e-flux shows (10 unread)

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  Sarkis at Submarine Wharf

  Fetched: 25-May-2012, 8:01am CEST

  The Submarine Wharf in Rotterdam's docklands is currently undergoing a true transformation. The construction of the various monumental sculptures that make up Sarkis' installation Ballads, commissioned by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and the Port of Rotterdam, is almost finished. They include an 18-metre bell tower and a 16-meter lampshade in which a spotlight rises and falls to the rhythm of the artist's breathing. This summer the Submarine Wharf on the RDM Campus is presenting the installation Ballads by Sarkis (born 1938).
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  In search of Curator, Head of the Design Department

  Fetched: 25-May-2012, 8:01am CEST

  Curator, Head of the Design Department The Musée national d'art moderne-Centre de création industrielle / Centre Pompidou is looking for an experienced curator of design with a long track record of creating exhibitions and managing design collections. He/she will run the Design Department, manage its staff, and define its scientific goals. Responsibilities He/she works under the direct responsibility of the Museum Deputy Director, in charge of coordinating the departments of design, architecture, and industrial prospective and ultimately under the Museum Director's authority.
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  Zarina Bhimji

  Fetched: 25-May-2012, 8:01am CEST

  In collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery, London, the Kunstmuseum Bern is presenting the first retrospective on Zarina Bhimji, British photographer, filmmaker, and installation artist. Voicing criticism of her times with a gentle lyricism, Bhimji promotes confrontation with the difficult social issues of migration, globalization, and post-colonial history in her work. In 1963 the artist was born to Indian parents in Uganda, where she grew up until the family was forced into exile in 1974. She studied art in London and has exhibited in diverse international group shows.
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  Spring / Summer 2012

  Fetched: 25-May-2012, 8:01am CEST

  Exhibition: Amalia Pica 25 May?15 July Chisenhale Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Amalia Pica, featuring newly commissioned works across sculpture, photography, installation, and performance. The exhibition elaborates upon Pica's ongoing interest in the social act of listening, sites of celebration, and technologies of mass communication. This exhibition also marks the culmination of Pica's year-long, off-site project, I am Tower of Hamlets, as I am in Tower of Hamlets, just like a lot of other people are (2011/12).
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  Bucharest Biennale 5: Tactics for the Here and Now

  Fetched: 24-May-2012, 8:01am CEST

  Tactics for the Here and Now  Within the current context of the shifting nature of politics, economics, and culture?conditions that are increasingly referred to as precarious times?artists often have to negotiate risky positions, contested territories, or situations in which cultural activity interacts with, or provides a counterpoint to, conditions of flux. Bucharest Biennale 5 profiles the work of artists whose agency lies less in overt statements, but rather in investigative or indirect strategies that possess their own kind of power. By its very nature, work that is investigative expresses a kind of resistance to both the speed and changing nature of things and the increasing sense of instability that pervades everyday life.
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  Invisible Monuments

  Fetched: 24-May-2012, 8:01am CEST

  Artists: Fayçal Baghriche, Eric Baudelaire, Tomaso De Luca, goldiechiari, Iris Touliatou, Stefanos Tsivopoulos Curated by Costanza Paissan As part of the annual foreign curator in residence programme, La Galerie is welcoming Costanza Paissan, from Italy. Chosen by a judging panel after a call for candidates, she will be in residence from 5 April to 5 July 2012 and will devote her time at La Galerie to the exhibition project Invisible Monuments. In his essay "Monuments," Austrian writer Robert Musil addresses the question of how monuments are perceived, describing them as "invisible" and "impregnated with something that repels attention.
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  Texas Prize 2012

  Fetched: 24-May-2012, 8:01am CEST

  AMOA-Arthouse is thrilled to name Jeff Williams as the 2012 recipient of the Texas Prize, an ongoing program highlighting talented, under-recognized professional artists working in the Lone Star State. An internationally respected jury selected Austin-based Williams from among three finalists?Williams, Jamal Cyrus, and Will Henry?vying for the revered prize in an exhibition of new work at the museum's Jones Center location.
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  MADE IN GERMANY ZWEI

  Fetched: 24-May-2012, 8:01am CEST

  The Sprengel Museum Hannover, the kestnergesellschaft, and the Kunstverein Hannover are presenting a large overview of the contemporary international art scene in Germany entitled MADE IN GERMANY ZWEI. The exhibition shows groundbreaking positions of a younger generation of 45 international artists living and working in Germany. Participating artists Saâdane Afif (FR), Ulf Aminde (DE), Rosa Barba (IT), Alexandra Bircken (DE), Shannon Bool (CAN), Mike Bouchet (USA), Ulla von Brandenburg (DE), Matti Braun ( DE), Nina Canell (SWE), Marieta Chirulescu (RO), Keren Cytter (ISR), Natalie Czech (DE), Simon Denny (NZL), Jan Paul Evers (DE), Omer Fast (ISR), Max Frisinger (DE), Simon Fujiwara (UK), Cyprien Gaillard (FR), Gregor Gleiwitz (PL), Dirk Dietrich Hennig (DE), Benedikt Hipp (DE), Olaf Holzapfel (DE), Sven Johne (DE), Keller/Kosmas (Aids-3D) (USA), Kitty Kraus (DE), Alicja Kwade (DE), Marcellvs L.
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  Babak Ghazi and Gareth Jones

  Fetched: 23-May-2012, 8:01am CEST

  Raven Row presents two related exhibitions by Babak Ghazi and Gareth Jones. Each artist will stage a totalising view of their work, marking both an end and a beginning of a period of activity, offering a personal synthesis of art and life. During the past four years Babak Ghazi has jettisoned his art production to concentrate on the manifestation of Lifework. Rejecting the completeness of an artwork, the content of Lifework will be communicated as an open-ended library or resource, in which found and fabricated cultural material is presented collage-like in box files and crates.
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  Manifesta 9, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, and RAY 2012: Europe?s art summer

  Fetched: 23-May-2012, 8:01am CEST

  MANIFESTA 9 Former coalmining complex of Waterschei Genk, Province of Limburg, Belgium   Manifesta 9, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, will take place from June 2 until September 30, 2012 in the former Waterschei coal-mining complex in the city of Genk, Limburg (Belgium), under the direction of curator Cuauhtémoc Medina (Mexico) and co-curators Katerina Gregos (Greece) and Dawn Ades (United Kingdom). The Deep of the Modern intends to create a complex dialogue between different layers of art and history. Its point of departure is the geographical location itself. The remains of the Waterschei mine in Genk, Limburg, the main venue of Manifesta 9, are not the only protagonists in this story.