Arnhem
MMKA en andere locaties in Arnhem
12/09/09 - 25/10/09

Verschillende locaties in het centrum van Arnhem staan tot en met 25 oktober in het teken van het kunstfestival Made in Arnhem. Arnhem wil in deze editie haar internationale ambitie naar de rest van de wereld kenbaar maken en heeft daarom het thema ‘invites’ gekozen. De organisatie heeft kunstinitiatieven uitgenodigd, die op hun beurt kunstenaars uitnodigen, en ‘als gastvrij gebaar’ wordt uiteindelijk het publiek uitgenodigd. Deze ‘keten van uitnodigingen’ zou deze editie van het kunstfestival uniek moeten maken, maar verschilt wezenlijk weinig van de organisatie van elk willekeurig ander festival. Niets nieuws onder de zon dus. Toch is er een aardige draai aan het thema gegeven door Arnhemse kunstenaars te verzoeken een kunstenaar van buitenaf te inviteren. Hierdoor ontstaan er op verschillende plaatsen in de stad dialogen tussen kunstenaarsduo’s die elkaars werk op originele wijze aanvullen in thematiek, inhoud of beeld.

Helaas is internationale allure van Arnhem als kunststad niet altijd geholpen met invitatie-systeem. Veel van de interessante werken blijken afkomstig te zijn van niet-Arnhemse kunstenaars, wat het gevoel oproept dat de ‘buitenstaanders’ zijn toegevoegd om het gebrek aan Arnhems talent te compenseren.

MMKA

Karen Sargsyan, All Together, 2009

Toch waren er een aantal werken te ontdekken die een bezoek aan Arnhem zeker de moeite waard maken. Op de hoofdlocatie, het Museum voor Moderne Kunst blijkt de eerste kunstenaar waar ik tegenaan loop meteen ook mijn favoriet. De Armeense ex-Rijksakademie kunstenaar Karen Sargsyan - op dit moment ook te zien in Double Dutch in HVCCA in New York - maakte een poppentheater van papier met op de achtergrond folkloristische Armeense volksmuziek. Ondanks het kwetsbare materiaal zet Sargsyan een krachtig beeld neer waarin de bewegingloze figuren tot leven komen.

Ilya Rabinovich, Muziotopia, 2009

Sargsyan nodigde de van oorsprong Moldavische kunstenaar Ilya Rabinovich uit, ook een ex-Rijksakademiestudent. Hij presenteert in Muziotopia een indrukwekkend onderzoek naar de veranderingen in museale collectie-opstellingen na de val van het communistische systeem in Oost Europa en de onafhankelijkheid van Moldavië. Het samenspel tussen de werken van Sargsyan en Rabinovich levert een mooie dialoog op die een kijk geeft in processen in de kunst tijdens en na het sovjetregime.

Made in Arnhem Invites is t/m 25 oktober te zien op verschillende locaties in Arnhem.

Auteur

Jolien Verlaek

Muziotopia project installation view in museum voor moderne kunst arnhem

Muziotopia project part of 'Subliminal dialoges' exhibtion

in the frame work of Made In Arnhem Invites in the museum voor moderne kunst arnhem

Subliminal Dialogs

Curator: Inge Pollet
Participating artists: Adam Colton, Barbara Polderman, Charlotte Dumas, Ilya Rabinovich, Jan Mankes, Karen Sargsyan, Maria Roosen, Mark Kremer, Ronald Schimmel, Rosemin Hendriks

Opening 12 September from 19:00-22:00 till 15 November 2009. Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem


www.mmkarnhem.nl
more information about the project at:
http://www.rhiz.eu/article-33502-en.html

Biennale DIE ERSTE MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN BIENNALE IN KLEIN-ZETELVITZ

http://biennale.kleinzetelvitz.de/

Presse

"Auch in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern wird es demnächst eine Biennale geben. Das haben sich zumindest die Initiatoren Spunk Seipel und Edmund Piper vorgenommen, die bewusste in einer Region mit schwacher Infrastruktur für Kunst eine internationale Kunstausstellung veranstalten wollen: Kunst soll an einem Ort präsentiert werden, an dem die Spuren des ländlichen Strukturwandels und die Umbrüche nach der Wende besonders deutlich sind." [aus: Kunstforum International, 06/2009]

Informationen

Die Kunstbiennale Kleinzetelvitz wird im August und September 2009 zum ersten Mal stattfinden. Kuratoren für die erste Biennale sind Spunk Seipel und Edmund Piper. Es werden ca. 60 internationale Künstler ausgestellt. Die Liste der Künstler wird Anfang Juli 2009 bekanntgegeben.

Die Kunstbiennale Kleinzetelvitz wird bewusst in einer Region mit einer schwachen Infrastruktur für Kunst veranstaltet. Sie wird an einem Ort Kunst präsentiert, an dem die Spuren des ländlichen Strukturwandels und die Umbrüche nach der Wende besonders deutlich sind.

Eine Auseinandersetzung mit der Geschichte des Ortes wird zum Teil stattfinden, es wird aber auch Kunst gezeigt werden, die sich mit gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen der letzten Jahre auseinandersetzen wird. Einige Künstler werden Arbeiten speziell für die Kunstbiennale entwickeln.

Die Ausstellungsfläche wird ca. 4000 m² sowie einem grossen Aussenbereich für plastische Arbeiten und Interventionen bieten. Zudem soll der öffentliche Raum in Kleinzetelvitz genutzt werden.

Die Kunstbiennale Kleinzetelvitz richtet sich sowohl an Einheimische wie an Touristen, die sich mit internationaler Kunst an einem ungewöhnlichen Ort im ländlichen Raum auseinandersetzen wollen.

Das Programm der Biennale Kleinzetelvitz wird durch Führungen ergänzt werden.

RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios Publication launch

source http://www.azi.md/en/story/3176

One of the chapters is dedicated to the current cultural, social and political situation in two Moldova regions

azi.md, 22 May 2009, 7:32

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RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios Publication launch will be launched today.

The project publication summarize the sense of interaction between artists and experts involved in the project, as well as the results of investigated and researched aspects that were in focus of contemporary art practice. The publication includes the artist projects and contributions resulted after interdisciplinary workshop, seminars and production sessions. One of the chapters is dedicated to the current cultural, social and political situation in two Moldova regions with texts and contributions by: Sorin Bocancea (political annalist), Flavius Solomon (historian), Igor Casu (historian), Petru Negura (sociologist), Matei Bejenaru (artist/curator) and Stefan Rusu (artist/curator). The other chapter is dedicated to the presentation of curatorial practices and artistic strategies exploring the contexts of some divided (split up) territories by: Catalin Gheorghe (curator, counter theorist), Laura Schleussner/Berlin, Lilia Dragneva (curator), Binna Choi (curator) and contributions by invited visual artists: Bik Van der Pol (Lisbethe Bik and Jos Van der Pol), Iratxe Jaio&Klaas van Gorkum, Tilmann Meyer-Faje, Ilya Rabinovich, Gulsun Karamstafa.
The publication also presents visual art projects and films realized by visual artists from Romania and Republic Moldova: Aurelia Mihai, Dan Acostioaei, Alexandru Grigoras, Lavinia German, Dimitru Oboroc, Violeta Ionita, Tatiana Fiodorova, Vadim Tiganas, Vladimir Us, Denis Bartenev, Maxim Cusmenco, Ghenadie Popescu, Veaceslav Druta, Igor Scerbina, Lucia Macari.
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The RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios project aim was to investigate by juxtaposing the current cultural, social and political situation in two Moldova regions. The joint actions undertaken by the project teams from the KSAK - Centre for Contemporary Art in Chisinau and that from the Vector Association in Iasi are nothing else, but an attempt to create a rapprochement and to understand the nature of the relationship between Romanian and Moldovan societies at the present stage, to analyze the causes and effects of a shared historical and identitary trajectory in the context of divided regions and societies.
RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios is a project organized by the Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau in partnership with VECTOR Association, Iasi
The project was supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute through the CANTEMIR Program, Bucharest; PATTERNS Program /ERSTE Foundation, Vienna and MONDRIAAN Stichting, Amsterdam.
Period: 22 of May, 2009, 18.00
Location: Center for Contemporary Art-KSAK, Chisinau, Rep. Moldova
Address: str. Banulescu Bodoni 5, ap-2, Chisinau

Details about the project:
Centrul pentru Arta Contemporana, Chisinau -[KSA:K]
Address: str. Banulescu Bodoni 5, ap-2,
post code 2000, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
tel/fax: +37322 237272

INVITATION_RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios Publication launch

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RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios Publication launch

Period: 22 of May, 2009, 18.00

Location: Center for Contemporary Art-KSAK, Chisinau, Rep. Moldova

Address: str. Banulescu Bodoni 5, ap-2, Chisinau

The project publication summarizes the sense of interaction between artists and experts involved in the project, as well as the results of investigated and researched aspects that were in focus of contemporary art practice. The publication includes the artist projects and contributions resulted after interdisciplinary workshop, seminars and production sessions. One of the chapters is dedicated to the current cultural, social and political situation in two Moldova regions with texts and contributions by: Sorin Bocancea (political annalist), Flavius Solomon (historian), Igor Casu (historian), Petru Negura (sociologist), Matei Bejenaru (artist/curator) and Stefan Rusu (artist/curator). The other chapter is dedicated to the presentation of curatorial practices and artistic strategies exploring the contexts of some divided (split up) territories by: Catalin Gheorghe (curator, counter theorist), Laura Schleussner/Berlin, Lilia Dragneva (curator), Binna Choi (curator) and contributions by invited visual artists: Bik Van der Pol (Lisbethe Bik and Jos Van der Pol), Iratxe Jaio&Klaas van Gorkum, Tilmann Meyer-Faje, Ilya Rabinovich, Gulsun Karamstafa.

The publication also presents visual art projects and films realized by visual artists from Romania and Republic Moldova: Aurelia Mihai, Dan Acostioaei, Alexandru Grigoras, Lavinia German, Dimitru Oboroc, Violeta Ionita, Tatiana Fiodorova, Vadim Tiganas, Vladimir Us, Vladimir Us, Denis Bartenev, Maxim Cusmenco, Ghenadie Popescu, Veaceslav Druta, Igor Scerbina, Lucia Macari.

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The RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios project aim was to investigate by juxtaposing the current cultural, social and political situation in two Moldova regions. The joint actions undertaken by the project teams from the KSAK - Centre for Contemporary Art in Chisinau and that from the Vector Association in Iasi are nothing else, but an attempt to create a rapprochement and to understand the nature of the relationship between Romanian and Moldovan societies at the present stage, to analyze the causes and effects of a shared historical and identitary trajectory in the context of divided regions and societies.

RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios is a project organized by the Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau in partnership with VECTOR Association, Iasi

The project was supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute through

the CANTEMIR Program, Bucharest; PATTERNS Program /ERSTE Foundation,

Vienna and MONDRIAAN Stichting, Amsterdam.

*Center for Contemporary Art-[KSA:K] is a non-profit, independent institution registered in the year 2000. The new strategy of the Center is the development of cultural forms and art practices, which would reflect the dynamic of the social, political and economic transformations of the society. Center supports the advocacy activities in promoting of cultural policies suitable for the defining and the consolidation of artist position and contemporary art practices in the society. (www.art.md)

* Vector> Association is a non-profit cultural association that provides the production of exhibition and educational programs, research and editing activities, analyzes of the relations between the art practices and visual culture in socio-political context. Vector> supports those practices related to social re-articulation, political consciousness and economical transformation that brings critical analyses that could offer reinterpretations of the attitudes and behavior from the perspective of cultural action. (www.periferic.org)

Stefan Rusu – visual artist/curator

RO-MD/Moldova in two scenarios project curator

Details about the project:

Centrul pentru Arta Contemporana, Chisinau -[KSA:K]
Address: str. Banulescu Bodoni 5, ap-2,

post code 2000, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
tel/fax: +37322 237272

http://www.art.md

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