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Baden-Baden, Germany
Museum Frieder Burda
Baselitz Retrospective
Dates: 21 Nov 09 - 14 Mar 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Lichtentaler Allee 8b Baden-Baden 76530
Tel: +49 (0)7221 39898 0 Website
This exhibition is the last of three major retrospectives at the Museum Frieder Burda to feature significant German artists. After Polke and Richter, the Baselitz retrospective, curated by Goetz Adriani, consists of 75 large paintings and 50 works on paper, celebrating 50 years of the artist’s oeuvre. The first exhibition is divided into four main categories: works from the early 60s; diptychs from the 70s; the “Heroes” series; and the late “Remix” paintings. Chronologically organised, they trace Baselitz’s painting career from 1959 to the present.
The show aims to offer new insights by focusing on the role of the past in his work. According to Adriani, the artist’s East German heritage plays an essential part in the works shown: “Already in his early work Baselitz revolted against the political and painterly restrictions of social realism, introducing scandalous sexual themes to his art.” The “Heroes” series critically deals with “broken German heroes rather than brave German soldiers”, Adriani notes.
A highlight of the show is the “Remix” series, which Baselitz began in 2005. Engaging anew with his works from the early 1960s, he manoeuvres the past into the present. What were dark and depressed works are now repainted with a “rococo lightness” said Adriani,
In “Baselitz: 30 Years of Sculpture” at the neighbouring Staatliche Kunsthalle, which consists of 15 sculptures shown alongside eight paintings, curator Karoline Kraus explores the relationship between the artist’s sculpture and painting. Works of different media from the same creative period are displayed to offer a new perspective on the Baselitz’s three-dimensional work. Among the works on show is the new sculpture Volks Ding Zero, 2009, which is being shown for the first time.
Volks Ding Zero, 2009
Staatliche Kunsthalle
Georg Baselitz
Dates: 21 Nov 09 - 14 Mar 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Lichtentaler Allee, 8a Baden-Baden D-76530
Tel: +49 (0)722 130 0763 Website
This exhibition is the last of three major retrospectives at the Museum Frieder Burda to feature significant German artists. After Polke and Richter, the Baselitz retrospective, curated by Goetz Adriani, consists of 75 large paintings and 50 works on paper, celebrating 50 years of the artist’s oeuvre. The first exhibition is divided into four main categories: works from the early 60s; diptychs from the 70s; the “Heroes” series; and the
late “Remix” paintings. Chronologically organised, they trace Baselitz’s painting career from 1959 to the present.
The show aims to offer new insights by focusing on the role of the past in his work. According to Adriani, the artist’s East German heritage plays an essential part in the works shown: “Already in his early work Baselitz revolted against the political and painterly restrictions of social realism, introducing scandalous sexual themes to his art.” The “Heroes” series critically deals with “broken German heroes rather than brave German soldiers”, Adriani notes.
A highlight of the show is the “Remix” series, which Baselitz began in 2005. Engaging anew with his works from the early 1960s, he manoeuvres the past into the present. What were dark and depressed works are now repainted with a “rococo lightness” said Adriani,
In “Baselitz: 30 Years of Sculpture” at the neighbouring Staatliche Kunsthalle, which consists of 15 sculptures shown alongside eight paintings, curator Karoline Kraus explores the relationship between the artist’s sculpture and painting. Works of different media from the same creative period are displayed to offer a new perspective on the Baselitz’s three-dimensional work. Among the works on show is the new sculpture Volks Ding Zero, 2009 (left), which is being shown for the first time
Berlin, Germany
DaimlerChrysler Contemporary
Drawing Sculpture
Dates: 16 Sep 09 - 28 Feb 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Video & New Media
Address: Haus Huth, Alte Potsdamer Strasse 5 Berlin D-10785
Tel: +49 (0)30 259 41 420 Website
Bonn, Germany
Kunstmuseum Bonn
Julian Rosefeldt: American Night
Dates: 12 Nov 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Friedrich-Ebert-Allee, 2 Bonn D-53113
Tel: +49 (0)228 776 260 Website
Bregenz, Austria
Kunsthaus Bregenz
Tony Oursler: Lock 2, 4, 6
Dates: 24 Oct 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Video & New Media
Address: Karl Tizian Platz, Postfach 371 Bregenz A-6901
Tel: +43 (0)557 448 5940 Website
Budapest, Hungary
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum (Museum of Fine Arts)
Botticelli to Titian: Two Centuries of Italian Masterpieces
Dates: 28 Oct 09 - 14 Feb 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: Dózsa György út 41 Budapest 1146
Tel: +36 (0)1469 7100 Website
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum (Museum of Fine Arts), Budapest
28 October-14 February 2010
www.szepmuveszeti.hu
This is the second exhibition (the first was the Spanish 16th- to 19th-century painting show in 2006) of a series presented by the Hungarian Museum of Fine Arts that aims to present a canonical overview of a national school of a specific period, in this case the early and high Italian Renaissance. On view are more than 130 works, about half of which are on loan from the Louvre, the Prado, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Museum, the National Gallery, the National Gallery of Art, and Kunsthistorisches Museum and the Berlin Gemäldegalerie, the rest being complemented by works from the museum’s own collection.
This exhibition will not only provide the Hungarian public with an excellent opportunity to see masterpieces that would otherwise be beyond view, but also to afford the museum the chance to stage a much-needed money-making blockbuster, a goal its publicity department is vigorously exploiting with an international media campaign, hoping to attract at least 300,000 visitors. On view are works by such artists as Botticelli, the Bellinis, Giorgione, Raphael, Titian, Veronese and Tintoretto, and many others. Above, Raphael, The Esterházy Madonna, 1508. D.L.
Raphael, The Esterházy Madonna, 1508
Chicago, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA)
Daria Martin: Minotaur
Dates: 3 Oct 09 - 7 Feb 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 220 East Chicago Avenue Chicago 60611-2604
Tel: +1 312 280 2660 Website
Cologne, Germany
Museum Ludwig
Harun Farocki
Dates: 30 Oct 09 - 7 Mar 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Video & New Media
Address: Heinrich-Böll-Platz Cologne D-50667
Tel: +49 (0)221 221 26 165 Website
Detroit, USA
Detroit Institute of Arts
Action/Reaction: Video Installations
Dates: 3 Jul 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Address: 5200 Woodward Avenue Detroit 48202
Tel: +1 313 833 7900 Website
Dresden, Germany
Residenzschloss
Crossing the Sea with Fortuna: Saxony and Denmark—Marriages and Alliances Mirrored in Art (1548-1709)
Dates: 23 Aug 09 - 4 Jan 10
Categories: Decorative
Address: Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Schlossplatz, Georgenbau Dresden 01067
Tel: + 49 (0)3 51 49 14 2000 Website
News of arranged marriages causes outrage in the western media: the very idea of an involuntary wedding flies in the face of the bien-pensant orthodoxies of feminism and romantic love. Meanwhile, the west’s own history of arranged marriages goes largely unacknowledged (apart from anachronistic condemnations) and with it any recognition that these arrangements are largely responsible not only for the political shape of our nations today, but that they resulted in a vast and rich European artistic and cultural heritage.
Should there be any doubt about the positive effects of diplomatic unions, this exhibition of 260 objects and works of art from eight of the Dresden State Museums and another 100 loaned by the Royal Danish Collections at Rosenborg Castle (whither the show will travel next year), Fredericksborg Castle, the National Museum of Denmark, the Royal Library and the Statens Museum for Kunst, will convince the severest cultural critic.
Following the establishment of Lutheranism as the state religion of Saxony and Denmark (in 1527 and 1537 respectively), it was imperative for their rulers to find brides of the right religion to create political bonds. The international diplomatic approaches, the marriage negotiations and contractual terms, the weddings and the ensuing relationships—personal, public and political—were all commemorated by the production, exchange and collection of a vast array of works of art.
Paintings (mainly portraits) and drawings (many of the diplomatic and state occasions) by artists such as Lucas Cranach the Younger and Karel van Mander, jewellery (including spectacular Saxon and Danish chivalric orders), silver, ceremonial arms and armour, highly wrought objets de vertu in silver and gold by Johann Melchior Dinglinger, among others, commemorative coins and medals, textiles including uniforms and court dress, printed texts and images, ceramics and glass have been assembled to illustrate and provide a backdrop to four marriages over five generations and 150 years of Saxon and Danish marriages—first, of the Saxon Elector August to Anna, the daughter of King Christian III of Denmark in 1548; of the Elector Christian II to Hedwig, the daughter of the Danish King Frederick II in 1602; of Magdalene Sibylle, daughter of the Elector Johann Georg I, to Christian, Crown Prince of Denmark, in 1634; and of the Elector Johann Georg III to Anna Sophie, daughter of King Frederick II in 1666. (There is, incidentally, a British connection in all this: Hedwig’s sister, Anna, was the wife of King James VI and I of Scotland and England, and Anna Sophie was the sister of Prince Georg, the husband of the fecund but fruitless Queen Anne of England.) The objects on display relate directly to these unions; for example, we are shown the Elector Augustus’s wedding uniform, objects collected by Hedwig during her long widowhood, illustrated prints of the wedding of Magdalene Sibylle, the silver wedding armour of the Elector Johann Georg III, and much, much more. This exhibition has been long in the making. Its principal curator, Jutta Kappel, deputy director of the Grünes Gewölbe, told The Art Newspaper: “It has long been my dream to curate this exhibition. When I started work at the Grünes Gewölbe 20 years ago, I wanted to write about the women of the Saxon court and I found Jorgen Heim [curator of the Royal Danish Collections] had a similar idea. So, ‘Crossing the Sea with Fortuna’ is literally a dream come true.” The 320-page catalogue, edited by Dr Kappel and the exhibition’s specialist curator, Claudia Brink, is published by Deutscher Kunstverlag (€34.90, ISBN 9783422069091). D.L.
A 16th-century Milanese crystal nef or salt, in the form of a ship mounted in gold, enamel, emeralds and rubies
Dublin, Ireland
Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)
Philippe Parreno
Dates: 4 Nov 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Address: Royal Hospital, Military Road, Kilmainham Dublin D8
Tel: +353 (0)1 612 9900 Website
While elements of this show have been exhibited earlier this year at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and Kunsthalle Zurich, this version comes in a slightly different guise. The Algerian-born artist has worked closely with the museum’s director, Enrique Juncosa, and head of exhibitions, Rachel Thomas, to make use of the particular architectural spaces to present this show of 14 works. There are site-specific works tailored to the show, such as Orange Bay (After Gabriel Tarde’s Fragment of Future History), 2002-09, “an orange Plexiglas work covering all of the windows in the galleries so that all works will be seen in an orange glow”, said Thomas. The show is supported by L’Ambassade de France en Irelande.
The Boy from Mars, 2003.
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Dean Gallery
Running Time
Artist Films in Scotland: 1960 to Now
Dates: 17 Oct 09 - 22 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Video & New Media
Address: 73 Belford Road Edinburgh EH4 3DS
Tel: +44 (0)131 624 6200 Website
Gainesville, USA
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art
Art, Media and Material Witness: Contemporary Art from the Harn Museum Collection
Dates: 25 Aug 09 - 1 Aug 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Southwest 34th Street and Hull Road Gainesville 32611-2700
Tel: +1 352 392 9826 Website
Helsinki, Finland
Galerie Anhava
Marko Vuokola
Dates: 29 Oct 09 - 22 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Photography
Video & New Media
Address: Mannerheiminaukio 3 Helsinki 00100
Tel: +358 9 669989 Website
Indianapolis, USA
Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA)
Julie Dash: Smuggling Daydreams into Reality
Dates: 8 Aug 09 - 18 Jan 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Address: 4000 Michigan Road Indianapolis 46208-3326
Tel: +1 317 923 1331 Website
Karlsruhe, Germany
ZKM Centre for Art and Media
Produced at ZKM: Media Art Revisited
Dates: 16 Oct 09 - 1 Jan 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Lorenzstrasse 9 Karlsruhe D-76135
Tel: +49 (0)721 8100 1200 Website
Imagining Media
Dates: 10 Oct 09 - 21 Dec 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Lorenzstrasse 9 Karlsruhe D-76135
Tel: +49 (0)721 8100 1200 Website
London, United Kingdom
Chisenhale Gallery
Duncan Campbell
Dates: 13 Nov 09 - 20 Dec 09
Categories: Video & New Media
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 64 Chisenhale Road London E3 5QZ
Tel: +44 (0)20 8981 4518 Website
Hayward Gallery
Ed Ruscha: 50 Years of Painting
Dates: 14 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Post-War (1945-70)
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road London SE1 8XX
Tel: +44 (0)20 7921 0813 Website
“Each piece cultivates its own labyrinth that you can enter in to, if you were to spend a little time thinking about it.” So says Hayward Gallery director Ralph Rugoff, but it’s not a sentence you would immediately associate with the minimal paintings of Ed Ruscha. Rugoff says that through his experience of curating this autumn’s exhibition, he has discovered “layers and layers” to these “deceptively simple-looking” paintings. “The more you think about them, the more you can spin out all sorts of references and resonances that these works are setting into play,” he told The Art Newspaper.
The show of 78 works, many of which haven’t been shown before in the UK, celebrates 50 years since Ruscha first made paintings that he would include in his “official body of work”. “These were works that he made when he was still a student, but works that he feels could represent him,” says Rugoff.
Ruscha started out in the late 1950s looking at print media, magazines and books, which led to his focus on words, but treating words as objects or images rather than carriers of linguistic meaning. He became interested in the graphic potential of words and the ambiguity of communication. “One thing Ed often says is that he associates the word, because of the way it unfurls horizontally, with landscape,” Rugoff says. “He is taking a very broad definition of what landscape might be. Unless you’re painting people, which is something he doesn’t do, all painting might be related to landscape.”
Ruscha has also been very influenced by film, particularly widescreen formats such as cinemascope. Often the proportions of his work reflect this way of framing the world, with pieces that are four or fives times as wide as they are high. “It’s about a type of look, a scanning look,” says Rugoff. “It’s not a static look at one object that’s fixed in place, it’s about a landscape you might be driving through. It’s very much a product of car culture, a reflection on that.” But there is also a fascination with the sublime in Ruscha’s work, images of majestic snow-covered mountains, fiery sunsets or rays of light, a recurring motif in his paintings. “He’s very interested in ideas of grandeur, and how even when these have become clichés, they still awaken certain yearnings in us, we’re still susceptible to them,” says Rugoff.
Following this exhibition, the gallery will be closed until May 2010 for renovations. The show travels to Haus der Kunst, Munich (12 February-2 May 2010) and Moderna Museet, Stockholm (29 May-5 September 2010).R.S.
Standard Station, 1966
Raven Row
Harun Farocki: Against What? Against Whom?
Dates: 19 Nov 09 - 7 Feb 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 56-58 Artillery Lane London E1 7LS
Tel: +44 (0)20 7377 4300 Website
The German film-maker Harun Farocki turned to making films for two or more screens in the mid-1990s, works that moved him from the realm of cinema to that of art galleries. Farocki’s so-called “essay films” use found footage to highlight the variance between an “official” version of historical events as portrayed in the media, and that of real life, reflecting on the way that society uses photographs and the moving image.
Raven Row and Tate Modern have come together to present work from throughout Farocki’s career in the most comprehensive showing of his work in the UK. His single-screen films made for the cinema, dating from the 1960s, are screened in Tate Modern’s Starr Auditorium, curated by Stuart Comer, Antje Ehmann and the Otolith Group, while one six-screen work and eight multi-screen installations made since 1995 show at the Raven Row gallery.
Farocki, born in Czechoslovakia in 1944 in the then German annexed town of Novy Jicín, rose from the politicised environment of German film-making in the 1960s, and represents the shift of the moving image from cinema to gallery. The Tate is screening more than 20 films including two of his most significant works, Images of the World and the Inscription of War, 1988, and Videograms of a Revolution, 1992, about the Romanian revolution, which, Comer says, explores “the way media culture influences how we see history and how we see war, and how war even determines history through media images”. The Tate also hosts interviews with Farocki and discussions about his work.
“An analysis and understanding of editing is something that Farocki applies to all his work,” said Raven Row director Alex Sainsbury. “It drove him to work on two screens to allow what he calls ‘simultaneity’ as well as succession, so that two images could comment on one another and cross over. He is extremely interested in the way that images are used and how we are made to read them in particular ways.”
A 12-screen work showing at Ravens Row, Workers Leaving the Factory in Eleven Decades, 2006, consists of found footage showing factory workers through the ages heading for home at the end of their shift. The work is also a history of cinema, as it features Louis Lumière’s La Sortie des Usines Lumière, 1895 (above), a short, silent test film of employees leaving the Lumière factory, considered to be the first motion picture ever to be made. For his newest work, Immersion, 2009, Farocki filmed victims of the Iraq war undergoing therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder. A catalogue is published by Koenig Books to coincide with the Raven Row show.
Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
Of Dreams and Cities - Architecture in Film
Dates: 31 Oct 09 - 29 Nov 09
Categories: Design
Video & New Media
Address: 66 Portland Place London W1N 4AD
Tel: +44 (0)20 7636 4389 Website
Tate Modern
Harun Farocki
Dates: 13 Nov 09 - 6 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Bankside Power Station, 25 Sumner Street London SE1
Tel: +44 (0)20 7887 8888 Website
The German film-maker Harun Farocki turned to making films for two or more screens in the mid-1990s, works that moved him from the realm of cinema to that of art galleries. Farocki’s so-called “essay films” use found footage to highlight the variance between an “official” version of historical events as portrayed in the media, and that of real life, reflecting on the way that society uses photographs and the moving image.
Raven Row and Tate Modern have come together to present work from throughout Farocki’s career in the most comprehensive showing of his work in the UK. His single-screen films made for the cinema, dating from the 1960s, are screened in Tate Modern’s Starr Auditorium, curated by Stuart Comer, Antje Ehmann and the Otolith Group, while one six-screen work and eight multi-screen installations made since 1995 show at the Raven Row gallery.
Farocki, born in Czechoslovakia in 1944 in the then German annexed town of Novy Jicín, rose from the politicised environment of German film-making in the 1960s, and represents the shift of the moving image from cinema to gallery. The Tate is screening more than 20 films including two of his most significant works, Images of the World and the Inscription of War, 1988, and Videograms of a Revolution, 1992, about the Romanian revolution, which, Comer says, explores “the way media culture influences how we see history and how we see war, and how war even determines history through media images”. The Tate also hosts interviews with Farocki and discussions about his work.
“An analysis and understanding of editing is something that Farocki applies to all his work,” said Raven Row director Alex Sainsbury. “It drove him to work on two screens to allow what he calls ‘simultaneity’ as well as succession, so that two images could comment on one another and cross over. He is extremely interested in the way that images are used and how we are made to read them in particular ways.”
A 12-screen work showing at Ravens Row, Workers Leaving the Factory in Eleven Decades, 2006, consists of found footage showing factory workers through the ages heading for home at the end of their shift. The work is also a history of cinema, as it features Louis Lumière’s La Sortie des Usines Lumière, 1895, a short, silent test film of employees leaving the Lumière factory, considered to be the first motion picture ever to be made. For his newest work, Immersion, 2009, Farocki filmed victims of the Iraq war undergoing therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder. A catalogue is published by Koenig Books to coincide with the Raven Row show.
Louis Lumière’s La Sortie des Usines Lumière, 1895
Manchester, United Kingdom
Whitworth Art Gallery
The Complete Roberta Breitmore: Lynn Hershman Leeson
Dates: 30 Sep 09 - 31 Aug 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Video & New Media
Address: Oxford Road Manchester M15 6ER
Tel: +44 (0)161 275 7450 Website
Miami, USA
Margulies Collection at the Warehouse
Sculpture & Video: New Additions to the Collection including Franz West, Sara Barker, Zilvinas Kempinas, Ivan Navarro & Bill Viola
Dates: 18 Nov 09 - 25 Apr 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 591 Northwest 27th Street Miami 33127
Tel: +1 305 576 1051 Website
Munich, Germany
Pinakothek der Moderne
Thomas Steffl: Naked Nation
Dates: 2 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Barer Strasse 29 Munich D-80333
Tel: +49 (0)89 23 805 280 Website
New York, USA
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Looking at Music: Side 2
Dates: 17 Jun 09 - 30 Nov 09
Categories: Video & New Media
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 11 West 53rd Street New York 10019-5497
Tel: +1 212 708 9400 Website
PS1 Contemporary Art Center
100 Years
Dates: 1 Nov 09 - 5 Apr 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City New York 11101
Tel: +1 718 784 2084 Website
The idea behind “100 Years”, which is is held in conjunction with the Performa 09 biennial, is to outline a history of performance art, marking the 100 years that have passed since the futurist manifesto was published. Images, documentation and films of performances, happenings and events trace such key works as Allan Kaprow’s 18 Happenings in 6 Parts, 1959, Yves Klein’s Anthropométrie de l’Epoque Bleue, 1960, Yoko Ono’s Bed In (Bed Peace), 1969, Matthew Barney’s Drawings Restraint, 1987-present, Tilda Swinton’s The Maybe, 1995, and Tino Sehgal’s Kiss, 2004. A different version of the show is at the Julia Stoschek Collection in Düsseldorf, Germany (until 31 July 2010). This show, curated by Klaus Biesenbach, PS1 chief curatorial adviser and MoMA chief curator of media and performance art, and RoseLee Goldberg, Performa’s director, is supported by the Annual Exhibition Fund of PS1 Contemporary Art Center and the Julia Stoschek Foundation.
Tilda Swinton’s The Maybe, 1995
NewYork, USA
Performa
Performa 09
Dates: 1 Nov 09 - 22 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Video & New Media
Address: Various venues NewYork
Tel: Website
P erforma 09 is the third biennial of new visual art performance, held in collaboration with 80 institutions, and featuring more than 150 international artists in about 110 events organised by 40 international curators—all in just three weeks.
That dizzying set of statistics is being overseen by director RoseLee Goldberg, who set up the non-profit arts organisation Performa in 2004 and has done much to bring performance art and its history to the fore, as much through her writings as through her teaching and curatorial work, turning the public eye on to such performance artists as Marina Abramovic and Laurie Anderson.
“The major difference for Performa 09 compared with previous biennials is that we’re commissioning from all disciplines, encompassing art, music, dance, poetry, fashion, architecture, film, television, design, food—it’s crossing all disciplines, and that is the big leap forward this year,” said Goldberg. Her major contribution this year is the “Performa Commissions” series, which forms the nerve centre of the biennial, alongside, for the first time, a “Performa Premieres” programme featuring six pieces never before seen in New York.
The 11 new commissions are by Guy Ben-Ner, Candice Breitz, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Omer Fast, Yeondoo Jung, Mike Kelley, Arto Lindsay, Wangechi Mutu, Christian Tomaszewski, Futurist Life Redux and Music for 16 Futurist Noise Intoners (a group of experimental musicians and composers).
South African video and installation artist Candice Breitz is presenting New York New York, 2009, her first live performance work. The piece features two casts, made up of identical twins performing on identical sets, spontaneously responding to scripts given to them on the spot. Unlike the performers, viewers will be able to take in both performances in real time.
Other highlights in this programme include Yeondoo Jung’s Cinemagician, 2009, at the Asia Society—a theatre piece, commissioned with the Yokohama Festival for Video and Social Technology, that looks at the relationship between magic and cinema—and Omer Fast’s first live performance piece, commissioned with the Artis Contemporary Israeli Art Fund, which looks at history and memory through the re-enaction of a childhood storytelling game.
The six artists chosen for the “Performa Premieres” programme are Keren Cytter, Tacita Dean, Alicia Framis, Loris Gréaud, William Kentridge and Joan Jonas. British artist Tacita Dean is presenting Craneway Event, 2009, at Danspace Project in the Bowery. This feature-length work shows the choreographer Merce Cunningham and his company in rehearsal in a deserted Ford motor factory in California, marking Cunningham’s last appearance on film before his death in July. South African artist William Kentridge is showing I Am Not Me, the Horse is Not Mine, 2009, a work related to his current opera-in-progress inspired by Dmitri Shostakovich’s 1928 satirical opera “The Nose”, and French artist Loris Gréaud is showing a video of a fireworks display in Abu Dhabi that he co-designed with Groupe F.
There are related events across the city involving architecture, design, dance, film, music and food. Berlin-based architecture collective An Architektur is creating a “living think-tank” about the future of architecture in New York, Spanish designer Marti Guixé is staging Mealing, a three-hour performance involving 200 people and “edible microsnacks”, and Jennifer Rubell stages Creation on the opening night of the biennial, with a series of food installations at X Initiative.
Rosie Spencer
A performance still from the Korean artist Yeondoo Jung’s theatrical work Cinemagician, showing at the Asia Society, New York, as part of Performa 09
Otterlo, Netherlands
Kröller-Müller Museum
Club Mama Gemütlich: Christiaan Bastiaans
Dates: 30 Oct 09 - 21 Feb 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Video & New Media
Address: Houtkampweg 6 Otterlo 6731 AW
Tel: +31 (0)31 859 1241 Website
Paris, France
Centre Pompidou
The Subversion of Images
Dates: 23 Sep 09 - 11 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Photography
Video & New Media
Address: 19, rue du Renard Paris 75191
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 78 12 33 Website
Institut du Monde Arabe
Palestine: Creation In All Its States
Dates: 23 Jun 09 - 22 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Middle East
Address: 1, rue des Fossés-Saint-Bernard Place Mohammed-V Paris 75005
Tel: +33 (0)1 40 51 38 38 Website
This year saw important developments in the field of Middle Eastern contemporary art, as established and up-and-coming artists from the region followed in the footsteps of their Chinese and Russian counterparts in capturing the attention of international collectors and sellers. Charles Saatchi stamped a seal of approval on the field with his exhibition “Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East”.
Amid the furore, the voice of Palestinian artists is rising. This month, for the first time, the territories will be represented at the 53rd Venice Biennale in an exciting exhibition that, according to curator Salwa Mikdadi, “underscores the chronic impermanence faced by Palestinian artists”.
Within this context, the exhibition at the Institut du monde arabe (IMA) could not be more timely. For 20 years, the IMA has sought to convey the importance and breadth of contemporary Arab art, becoming a crucial platform between two cultures. This show brings together the work of 19 artists, men and women, across generations, working in varying techniques, living and locally or abroad, who commune in a Palestinian aesthetic forged in exile and displacement.
Taysir Batniji and Khalil Rabah, two artists who are showing in Venice, explore these themes respectively in a series of 26 photographs, Miradors, 2008 and United States of Palestine Airlines, London Office, 2007, and Mona Hatoum is represented by Every Door a Wall, 2003, which describes through silkscreen the plight of illegal immigrants smuggled inside a truck.
The media – from drawings and paintings, photography, video and installation art – mix with ease, and in the breadth of the curatorial choice, we are provided with an interesting overview of the state of Palestinian art in the 21st century. Caroline Cardon
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC
Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Primitive
Dates: 1 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 11, avenue du Président Wilson Paris 75116
Tel: +33 (0)1 53 67 40 00 Website
Philadelphia, USA
Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
Video Art: Replay
Dates: 11 Sep 09 - 1 Aug 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Address: University of Pennsylvania 118 South 36th Street Philadelphia 19104-3289
Tel: +1 215 898 5911 Website
Dance with Camera
Dates: 11 Sep 09 - 21 Mar 10
Categories: Photography
Video & New Media
Address: University of Pennsylvania 118 South 36th Street Philadelphia 19104-3289
Tel: +1 215 898 5911 Website
San Diego, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (Downtown)
Joan Jonas: the Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things
Dates: 1 Aug 09 - 1 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Video & New Media
Address: 1001 Kettner at Broadway San Diego 92101
Tel: +1 858 454 3541 Website
Shanghai, China
Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai (MoCA)
Animamix Biennial 2009-10
Dates: 1 Nov 09 - 28 Feb 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Address: People’s Park, Gate 7, 231 Nanjing West Road Shanghai 200003
Tel: +86 21 6327 9900 Website
St Gallen, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum St Gallen
Fantasies/Topographies: 16th- and 17th-century Netherlandish Landscapes
Dates: 29 Aug 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: Museumstrasse 32 St Gallen 9000
Tel: +41 (0)71 242 0671 Website
Dutch landscape came into its own, so it is said, as a result of the revolt or war of independence (1568-1648) when artists celebrated the nascent independent nation with views, real and imaginary, that celebrated the country’s rural environs and, of course, its sea coast and shipping. This exhibition compares and contrasts actual visual transcriptions of sites (the topographies) and the invented or dreamed images that evoked a beloved, but unreal, country (that included, in the baroque, alpine scenes). This exhibition includes works in three media by artists such as Esaias van de Velde, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Jan van Goyen, Jacob van Ruisdael and Rembrandt, thus showing the development of landscape from renaissance “realism” to baroque panoramas and inventions. The prints on show have been loaned by an undisclosed private Swiss collection and are being shown to the public for the first time. D.L.
Sydney, Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Video Swell
Dates: 2 Oct 09 - 13 Dec 09
Categories: Video & New Media
Address: Art Gallery Road, The Domain Sydney NSW 2000
Tel: +61 (0)2 9225 1700 Website
Powerhouse Museum
Artefact H10515
Dates: 8 Sep 09 - 31 Aug 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Address: 500 Harris Street Ultimo Sydney NSW 2007
Tel: +61 (0)2 9217 0111 Website
Toronto, Canada
Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery
Candice Breitz
Dates: 19 Sep 09 - 22 Nov 09
Categories: Video & New Media
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 231 Queens Quay West Toronto M55 2G8
Tel: +1 416 973 4949 Website
Vienna, Austria
Kunsthalle Wien
Videorama: Art Clips from Austria
Dates: 4 Nov 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Address: Museumsplatz 1 Vienna A-1070
Tel: +43 (0) 1 521 8922 Website
West Palm Beach, USA
Norton Museum of Art
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Dates: 7 Nov 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 1451 South Olive Avenue West Palm Beach 33401
Tel: +1 561 832 5196 Website
Zurich, Switzerland
Migros Museum
A Short History of Animation
Dates: 1 Nov 09 - 31 Dec 09
Categories: Video & New Media
Address: Limmatstrasse 270 Zurich CH-8005
Tel: +41 (0)1 2772050 Website
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