07:00

Hot Button! represents the first programmatic initiative of the New Museum's recently appointed curatorial team: Richard Flood, Chief Curator; Laura Hoptman, Senior Curator; and Massimiliano Gioni, Curator.

Presented at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, these three panels - Passion: For Love or Money?; Location, Location, Location: Is Provincial a Bad Word?; and The "IT" Factor: What Makes Something Hot? - represent the spirit of an institution dedicated to new art and new ideas, and ready to embrace debate. The Hot Button panels are designed to encourage frank conversation on issues widely-discussed in private but less candidly so in the public arena. Leading figures in contemporary art, architecture, cuisine, design and fashion will participate.

Organized by the New Museum in association with the School of Art at The Cooper Union, these panels will be held in the Great Hall at The Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue. General admission is $6 (free for New Museum members and Cooper Union faculty and students). Tickets will be available for purchase at the door.

Passion: For Love or Money?
November 1, 2006
6:30-8PM

Passion features a discussion of the driving forces behind creative acts and unconventional artistic gestures. Panelists include Marina Abramovic, performance artist; John Richardson, independent scholar and author of A Life of Picasso; Wylie Dufresne, chef and restaurateur, WD-50; Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programs and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery, London; and Jerry Saltz, Senior Art Critic, Village Voice. This panel will be moderated by Massimiliano Gioni, Curator, New Museum.

E-flux

2006-10-27T10:06:00.000-07:00

e-flux (electronic flux corporation)
is a New York-based information bureau dedicated to world wide distribution of information for contemporary visual arts institutions via the Internet. Established in January 1999, e-flux has already built a readership of more than 33,000 international visual arts professionals (42% North America, 47% Europe, and 11% other) and a client base of some of the most vital and prestigious institutions. Their focused and selective approach to the information they choose to distribute has been rewarded by an exceptionally high degree of attention and responsiveness from their readers.

FIAC 2006 : 33rd EDITION 26.-30.10.

2006-10-24T15:16:00.000-07:00

As from 2006 Fiac will permanently relocate to the heart of Paris. Two main venues, both of incomparable prestige, will house Fiac: the Louvre and the Grand Palais. Numerous synergies with the city of Paris, in resonance with its urban environment and cultural venues, will be developed (exterior projects, associated events…).
This configuration underlines Fiac’s ambition to durably found its identity on the criteria of prestige, selectivity, innovation and centrality.

Your Gallery at The Saatchi Gallery

2006-10-19T19:05:00.000-07:00

The Saatchi Gallery has always aimed to provide an innovative forum for contemporary art, presenting work by largely unseen young artists or by established international artists whose work has been rarely or never exhibited in the UK.

The audience for exhibitions of contemporary art has increased widely during the last ten years as general awareness and interest in contemporary art has developed in Britain.

When The Saatchi Gallery first opened twenty years ago it was only those people who had a dedicated interest in contemporary art who sought out the gallery to see work by new artists. The audience, however, built steadily over the years and the gallery now receives over 600,000 visitors a year, and over 1,000 schools have organised student visits.

The Saatchi Gallery has worked with media sponsors on a number of shows including The Observer, The Sunday Times, Evening Standard, The Independent on Sunday and Time Out.

Many artists showing at The Saatchi Gallery are unknown when first exhibited, not only to the general public but also to the commercial art world. Many of these artists are subsequently offered shows by galleries and museums internationally. In this effect, the gallery also operates as a springboard for young artists to launch their careers.

Scope London 12.-15.10. London

2006-10-13T05:14:00.000-07:00

Scope London returns for its third year to challenge passive viewing and turn viewers into users with 63 of the most significant emerging art galleries and non-profit art spaces from across the globe, including Berlin, China, Mexico City, Japan, Iceland, Poland, USA and Canada.

Scope is proud to announce its move to the ground floor of the well-known Truman Brewery, 91 Old Brick Lane. Scope’s 25,000 square feet of prime location in the heart of London’s burgeoning contemporary art scene, the East End, is steps away from Hoxton Square, White Cube, White Chapel Gallery and London’s best emerging galleries.

As well as exposing visitors to a real-time international survey of the contemporary art world available nowhere else, Scope London will feature its award-winning video and film program, The Perpetual Art Machine. Presenting more than 600 videos by over 400 emerging and established artists from 60 countries, [PAM] allows the visitor to become part of the curatorial process.

Zoo Art Fair 13.-15.10 London

2006-10-08T03:07:00.000-07:00

Zoo Art Fair returns to London Zoo for its third year as one of the most significant international platforms for emerging contemporary art talent.

This year the Fair moves into 1200 square metre marquee and will house a total of 46 under 5 year old commercial and non-commercial arts organisations, showcasing galleries, project spaces, artist collectives, curatorial groups and publications.

As well as being able to see and buy the most exciting art talent from the UK, the Fair will introduce young spaces from Berlin, Los Angeles and Mexico.

OPEN SPACE 2006

2006-10-07T08:54:00.000-07:00

DEVIATIONS OF NOW. The second staging of OPEN SPACE, which will take place at the 40th ART COLOGNE 2006, is a pilot project that attempts to present the public with a new, urban kind of art fair. On an expanded space of 2,500 square metres, 38 galleries from around the world will be presenting different standpoints from the world of contemporary art. Some of these installations and spatial works have either been specifically developed for OPEN SPACE or will be shown here for the first time. OPEN SPACE aims to meet the expectations of a well-informed, networked international public as well as reflecting the contemporary contexts of artistic creation and professional mediation and marketing.

For the first time, OPEN SPACE 2006 will offer a platform for other art-related projects in order to open up a discussion of the urban contexts and networking structures of contemporary art. For example, “a-musik” and “Heimat” will represent the positions of experimental music and the young fashion avant garde. “Schnittraum” and the “European Kunsthalle” operate as alternative projects that participate in the general discussion of contemporary art. All of this year’s guests from areas that share an interface with art originated in Cologne. This principle of selection was deliberate, as the aim was to present important reference points of Cologne’s art scene to an international public. The restaurant, bar and lounge areas have also been expanded and consolidated in a central square that will serve as a stage and a showcase for a daily programme of events. The design of the restaurant and bar has been another art project, which was carried out by Georg Herold and Josef Z ehrer.

Frieze Art Fair 12.-15.10 London

2006-10-06T08:04:00.000-07:00

The Frieze Art Fair takes place every October in Regent's Park, London. It features over 150 of the most exciting contemporary art galleries in the world. As well as these exhibitors, the fair includes specially commissioned artists' projects and an ambitious talks programme.

Nuit Blanche 7 October, Paris

2006-10-05T02:47:00.000-07:00

Ville de culture et de création, Paris propose chaque année depuis cinq ans Nuit Blanche.

Manifestation culturelle gratuite et ouverte à tous, Nuit Blanche ouvre la ville au monde de l’art et invite chacun à découvrir de nuit, au détour d’une rue, dans un lieu insolite ou dans un bâtiment prestigieux, l’art d’aujourd’hui. Ouverte au plus grand nombre, Nuit Blanche sort l’art du cercle des initiés et en propose une vision généreuse et accessible. L’art contemporain se mêle à la ville et génère un espace-temps singulier où chacun est invité à circuler, redécouvrant son quotidien transformé ou explorant des lieux inattendus. Le temps d’une nuit, les œuvres construisent une architecture temporelle éphémère pour découvrir l’art contemporain au grand jour, en pleine nuit.

Le 7 octobre 2006, la cinquième édition de Nuit Blanche transforme Paris en lieu capital pour l’art contemporain.

Concentrée sur plusieurs quartiers - La Goutte d’Or, le Marais, Bercy/Tolbiac, Beaugrenelle, Carpentier et Champs-Elysées/Concorde -, Nuit Blanche 2006 propose une vision de la création actuelle faite de métissage et de croisements de cultures. Chaque quartier devient l’espace d’une exposition conçue à grande échelle, où les œuvres se font écho et résonnent entre elles. Rassemblant les propositions artistiques de jeunes artistes et d’artistes de renommée internationale, Nuit Blanche 2006 propose de transformer plusieurs quartiers en lieux de vie, d’échanges et de découvertes. En dialogue constant avec les artistes, nous avons souhaité tisser une trame artistique dense qui vient se superposer, se fondre, puis se croiser avec la logique urbaine.

Pour favoriser une meilleure compréhension des œuvres et des enjeux de l’art actuel, des médiateurs sont présents sur chaque site toute la nuit.

Chacun est invité le 7 octobre 2006, de 19 heures à 7 heures du matin, à réinventer Paris, un Paris métissé et inédit, un Paris pluriel et unique.

Nicolas BOURRIAUD et Jérôme SANS
Directeurs artistiques

PooL Art Fair - New York – 2006 6 & 7 October

2006-10-05T02:23:00.000-07:00

Frere Independent is proud to present its annual independent art fair, PooL.
This third edition of the PooL Art Fair is slated for October 6 & 7, 2006 at Guest House. Focusing largely on artists that do not have representation in art galleries, the fair's ambition is to create a meeting ground for artists, art dealers, curators, and buyers. PooL is the successor to the acclaimed Independent Art Fair (November 2000), a groundbreaking exhibition that attracted thousands of US and international visitors. PooL was created by Frere Independent, a non-profit arts organization that also produces the DiVA Fair.
PooL Art Fair is the first world web-based art fair. 30 selected artists from around the globe will share directly with the public their most recent art: unique, origin! al, and challenging. The artists themselves will use 30 tables to show works on their laptops, creating a private, intimate setting. They will also display a Portfolio including original works. The show will be comprised of artists, artists' collectives, curators. Hence, the fair will serve as an invaluable resource for the artistic community and the general public.
Our goal with the PooL Art Fair is to provide the public with access to art and encourage them to support emerging artists.

don’t misbehave! the 2006 SCAPE Biennial of Art in Public Space, Christchurch (NZ)

2006-10-01T12:50:00.000-07:00

The theme for the 2006 SCAPE Biennial of Art in Public Space is don’t misbehave! — a directive with an ironic twist. Working with public space brings to the fore the rules and preoccupations which influence contemporary art in the public realm. don’t misbehave! highlights works that playfully inhabit public space, intervening with the regulations which govern, private, public and commercial occupation of that space. This year’s Biennial intersperses works of art throughout the central urban area, with this exhibition at the Christchurch Art Gallery providing a focal point. Until 12.11.06.

medi@terra 7th International Art + Technology Festival GAMING REALITIES

2006-09-29T01:41:00.000-07:00

What role do videogames play in our lives today?

As the boundaries between the virtual and the real blur more and more in the new gaming worlds we have come to inhabit, new conditions arise.

With the theme Gaming Realities medi@terra 06 aims to explore the different dimensions and developments in the gaming fields and the impact they have on the different fields of society today. This year�s Festival and International Conference set up to explore the diverse ideas, narratives, and ideologies involved in the video games.

Videogames express and reflect today�s world � its aesthetics and technologies, give rise to new identities and new mentalities.

Medi@terra Festival has invited individuals who have realised the importance and dimensions which this field has acquired, asking them to deposit their viewpoints and experiences with regard to the connections of the game to society, the identity and psychology of the player, the space and narration of the game, new technologies and conceptions and possibilities for the computer game to comprise the key art of 21st century.

'Gaming Realities: the Challenge of Digital Culture' is a three days International Conference [6-8 October, Athens] organised by Fournos Centre for the Digital Culture.

57 papers will be presented in the following thematic units:

Gaming Situation: Game-Player-Society
[Gaming Society / Identity and Psychology of the Player / Game Politics]
Gaming Environments
[Game in Urban Space / Gaming New Narratives / Gaming Technologies / Immersion in Game]
Game Art
[Game Art and Culture / Game as art]

Keynote speakers include:
Adrian David Cheok, Director of Mixed Reality Lab, NTU Singapore, Associate Professor in the Schools of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Celia Pearce, Assistant Professor, School of Literature, Communication & Culture, Ivan Allen College, Georgia Institute of Technology
Chris Crawford, Game Designer (Atari), Author 'The Art of Computer Game Design'
Eric Zimmerman, Game Designer, CEO, Gamelab
Espen Aarseth, Associate Professor and Principal Researcher Center for Computer Games Research, IT University of Copenhagen, Co-founder and Editor-in-chief Gamestudies
Frans M�yr�, Director of Research, Hypermedia laboratory, University of Tampere, President of DIGRA
Gonzalo Frasca, IT University of Copenhagen, Editor www.ludology.org, Co-editor of www.gamestudies and www.watercolergames.org
Julian Dibbell, Contributing Editor Wired Magazine, Author 'My tiny life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World'
Julian Oliver, Free-software developer, composer, media-theorist, Founder of www.selectparks.net
Kristian Lukic, writer, artist, cultural and game researcher, Founder of Eastwood, Real Time Strategy Group
Manthos Santorineos, artist, Artistic Director of medi@terra festival, Assistant Professor Athens School of Fine Arts
Margarete Jahrmann, Professor for media arts & game arts, University of Arts and Design, Department of New Media Switzerland
Matt Adams, member of the Blast Theory
Micheal Mateas, Faculty Member University of California, Santa Cruz, Creator of FA�ADE
Tom & Vicky Arundel, Creators of the Darwinia, Introversion Software
Xavier Lardy, Storyboarder, game designer, founder of www.machinima.fr

[online registration available at www.mediaterra.org]

The conference will follow an exhibition of Game installations / Political games / Game mods / Text adventures / Game multiplayer environments / Machinimas / Sound based games

Exhibition: Alter Gaming
4-8 October, Athens, Greece

Exhibition Opening: October 4, 20.30

30 game projects by independent creators and artists from the international field that work on the new media and explore the possibilities given by the videogaming platforms. Different �unseen� sides of today�s gaming realm are proposed with games characterised for their interdisciplinary character, the socio-political messages they convey, the technical and aesthetic innovations they introduce and the subversion of game standards imposed by the gaming industry.

Featuring games by
Christoph Anthes / Blast Theory / Benjamin Chang / Dimi Christopoulos / Devart / Eastwood Group / Sylvia Eckermann / Gerald Nestler / Christof Cargnelli / Oliver Irschitz / Fiambrera / David Gauthier / Henri Marino / Laurie Prevot / Jean Batiste Spieser / Troy Innocent / Introversion Software / The Ludic Society / The mamayans / Michael Mateas & Andrew Stern / Panagiotis Koutlemanis / Dimitris Dinieas / Axel Stockburger / Persuasive Games / Molleindustria / Nick Montfort / Personal Cinema / Persuasive Games / ATI / Prof. Marie-Helene Tramus / Cedric Plessier / Orna Portugaly / Daphna Talithman / Sharon Younger / Serious Games Interactive / Axel Stockburger / Tale of Tales / Julian Oliver / Steven Pickles / sheismartha / Alexandros Plakidas Dasios / University of the Aegean / Mathias Fuchs + Oliver Farshi

Machinimas La petite Anthologie de Machinimas
A compilation by Xavier Lardy (founder of machinima.fr) presenting some of the most interesting machinima works created in the last years. A collaboration of Paris Cinema, the Forum des Images and Machinima.fr that premiered in Paris last July.

Including projects by:
Ethan Vogt / Bernie Burns / Dave Lloyd and Matt Kelland / Pierce Portocarrero / Hugh Hancock / Ezra Ferguson and Terran Gregory / Katherine Anna Kang / Paul Marino / Friedrich Kirschner /
G Hoffmann / Alex Chan

PLUS!
Special Sound performances + parties
by the Videogame Orchestra
Mathias Fuchs + Oliver Farshi
that mix old video game tunes with contemporary electronic sounds offering a different unique navigation in a audiovisual environment

More information and details
www.mediaterra.org
or contact us
info@mediaterra.org
tel +302106460748
FAX +302106470069

Ooglive 29.09 Amsterdam

2006-09-25T05:25:00.000-07:00

Ooglive is a live evening program in the Westergasfabriek in which audiovisual and performing artists comment on news in a direct and visual way. Ooglive is an evening divided in two parts about news, arts and media. In Ooglive the audience will experience the scale, urgency and
diversity of the news, placing the audience in the middle of the news experience.

In Ooglive more then 35 well known artists from Holland and abroad will be presenting works most of which will be unique pieces made for this Ooglive, which can only be seen at this event. The first part of the program, 'The Interface', takes place on and around an interface, projected on a cinematic scale and inspired by the organized hysteria of 24 hour TV news channels where all media streams converge onto a single screen. The multiple possibilities of multi-media and live performance will be combined: from SMS to print media, from pre-recorded presentations to live feeds, from visual to performing artists. The interface will be developed by Joes Koppers , whose work has recently been exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

For the second part of the program, called 'The Newslounge' the audience will be invited to come to 'Zuiveringshal Oost,' In a bazaar like environment, Ooglive will present installations, performances and VJ's. Here Ooglive will join other acts which are part of the Picnic at Night event. Amongst others:
Riciotti Ensemble and Pipslab. Along with enjoying the performances and installations, the audience can have a drink in the many lounge area's and dance to the beat of DJ Phill Horneman.

Ooglive, the Interface, presents audio-visual contributions by: Annie Abrahams, Jonathan Barnbrook, Persijn Broersen en Margit Lucács, Cut 'n Paste, Eddie D., Robert Hamelijnck and Nienke Terpsma (Fucking Good Art), Jonathan Harris, Han Hoogerbrugge, Jimpunk, Max Kisman, Jeroen Kooijmans, Yvonne Kroese, Nils Mühlenbruch, Jochem Niemandsverdriet, Richard Rogers, Robin Sloan, Doron Solomons, Theatre of War, Vandejong, Jody Zellen and Sylvie Zijlmans.

and live performance by: Sonja Dover, Yvonne Kroese, Jochem Niemandsverdriet, PJ Roggeband, Richard Rogers, Frank Starik, Theatre of War, Dick Tuinder and Peter de Wit.
host: Bart Oomen

live music by: Han Buhrs and the POW ensemble
interface design: Joes Koppers en Bente van Bourgondiën

Ooglive, the Newslounge, presents installations by:
Bass Beek, Cut'n Paste, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht school of Visual
Communications , Kesselskramer and Mauzz.
performance and installations by: The Geuzen, Kwasten met die Gasten en Lancel en Maat.
and VJ-ing by: SF&L and VJ-Moto
artistic director: Nanette Hoogslag
production: Maarten Duinker, Paradiso

For more information about Ooglive and the participating artists, please check the website
www.ooglive.com

PREVIEW BERLIN – THE EMERGING ART FAIR 29.09-03.10

2006-09-24T13:39:00.000-07:00

The newest of Berlin’s art fairs, Preview Berlin was a resounding success during its inaugural run in 2005. With more than 9000 enthusiastic visitors and strong support from the artistic community, Preview Berlin has positioned itself as an important event on the international art fair circuit.

The Idea

Preview Berlin was launched in 2005 as a joint effort by four galleries in Berlin - Förderkoje®, Galerie Jarmuschek und Partner, Galerie Kuttner Siebert and loop - raum für aktuelle kunst. Administered by a highly professional organisation, Preview Berlin offers low-priced booth space for the introduction and promotion of high quality, emerging contemporary art. This gives art collectors, art lovers and art professionals the opportunity to view and discover an extensive range of exciting new work from around the world gathered in one location. The format is of great benefit not only to buyers, collectors and aficionados, but also to the participating galleries and their artists.
Preview Berlin coincides with the ART FORUM Berlin as an enrichment of the already established art fair market.

The Profile

Preview Berlin is a platform from which a new generation of galleries and project spaces can introduce and promote the work of their artistic prodigies. The primary focus is on the exciting work of emerging artists from the explosive art scene in Berlin, as well as from other international hotbeds of artistic production. Exhibitors are selected by a committee based on the recommendations of galleries, curators and other art professionals whose expertise and networks ensure that Preview Berlin plays host to a multifaceted spectrum of original emerging contemporary art.

The Venue

Backfabrik is our venerable location situated in the heart of Berlin's vibrant gallery and art scene near Alexanderplatz on Saarbrückerstrasse 36-38 in Berlin-Mitte. Conveniently accessible by public and private transport, the premises can accommodate ca. 45 galleries and project spaces. A spaceous lounge serves as the lively meeting point for German and international visitors.

ART FORUM BERLIN 30.09-04.10

2006-09-24T13:31:00.000-07:00

ART FORUM BERLIN, the international trade fair for contemporary art, will take place at the Berlin Exhibition Grounds from 30 September to 4 October 2006. Organized by Messe Berlin GmbH in cooperation with an international art gallery advisory board, ART FORUM BERLIN is one of the most innovative, world-class art shows.

With 120 galleries from 25 countries, ART FORUM BERLIN showcases the works of established artists and newcomers. The spacious, historically protected exhibition halls 18-20 offer ideal conditions for exclusive art presentations from galleries selected by an international jury. With its compact, clearly targeted approach, ART FORUM BERLIN provides a unique venue offering information and dialogue for contemporary art dealers and agents.

ROBODOCK FESTIVAL 2006 - ALCHEMY

2006-09-22T01:05:00.000-07:00

The 9th edition of the Robodock Festival will be at the NDSM-wharf in Amsterdam-Noord. It will take place from 20 till 23th of september 2006. The theme of this festival edition is alchemy. This will be the leading thread within the program and a source of inspiration for the participating artists.

Robodock is a unique international festival with a main core of technology, spectacle theatre, multi-media and industrial installations. In cooperation with artists, technology students and theatre makers the festival is styled by re-using scrap and other industrial left-overs. Nowadays Robodock has an important international workshop-function.

The festival shows unpredictable combinations of different disciplines and bizar theatral applications, of which fire and steel are important elements. No disciplines are excluded: theatre, plastic arts, music, dance, film, multimedia, acrobatics, technical experiments, deejays.

With a surprising and renewing program Robodock shows four days 'state of the art' - projects that have no like in Europe and that are specially developed for and by the Robodock Festival. On every day of the festival there will be a different program.

Theme of 2006: Alchemy

Alchemy is the old secret science that, by using the 'philosopher's stone', aimed at brewing a life-elixer out of precious metals. In 2006 Robodock will research the question wheter this science is still actual in our modern times. Do modern technologies contain a life-elixer?

Alchemy not only is a inspiring theme. It is also a theme that touches the search in our present society to spirituality, mysticism, symbolism and religion. Functioning as a experimental platform Robodock will become a alchemist laboratory. These are the corners of our focus this year.

History

The Robodock Festival takes place since 1998 and is organised by the ADeM foundation. The festival can be traced back further in time to the former cultural hotspots of the 90ies like the Graansilo and Vrieshuis Amerika. For many years the festival took place at the ADM-wharf in the western harbour of Amsterdam. After one edition in Rotterdam in 2003, the festival came back to Amsterdam.

In 1998 Robodock was the initiator of the Amsterdamse Broedplaats Policy. Nowadays Robodock has a sharp identity within the the field of international festivals. In cooperation with NEMO Robodock also organises conventions on technology, creativity and art.

In short: Robodock gives an exciting and lifely face to the creative industry of Amsterdam.

Rooftop Shots

2006-09-19T16:45:00.000-07:00

Rooftop Films presents Rooftop Shots
http://www.rooftopfilms.com/show_06-shots.html
Friday, September 22, 2006
8:30PM: Live Music by Scream! Hello | 9PM: Short Films
Tickets are $8 and available at the door or online
Venue is located on the lawn of the Automotive High School
(50 Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn)

Animation, comedy, drama, documentary, drama -- the weirdest and most wonderful, the upsetting and uplifting, these are the films too sharp to be called shorts. Come out one last time to enjoy the last nights of summer and fantastic films fired into the night sky: Rooftop Shots.

ence, but fails to win the poet a free beer.

CONFLUX

2006-09-14T01:35:00.000-07:00

CONFLUX
The Annual NYC Festival for Contemporary Psychogeography

Thursday, September 14 - Sunday, September 17

http://www.confluxfestival.org

Conflux is the annual New York festival for contemporary psychogeography, the investigation of everyday urban life through emerging artistic, technological and social practice.

At Conflux, participants, along with attendees and the public, put their investigations into action on the city streets. The city becomes a playground, a laboratory and a space for the development of new networks and communities.

Conflux events are free and open to the public. They include works from over 75 participating artists and presenters:

* walks and tours
* lectures, workshops, and panels
* street games and tech-enabled expeditions
* interactive performance
* social / environmental research
* public art installations
* audio / video / film programs

CHECK OUT THE SCHEDULE: http://www.confluxfestival.org

Blindate Berlin 10.9. Galapagosartspace NY

2006-09-09T17:02:00.000-07:00

The recent exodus of New Yorkers to Berlin can stop now because Berlin is back in town. If you want to get a whiff of the real Berlin air, where a cosmo isnt just a drink, we dare you to go on a blind date with Berlins No 1 curator of splendid night besides the mainstream, Jim avignon. Not only has he been doing extraordinary events in clubs such as Maria, WMF and White Trash, since 2001 he has also been running his own " who is afraid of friendly capitalism " lounge.

For the berlin Blinddate at galapagos expect everything and regret nothing. Nova Hutas fakegaydisco will mix into Florian Thalhofers love story project and the dynamic mysterious noises of Roman game and room will switch to fragile avantgarde pop by Frau Kraushaar. If you thought the first one was fun, this one will be a real blast.

Featuring music from Neoangin, NovaHuta, Frau Kraushaar, Roman game, and room

DJ team JackewieHose

with multimedia installations by Florian Thalhofer

Decoration and livepainting by Jim Avignon

Sep 10 | 8pm | 70 North 6th | Brooklyn
http://www.galapagosartspace.com

When contemporary art invades Eastern Paris

2006-09-09T16:09:00.000-07:00

Hoping to boost the circulation of contemporary art and to inspire a newfound energy in the burgeoning neighborhoods of Eastern Paris, the following seven contemporary art spaces teamed up together last spring: Café au lit, Cosmic Galerie, le Frac Ile-de-France/Le Plateau, La Générale, la Galerie Italienne, la Galerie Jocelyn Wolff and la Vitrine of l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy.

To celebrate this special collaboration, a simultaneous opening of all new shows is scheduled to take place four times a year, giving art seekers the chance to hop from one gallery to the next in a single night.

The next event is scheduled for Wednesday, September 13th from 6:00 to 10:00pm, and shall include a course through neighborhoods as lively and diverse as Belleville, Oberkampf, Mouzaïa and Buttes-Chaumont.

Both public (art centers, schools) and private (galleries), these seven art spaces invite you to discover the following new shows for the upcoming fall season:
Café au lit : fatal – fatale – fatal, solo exhibition by Gabriele Basch.
Cosmic Galerie : group show by the Kimberley Clark Collective, with Iris Van Dongen.
Le Frac Ile-de-France/Le Plateau : Practice zero tolerance, solo exhibition by Adel Abdessemed.
La Générale : Solo exhibition by Pier Francesco Lerose and Echappement, group exhibition
&NBSP: Apocalypse Now
La Galerie Italienne : ZIG-ZAG, selection of the best Italian design of the last 10 years.
Galerie Jocelyn Wolff : group show with Katinka Bock, Andreas Fogarasi, Marlene Haring, Jan Mancuska, Tina Schulz, Christoph Weber.
La Vitrine : Le monde propre, solo exhibition by Fayçal Baghriche.

“COME OUT & PLAY” FESTIVAL TURNS CITY STREETS INTO A PLAYGROUND SEPTEMBER 22-24 NY

2006-09-07T09:18:00.000-07:00

“COME OUT & PLAY” FESTIVAL TURNS CITY STREETS INTO A PLAYGROUND SEPTEMBER 22-24

On Hudson Street, an advertising copywriter is racing to reach Barrow before an invisible Voodoo spirit does. But they arrive at the same place at the same time, and his cellphone resets with the spirit’s face on the screen.

Two Venture Capitalists are running down Sixth avenue. They are trying to protect a payphone from their opponents, editors of a popular trendspotting journal. It’s a valuable payphone: it’s generated 10 points in the last 10 minutes.

A high school teacher standing in Times Square looks up from her cellphone, and shouts, “Okay, I need a gorilla, I’ve got to find a gorilla.” She turns to her teammate: “Peter, act like a gorilla.”

Mobility and the Urban Playground

By now, everyone has experienced the Office Without Borders. Cellphones, PDAs, Blackberries and wi-fi have redefined how and where we work.

Now these same technologies are transforming how we play.

Games and entertainment are no longer tied to the wires of a PlayStation console, or a desktop monitor. Cell phone games, a burgeoning industry, are leaving behind the approximations of aging arcade titles, and are taking their game elements from the real world… through the lens of the camera, SMS, the location of the laptop, even the contact list of friends.

These factors have led to an explosion of interest in Big Games, multiplayer games for the real world. There’s even a class in Big Games at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. Adjunct Professor Frank Lantz, who teaches the class, says “These games provide a glimpse of a future where smart objects and networked spaces blur the line between the real and the imaginary.”

Big Games are equal parts future and the past, says Lantz, “Big Games also represent a return to gaming’s roots in physical activity and face to face social interaction.”

Big Games gain ground

The genre has been developing over the last few years from Tokyo to Adelaide to Helsinki. But this September, New York will be the capital of Big Games. :

Come Out and Play, the first ever festival/conference/meetup centered around the emerging genre of Big Games. Curated and organized by some of New York’s most elite game developers, Come Out & Play will run over 25 Big Games through the weekend, all day and all night (premiere September 22)
http://www.comeoutandplay.org/about/

Says Come Out & Play Organizer Greg Trefry, “With over 25 games from all over the world, Come Out & Play really shows exciting new directions in the way we play. Through Big Games, cities can become chess boards, battlegrounds, ships at sea or places for a little public performance. Technology allowed us to make the local Starbucks an office, now it’s allowing us to make the streets around it a playground.”

Big Games mean business

Even big business is paying attention: Nokia is running a game, Manhattan Mash-up as part of Come Out and Play. Using state-of-the-art Nokia cameraphones, it’s an opportunity for Nokia to display its technology, and put it in the most enthusiastic hands around: game players.

Beyond Nokia, the festival will showcase innovative new work from leading professional Big Game designers Area/Code, Jane McGonigal, The Go Game and SFZero, as well as games designed by up-and-coming artists and students.

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

Come Out & Play is the first festival dedicated to big games, running events over three days. Among them:

There will be a pirate themed game in which people move their laptops to different wi-fi "ports" around the city.

Players navigate the streets using a map of Baghdad overlaid on New York City.

Space Invaders will slide down the side of a building while players dance on the street to destroy them.

Nokia’s research group will deploy a collaborative storytelling game around Times Square.

Players will run back and forth playing a remix of Pong using their sense of hearing to track the ball and their body as a paddle.

The festival will feature roughly 25 official events from September 22-24, 2006. Games will take place throughout New York City, see details below. The opening on Friday night will feature a number of games starting at Eyebeam, and will include a panel discussion at Eyebeam on Saturday.

Work will remain in the office and the streets will become a playground.

For more information visit: http://www.comeoutandplay.org

DATES

Festival: September 22-24

LOCATION

Headquarters at
Eyebeam - Art & Technology Center

540 W. 21st Street

New York, NY 10011

Momentum 02.09-15.10 Moss (NOR)

2006-08-26T19:05:00.000-07:00

Momentum 2006 is the 4th Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art in Moss. This year Momentum became a part of the County Gallery, Punkt Ø for Østfold County. Momentum as a festival is to profile young Scandinavian artists and to present the international context within which they work. Nationally, the festival is the largest event of its kind, and together with LIAF (Lofoten International Art Festival) it is one of two international festivals of contemporary art. We also have a third function as a presence in Østvold and Moss to which local expectations are attached. The main exhibition is accompanied by a discursive programme including other festival exhibitions that expand upon and discuss the formal choices and composition of the focal event. This secondary programme involves collaborative ventures with the Office for Contemporary Art Norway, the British Council Norway, Norwegian Association of Art Societies, the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, and the class for curators at Telemark University College. The full scope of the festival and its discursive programme is described in detail in the festival programme.

Peoples the Balkans! until 26.08 Douarnenez (FR)

2006-08-20T14:21:00.000-07:00

The time of the miracles ‹in Douarnenez! And if us, we suddenly offer you Yugoslav films, while Yugoslavia does not exist any more! And if we make you walk between Albanian bunkers, Macedonian monasteries, Serbian villages and Bosnian hills? And if a gypsy brass band tumbles on the beach of Porzh Kad? And if we have a ride Brest-Barcelone-Béjaïa-Tijuana all in the same day? On the big screen, plij mar! To finish blissful to "lover bigorneau"?! Then we would know that we belong to Douarnenez! In the attractive time of the Festival Š The Balkans, straight ahead in eyes! 58 fictions and documentaries Š ³

* The Yugoslav years: Dusan Makavejev, Goran Paskaljevic, Goran
Markovic, Zelimir Zilnik, Ademir Kenovic, Emir Kusturica
* National Identities and minorities: minorities of Macedonia, Bulgaria,
Rumania. Aroumains.
* Window on Albania
* Rroms of the Balkans in the cinema
* Bosnians, Croats, Serbs in the war
* the Next days Š

Thematic festival of cinema in French Brittany :
@ Douarnenez ‹from 19 till 26 August 2006

liverpool biennial 16.09-26.11.

2006-08-16T19:24:00.000-07:00

International festival of contemporary art.
For ten weeks every two years, several hundred of the world's most exciting visual artists show their work in over 40 locations across Liverpool city centre, from major gallery spaces to unexpected temporary locations. The fourth Liverpool Biennial runs from 16 September to 26 November. Make it. Follow it. Live it.
Visit the site for the program.

Doug Aitken on MoMA’s Exterior (NY)

2006-08-13T14:31:00.000-07:00

In a press conference at The Museum of Modern Art today, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced a major public art project to be presented at MoMA in January 2007. The Museum and Creative Time have jointly commissioned Doug Aitken to create the artist’s first large-scale public artwork in the United States, which will be the first to bring art to MoMA’s exterior walls. Continuous sequences of film scenes will be projected on the 53rd and 54th Street facades of MoMA’s building as well as those overlooking the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden.

Inspired by the densely built environment of New York’s midtown, the artist will create a multiscreen cinematic art experience that will directly integrate with the architectural fabric of the city while simultaneously enhancing and challenging viewers’ perceptions of public space. The project, filmed in New York City, will be shown daily from January 16 to February 12, 2007, from 5:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m., and will be visible from many public vantage points adjacent to the Museum. It is a joint project of Creative Time and The Museum of Modern Art.

"From Dusk Till Dawn" 12.08. Berlin

2006-08-11T06:56:00.000-07:00

The installation takes place in Berlin at the Kiosk “Akuna Matata” (subway station Eberswalder Strasse) in the night of August 12, 2006.

"From Dusk Till Dawn" starts at sundown (9:00 pm) continuing through the night till early morning.

We love to invite you to this occasion. Please don’t forget your Mobile!“From Dusk Till Dawn” is a visual, interactive installation of mobile communication technologies in urban space.

Mobile communication networks have become a prominent part in our daily lives stretching all around the globe, linking people from all continents and accompanying us in every move we make by laying their complex framework over our cities like virtual worlds.

But how do people react to ubiquitous communication? How is it used and how is interaction accomplished? What consequences arise concerning the environment we live in?

Today, every mobile user alters through mobile communication or data exchange actively but invisibly his surrounding space and his spatial relations.

“From Dusk Till Dawn” faces this issue: Mobile communication devices are tracked by a system and visualized on a public screen. The installation makes mobile communication visible and creates awareness for the openness, transparency and possible exploitation of users employing these technologies.

Movies on a Roof in Brooklyn 04.08. (NY)

2006-08-02T15:25:00.000-07:00

B.I.K.E.
If you've been to underground noise rock shows, dangerous loft parties in derelict areas, or unlawful bicycle events in the streets, you might've noticed some of the members of the Black Label Bicycle Club. They tend to be tattooed and pierced and wear black-painted jeans-jackets. They seem to like to party and fight. And they build their own bicycles. Tall-bikes, in particular: frames welded on top of other frames so the seat rides six feet off the ground. They're easy to spot cruising down a crowded avenue, or jousting under a bridge, carrying a long plumbing pipe and trying to knock an opponent to the tar.

But if you've only ever gawked from afar at these pedal-powered Hell's Angels, you don't know the whole story.

Granted, they're hard to get to know. As visible as they are, the Black Label Bike Club remains a tight knit, self-protective, secretive sort of group. Anthony Howard wanted to know more, so he tried to join the club. And he made a film about it.

Howard throws himself headlong (and headfirst off more than a few tall-bikes) into the Black Label lifestyle, and, along with co-director Jacob Septimus, discovers that Black Label is about a lot more than booze, brawls and bikes. Comprised mainly of artists driven by anti-materialism and a belief that the impending apocalypse will render cars useless and bicycles in power, BLBC battles mainstream consumer culture and rival gangs for its vision of a better tomorrow. Howard's vision, however, becomes increasingly blurred by drugs and self-destruction. In his desperate attempts to appease the group, Howard loses perspective on what the group values, and loses control of his own life.

This fascinating and gorgeously gritty film provides insight into a passionate political subculture, and exposes the darker aspects of living on the wild side.

Heads break, necks crack, drugs are consumed in mass quantities, and the inherent contradictions of radical individualists attempting to maintain a group identity implode, reform and implode yet again, in an absolutely fascinating tour of a modern netherworld.
-Ray Greene, Box Office Magazine

At first, B.I.K.E. seems to be about people who are nothing like us, but...moments of relatable sincerity...make the film far more than a dissection of a movement. Its central conflict between individual need and group comfort is something we can all understand. -John Thomason, Orlando Weekly

THE MUSIC:
Vaz are dark and spooky but still manage to have an outstanding pop element.
Friday August 4, 2006
8:30 - Live Music by Vaz (click for info)
9:00 - Showtime
TRT: 1:29:00
Watch the trailer here

Edinburg Art Festival until 03.09. Scotland

2006-07-30T11:18:00.000-07:00

The aim of the Festival is to place the visual arts at the heart of August’s international cultural mix by highlighting the quality and diversity of work being exhibited within the city. The Edinburgh Art Festival is developing into a major international visual arts event and this year it presents a wealth of experiences and new art for you to explore. Visit as many of the galleries as you can – most of the exhibitons are free – to enjoy art in all its forms, old and new. The Edinburgh Art Festival has something to offer everyone, whether you are looking to see some of the great masters, such as Canaletto and Van Gogh, or whether you are keen to discover contemporary work or to buy from one of Edinburgh’s prestigious commercial galleries.

There are also many events taking place around the exhibitions, including a special series of Talks and Walks, exploring themes and highlights of the Festival, hosted at the Edinburgh Art Festival Information Station at Stills on Cockburn Street.

Use the web site, with full listings and gallery map, as your guide to the best international, national and Scottish visual art exhibitions, projects, installations and events happening in Edinburgh this August.

Melbourne Art Fair 2006 02-06.08 Australia

2006-07-28T12:23:00.000-07:00

Melbourne Art Fair 2006 will be the most dynamic event to date, featuring over 80 national and international galleries from Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, China, Germany and the Netherlands.The Melbourne Art Fair program in addition to the exhibitions, features the Vernissage in association with Saab, a national and international Collector’s Program, public lectures, curated exhibitions, including Project Rooms and feature installation, art publications, Private Lounge, guided tours, tailored travel and accommodation packages and associated parties and events.

ART’FAB until 16.10. Saint Tropez (FR)

2006-07-25T07:19:00.000-07:00

ART’FAB is the very first exhibition of the new “Cultural Summer” of Saint-Tropez and the theme is “Women of Europe”. Three subjects, linked to European artistic creation in the 21st century, are illustrated in four completely different parts of the town. The symbolic building dominating Saint- Tropez, the Citadel and the Annonciade Museum, are ideal places to exhibit sculptures and works of European men and women, suggesting fragility, transparency, desire, protection, grace and pleasure.
The 17th century Vasserot washhouse, where linen was washed daily for many centuries,
inspired Yves Sabourin for the exhibition of women artists who use ancient embroidery techniques on modern material in order to create contemporary forms as modern works of art.
The “Salle Jean Despas” will exclusively house works from 21st century women artists: videos, sculptures, paintings works on paper and photographs. Twenty-five European artistic scenes will be explored, and will allow us to discover a panorama of artistic creativity in Europe today. Artists from different cultural backgrounds encounter and confront each other in the same exhibition creating comparisons between the 5

ART’FAB idea of a common way of life, cohabitation and communication at the heart of the European Union This event is the occasion to bring together contemporary artists of European art.
Why does ART’FAB give priority to women artists?
Without intending to put feminine creation in competition with masculine creation, the jury
wishes to devote this exhibition entirely to women artists. The jury chose to take a particular interest in members of the European Union, in order to show great samples of contemporary artists at the heart of a common land, Europe. The exclusivity of women artists was not
intended as a sign of feminism or equality but stems from a desire to create an opportunity for
women to take a stronger place in the art world, which hitherto has mainly been occupied
by men.
Is not feminine creation as universal as masculine creation?

The Ensoart Bus Tour 21.07. Galway, Ireland

2006-07-20T06:01:00.000-07:00

Project '06 is a large open-access arts festival currently taking place in Galway. As part of Project '06, The Ensoart Bus Tour features a selection of animated films from the Darklight Festival 2006. The Ensoart Bus Tour Pick-up Top of Eyre Square Friday 21 July 3:00PM ? Late Price: €3 A moving venue gathering its audience at various points throughout Galway. Streets, promenade, docks, Salthill beach all become venues for this unique art extravaganza. A one day series of events in a mobile installation/performance experience, culminating in an outdoor projection of Darklight Festival on tour. Detailed programme route at www.ensoart.com/home.

Busan Sculpture Project

2006-07-17T11:01:00.000-07:00

The Busan Sculpture Project is a special exhibition of the Busan Biennale. Its goals are to raise awareness of the importance of the natural environment, of taking the proper measures to protect the global ecosystem as well as appreciating the interconnectedness of human beings with all living things, To facilitate this purpose, the exhibition is composed of site-specific modern artworks as in 'street furniture', to be related to both the artistry of monumental mass-a characteristic of sculpture art and aesthetic traditions with poetic metaphor and polyvalent.

16 [R]EVOLUTIONS @ ISEA 2006 / SAN JOSE August 12-13, 2006

2006-07-02T09:19:00.000-07:00

ABOUT 16 [R]EVOLUTIONS: Lush imagery vibrates against funnel clouds of physicality as 100,000 years of human evolution are condensed into Troika Ranch’s evening length dance, theater and media performance 16 [R]evolutions. The work focuses on a single evolutionary path: how the animal drives of our pre-human ancestors have become sublimated to the point of abject confusion and disconnection. In stark contrast to this path, are exquisite three-dimensional visuals that warp and morph in direct response to the dancers movement, becoming more “animal” than the characters on stage. (At one moment the performers dance with delicate, living strands of DNA, at another, a gigantic digital rib cage ripples and breathes as it envelopes their movement.) 16 [R]evolutions asks the question, can we reconnect with our core needs to feed, fight and reproduce while continuing to evolve into beings of light and intellect. Visit their site