Satellite exhibitions
Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art 2007
RETHINKING DISSENT
Om politikens begränsningar och motståndets möjligheter
INTRODUCTION SATELLITE EXHIBITIONS
Aiming at creating an interaction with the local art scene in Gothenburg, Edi Muka and Joa Ljungberg have invited local artists, galleries and other art organizations to stage their own productions in dialogue with the biennial, using the theoretical platform of the biennial, RETHINKING DISSENT, as a starting point.
These events will be linked to the biennial program and presented as satellites. Five satellite exhibitions will be presented in six different art scenes.
SCREENING OF CONTEMPORARY ARGENTINIAN ART VIDEOS
Date: 14 November
Venue: Atalante
Artists: Gabriela Golder
Gaston Duprat and Mariano Cohn
Luciana Lamothe
Eugenia Calvo
Alicia Herrero
During a stay in Buenos Aires Kalle Brolin and Kristina Müntzing, the curators of the satellite project, collected video works made by various Argentine artists, which will be presentedin a screening at Atalante on Wednesday the14th of November. The screening will open with a shortintroduction to contemporary political events in Argentina. The artists shown are:
Gabriela Golder -the most well-known of her videosbeing Vacas - showing how, after a transport lorry bound for the slaughterhouse crashed andtipped over outside Rosario, the villagers come up on the road, kill the surviving cows, cut them up and carry away the stolen meat.
Gaston Duprat and Mariano Cohn -using the resources from their jobs at a television studio to produce videos of high technical quality, with the works oftenparodying the formats of documentary andinterview,reflecting macro political events in daily-life stories of single individuals: an old man is happily going through the instruction manual of his newly-bought video camera, while on atelevision set in the background the president of the country is escaping in a helicopter after the financial crisis has reached boiling-point.
Luciana Lamothe -videos of directionless urban revenge fantasies, episodic acts of vandalism attempting to evolve into an art form.
Eugenia Calvo - hiding, blowing up decorations, and building a barricade inside an upper middleclass home in the film An Ambitious Plan.
Alicia Herrero - video archives documenting three months of activities in her neighbourhood San Cristobal, where artists formed collectives and started working in the service of the social movements of 2001, blurring the borders between art and activism. Demonstrations, meetings, protest-actions, outing the perpetrators of militarist violence, the workers taking over the textile factory Brukmans etc. Alicia’s archives will be running continuouslyon two monitors in the lobby, outside the room where the screening takes place.
Curators/initiators: Kalle Brolin och Kristina Müntzing
IN DEPENDENCE
Dates: 25 August – 21 October
Venue: 300m3 Art Space
Artist, Hito Steyerl
300m3 Art Space presents as a part of Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, a German filmmaker and artist Hito Steyerl. The decision to show Hito Steyerl came when Marika Orenius and Jesper Toss, curators and initiators of the satellite exhibition, saw her work November at Viper Festival in Basel 2006. November is a film about her close friend, Andrea Wolf, suspected Kurdish terrorist and accused of being a member of the Red Army faction in Germany.
Hito has produced a variety of work as a filmmaker and author in the field of essayist documentary filmography and post-colonial critique, both as a producer and a theorist. Her works are situated on an interface between the cinema and fine arts, and between theory and practice. Her principal topics of interest are: cultural globalisation, feminism, culture, global migration and racism.
300m3 Art Space is directed towards the international art scene and is a platform for theoretical thoughts and art in digital form. In general they present artists who are working with moving images with a strong social and even political tone. Hito is working on a new art piece called In Dependence for the biennial in Gothenburg. 300m3 Art Space is happy to show this new work by Hito because she is an artist who has a strong and political message in her art and an excellent way of saying it.
Curators/initiators: Marika Orenius & Jesper Toss
GALLERY BOX AND GALLERY 54 PRESENTS TRANSMISSION GALLERY
Dates: 24 August – 23 September
Venue: Gallery Box and Gallery 54
Artists: Steven Cairns
Rosie McGurn
Conal McStravick
Susan Lickley
Tam A
For galleries Box and 54, Transmission present new work from five emerging Scottish artists; Tam A, Steven Cairns, Rosie McGurn, Conal McStravick and Susan Lickley.
Transmission Gallery aims to further develop an international network for artists living and working in Scotland providing a platform from which to exhibit early in their careers. For this reason the artists selected are first time exhibiters in Sweden. Each represents a dynamic and vibrant practice playing integral roles to the development of the emerging Scottish art scene. Their work encompasses a range of media including video, drawing, collage, writing and sculpture.
Curators/initiators: The board of Gallery Box and Gallery 54
LÅDAN/THE MOBILE BOX
Some of the artists that will exhibit: Michael Eddy
Oliver Heinzenberger
Elena Loukianova
Laura Kuch
Thora Gunnarsdottir
Stina Östberg
Olle Essvik
Joel Nordqvist
Robertina Sebanic
The mobile box is an independent artist-run gallery space in Gothenburg, Sweden. The gallery is constructed in wood and aluminum and sits on a base with 4 wheels.
The gallery provides a platform for temporary interventions in an urban public space and hosts a rolling program of exhibitions. Each artist has an opportunity to design the gallery interior and decide the location of the gallery within Gothenburg. The shifting location and visibility of the mobile box will make the works shown in the gallery accessible to a wide public within the city.
LISTENING SITES: TRACKING STORIES
Dates: 25 August – 25 November
Venue: Konstepidemin Pavilion #10
Visual Artist: Andrea Wollensak
Sound Artist: Brett Terry
The exhibition LISTENING SITES: TRACKING STORIES by Andrea Wollensak and Brett Terry gives Konstepidemin the opportunity to present a site-specific work based on experiencing and reflecting on the city and sounds of Gothenburg. During a short period of time we have the possibility to verbalize and visualize the impression we get when meeting the new and unknown. Andrea Wollensak and Brett Terry look at our city with new eyes, and listen with new ears, not so much attempting to know so much as to be open. They have created a work that allows the visitor to reflect on the presumably familiar landscape of place and to become participants in this experience. It is perhaps the possibility that the outsider can stimulates and empowers the insider’s insights into their own culture and values.
With this exhibition, Konstepidemin can point to something that is ongoing though seldom visible - an international exchange taking place in the field of Art. In the five guest studios at Konstepidemin there are artists living for varying durations while working with their own art, some teaching at local Art Schools or participating in projects within Gothenburg. It is with pride that Konstepidemin invites you to this Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art at Konstepidemin.
Curator: Berit Jonsvik
CONTACTS
Screenings Atalante
E-mail, Kristina Müntzing:
E-mail, Kalle Brolin:
300m3 Art Space
Kastellgatan 22
SE-41307 Gothenburg
Tel: +46 (0)31 408608
E-mail:
www.300m3.com
Galleri Box
Kastellgatan 10
SE-411 22 Göteborg
Tel: +46 (0)31 13 20 37
E-mail:
http://www.galleribox.se/
http://www.transmissiongallery.org/
E-mail, Ida Lindström:
Galleri 54
Kastellgatan 7
SE-413 07 Göteborg
Tel/fax: +46(0)31-13 68 30
e-mail:
http://www.galleri54.com/
E-mail, Theo Ågren:
E-mail, Sara Lännerström:
Galleri Konstepidemin
Konstepidemins Väg 6
SE-413 14 Göteborg
Tel +46(0)31-41 00 53
E-mail:
www.konstepidemin.se