Exhibitions – event archive
Saturday 17 May – 27 June, 2008
Radar Arts Centre, Loughborough
17 Days in May: Oliver Ressler
Radar presents Life is Interesting……..when you’re furious, a series of projects which mark the 40th anniversary of the wave of student protest movements that broke out in 1968, often dubbed as the ‘year of the barricades’. The artists have either responded directly to the historical events of that year or created work that further explores the theme of protest, political action and resistance.
Oliver Ressler’s contribution will be presented as a screensaver that will automatically appear on every student’s computer across the University and also be available to download from www.lboro.ac.uk/radar
Venue and Information
Radar Arts Centre, Loughborough
Loughborough University, LE11 3TU
T 0150922 2899
Friday 30 May
Club Row Gallery, Rochelles School, London
Gelitin at A.TV and Agrifashionista
The Viennese art group Gelitin, together with other artists, will participate in A.TV.com, an internet TV station where all the content is developed and delivered by visual artists. Gelitin will contribute seven films in seven different genres, examining their own practice and the processes inherent in television. The group, consisting of four artists, usually build objects out of found discarded material. These constructions always fulfil their aim of creating new experiences for both Gelitin and their audience. Their elaborate projects often culminate in spectacles lasting several days. And the audience is always right at the centre.
See www.afoundation.org.uk/bulletin/29.05.2008.html for more information
Venue and Information
Club Row Gallery, Rochelles School, London
Arnold Circus; http://www.afoundation.org.uk/afoundation/news.php
Sunday 22 June, 7pm
Candid Arts Trust, London
Every Story is a Travel Story
An art screening conceived and realized within the framework of Refugee Week, featuring videos and short films by Gianluca & Massimiliano De Serio, Esra Ersen, Yaron Lapid, Adrian Paci and Lisl Ponger.
Curated by Gaia Tedone
Produced by Perspectives Ltd
www.refugeeweek.org.uk
Screening followed by Q&A with Gianluca & Massimiliano De Serio, Lisl Ponger and Yaron Lapid.
Entry: £5
Seats are limited – please book your place by contacting everystory@gmail.com
With the kind support of:
Jury’s Inn Hotel, Candid Arts Trust and Omni Colour
Venue and Information
Candid Arts Trust, London
Projection Room
Torrens Street, Angel,
EC1V 1NQ
Sunday 1 March - Sunday 1 June 2008
The Curve, Barbican Art Gallery, London
Hans Schabus – Next time I’m here, I’ll be there
For his first UK solo show, Hans Schabus transforms the architectural space of The Curve into a scenario for a fictional journey. Obsessed with journeys, and the spaces through which we make them, Schabus has sailed through Vienna’s sewers, flooded the basement of the Kunsthaus Bregenz, and sealed the entrance of the Secession in Vienna forcing the visitor to access the exhibition through an underground tunnel. With these kinds of gestures, Schabus aims to radically alter our experience of spaces.
www.barbican.org.uk
Venue and Information
The Curve, Barbican Art Gallery, London
Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS,
T 020 7638 8891, E art@barbican.org.uk
Sunday 25 & Monday 26 May, 2008
Manchester City Centre
Kryot, Rok2, Shue and Gustav at Eurocultured Manchester
Now in its fifth year, Eurocultured Manchester is a free two day street festival in Manchester City Centre featuring live art. Austrian street artists Kryot, Rok2, and Shue will be painting live on site specific installations and will be running illustration workshops with young people, while Austrian band Gustav bring their unique sounds to the musical line-up.
www.eurocultured.com
Venue and Information
Manchester City Centre
New Wakefield Street (off Oxford Rd) and Great Marlborough Street (off Whitworth Street West)
Wednesday 25 April - Saturday 31 May, 2008
Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
Manu Luksch at Recoded. Landscapes and Politics of New Media
‘Recoded’ aims at raising questions about the effects and meanings produced by contemporary digital landscapes. The exhibition features works by an international group of contemporary artists, including Alexander Egger, skúta, Anna Jermolaewa, Caleb Larsen, Manu Luksch and many others.
Manu Luksch, born in Austria, is a filmmaker and artistic director of the London-based art production company Ambient TV.net (together with Mukul Patel).
For information: T 01224 639539; E info@peacockvisualarts.co.uk; www.peacockvisualarts.com
Venue and Information
Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
21 Castle Street, AB11 5BQ
Wednesday 23 – Friday 25 April 2008 11am – 6pm and Saturday 26 April 2008 10am - 4pm
Broadway, Nottingham
Anywhere Somewhere Everywhere
Explore the hidden spaces of Nottingham via an alternative city tour fusing new technology and live performance created by internationally acclaimed Austrian artist Willi Dorner and Nottingham’s award-winning Mixed Reality Lab. Starting at Broadway Cinema, Anywhere Somewhere Everywhere takes to the city streets all day from Wednesday 23 April to Saturday 26 April 2008.
Discover the Nottingham you didn’t know existed on a guided tour where you are the guide. Unlock unknown spaces and overhear stories these spaces tell. Anywhere Somewhere Everywhere is an interactive conversation with new technology from fingerprint to footprint - between the visitor and the visited, past and present, private and public. Follow your shadow. Find an ending without meeting. Rediscover the streets you walk every day.
Each tour starts at Broadway and is designed for one person at a time. Tours last one hour approx. Booking and a deposit is required but the tour is free.
To book please contact jkmardell@gmail.com or 07985 134618
Venue and Information
Broadway, Nottingham
21 Castle Street, AB11 5BQ
Monday 7 - Friday 17 April 2008
Nehru Centre, London
Bindu Art
The Nehru Centre will host a remarkable exhibition displaying the work of artists from the Bindu Art School, a social art initiative founded by the Austrian artist Werner Dornik in 2005 in the leprosy colony Bharatapuram in southern India. The School aims to enable a new way of life for people affected by leprosy through the production of art. The students, between the ages of 25-75, are mostly illiterate and from different regions in India. Together they have produced an immediate, innocent and spontaneous body of work. This exhibition is intended to bring attention to the reality and artistic quality of India’s ‘untouchables’.
www.nehrucentre.org.uk or www.bindu-art.at
Venue and Information
Nehru Centre, London
8 South Audly Street, W1K 1HF
Friday 25 January - 13 April 2008
Hayward Gallery at the Southbank
Martin Walde and Jun Yang at
Laughing in a Foreign Language
The exhibition explores the role of laughter and humour in contemporary art. In a globalised world, this international exhibition questions if humour can only be appreciated by people with similar cultural, political or historical backgrounds and memories, or whether laughter can act as a catalyst for understanding what you are not familiar with. The exhibition brings together more than 70 videos, photographs and interactive installation works by more than 30 artists from all around the world.
www.haywardgallery.org.uk
Venue and Information
Hayward Gallery at the Southbank
Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX
T 0871 663 2500
Wednesday 9 January - 26 March 2008
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Lifelong Impressions
Paintings, Prints and Drawings by Milein Cosman
The Austrian Cultural Forum will host a major retrospective of the work of German-born Jewish artist Milein Cosman (b.1921), presented by The Jewish Museum. It spans more than six decades of prolific output, ranging from prints and drawings to oil paintings and watercolours, selected by the artist. The exhibition will feature around 80 works including portraits of distinguished cultural figures such as Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, T.S.Eliot, Iris Murdoch, and Martin Buber. Most of the work on display has not previously been exhibited.
Born in Germany, Cosman arrived in England in 1939 to study at the Slade. In 1947 she met and later married the Austrian-born musician, writer and broadcaster Hans Keller, who had a major influence on musical life in this country. Cosman is an outstanding draftswoman and portraitist whose work catches the essence of character and movement with its spontaneity and feeling of freedom. She remains active as an artist and has had numerous exhibitions. Her work is represented in many public collections in the UK and abroad, including the National Portrait Gallery, the V&A, the British Museum, the Ashmolean in Oxford and the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge.
The exhibition has been organized by the friends of The Jewish Museum, London. After the show at the Austrian Cultural Forum her works will be on view at the Hampstead Museum at Burgh House from 9 April to June 2008, to reflect her life in Hampstead.
For more information visit:
www.austria.org.uk/culture/category/exhibitions/up-coming-events & www.jewishmuseum.org.uk
The exhibition will be closed over the Easter holiday (21-24 March 2008)