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VOLTA NY 2012 | March 8-11, 2012

In addition to an impressive array of artists showing solo projects at VOLTA NY – a total of 80 galleries, representing 25 countries and 45 cities – the cutting-edge art fair will also feature content beyond the limits of the exhibitor booth.

HomeBase Project, the non-for-profit, artist-run cultural initiative, presents the U.S. launch of its artistic craft Ignatz Bier, brewed at the HomeBase LAB in Berlin. HomeBase Project holds a talk and auction of their products on Saturday at the fair. NURTUREart Non-Profit Inc., which provides exhibition opportunities and resources for emerging artists, curators, and local public school students, shows photography from New York City artist David Schoerner, featured in NURTUREart‘s 2011 Open Call. The contemporary art online marketplace Artspace.com presents a sensory immersion space by assume vivid astro focus, plus works by artists in partnership with leading cultural institutions worldwide. VOLTA NY‘s official sponsor Gallerist hosts an online version of the fair, extending its duration and reach to global collectors via a high-resolution, dynamic display.

The fair’s opening day features a live taping of cable TV series Art/Trek NYC, a five-borough quest showcasing emerging artistic talent. The winner enjoys their debut solo gallery show underwritten by Art/Trek NYC‘s sponsor, WelcometoCOMPANY. In addition, Art/Trek NYC‘s five finalists will be featured in a dedicated booth for the duration of the fair: Edoheart (Brooklyn), Allison Kaufman (Manhattan), Christopher Smith (The Bronx), PEACOCK (Queens), and Nicholas Fevelo (Staten Island).

CULTURE SHOCK presents BOOM!, a visitor-interactive celebration of technology, creativity, physicality and art, featuring boomboxes from Lyle Owerko; generative animation iPad apps from Glenn Marshall; audio interfaces curated by Dave Hodge; and dance performances by Victor “Kid Glyde” Alicea and Melanie Aguirre. Additionally, a series of related video animations will screen in the fair elevators.

Performances at VOLTA NY add further dimension to exhibiting artists’ methodology and disciplines. Wilmer Wilson IV (USA), member of Conner Contemporary‘s *gogo emerging art projects and participant in the upcoming DC Commission on Arts and Humanities 5×5 Public Art Project, will perform three different durational works from Thursday through Saturday at the fair. Pristine Galerie presents a participatory performance created by Oreet Ashery (UK), featuring a delegated artist painting performers as both an allusion to Yves Klein and a meditation on body politics.

The 2012 edition of Open Forum, hosted in conjunction with The Armory Show and organized by curator Amanda Parmer, highlights the fairs’ Nordic Focus with thought-provoking conversations featuring artists, curators and critical minds from New York and Scandinavia. Included at VOLTA NY are journalist and Osloo project contributor Maria Kjær Themsen with curators Birta Gudjonsdottir (Berlin/Reykjavik) and Aura Seikkula (Helsinki), plus Bombblog editor Legacy Russell; a journalism panel moderated by Margaret Liu Clinton, Blind Spot’s Contributing Editor-At-large, with writer Magnus Bons (Norway), Kunstforum editor André Gali and curator and writer Stamatina Gregory (Brooklyn); artists Anna Lundh (Stockholm/New York) and Bryan Zanisnik (Brooklyn), on their respective temporal projects; and DIY public access collective Paper Tiger Television co-founder Maria Byck with Norwegian artist Sara Eliassen on her “anti-commercials” Not Worth It (No: Handlefri).

A full artists and gallery list, plus visiting hours and access information, can be found by visiting our website: www.voltashow.com

ESSENTIAL INFORMATION:

Dates and Time
VOLTA NY takes place in 2012 to coincide with our partner fair
The Armory Show,
from Thursday, March 8th – Sunday, March 11th.

Location
7W, 7 West 34th Street
(Between 5th / 6th Avenue; Opposite Empire State Building)
New York, NY 10001 USA

11th Floor: Fair Location
10th Floor: Show/Press Office
7thFloor: “Open Forum” Talks Lounge

Preview
Thursday, March 8th
Guest of Honor: 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
VIP/Press: 12 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Access with personal invitation from VOLTA NY (for Armory VIPs) or VOLTA NY credentials.

Public Hours Daily
Thursday, March 8th: 2 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Friday, March 9th – Sunday, March 11th: 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Admission and Catalogue Prices
General Admission: US $15
Student/Seniors: US $10
The Armory Show/VOLTA NY Combo Pass: US $40
This ticket can be purchased online in advance.
VOLTA NY Catalogue: US $40

Getting There
Shuttle: A regular complimentary bus shuttle service will run every 20 mins to and from The Armory Show and VOLTA NY, from Thursday March 8th through Sunday March 11th, from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Subway: The yellow N/Q/R/W line and orange B/D/F/V line stop directly at 34th Street and 6th Avenue/Broadway. Walk a half block east. The green 6 line stops at 33rd and Park Avenue (do not take 4/5, they are express!). Walk 2 1/2 blocks west.

VOLTA NY Contact Information
For General enquiries: info@voltashow.com
For Press enquiries: press@voltashow.com

IMAGERY DIMENSION: 1st INTERNATIONAL ONLINE FESTIVAL FOR ART+INNOVATION
October 17, 2011 – March 31, 2012

Imagery Dimension will honor those creators who virtuously synthesize innovative technology and outstanding artistic talent within the following categories: photography, plastic, technologic, short film and audiovisual contemporary art. The festival’s expert jury will award 50 prizes, including $3,500 in cash, promotional awards worth $60,000 and participation in the 2012 Hamptons Auction. Five extra prizes will be awarded based on public vote.

The Festival will be held online and presented to the contacts of all the media collaborators as well as to the 120,000 VideoArtWorld subscribers, included among them are curators, galleries, institutions, collectors, distributors, promoters and related professionals in the field. We hope everyone enjoys navigating the imagery dimension!

Participants can present their body of work by “opening their imagery dimension” at www.imagerydimension.com

OFFLINE PRESENTATION EVENT:

Official presentation will take place Thursday Jan. 9th, at 4pm, within the KINETICA ARTFAIR, located at Ambika P3, 35 Marylebone Street, London NW1 5LS.

www.kinetica-artfair.com

MANIFESTO

open your imagery dimension | alternative realities for the industry of thought

id+affairs: promoting creative endeavors that explore innovative technologies and ideas in collaboration with devoted institutions and professionals under equitable terms.

id+markets: generating and consolidating fair value for contemporary art and innovation, reaching the interest and support of both public and private sectors.

id+rights: encouraging creators to exercise their rights on authorship using licenses that best suit each specific creation, medium and scope.

id+ethics: supporting policies that seek transparency, fair conduct and appropriate procedures among professionals towards a sustainable economy for the intangible.

DATES

Online Festival: October 2011 – March 2012

Call for submissions deadline: EXTENDED to March 31st, 2012

Offline Presentation: 4pm, February 9th, 2012. Kinetica Art Fair, London

Winners auction sale: July 14th, 2012. Bridgehampton, New York

JURY

Brian Apple: Art critic and collector consultant focused in contemporary photography, teacher at the School of Visual Arts, New York

Don Foresta: Director of Multimedia Art Research and Electronic Laboratoires (MARCEL) at European Center of Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva

Geraldine Gomez: Director of audiovisual programs at Centre Pompidou, Paris

Rosina Gomez-Baeza: Cultural manager, former director of LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Center, Gijón and former director of ARCO Fair, Madrid

Menene Gras: Curator and exhibitions director of Casa Asia, Madrid – Barcelona

Gye-Joong Kim: Director of Seoul Experimental Film Festival (EXiS), Seoul

Tony Langford: Director of Kinetica Art Fair, London

Amanda MacDonald Crowley: Art Curator and former director of EYEBEAM Art+Technology Center, New York

Macu Moran: Art Curator, former new markets director for artnet.com, New York and director of VideoArtWorld, Barcelona – New York

Oscar Peyrou: President of Spanish Association of Cinematographic Press, delegate of The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) and of the Federation of Film Critics of Europe and the Mediterranean (FEDEORA)

Berta Sichel: Art curator, former director of audiovisuals for the National Museum Art Center Reina Sofia (MNCARS), Madrid

Raul Zamudio: Art critic, writer and curator, former curator of Seoul Media Bienale and professor at John Jay College, Kean University and Parsons the New School for Design, New York

CATEGORIES

Plastic: Painting, graphic, sculpture and installation.

Photography: Digital, analog and photomontage.

Technologic: Robotic-art, electronic-art, kinetic-art, bio-art, nano-art, light-art, virtual-art, interactive-art, software-art, game-art, sound-art, engineering-art, data visualization, cyberculture and net-art.

Short-film: Fiction short-film, animation short-film, documentary and docu-fiction.

Audiovisual Contemporary Art: Video creation, Expanded painting, expanded photography, performance, video animation, single channel, video installation and experimental cinema.

PRIZES

Plastic:

One 1st prize winner: Certificate + 700 USD + Promotional Award for three years at PlasticArtWorld (3.000 USD value) + Work at Hamptons Auction 2012

Three ex aequo 2nd prize winners: Certificate + Promotional Award for two years at PlasticArtWorld (2.000 USD value)

Six ex aequo 3rd prize winners: Certificate + Promotional Award for one year at PlasticArtWorld (1.000 USD value)

One public vote winner (based on facebook likes): Certificate + Promotional Award for one year at PlasticArtWorld (1.000 USD value)

Photography:

One 1st prize winner: Certificate + 700 USD + Promotional Award for three years at PhotographyArtWorld (3.000 USD value) + Work at Hamptons Auction 2012

Three ex aequo 2nd prize winners: Certificate + Promotional Award for two years at PhotographyArtWorld (2.000 USD value)

Six ex aequo 3rd prize winners: Certificate + Promotional Award for one year at PhotographyArtWorld (1.000 USD value)

One public vote winner (based on facebook likes): Certificate + Promotional Award for one year at TechArtWorld (1.000 USD value)

Technologic:

One 1st prize winner: Certificate + 700 USD + Promotional Award for three years at TechArtWorld (3.000 USD value) + Work at Hamptons Auction 2012

Three ex aequo 2nd prize winners: Certificate + Promotional Award for two years at TechArtWorld (2.000 USD value)

Six ex aequo 3rd prize winners: Certificate + Promotional Award for one year at TechArtWorld (1.000 USD value)

One public vote winner (based on facebook likes): Certificate + Promotional Award for one year at TechArtWorld (1.000 USD value)

Short Film:

One 1st prize winner: Certificate + 700 USD + Promotional Award for three years at ShortfilmArtWorld (3.000 USD value) + Work at Hamptons Auction 2012

Three ex aequo 2nd prize winners: Certificate + Promotional Award for two years at ShortfilmArtWorld (2.000 USD value)

Six ex aequo 3rd prize winners: Certificate + Promotional Award for one year at ShortfilmArtWorld (1.000 USD value)

One public vote winner (based on facebook likes): Certificate + Promotional Award for one year at ShortfilmArtWorld (1.000 USD value)

Audiovisual Contemporary Art:

One 1st prize winner: Certificate + 700 USD + Promotional Award for three years at VideoArtWorld (3.000 USD value) + Work at Hamptons Auction 2012

Three ex aequo 2nd prize winners: Certificate + Promotional Award for two years at VideoArtWorld (2.000 USD value)

Six ex aequo 3rd prize winners: Certificate + Promotional Award for one year at VideoArtWorld (1.000 USD value)

One public vote winner (based on facebook likes): Certificate + Promotional Award for one year at VideoArtWorld (1.000 USD value)

CONDITIONS

All artists, authors and collectives are welcome to participate, regardless of their nationality or country of residency.

English is the chosen language for the online festival, therefore English descriptions and subtitles when needed are recommended.

Each participant can submit an unlimited number of works and/or projects, and a minimum of 4 works. The participant is responsible for the content published, as well as the authorship and credits disclosed.

Jury will especially praise the innovation applied within techniques, materials and mediums, both digital and analog, as well as the conceptual relevance and technical abilities shown through the author’s complete body of work, and not through a single work.

Applicant will show his/her profile and artistic production trajectory online at the festival website: www.imagerydimension.com. Postal mail and/or emails will not be accepted and therefore the festival is not responsible for receiving unwanted materials.

Imagery Dimension holds the right to ask for images or excerpts from works for publicity matters, exclusively limited to the festival promotion.

All commercial and intellectual property rights are and will be reserved to the author, who can, at any given time, modify and/or eliminate all his/her data.

Through the online festival, all participants will have online his/her profile and body of work (fully or partially) active and accessible to public until the end of the festival.  Those not awarded, but with a positive rating, will be welcome to keep their profile active online without any maintenance costs, available for future Imagery Dimension activities and related open calls.

Awards: Cash prizes abide by the tax system of Spain. Promotional awards consist of the winner’s non-exclusive professional representation by Imagery Dimension Agencies, regarding consulting, international promotion, sales and exhibition rights distribution, with a 25% commission rate on the commercial use of the work, always in collaboration with author’s other agencies, producers, distributors and/or galleries. Non-finished projects can also be presented for crowdfunding online proposals.

EXTENDED WORLDWIDE OPEN CALL FOR ART+INNOVATION
Presentation Jan. 9, 4pm: Kinetica Artfair, London
festival@imagerydimension.com
www.imagerydimension.com

SUPERMARKET 2012 – Stockholm Independent Art Fair
Kulturhuset, Stockholm 17–19 February 2012

Press Preview
Performance Art Stage RED SPOT, 3rd floor (Hörsalen), Kulturhuset.
Thursday 16 February, 11 am–1 pm.
Accreditation: accred@supermarketartfair.com

The international art fair created and managed by artists where hundreds of artists from over 30 countries show the latest tendencies in contemporary art. Performance art, photography, painting, video and more. This year it again occupies Kulturhuset for a couple of rowdy days in mid-February, in the apocalyptic year 2012.

On the programme: Seminar Programme TALKS, Performance Art Stage RED SPOT, Special Exhibition “6 Euro Budget”, Network Meetings and much more. SUPERMARKET ART MAGAZINE 2nd issue is released including the catalogue. This year’s theme – The waiting room of Eternity – is dealing with the concept of how to value art and the apocalyptic concerns of our time.

Artist-run spaces from Albania, Australia, Austria, Bosnia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA.

Contact:
Pontus Raud, Project Manager
+46 73 999 34 29
pontus@supermarketartfair.com
Andreas Ribbung, Project Manager
+46 709 451724
andreas@supermarketartfair.com

PRESS IMAGES AVAILABLE IN PRESS ROOM ON
www.supermarketartfair.com

When: 17-19 February 2012. Press preview 16 February, 11 am, 3rd floor. Opening hours Friday 11-22, Saturday 11-20, Sunday 11-18.
Where: 3rd and 5th floor of Kulturhuset, in the centre of Stockholm.
Exhibition: Hundreds of artists, 80 artist-run galleries and similar artists’ initiatives from over 30 countries.
Admission SEK 100, Catalouge SEK 90, Admission + Catalouge SEK 150 (SEK 100 for students/OAPs). Free under age 16.

Aimez vous les abeilles? Vi piacciono le api? Do you like bees?

Venice and Milan turn on the beehive culture on roofs and terraces.
January / October 2012

Talking about bees in this period of social, political and cultural confusion seems an appropriate example for how things could work in the world if we were less arrogant and more orientated to save what we possess instead of trying to get more. The bees army merits a lot of observations, analysis, research work and studies as we owe a big part of our wellness to the bees artists. In the course of the last ten years very serious circumstances put the bees’survival at risk and at the same time the infinite quantity of benefits bees offer to humanity.

Increasing pollution, the use of pesticides and the lack of a vegetation that creates a favourable micro-climate for their activities – these three factors have contributed to the looming threat that the ecological balance, supported by the bees in an incisive manner, is not granted any more.

A way out of the impasse is the development of innovative methods which explore alternative urban spaces in which the bees find a fertile base in order to execute activities for the production of their goods. This is the objective of an innovative competition dedicated to the design and the planning of functional beehives which can be easily reproduced by hobby bee keepers living in the cities, by any kind of bee sympathizers, by people who would like to contribute to the idea of offering a refuge to the bees in urban spaces like on the roofs, on terraces or near the windows on any kind of wall.

The competition has the patronage of the public administrations of the Veneto and of the City of Venice and a final exhibition of realized beehives will take place at the Museo di Storia Naturale in collaboration with the Fondazione Musei Civici Veneziani in September 2012, contemporaneously with the Biennale of Architecture.

The competition rules can be downloaded here.

The competition is officially addressed to students of fine arts, architecture and design, and to young architects and designers under 30, without restriction regarding their nationality. Three of the best proposals will get an award under the form of a scholarship. Demands of participation can be sent by mail to  abeilles.competition@gmail.com.

Download the application form here.

The second category is addressed to all the bee lovers in the world without restriction of age, nationality and profession in order to create a functional and aesthetically innovative beehive which should be adopted by citizens in order to increase the return of the bees to the cities. A commission of landscape architects, bee keepers and experts, will value the proposals and a final exhibition of the objects will take place in Milan in autumn in 2012.

If you want to partecipate in the second category, please download the application form here.

On December 20th the project was presented at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brera, Milan, where a group of experts, for the first time,  lanced the idea of commitment. Brera is already engaged in an innovative pilot – experiment to create beehives for the cities with the students.

The project “Aimez-vous les abeilles“, conceived and curated by Elisabeth Saint Juste Gluckstein, and coordinated by the international group  TheSeven Projects, is an example of synergy between public administrations, private societies, local sponsors, volunteers deriving from different fields of action, professional beekeepers and research workers, architects and landscape planners, curators and critics.  The adherents desire in an unanimous way to contribute to the possible return of the bees in the towns in order to contrast efficiently Albert Einstein’s serious thought on our future: If bees disappeared from Earth, only four years of life would be left to Mankind.

Further information and study material can be found here.

The project is promoted by Sopramaresotto, Consorzio Apicoltori Province Gorizia e Udine, Milano Food Week.

Official Media Partner: It’s Liquid Group

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Ruoli Segreti e Ruoli Proibiti / Hidden & Forbidden Identities | Venice (Italy)

General Information.
In the prestigious spaces of Palazzo Albrizzi in Venice starts Ruoli Segreti e Ruoli Proibiti / Hidden & Forbidden Identities, an international videoart festival and photography exhibition which opens the doors on Saturday, February 11th at 17:30 with a musical interlude by Enzo Caroli and Simone Rocchi. Fifty-one video artists and twenty-eight photo artists from thirty different countries has been selected to be part of this project.

The event, organized by TheSeven and International ArtExpo, will be divided into three sections: a photography exhibition that reflects the concept of the Carnival in a pluralism conceptual view. A videoart festival indoor that will be screened every day in the afternoon in different places of Venice. Outdoor screenings entitled Architetture Velate / Architecture in Disguise with the works of five artists that cover the substance of the buildings with a second calligraphy skin.

The selections has been based on the main concept of “Hidden & Forbidden Identities“
“Whoever might believe to understand a phenomenon without knowing its background, loses the opportunity to cope with an instructive manual about the sense or nonsense of masking. This is even more true in relation to an event whose psychological, religious and ethnographic implications represent a real source of studies and virtuosity of the soul and of the body. We should remember that in the myths of different world cultures, the tribes in Africa, various peoples in Asia, in North America, in Europe, the mask has a double matrix: it is connected with an archetype of the human soul, with aggression, and on the other hand it is correlated with the essential passage during an initial ritual of death and life. What has remained of these myths and of past archetypes in our every days’ disguise? Carnival means mask, Carnival means disguise, Carnival permits any kind of funny odd things. Whoever feels a sudden desire to change, himself or his environment, from any point of view, is mature for Carnival.” Elis Saint Juste Gluckstein, 2011

.organizers: International ArtExpo, The Seven
.curators: Luca Curci, Elis Saint Juste
.project coordinators: Associazione “Arte in Bragora”, Biagio Ciraldo

.exhibition place: Palazzo Albrizzi, Cannaregio on February 11 – March 10, 2012
.screening places: Palazzo Albrizzi, Cannaregio / Procuratie Court Yards, San Marco / Giardini Greenhouse, near Biennale – Castello (February 13-21, 2012 from 4:00 to 7:00 pm) / Parish Church San Giovanni Battista in Bragora, Castello (indoor screenings: February 12-19, 2012 from 4:00 to 7:00 pm | outdoor screenings: February 12-19, 2012 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm) / Venezia Terminal Passeggeri, Stazione Marittima, Dorsoduro (February 17, 2012 from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm) / Residence I.R.E Zitelle (Venice, Italy) on February 11 – 21, 2012

.opening: February 11, 2012 at Palazzo Albrizzi – Cannaregio 4118, Venice at 17:30 with a concert performance “Il Carnevale di Venezia” with Enzo Caroli (flute) and Simone Rocchi (piano)

.with the patronage of: Provincia di Venezia / Comune di Venezia / Consolato d’Austria / Consolato di Francia / Ambasciata d’Israele / Consolato del Canada / Istituto di Cultura Slava / Consolato Generale di Germania a Milano / Goethe Institut di Roma / Institut Français di Milano
.partners: Venezia Marketing Eventi
.collaborations: Associazione Culturale Italo-Tedesca di Venezia (www.acitve.it) / Fondazione Musei Civici Veneziani
.with the participation of: Alliance Française de Venise / Cooperativa Nonsoloverde / Fondazione Signum, Venezia / Venezia Terminal Passeggeri / Istituto Europeo di Design / Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia / Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere / Inna Contemporary Art Space, HangZhou
.media partners: Sopramaresotto, Taob, Nemeton Network

.press Office: It’s LIQUID Group c/o Luca Curci Architects
Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33 - 70122 Bari (Italy)
+39.0805234018 | +39.3387574098  
info@itsliquid.com | www.itsliquid.com

.video-artists
Alaleh Alamir . Iran | Giacomo Arrigoni & Chiara Spagnoli . Italy | Sharlene Bamboat & Alexis Mitchell . Canada | Ursula Berlot . Slovenia | Derek Michael Besant . Canada | James A. Cook . USA | Fernanda D’Agostino . USA | Giral Dominique . France | Jonas Englert . Germany | Francesca Fini . Italy | Lucia Flego . Italy | Marina Fomenko . Russia | Ger Ger . USA | Joseph Girandola . USA | Paul Handley . New Zealand | Wei-Ming Ho . Taiwan | Niels Hoebers . The Netherlands | Freya Holdsworth . Austria | Majlinda Kelmendi . Albania | Orhan Kerkezi & Adem Rusinovci . Kosovo | Satu Kiuru . Finland | Vitor Lago Silva . Portugal | Leonore Lee & Olivia Ting . USA | Chuan Ping Liu . China | Basir Mahmood . Germany | Andreas Mares . Austria | Penka Mincheva . Sweden | Rui Mourão . Portugal | NOK&T/ART Bannenberg&Snel . The Netherlands | Diana Page . Turkey | Tommaso Pedone . Italy | Nazia Andaleeb Preema . Bangladesh | Pasha Reshikov & Angelina Christina . USA | Albin Schutting . Austria | Urssa Severa . Germany | SPLITTERWERK . Austria | Gregory Steel . USA | Nino Strohecker . Austria | Antti Tanttu . Finland | Birgitta Thaysen . Germany | Edyta Turczanik . Poland | Panagiotis Voulgaris . Greece

.photo-artists
Emma Borland . Australia | Gianluca Bronzoni . Italy | Salvio Capuano . Italy | Naomi Devil . Austria | Elio Germani . Italy | Kellyann Geurts . Australia | Dietmar Hochhauser . Austria | Shqipe Jonuzi . Kosovo | Satu Kiuru . Finland | Diana Martin Lapena . Spain | J. Mayer H. Architects . Germany | Kate McDonald . Canada | Penka Mincheva . Sweden | Mimmo Morizzi . Italy | Esther Naor . Israel | Benjamin Nash . UK | Diana Nikolova . Bulgaria | Gê Orthof . Brazil | Anel Pala . Bosnia and Herzegovina | Lais Pontes . USA | Emanuela Santoro . Italy | Robert Sherer . Georgia | Preben Van der Straete . Belgium | Peter Westman . Sweden | Maciek Wojciechowski . UK

Architetture velate / Architecture in Disguise
February 15-21, 2012 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm
at Campo Bandiera e Moro
.artists
Francesca Coniglio & Donato Gagliano . Italy | Dongfan . China | Françoise Morin . France | Andrzej Karmasz . Poland | Irmfried Windbichler . Austria | Irina Tarkhanova Yacubson . Russia

International ArtExpo is a not for profit organization that provides a significant forum for cultural dialogue between all artists from different cultures and countries. We depend on the support of you. ArtExpo is grateful to all of the institutions, corporations, and individuals who support our efforts. We work with a number of national and international galleries as well as publishers, museums, curators and writers from all over the world. We help artists through solo and group exhibitions, gallery representation, magazine reviews and advertisements, press releases, internet promotion, as well as various curatorial projects.

Contaminante – For the Upcoming Thought is the provoking title of a project, conceived and curated by the TheSeven, which represents a contemporary story in twelve chapters situated in twelve different sites in the City of Venice and in its Lagoons. The connection of all these places is a manual for an intriguing alternative travel into literature, into the world of fairy tales which get materialized through art, design and architecture. The updated map of Contaminante offers permanent site specific art works realized by international artists in ten sites throughout 2012.

If you want to receive the press kit please contact us at info@itsliquid.com

more details
International ArtExpo
Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33
70122 Bari (Italy)
+39.0805234018
+39.3387574098
lucacurci@lucacurci.com
www.lucacurci.com/artexpo

OPEN CALL FOR THE CURATOR OF NARRACJE FESTIVAL | GDANSK, POLAND
Application deadline: February 21, 2012

Gdansk 2016 and Gdansk City Gallery are looking for an international curator of the fourth edition of “NARRACJE-Installations and Interventions in Public Space” Festival scheduled for November 2012 in Gdansk, Poland.

“Narracje–Interventions and Installations in Public Space” Festival is a presentation of large scale projections on buildings and all kinds of creative, innovative and unusual artistic activities taking place in public space within the Festival map. In 2012 the Festival will explore the area of the real Old Town adjacent to the Main Town, with its separated historical parts: Osiek and Zamczysko, located between the Main Town and the Gdańsk Shipyard, as well as the area of the Shipyard itself.

The requirements towards the candidates and competition Rules and Regulations are available on the Organizer’s website: www.gdansk2016.eu/konkurs

Entries will be accepted by February 21, 2012 via e-mail to: konkurs@narracje.gdansk2016.eu or regular mail to the Organizer’s address: Gdańsk 2016, Długi Targ 39/40, 80-830 Gdańsk, Poland.

Additional information about the open call, in particular maps, photo documentation, information regarding the location of the 4th edition of the Festival and estimated budget can be obtained by e-mail: konkurs@narracje.gdansk2016.eu. You can also enquire by phone: Natalia Cyrzan, tel.: +48.502028653

Call for Application | ART MOSCOW 2012
International Art fair for contemporary art galleries
19-23 September 2012

APPLY NOW to participate at 16th ART MOSCOW

ART MOSCOW announces call for application for its 16th edition which will take place on 19th – 23rd September 2012. Please note: Application deadline is on May, 1st.

ART MOSCOW:
* Founded in 1995, the leading contemporary art fair held in Russia
* The most efficient market ground of contemporary art on the Russian art scene
* Great opportunities to promote your gallery, art magazine or cultural institution in Russia and on international level
* Huge Russian and foreign presence: galleries from 14 countries participated in 2011
* More than 20,000 visitors, with over 400 journalists
* The opportunity to make new contacts and to improve Russian and international networking
* Russian and international well-funded clientele and good sales.
* Art fair is under patronage of Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, The Moscow City Government and The Moscow City Culture Department
* Location in the center of Moscow (Central House of Artists)

PARTICIPATION OPTIONS (the fixed price depending on zone includes all necessary services) :  
* Galleries  – 42, 5 m²  
* Art publishers (Art Books section)   – 4 m² and more   
* Professional magazines – 4 m²

OUR PROFESSIONAL TEAM OFFERS YOU:
* Professional PR
* Logistics / customs professional advice
* 42,5 m² stand per gallery with basic lighting 10 lamps and fair wall construction (‘white cube’)
* Personal approach

If you need further information, please do not hesitate to contact us and visit our website!

The ART MOSCOW 2012 team:  
Victoria KONDRASHOVA, director victoria.kondrashova@expopark.ru or victoria.kondrashova@gmail.com
Christina STEINBRECHER, art director christina.steinbrecher@gmail.com
Anna LEVANDOVSKAYA, show manager alevandovskaya@expopark.ru
Julia MIRONOVA, press manager julia.mironova@expopark.ru
Ksenia GAPCHENKO, press manager ksenia.gapchenko@expopark.ru

ART MOSCOW
16th International Art Fair
September, 19–23, 2012
10 Krymsky val, Moscow, Russia
Central House of Artists
www.art-moscow.ru
art@expopark.ru
+7 495 6579922