WV-Walkin’ Venice Open Galleries

L’Associazione 22:37 annuncia il primo Opening collettivo delle gallerie d’arte contemporanea a Venezia in concomitanza con la vernice della 53ª Biennale di Arti Visive.
Venerdì 5 Giugno 2009 fino alle 22:37 e oltre, gli spazi privati dell’arte apriranno a voce unisona le porte e condivideranno la propria offerta culturale con i cittadini e i visitatori della Biennale.
WV-Walkin’ Venice Open Galleries è un invito ad attraversare la città sotto la luna, focalizzando l’interesse sui luoghi privati del contemporaneo nel momento in cui calli e campi diventano crocevia di culture e mondi diversi.
Walkin’ Venice Open Galleries rappresenta una proposta innovativa in aggiunta agli eventi collaterali della Biennale: un percorso inedito all’interno della città nato con l’intento di creare un network tra le gallerie e una sinergia tra gli spazi espositivi privati e i soggetti pubblici. L’evento coinvolgerà in modo attivo e dinamico il pubblico sempre più eterogeneo e curioso che animerà Venezia agli inizi di Giugno.

associazione 22:37

International Art Prize

International Art Prize - Painting, Sculpture, Photographic Art Competition: "On Sunday, 7th June 2009 at 5P.M. Arte Laguna will announce the opening of the 4th International Prize Arte Laguna at the presence of the Presidents of the Jury at Padiglione Paradiso, Venetian Biennale Gardens.
In collaboration with the European Council of Art."

From Dürer to Kiefer

This summer Kunsthal Rotterdam puts on display a large survey of five centuries of art on paper. This unique selection contains over 140 works of internationally renowned artists. The works belong to fifty museums from the federal state of Nordrhein-Westfalen and show a cross section of Western art history. Works by old masters like Dürer and Rembrandt, by modern artists like Toulouse-Lautrec, Edvard Munch and Picasso and by contemporary artists like Anselm Kiefer, Louise Bourgeois and Gerhard Richter have been brought together for the very first time. Due to the diversity of museums participating the exhibition shows a rich collection of refined engravings, colourful aquarelles, pencil drawings, lithos, screen prints, photographs, etchings and monotypes, which are only rarely shown to the public as a result of their vulnerability. The exhibition is clearly the high point of the Jahr der Grafik and has been composed especially for the Kunsthal.

Kunsthal

Oppositions & Dialogues

Oppositions & Dialogues

May 30–August 9, 2009

The dialogic structure of the exhibition program is taken up in the Oppositions & Dialogues exhibition and examined based on works of art from the nineteen seventies to the present.
Oppositions & Dialogues understands opposition as an essential, productive force of our culture and politics. Strikes, election campaigns, parliamentary debates, peace treaties, divorces, and legal proceedings are only a few key words that make the character of political and private everyday life clear. Differences of opinion, standpoints, or convictions often lead to conflicts in the political or public field. Aside from the negative aspect of the conflict, opposition or duality also contain the positive, productive aspect of joint debates and rapprochement through which innovations can come about.
The exhibition presents the use of opposites and juxtapositions as a means of artistic expression as well as artistic dealings with political and cultural oppositions and areas of conflict. The productive aspect of dualities is often expressed in contemporary art by means of interaction. Juxtapositions are constructed in order to dissolve them through a form of interaction. An essential aspect of the exhibition is therefore the representation of pictorially imminent as well as actual forms of interaction in contemporary art.
The exhibition will be curated and organized in close cooperation with the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork in Ireland.

Artists:
Francis Alÿs, Nina Beier + Marie Lund, Rolf Bier, Mark Clare, Nathan Coley, Jeremiah Day, Öyvind Fahlström, Claire Fontaine, Lotte Lindner + Till Steinbrenner, Alex Morrison, Garrett Phelan, Bettina Pousttchi, Ulay + Marina Abramović, Jens Ullrich, Stephen Willats, Artur Żmijewski

Willkommen beim Kunstverein Hannover / Welcome to the Kunstverein Hannover

The One Minutes

The One Minutes (TOM) is a brand name for moving images that last exactly one minute. It fits well in our world of looking quickly, understanding immediately and it is a response to the influence of commercials, video clips and the increased affordability of camera’s, computers and access to Internet. The limited time frame forces the maker to think critically about what he/she would like to show us. The flexibility of the formula and the diversity of dissemination from the street to galleries, tv and festivals make it an attractive and accessible contemporary art form for a broad audience.

The One Minutes | The One Minutes are videos precisely one minute long.

MYTH OF CHILDHOOD

30.05.09 - 26.07.09

DATES: 30th May - 26th July 2009

CURATOR: Barbara Zürcher y Andréa Holzherr

IN COLLABORATION: Patricia Asbaek

ARTISTS: SERGEY BRATKOV (RUS), ELINA BROTHERUS & HANNA BROTHERUS & LAURI ASTALA (FIN), MAÏDER FORTUNÉ (F), CAO GUIMARÃES (BR), SUNIL GUPTA (IND), CHARLOTTE GYLLENHAMMAR (S), MICHAEL KALMBACH (D), FABRICE LANGLADE (F), ANDREA MUHEIM (CH), PETER NEUCHS (DK), IRIS SCHILLER (F), YVES TREMORIN (F), HANS WITSCHI (CH)

Childhood can not be defined precisely. Usually, in western culture, the word designates a phase of human development which is situated between that of the toddler (2, 3 years old) and puberty (10 to 12 years old). Childhood is mostly defined by social and cultural factors and is experienced and remembered by each individual in a personal and subjective manner.

The term childhood associates various, sometimes opposite, notions such as innocence, purity and paradise, as well as fear, helplessness and failure.

In the visual arts the leitmotif of childhood, as a mythological and utopian place, is often used as a frame of reference for self-investigation or self-assessment. The exhibition “Mythos Kindheit” explores the way in which contemporary artists reflect on and visualize the theme of childhood. Through the use of various media (painting, installation, sculpture, video, photography, etc.) ca 15 contemporary artists work with childhood memories, the discovery of the self, the appropriation of the world, and the projection of imaginary worlds.

The exhibition is conceived for two separate groups; the adult contemporary art public and a group including children and adolescents.

In this context it would be interesting and pertinent to publish an educational brochure for the younger public as well as a catalogue for the adult public. The catalogue will give an in depth understanding of the theme and of each artist and his or her concept. The brochure will help the younger public to approach and understand the artworks, invest and compare them with their own experiences.

The exhibition does not aim to analyze childhood, neither historically, socially, nor psychoanalytically. Each work presented in the exhibition is an individual artist’s subjective reflection on the theme of childhood. Important in the context of the exhibition are the aesthetic, philosophical and intellectual qualities of the works, as well as their capacity to question the stated theme.

MYTH OF CHILDHOOD - CCA Andratx