Melanchotopia

The Melanchotopia logo is a hybrid composition of Witte de With’s own cloud by Gerard Hadders (Hard Werken) and the Melanchotopia-rain of Sarah Morris, arranged by Markus Weisbeck (Surface)

Fragment of ‘Music for Melanchotopia’ by George van Dam.

Group Exhibition
Location: Rotterdam city-center (download the Melanchotopia City Map.)
3 Sept. – 27 Nov. 2011

Melanchotopia Epicenter

Documentation Center & Special Program
Location: Witte de With, 3^rd floor
3 Sept. – 31 Dec. 2011

Witte de With’s Melanchotopia is an exhibition that invites more than forty international artists to work with different venues in the city-center of Rotterdam – places where people live and work – and to activate their potential as spaces for ideas, discourse and invention.

From large-scale interventions to very simple gestures, Melanchotopia supports a range of artistic practices that go beyond the classical approach to displaying art in public space. Working with the existing dynamics of the city, Witte de With’s intention is to bring forward the diverse layers of daily life in Rotterdam, creating a rich framework for subjective encounters. It is an exhibition about the reality of Rotterdam.

Today, Rotterdam seems to be on hold between its past and its future: filled with nostalgia for the pre-WWII city and in wait for the utopian future, which is perpetually stalled in unfinished developments and reconstructions. Projections about yesterday and tomorrow drive the image of the city, that seems to lack a present. Melanchotopia performs the present of the city through the specific practice of each artist.

Over the course of the exhibition (and remaining active until 31 December 2011) Witte de With’s galleries is reconfigured to become the epicenter of Melanchotopia. The projects, which spread throughout Rotterdam’s center, are brought together via a graphic mapping. Several art works and installations are also on show inside the epicenter and it is the site for numerous events.

Besides its new function as an information center, Witte de With is equipped with a designed Pro qm bookshop and an auditorium dedicated to a side program of lectures and artist talks. Here is available the exhibition guide with Melanchotopia map. The comprehensive educational program provides guided tours, art encounters and a special audio tour.

Artists
Michael van den Abeele, Saâdane Afif, Harold Ancart, Danaï Anesiadou, Sven Augustijnen, Dirk Bell, Michael Beutler, Guillaume Bijl, Pierre Bismuth, Monica Bonvicini, George van Dam, Thea Djordjadze, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Olivier Foulon, Murray Gaylard, Filip Gilissen, Adam Gillam, Arnoud Holleman, Peter Hutton, Adrià Julià, Leon Kahane, Erik van Lieshout, Minouk Lim, Sarah Morris, Alex Morrison, Kate Newby, Ricardo Okaranza, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Nina Pohl, Tomo Savić-Gecan, Markus Schinwald, Slavs and Tatars, Mårten Spångberg, Tobias Spichtig, Nasrin Tabatabai & Babak Afrassiabi, Zin Taylor, Harald Thys & Jos De Gruyter, Octavian Trauttmansdorff, Kostis Velonis, Lidwien van de Ven, Peter Wächtler, Lawrence Weiner.

All images published in the Melanchotopia catalogue were specifically commissioned to Steffen Jagenburg by Witte de With.

Curated by
Nicolaus Schafhausen and Anne-Claire Schmitz
Curatorial assistants: Thomas Cuckle, Amira Gad, Fabian Schoeneich and Sam Sterckx.

Side program
On an almost daily basis throughout the exhibition, the Melanchotopia epicenter hosts a variety of events. These include talks, lectures, book launches, film screenings and performances, all exploring different aspects of Melanchotopia’s themes. During these events, the Pro qm bookshop is open.

Education

Workshops & master classes
The Melanchotopia epicenter also hosts several workshops and master classes, by artists from the exhibition and by invited professionals, including

–         Stefan Kalmár & Richard Birkett (Artists Space, New York)
–         Nicolaus Schafhausen, director, Witte de With
–         Zoë Gray, curator, & Belinda Hak, business coordinator, Witte de With

These are open to specific groups. Please email Karin Schipper for more information.

Art Confrontations
Groups of (young) adults, students and secondary school students have the possibility to take part in an art confrontation as part of Melanchotopia. During an art confrontation, the group will view and discuss the exhibition together with an educator of Witte de With, who will encourage the group to look carefully at the works on display and form their own opinions of them. Art confrontations are designed to be accessible to all levels of education. An art confrontation takes 1 hour and costs € 2.50 per person (cash or cultuurkaart). A maximum of 30 persons can take part of an ‘art confrontation’ session.

Reservations via reservations@wdw.nl or for more information, please email Karin Schipper: karin@wdw.nl.

Practical Information

Address:
Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art
Witte de Withstraat 50, 3rd floor

Opening hours:
Tuesday through Sunday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. (closed on Mondays)

Admission prices:
€ 5,00 Melanchotopia epicenter at Witte de With including exhibition guide
€ 2,50 under 18 / students / CJP / seniors / groups > 10
€ 10,00 Passepartout valid the entire exhibition period including admission to all lectures and artist talks
Free under 12 / CKV / Rotterdampas / MJK

NB: Admission prices for events taking place in the evening
€ 2,50 evening event
€ 5,00 evening event + Melanchotopia exhibition guide
€ 10,00 Passepartout valid the entire exhibition period including admission to all lectures and artist talks
Free with Rotterdampas / MJK

Grand Opening
Friday 2 September 2011, starting from 1 p.m. till late

1 – 5 p.m.: Guided tours of the exhibitions, starting at Witte de With.
(Each tour lasts 45 min. They start at 1 pm; 1:30 pm; 2 pm; 2:30 pm; 3 pm; 3:30 pm; 4 pm; and 4:30 pm)
6 p.m.: Opening speech & drinks at Witte de With.
7 p.m.: Premiere of ‘Music for Melanchotopia’ for soprano and string ensemble by George Van Dam, live at the Rotterdamse Schouwburg.
9 p.m.: ‘It’s all downhill from here on,’ an event by Filip Gilissen, from sunset till sunrise, at the corner of the Karel Doormanstraat and Crispijnstraat.
10 p.m. till late: Party at Witte de With, DJ sets by Guillaume Bijl, Tobias Donat, Filip Gilissen, Kate Newby, Tobias Spichtig and Zin Taylor.

Locations
Witte de With – Center for Contemporary Art, SPAR Corandewal, Pathé Schouwburgplein, Weenink Bedrijfskleding, ROTTERDAM.INFO, Museum Rotterdam, Robeco, Bar Mon Cheri, Shop Erotica, Avondwinkel Alexia, Galerie VIVID, Willibrordschool, Rotterdamse centrum markt, Grotekerkplein, Beurs-World Trade Center, Stadswinkel Centrum Stadhuis, GRAND HOTEL CENTRAL, Q-Park Weena, Het Schieblock, The Manhattan Hotel, Nationale-Nederlanden, Rotterdam Centraal, Groot Handelsgebouw & Engels Grandcafé Restaurant Zalen, Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Mauritsplaats, Pauluskerk, Van Urk Piano’s & Vleugels, Jan Segeren herenmode, De Karel Doorman, Queens of Rings, Bilderberg Parkhotel, Buro Rietveld / Dutch Style Company, Stiltecentrum Erasmus MC, Hartman Binnenhuisadviseurs, De Havenloods.

Download the Melanchotopia City Map.

Colophon:
Rotterdam Tourist Map hijacked by Studio Matthias Görlich.
Image Compositing: Felix Scheu
Printer: Druckerei Henrich, Frankfurt, Germany
Thank you to ROTTERDAM.INFO for permission to use their map.

Special thanks to the collaborators:
Art & Flywork, Berlage Institute, BQ Gallery, Bureau Stadsnatuur Rotterdam, Buro Rietveld, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Centrum Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam, CityTec, Dagopvang Couwenburg, de+ge architecten, Delta Marine Consultants, Dutch Language Institute ITHA, Dutch Style Company, EIDOTECH GmbH, Etablissement d’en face projects, Galerie De Aanschouw, Gemeente Rotterdam, Gemeente Rotterdam Bestuursdienst, Gemeente Rotterdam Bureau Binnestad, Gemeente Rotterdam Publiekszaken, Gemeentewerken Rotterdam, Ramon ‘Tappie’ Gielen, Gypex vzw, Hartman Binnenhuisadivseurs, Havenbedrijf Rotterdam N.V., Holland Casino, Impulse Art Management, ING Art Collection, ING Real Estate, Jan Prins Openbare Montessori School, Maritiem Museum, Boudewijn Martens, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Museum Rotterdam, Nai, Nationale-Nederlanden, NEONWorks.ca, Nicolas Firket Architects, NS, off_corso, Pauluskerk, Piet Zwart Institute, Politie Rotterdam-Rijnmond, ProRail, Q-Park, Queen of Rings, R.S.C. Sanctus-Laurentius, Rupesh, Ramkisoesing, Regionaal Cameratoezicht, Rotown, Royal BAM Group, RTC, Sculpture International Rotterdam, Skyland offsetdrukkerij, Sprüth Magers Berlin, Stichting Kaus Australis, Stichting Veerhaven Rotterdam, The After Lucy Experiment, TheGreenEyl, Via Kunst, Weenink Bedrijfskleding, Wereldmuseum, Willibrordschool, ZUS.

Supported by
VSB Fonds; SNS Reaal Fonds; Gobierno de Espana AC/E; Institut Francais; Creative New Zealand; Danish Arts Council; Canada Council for the Arts; Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.

About the participants

Abeele, Michael van den Born 1974 in Brussels, Belgium. Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.Selected solo exhibitions include Perennial (with Arnaud Hendrickx and Richard Venlet), WIELS, Brussels (2011); Fimbulvetr (with Harald Thys), Etablissement d’en face, Brussels (2010); Bonus Malus (with Arnaud Hendrickx), Netwerk, Aalst (2009); It’s Character Forming, EAC les Halles, Porrentruy, Jura (2008). Selected group exhibitions include Public Private Paintings, MuZee, Oostende and Eva Berendes / Michael Van den Abeele, Galerie Elisa Platteau, Brussels (both 2010); Después del Arte, Lugar, Centro de arte contemporàneo, Havana (2009); Isomosis, performance festival, Etablissement d’en face, Brussels (2009); Curiosität, gallerie Micheline Szwajcer; With Brussels from Love, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Europa Vostra, gallery Trafu, Budapest (all 2008).
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Afif, Saâdane Born 1970 in Vendôme, France. Lives and works in Paris and Berlin.Selected solo exhibitions include The Fairytale Recordings, RaebervonStenglin, Zürich (2011); ANTHOLOGIE DE L'HUMOUR NOIR, Prix Marcel Duchamp, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and A Lecture, A Recording & A Few Witnesses, OPA, Guadalajara (both 2010); Feedback, EACC Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castello, Valencia (2009); Technical Specifications, Witte de With, Rotterdam (2008). Selected group exhibitions include French Window, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo and Echoes, Centre culturel Suisse, Paris (both 2011); Let's Dance, MAC VAL (Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne (2010); Summer Show, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels and Kunst und Pop Musik, Kuunthaus Graz, Graz (both 2009); Pop! goes the weasel, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (2008).
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Afrassiabi, Babak Babak Afrassiabi: Born 1969 in Tehran, Iran. Lives and works in Rotterdam.Since 2004, Babak Afrassiabi and Nasrin Tabatabai have been working under the name Pages on joint projects and produce a bilingual magazine in Farsi and English. In 2009, they were Urban future initiatives fellows at MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Schindler House, Los Angeles. They participated in the Documenta 12 magazine project and contributed an artist s’ project to the 27th Sao Paulo Biennale’s publication How to Live Together. Their magazine Pages was nominated for the AICA prize in 2009 and won the Best Dutch Book Design in 2008.Their solo exhibitions includes, Two Archives, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (2011), The Isle, MAK Center / Schindler house, Los Angeles (2009); Undecided Utopias, CASCO, Utrecht (2007); Sunset Cinema, Display, Prague (2006); Recreation. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes; News from Tehran 1,Witte de With, Rotterdam; and News from Tehran 2, in Kunstenfestivaldesart,. Brussels (all 2004) and Group exhibitions include Are you ready for TV? MACBA, Barcelona; Media city Seoul 2010 (both 2010); Photocairo4. The long shortcut; La otra, Bogota; and Art Sheffield 08. Yes, no, other options (all 2008); How to live together/Como viver junto. 27th Sao Paulo biennial (2007); Interrupted histories. Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana; The Unhomely, 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville, (both 2006).
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Ancart, Harold Born 1980 in Brussels, Belgium. Lives and works in Brussels and New York.Ancart’s first solo exhibition was Sous les Palmiers, la plage, La Chaussette, Brussels (2011). Selected group exhibitions include MoDiMiDoFrSaSo, VeneKlasen/Werner, Berlin; Badlands, C L E A R I N G, New York; Tranches de savoirs, Cultural Services of the French Embassy, New York; Rise Rose Risen, The Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice (all 2011); Displaced division, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana; Out of The Box, The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York; What a difference a day makes, Andreas Grimm Gallery, Munich; Matériel Perdu, Ibid Projects, London; Lush Life, Salon 94, NY; Blood of a Poet, Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York; 11 Rivington Gallery, New York (all 2010).
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Anesiadou, Danai Born 1975 in Pirmasens, Germany. Lives and works in Brussels and New York.Anesiadou’s work and performances have featured in Collaborative Performance, at the Banff Center, Banff; The Other Tradition, Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels both 2011); Curated By, Vienna; Morality, Witte de With, Rotterdam; Jahresgabe 2010, Neue Aachner Kunstverein (all 2010); ISMOPOLIS, Etablissement d'Enface Projects, Brussels; and I Kiss Your Ectoplasm Like I Would a Shark, De Kiosk, Ghent (both 2009); 5th Berlin Biennial (2008); Saturna doesn’t sleep, she waits…, de Singel, Antwerp (2007); Emotion Pictures, Muhka, Antwerp (2005). She is currently an artist in residence at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York. Forthcoming projects include a solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel and performances at David Roberts Art Foundation, London and Performa Festival, New York.
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Augustijnen, Sven Born 1970 in Mechelen, Belgium. Lives and works in Brussels.Selected solo exhibitions include Spectres, Wiels, Bruxelles (2011). Selected group exhibitions include A.B.C. - Art Belge Contemporain, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing; and And the Moral of the Story is …, Witte de With, Rotterdam (both 2010); The State of Things, Bozar, Brussels; Report On Probability, Basel Kunsthalle, Basel; and A Story Of The Image, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai (all 2009). Sven Augustijnen was awarded with the Evens Prize for Visual Arts 2011.
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Bell, Dirk Born 1969 in Munich, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin.Selected solo exhibitions include Retour, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2011); MADE IN GERMANY, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead and Paradise Lost, Kunstverein Arnsberg (with Juliette Blightman) (both 2010); Li’ve is Li’ve, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2009); Openeng, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York (2008). Selected group exhibitions include Under One Umbrella, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen and Old Ideas, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel (both 2010); freier Fall. Magazin fr Befindlichkeit, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe and modern modern, Chelsea Art Museum, New York (both 2009); Vertrautes Terrain. Aktuelle Kunst in/uber Deutschland. Collectors Choice, ZKM Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe (2008); Pure Self Expression, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2007).
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Beutler, Michael Born 1976 in Oldenburg, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin.Beutler was educated at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main and the Glasgow School of Fine Art. Recent solo exhibitions include Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (2008); Portikus, Frankfurt am Main (2007). Recent group shows include Manufacture, Parc Saint Leger, Pougues les Eaux and John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; and Sculptural Acts, Haus der Kunst, Munich (both 2011); Personal Protocols and Other Preferences, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, New York; Fusion/ Confusion, Museum Folkwang, Essen (both 2008); 6th Gwangju Biennial, Gwanju (2006); 1st Moscow Biennial, Moscow; Berlin Biennial (both 2005); Totally Motivated: A Socio-Cultural Manoeuvre, Kunstverein München, Munich (2003).
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Bijl, Guillaume Born 1946 in Antwerp, Belgium. Lives and works in Antwerp.Selected solo exhibitions include Galerie Guy Pieters, Paris (2011); Cabin, Antwerpen (2010); Gallery COMA, Berlin (2009); S.M.A.K., Ghent (2008); De Paviljoens, Almere, and Neue Galerie, Graz (both 1998); Musée d’Art Contemperain, Montréal (1997); MuHKA, Antwerp; Kunstverein, Hannover; and Kunstverein, Freiburg (all 1996); Secession, Vienna (1993); Castello di Rivoli, Turin (1992); Witte de With, Rotterdam (1990); New Museum, New York; and Le Magasin, Grenoble (both 1989); Biennale van Venetië, Belgian Pavilion, Venice (1988); Kunstverein, Cologne (1986); De Appel and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1985); SMAK, Ghent (1984). Selected group exhibitions include the Lyon Biennial (2011); The Fate of Irony, KAI 10, Düsseldorf; Bilder in Bewegung, Ludwig Museum, Cologne; and The State of Things, Bozar/ Namoc, Brussels / Beijing (all 2010); Biennale van Venetië, Danish Pavilion; A Story of the Image: Old & New Masters From Antwerp, National Museum, Singapore / Shanghai; and What If This Is A Piece Of Art?,(all 2009); Scape Bienial, Christchurch; Présence Panchounette CAPC, Bordeaux; and Ad Absurdum, Marta Herford, Herford (all 2008); Skulptur Projekte, Münster (2007); Busan Biennale, Busan (2006); 50 Jahre - Years documenta 1955 – 2005, Fridericianum, Kassel (2005); L’Ombre du temps, Jeu de Paume, Paris (2004); Shopping, Tate Gallery, Liverpool (2003); Private Öffentlichkeit, Museum Folkwang, Essen; and Shopping, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2002); Because a fire was in my head, South London Gallery, London (2000); La consolation, Le Magasin, Grenoble (1999); Lyon Biennial (1993); Sydney Bienial; and Documenta 9, Kassel (1992).
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Bismuth, Pierre Born 1963 in Paris, France. Lives and works in Brussels.Selected solo exhibitions include Le versant de l’analyse, Jan Mot, Brussels; Le psy, l'artiste et le cuisinier, Nuit Blanche, Musée d'art et d'histoire du judaïsme, Paris; Pierre Bismuth, Fremantle Arts Center, Fremantle; and La galerie est heureuse de vous inviter à la nouvelle exposition de Pierre Bismuth, Galerie Bugada & Cargnel, Paris (all 2010); Objects That Should Have Changed Your Life, Base Progetti per l'Arte, Florence; Following the Right Hand of..., Team Gallery, New York (both 2009); The All Seeing Eye (The Hardcore Techno Version), British Film Institute, London; Ruled by Extravagant Expectations, Galerie Christine König, Vienna (both 2008); One Size Fits All, Mary Boone Gallery, New York (2007); and Coming Soon, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica (2006). Recent group exhibitions include 21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Bild für Bild, Film und zeitgenössische Kunst, Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U, Dortmund; The Last Newspaper, New Museum, New York; Une forme pour toute action, Le Printemps de Septembre, Musée les Abattoirs, Toulouse; Yesterday Will Be Better, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau; Chef d'oeuvre, Centre Pompidou, Metz; Seconde Main, ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; Exhibition, exhibition / Mostra, mostra, Castello di Rivoli, Turin; and Repetition Island, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (all 2010). In 2005, Bismuth won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay along with Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman for the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
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Bonvicini, Monica Born 1965 in Venice, Italy. Lives and works in Berlin.Since 2003, Bonvicini works as a Professor for Performative arts and sculpting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Recent solo and group exhibitions include Surreal versus Surrealism in Contemporary Art, IVAM, Valencia; Satisfy Me, Centro de Art Contemporaneo, Malaga; Beziehungsarbeit – Kunst und Institution, Künstlerhaus, Vienna; and the Biennale de Venetië (all 2011); Bet Your Sweet Life, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin; BOTH ENDS, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel; Under Destruction. Destruction in Art – 50 Years after HtNY, Museum Tinguely, Basel; and The New Décor, Hayward Gallery, London (all 2010); Focus Monica Bonvicini – Light Me Black, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Monica Bonvicini, MUSEION, Bolzano; Bonvicini / Burr, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel and Lehnbachhaus, Munich (2009); Prospect.1 Biennial, New Orleans; and Female Trouble, The Camera as Mirror and Stage of Female Projection in Photography and Video Art, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (both 2008); Monica Bonvicini, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; and NEVER MISSING A LINE, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY (both 2007); Jenseits des Kinos: Die Kunst der Projektion, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2006). She also exhibited in the 1998 and 2004 Berlin Biennales, and the 1999 and 2005 Biennales de Venetië. In 2007, she was assigned the public commission for HUN LIGGER - SHE LIES (a site-specific sculpture floating on the water in front of the New Opera House), Oslo. In 2010, Bonvicini won the public competition of the Handball Plaza Light Art Commission in the framework of the London Olympic Games 2012, where she will realize a large-scale, permanent outdoor sculpture by the end of 2011.
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Dam, George van Born 1964 in Windhoek, Namibia. Lives and works in Brussels.George van Dam is a violinist and composer who has worked with leading composers of today, including Aperghis, Eötvos, Hosokawa, Kagel, Kurtàg, Ligeti, Steve Reich, Saariaho, K. Stockhausen and Joji Yuasa. He has worked as a soloist or within the context of contemporary-music ensembles with Ensemble Modern Frankfurt, MusikFabrik or Ictus, the latter of which he is a founding member. Van Dam has composed chamber music, song cycles, a violin concerto with timbila-orchestra, film music and music for theater and dance performances, for James Bowman, Manon de Boer, Josse De Pauw, Ballet de Marseille, Rosas, Ultima Vez, among others.
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Djordjadze, Thea Born 1971 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.Selected solo exhibitions include Casualties, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna; A quiet speech in a wide circulation, Kiosk, Ghent (both 2011); Capital Letter, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw (2010); Explain away ე.ი., Sprüth Magers, Berlin; endless enclosure, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (both 2009). Selected group exhibitions include Time again, Sculpture Center, New York (2011); How soon now, Rubell Family Collection, Miami; Fokus 2: Becoming Visible, Sammlung Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen; The Promises of the Past, Centre George Pompidou, Paris (all 2010); Remoted Memories, KAI 10 - Raum für Kunst, Dusseldorf; All that is solid melts into air, part II: The Thing, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp (both 2009); Transformational grammars, Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan (2008); Élégance, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; and 9. Biennale de Lyon 2007, Lyon (both 2007).
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Flavien, Jean-Pascal Born 1971 in Le Mans, France. Lives and works in Berlin.Recent projects include Night house at day time, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels (2011); PLAy, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht and Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin (2011); two persons house, capacete, Sao Paulo bienale (2010); person(ne) A person(ne) B, galerie Michel Rein, Paris (2010); no drama house, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin (2009); Plouf!, Tate Modern, London (2009); Forgotten times & moments, Musée Départemental d'Art Contemporain de Rochechouart (2008); and Viewer in Marica, Rio de Janeiro/Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels (2007).
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Foulon, Olivier Born 1976 in Brussels, Belgium. Lives and works in Brussels.Selected solo exhibitions include Pure 'n Gentle, Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen (2011); Prisma Pavillion, MUDAM (Musée d’Art Moderne — Grand-Duc Jean), Luxembourg (2010); The Soliloquy of the Broom, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2008); Sprung in die Neuzeit — un seul ou plusieurs loups?, Dépendance, Brussels; “redites et ratures” (Projekt für ein Schloss), Museum X (Museum Abteiberg), Mönchengladbach (both 2007). Selected group exhibitions include Real Presences — Marcel Broodthaers today, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen / Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf; and From Dusk Till Dawn, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (both 2010); If I Can’t Dance, Projects Arts Center, Dublin, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, and De Appel, Amsterdam (2009-2008). Recent publications include The Soliloquy of the Broom (2010), Projet pour un château and Layout (both 2008) published by Gevaert éditions, Brussels, Belgium.
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Gaylard, Murray Born 1974 in Queenstown, South Africa. Lives and works in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin.Murray Gaylard studied Social Sciences at the University of Cape Town, South Africa; and Fine Art at the Städelschule in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, where he was awarded a prize for outstanding achievement in 2008. Recent solo shows include There’s no place like home (or at least a place that resembles it), Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden (2009). Recent group shows include New Frankfurt Internationals, Stories and Stages, Frankfurter Kunstverein; Functions of Drawing - Conceptual art on paper from the MMK collection, Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt-am-Main; Festival des Beaux Arts - a Michael Neff project, Galerie Sabine Knust & Pinakothek der Moderne Museum, Munich (all 2010); the Art Triennial in the Republic of Karelia, Russia (2009). His work features in the collections of the DekaBank and the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main.
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Gilissen, Filip Born 1980 in Brussels, Belgium. Lives and works in Brussels.Selected solo exhibitions include The Winner Takes It All (Trillion), Nuit Blanche, Paris (2011) ; The Winner Takes It All (Billion), Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool and Good Days, Good Times and Good Bye, Kunsfabrik, Groß Siegharts (both 2010); The Best Is Yet To Come, LOT10, Paris (2009). Selected group exhibitions include Love letters to a surrogate, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore; Uncommonplaces, ICI-Exhibitions, New York City and Uncommonplaces, Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp (all 2011); Into The Light, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp; Arts’ Birthday, Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp; and Past Projects, The Woodmill, London (all 2009); Exhibition, 611 Elisabeth Street, New York City; and The Apartment Project, Broadway Market 232, London (both 2009); Broodthaers Onomwonden, Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke (2008).
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Gillam, Adam Born 1970 East Farleigh, England. Lives and works in London. Studied at Liverpool John Moores University and the Royal Academy Schools in London. Selected solo exhibitions include Art is a cupboard at Keith Talent Gallery, London (2007) and at KLERKX, Milan (2008). Selected group exhibitions include Adam Gillam, Joe Orton, Kenneth Halliwell at Ancient and Modern, London (2011); Construction and its shadow at Leeds City Art Gallery (2011), curated by Andrew Bick; The Thought of Stuff at the Royal Society of British Sculptors (2010); (Z)Art curated by Jan Hoet for AbtArt Gallery, Stuttgart (2009); and with Sara Mackillop at MOT International, London (2009); Show me, don’t tell me, Witte de With at the Brussels Biennial 1 (2008); and The Way We Work Now at Camden Arts Centre, London (2005).
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Gruyter, Jos de Jos De Gruyter, born 1965 in Geel, Belgium works in collaboration with Harald Thys. Both live and work in Brussels.Solo exhibitions of the duo include Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp; Objekte als Freunde, Culturgest Porto & Kestnergeselschaft Hannover; Das Loch, NAK Aachen, Aachen (all 2011); Projekt 13, Kunsthalle Basel (2010); Culturgest, Lisbon; Kaleidoscope, Milan; Art Space Pro Choice, Vienna; Dépendance, Brussels (all 2009); Gallery Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin (2008); Frac Le Plateau, Paris, with François Curlet; Artspeak, Vancouver (both 2007). Group exhibitions include The Power Plant, Toronto; IAC Villeurbanne; Athens Biennial (all 2011); Rod Bianco Gallery, Oslo; Das Loch der Kranke Prophet / ‘unlimited’ art fair Basel (both 2010); Manifesta, Trento; 5th Berlin Biennale (both 2008).Their work has been screened at several venues including Arnolfini, Bristol; ICA, London, Van Abbemuseum (all 2010); The Steins, New York; FormContent, London; CCC, Tours (all 2009). They have also given the following lectures: Parallel Worlds New Version, at Culturgest (Lisbon) & De Ateliers (Amsterdam); Car Lecture, by Erik Thys & Harald Thys at Frac Le Plateau (Paris), 5th Berlin Biennial, and Artissima (Turin); Parallel Worlds, at Jan van Eyck Akademie (Maastricht), Ecole des Beaux Arts (Strasbourg), Ecole des Beaux Arts (Tourcoing), University of British Colombia (Vancouver), Frac Le Plateau (Paris), and Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam).
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Holleman, Arnoud Born 1964 in Haarlem, the Netherlands. Lives and works in Amsterdam.Holleman studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, The Hague and Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. He now teaches at the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, and the Design Academy, Eindhoven. Recent solo shows include Immovably Centred, De Appel, Amsterdam (2008); Marcel, Frans Halsmuseum/De Hallen, Haarlem (2007); Artpace, San Antonio, Texas (2006); Portraits, Frans Halsmuseum/De Hallen, Haarlem (2005); Being There, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (2003). Recent group shows include 10.000 Lives, Gwangju Biënnale, Korea (2010); Questioning History, Nederlands fotomuseum, Rotterdam; The Return of Religion and Other Myths, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht; Nature as Artifice: New Dutch Landscape in Photography and Video Art, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY and Aperture New York (all 2009); Nature as Artifice, Kröller Müller, Otterlo & Neue Pinakothek, München; Borders, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (all 2008); Just in Time!, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2007); Nederland 1., Stedelijk Museum, Gouda; G.E.B.O.R.D.U.U.R.D, Nederlands Textielmuseum Tilburg (both 2006); Floor of Heaven, Artis, Den Bosch (2004); Magasin, Marres, Maastricht (2003). Holleman has also worked with several theater companies and magazines, has written for television and curated exhibitions.
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Hutton, Peter Born 1944 in Detroit, U.S.A. Lives and works in Annandale-on-Hudson.Selected solo exhibtions include Peter Hutton, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2008). Selected group exhibitions include Change the Channel: WCVB-TV 1972—1982, apexart, New York (2011); Moby Dick, CCA Wattis, San Francisco (2009); Heavy Metal. Die unerklärbare Leichtigkeit eines Materials, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel (2008); Whitney Biennal, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1985, 1991, 1995, 2004). Hutton is Professor of Film Bard College,New York.
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Jagenburg, Steffen Born 1966 in Cologne, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin.Photographer and director in the fields of international corporate and cultural brand communication. Selected publications include Monopol, Die Zeit, Wallpaper, Nylon, Spex. Selected assignments include Morgan Stanley, Die Grünen, IBM, Coca Cola, Levi's.
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Julià, Adrià Born 1974 in Barcelona, Spain. Lives and works in Los Angeles.Selected solo exhibitions include Indications for Another Place, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2010); No Place Like Home, Insa Art Space, Seoul (2009); Indicios Para Otro Lugar, Centro de Arte Montehermoso, Vitoria (2008); and A Means of Passing the Time, LAXART, Los Angeles (2007). Selected group exhibitions include Shifting Surfaces, Artsonje Museum, Gyeongju (2011); Before everything; CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid; Seoul Media City 2010, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul (both 2010); 7a Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre (2009); Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel (2008); and Exile of the Imaginary. Politics / Aesthetics / Love, Genearli Foundation, Vienna (2007).
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Kahane, Leon Born 1985 in Berlin, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin.Kahane studied at Best-Sabel Design School, at the Ostkreuzschule and at the Universität der Kunste, all in Berlin. He worked for six months (2005-2006) at the photography agency Israel Sun. Group exhibitions include Exit Strategies, Kunstverein Artitude, Berlin (2011) and Glaube Liebe Hoffnung, C/O Berlin, Berlin (2010).
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Lieshout, Erik van Born 1968 in Deurne, The Netherlands. Lives and works in Rotterdam.Selected solo exhibitions include How Can I Help You?, Hayward Gallery, London (2011); Echter Luxus, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (2010); keine Kohle kein Holz, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin; Im Netz, Ludwig Museum, Cologne; and Sex is Sentimental, Maccarone, New York (all 2009); I’m so scared of America, (together with Kelley Walker), De Hallen, Haarlem; Homeland Security, Projekt am Museumsplatz, Lenbachhaus, Munich; Kunsthaus Hollywood, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich; and Guantánamo Baywatch, Hammer Projects, Hammer Museum-UCLA, Los Angeles (all 2007). Selected group exhibitions include Beziehungsarbeit. Artists and institutions, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna (2011); Trust, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul; and Morality, Witte de With, Rotterdam (both 2010); editions vs objets, Centre d'édition contemporaine, Geneva; and Shifting Identities, CAC Vilnius (2009); Busan Biennale, Busan; After Nature, New Museum, New York; Brave New Worlds, Jumex Collection, Mexico City; and Institutional and Poetical Violence, Museu Serralves, Porto (all 2008).
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Lim, Minouk Born 1968 in Daejeon, Korea. Lives and works in Seoul.Recent solo exhibitons include FireCliff 1, La Tabacalera, Madrid (2010); S.O.S. – Adoptive Dissensus, Festival Bo:m, Han River Cruise, Seoul (2009); and Jump Cut, Artsonje Center, Seoul (2008). Recent group exhibitions include Black Sound White Cube, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Studio 1, Berlin (2011); Trust, Media City Seoul 2010, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul; The River Project, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney and Morality, Act VI: Remember Humanity, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (all 2010); Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (2009); and the 10th Istanbul Biennial (2007).
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Morris, Sarah Born 1967 in Sevenoaks, U.K. Lives and works in New York and London.Morris attended Brown University, Cambridge University, and the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program. She received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painting Award in 2001 and in 1999-2000 was an American Academy Award, Berlin Prize Fellow. Her recent film Beijing (2008) featured in the group exhibition Morality, Witte de With (2009). Recent solo exhibitions include China 9, Liberty 37, MAMbo—Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna; Gemini Dressage, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main (both 2009); Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel (2008); Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2006); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2005); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2005); Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (2005); Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen (2004); Miami MOCA, Miami (2002); Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2001); Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich (2000); Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (2000); Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (1999). Her monographic publications include Sarah Morris – Beijing, Walther König, Cologne, MAMbo—Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, MMK—Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2009); Lesser Panda, Jay Jopling/White Cube, London (2008); Los Angeles, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne (2005); Bar Nothing, Jay Jopling/White Cube, London (2004); Capital, Oktagon, Cologne (2001); Sarah Morris, Kunsthalle Zürich (2000); and Modern Worlds, Museum of Modern Art Oxford, Oxford; Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig and Le Consortium, Dijon (1999).
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Morrison, Alex Born 1971 in Redruth, England. Lives and works in Vancouver and Düsseldorf. Selected solo exhibitions include at Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver (2011); Artspeak, Vancouver (2010); Büro Friedrich, Berlin (2005); Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2004); Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2004); Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt-am-Main (2003); Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto (2000). Selected group exhibitions include It Is What it Is, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2010); Following a Line, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2010); 17th Sydney Biennial, Sydney (2010); Cubes, Blocks and Other Spaces, Musée d'art contemporain, Montréal (2009); GETTING EVEN: Oppositions & Dialogues in Contemporary Art, Kunstverein Hannover (2009); eXponential Future, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (2008); Modelle für Morgen, European Kunsthalle, Cologne (2007); Canada Dreaming (Desires And Ideas For The Future By Artists Of The Biggest Country In America), Kunstverein Wolfsburg (2006); Die Jugend von heute/Youth of Today, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt-am-Main (2006); Post No Bills, White Columns, New York (2005); I feel mysterious today, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art (2004); Making Space, Platform Garanti, Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul (2003); Das Spyder Män, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (2002); Belvedere, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (2000).
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Newby, Kate Born 1979 in Auckland, New Zealand. Lives and works in Auckland.Newby studied at Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland where she has since taught. Selected solo exhibitions include I’ll follow you down the road, Hopkinson Cundy, Auckland (2011); Crawl out your window, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen; Burnt house. A little later, Gambia Castle, Auckland (both 2010); Get off my garden, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland; Blow wind blow, Y3K Gallery, Melbourne (both 2009); Thinking with your body, Gambia Castle, Auckland (2008); My Poetry, for example, Symonds Street, University of Auckland; On the Benefits of Building, Gambia Castle, Auckland; and A Windy Fire, Te Tuhi, Auckland (all 2007). Selected group exhibitions include Prospect, Wellington City Gallery, Wellington (DATE); Out of a stone, Banner Repeater, London; Bas Jan Ader: Suspended between Laughter and Tears, Museo de Arte Zapopan (MAZ) in Guadalajara, Mexico (both 2011); Black Door Files, Black Door, Istanbul; Bas Jan Ader, Pitzer Art Galleries and Claremont Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The sky, a window and a tree, with Fiona Connor, CalArts, Los Angeles (both 2010); IN CASE IT RAINS, IT MIGHT INVOLVE WATER, ADSF, Rotterdam; The Future is Unwritten, The Adam Art Gallery, Wellington (both 2009); Show me don’t tell me, Brussels Biennial 1; Break: Towards a Public Realm, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; Give us a sign, Courtney Place Light Boxes, with City Gallery, Wellington; Hold Still (with Nick Austin), One Day Sculpture, Auckland; The World (will soon turn our way) (with Fiona Connor and Marnie Slater) site-specific project, Mt Eden, Auckland (all 2008); Moment Making: After the Situation, ARTSPACE, Auckland (2007); Remember New Zealand, 26th Sao Paulo Biennale, São Paulo (2004); Money for Nothing, Artspace, Auckland, & City Gallery, Wellington (2003).
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Okaranza, Ricardo Born 1959 in San Sebastiàn, Spain. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.In 2007, Okaranza left a 25-year career as a professional conservator, specialized in Polychrome Sculpture, to pursue photography. Selected solo exhibitions include Un Certain Regard, lorch+seidel, Berlin (2010); Flohmarkt, Nacht, Wilde Gallery, Berlin; and Calgary Nocturnes, Lanes, Illington Kerr Gallery, Calgary (both 2009). Selected group exhibitions include Tape Modern #7, Tape Modern, Berlin (2009); Nuit blanche, Toronto; and Inventory #1, Wilde Gallery, Berlin (both 2008).
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Pages Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi founded Pages in 2004, a collaboration that encompasses various joint projects and the production of a bilingual magazine in Farsi and English titled 'Pages'. Their projects and the magazine's editorial approach are closely linked, both described by the artists as "attempts in articulating the indecisive space between art and its historical condition." Their work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions internationally, including: Seep, Chisenhale Gallery, London, Two Archives, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm (both 2013); Seep, MACBA-Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Prairies, Les Ateliers de Rennes Biennial, Rennes, ROUNDTABLE ,The 9th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (all 2012); Untitled 12th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey, Two Archives, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany, Melanchotopia, Witte de With, Rotterdam, (all 2011); Trust, Media City, Seoul (2010); The Isle, MAK Center / Schindler house, Los Angeles (2009); Documenta 12 magazine project, Kassel, Germany (2007); and Como viver junto, 27th São Paulo Biennial, Brazil (2006). Tabatabai and Afrassiabi live in Rotterdam and work both in the Netherlands and Iran. Currently they are Advising Researchers Fine Art at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, the Netherlands.
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Plenge Jakobsen, Henrik Born 1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Lives and works in Copenhagen.Solo exhibitions include Eggjastokkur, NoPlace, Oslo (2011); Mainframe, Kunstverein für Die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2010); I Object, Galerie Patricia Dorfmann, Paris; and Organisation Faust, The Suburban, Oak Park, Chicago (both 2009); Nebelkammer, Autonomus Acts, Glockengasse 22, Vienna (2008); Manhattan Engineering District, FRAC Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (2007); J’Accuse, South London Gallery, London; and Circus Pentium, The National Gallery of Fine Arts, Copenhagen (both 2005); and Circus Portikus, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main (2003).
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Pohl, Nina Born 1968 in Berlin, Germany. Live and works in Berlin.Selected solo exhibitions include Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Cologne (2008); Kunstverein Oldenburg, Oldenburg (2007). Selected group exhibitions include Listen To Your Eyes, Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig (2009); Looking Back, Mireille Mosler LTD., New York; and Unter Sternen, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf (both 2008); FOTO.KUNST – Zeitgenössische Fotografie aus der Sammlung Essl, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg (2007).
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Savić-Gecan, Tomo Born 1967 in Zagreb, Croatia. Lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.Selected solo exhibitions include Untitled 2010, Jeu de Paume, Paris and Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (both 2010); testsite 06.2: Metropolis M magazine (no. 2, 2006) has been reduced in size by 1mm., Testsite, Austin (2006); The gallery's window-pane is transformed into drinking glasses, Etablissement d'en face projects, Brussels (2005); Tomo Savić – Gecan, Isabella Bortollozi Gallery, Berlin (2004). Selected group exhibitions include Take the Money and Run, de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam (2009); Let Everything be Temporary, apexart, New York (2007); Grey Zones, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig; and On Mobility, TRAFO House, Budapest (both 2006).
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Schinwald, Markus Biography Markus Schinwald (Salzburg, Austria, 1973) Markus Schinwald lives and works in Vienna and Los Angeles. He uses various media to explore space, the human body, and peoples’ physical and mental shortcomings in allusion to historical myths, psychoanalysis, and cultural theories. Prostheses and mechanical apparatuses often put the protagonists of his films and photographs under marionette-like constraints, which transform the human body into a cultural artifact, illuminating the multi-faceted cultural and historical significance of the body. Recent solo exhibitions include Markus Schinwald, Vanishing Lessons, Kunsthaus Bregenz (2009). Recent group exhibitons include Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa (2008); Migros Museum, Zurich; ICA Boston (2008); Tate Modern, London (2007-08); Kunsthalle Wien (2007); Fotomuseum Winterthur (2007); Berlin Biennial (2006), Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (2004); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2003); Moderne Museet, Stockholm (2001). Schinwald’s work was shown as part of the group exhibition Don Quijote (2006) and Depiction…Subversion (2007) at Witte de With, Rotterdam.
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Slavs and Tatars Founded in 2005.Slavs and Tatars’ Friendship of Nations: Polish Shi’ite Showbiz was presented at the 10th Sharjah Biennial (2011) and will be on exhibit at Kiosk in Ghent in December 2011. Slavs and Tatars has published Kidnapping Mountains (Book Works, 2009), Love Me, Love Me Not: Changed Names (onestar press, 2010) and most recently Molla Nasreddin: the magazine that would've, could've, should've (JRP-Ringier, 2011). Solo engagements in 2012 include Vienna’s Secession, MoMA (NY), and Künstlerhaus Stuttgart.
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Spångberg, Mårten Mårten Spångberg is a performance related artist. His interests include choreography in an expanded field, which he has approached through experimental practices and creative process in a multiplicity of formats. He has been active on stage as both a performer and creator since 1994, and since 1999 has created his own choreographies, from solo pieces to larger scale works, which have toured internationally.Selected choreographic works include The Force The Movie The Vague, with Krõõt Juurak, CIAP, Hasselt (2011); A Warrior's Roar Holler Across The Sky Weld, Stockholm; and Burn Your Boats, a scenic-narration with Kroot Juurak (both 2010); DARK, evening-long choreography, with Emma Kim Hagdahl and Elizabeth Ward; WELD, Stockholm (both 2009); Slowfall, evening-long choreography (2008).
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Spichtig, Tobias Born 1982 in Lucerne, Switzerland. Lives and works in Zürich.Selected solo exhibitions include the blue, the red, the yellow, the white, the brown and the green, A. C. KUPPER_MODERN, Zurich; Snappy / UFO romantics / Slave to love, van Horbourg, Basel (both 2011). Selected group exhibitions include Picture Ballot! Metamorphosis… Today!, Kunsthaus Zürich (2010); The Show with No Name, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin (2010); The forever ending Story #003, »The Forgotten Bar«, Berlin (2009). Spichtig is a co-founder of the curatorial collective SALTS. He received his BFA from the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste and was artist in residence at the Banff Centre in Banff, Canada.
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Taylor, Zin Born 1978 in Calgary, Canada. Lives and works in Brussels.Selected solo exhibitions include The Voids, Galerie VidalCuglietta, Brussels and The Units, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal ( both 2011); The Bakery of Blok and the Three Forms of Unit, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York City (2010); The Crystal Ship - BELvue Museum, Brussels / Etablissement d’en Face Projects, Brussels (both 2008); Who Named the Days?, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto (2007). Selected group exhibitions include Triumphant Carrot: The Persistence of Still Life, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2010); Dream Machines: Objects and Physical Phenomena (A Reciprocal Love Story), Beaubourg, Brussels; and Transformers, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto (both 2009); Ideas of North, Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin (2007). Taylor's latest book Growth was recently published by Sternberg Press, Berlin.
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Thys, Harald Harald Thys, born 1966 in Wilrijk, Belgium works in collaboratioon with Jos De Gruyter. Both live and work in Brussels.Solo exhibitions of the duo include Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp; Objekte als Freunde, Culturgest Porto & Kestnergeselschaft Hannover; Das Loch, NAK Aachen, Aachen (all 2011); Projekt 13, Kunsthalle Basel (2010); Culturgest, Lisbon; Kaleidoscope, Milan; Art Space Pro Choice, Vienna; Dépendance, Brussels (all 2009); Gallery Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin (2008); Frac Le Plateau, Paris, with François Curlet; Artspeak, Vancouver (both 2007). Group exhibitions include The Power Plant, Toronto; IAC Villeurbanne; Athens Biennial (all 2011); Rod Bianco Gallery, Oslo; Das Loch der Kranke Prophet / 'unlimited' art fair Basel (both 2010); Manifesta, Trento; 5th Berlin Biennale (both 2008).Their work has been screened at several venues including Arnolfini, Bristol; ICA, London, Van Abbemuseum (all 2010); The Steins, New York; FormContent, London; CCC, Tours (all 2009). They have also given the following lectures: Parallel Worlds New Version, at Culturgest (Lisbon) & De Ateliers (Amsterdam); Car Lecture, by Erik Thys & Harald Thys at Frac Le Plateau (Paris), 5th Berlin Biennial, and Artissima (Turin); Parallel Worlds, at Jan van Eyck Akademie (Maastricht), Ecole des Beaux Arts (Strasbourg), Ecole des Beaux Arts (Tourcoing), University of British Colombia (Vancouver), Frac Le Plateau (Paris), and Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam).
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Trauttmansdorff, Octavian Born 1965 in Vienna, Austria. Lives and works in Vienna.Selected solo exhibitions include ORAP CONNECTION, Galerie im Parkhaus, Berlin; Mettre al fuoco, Galerie Krobath, Vienna (both 2000); and Wiener Secession, Wien (both 1999). Selected group exhibitions include originalfunktional, Kunstverein Wiener Art Foundation, Vienna (2010); Franz West - Souffle, eine Massenausstellung, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck (2007); Genuine happiness, Galerie Kunstbuero, Vienna; Eine Person allein in einem Raum mit Coca-Cola-farbenen Wänden, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (both 2006); Simultan - zwei sammlungen österreichischer fotografie, Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg, Salzburg (2005); Schaugrund 2004, Bétonsalon, MuseumsQuartier MQ, Vienna (2004); and Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen (2003).
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Velonis, Kostis Born 1968 in Athens, Greece. Lives and works in Athens.Selected solo exhibitions include: Signal, Malmo (2011); Loneliness on Common Ground: “How Can Society Do What Each Person Dreams," National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (2010); How one can think freely in the shadow of a temple, Kunstverein Hamburg (2009). Selected group exhibitions include 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (2011); 2nd Athens Biennial, Athens (2009); Show me don’t tell me, Brussels Biennial (2008); 9e Biennale de Lyon, Lyon (2007); Don Quijote, Witte de With, Rotterdam; and The Grand Promenade, National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, Athens (both 2006); Give(a)way, EV+A Biennial, Limerick (2006).
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Ven, Lidwien van de Born 1963 in Hulst, the Netherlands. Lives and works in Rotterdam and Berlin.Lidwien van de Ven has won several awards for her photographic work and installations. She participated in Garden of Learning, Busan Biennale, South Korea (2012); documenta 12, Kassel (2007); and Zones of Contact, Sydney Biennale (2006).Van de Ven has had solo exhibitions at Gallery Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, NL (2012); Freedom, Netwerk, Aalst, BE; Bloomberg Space, London, UK, (both 2011); Le Grand Café, centre d’art contemporain, Saint-Nazaire, FR (2005); Le Magasin, centre national d’art contemporain, Grenoble, FR (2003); Salon Paris Photo, Paris, FR (2002); MuHKA, Antwerp, BE and Museum het Domein, Sittard, NL (both 2001). Selected group exhibitions include: Status, Fotomuseum Zürich, CH; How Much Fascism? at BAK Utrecht, NL, and Kunsthal Extra City Antwerp, BE; Politiek Kunstbezit, Jonas Staal at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL; The City that Doesn’t Exist, Ludwig Forum Aachen, DE (all 2012); Melanchotopia, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, NL; Project Europa: Imagining the Impossible, Wallach Gallery, Columbia University, New York, US; Moving Worlds, Podbielsky Contemporary, Berlin, DE (all 2011); The Politics of Collecting/The Collecting of Politics, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL; Morality – Act VIII Nether Land, Dutch Cultural Center, Shanghai World Expo, China (both 2010); Freedom of Expression, Museum As Hub, Van Abbemuseum at the New Museum, New York, US; Free as Air and Water, Cooper Union, New York, US (all 2009); Be(coming) Dutch, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL (2008); and Be What You Want But Stay Where You Are, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, NL (2005).
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Wächtler, Peter Born 1979 in Hannover, Germany. Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.Selected solo exhibitions include Songbook, a collaboration with Andreas Wegner Kunstraum, München; Depression Glass, Goethe Nationalmuseum / Nietzsche Archiv, Weimar (both 2009); Omen, Aktualisierungsraum, Hamburg (2008); Concert - Look back in Anger, Galerie 35, Berlin (2007). Selected group exhibitions include Johannes Paul Raether: Anfang. Gut Alles Gut., Kunsthaus Bregenz (2011); Finishing off a Genre: Last of the Money Paintings, Studio of Brunnhuber and Vardag, Vienna; Pretty Ambitious, Corner College, Zürich; Isomopolis, Etablissement d’en Face, Brussels (all 2009); and Re-Education. You too can be like us., a collaboration with Friedrich Lissmann, HAU-Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (2008).
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Weiner, Lawrence Lawrence Weiner (b. 1942, New York, USA) lives and works in New York and Amsterdam. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Weiner investigated forms of display and distribution that challenge traditional assumptions about the nature of the art object. Since the 1970s Weiner’s wall installations consist solely of words in a lettering painted on walls. Although this body of work focuses on the potential for language to serve as an art form, the subjects of his epigrammatic statements are often materials, or a physical action or process. In the succeeding decades, Weiner explored the interaction of punctuation, shapes, and color to serve as inflections of meaning for his texts.Selected solo exhibitions include Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; BAK, Utrecht; K21 Kunstsammlung im Ständehaus, Düsseldorf; Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin (all 2008), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2007), Fundação Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon (2004), and Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2001). Recent group exhibitions include FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2009), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2009), and The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh (2009), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2008), and Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto (2008). Weiner received several awards including the Skowhegan Medal for Painting/Conceptual Art (1999), the Wolfgang Hahn Prize (1995), the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (1994) and the Arthur Kopcke Prize of the Arthur Kopcke Memorial Fund (1991).
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