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GERARD HERMAN in: ‘SMOKE ON THE WATER’, NETWERK, AALST (BE)
Opening - Concert: Saturday 11 February 2012, 20h30
Artists: Joris Van de Moortel, Nico Dockx & Krist Torfs, John Duncan, Faceneck, Gerard Herman, Vom Grill
For the performance and installation Audi 80 Joris Van de Moortel ships his rijnaak to the Dender, where it is available for free use to artists and musicians who work at the uncommonly fascinating intersection of art-music. At the opening there are concerts and performances by Nico Dockx & Krist Torfs, John Duncan, Faceneck, Gerard Herman and Vom Grill.
Netwerk / center for contemporary art, Houtkaai, B-9300 Aalst (BE)
www.netwerk-art.be
LIEVEN SEGERS in: ‘A PERFECT DAY - TEKENSHOW’, WESTERGASFABRIEK, AMSTERDAM (NL)
9 - 24 February 2012
Artists: David Shrigley, Raymond Pettibon, Leonard Cohen, Dan Perjovschi, Jonathan Borofsky, Dave Eggers, Simon Evans, Maira Kalman, Amy Jean Porter, Richard Prince, Lieven Segers, Nedko Solakov, Saul Steinberg, Olaf Breuning, Christoph Niemann, Ian Stevenson, Glen Baxter, Marijn van Kreij, John Körmeling, David Bade and many more...
Now more than ever, and pretty much anywhere in the world, you see an art form that consists of a picture plus words plus humor. Narrative visual art that's got writing in it, and that makes you laugh. It's an approach that originates in works by people like Sengai, Goya, and Magritte, but today you see writers, cartoonists, graffiti artists, poets, songwriters, playwrights, and filmmakers around the world working in the form. It's an accessible, contemporary mode of communication, with a quick simple universal language, but as intimate as a sketch on a napkin. - Jesse Nathan
What makes these drawings so special? The drawings are even 'badly' drawn on small sheets of paper, sometimes made with spelling mistakes. These drawings provide access by their proper and playful form, enlightened and humorous way to express personal and worldly issues.
The Show consists out of an international collection of artists and of the Apexart show 'Lots of things like this' curated by Dave Eggers and Jesse Nathan. The combination of these 2 collections and activities like lectures, live-shows, workshops will create a overview of this work that has not been shown in the Netherlands up to this date.
www.aperfectday.info
www.facebook.com/tekenshow
MICHIEL CEULERS in: 'REVOLVING DOORS / MARCEL DUCHAMP', CC STROMBEEK, STROMBEEK-BEVER (BE)
24 February 2012 - 29 March 2012
Artists: Norbert Arns (D), Michiel Ceulers (B), Kurt Ryslavy (A), Joris van de Moortel (B)
Curator: Luk Lambrecht
Wat betekent het werk van Marcel Duchamp vandaag nog? Een kleine presentatie in Het Kabinet probeert dit te verduidelijken. In de grote hal wordt straf en autonoom werk getoond van vier méér dan eigenzinnige kunstenaars, misschien wel werk met stoute knipogen naar Grootmeester Marcel.
Cultuurcentrum Strombeek, Gemeenteplein 1, 1853 Grimbergen (Strombeek-Bever)
www.ccstrombeek.be
RUTH VAN HAREN NOMAN in: ‘PRIVATE PARTS’, MARION DE CANNIÈRE (BE)
3 March - 13 April 2012
'Private Parts - De Keuze van Anton Cotteleer'
Artists: Anno Dijkstra, Ruth van Haren Noman, Stefan Serneels, Bart Van Dijck, Geert Saman, Bas De Wit, Anton Cotteleer, Herman Van Ingelgem, Evelien Gysen, Philip Huyghe
Marion De Cannière contemporary art gallery, Nassaustraat 34, 2000 Antwerpen (BE)
VAAST COLSON in: ‘TWEESPOOR - KUNSTPARCOURS’, TURNHOUT (BE)
17 March - 20 May 2012
Kunstenaars: Philip Aguirre y Otegui, Guillaume Bijl, Line Boogaerts, Cristian Bors en Marius Ritiu, Vaast Colson, Lara Dhondt, Kris Gevers, Gerard Groenewoud en Tilly Buij, Marc Schepers, Marie Snauwaert, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Luk Van Soom, Liliane Vertessen, Marta Volkova en Slava Shevelenko, Laura Wilson en Tom Woestenborghs.
In 2012 is Turnhout culturele hoofdstad van Vlaanderen en viert de Warande haar veertigste verjaardag. In dit kader organiseert de dienst Tentoonstellingen van de Warande, samen met Erfgoedcel Noorderkempen, van 17 maart tot 20 mei een groot stadsproject: 'Tweespoor', een parcours met twee sporen doorheen Turnhout.
Een erfgoedspoor loopt langs verschillende wijkhuizen in het centrum van de stad; een spoor van hedendaagse kunst loopt langs gekende en onverwachte locaties. Beide sporen kruisen elkaar geregeld, soms letterlijk, soms figuurlijk.
Wij willen in deze tentoonstelling bekijken wat kunst in een kleinere provinciestad zoals Turnhout kan zijn. Hiervoor brengen wij kunstenaars die in het verleden van de Warande opmerkelijke zaken gedaan hebben samen met aankomende talenten uit onze regio en met enkele buitenlandse kunstenaars die reflecteren over wat kunst in de periferie kan zijn.
Verschillende plaatsen in de stad en De Warande, Warandestraat 42, 2300 Turnhout
Donderdag tot vrijdag, 10 - 17h
http://www.warande.be/activiteit/tweespoor-0
MICHIEL CEULERS in:'TRACING THE GRID - RASTERFAHNDUNG' KUNSTMUSEUM STUTTGART, STUTTGART (DE)
5 May - 7 October 2012
Artists: among others: Esther Stocker, Sarah Morris, Michiel Ceulers and Tim Stapel,...
Curator: Dr. Simone Schimpf
Like no other structure, the grid defines art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This has been extensively researched in relation to the avant-garde, Piet Mondrian, and the Bauhaus movement; on the other hand, the significance of the grid in art since 1945 has never before been represented in an overview. The exhibition fills this gap and illuminates the importance of the grid in art, presenting examples from around fifty artists. Here we can see two main trends: in concrete and constructivist art, the grid is appreciated for its formal severity and as a principle of repetition. Parallel to this, artists such as Sigmar Polke and Roy Lichtenstein adopted the grid as a social model forming the basis for the media world, architecture, town planning, or data acquisition. Today many young artists such as Esther Stocker, Sarah Morris, Michiel Ceulers, and Tim Stapel no longer distinguish between these two approaches, but are fascinated by the immense creative potential of the grid structure.
»For me, the grid is a system, a principle, a method, a structure. It deconstructs, scatters, orders, and makes everything equal. Understood this way, I believe that the grid I use demonstrates a very definite point of view and is a general situation and interpretation: namely, the structure of my time, the structure of a social order, a culture, standardized, divided, grouped, and specialized.« Sigmar Polke, 1966
Stiftung Kunstmuseum Stuttgart gGmbH, Kleiner Schlossplatz 13, 70173 Stuttgart (DE)
www.kunstmuseum-stuttgart.de
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VAAST COLSON solo at: '... EN DAN NU ... MUZIEK', DE GARAGE, MECHELEN (BE)
Opening Friday 16 December, 20h
17 December 2011 - 26 February 2012
Vaast Colson(°1977) is een van de meest belangwekkende jonge Belgische kunstenaars. Deze uitgebreide solotentoonstelling belicht het erg gevarieerde en consistente artistieke parcours aan de hand van nieuw werk, installaties, performances en collaboraties met andere kunstenaars.
Triviaal plakwerk in witte kaders.
Witte muren bakenen af, met af en toe een deur met klink.
Samenwerkingen worden gematerialiseerd en gepresenteerd, eindelijk.
De ouders infiltreren.
Transparante schermen laten de ogen passeren maar houden het lichaam tegen.
Jonge gasten worden uitgenodigd, hun werken tegenover elkaar geplaatst.
En in het café kan nog worden nagekaart.
Cultuurcentrum Mechelen - De Garage, Onder den Toren 12, 2800 Mechelen (BE)
OPEN: Thursday to Sunday: 11-18h
CLOSED on Sunday 25 December 2011 and on Sunday 1 January 2012
www.cultuurcentrummechelen.be/tentoonstellingen/2011-2012/vaast-colson
LAURENT IMPEDUGLIA in: 'FUN!', RIIHIMÄKI ART MUSEUM, RIIHIMÄKI, (FIN)
Opening Friday 27 January 2012, 18-21h
28 January - 29 April 2012
Fun! is an exhibition in which fun bubbles below the surface of even the most serious piece of art. Sometimes it meets the viewer with a smack in the face; at other times it is just a coy wink from the darkest corner of the piece. It can also reside in the way the work
was made or in the artist's attitude. Sometimes just the shapes are enough to create a sense of fun. The humour in the Fun! exhibition is variously dark, white, neon red, round, angular, digital, hand-made or conceptual.
Fun! is brimming with cunning combinations - new and old, the sweet and the macabre. The exhibition showcases young international artists for whom art is fun and meaningful even when it is absurd. Several of the artists appear in Finland for the first time.
Artists: Jussi Goman, Timo Vaittinen, Erkka Nissinen, Antti Laitinen, Hannaleena Heiska, Anna Rokka, Robin Lindqvist, Michael Swaney, Misaki Kawai, Laurent Impeduglia, Emil Holmer.
Curators: Timo Vaittinen and Jussi Goman.
Riihimäki Art Museum, Temppelikatu 8, 11100 Riihimäki (FIN)
http://www.riihimaki.fi/Riihimaki/Taidemuseo/International/In-English/
MICHIEL CEULERS in : ‘DES GALERIES A LA GALERIE’, GALERIE SAINT-LUC, LIEGE (BE)
Opening 19 January, 18h
20 January - 17 February 2012
The cultural council of the school organises an exhibition of Contemporary Art in partnership with Galleries. The partner galleries are:
galerie Flux, galerie Maes & Matthys, galerie Micheline Szwajcer, galerie Nadja Vilenne.
Artists: Jean-Marc Chapa, Michiel Ceulers, François Curlet, Michaël Dans, Lara Gasparotto, Benjamin Monti, Pol Pierart, Nicoline Vanstapele, Joël-Peter Witkin.
Symposium of galleries: 26 January, 19h
Galerie Saint-Luc, Ecole Supérieure des Arts Saint-Luc, Boulevard de la Constitution 41, 4020 Liège (BE)
www.saintluc-liege.be
Wed-Fri: 14-18h & by appointment 04/341 81 93
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JEAN-BAPTISTE BERNADET solo at: 'RÉSERVOIR', SAKS, GENEVE (CH)
Opening Saturday 19 November, 19h
Open Doors week-end: Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 November, 11-18h
Exhibition until 14 January 2012
SAKS gallery, Rue de la Synagogue 34, 1204 Genève (CH)
Open tue - fri, 10-18h ; sat, 12-17h, www.saks.ch
RUTH VAN HAREN NOMAN in: 'EEN SHOP MET MAT&ROB', HUIS MORTIER, GENT (BE)
Opening 1 December 2011, 20h
Until 30 December 2011
Van 1 t.e.m. 30 december gaat het artistieke duo MAT&ROB een samenwerking aan met het Gentse HUIS MORTIER. Ze stellen eigen werk voor en nodigen daarnaast een selectie bevriende beeldende kunstenaars en vormgevers uit om samen met hen te overwinteren. Rode draden doorheen de creaties zijn een zekere puurheid, liefde voor het ambacht en geloof in het gewone magistrale.
Artists & Designers: Mat&Rob, Preben Van Der Straete, Jonas Binon, Eva Binon, Patrick Vervueren, Stien Bekaert, Eva Mouton, Soki, Roos Vandekerckhove, Nina Vandeweghe, Nele Carlier, Winne Lievens, Sander Buyck, Bert De Geyter, Rijwielen Smets, Laurence De Craene, Compagnie Frieda, Renilde De Peuter, Laurence Leenaert, Moestuinbox, Ruth van Haren Noman, Or Koffie,...
Huis Mortier, Ham 1, 9000 Gent (BE)
Open Tuesday - Saturday, 10-18h (Closed on 25 Dec.)
www.huismortier.be
JEAN-BAPTISTE BERNADET solo at: RENWICK GALLERY (PROJECT SPACE), NEW YORK (USA)
Opening 5 November 2011
Exhibition until 21 December 2011
Renwick Gallery, 45 Renwick Street, New York, NY 10013
www.renwickgallery.com
LAURENT IMPEDUGLIA in : ‘PRIX DE LA CREATION 2011’, LES DRAPIERS, LIEGE (BE)
Opening and award ceremony : Friday 25 November, 18h
26 November - 24 December 2011
Artists selected by the jury: Cathy Alvarez Valle, Manuel Alves Pereira, Nicolas Bomal, Thierry Hanse, Laurent Impeduglia, Mathieu Labaye, Aurélie William Levaux, Pica Pica, Marie Zolamian.
Organisation: Le Collège Communal De La Ville De Liège and Les Drapiers Asbl.
The 'Prix de la Création 2011' has been AWARDED to AURELIE WILLIAM LEVEAUX and LAURENT IMPEDUGLIA
Location : Galerie Les Drapiers, 68 rue Hors Château, 4000 Liège (BE)
tues - sat: 13-18h, sun: 11-18h - free entrance
www.lesmuseesdeliege.be/mailimages
LAURENT IMPEDUGLIA in: ‘BLAQUE LYTE’, CHICAGO HYDE PARK ART CENTER, CHICAGO (USA)
2 October 2011 - 9 January 2012
Blaque Lyte presents the new and glowing artwork by over thirty international emerging and established artists.
Curated by Chicago-based artists Paul Nudd and Chris Kerr, the exhibition explores the visual properties and strange effects of the black light by presenting artwork specifically intended to be seen under ultra violet light.
Exhibiting artists include: Mike Andrews, Nick Black, Andy Burkholder, Lilli Carré, Mariano Chavez, Anya Davidson, Edie Fake, Evah Fan, Sanya Glisec, Leif Goldberg, Keith Herzik, Brandon Heuser, Laurent Impeduglia, Eric Lebofsky, Thomas Mazzarella, Max Morris, Benton Moss, Nicole Northway, Joakim Ojanen & Hanna Andersson, Onsmith, Paintallica, Kristen Romaniszak, Marie Rosen, DeeDee Scacci, Seth Scriver, David Shrigley, Ben Stone, Geoffrey Todd Smith, Chris Uphues, Giselind von Wurmb.
Chicago Hyde Park Art Center, Gallery 2 & 5
5020 S. Cornell Avenue, Chicago, IL 60615 (USA)
www.hydeparkart.org:80/exhibitions/2011/10/_blaque_lyte_1.php
VAAST COLSON in: ‘MASTERPIECES IN THE MAS. FIVE CENTURIES OF IMAGES IN ANTWERP’, MAS, ANTWERPEN (BE)
17 May 2011 - 30 December 2012
Masterpieces in the MAS. Five centuries of images in Antwerp is the MAS's prestigious opening exhibition.
The Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp, the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst in Antwerp and the Plantin-Moretus/Prentenkabinet Museum study the development of Western visual culture through works by old masters and contemporary artists.
The exhibition showcases masterpieces by such artists as Abraham Ortelius - Adriaen Brouwer - Adriaen Collaert - Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven - Jacob Jordaens - James Ensor - Jan Fabre - Jan Brueghel the Elder - Jan van Eyck - Jean Fouquet - Joachim Patinir - Koen van den Broek - Luc Tuymans - Marlene Dumas - Narciss Tordoir - Panamarenko - Paulus Pontius - Peter Paul Rubens - Raoul De Keyser - Rogier van der Weyden - Simone Martini - Vaast Colson...
MAS - Museum aan de Stroom, Hanzestedenplaats 1, 2000 Antwerpen (BE)
www.mas.be
MICHIEL CEULERS RESIDENCY 2010 RIJKSAKADEMIE AMSTERDAM (NL)
January 2010 - December 2011
Selected from a total of 1948 worldwide applications, Michiel Ceulers is amongst the 13 artists
who are accepted for the 2-year Residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.
GERARD HERMAN at: ‘DE CANVASCONNECTIE’, CANVAS
Zondag 11 december om 20h15 op CANVAS
HERHALING : Zaterdag 17 december om 13u op CANVAS
Van 2 oktober tot en met 11 december laat De Canvasconnectie de kijker kennismaken met 11 kunstenaars, die volop bezig zijn met het maken van nieuw werk dat in de periode van uitzending zal worden getoond. De kunstenaars nemen ook de tijd om stil te staan bij het werk van anderen dat hen intrigeert of fascineert.
Kunstenaars: Saul Leiter, Jürgen De Blonde, Ronald Noorman, Pieterjan Ginckels, Johan Grimonprez, Julien Libeer, Karel Martens, Spinvis, Pascal Poissonier, Mark Wallinger, Gerard Herman
EXTRACT EN INFO:
http://www.cobra.be/permalink/1.1174439
TRAILER:
http://cultuur.canvas.be/de-canvasconnectie/de-canvasconnectie-%E2%80%93-afl-11-gerard-herman/
JEAN BAPTISTE BERNADET in: ‘POP-UP SHOP BY KARMA’, WHITE FLAG PROJECTS, SAINT LOUIS (USA)
Opening: Friday 16 December, 19-21h
17 & 18 December 2011, 12-17h
White Flag Projects is pleased to announce a one weekend pop-up shop by Karma, the New York City-based bookstore and publisher, along with a survey of design by Karma founder Brendan Dugan.
Founded earlier this year in New York City's West Village, Karma is at once a bookstore, gallery, and publisher specializing in artist's books and editions. In addition to its own publications, Karma offers a carefully selected assortment of periodicals, artworks, rare and out-of-print books, as well as titles by other noted publishers. Alongside Karma's unique assortment of publications and affordable editions by many highly sought after young artists, White Flag will also present a survey of design work by Karma founder Brendan Dugan and his An Art Service imprint, which has collaborated on projects with innumerable leading artists and galleries in the past 6 years, including Richard Aldrich, Carol Bove, Dan Colen, Nate Lowman, The Estate of Lee Lozano, Paul McCarthy, Adam McEwen, Bjarne Melgaard, Asher Penn, Katy Perry, Dash Snow, Piotr Uklanski and others.
Artists:
Artist's books by Paul Lee, Lee Lozano, Sam Falls, Dan Colen, Rob Pruitt, Matt Kenny, Asher Penn, Cecily Brown, Agathe Snow, Nate Lowman, Sue Williams
Editions by Hanna Liden, Paul Lee, Sam Falls, Josh Smith, Rob Pruitt
Posters by Bjarne Melgaard, Nate Lowman, Dan Colen, Dash Snow
Artwork by Cole Sayer, Matt Kenny, Rebecca Kolsrud, Sam Falls, Jean Baptiste Bernadet, Benoit Plateus
White Flag Projects, 4568 Manchester Avenue, Saint Louis, Missouri 63110
www.whiteflagprojects.org/wfp10/asterisk_details.cfm
DELPHINE DEGUISLAGE in: ‘ANONYMOUSLY YOURS’, MAISON GRÉGOIRE, BRUSSEL (BE)
Opening: Friday 9 December: 18-21h
Further open on: Saturday 10 & 17 December: 14-19h
Sunday 11 & 18 December: 14-19h
Friday 16 December: 18-21h
An exhibition focusing on the diversity of contemporary drawing practices, conceived and organized under the aegis of anonymity. A selection of about a hundred drawings, chosen from a representative selection of the Belgian artistic scene.
Curator: Emmanuel Lambion
Location: Maison Grégoire, 292 Dieweg, 1180 Brussel (BE)
www.anyours.be / www.maisongregoire.be
LIEVEN SEGERS in: ‘INTO THE LIGHT 2011’, PUBLIEKE RUIMTE, ANTWERPEN ZUID (BE)
Opening Friday 2 December, 18h
2-11 December 2011, from 18-22h
De vierde editie van Into the light is een internationaal tentoonstellingsproject van het nomadisch initiatief ERROR ONE met video- en lichtinstallaties in het Zuiderpershuis en in de publieke ruimte van Antwerpen Zuid.
Een traject van het Zuiderpershuis, langs het M HKA en Cinema Zuid tot galerie- en privéruimtes en het Koninklijk Museum Voor Schone Kunsten.
Kunstenaars: Line Boogaerts (Be), Wim Catrysse (Be), Sarah Corynen & Wim Wauman (Be), Simona Denicolai & Ivo Provoost (It/Be), Mounir Fatmi (Mar), Jerry Galle (Be), Gelitin (At), Katie Lagast (Be), Gabriel Lester (Nl), Joris Martens (Be), Bart Prinsen (Be), Lieven Segers (Be), Roman Signer (Ch), Malthe Stigaard (Dk), Max Sudhues (De), Lieve Van Stappen (Be), Thomas Verstraeten (Be), Hans Wuyts (Be)
Organisatie: Error One ism Middelheimmuseum, Zuiderpershuis, M HKA, Cinema Zuid, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, Extra City, NICC, AIR Antwerpen, Maes & Matthys Gallery, Ruimte Morguen, Tim Van Laere Gallery.
Locaties : Zuiderpershuis, Leuvenstraat en Publieke ruimte, Antwerpen Zuid
http://www.errorOne.be
MICHIEL CEULERS in: 'GNFR', MONTY, ANTWERPEN (BE)
8 December 2011 - 17 December 2011
Artists: amongst others: Katy Hamer, Stephan Balleux, Rachel Rampleman, David Matorin, Peter Puype (& family), The Congosound, Carles Congost, Daniëlle Luinge, Peggy Wauters, Akira The Don & Eddie Argos, Mantease Woida, Nancy Vanwambeke & Stéphanie Yoshiwara, Joris Van de Moortel, Motoko Fukuyama...
Curator: Jan Van Woensel
GNFR ("Guns 'N Fucking Roses") is probably the first exhibition to bring homage to one of the greatest hard rock bands of all times: Guns 'N Roses.
GNFR is not just another exhibition that illustrates the obvious relationship between art and music. Instead, GNFR keeps the middle between an art exhibition and a gloomy teenager's bedroom. Within this setting, GNFR exposes both the worldwide success and tragic breakdown of the band, and displays a selection of Guns 'N Roses inspired contemporary artworks amidst an audiovisual chaos of documentary videos, interviews, fan videos, home made recordings of cover bands, amateur artworks, paraphernalia, artefacts and much more...
Monty, Montignystraat 3, 2018 Antwerpen (BE)
Open 8, 9, 10, 16 & 17 December, from 19-20h30
www.monty.be & guns-n-fucking-roses.blogspot.com
LAURENT IMPEDUGLIA in : ‘PRIX GEORGES COLLIGNON’ , MAMAC, LIEGE (BE)
23 September - 30 November 2011
La quatrième édition du prix biennal de peinture 'Prix Georges Collignon', organisée en collaboration le Centre wallon d'Art contemporain « La Châtaigneraie », le Musée en Plein Air du Sart-Tilman et l'Echevinat de la Culture, des Musées et des Lettres de la Ville de Liège.
Exposition des œuvres des candidats sélectionnés au Musée d'Art moderne et d'Art contemporain (Mamac) de la Ville de Liège.
MAMAC Musée d'Art moderne et d'Art contemporain de la Ville de Liège
Parc de la Boverie 3, 4020 Liège (BE)
www.mamac.be
www.museepla.ulg.ac.be/agenda/collignon/index.html
DELPHINE DEGUISLAGE in : ‘PRIX GEORGES COLLIGNON’ , MAMAC, LIEGE (BE)
Remise du prix : 22 septembre 2011
Exposition : 23 Septembre - 30 Novembre 2011
La quatrième édition du prix biennal de peinture 'Prix Georges Collignon', organisée en collaboration le Centre wallon d'Art contemporain « La Châtaigneraie », le Musée en Plein Air du Sart-Tilman et l'Echevinat de la Culture, des Musées et des Lettres de la Ville de Liège.
Exposition des œuvres des candidats sélectionnés au Musée d'Art moderne et d'Art contemporain (Mamac) de la Ville de Liège.
MAMAC Musée d'Art moderne et d'Art contemporain de la Ville de Liège
Parc de la Boverie 3, 4020 Liège (BE)
www.mamac.be
www.museepla.ulg.ac.be/agenda/collignon/index.html
VAAST COLSON, GERARD HERMAN & LIEVEN SEGERS in: ‘IN THE COMPANY OF HUMOUR’, LOKAAL01, BREDA (NL)
Opening 18 November, 20h
Until 1 December 2011
Een expositie over de zijkanten van humor in de kunst, over absurditeit, tegendraadsheid, ironie, lelijkheid en provocatie. Die laat zien hoe humor als glijmiddel, kritiek of ventiel wordt ingezet in de hedendaagse kunst.
Op de opening op 18 november, 20 uur, brengt Peter Morrens een performatieve speech getiteld IK ZAL EENS GOED KOMEN LACHEN
Artists: Anton Cotteleer, Bart Van Dijck, Bert Danckaert, Fred Bervoets, Gerard Herman, Guillaume Bijl, Jimmie Durham, John Bock, Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys, Julien Meert, Kati Heck, Lieven Segers, Marijn van Kreij, Messieurs Delmotte, Michael Dans, Michaël Van den Abeele, Michel François, Nadia Naveau, Peter Morrens, Ruben Kindermans, Thomas van Linge, Vaast Colson, Valérie Mannaerts, Ward Van Grimbergen, Xavier Noiret-Thomé.
Een opstelling en idee van Lieven Segers.
Lokaal 01, Kloosterlaan 138, 4811 EE Breda (NL)
tue - fri 10-17h, sat-sun: 13-17h
MICHIEL CEULERS in: ‘OPEN STUDIOS’, RIJKSAKADEMIE, AMSTERDAM (NL)
Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 November 2011
www.rijksakademie.nl
MICHIEL CEULERS in: 'PARK 5 - TEMPORARY LIMITS', EKEREN (BE)
26 November 2011, 16-22h
Curator: Vincent Surmont
Artists: Caroline Van den Eynden, Ida Wollens, Petrus Heeren, Bert Jacobs, Valerie de Ghellinck, Toon Leën, Denitsa Todorova, Lien Boelen, Wouter Decorte, Kato Six, Florian Tomballe, Nathalie Van der Massen, Yannick Val Gesto, Bart Van Merode, Eva Betjes, Gauthier Oushoorn, Anna Kushnerova, Arn Gyssels, Tatjana Blondé, Kim Thissen, Irene Alvarez, Bart Verschuren, Ellen Pil, Michiel Ceulers, Bert Vissers, Olivia Alders, Hannelore Van Dijck.
PARK is a collaboration between young artists, mainly based in Antwerp, Belgium.
Since its establishing, PARK has organised four exhibitions so far. The last one in Berlin, Germany.
Participating works vary between all disciplines, from site-specific installations to video, from murals to performances.
We are very happy to announce that our fifth edition of PARK will be held on Saturday November 26th in Ekeren, Antwerp.
More info will follow soon on: www.parkantwerpen.be
Location: PARK, Veltwijcklaan 19, 2180 Ekeren, Antwerp (BE)
VAAST COLSON in: ‘THE IMPOSSIBLE COMMUNITY’, MOSCOW MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, MOSCOW (RU)
8 September - 6 November 2011
An exhibition dedicated to problems of communication - its potential and limits in social and anthropological dimensions.
Curator: Viktor Misiano
The exhibition is a result of comprehensive research work effectuated by Moscow Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with a renowned Russian curator Viktor Misiano. It is a major event, presenting one of the key movements in international art of the past decades - the so-called "Relational Art". This trend is highly recognized and relevant today, even though it is largely based on the traditions of both avant-garde art and European art of 1960s and 70s.
A number of leading Relational art artists participate in the «Impossible community» project:
Konstantin Adjer, Valery Ayzenberg, Pawel Althamer, Johanna Billing, Sonia Boyce, Vaast Colson, Didier Courbot, Honore d'O, Jeremy Deller, Alberto Garutti, Jens Haaning, Jeanne van Heeswijk, IRWIN, Suchan Kinoshita, Jiri Kovanda, Yuri Leiderman and Andrei Silvestrov, Anton Litvin, Liza Morozova, Roman Ondak, Adrian Paci, Cesare Pietroiusti, Program ESCAPE, R. E. P., Shimabuku, SOSka, TanzLaboratorium, Moniek Toebosch, Jaan Toomik, Luca Vitone, Yevgeniy Fiks, Vadim Fishkin.
Organized by: MMOMA Moscow Museum of Modern Art
Location: State Museum of Modern Art of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts, Gogolevsky Bulvar 10, Moscow (RU)
www.mmoma.ru/en/
Official Website 'The Impossible Community' : www.ic.mmoma.ru/en/
MICHIEL CEULERS in: 'ACCIDENTAL THOUGHTS AND METAPHORS', ANA CRISTEA GALLERY, NEW YORK (USA)
20 October - 16 November 2011
Artists: Peter Rogiers, Ellen de Meuter, Michiel Ceulers en Ante Timmermans
Ana Cristea Gallery, 521 West 26th Street, New York (USA)
VAAST COLSON in: ‘COLLECTOR…..qu’est-ce que c’est? - ‘SammlerLEIDENSCHAFT / Collection-PASSION’, MUSEUM ADMONT (AU)
Opening 26 March 2011, 14h
27 March - 6 November 2011
The exhibition 'SammlerLEIDENSCHAFT / Collection-PASSION' will be displaying selected Austrian and international art of the 20th and 21st century, sourced from Styrian collections. Artworks from collecting businessmen and artists, among other the architect Hermann Eisenköck and artist and businessman Kurt Ryslavy, are engaged in a refreshing dialogue with works in the Contemporary Art collection, which has been steadily built up since 1997. In the installation by Rudi Molacek, items from the collection of the photographer, artist and collector are depicted in an astonishing relationship to the historical collections of the Admont Abbey. Curator: Dr. Michael Braunsteiner
'COLLECTOR.....qu'est-ce que c'est? (Kurt Ryslavy)'
Kurt Ryslavy shows parts of his collection, on display you see:
Vaast Colson, The Pink Sting (2001) / Martin Creed, I don't know what I want (work n°320) (2004) / Carlos Montalvo & Toni Gerlandt (Dialogist-Kantor), Tais-toi et travaille (1995) / Michel François, Untitled (1996) / Gerald, La Bibliothèque amoureuse (1995) / Gerald, Le Seau bleu avec les Danseurs (1991) / Georg Herold, Bin Eben Zigaretten Holen (1987) / Martin Kippenberger, Balla-Balla (1982) / Franz West, Untitled (from the series Immobile Passstücke) (1974) / Franz West, Was kostet der Sieg? (1977/78) / Manfred Jade, Untitled (1983) / Bernard Mulliez, Art Security Service (2007) / Kristofer Paetau, Untitled - Salvador DaliX (2008) / Rufus, The last resort (2004) / Franz Schröckenfuchs, Untitled (1983) / Koen Theys, Media Studies (After Heinrich Hoffmann) (2001) / Franz West, Mein Exbeugel (1981) / Michael Van den Abeele, Untitled (2006) / Dimitri Vangrunderbeek, Boxed chair (1993) / Gregoire Motte, RayBan reparé (2011).
Admont Benedictine Monastery - Contempary Art Museum, 8911 Admont 1 (AU)
Open daily : 10 - 17h
July & August 2011: Extended opening to 20h every Friday
www.stiftadmont.at
VAAST COLSON at: ‘PRESENTATIE SAMENWERKINGSPROJECT KUNSTHUIS YELLOW ART’, DE HALLE, GEEL (BE)
Zondag 13 november 2011, 15 - 18h30
Op zondag 13 november is er een presentatiemoment van het samenwerkingsproject met Vaast Colson met als muzikale gasten: Mauro Pawlowski, Jan Van den Dobbelsteen en Danielle Lemaire.
De presentatie is in handen van radio-dj en tv-presentator Luc Janssen.
Dit concert vindt plaats in de Raadzaal van de Halle van 15.00u tot 18.30u
Gedurende twee jaren werden er samen met Vaast Colson workshops georganiseerd waarin geluidsopnames, tekeningen en teksten gemaakt werden.
Presentatie van het eindresultaat van deze samenwerking, nl. een box bestaande uit een reeks cd´s en bijhorend drukwerk.
Special guests uit cultuur- en muziekwereld worden uitgenodigd om deze box te presenteren, erover te discussiëren en zelf muziek te maken. De box, die gemaakt wordt op een beperkte oplage, wordt tevens te koop aangeboden.
Locatie: Raadzaal van de Halle, Markt 1, 2440 Geel (BE)
Meer info
www.opzgeel.be/kunsthuis/pages/actueel.stm
www.opzgeel.be/kunsthuis/pages/projecten.stm
LAURENT IMPEDUGLIA in: ‘CHINA - BELGIUM 1971 – 2011’, PERMANENCE GALLERY, BEIIJING (CHN)
Opening 7 October
7 - 25 October 2011
Artists: Bi Jianfeng, Li Yi, Liao Dan, Laurent Impeduglia,Marc Baufrere,Tine Deturck
Curated by Ly YI & l'Institut de Design et de Recherche d'Architecture de l'Université de Tsinghua and La Délégation Wallonie-Bruxelles en Chine.
Permanence Gallery, B09-2 798 Art.District n2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, BEIIJING (CHN)
JEAN-BAPTISTE BERNADET in: ‘85-87 FBG. ST MARTIN’, PARIS (FR)
Opening Tuesday 18 October, 18-22h
18 - 23 October, everyday 11-20h
85-87FBG.STMARTIN is a collective exhibition curated by thirteen French galleries, claiming their vitality and engagement with artists they support and defend fervently. This exhibition is a unique opportunity to discover artists and their works in the center of Paris at EURO RSCG - BETC. This pioneering event enjoys the excitement of a week in Paris dedicated to contemporary art. Jean-Baptiste Bernadet is exhibiting with Galerie Torri.
85/87, Rue Fbg. Saint-Martain, 75010 Paris (FR)
www.85-87fbg-stmartin.fr
DELPHINE DEGUISLAGE in : ‘T.A.L.E. THE AFTER LUCY EXPERIMENT’, ETABLISSEMENT D'EN FACE, BRUSSEL (BE)
Opening Friday 9 September, 19h
10 September - 15 October 2011
Un project de Charlotte Beaudry, Aline Bouvy, Céline Gillain, Claude, Delphine Deguislage, Aurélie Gravas et Claudia Radulescu, en collaboration avec Virginie Devillez et Anne-Claire Schmitz.
Durant le mois d'août 2010 elles initient de façon spontanée une résidence dans une maison à l'architecture rustico-moderne ayant appartenu à la peintre Lucy Fabry arrière grand-mère de Céline Gillain. La maison se situe à Stoumont-Congo dans la vallée de l'Amblève, lieu encore empreint des affrontements de la bataille des Ardennes. Pendant cette semaine de résidence, la notion de groupe, au sens historique des avant-gardes, où les expériences de création collective ont souvent montré leurs limites, a été redéfinie. La frontière entre le groupe et l'individu s'est complexifiée autour de questionnements communs. Vêtues à l'identique, c'est en dissidentes chastes à l'autodérision violente et à la décadence contenue qu'elles ont croisé leurs influences et conjugué leurs savoir-faire.
Le résultat, à la fois expérience de vie et expérience artistique, a amené les artistes à vouloir prolonger ce projet au travers d'une publication et d'une exposition.
Etablissement d'en face projects, Antoine Dansaertstraat 161, 1000 Brussel (BE)
Open: wed - sat: 14 - 18h
www.etablissementdenfaceprojects.org
VAAST COLSON in: 'I CAN'T, I CAN, I CARE', DE VLEESHAL, MIDDELBURG (NL)
8 October - 16 October 2011
'I Can't, I Can, I Care' - Production, presentation and distribution
additional live programme, performances, lecture, bookpresentation
Artists: Vaast Colson, Koen Delaere, Peter Fengler, Martijn Hendriks, Bas van den Hurk, Dennis Tyfus, (Whatspace/Gunther/De PLAYER
Curator: Lorenzo Benedetti
Laboratorium
De Vleeshal zal tijdens de tentoonstelling fungeren als een laboratorium waarin naast bestaande werken door de kunstenaars ook steeds nieuw werk gemaakt wordt dat in de tentoonstelling wordt opgenomen. Er wordt een drukpers geplaatst en een stencilmachine, er zullen unieke langspeelplaten worden geproduceerd, drukwerk en kunstenaarsboeken in kleine oplages.
Uitgangspunt
Uitgangspunt van de tentoonstelling I Can't, I Can, I Care is de tekst van Jan Verwoert Exhaustion and exuberance, waarin artistieke productie wordt gesitueerd binnen de cultuur van economische productiviteit en high-performance verwachtingen waaraan het steeds dient te voldoen - of nog beter, boven die verwachtingen uit te stijgen. De tekst formuleert een aantal strategieën om daar tegen in te gaan, en om alternatieven te creëren.
De kunstenaars nemen zowel individueel als in relatie tot het geheel van de tentoonstelling stelling ten opzichte van de uitgangspunten van deze tekst. Tijdens de periode van de tentoonstelling wordt de Vleeshal tot een plek waar productie, presentatie en distributie samenkomen. Daarmee worden interne kwaliteiten van een werken - hoe ze er uit ziet - gelinkt aan hun bestaan in een sociaal en gemedieerd netwerk van referenties, mogelijkheden en betekenissen.
Extra live-programma
Aan de tentoonstelling is een extra programma verbonden met daarin performances, boekpresentaties, workshops (met studenten van studenten ARTEZ, Rietveld, St. Joost en Roosevelt Academy) en lezingen. Hierin zal o.a. ook Jan Verwoert aanwezig zijn tijdens een workshop rondom zijn tekst 'Exhaustion and Excuberance'. Daarnaast zijn er performances van o.a. Remco Torenbosch, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson, Fernstein en is er een workshop rondom time/bank waarin mogelijkheden voor een alternatieve economie worden onderzocht.
Speciaal voor deze tentoonstelling zullen de openingstijden van de Vleeshal worden verruimt.
Location: De Vleeshal, Markt, Middelburg NL
Open Tuesday to Sunday, 1 pm - 5 pm, admission free
http://vleeshal.nl/
LAURENT IMPEDUGLIA in: 'SPACE COLLECTION mit Freunden’, 'T BRANDWEERT, MAASTRICHT (NL)
9 September - 16 October 2011
Freunde:
Dorthe Goeden, A.NikoPol, Jochen Mura, Claudia Schumacher
SPACE Collection:
Olivier Pé, PICA PICA, Boris Magotteaux, Manuel Falcata, Jerome Degive, Nina Berman, Olivier Bovy, Thomas Chable, Jacques Charlier, Michael Dans, Alain Declercq, Eric Delayen, Jean-Marie Gheerardijn, Laurent Impeduglia, Babis Kandilaptis, Nicolas Kozakis, Jules Lallement, Sophie Langohr, Cécile Michel, Aurélie William Levaux, Marie Zolamian.
'T Brandweert, Capucijnenstraat 2, 6211 RN Maastricht (NL)
www.space-collection.org/FR/news/SPACE-Collection-mit-Freunden-Maastricht_5
JEAN-BAPTISTE BERNADET in: ‘EPISODE 1’, MIDDLEMARCH, BRUSSEL (BE)
Opening and Book Launch Saturday 1 October, 14-20h
Exhibition until 15 October 2011, by appointment only
Artists: Jean-Baptiste Bernadet and Benoit Platéus.
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet and Benoit Platéus were together in residency in New York City from April to June 2011. Artworks made during their stay, along with those made by Bernadet during his residency at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, were showed in June 2011 at Karma, NYC, a bookstore, gallery and publisher. An artist publication was also edited by Karma for this event. For its first project, Middlemarch invited both artists to present in Brussels the exhibition and the publication they did in NYC.
Middlemarch project space, Chaussée de Waterloo 550, 1050 Brussel (BE)
www.middlemarch.be
VAAST COLSON in: ‘THE SECOND ACT’, DE BRAKKE GROND, AMSTERDAM (NL)
Opening Thursday 8 September, 19h
8 - 11 September 2011
'Time to Meet' presents 'The Second Act - A Festival on Photography Goes Live'
Photography and performance embrace during The Second Act, a four day festival initiated by Time to Meet, an international platform for contemporary artists, and curated by Chris Clarke. The festival brings together over forty artists in a lively program of performance, screenings and discussions, alongside an extensive exhibition throughout the entirety of de Brakke Grond.
The title of the festival refers to the theatrical concept of the three-act play. The middle section stays unresolved, allowing the narrative to go in any direction. Things can take a drastic turn, without warning or notice, and it is this moment that The Second Act seeks to capture, to extend and to explore.
The Second Act investigates the intersections between photography and performance. It questions how performance can be captured through the intervention of the camera, and how the live action can say something fundamental about the potentials and pitfalls of photographic documentation. The Second Act treats photography as a live practice and as a medium that is never permanently captured in a still image.
Location: Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond, Nes 45, Amsterdam (NL)
Open: Thursday: 19-23h / Friday: 10-22h / Saturday: 13-02h / Sunday: 13-20h
Admission free
http://thesecondactfestival.com/
JEAN-BAPTISTE BERNADET in: 'ART-O-RAMA', MARSEILLE (FR)
Preview & Vernissage Friday 2 September, 12-22h
Exhibition until 18 September
'ART-O-RAMA', Salon international d'art contemporain, with galerie Torri
Artists: Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, Olivier Mosset, Florian Pugnaire & David Raffini
Hours 15-20h, Free entrance
Nocturnes during 'Journées du Patrimoine' : 17 & 18 Sept, 15-22h
La Cartonnerie, Friche la Belle de Mai, 41 rue Jobin, 13003 Marseille (FR)
www.art-o-rama.fr
JEAN-BAPTISTE BERNADET in : ‘7 YEARS ART’CONTEST’, BRUSSEL (BE)
Opening Wednesday 14 September, 18h30
15 September - 1 October 2011
Artists: Jean-Baptiste Bernadet (2005), Justin Morin (2006), Frédéric Penelle (2007), Thomas Bernardet (2008), Maxime Brygo (2009), Lucie Lanzini (2010), Pieter Geenen (2011)
Black Box, Stallestraat 142, 1180 Brussel
Thu, Fri, Sat: 14-18h
www.artcontest.be
DELPHINE DEGUISLAGE in: ‘young belgian art - FREESTATE - splendid isolation’, OOSTENDE (BE)
25 June - 11 September 2011
FREESTATE is the successor to the first festival, which made such a name for itself in summer 2006. Now, five years later, at least 20 young Belgian artists (°1976 or later) will be exhibiting at unique locations in Ostend harbour. You have ten weeks to visit this freestate for painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, installations, photography, video and lots more. All in 'splendid isolation'.
FREESTATE offers more than an exhibition...
- a highly individual survey of new Belgian art by young curators, with numerous new creations for indoors and outdoors.
- a programme of additional activities with artistic and maritime guided tours, summer academies and a children's art treasure hunt.
- a unique circuit taking in warehouses, bunkers and ships at the quayside, perfect on foot, by bike or by means of the ferryboat or coastal tram + large car park + bar with with terrace & happenings.
Artists: Collectif Jessica Baxter, Astrid Bossuyt, Delphine Deguislage, Nick Ervinck, Patrice Gaillard & Claude, Mekhitar Garabedian, Pieter Geenen, Filip Gilissen, Kati Heck, Jimmy Kets, Jasper Rigole, Matthieu Ronsse, Sarah & Charles, Ief Spincemaille, Ante Timmermans, Dennis Tyfus, Philippe Van Wolputte, Vadim Vosters, Leon Vranken, Freek Wambacq, Sung-A Yoon.
Organised by Arts Centre Vrijstaat O.
Curated by Komplot, Christophe De Jaeger, Tanguy Eeckhout, Laurence Dujardyn, Stoffel Debuysere & Maria Palacios Cruz
Location : Oostende OosterOever - www.free-state.be
Wednesday to Friday: 14 - 18h
Saturday, Sunday & Public Holidays (11th July, 21th July, 15th August): 11h - 18h
MICHIEL CEULERS in : ‘JEUNE PEINTURE BELGE 2011’, BOZAR , BRUSSEL (BE)
Opening and Award Ceremony 8 June 2011, 18h30
9 June - 11 September 2011
Michiel Ceulers is one of the 10 artists selected by an international jury from 276 submissions in the competition : "Jeune Peinture Belge - Jonge Belgische Schilderkunst - Young Belgian Painters Award 2011."
The Young Belgian Painters Award has been one of the key events for young artists in Belgium since 1950. The competition aims to encourage and promote young talent. The 10 selected artists will present their most recent works at the Centre for Fine Arts all summer long.
Members of the Jury:
- Henriette Bretton-Meyer, Director of Overgaden, Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhague
- Miguel von Hafe Pérez, Director of the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporànea, Santiago de Compostela
- Clément Minighetti, Chief-curator of the MUDAM, Luxemburg
- Thierry Raspail, Director of the Musée d'art contemporain, Lyon
- Hilde Teerlinck, Director of the Frac Nord-Pas de Calais
BOZAR EXPO
Palais des Beaux-Arts - Paleis voor Schone Kunsten - Centre for Fine Arts
Rue Ravensteinstraat 23, 1000 Bruxelles - Brussel
http://www.jeunepeinturebelge.be/
MICHIEL CEULERS in: ‘DIRTY DANCING’, FIGGE VON ROSEN GALERIE, COLOGNE (DE)
Opening 22 June 22, 19h
24 June - 27 August 2011
Groupshow Dirty Dancing with new paintings by Michiel Ceulers (°1986 in Waregem, Belgium), Cordula Ditz (°1972 in Hamburg, Germany) and David Ostrowski (°1981 in Cologne, Germany).
Dirty Dancing assembles the work of three artists exploring the possibilities of contemporary painting, in a relatively rough, even aggressive way with techniques that include mixing spray with acrylic paint, glueing dirty artefacts on the canvas, including words or phrases, printing of randomly chosen objects or even destroying the canvas with cuts. In spite of all these formal correlations the three artists work with completely different strategies.
Location : Figge von Rosen Galerie Cologne, Aachener Straße 65, 50674 Cologne (DE)
Open: tue - fri: 11-18h, sat 12-17h
RUTH VAN HAREN NOMAN solo at: 'tsi tsi rikiki', CIAP, HASSELT (BE)
Opening Saturday 16 July
17 July - 28 August 2011
CIAP Actuele Kunst vzw, Armand Hertzstraat 21 bus 1, 3500 Hasselt
www.ciap.be
VAAST COLSON in: ‘IN- AND OUTSIDE – WRITING’, VOORKAMER, LIER (BE)
Opening 21 May 2011, 8pm
22 May - extended until 17 July 2011
'In - and outside - writing', an exhibition exploring the area when writing and drawing are most closely related.
At the centre of this exhibition is the OPAK research project of the same name, undertaken by the artists Kelly Chorpening, Rebecca Fortnum, Peter Morrens and Ans Nys, a joint venture between Sint-Lucas Fine Arts Ghent and University of the Arts London. During several sessions in the UK and Belgium, and via continuous correspondence of drawings, they have collaborated intensely over the past year.
Artists:
Joe Amrhein (US) Kasper Andreasen (DK) Maria Barnas (NL) Simon Benson (UK) David Blackmore (IE) Beni Bischof (CH) Sonia Boyce (UK) James Brooks (UK) Ryan Brown (US) Pavel Büchler (UK) Kenny Callens (BE) Paul Casaer (BE) Kelly Chorpening (US) Geert Clarisse (BE) Klaus Compagnie (BE) Wouter Coolens (BE) Vaast Colson (BE) Anne Daems (BE) Rik De Boe (BE) Thierry De Cordier (BE) Voebe de Gruyter (NL) Johan De Wilde (BE) Reinhard Doubrawa (DE) Sacha Eckes (BE) Fred Eerdekens (BE) Rachel E. Foster (US) llse Ermen (BE) Benoît Felix (BE) Rebecca Fortnum (UK) Christoph Fink (BE) Joe Hardesty (US) Ane Mette Hol (NO) Toine Horvers (NL) Dean Hughes (UK) Adam Humphries (UK) Hiroko Ichihara (JP) Susan Johanknecht (US) David Kramer (US) Werner Mannaers (BE) Norma Markley (UK) Bert Mebius (NL) Tine Melzer (DE) Patrick Merckaert (BE) Louisa Minkin (UK) Carlo Mistiaen (BE) Peter Morrens (BE) Anna Mossman (UK) Marc Nagtzaam (NL) Rupert Norfolk (UK) Ans Nys (BE) Alice O'Hanlon (UK) Serge Onnen (FR) Paul Pierart (BE) William Powhida (US) Guy Richards Smit (US) Steve Roden (US) Guy Rombouts (BE) Wilhelm Sasnal (PL) Armand Schulthess (CH) Rosalie Schweiker (DE) Kate Scrivener (UK) Frank Selby (US) Patricia Smith (US) Lore Smolders (BE) Deb Sokolow (US) Molly Springfield (US) Katrin Ströbel (DE) Walter Swennen (BE) Ante Timmermans (BE) Jim Torok (US) Cody Trepte (US) Philippe Vandenberg (BE) Stephan Van Den Burg (NL) Rinus Van de Velde (BE) Marcel Van Eeden (NL) Reinaart Vanhoe (NL) Marijn van Kreij (NL) Dries Warlop (BE) Melvin Way (UK) Ofer Wolberger (US)
Curators: Voorkamer / Morrens en De Boe Productions and Marc Nagtzaam.
Location: Voorkamer, H.Geeststraat 7, 2500 Lier (BE) - www.voorkamer.be
Open: Friday till Sunday, 14-18h and after appointment
VAAST COLSON in: ‘YES, WE DON’T’, INSTITUT D’ART CONTEMPORAIN, VILLEURBANNE (FR)
Press Preview 19 May 2011, 11h
Opening 19 May 2011, 18h30
20 May - 14 August 2011
Yes, we don't is a paradoxical affirmation, a suspended 'No' that openly assumes its absence of illusion and destination. It is not the resistance of Bartleby who with the famous phrase 'I would prefer not to' neutralised reality to upset the norms. Yes, we don't is more a playful and transgressive attitude, sometimes skirting the absurd, the slogan of a posture in which suspension is affirmed before a decision about possible destinations and measurement of the amplitude of its reception...
Yes, we don't is formulated in an unprecedented multipolar, virtual and globalised period, imprinted with the acceleration-without limits and without reference points-of data pertaining to both the media and economics and to science and culture. Our perception of time is therefore dislocated, precipitated and tense. Time is no longer a homogenous notion but fragmented in the relation of the subject to the world and in the complex relationships that we have with the real.
How can we interact with our times? Is it still possible? What are the means available, if not upsetting then at least occupying and infiltrating the present? Is it still possible to talk in terms of territories that are neither those of particularism nor the abstract space of globalisation, nor above all those of general support of the politically correct?
The artists assembled in this exhibition centred on the works of Bernard Bazile and Simona Denicolai & Ivo Provoost focus on infiltrating systems, occupying zones of temporary actions and inflecting the process of certain realities.
The point today is less that of condemning and documenting than of marking a critical space and organising the appearance there of multiple forms of insubordination.
The 'public thing' (political and economic power, the street and daily life, the world-wide web and the media) is thus material for transformation, ingestion, deviation, transcoding, individual and collective micro-actions and so forth. More than a support for credulous involvement, language is used as a transverse tool at the service of absurdity and desired ambivalence.
Combining energy and irony, these artists weave subtle strategies that, while they affirm-'Yes'-, display a degree of negativeness-'we don't'-clearly showing their subversion, now, and quickly !
Artists:
Bernard Bazile, Vaast Colson, François Curlet, Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys, Simona Denicolaï & Ivo Provoost, Jeremy Deller & Alan Kane, Francesco Finizio, Richard Hughes, John Knight, Ahmet Ogut, Sener Ozmen & Erkan Ozgen, Julién Previeux, Michael Rakowitz, Santiago Sierra, Javier Téllez, Carey Young + Links *
Curators:
Joël Benzakin, independent curator based in Brussels
Nathalie Ergino, director of the Institut d'art contemporain
Institut d'art contemporain, 11 rue Docteur Dolard, 69100 Villeurbanne (FR)
Open Wednesday to Sunday : 13 - 19h
www.i-ac.eu
JEAN-BAPTISTE BERNADET at: APT STUDIOS, BROOKLYN (US)
Residency from April till June 2011
In conjunction with Residency Unlimited and supported by Wallonie-Brussels International
JEAN-BAPTISTE BERNADET at: KARMA, NEW YORK (USA)
Opening and Book Launch: Thursday 23 June 18-20h
Exhibition : 16 - 26 June 2011
Duo Exhibition JEAN-BAPTISTE BERNADET & BENOIT PLATÉUS
Artworks made during Bernadet and Platéus current residencies in New York, along with those made by Bernadet during his recent residency at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, will be on view in the exhibition.
These residencies are supported by Wallonie Brussels International.
Working by transfers, duplication, erasing, accumulation and exhaustion, the French painter and sculpture artist JEAN-BAPTISTE BERNADET aims to let the painting itself direct the process by which it is made. Each of his gestures are either acts of invention or destruction that build a tension between disillusion and hope, pessimism and faith, the taste for the unfinished and the desire of achievement, the will to be clear and the inclination to enigmas. Jean-Baptiste Bernadet describes his paintings as "remains" outliving his certitude of never achieving a masterpiece. The result is a rich, precious and complex surface of his paintings, a polymorphous and unstable body of work, perpetually reinvented, in pursuit by any means of an extreme intensity. There is a skepticism built in to his practice -a humorous dubiety and doubt- that sheds light on the impossibility of painting today in correlation to its necessity.
BENOIT PLATÉUS's work doesn't neglect any medium - photography, video, drawing or sculpture - in order to search for ambiguities in the most mundane field of visibility. Restless observer, precise, discrete and malicious, he introduces a distance between objects and their perception in order to shift them to the other side, in a space with variable dimensions and multiple interpretations. In this way his art often acts as a psychic apparatus that plays on, questions and reflects the viewer's perception and consciousness.
KARMA is a bookstore, gallery and publisher specializing in artist publications, located in the West Village of New York City. In addition to its own titles, Karma stocks periodicals, artworks, artists' editions, rare and out-of-print items and other in-print titles by noted publishers.
KARMA 21 Downing Street NY, NY, www.karmakarma.org
Open everyday 12 to 7pm
MICHIEL CEULERS at: ‘MY HANDS IN YOUR SNEAKERS’, JULIETTE JONGMA, AMSTERDAM (NL)
14 May - 2 June 2011
Duo presentation Jean-Charles de Quillacq and Michiel Ceulers
MICHIEL CEULERS solo at: 'SEXUELLE SELEKTION UND ELTERLICHE FURSORGE' PS PROJECTS, AMSTERDAM (NL)
08 May - 29 May 2011
MICHIEL CEULERS at: 'WHEN _______ BECOMES FORM', SCHAU ORT ZURICH (CH)
13 April - 28 May 2011
MICHIEL CEULERS at: '/ VONDOERING CONTEMPORARY', SCHWÄBISCH HALL (DE)
11 March 2011 - 27 May 2011
Duo presentation: Sebastian Dacey and Michiel Ceulers
MICHIEL CEULERS in: 'YUMMY, YUMMY, YUMMY, I GOT LOVE IN MY TUMMY', SCHELD'APEN, ANTWERPEN (B)
Opening Friday 13 May, 18h
13 May - 16 May 2011
Groupshow with paintings by Bert Huyghe, Florence Raats, Koen Delaere, Michiel Ceulers, Mil Ceulemans, Sofia Boubolis, Tom Poelmans, Stijn Bastianen, Xavier Noiret-Thomé
Organized by Cakehouse (even Segers and Michèle Matyn)
Location: Ankerrui, Antwerpen
JEAN-BAPTISTE BERNADET at: ‘ANONYMOUS’, BRUSSEL (BE)
Opening 26 April
27 April - 14 May 2011
The collection of -5€ paintings of Jean-Baptiste Bernadet and Xavier Noiret-Thomé.
Curated by Devrim Bayar
Hunting and Collecting, 17 rue des Chartreux, 1000 Brussel (BE)
LETIZIA BATTAGLIA in: 'COURAGE. CONTEMPORAY ART FROM THE FONDAZIONE SANDRETTO RE REBAUDENGO', CENTRO SAINT-BÉNIN, AOSTA (IT)
26 November 2010 - 8 May 2011
The exhibition, presented by Francesco Bonami, Artistic Director of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa, brings together the works of twenty international artists:
Letizia Battaglia (Palermo, 1935), Rossella Biscotti (Molfetta, Bari, 1978), Maurizio Cattelan (Padua, 1960), Marta Dell'Angelo (Pavia, 1970), Donghee Koo (South Korea, 1974), Lara Favaretto (Treviso, 1973), Nan Goldin (USA, 1953), Massimo Grimaldi (Taranto, 1974) , Mona Hatoum (Lebanon, 1952), Jenny Holzer (USA, 1950), Emily Jacir (Palestine, 1970), Armin Linke (Milan, 1966), Alessandro Mancassola and Barbara Ceriani Basilico (collective formed in 2005), Catherine Opie (USA , 1961), Anri Sala (Albania, 1974), Hans Schabus (Austria, 1970), Ahlam Shibli (Palestine, 1970), Mario Spada (Naples, 1971), Catherine Yass (UK, 1963).
Centre Saint-Benin, Via Festaz 24, Aosta
http://www.fsrr.org/
MAES & MATTHYS GALLERY at: ART BRUSSELS 2011
Preview & Vernissage Wednesday 27 April (by invitation only)
Thursday 28 April - Sunday 1 May 2011, 12 - 19h
We will show works by Letizia Battaglia, Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, Vaast Colson,
Laurent Impeduglia, Ruth van Haren Noman...
+ Solo Presentation Michiel Ceulers
Brussels Expo - Halls 1 & 3, Place de Belgique, 1, 1020 Brussel
www.artbrussels.be
JEAN-BAPTISTE BERNADET solo at: GALERIE TORRI, PARIS (FR)
Opening 2 April 2011
2 April - 30 April 2011
TORRI
7, rue Saint-Claude, 75003 Paris (FR)
Open tue - sat, 11-19h
www.galerietorri.com
LETIZIA BATTAGLIA in: ‘MAFIA - DAS GLOBALE VERBRECHEN’, ÜBERSEEMUSEUM, BREMEN (DE)
5 February - 24 April 2011
Seit mehr als 150 Jahren versetzen italienische Mafia-Organisationen ihr Land in Angst und Schrecken. Doch mit einem jährlichen Umsatz von etwa 150 Milliarden Euro betreiben die Cosa Nostra in Sizilien oder die Ndrangheta in Kalabrien längst nicht mehr nur Drogenhandel und Schutzgelderpressung. Sie haben sich zu machtvollen Unternehmen entwickelt, die über Ländergrenzen hinweg professionell agieren. Statt Pistolen und Sprengstoff beherrschen heute modische Businessanzüge, Aktienpakete und Unternehmensbeteiligungen ihr Auftreten und Handeln. Auch Deutschland ist zu einem attraktiven Geschäftsort der Mafia geworden.
Rund zwanzig Jahre lang hat die Journalistin Letizia Battaglia Spuren der Cosa Nostra in ihrer sizilianischen Heimat im Bild festgehalten. 97 ihrer Fotografien sind jetzt anlässlich der Ausstellung „Erleben, was die Welt bewegt" im Übersee-Museum zu sehen. Ergänzt werden diese Fotografien von dreißig Arbeiten der Reportagefotografen Bruce Gilden (USA) und Patrick Zachmann (Frankreich), beide Mitglieder der renommierten Foto-Agentur Magnum. Patrick Zachmann dokumentierte in bewegenden Fotos die Machenschaften der Camorra in Neapel. Bruce Gilden zeigt mit seinen Bildern, dass die Ausbreitung des organisierten Verbrechens auch in Ländern wie Japan und Russland immer weiter voranschreitet. Seine erst im Jahr 2010 entstandenen Fotos der russischen Mafia werden in dieser Ausstellung erstmals öffentlich präsentiert.
Übersee-Museum Bremen, Bahnhofsplatz 13, 28195 Bremen (DE)
http://www.uebersee-museum.de/Mafia_-_Das_globale_Verbrechen.html
VAAST COLSON at: BELA EDITIONS, BRUSSELS (BE)
Opening 10 February 2011, 18-21h
11 February - 2 April 2011
Presentation of a new edition by Vaast Colson and a new edition by Carla Arocha - Stéphane Schraenen
BeLa Editions, Rue Lens 28, 1050 Brussel (BE)
Open wed - sat: 14 - 18h
JEAN-BAPTISTE BERNADET in: ‘A NEW IDEA OF LANDSCAPE’, GALERIE DE L'ÉCOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE D'ARTS, NANCY (FR)
Opening 17 February 2011, 18h
18 February - 10 March 2011
A group show curated by Samuel François
With Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, Claire Decet, Jérémie Egry, Samuel François,
Oliver Kosta-Théfaine, Renato Leotta, Israel Lund and Justin Morin
Galerie de l'École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Nancy
1 Avenue Boffrand, 54013 Nancy (FR)
Monday - Friday 14-18h
MICHIEL CEULERS in: 'PROPOSÉ UNE EXPO', CC DE SCHAKEL, WAREGEM (BE)
end January - February 2011
Groupshow with: Tom Poelmans, Hannelore Celen, Michiel Ceulers,...
Cultuurcentrum De Schakel, Schakelstraat 8 - 8790 Waregem
www.ccdeschakel.be
JEAN-BAPTISTE BERNADET in: ‘BNP PARIBAS FORTIS YOUNG ARTISTIC TALENTS 2010’, BRUSSEL (BE)
Ceremony and opening 28 February 2011
BNP Paribas Fortis Belgian Headquarters
28 rue Royale, 1000 Brussel (BE)
VAAST COLSON in: ‘ART’S BIRTHDAY’, MUHKA, ANTWERPEN (BE)
17 January 2011
NL/ In 1963 riep Robert Filliou zijn verjaardag uit tot de officiële geboortedag van de 'kunst'. Dit statement in een Parijse bar groeide uit tot diverse Art's Birthday feesten wereldwijd. Het NICC, Klara,
E/ 'Art's Birthday' - an annual exchange-art event celebrated on January 17th by a loose collection of artists and artist organizations around the world. 'Art's Birthday'is an annual event first proposed in 1963 by French artist Robert Filliou.
Programme:
20h00 State of the Arts by Chris Van Camp
20h30 Talk with Chantal Pattyn and guests
20-22h Love Letter to a Surrogate: stage 2:
Performances by: Ludo Mich, Adva Zakai, Benjamin Verdonck, Damien De Lepeleire, Kati Heck, Kris Vleeschouwer, Elena Bajo, Nel Aerts, Fia Cielen, Guy Rombouts, Joris Van De Moortel, Hans Wuyts, Ria Pacquée, Line Ochin, Chris Gillis, Charles & Sarah, Vaast Colson, Lee Weich, Filip Gilissen (proposed by Warren Neidich & Lode Geens)
22-01h Party, bubbles & cake by Kati Heck
M HKA, Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerpen (BE)
www.nicc.be/46/Nieuws - www.artsbirthday.net