SEEN | UNSEEN

SEEN UNSEEN
Curated by Peg Curtin

Participating Artists: Madeline Djerejian, Kate Drendel, Charles Harlan, Brad Robinson, Surveillance Camera Players, Futaba Suzuki, Edin Velez, and Hsuan Hsuan Wu.

Where does a government’s responsibility to protect its citizens end and the citizens’ right to privacy begin? Is the idea of surveillance in the mind of a populace a more powerful tool than the surveillance itself? Blurring lines between observer and observed, the eight talented emerging artists in Seen Unseen toe typically taboo lines by openly photographing strangers, directly challenging and mocking surveillance cameras, and willingly placing themselves in the role of the observed. Images are reflected, complicated, and obscured. Installations reconstruct and re-appropriate in miniature the surveillance of our homes and property, exposing our phobias, and anxiously re-contextualizing accepted security methods. Video works invert the supposed anonymity of large crowds and explore our culture’s obsession with reality television.

Seen Unseen asks us to question our boundaries and consider the future of a culture increasingly consumed with the need to see and be seen.

NURTUREart Non-Profit, Inc. - Gallery- featured events, Brooklyn

Moralische Fantasien

Moralische Fantasien
07. Februar 2009 - 26. April 2009

Das Museum Morsbroich eröffnet am 8. Februar 2009 die Ausstellung »Moralische Fantasien«. Im Zentrum stehen Positionen zeitgenössischer Kunst, die sich mit der Klimaerwärmung und ihren Auswirkungen auseinandersetzen. Über zwanzig Kunstschaffende zeigen im neobarocken Wasserschloss, das mit seiner Anlage und seinem idyllischen Garten den perfekten Rahmen für die Beschäftigung mit diesem Thema abgibt, ihre ganz persönlichen, distanziert dokumentierenden wie persönlich betroffenen oder gesellschaftspolitisch motivierten Gedanken und Recherchen zu diesem Thema.

Schon seit der Antike ist bekannt, dass menschliche Eingriffe in die Natur von negativen Folgen begleitet sein können. Doch erst in den vergangenen Dekaden hat sich eine markante Sensibilisierung der Gesellschaft auf diesen Themenbereich hin und eine eigentliche ökologische Diskussion herausgebildet, die nicht selten in dramatischem Ton geführt wird und mittlerweile in alle Bereiche der Gesellschaft einwirkt. Davon betroffen ist nicht zuletzt die Kunst, die sich traditionellerweise stark mit der Natur auseinandersetzt und wesentlich um die Generierung von Naturbildern und -vorstellungen besorgt ist.

Die Ausstellung »Moralische Fantasien« fasst diese Tendenzen zusammen und stellt aktuelle Projekte, die sich mit Fragen der klimatischen Veränderung und ökopolitischen Beobachtungen auseinandersetzen, ins Zentrum. Die Präsentation beschäftigt sich zudem mit der Frage, wie Künstler und Künstlerinnen auf diese geopolitischen Probleme reagieren und welche Strategien sie dabei anwenden. Andererseits stellt sie zur Diskussion, inwieweit Kunst als spezifisches Medium in der Gesellschaft - die nach Niklas Luhmann über keine »Zentralkompetenz zur Behandlung ökologischer Probleme« verfügt - ökologischer Kommunikation Gehör zu verschaffen vermag.

Der Titel der Ausstellung »Moralische Fantasien« stammt von Günther Anders (1902 – 1992), einem bedeutenden deutschsprachigen Sozialphilosophen. Der Mitbegründer der Anti-Atombewegung verstand darunter die Anstrengung, die Diskrepanz zwischen der zunehmenden Bedeutung der Technik für die Gesellschaft und der Wahrnehmung in der Bevölkerung wieder rückgängig zu machen. Dies soll in dem Versuch geschehen, »das Gefälle zu überwinden, die Kapazität und Elastizität unseres Vorstellens und Fühlens den Grössenmassen unserer eigenen Produkte und dem unabsehbaren Ausmass dessen, was wir anrichten können, anzumessen«, so Anders 1956 in »Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen«.

Die Arbeiten von internationalen Künstlerinnen und Künstlern aus drei Generationen setzen genau an diesem Punkt an, mit Werkansätzen, die individuell und in ihrer Herangehensweise sehr unterschiedlich sind. Das Spektrum reicht von Strategien, unsere Vorstellungskraft durch intelligente Analyse zu schärfen, über Bestrebungen, diese durch unkonventionelle Lösungsansätze für neue Perspektiven zu öffnen, bis hin zum Ansatz, unsere Wahrnehmung durch Kritik, Provokation, aber auch durch Poesie produktiv zu stimulieren.

Beteiligte Künstlerinnen und Künstler: Ursula Biemann, Olafur Eliasson, Tue Greenfort, Douglas Gordon, Christina Hemauer & Roman Keller, Jonathan Horowitz HorseArt, Christoph Keller, Leopold Kessler, Deborah Ligorio, Elke Marhöfer, Gordon Matta-Clark, Anna Meyer, Gustav Metzger, Olaf Nicolai, Dan Peterman, Marjetica Potrč, Santiago Sierra, Philippe Rahm, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Marie Velardi, Christine Würmell.

Zusätzlich zu den an der Ausstellung beteiligten Künstlern wurden acht weitere Kunstschaffende gebeten, das Cover der Zeitung »Bild«, das anlässlich der Veröffentlichung des UNO-Klimaberichts im Februar 2007 erschien und die Schlagzeile »Unser Planet stirbt« trug, in ihrem Sinne zu überarbeiten. Die Ergebnisse von Matthew Antezzo, Mark Staff Brandl, interpixel, Isabelle Krieg, Jakob Kolding, Dan Perjovschi, Silke Wagner und Christine Würmell sind ebenfalls Teil der Ausstellung

Parallel zur Ausstellung im Museum Morsbroich erscheint eine Publikation, die die einzelnen Kunstschaffenden vorstellt und der Kernfrage des Projekts in schriftlicher Form nachgeht. Mit Beiträgen von Dorothee Messmer, Harald Welzer, Raimar Stange und einem Interview mit dem Klimapolitiker Patrick Hofstetter sowie mit einem Vorwort von Markus Heinzelmann und Markus Laudert.

Die Ausstellung wird von Dorothee Messmer und Raimar Stange kuratiert.

Museum Morsbroich

‘Objects on Pedestals’

Sprüth Magers London is delighted to present ‘Objects on Pedestals’, a survey of sculpture works by acclaimed Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss. The exhibition includes a selection from the series ‘Rubber Sculptures’ (1986 – 1988), which comprises a number of life-size black rubber casts of ordinary and commonplace objects, including a chest of drawers, a table, a candle and a cutlery tray. The exhibition also features a number of sculptures, all made in 2007 in unfired clay, which also depict normal and quotidian objects, such as a shoe or a jug, although on an exaggerated scale. Together, these two bodies of work reveal the artists’ ongoing fascination with the banal and absurd qualities of the everyday, and the materiality and tactility of mass consumption.

Infused with Fischli & Weiss’s characteristic wit and knowing irony, ‘Rubber Sculptures’ and the clay sculptures prompt intriguing questions about the form and function of the objects that facilitate modern living. The heavy black vulcanite rubber invokes a range of associations which sits at odds with the practical uses of the objects assembled, requiring the viewer to look askance at the everyday things that are on view. Industrial, durable, even kinky, the black rubber material gives the forms of these mundane items a disconcerting and fetishised quality, as plain and commonplace things bounce and bend in a way which ill suits their function or purpose, and are installed and scrutinised in the gallery space. As the objects are divested of any recognised utility, they become charged with an aesthetic and sensory resonance which, both through the anonymising effect of the black colouration, and the simultaneously seductive and repulsive tactile quality of the rubber, presents a disquieting and intriguing image of the domestic world.

The clay sculptures also featured in the exhibition similarly invite the viewer to re-examine the material culture of contemporary life. Like ‘Rubber Sculptures’, the material used to create the sculptures assembled offers the opportunity for an ironic gaze at the objects represented. By recreating out of delicate, fragile and crumbling clay a number of objects, such as an axe or a chain, which demand to be robust and resilient in order to be of any use, the items on view again establish a purely formal relationship with the viewer. The artists’ practice of elevating useless objects into art is further heightened by the exaggerated scale of the sculptures. A clay shoe 52 cm in length cannot be worn, but can be venerated in a gallery context, as an icons of everyday life.

‘Rubber Sculptures’ and the clay sculptures build on a number of earlier works by Fischli & Weiss which exploited and explored the unnerving and amusing effects of using materials in incongruous ways. Their earliest collaboration, ‘Wurstserie’ (1979), comprised a series of photographs featuring dramatic, funny and distressing scenarios played out by sausages, cigarette butts and other sundries. These sculptures also exemplify the ethnographic scrutiny of the everyday that has animated the practice of Fischli and Weiss, in a wide array of different media, for almost three decades. From ‘Sichtbare Welt’ (1987-2000), their monumental archive of nearly 3,000 photographs of commonly observed objects and scenes, to their most recent work, a comprehensive and endlessly suggestive collection of 800 print advertisements entitled ‘Sonne, Mond und Sterne’, which is on view at Sprüth Magers Berlin until 31 January 2009, the art of Fischli and Weiss has continually been exercised by the myriad meanings that might be located in the ordinary world around us.

Both born in Zürich, Peter Fischli (1952) and David Weiss (1946) met in 1977 and began their artistic collaboration shortly after, in 1979. Their artwork has been the subject of many prominent solo exhibitions around the world including recent retrospectives at the Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2008), Kunsthaus, Zürich (2007) and Tate Modern, London (2006). In 2003, they represented Switzerland at the Venice Biennale for the third time.

Sprueth Magers :: Home

Die Kunst und das Absurde

Die Kunst und das Absurde
Christian Hasucha, Berlin

Der Interventionist aus Neukölln am 29.1.
"Eine der ersten Erfahrungen mit dem scheinbar Absurden machte ich, nachdem ich eine tragbare Dunkelkammer auf einer Kölner Vorstadtbrache aufgebaut hatte. Aus der Dunkelkammer ragte ein flexibler "Zeichenstab", mit dem ich höchst konzentriert eine virtuelle Zeichnung in den Kölner Alltagsraum setzte. […] Ein Passant schnauzte mich an, dass ich mir besser einen Bleistift kaufen und auf Papier zeichnen solle. Solch direkte Angriffe - wunderbare Reflektions- und Diskussionsanlässe - habe ich bisher einige Male erfahren können. Sobald allerdings der Begriff Kunst in meinen Projekten auftauchte, war jegliches befremdliches Agieren wundersamer Weise sanktioniert. Ich beschloss, eine neue Strategie anzuwenden..."
Der deutsche Installationskünstler Christian Hasucha gelangte insbesondere durch seine Öffentlichen Interventionen zu Bekanntheit.
Eine Kooperation der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Fakultät Gestaltung, Fachgebiet Ästhetik, Prof. Olaf Weber und der ACC Galerie Weimar

http://www.hasucha.de/

Die Kunst und das Absurde

Interior/Exterior. Living in Art

Interior/Exterior. Living in Art.
From Romantic Interior Painting to the Home Design of the Future

Eero Aarnio · John M Armleder · Richard Artschwager · Francis Bacon · Miriam Bäckström · Carl Blechen · Etienne-Louis Boullée · Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec · Marcel Breuer · Hussein Chalayan · Colette · Thomas Demand · Eric Fischl · Sylvie Fleury · Caspar David Friedrich · Dan Graham · Eileen Gray · Konstantin Grcic · Walter Gropius · Sebastian Gutzwiller · Richard Hamilton · Almut Heise · Anton Henning · Josef Hoffmann · Hans Hollein · Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchler · Johann Erdmann Hummel · In Sook Kim · Arne Jacobsen · Sarah Jones · Donald Judd · Veronika Kellndorfer · Georg Friedrich Kersting · Friedrich Kiesler · Imi Knoebel · Herlinde Koelbl · Pia Lanzinger · Fernand Léger · Roy Lichtenstein · Robert Longo · Adolf Loos · Dorit Margreiter · Henri Matisse · Mario Merz · Carl Moll · Piet Mondrian · Jasper Morrison · Georg Muche · Edvard Munch · Marc Newson · Verner Panton · Serge Poliakoff · Alexandra Ranner · Nicolas Reber/Markus Abele · Tobias Rehberger · Gerwald Rockenschaub · Martha Rosler · Oskar Schlemmer · Thomas Schütte · Julius Shulman · Florian Slotawa · Werner Sobek · Philippe Starck · Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein · Niele Toroni · Felix Vallotton · Henry van de Velde · Ludwig Mies van der Rohe · Albert von Keller · Edouard Vuillard · Matthias Weischer · Stefan Wewerka · Andrea Zittel

The large-scale thematic exhibition deals with the fascinating interaction between art and design – interior painting and interior design. It ranges from the visionary pictures of the Romantic era and the modernist designs of the Bauhaus period to the living design of the future.

Works by about 70 renowned artists and designers are represented in the exhibition, including Caspar David Friedrich , Henry van de Velde, Henri Matisse, Marcel Breuer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Zaha Hadid, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Tobias Rehberger, Thomas Demand, and Andrea Zittel.

The surprising juxtaposition of paintings, sculptures, installations, reconstructions of interiors, historical and contemporary furniture, photographs, videos as well as digital animations demonstrates the topic’s complexity in its multifaceted historical dimension.

Based on around 140 exhibits, “Interior/Exterior” describes for the first time in this detail the history of a convergence between art and design that ultimately resulted in an interpenetration: Designers make use of artistic approaches (Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Zaha Hadid) and artists, conversely, have begun producing functional objects and environments (Donald Judd, Tobias Rehberger). “Interior/Exterior” is a further milestone in the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg’s series of projects entitled “The pursuit of modernism in the twenty-first century.”

This exhibition is supported by Volkswagen Financial Services AG.

Kunstmuseum-Wolfsburg

Technology meets fashion

"Technology meets fashion

Lecture by Moritz Waldemeyer. Designer and mechatronics engineer Moritz Waldemeyer (London) talks about his collaboration with fashion designer Hussein Chalayan, who's technologically expanded creations internationally cause enthusiasm - for example in his spring 2008 collection «Readings».

Links: www.waldemeyer.com"

[plug.in] - Kunst und neue Medien. Medienkunst in Basel, Schweiz. New media art institution in Basel, Switzerland.: Technology meets fashion:

Sabine Aichhorn

"Sabine Aichhorn (geb. 1979, lebt in Wien) arbeitet zwischen Objekt, Fotografie und Film. Dass wir zwischen Fiktionalem und Realem schwer zu unterscheiden im Stande sind, hat sowohl die Theorie als auch die bildende Kunst innerhalb der letzten Jahre drastisch zum Ausdruck gebracht. Film als Synonym für Fiktionales wird hier vor allem formal eingesetzt. Objekte aus Filmstreifen, die wiederum zu real lesbaren Konfigurationen werden, stehen im Zentrum von Sabine Aichhorns künstlerischer Praxis, die sich letztlich auf die Tradition des 'Expanded Cinema' zurückführen lässt."

Sabine Aichhorn. Neue Galerie Graz Austria, 2009

Art is the better life

"Urs Lüthi (b. 1947 in Kriens), now based in Munich, is one of the most significant Swiss artists of the present day. The retrospective will provide the most extensive survey of his work so far. Alongside his little-known early work from the 1960s, his famous photographic self-portraits, painting cycles and most recent sculptures will be shown. Lüthi is a gifted draughtsman, printmaker, painter and sculptor, as well as a story-teller and stager of big stories and small emotions. This dialectic of form and content, which guides the viewer into an experience that is both aesthetic and intellectual, informs his whole oeuvre."

Museum of Art Lucerne

UTOPIA - Qiu Anxiong

"UTOPIA: Qiu Anxiong

A dream comes true. In February 2009 ARKEN opens the first of three contemporary art exhibitions under the heading UTOPIA.

The first UTOPIA artist is Chinese Qiu Anxiong (b. 1972). His work Staring into Amnesia (2008), an enormous original Chinese train carriage from the 1960s, is the principal work in ARKEN’s exhibition. Documentary video clips and poetic silhouettes have been added to the carriage taking us on a journey into China’s past, present and future.

In recent years Qiu Anxiong has received great international attention with his poetic and moving video works which span from big and complex installations to hand painted animated films.

The exhibition is the first presentation of Qiu Anxiong’s works in Denmark."

ARKEN Museum of Modern Art - UTOPIA - Qiu Anxiong

PRIVATE VIEWS

"4 February - 14 March 2009
PRIVATE VIEWS:
Friday 30 Jan. 6-8pm
Performance on the gallery’s roof at 7pm - IN LONDON
23-25 Jan. 11-7pm @ art la - IN LOS ANGELES

CRISP LONDON LOS ANGELES presents the UK/US solo debut of Italian artist, NICO VASCELLARI.
VASCELLARI’s project-based practice investigates myths, apocalyptic folklores, moral darknesses, underground cultures and nature. Stemming from this visceral performance (hard)core comes a residue of sculptures, photography, video and sound installations"

Crisp London Los Angeles

Indian Highway

"This exhibition focuses on a dynamic generation of artists, from a country that is taking an increasingly central position in the international art scene. The theme of Indian Highway reflects the importance of the road in migration and movement, and as the link between rural and urban communities – issues that are central to Indian life today. Works in the exhibition also make reference to technology and the ‘information superhighway’, which has formed a key part of India’s economic boom.

Indian Highway will be shown at the Serpentine Gallery, London, from 10.12.2008-22.02.2009 and is the first in a sequence of exhibition that will continually grow and develop as it tours internationally to institutions for the next four years."

Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art - Indian Highway

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon’s Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus, 1981, from the Astrup Fearnley Collection can be seen at Museo Nacional Del Prado, Madrid. The exhibition brings together Francis Bacon’s most important paintings. The exhibition can be seen from February 3rd – April 19th 2009.vv

"The selection of 62 paintings by Bacon and archival objets, is presented in a partly chronological order and in various thematic sections corresponding to concepts of his work at different periods of his career, namely Animal, Zone, Apprehension, Crucifixion, Crisis, Archive, Portrait, Memorial, Epic and Late."

Museo Nacional del Prado

Med Live Art

Med Live Art/Levende scene ønsker Kunstnernes Hus å presentere ulike scener for opplevelse; både levende, dokumentert og iscenesatt, og som involverer ulike former for deltagelse.

Performance-programmet starter med den amerikansk-cubanske kunstneren Coco Fuscos A Room of One's Own basert på Virginia Woolfs roman ved samme navn. Hun gjenskaper romanens problematikk, som har fått fornyet aktualitet i dagens politiske klima. Live Art/ Levende scene presenterer deretter et skiftende program med Roi Vaara, Annika Eriksson og Karl Holmqvist. Sachiko Abes arbeid Cut Papers er en performance hvor hun på bestemte tider over flere dager klipper hvitt papir til det danner seg et fjell av papir omkring henne.

Live Art/Levende scene viser i tillegg en rekke pågående prosjekter. Det første som møter publikum når man ankommer Kunstnernes Hus er Red Carpet, et verk av Aeron Bergman og Alejandra Salinas. På trappeavsatsen finner vi Roi Vaaras ikoniske videoarbeid som viser kunstneren vandrende på det frosne baltiske havet der han konfronteres med et fundamentalt kunstnerisk dilemma. I overlyssalene vises verker av Charles Sandison, Eija-Liisa Ahtila og Leonards Laganovskis. I tillegg vil publikum bli invitert til å lage sine egne skulpturer i Erwin Wurms verk One Minute Sculptures.

En del av utstillingen er Living Archive, et videoarkiv med klassiske og nyere performancer av kunstnere som Bruce Nauman, Bas Jan Ader, Martha Rosler, Vito Acconci, Paul McCarthy og Fischli & Weiss. Verkene vil henholdsvis projiseres og presenteres på videomonitorer.

Kunstnernes Hus

Renske Versluijs

Fashion & Textile designer Renske Versluijs graduated from the Master Fashion design HKU in August 2008. In September 2008 she won the competition for 'most creative designer' at the Upperground Festival in Amsterdam. From January 22st until February the 22th she will present her first collection 'I OBJECT' during an exhibition in Petersburg Project Space.

'I OBJECT' answers towards the growing dissatisfaction among women that do not recognize themselves in the way women are portrayed in Western visual culture. Therefore Renske Versluijs created a collection inspired by cultures that deal with this issue differently. The collection gives new insights into women's fashion by exploring the boarders between private and public.

The official opening will be on the 25th of January with a performance and drinks!

During Fashion Week the window of Kvadrat will be the place where fashion designer Gary Symor collaborates with Renske Versluijs in creating a mise-en-scène that uses interior textile in order to expand their view on Fashion.

www.renskeversluijs.com


PETERSBURG PROJECT SPACE

Diana and Actaeon

"The National Galleries of Scotland and the National Gallery, London are delighted to announce that Titian’s Diana and Actaeon has been acquired for the nation from the Duke of Sutherland."

National Galleries of Scotland - Campaign for the Titians

Christian Holstad

"Victoria Miro announces the second solo exhibition in the UK by American artist Christian Holstad, whose distinctive practice encompasses large-scale installations, performances, labour-intensive collage and hand-made textiles. american standard will comprise a number of new sculptural works, as well as a new body of drawings from Holstad's ongoing 'eraserhead' series."

Christian Holstad | Exhibitions | Victoria Miro

Hammer and Nail

"Hammer and Nail

Jacob Dahlgren (SE), John Kørner (DK) og Atle Hynne (NO)
30 January - 15 March 2009

The G.U.N.-Ladies

via Brask Art Blog

SUPERMARKET 2009

SUPERMARKET 13.2–15.2 2009

Abandoned Gallery, Malmö (SE) • ABC Gallery, Moscow (RU) • Alma Löv, Östra Ämtervik (SE) Art in Office, Stockholm (SE) • Artists' Association of Turku / Galleria Just Turku (FI) • Barbur, Jerusalem (IL) • Galleri Box, Göteborg (SE) • Candyland, Stockholm (SE) Carla Brew Gallery, Stockholm (SE) • Centre for Visual Introspection, Bucharest (RO) • CirkulationsCentralen, Malmö (SE) • DBVS, Nya Digitala Bildverkstaden, Stockholm (SE) • DUNK!, Copenhagen (DK) • Echo, Edinburgh (GB) • Galleri 54, Göteborg (SE) • Fiberartsweden, Stockholm (SE) • Filmform, Stockholm (SE) • Formverk, Eskilstuna (SE) • FrideyMickel, Berlin (DE) • Global Stone Workshop, Stockholm (SE) • Hjärnstorm, Stockholm (SE) • Huuto, Helsinki (FI) • ID:I Galleri, Stockholm (SE) • KC Öst, Stockholm (SE) • Koncentrat, Kiruna (SE) • Konstepidemin, Göteborg (SE) • Konstperspektiv, Stockholm, (SE) • Kultivator, Dyestad (SE) • Kuten, Helsinki (FI) • Laundry, Birmingham (GB) • Live Action Göteborg (SE) • Lokal_30, Warsaw, (PL) • Malt, Reykjavik (IS) • Microwesten, Berlin, Munich, Oberstdorf (DE) • Nationalgalleriet, Stockholm (SE) • Nest, the Hague (NL) • NKF, Nordic Art Association, Stockholm (SE) • Nurope, Turku (FI) • P/////AKT, Amsterdam (NL) • Project Space 1646, the Hague (NL) • Raketa, Stockholm (SE) • Galleri Rostrum, Malmö (SE) • Space Poetry, Copenhagen (DK) • Spanien 19C, Aarhus (DK) • Spark, Copenhagen (DK) • Sprinkler, Näsby (SE) • Studio 44, Stockholm (SE) • Galleri Syster, Luleå (SE) • Tegen 2, Stockholm (SE) • Titanik / Arte, Turku (FI • Twochange, Stockholm (SE) • Unten Drunter, Botnik Studios, noCUBE, Malmö (SE) • V8 Plattform, Karlsruhe (DE) • Verkligheten, Umeå (SE)

This is the complete list of the 55 participants of SUPERMARKET 2009.

SUPERMARKET is proud to announce its third annual edition of the international artist-run art fair. This year SUPERMARKET will occupy the stylish Clarion Hotel Stockholm on the island of Södermalm, with an estimated 50 International exhibitors transforming the classy hotel premises into a vibrant artist-run art fair.

Every year SUPERMARKET has relocated; starting in 2007 in an art nouveau palace, moving to an industrial space the following year, and now, to a newly built designer luxury hotel.
Initiated and organised by artists, this project has rapidly evolved from a modest group of local initiatives to a full-fledged international art exposition that has made its mark and helped firmly establish Stockholm on the art world map.

SUPERMARKET 2009 builds on the tremendous success of SUPERMARKET 2008, which featured exhibitors from Canada, Germany, Poland, USA, the UK, and, of course, Sweden and the neighbouring Nordic countries, all part of a growing international trend of artist-run galleries, project spaces, artist collectives, independent curators and publications.

The goal of SUPERMARKET, the artist-run international exposition of new art, is to provide a showcase for artist initiatives from all over the world and to create opportunities for new networks in the Swedish as well as the international art scene.

SUPERMARKET is concurrent with Market, a commercial art fair in Stockholm.

SUPERMARKET ART FAIR 2009 STOCKHOLM SWEDEN

Paul Caton

"An Internal Bleeding of the Heart

Two hoodies wait in a ruined abbey. One, holding a large medieval sword, keeps watch while the other sleeps. The blade glistens against a backdrop of dark trees and stone. A devastating contemporary reference to armed children and gang culture. But with echoes of the princes in the tower and the horrors of the 13th century Children's Crusade.

Paul Caton’s new work, a series of pencil drawings on paper, recalls the South Yorkshire landscape of his childhood, into which he has introduced the figures of modern teenagers – anonymous hooded individuals, set against a background not of tower blocks of the inner city, but a post-industrial countryside ..."

Written by Max Decharne
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Hussein Chalayan

"Leading the forefront of contemporary fashion design, the twice named 'British Designer of the Year,' Hussein Chalayan, is renowned for his innovative use of materials, meticulous pattern cutting and progressive attitudes to new technology.

This exhibition is the first comprehensive presentation of Hussein Chalayan’s work in the UK. Spanning fifteen years of experimental projects, the exhibition explores Hussein Chalayan's creative approach, his inspirations and the many themes which influence his work such as cultural identity, displacement and migration.

Exhibits include ‘Afterwords’ which explores the notion of ‘wearable, portable architecture’ in which furniture literally transforms itself into garments; ‘Airborne’ - bringing the latest LED technology to fashion design with a spectacular dress consisting of Swarovski crystals and over 15,000 flickering LED lights; ‘Before Minus Now’ a dress made of materials used in aircraft construction which changes shape by remote control and ‘Readings’ a dress comprising of over 200 moving lasers presenting an extraordinary spectacle of light."

Hussein Chalayan - design museum

Superabundant

Jacob Dahlgren, Wim Delvoye, Jim Drain, Lesley Halliwell, Paul Moss, Henna Nadeem, Jacqueline Poncelet, Daniel Sturgis, Richard Woods

Superabundant is an exhibition that creates a sense of celebration, of joy and delight through the power of pattern. The exhibition features work by nine artists who make use of pattern and decoration in very different ways, some adopting a systems approach to pattern whilst others are more fluid and organic. For this exhibition, many of the artists have created new and sometimes site specific work especially for the Turner Contemporary Project Space.

Turner Contemporary

Exhibitionist: The best art shows to see this week | Art and design | guardian.co.uk

Gli specchi di Gabriele De Vecchi

Triennale Design Museum presenta Gli specchi di Gabriele De Vecchi
Triennale DesignCafé
3 febbraio-8 marzo 2009
Inaugurazione martedì 3 febbraio 2009 18.30

Triennale Design Museum presenta Gli specchi di Gabriele De Vecchi, a cura di Silvana Annicchiarico, direttore del museo.
In mostra una selezione di opere in argento di Gabriele De Vecchi.
Sono presentate diverse tipologie di prodotto, fra cui vasi, brocche, caffettiere, teiere e candelieri, che il designer chiama “specchi” per le caratteristiche della loro superficie.

La Triennale di Milano

Media Art Scoping Symposium

Media Art Scoping Symposium
Vital Signs II
Media art education at the intersection of science, technology and culture.
Call For Papers – Deadline 27th March 2009

Date: July 4th - 5th 2009

Location: Victorian College of the Arts

The media/electronic art scoping symposium seeks to explore the current pioneering educators, artists and scientists who have brought about the dissolution of boundaries that have traditionally existed between the artistic and technological disciplines. The symposium will survey the work of media art educators who have developed new interdisciplinary curricula, facilities and information technologies."

Nomad » Media Arts Scoping Study

The Radio Conference 2009: A Transnational Forum

The Radio Conference 2009: A Transnational Forum
Location: York University, Toronto, Canada
Dates: July 27-30th, 2009

This conference – the fifth transnational forum – aims to continue the work of Sussex 2001, Madison, Wisconsin 2003 Melbourne 2005 and Lincoln 2007 to bring together scholars, practitioners, and students of radio to share ideas and perspectives on radio’s cultural role in an increasingly global media context.

http://theradioconference2009.apps01.yorku.ca/

http://www.ecrea.eu/

Creative Capital

Creative Capital Announces 2009 Artists

More than $2.5 million in grants and services is committed to artist projects

NEW YORK, NY (January 8, 2009) –Creative Capital, the national organization that supports individual artists, announces the recipients of its 2009 grants. Initial awards of $10,000 have been made to 41 projects in emerging fields, innovative literature and performing arts. These projects represent 61 artists across the country working individually and in collaboration. Each project becomes eligible for additional funds of as much as $50,000 over the course of the organization’s multi-year commitment.

Artists also participate in Creative Capital’s distinctive Artist Services Program valued at $25,000 per artist. This program offers artists skills-building assistance in areas such as fundraising, networking, marketing, and strategic planning with the goal of advancing both their projects and their careers. So far Creative Capital has devoted more than $7 million to the Artists Services Program and has served more than 400 artists in its ten-year history.

The panelists who chose the 16 emerging fields projects were Sarah Cook (CRUMB/Eyebeam, New York, NY); Steve Dietz (ZERO1, San Jose, CA); Susan Kennard (Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada); Gunalan Nadarajan (Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD); Paul Vanouse (Creative Capital artist, Buffalo, NY); and emerging fields lead program consultant Pamela Winfrey (The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA).

The panelists who chose the six innovative literature projects were Jeffrey Renard Allen (Creative Capital artist, New York, NY); lead program consultant for innovative literature Ethan Nosowsky (Graywolf Press, New York, NY); Robert Polito (New School, New York, NY); Matthew Stadler (Clear Cut Press, Portland, OR); Suzanna Tamminen (Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT); and Diane Williams (NOON, New York, NY).

The panelists who chose the 19 performing arts projects were Tamara Alvarado (1stACT Silicon Valley, San Jose, CA); Philip Bither (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN); Grisha Coleman (Creative Capital artist, Tempe, AZ); lead program consultant for performing arts Boo Froebel (Lincoln Center Festival, New York, NY); George Lugg (REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA); and Ruth Waalkes (Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD).

Creative Capital’s director of grants and services, Sean Elwood, served on all three panels, which were moderated by Ruby Lerner, president of Creative Capital.

Selected from 2,068 applications, the funded projects come from across the country. Creative Capital artists now represent 29 states in total. About the new class of grantees, Lerner said, “The breadth of ideas and issues that these projects address confirms that American artists are rising above global uncertainty and unsettlement, propelled by the spirit of invention. These artists are each reinventing the world they live in, and as their projects come to life I think we can expect their influence to ripple outward.”

Foundation Update
With these awards, Creative Capital’s roster of artist projects grows to 324. In 2008 the foundation issued 41 grants in film/video and visual arts. Many of those grantees attended Creative Capital’s Artist Retreat in July 2008, the kickoff event of the Artist Services Program. Through the grant program and its Professional Development Program (a series of public workshops for artists held nationwide), Creative Capital has now served more than 2,500 artists.

About Creative Capital
Ten years ago, Creative Capital embarked on a mission to reinvent the existing model of arts philanthropy, to construct a new paradigm, and to fulfill the specific needs of the country’s most innovative artists. Today, it is the premier national artist support organization, committed to the principle that time and advisory services are as crucial to artistic success as funding. Over the lives of its funded projects, Creative Capital provides artists with a flexible program of multi-faceted, sequential support and partners with them to determine how those targeted funds and services can best work in concert to progress towards the grantees’ own goals. Since its founding in 1999, the organization has committed more than $14 million in financial support and services to 324 projects representing 411 artists. A complete list of grantees, profiles of funded projects, and up-to-date grant cycle information can be found online at the foundation’s website at www.creative-capital.org.

Sustaining support for Creative Capital is currently provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The TOBY Fund, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Ford Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, and more than 100 other foundations and individuals.

CREATIVE CAPITAL 2009 ARTISTS

Emerging Fields 2009

Matthew Coolidge, Center for Land Use Interpretation (Culver City, CA) New Genres
American Land Museum

Cesar Cornejo (Tampa, FL) Architecture
Puno Museum of Contemporary Art

James Coupe (Seattle, WA) Digital Arts
Surveillance Suite

Beatriz da Costa (Long Beach, CA) Digital Arts
Stories of the Rodent

eteam (Queens, NY) Interdisciplinary
Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger
Open Source Grabeland

Futurefarmers (San Francisco, CA) Interdisciplinary
Local Landscape Campus (L.L.C.)

Catherine Herdlick (San Francisco, CA) Gaming
The Cowgirl Way Society

Shih Chieh Huang (New York, NY) Interdisciplinary
EX-SE-10

Lisa Jevbratt (Santa Barbara, CA) Interdisciplinary
Zoomorph

Jae Rhim Lee (Cambridge, MA) Interdisciplinary
N=0=Infinity, Infinity Mushroom

neuroTransmitter (Queens, NY) Interdisciplinary
Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere
Empire MHz

Richard Pell (Pittsburgh, PA) Interdisciplinary
Institute for Post Natural Studies

Stephanie Rothenberg (Buffalo, NY) New Genres
Best Practices

Mark Shepard (Brooklyn, NY) New Genres
Sentient City Survival Kit

Karolina Sobecka (Brooklyn, NY) Design
Amateur Human

Sam Van Aken (Portland, ME) New Genres
I Am Here Today. . .

Innovative Literature 2009

Paul Beatty (New York, NY) Fiction
Depresso

Kenny Fries (Toronto, ON, Canada) Nonfiction
Genkan: Entries into Japan

Ben Marcus (New York, NY) Fiction
Children, Cover Your Eyes!

Bernadette Mayer (East Nassau, NY) Poetry
The Faces That Launched A Thousand Ships

Rebecca Solnit (San Francisco, CA) Nonfiction
Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas

Deb Olin Unferth (Lawrence, KS) Fiction
Natural Citizens

Performing Arts 2009

Byron Au Yong (Seattle, WA) and Aaron Jafferis (New Haven, CT) Opera
Stuck Elevator: The Super-Heroic Stationary Journey of Mind Kuang Chen

Victor D. Cartagena, Roberto Gutierrez Varea, Violeta Luna, David Molina and Antigone Trimis (San Francisco, CA) Performance Art
BORDER TRIP / TRIP de la frontera

Nora Chipaumire (Brooklyn, NY) Interdisciplinary
The Thomas Mapfumo Project, or lions will roar, swans will fly, angels will wrestle heaven, rains will break: gukurahundi

Steve Cuiffo, (New York, NY) Trey Lyford (New York, NY) and Geoffrey Sobelle (Philadelphia, PA)
Theater Next Stop: Amazingland

Lisa D’amour (Brooklyn, NY) and Katie Pearl (Austin, TX) Interdisciplinary
How To Build A Forest

Chris M. Green (Brooklyn, NY) Interdisciplinary
Ultra-Local Sublime

Miguel Gutierrez (Brooklyn, NY) Dance
Misinterpreted

Robert Farid Karimi (Minneapolis, MN) Spoken Word
The Cooking Show con Karimi y Comrades: Diabetes of Democracy

Zoe Keating and Jeffrey Rusch (Camp Meeker, CA) Experimental Music Performance
The Musician’s Mind’s Eye: A Synaesthetic Experience of ‘One Cello x 16’

Heidi Latsky Dance (New York, NY) Dance
GIMP

Young Jean Lee (Brooklyn, NY) Theater
King Lear

Los Angeles Poverty Department (Los Angeles, CA) Interdisciplinary
Henriette Broüwers, Kevin Michael Key, John Malpede and Pamela Miller-Macias
History of Incarceration

Taylor Mac (New York, NY) Theater
The Lily’s Revenge

Barak Marshall (Los Angeles, CA), Tamir Muskat (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Margalit Oved (Los Angeles, CA) Experimental Music Performance
Symphony of Tin Cans

David Neumann and Richard Sylvarnes (Brooklyn, NY) Interdisciplinary
OH NO NATURE (or, Blaming on his Boots the Fault of his Feet)

Ken Nintzel (New York, NY) Interdisciplinary
You Are Here

Tere O’Connor (New York, NY) Dance
Untitled

Tommy Smith and Reggie Watts (Brooklyn, NY) Interdisciplinary
Reggie Watts: Transition

Deke Weaver (Champaign, IL) Interdisciplinary
The Unreliable Bestiary

Creative Capital