Exhibitions – up-coming events
Wednesday 25 April - 31 August, 2008
Serpentine Gallery, London
Maria Lassnig
Maria Lassnig (born in 1919), avant-garde pioneer with a feminist viewpoint and one of Austria’s most successful painters, has been producing work over a period of 60 years in Paris, New York and Vienna. Her recent work includes some of her finest pieces. Powerful, bold and introspective, her paintings investigate human emotions and bodily sensations.
The Serpentine exhibition is the first public solo presentation of her work in a public gallery in the UK and will include the first ever showing of sensational new oil paintings as well as screenings of rare films.
www.serpentinegallery.org
Venue and Information
Serpentine Gallery, London
Kensington Gardens, W2 3XA;
T 020 7402 6075, information@serpentinegallery.org
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
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
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 28 May – 25 August, 2008
Hayward Gallery, London
Gelitin at Psycho Buildings: Architecture by Artists
This exhibition marks The Hayward’s 40th anniversary and its significance as one of the world’s architecturally most unique exhibition venues. The exhibition brings together the work of artists who create habitat-like structures and environments. Viewers enter and explore a series of constructions that use elements of light, color, smell and design to heighten their experience of the spaces. The exhibition will feature major installations, including one by the Vienna-based artists’ collective Gelitin, known for their spectacular performance-installations.
www.haywardgallery.org.uk
Venue and Information
Hayward Gallery, London
Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX,
E customer@southbankcentre.co.uk, Ticket office: T 0871 663 2500
Friday 30 May – 31 August, 2008Tuesday 8 – 29 July, 2008
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London Festival of Architecture 2008
Embassies Project: Barbara Holub
On the occasion of this year’s London Festival of Architecture Embassies Project the Austrian Cultural Forum will present More Opportunities, based on Barbara Holub’s first UK solo exhibition at the Plymouth Arts Centre in 2007. Barbara Holub is an artist, architect and urban designer who examines social and personal identities through the modes of visual art, urban intervention and architecture. She lives and works in Vienna.
For more information please visit: www.lfa2008.org/