Festival Miden 2013, Greece, Open call

Festival Miden 2013, Greece
deadline:March 31, 2013

Video Art Festival Miden invites all video artists and video creators to participate in this year’s 9th edition of the festival.The festival call is open to every creator (individuals, groups or organizations) of any nationality and background.
There is no entry fee.
Entry forms and works can be submitted electronically until March 31, 2013
Submitted videos can be of any genre (video art, experimental video, animation, short movie etc.) and there are no thematic restrictions. But every year the curatorial team proposes some themes and this year the proposed showcases are:
- a special program entitled "Come as you are"
- a special program entitled "Mother"
- a special program entitled "It needs some silence to make sound"
- we also invite artists and creators who come from, have lived or have any kind of love-hate relationship with the city Kalamata (GR) to submit works for the continuous program entitled “Local Calling!”. The program aims to create a communication network between artists that are connected or related to Kalamata (the birth city of the festival) in any way.

More info and entry form here: http://www.festivalmiden.gr/prosklisi_eng.html

Festival Miden*, the first Greek video art festival presented in open public spaces, is an annual video art & new media cultural event based in Kalamata, GR. It is an independent organization founded, organized and curated by a team of contemporary Greek artists.

Since 2005, Festival Miden has been gradually established as one of the most successful and interesting video art festivals in Greece and abroad and has been a significant point of cultural exchange for Greek and international video art, creating an alternative, peripheral meeting point for emerging and established video artists.

(*Miden means “zero” in Greek)

www.festivalmiden.gr // info[at]festivalmiden.gr // festivalmiden[at]gmail.com

Academy of the Arts of the World, Cologne, Call for submisions

Deadline: March 20, 2013
The Academy of the Arts of the World is a unique, Cologne-based institution founded in 2012 with the aim of fostering inter- and transcultural dialogue between the arts.

As a dynamic and interdisciplinary, albeit non-curricular platform, the Academy engages with issues of contemporary global culture and politics such as the trans-border movement of people, aesthetic responsibility, hospitality, non-Western, pre-modern art, concepts and practices. Bridging local and global perspectives, the Academy sets out to initiate critical debate and to create spaces of possibility for diverse aesthetic communities.

The Academy is constituted by an assembly of visual artists, musicians, choreographers, theatre directors, filmmakers, writers, curators and other cultural producers from different artistic backgrounds and geographical locations. Current members of the Academy include Ekaterina Degot, Madhusree Dutta, Galit Eilat, Monika Gintersdorfer, Tom Holert, Liza Lim, Faustin Linyekula, Tienchi Martin-Liao, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lemi Ponifasio, Walid Raad, Ali Samadi Ahadi, Terre Thaemlitz, Rosemarie Trockel, Stefan Weidner, Liao Yiwu, and Tom Zé.

An important part of the Academy's mission is providing grants to projects by individuals or groups. This is the second call for applications issued by the Academy—the deadline of which is March 20, 2013.

Submissions
- Local and international artists, artist groups, theorists, curators and cultural producers are invited to submit a project.
- Institutional initiatives are also encouraged to submit proposals, bearing in mind that the Academy only supports art production costs.
- The submitted project should address issues consistent with the Academy's profile (e.g. inter-/transcultural issues, migration, nomadic practises, hospitality, responsibility, non-Western and pre-modern art, concepts and practices).
- The project must be presented or produced in Cologne.
- The deadline for application submission is March 20, 2013.
- The submitted project should be realised by December 2014.
- The average grant awarded is EUR 20 000, the maximum grant awarded being EUR 40 000.

Jury
The jury consists of members of the Academy of the Arts of the World. The jury will award grants to around ten projects on the basis of the applications received.

The application submission should include the following:
- A project synopsis, including a short project motivation (no more than 500 words).
- A longer description of the project's thematic conception (no more than 1 500 words).
- A list and short narrative biographies of each main participant.
- Support material such as work samples or media files (max. 25 MB) may be submitted.
- A budget that also lists the applicant's own contribution and all additional funding by third parties.
- Timeline of research, pre-production and production.
- All applications should be in English.

Applications must be submitted electronically to the following email address (attachments size up to 25 MB): pm@academycologne.org

For additional materials requiring postage, please use the following addresses:
Attention! The Academy is moving to a new location!

Posted to arrive before February 15th, 2013:
Akademie der Künste der Welt/Köln, gGmbH
Keyword: Application
c/o Stadt Köln, Dezernat für Kunst und Kultur
Richartzstraße 2 – 4
D-50667 Cologne
Germany

Posted to arrive after February 15th, 2013:
Akademie der Künste der Welt/Köln, gGmbH
Keyword: Application
Im Mediapark 7
D-50670 Cologne
Germany

Contact
Aurora Rodonò, Project manager: pm@academycologne.org / T +49(0)221/97133651
For further information: www.academycologne.org

Akademie der Künste der Welt, Open call for projects

Akademie der Künste der Welt, Open call for projects
Deadline: March 20, 2013

Call for submissions to artists, artist groups, theorists, curators and other cultural producers

The Academy of the Arts of the World is a unique, Cologne-based institution founded in 2012 with the aim of fostering inter- and transcultural dialogue between the arts.

As a dynamic and interdisciplinary, albeit non-curricular platform, the Academy engages with issues of contemporary global culture and politics such as the trans-border movement of people, aesthetic responsibility, hospitality, non-Western, pre-modern art, concepts and practices. Bridging local and global perspectives, the Academy sets out to initiate critical debate and to create spaces of possibility for diverse aesthetic communities.

The Academy is constituted by an assembly of visual artists, musicians, choreographers, theatre directors, filmmakers, writers, curators and other cultural producers from different artistic backgrounds and geographical locations. Current members of the Academy include Ekaterina Degot, Madhusree Dutta, Galit Eilat, Monika Gintersdorfer, Tom Holert, Liza Lim, Faustin Linyekula, Tienchi Martin-Liao, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lemi Ponifasio, Walid Raad, Ali Samadi Ahadi, Terre Thaemlitz, Rosemarie Trockel, Stefan Weidner, Liao Yiwu, and Tom Zé.

An important part of the Academy’s mission is providing grants to projects by individuals or groups. This is the second call for applications issued by the Academy—the deadline of which is March 20, 2013.

Submissions
- Local and international artists, artist groups, theorists, curators and cultural producers are invited to submit a project.
- Institutional initiatives are also encouraged to submit proposals, bearing in mind that the Academy only supports art production costs.
- The submitted project should address issues consistent with the Academy’s profile (e.g. inter-/transcultural issues, migration, nomadic practises, hospitality, responsibility, non-Western and pre-modern art, concepts and practices).
- The project must be presented or produced in Cologne.
- The deadline for application submission is March 20, 2013.
- The submitted project should be realised by December 2014.
- The average grant awarded is EUR 20 000, the maximum grant awarded being EUR 40 000.

Jury
The jury consists of members of the Academy of the Arts of the World. The jury will award grants to around ten projects on the basis of the applications received.

The application submission should include the following:
- A project synopsis, including a short project motivation (no more than 500 words).
- A longer description of the project’s thematic conception (no more than 1 500 words).
- A list and short narrative biographies of each main participant.
- Support material such as work samples or media files (max. 25 MB) may be submitted.
- A budget that also lists the applicant’s own contribution and all additional funding by third parties.
- Timeline of research, pre-production and production.
- All applications should be in English.

Applications must be submitted electronically to the following email address (attachments size up to 25 MB): pm@academycologne.org

For additional materials requiring postage, please use the following addresses:
Attention! The Academy is moving to a new location!

Posted to arrive before February 15th, 2013:
Akademie der Künste der Welt/Köln, gGmbH
Keyword: Application
c/o Stadt Köln, Dezernat für Kunst und Kultur
Richartzstraße 2 – 4
D-50667 Cologne
Germany

Posted to arrive after February 15th, 2013:
Akademie der Künste der Welt/Köln, gGmbH
Keyword: Application
Im Mediapark 7
D-50670 Cologne
Germany

Contact
Aurora Rodonò, Project manager: pm@academycologne.org / T +49(0)221/97133651
For further information: www.academycologne.org

Survival Kit 5- International Contemporary Arts Festival,Call for Proposals

Survival Kit 5- International Contemporary Arts Festival,Call for Proposals
deadline: 10 march 2013

The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA) is organizing its International Contemporary Arts Festival "Survival Kit 5" from 5 to 15 September 2013, in Riga, Latvia. Each year the organisation invites artists to present projects and encourages them to consider some themes of importance in the community, creating alternative scenarios for survival in the modern world. In this turbulent period with protest movements against the system in different parts of the world, there is a need for reflection on the role of the artist and what may emerge from his/her position on the margins of power.


The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA) invites artists to submit ideas for the “Survival Kit 5” International Contemporary Arts Festival which will take place from the 5th to the 15th September, 2013.
“Survival Kit 5” has focused on slow revolution, which emphasizes the importance of margins, overturning positions of power and questions the dominance of the center  It is a non-hierarchical movement which has evolved from the needs of individuals and develops direct democratic traditions. The slow revolution invites not to be afraid of reaching out for what you really desire.

Applications are to be submitted online by March 10th, 2013, 11:59PM

for click here : survuval kit 5 application form
more about the festival :
http://www.survivalkit.lv/en/about-survival-kit

Facade Video Festival 2013,Call for videos

Facade Video Festival 2013,Call for videos

deadline: 30/04/13 - before

Artists from all over the world are invited to send their video art to Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The Art Today Association/Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, "The Ancient Bath" will host the 4th edition of the Facade Video Festival between 11 and 15 September 2013. The Facade Video Festival connects people, art and urban environment by projecting videos onto the walls of houses in the historic city and around - still an unusual artistic practice in Plovdiv. Videos should be submitted before 30 April 2013. There are no restrictions concerning the theme. Facade Video Festival is an annual video art exhibition where videos are projected onto the walls of houses both in the old town of Plovdiv and in the neighbourhoods. Facade Video Festival aims to create an interface between viewers and artists, between visual arts and the city. There are no restrictions concerning the theme. ELIGIBILITY. Any author can participate with max. 3 videos. Videos submitted must belong to the category of video art. They should have been finalised after 1 January 2010, come in as a single-channel version and be copyright controlled by the artist. THE EVENT WILL BE JURIED. A jury will award the best video with a one-month-residency during 2014 (including travel costs, 1000 Euro - allowance) in the Art Today lab for creating a site specific video art project which will be shown at the Facade Video Festival in 2014. NOTIFICATION OF JURY RESULTS. Everyone who enters the festival can check the results uploaded on the festival’s website after 30 June 2013. DATE OF THE FESTIVAL. The festival is an annual event, taking place in September of each year.

Art Today Association

Façade video festival

36 Konstantin Stoilov str.

4000 Plovdiv

Bulgaria

tel: +359 32 638868, +359 888529224

fax: +359 32 638868

office@arttoday.org

http://www.arttoday.org http://www.facade.arttoday.org/en

XIX CSAV - Artists Research Laboratory,Italy,Open call

XIX CSAV - Artists Research Laboratory,Italy,
Open Call for Young Artists
deadline:5th of April 2013

dates: 5th – 29th July 2013
Matt Mullican: Meaning of Things

CSAV – Artists Research Laboratory is a project where dialogue and exchange among artists of different generations and nationalities stand at the heart of a unique artistic and learning experience. The lab is open to fifteen young artists of all nationalities, selected among the applicants by a jury. The programme lasts twenty-four days during which the participants attend a daily workshop activity and theoretical seminars run by the invited artist, the director, the curators and guest lecturers, as well as conferences held by artists, critics and experts of other disciplines.

The 19th edition of CSAV, titled Meaning of Things, will be held between the 5th and the 29th of July 2013 and run by American artist Matt Mullican.
During the laboratory, Mullican will discuss of the emotional interpretation of pictures and signs, that faculty of a picture to grab our consciousness and create an experience. This ongoing investigation of the relationship between perception and reality, between the ability to see something and the ability to represent it, will be examined along with other key themes of Mullican’s practice like the nature of the theatrical experience, its capacity to transform extreme emotional states, and the trancelike phenomenon that is the core of Mullican’s performances.

The laboratory is free of charge. Accommodation expenses in Como are to be covered by the participants. To apply, it is necessary fill in the form available online on the application form page of the website and upload a portfolio of work in pdf format.
The application and all required materials must be sent by the 5th of April 2013.
The shortlist of the participant will be published online at the end of May.

Matt Mullican (1951, Santa Monica, California) for over four decades has created a complex body of work concerned with systems of knowledge, meaning, language and signification. He creates artworks across a variety of mediums ranging from drawings and graphic works to sculptures and banners. He has developed a classification system through which he makes an attempt to observe and categorize all human experiences. In the 1970s Mullican began to experiment with trancelike states and hypnotism in order to experience the uncharted depths of everyday life, creating a state of hyper-consciousness that allows him to better catalogue human behaviour.
Mullican’s work has been exhibited internationally since the early 1970s in venues including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Haus Der Kunst, Munich; National Galerie, Berlin; Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, Netherlands; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; his work was also included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Mullican has taught and lectured at: Columbia University, New York; The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam; Chelsea College of Art and Design, London; University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg.

Info: infocsav(at)fondazioneratti.org

Grants for Media Art 2013 ,CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Grants for Media Art 2013,CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Foundation of Lower Saxony at the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art
deadline: February 27, 2013

Subject to fund allocations, the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art will award three production and residency grants - €10,000 each - to promote artistic efforts in the field of media art.
The grant from the Foundation of Lower Saxony at the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art supports a wide spectrum of media art, from video art and net-based projects to audio or audio-visual installations.
Each grant will be awarded for the production of a new project in the realm of media art. Applicants should present a detailed project proposal.

CONDITIONS AND PROCEDURE FOR SUBMISSION:
Applicants must complete the user registration and online application on this website till midnight of February 27, 2013 (CET). All applications received outside this period will not be considered.
The grant covers a period of 6 months (July–December 2013), is not renewable and requires residence in Oldenburg for at least one month.
The project or artistic work should be completed within the 6-month grant period.
Only applications by artists will be accepted (institutions may not apply).
Only one application per year/per person will be accepted.
Artists may apply in groups but the grant money for groups will be the same as for individuals. The applicant whose name appears first on the application form will be considered the lead applicant and responsible for the project. Each co-applicant must share the creative responsibility for the project. Those hired as members of the team (programmers, sound engineers, consultants, specialists, etc.) cannot be considered as co-applicants.
Upon request, a furnished guest apartment can be made available to grant holders.
The artist should be involved in the activities of the Edith-Russ-Haus, e.g., with workshops, presentations or artists’ discussions. The dates will be determined in consultation with the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art.
Beyond the grant money of €10,000 and the possibility of using one of the guest apartments at the Edith-Russ-Haus, no additional costs will be covered (such as technical or production outlays, travel and living costs during the grant period, the residence and an evening with other grant holders in Oldenburg, etc.).
An international jury of experts will choose the grantwinners.
Only materials that meet the requirements stated below will be considered.
No original or unique materials should be submitted.
The application can be written in English or German (some important information in German applications must be translated into English).
The grant holders agree to pass to the Organizers all rights to use images of their artwork for publication, archive and publicize on the Website and in any other form of communication without any payment as long as its use is not damaging and/or intended to damage their reputation as artists.
An Application shall be deemed accepted once the participant receives confirmation by email. If the entry form is not in compliance with these Terms and Conditions, the participant will not receive confirmation by e-mail. The Organizers and the Selection Committee have the unilateral right to exclude a participant’s application which does not comply with the Terms and Conditions.
The Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art handles the submissions with the utmost care. Given the large amount of submitted materials, it cannot be held liable for minor damages. The submitted documents will NOT be returned. The Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art is not responsible for any loss of materials in the mails. All information and documentation will only be used for the purposes of processing and reviewing the application within the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art. Upon completion of the selection process, the jury’s decision will be conveyed online. This is expected to take place before the end of April 2013.
Information on the application:
Online application (registration and application: see sub-menus in the left-hand navigation bar of this website).
The description of the project should include the following information (pdf file) (please use the following file-naming model: NAME_YEAR_PROJECT TITLE):
Project title and brief synopsis (maximum of 600 characters, including spaces; English version required).
Detailed project description (including installation plan, storyboard, navigation plan, etc.)
Technical resources and materials
Work and production calendar
Financing plan (secured funding: own contribution, third-party contribution; scheduled but not yet secured funding: own contribution, third-party contribution)
Some of the documents related to the artistic work also can be uploaded online, although individual documents cannot be larger than 10 MB: photographs (maximum of 24 x 30 cm., including matte, 600 x 600 pixels) and/or slides and/or catalogues (maximum of 2); for video projects: DVDs, CD-ROMs, MiniDV cassettes (maximum 15 min. long); for Internet projects: CD-ROMs and URLs. No originals, no unique works.

Send to the following address:
EDITH-RUSS-HAUS FOR MEDIA ART
Work Stipends for Media Art 2012 at the EDITH-RUSS-HAUS for Media Art
Katharinenstraße 23
D-26121 Oldenburg

IMPORTANT NOTE: Materials sent through the mails must arrive at the Edith-Russ-Haus till March 8, 2013.


About the EDITH-RUSS-HAUS FOR MEDIA ART: 

Established in the year 2000, the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art is dedicated to current questions regarding media art in all its myriad forms. On a regular basis, exhibitions by international artists are shown, and presentations and lecture series are organised for artists and media theoreticians. Major recent exhibitions have focused on significant contemporary issues such as Eco-Media, MyWar or Culture(s) of Copy, while solo exhibitions have introduced important media artists, some of whom were also stipend recipients at the Edith-Russ-Haus. In 2011, the exhibition Produced@ addressed the results of the first 10 years of the Grant for Media Art of the Foundation of Lower Saxony at the Edith-Russ-Haus.
Since 2001, the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art has conducted a regular guest-artist programme, which up to now has sponsored and implemented 32 artistic proposals. To this end, two 1-room apartments and a residential studio are available in the guesthouse of the Edith-Russ-Haus, and grant recipients can call upon the institutional support of the institution in implementing their projects.



For further information:
info(at)edith-russ-haus.de; Tel.: +49 (0)441/235 3208
more at :http://www.edith-russ-haus.de

Libre Graphics Meeting 2013, Open call

Libre Graphics Meeting 2013: Future Tools
Deadline: 15 February 2013


Libre Graphics Meeting 2013: Future Tools will take place from Wednesday 10th to Saturday 13th April in Madrid, Spain. The 8th LGM will be held at Medialab Prado‘s brand new building in the center of Madrid, La Serreria Belga.

The Libre Graphics Meeting is an occasion for developers and artists to work together, to share experiences and to hear about new ideas. By Libre Graphics we mean Free, Libre and Open Source tools for design, illustration, photography, typography, art, graphics, page layout, publishing, cartography, animation and video. The Libre Graphics Meeting is not just about software, but extends to standards, file formats and actual use of these in creative work.

Please submit your proposal here.

We are looking for:
In-depth presentations on Libre Graphics technologies
Showcases of excellent work made using Libre Graphics tools
New projects in this area to meet the wider community
Updates from existing projects on recent progress, current status and future roadmaps
Reports, use-cases, best practices
Well articulated ideas for future approaches, tools and standards


Available formats (including questions):
Lightning talk (5 minutes, selected at the event unconference style)
Short talks (10 minutes)
Presentations (20 minutes)
Workshops (2 hours)
Birds Of a Feather (BOF) Discussion Meetings or Hackathons (2 hrs)

Special focus:
In line with the theme for the related Interactivos?13 workshop: Tools for a Read-Write world (http://medialab-prado.es/article/ilgru_call_projects) we are looking specifically for presentations about (re)imagining Libre Graphics workflows to support collaboration and exchange.

Protocols for exchange between applications
ePub and other cross-platform publishing technologies
Versioning solutions for visual work
Best practices in collaborative design
Designer-Developer collaborations

Practical Details:
Deadline: 15 February 2013. We will let you know if your presentation is selected by 25 February latest.
In the context of the meeting, we prefer short and concise presentations.
You can present in Spanish or English (simultaneous translation available); please provide a summary and title in English
For each BOF or meeting that wil be on the public schedule, we ask you to provide a report, to be made available to the Libre Graphics Community afterwards.
If you propose a workshop, let us know what you expect participants to bring, in terms of both prior experience and required items (sketchbook, laptop with applications preloaded, etc)


Presentations will be selected by:
pippin (Gimp) http://pippin.gimp.org/
Louis Desjardins (Scribus, LGM)
Laura Fernandez (Medialab Prado) http://medialab-prado.es
Jon Nordby (MyPaint) http://www.jonnor.com/
Alessandro Rimoldi (Scribus, Grafiklabor) http://ideale.ch/
Femke Snelting (LGRU, Constant) http://lgru.net
Alexandre Prokoudine (Libre Graphics World) http://libregraphicsworld.org

to submit the proposal click here : http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2013/submit-a-proposal/

more info at : http://libregraphicsmeeting.org

ART ROTTERDAM 2013

*2012 - Pieterjan Ginckels - HUMAN DISCO BONG - Photo Romy Finke
Over the past years Art Rotterdam, founded in 2000, has developed into an internationally renowned platform for contemporary art. The fair, that will present more than ninety well-known

as well as upcoming galleries from home and abroad, shows the latest developments within 

contemporary art. This edition Art Rotterdam expands with a fair for video art and film: Art 

Rotterdam Projections. In Las Palmas, directly opposite the Cruise Terminal, twenty international 

galleries present  a video or a film by a talented young or more well-known artist. The 2013 edition 

further includes, like last year, the New Art Section; fifteen exciting solo exhibitions by young 

artists that are put on the stage by the newest generation of galleries.

From Thursday 7 - Sunday 

10 February 2013 the Wilhelminapier in Rotterdam is the stage of the international art scene.

Focused artist: Pieterjan Ginckels with Human Disco Bong


At Art Rotterdam Human Disco Bong by Pieterjan Ginckels is on show at the central staircase.
Human Disco Bong is an installation of hundred twenty bicycle helmets with tens of thousands of
mirror pieces sticked on and made to one large organic object. Ginckels, a young Belgian artist,
creates, with a sense of humor as well as seriousness, an intelligent oeuvre that plays with the
elements of its time: internet, spam, electronic music, fixed gear bikes and slow coffee. ‘Families’ of works, as he calls it; multi layered- installations with strong interactive aspects that function as a
generator for metaphors in sound and image. At set times Human Disco Bong comes alive. When
wearing the helmets, individual tracks of artists, gallery holders and visitors are highlighted.
'Verwoest Huis Bloemhof' by Marjan Teeuwen
Visual artist Marjan Teeuwen (1953) creates ‘destroyed houses’, architectural installations in
buildings that later are demolished. Teeuwen realized the installation ‘Verwoest Huis Bloemhof’ in
Rotterdam in five empty 4-room houses from Woonstad Rotterdam, on the Putsebocht. For a single photo or film, Teeuwen breaks, demolishes, saws and rebuilds for months on end until a whole new architectural installation is created. During Art Rotterdam ‘Verwoest Huis Bloemhof’ can be visited free of charge.
Every 30 minutes a complimentary shuttle bus is available between Art Rotterdam, RAW Art Fair and Verwoest Huis Bloemhof (Putsebocht 58-60, Rotterdam).
The documented final result is for sale at Art Rotterdam, at the booth of Galerie RAM. Fair director Fons Hof Fons Hof (1966), former gallery holder of Galerie Hof & Huyser in Amsterdam, is the director of Art Rotterdam: "The Art Rotterdam fair is a constant factor in the yearly agenda of all European collectors of young contemporary art. To further strengthen our international reputation we have introduced Art Rotterdam Projections. The first fair for film and video in the world, in an open and interactive setting. Art Rotterdam Projections will be the international meeting place for
connoisseurs, collectors and curators of film and video art".
ART ROTTERDAM 2013 GALLERIES:

MAIN SECTION
0gms (BG) | acb Gallery (HU) | Akinci (NL) | Paul Andriesse (NL) | Anyspace (BE) | Willem Baars Art Consultancy (NL) | Albert Baronian (BE) | van den Berge (NL) | Johan Berggren (SE) | Boetzelaer - Nispen (NL) | | Brand New Gallery (IT) | Cokkie Snoei (NL) | Cosar HMT (DE) | dépendance (BE) | Galerie Dix9 (FR) | De Expeditie (NL) | Flatland Gallery (NL) | Fruit and Flower Deli (SE) | Grimm (NL) | Juliette Jongma (NL) | Kisterem (HU) | van Krimpen (NL) | Wouter van Leeuwen (NL) | Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam (NL) | Lumen Travo (NL) | Luttgenmeijer (DE) | Ron Mandos (NL) | Alessandro de March (IT) | Kunsthandel Meijer (NL) | Kai Middendorff Galerie (DE) | Meessen De Clercq (BE) | van der Mieden (BE) | MOT International (UK) | Neue Alte Brucke (DE) | Office Baroque (BE) | Onrust (NL) | P74 Gallery (SI) | Phoebus Rotterdam (NL) | RAM (NL) | Ramakers (NL) | Reuten Galerie (NL) | David Risley Gallery (DK) | Rokeby (UK) | Gabriel Rolt (NL) | Rotwand (CH) | Schau Ort (CH) | Slewe (NL) | Sommer & Kohl (DE) | sorry we're closed (BE) | Barbara Seiler (CH) | Stigter van Doesburg (NL) | tegenboschvanvreden (NL) | Tenderpixel (UK) | TORCH (NL) | Upstream (NL) | Van Zijll Langhout / Contempoary Art (NL) | Vilma Gold (UK) | VIVID (NL) | Vous etes ici (NL) | Fons Welters (NL) | West (NL) | Martin van Zomeren (NL) |
NEW ART SECTION
Samy Abraham (FR) | Rolando Anselmi (DE) | Apice for Artists (NL) | Base-Alpha Gallery (BE) | Figge von Rosen Galerie (DE) | Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art (NL) | Emmanuel Hervé (FR) | Klemm's (DE) | Martin Kudlek (DE) | Nettie Horn (UK) | Ricou Gallery (BE) | Federica Schiavo Gallery (IT) | Torri (FR) | waterside contemporary (UK) | Works|Projects (UK) 
PROJECTIONS
Jan van de Pavert - Paul Andriesse (NL) | Stefan Constantinescu - Anita Beckers (DE) | Benoit Plateus - Albert Baronian (BE) | Erkka Nissinen - Ellen de Bruijne Projects (NL) | Sam Curtis - Division of Labour (UK) | Sophia Pompéry - Galerie Dix9 (FR) | Michael Joaquin Grey - Carroll Fletcher (UK) | Matthew Lutz-Kinoy - van Gelder (NL) | Meiro Koizumi - Annet Gelink Gallery (NL) | Josephine Meckseper - Reinhard Hauff (DE) | Johanna Billing - Hollybush Gardens (UK) | Christian Friedrich - Wilfried Lentz (NL) | Hans Op de Beeck - Ron Mandos (NL) | Carlos Irijalba - Galerie Sherin Najjar (DE) | Hajnal Németh - RAM (NL) | Harm Weistra - Joey Ramone (NL) | Keren Cytter - Schau Ort (CH) | Antonio Vega Macotela - Stigter van Doesburg (NL) | Navid Nuur - Martin van Zomeren (NL) |


Art Rotterdam & Art Rotterdam Projections 2013
Cruise Terminal and Las Palmas, the Wilhelminapier in Rotterdam
Thursday  7 – Sunday 10 February 2013
Opening hours: Thu 7 Feb 12.00 - 18.00 hrs., Fri 8 Feb 12.00 - 21.00 hrs.,
Sat 9 & Sun 10 Feb 11.00 - 19.00 hrs. 
www.artrotterdam.com

Open call for curatorial proposals, MoCADA , Brooklyn, NY

Open call for curatorial proposals, MoCADA , Brooklyn, NY
deadline: 15 /02 /2013 and 15/08/2013


Each year on August 15 and February 15, MoCADA reviews artist submissions and curatorial proposals for the upcoming year’s exhibition cycle. MoCADA is committed to giving emerging, mid-career and established artists and curators the opportunity to expand their portfolios and develop a relationship with the museum.

Artist submissions and exhibition proposals will be considered for MoCADA’s main gallery in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, and for satellite locations throughout New York City. While submissions are accepted throughout the year, artists and curators should review the application requirements below and submit their materials before the next review date to be considered for the upcoming year. Artists and curators should thoroughly familiarize themselves with the museum’s mission and past exhibitions before submitting. All applications must adhere to the outlined application requirements.

Good luck and we look forward to hearing about your ideas!

Should you have any questions please e-mail us at submit@mocada.org

Joint Submission Guidelines

MoCADA’s exhibition program seeks to facilitate a contemporary dialogue between the visual arts and political, cultural, social and historical issues relevant to the African Diaspora.

• Complete applications will be acknowledged by an email. Incomplete packages will not be reviewed.
• Artists and curators are encouraged to submit work and proposals that include all media, and approach themes aesthetically and/or conceptually.
• To be considered, proposals MUST be in accordance with MoCADA’s mission
• MoCADA STRONGLY prefers to accept applications electronically. Please fill out the form linked to below, and send the additional materials tosubmit@mocada.org. Should you need to make arrangements otherwise, please contact us two weeks prior to your submission.
• If MoCADA is interested in working with you to exhibit your work or further develop your proposal, you will be contacted by email.



Curatorial Submission Requirements

1. Curatorial Submission Form: Electronic Form
2. Resume or CV: Exhibitions, education, employment history and selected writing.
No more than 3 pages. Resume/CV should be labeled: lastname_firstname_resume.pdf/doc/docx
3. Curatorial Statement: Brief and concise, ideas about work and approach to curating.
No more than 1 page. Statement should be labeled: lastname_firstname_statement.pdf/doc/docx
4. Exhibition Proposal: Should include title, exhibition concept and main idea, artists, connection to mission.
No more than 2 pages. Proposal should be labeled: lastname_firstname_proposal.pdf/doc/docx
5. Images: 5 to 10 images, including considered works / works by artists from the Exhibition Proposal, and, if applicable, installation shots from previous curatorial projects.
10MB max per image. All images should be clearly labeled: lastname_firstname_imagenumber.jpeg
6. Image Inventory List: List of images by number that includes artist name, name of work, medium, dimensions, and date.
For installation shots, include the name of the exhibition, dates, and location. Inventory list should be labeled: lastname_firstname_inventorylist.pdf/doc/docx
7. Email Resume/CV, Statement, Proposal, Images and Image Inventory List to submit@mocada.org

 more at http://mocada.org/exhibits/submissions/

Curatorial Residents 2013-14, Canada , Open call

Curatorial Residents 2013-14, Canada
Deadline: February 24, 2013

221A is an artist-run centre located in Vancouver, Canada with a mandate to support the advancement of contemporary art that explores design as a subject. Projects presented at 221A address design in its widest sense, which may encompass graphics, products, architecture, or, more broadly, social codes and conventions.

221A is seeking proposals from curators for projects to commence in 2014. Implemented in 2010 the Curatorial Residencies program encourages a diversity of curatorial approaches to the organization’s mandate. Emerging and professional curators, curatorial collectives, which may include recent graduates and practicing artists, designers and architects, are encouraged to submit proposals to be developed over the course of one year. Projects may include exhibitions, performances, publications, talks or workshops. Proposals should discuss a viewpoint, theory or approach that the project hopes to foster in relation to the organization’s mandate.

Selected candidates will be expected to work with the Executive Director to research, plan and execute the project. In addition, selected curators are required to participate in the Curatorial Committee, starting mid 2013 for a minimum one-year term (meeting every 2 months) to offer feedback to other curatorial residents and the program. The committee offers a space for reflection on the wider program at 221A and a relationship between curatorial residents, staff and community. International participants will be expected to attend meetings through online voice/video chat.

Proposal Guidelines
Applicants must submit a digital proposal (to bchhay@221a.ca) including:
• a one to two-page project proposal, describing the curatorial project;
• a current CV of each of the key contributors (maximum 3 pages each);
• related images/texts as required (pdf or jpegs, max. 15 images, or up to 10 min. of audio or video). For large format images or videos that cannot be transmitted by email please include instructions for access.

Proposals are intended to provide the overall intention and background of the project. Applicants proposing self-curated projects must describe the reasoning behind this approach. Further research and development of the project is expected upon selection.

Selections Process
Project proposals are shortlisted by a committee comprised of members of the Board of Directors and the Executive Director. The Executive Director makes final selections of 5 proposals to make up the 2014 programming year. Selected applicants will be contacted in March 2013. Please note that only applicants under consideration will be contacted.

Funding
221A is a non-profit organization funded through a mixture of self-generated income, private donations and public funding. All projects are funded through the organization’s operating budget at $4,000. This budget may increase through the success of project-based grants—with average projects ranging up to $25,000. All projects must pay fees to artists and curators at the minimum CARFAC rates or higher.

Inquiries
Bopha Chhay, Projects Coordinator at bchhay@221a.ca

Website: http://221a.ca/call-2013-14/

Wallis Annenberg Curatorial Fellowship

Wallis Annenberg Curatorial Fellowship
Deadline: March 1, 2013

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announces a search for candidates for the Wallis Annenberg Curatorial Fellowship. This two-year fellowship in the museum’s Modern Art department will provide curatorial training and support scholarly research in connection with the permanent collection and related projects at LACMA. Striving to combine the strengths of academic art history and the art museum, this Fellowship is designed to attract exceptional emerging scholars to the curatorial field. The Annenberg Curatorial Fellowship supports the highest level of professional development, with opportunities to be fully integrated into all aspects of curatorial work, gain experience in research and cataloguing, exhibition organization, education and publications, acquisitions, conservation, public speaking, and fund raising. Major projects for the Fellow will include assisting in the preparation of retrospective exhibitions of John Altoon and László Moholy-Nagy and with the installation of a major sculptural work by Helen Pashgian, and the conception and realization of a temporary installation of work from the permanent collection.

The ideal candidate will have a Ph.D. in art history.  Prior museum experience, ideally involving modern or contemporary art, is preferred.  Proficiency in German (especially reading) is likewise preferred, with knowledge of French and/or Hungarian an asset. Excellent writing, organizational, and public speaking skills, together with a strong interest in the acquisition, interpretation, care, and display of works of art, are essential, as is the ability to work collaboratively. The goal of this Fellowship is to provide opportunities for a talented scholar committed to the museum profession. Graduates of the Fellowship program will be uniquely prepared to embark on curatorial careers.

The position starts in September 2013.  The annual stipend of $50,000 includes compensation ($36,400), benefits, a travel allowance, and modest funding for relocation. Applicants must submit a cover letter that addresses interest in the Fellowship; a statement, not to exceed three pages, describing the applicant’s research interests and accomplishments; a complete curriculum vitae; a published paper or other writing sample; and three sealed letters of recommendation.  All application materials should be combined in one envelope and must be received no later than March 1, 2013.  Hard copies only will be accepted.  Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Please send application materials to:

Human Resources
RE: Wallis Annenberg Curatorial Fellowship
Los Angeles Country Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
http://www.lacma.org/jobs#acka

Thomas Bayrle at WIELS, Brussels

WIELS, Brussels
Thomas Bayrle: All-in-One
dates: 09.02 – 12.05.2013
Curated by Devrim Bayar

WIELS is presenting the first major survey exhibition in Belgium of German artist Thomas Bayrle, a pioneer of Pop, Seriality and Media Art. As such, WIELS continues its alternative reading of art history by foregrounding often overlooked artists whose work shift our understanding of major changes in the history of art and ideas.

Bayrle has worked as an artist and a graphic designer since the mid 1960s, inventing a unique visual language through the production of collages, paintings, sculptures, films and books. In the process, he built an important body of work that is surprisingly consistent, obsessive even, combining allegiances to Pop, Conceptual and Op art alike with wry humor. Despite this, and indeed despite his far-reaching influence on a whole new generation of artists through his tenure as professor at the renowned Städelschule in Frankfurt between 1975 and 2002, he remains relatively little known to the general public.

Like his late Frankfurt artist contemporaries Peter Roehr and Charlotte Posenenske, Bayrle created works in the mid 1960s based on the serial repetition of the same pattern, formal compositions indebted to the seriality of the then-emerging Minimal Art movement. Steeped in many of the ideas of the Frankfurt School, with which it shares geographic proximity, Bayrle's work has all along retained the critical engagement that drove his earliest experiments. His interest in mass culture and incorporation, in the midst of the Cold War, of the symbols of the capitalist and communist societies then charting their antagonistic course on either side of the Wall pervades his oeuvre.

The retrospective exhibition of Bayrle at WIELS will span the artist's entire carreer, from his first painted kinetic machines to his most recent engine installations, the latter recently featured at dOCUMENTA (13). The show will eschew showing work along chronological lines; rather, it will put forward the variety of, at times, contradictory themes in the artist's work, including consumerism and consumer society, political propaganda, sexuality, and religion.

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address:
WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre

Avenue Van Volxemlaan 354
1190 Brussels, Belgium
T +32 (0)2 340 00 53
F +32 (0)2 340 00 59

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Job positions at Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Poland

Job positions at  Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Poland

1.Curator of Visual Art and Performance
DEADLINE:February 11, 2013

The Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle is looking to hire a person for the position of Curator of Visual Art and Performance.
Job description / main tasks
The person in this position will be responsible for:
– observation, analysis, and evaluation of changes in the field of contemporary art with particular emphasis on performance,
– organization of projects presenting some of the most interesting contemporary artistic phenomena, especially in the field of performance,
– participation in the programming and implementation of the CCA’s activities,
– establishing and maintaining contacts as well as permanent cooperation with institutions involved in culture and contemporary art,
– budget planning, forecasting and reporting,
– preparation of materials for publications, press releases, etc.,
– supervision of administrative issues regarding the projects,
– participation in supplementing and widening the CCA collection.
General requirements
– ability to work in a team,
– creativity, flexibility, as well as good organizational skills,
– resistance to stress,
– very good knowledge of the English language, both orally and in writing,
– proficient computer skills (Office - particularly Word and Excel, Internet),
– higher education.
Specific requirements
– knowledge of the history of art, with particular emphasis on the Twentieth Century, and the current situation of international and Polish contemporary art, especially performance art and a general knowledge regarding the situation of theater and dance,
– knowledge about artists, institutions, and the leading representatives in the world of performance, as well as basic knowledge of theatre and dance,
– knowledge of the methodology of exhibition production and production of performative events,
– knowledge of the methodology of catalogue production and other publications,
– general knowledge of the main streams in contemporary culture,
– at least 2 years experience working as a curator in the realization of performance projects.
Requested documents:
CV
Letter of intent
A brief vision of development of the performance activities at the CCA (up to 2 pages, A4 format). The text should match the main program objectives of the Centre, presented in the document "The Mission of the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle" - for download on the web-page www.csw.art.pl.
If this document is submitted in Polish it has to be accompanied by a translation into English.

A cover letter and CV with a statement that reads: "I hereby give consent for the Centre for Contemporary Art - Ujazdowski Castle, located in Warsaw on Jazdów 2 Street to process my personal data for the purposes of recruitment, given by me in the application documents for the position of Curator of Visual Art and Performance (in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act dated August 29th, 1997, Dz. U. No. 101, item 926 with further amendments). I also confirm, that I have been informed of my right to access my data and to correct it, and that the application of this data was voluntary."
Please send by February 11, 2013 to the following e-mail address: kadry@csw.art.pl

2.Curator of the Film Programme
DEADLINE: February 11, 2013

The Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle is looking to hire a person for the position of Curator of the Film Programme.
Job description / main tasks
The person in this position will be responsible for:
– observation, analysis, evaluation of changes, trends and artistic developments in the field of contemporary cinema,
– organizing film presentation programmes, and other projects such as film exhibitions and film production,
– establishing and maintaining contacts as well as permanent cooperation with institutions involved in culture and contemporary art-house cinema,
– participation in the programming and implementation of the Centre’s activities,
– budget planning, forecasting and reporting,
– preparation of materials for publications, press releases, etc.,
– supervision administrative issues regarding the projects,
– participation in supplementing and widening the CCA collection.
General requirements
– ability to work in a team,
– creativity, flexibility, as well as good organizational skills,
– resistance to stress,
– very good knowledge of the English language, both orally and in writing,
– proficient computer skills (Office - particularly Word and Excel, Internet),
– higher education.
Specific requirements
– knowledge of the history and current situation of international and Polish film art,
– knowledge about artists, institutions, and the leading representatives in the world of film,
– knowledge of the methodology of implementing film programs, film festivals, as well as the production of film projects,
– knowledge of the methodology for the creation of catalogs as well as other publications in the field of cinema,
– at least 3 years experience in a similar area of work related to films, festivals, organization of screenings, film production, etc.,
– general knowledge of the main trends in contemporary art and the ability to connect different disciplines of art.
Requested documents:
CV
A letter of intent
A document containing a vision of development of the film programme: proposal for managing the Cinema, the organization of events, film festivals, educational activities, film production, and the implementation of interdisciplinary projects at the CCA (up to 2 pages, A4 format). The concept should match the main program objectives of the Centre, presented in the document "The Mission of the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle" - for download on the web-page www.csw.art.pl.
If this document is submitted in Polish it has to be accompanied by a translation into English.

A cover letter and CV with a statement that reads: "I hereby give consent for the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, located in Warsaw on Jazdów 2 Street to process my personal data for the purposes of recruitment, given by me in the application documents for the position of Curator of the Film Programme (in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act dated August 29th, 1997, Dz. U. No. 101, item 926 with further amendments). I also confirm, that I have been informed of my right to access my data and to correct it, and that the application of this data was voluntary."
Please send by February 11, 2013 to the following e-mail address kadry@csw.art.pl

3.Curator of Visual Art
DEADLINE: February 11, 2013
The Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle is looking to hire a person for the position of Curator of Visual Art.
Job description / main tasks
The person in this position will be responsible for:
– observation, analysis, and evaluation of changes in the field of contemporary art,
– organization of projects presenting some of the most interesting contemporary artistic phenomena,
– participation in the programming and implementation of the Centre’s activities,
– establishing and maintaining contacts as well as permanent cooperation with institutions involved in culture and contemporary art,
– budget planning, forecasting and reporting,
– preparation of materials for publications, press releases, etc.,
– supervision of administrative issues regarding the projects,
– participation in supplementing and widening the CCA collection.
General requirements
– ability to work in a team,
– creativity, flexibility, as well as good organizational skills,
– resistance to stress,
– very good knowledge of the English language, both orally and in writing,
– proficient computer skills (Office - particularly Word and Excel, Internet),
– higher education.
Specific requirements
– knowledge of the history of art, with particular emphasis on the Twentieth Century, and the current situation of international contemporary art,
– knowledge about artists, institutions, and the leading representatives in the world of visual art,
– knowledge of the methodology of exhibition production and production of visual art events,
– knowledge of the methodology of catalogue production and other kind of publications in the field of visual art,
– general knowledge of the main streams in contemporary culture,
– at least 2 years experience working as a curator in the realization of visual art projects.
Requested documents:
CV
Letter of intent
A short concept of the CCA's course of action in the frame of visual arts, also taking into account possible innovative, experimental forms of presenting art (maximum 2 pages / format A4). The concept should match the main program objectives of the Centre, presented in the document "The Mission of the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle" - for download on the web-page www.csw.art.pl.
If this document is submitted in Polish it has to be accompanied by a translation into English.

A cover letter and CV with a statement that reads: "I hereby give consent for the Centre for Contemporary Art - Ujazdowski Castle, located in Warsaw on Jazdów 2 Street to process my personal data for the purposes of recruitment, given by me in the application documents for the position of Curator of Visual Art (in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act dated August 29th, 1997, Dz. U. No. 101, item 926 with further amendments). I also confirm, that I have been informed of my right to access my data and to correct it, and that the application of this data was voluntary."
Please send by February 11, 2013 to the following e-mail address: kadry@csw.art.pl

4.Coordinator – Curator of the Green Jazdów project
DEADLINE: February 11, 2013

During the summer of 2013, the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle plans to carry out the second edition of the Green Jazdów project. The project will consist of organized artistic events, meetings, conferences, as well as workshops related to the broader themes of ecology and healthy lifestyles.
We are looking to hire a person for the position of curator – coordinator of the project for the duration of 8 months, from February to October 2013.
Job description / main tasks
The person in this position will be responsible for:
– participation in the curatorial development of the Green Jazdów programme,
– coordinating the process of preparation and implementation of both the substantive and administrative-organizational,
– cooperation with the appropriate CCA departments in order to create the project, timetable, cost estimate, promotional materials - monitoring expenses, payments, contracts,
– cooperation in raising funds for the realization of the project: preparing applications to funders, materials for sponsors, etc.,
– report as well as accounting for the project.
Requirements
– an interest in environmental issues,
– knowledge of new trends in contemporary art,
– organizational, communicational, and interpersonal skills,
– experience in project management,
– ability to work in a team,
– higher education,
– extensive knowledge of the English language,
– computer proficiency: Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Internet), the ability to use software for managing the project as well as tasks,
– resistance to stress,
– availability.

Motivational letter as well as a CV with a statement that reads: "I hereby give consent for the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, located in Warsaw on Jazdów 2 Street to process my personal data for the purposes of recruitment, given by me in the application documents for the position of Project Coordinator (in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act dated August 29th, 1997, Dz. U. No. 101, item 926 with further amendments). I also confirm, that I have been informed of my right to access my data and to correct it, and that the application of this data was voluntary."
with the subject of the e-mail being: Green Jazdów Coordinator
please send by February 11, 2013 to the following e-mail address: kadry@csw.art.pl
We reserve the right to answer only selected applications.

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Open call for artists, FLACC, Genk, Belgium

Deadline: 1 March 2013

The call is open to all visual artists. Owing to the diversity of our workshops, the application is open for projects in various media and disciplines. In 2013 FLACC is launching a research programme lasting several years. It will take changing artistic ‘labour’ as its starting point and study the artistic calling by means of a historical analysis. That analysis will be taken as the basis for the central question: is the artists’ workplace in its present form still the most appropriate instrument to support artistic production. The open call only invites projects, which respond to this and the following themes, namely the artist as entrepreneur, the relation between artist, labourer and entrepreneur and the relation between arts and science.

This cluster focuses on the complex position of the contemporary artist. Now that it is possible for one and the same artist to work according to the old, romantic pre-industrial studio system and at the same time to spearhead an industrially equipped studio, a relationship of complementarity is produced between concept and realization, mass production, and (pseudo)craftsmanship. The historical concept of the artist’s genius is still very much alive, but with one important addition: this kind of artistic practice requires firm managerial skills.

This already indicates that traditional distinctions between artist, worker and entrepreneur are no longer pertinent. An artist is also an entrepreneur, and often his own worker as well. At the same time, new technologies brought along new possibilities to outsource production, and production of small series has become considerably cheaper. These developments have put diverse economic models and modes of production within reach of the artist, which may on the one hand result in new possibilities of expression, while on the other hand it puts pressure on the artist to take on an entrepreneurial role. While the first cluster is dedicated to investigating historical roles and models, this cluster researches new models and opportunities. This includes attention to issues of material decay and conservation, the temporality of art, authenticity and the lesser quality of serial production.

These new models of artistic practice have close connections to other segments of society, such as academic research, and this may lead to new forms of cooperation in which the artist teams up with scholars for the purpose of joint research, creating work that has its foundation in scholarly investigation. Another connection is the collaboration between artist and industry, which was investigated and employed by the Arts & Crafts movement and Bauhaus, a collaboration which the recent attention for the creative industry has once again brought into the spotlights. Creative industry is put forward as a catalyst, a force for innovation that may transform existing industries. Is this a utopian dream or a realistic scenario?

The artistic practices mentioned above usually require considerable sums of capital, which is not within reach of most artists. This is certainly true of young artists, who even under the best of circumstances will not yet be able to convert their creative output into financial capital. FLACC provides young artists the opportunity to work within these models and to realize a creative output that enables them to continue working in similar systems in the future.

The work period is maximum three months fulltime or approximately 90 days spread over the period January 2014 to December 2014. As well as technical, organizational and artistic support, FLACC offers the artists a workplace, accommodation, travel expenses and a small production budget.

Presentation

The results of all the artists’ work periods will be presented to an (international) project partner at the end of 2014 or early 2015.

Application procedure

Please use our application form and excel sheet (fill in required budget) to apply. The application should include a well-defined project proposal, a thoroughly calculated budget, a preferable time frame and your résumé (text and images and/or video).

More information

For more info please visit www.flacc.info or contact Luuk Nouwen or Sarah Indeherberge at application@flacc.info.

Ana Mendieta`s retrospective at Castello Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art

Ana Mendieta. She Got LoveJ Curated by Beatrice Merz and Olga Gambari January 30–May 5, 2013 Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art Piazza Mafalda di Savoia  10098 Rivoli (Turin), Italy

Ana Mendieta. She Got Love, is a large-scale European retrospective devoted to the Cuban-born American artist Ana Mendieta (1948–1985). The exhibition will open on January 30 in the evocative spaces of the Manica Lunga. The project, curated by Beatrice Merz and Olga Gambari, aims to retrace the artist as a pioneer of performance, video, body art, photography, land art, and sculpture in the twentieth century. One of Mendieta's unique contributions is a synthesis of these forms into a fresh, visual language which has influenced a generation of younger artists. In more than one hundred of Mendieta's works produced between 1972 and 1985, the exhibition presents her extremely personal vocabulary that combines the visionary and material, magical and poetic, and political and progressive. Mendieta's identity as a female informed her work as an artist, beginning with her childhood cultural roots in Cuba to her development as an iconic female artist in the United States. She addressed issues such as individual existence, life and death, violence, love, sex, re-birth, and exile in a coherent manner that is transcendent towards the universal and spiritual. Often inserting her body in nature, Mendieta worked in different environments from Cuba to the United States to Italy, investigating both personal and collective origins. A recurrent distinctive sign in all her works is a typical feminine silhouette or "siluetta," an essential self-portrait created from earth, mud, feathers, flowers, leaves, ash, gunpowder, branches, shells, grass, ice, rock, wax, moss, sand, blood, water, and fire. These hybrid forms of performance, site-specific sculpture, and documentation express her desire to reunite with an eternal and universal cosmic energy where the human, the natural, and the divine component coexist. Each of her performances are presented as a profound and enveloping environment described through video, sketches, photographs, and notes, providing both mental and physical access to the original location of the work. The exhibition's title, She Got Love, is derived from one of Mendieta's film works in which the artist scrawls the words in blood red across a white door. It is among the many films in the artist's oeuvre, a selection of which will be highlighted in the exhibition. The exhaustive catalogue, published by Skira in conjunction with the retrospective at Castello di Rivoli, includes texts by the curators, a bio-bibliographical section, and a wide selection of images, a number which have not been previously reproduced. The exhibition corresponds with the occasion of the world premiere of Itali-ana, Mendieta in Rome, a documentary on Mendieta's artistic development during her years in residence at the American Academy in Rome, Italy. The film is produced by Corazon Pictures and directed by Raquel Cecilia Mendieta. This documentary film will be screened throughout the exhibition. The retrospective has been realized in close collaboration with the Estate of Ana Mendieta and Galerie Lelong. The exhibition has been made possible thanks to the contribution of Fondazione Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, the technical support from Kuhn & Bülow Insurance Broker, Berlin and the media partnership of La Stampa. more: Press Office, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary ArtSilvano Bertalot  Manuela Vasco T +39 011 9565209 - 211  press@castellodirivoli.org  s.bertalot@castellodirivoli.org www.castellodirivoli.org www.castellodirivoli.tv

Vevey International Photo Award 2013/2014, Call for entries

Vevey International Photo Award 2013/2014, Call for entries
deadline: March 15th, 2013

Festival Images is launching another round of its project competition. Artists and photographers have until March 15th to enter the Vevey International Photo Award 2013/2014.

This award represents a unique form of support for contemporary original works, with a free choice of subject matter and genre.

The purpose of this competition consists in providing crucial assistance for projects that have not been realised, in the form of various grants that amount to up to CHF 40,000 (around EUR 33,000), in order to bring a photography initiative to completion.

In April 2013, a jury of professionals will choose the projects that will be supported by the Festival. The winning projects will be realized within the following year and previewed at the next Festival Images in September 2014.

Subscribe now on the website and send your photo project before March 15th 2013.

Fondation Vevey ville d'images
CP 443, 1800 Vevey - Switzerland

T +41 (21) 922 48 54
info@images.ch
www.images.ch

30th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia,Open call

30th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Deadline: February 20th, 2013, till 5 pm

dates: 14 September–24 November 2013
place: International Centre of Graphic Arts, Pod turnom 3, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

ELIGIBLE
All artists currently residing in Southeastern Europe (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Moldova, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia).

ABOUT
The 30th Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana will highlight some of the evolutions the graphic field has undergone in contemporary times. Print processes, broadly defined here as methods that use a process of transference (that often involve a matrix which allows for multiple incarnations of any one work), have expanded to touch many types of present-day art. While select, traditional media have evolved and adapted to maintain their relevance, others have become primitive formats resigned to oblivion. Still other, newer processes—most notably, digital practices—after a long fermentation, finally seem to have taken a legitimate hold as artistic tools in their own right. This edition will focus on projects that have a renewed, contemporary engagement with traditional means, evolve established processes with fresh applications, or embrace new printerly technologies in high-quality, artistic investigations. In most cases, the techniques employed echo and comment on conditions of the current world in which we live: how we now receive our information, how we interact—or attempt to—with each other, how we (mis)perceive our world. This re-consideration of the graphic as both form and content has invigorated the polygraphic terrain, and links the work of artists from around the world.

CURATOR
Deborah Cullen is a curator of the 30th Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana. Deborah Cullen, PhD is Director & Chief Curator of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University in the City of New York. She served as Chief Curator for El Panal/The Hive: 3ra Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan: América Latina y el Caribe, Puerto Rico (2012).
 
PRODUCER
The producer of Ljubljana’s Biennial of Graphic Arts is the International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC) in Ljubljana, a specialized museum for the art of printing, artists’ books and ephemera. If we consider the history of the Ljubljana Biennial from today’s perspective, we could say that one of its greatest assets is that it presented current art from both West and East during the Iron Curtain period. Gradually, as part of the non-aligned policy that was the key pillar of Tito’s Yugoslavia, virtually the entire world took part in it. Artists from the USA, Western Europe and the countries of the Eastern Bloc, as well as – very unusual for the time – artists from the Middle East, Africa and Asia, all exhibited at the Ljubljana Biennial.
In the year 2013 will see the 30th edition of the International Biennial of Graphic Arts, which has, particularly during the last twelve years, refreshed its concept, actualised as well as expanded the field of the graphic arts as a medium, and re-examined its structure time and again.

HOW TO APPLY
Please submit the following:
• a description of the existing project, no more than one page
• a brief resume, no more than 3 pages
• If the work cannot be produced without funding, please submit a detailed budget request.
• up to 10 JPGs, including the proposed project and previous, recent work to which it relates (please send images at a low resolution to open quickly)
• an image list (title, year, medium, dimensions, and a 1-sentence description if needed)
(video, audio or other formats may be submitted if relevant, no more than 5 minutes)

NOTE THAT SUBMISSION MATERIALS WILL NOT BE RETURNED---
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ARTE FIERA 2013 BOLOGNA

ARTE FIERA 2013 BOLOGNA  
25-28 JANUARY 2013 

With Verzotti and Spadoni as Artistic Directors, Arte Fiera will again present the finest in
contemporary and modern Italian art. Agreement between BolognaFiere and the City of
Bologna for a programme of exhibits and cultural events coordinated by Maraniello,
Director of MAMbo. The 2013 edition of Arte Fiera Art First, to be held in Bologna from Friday 25 to Monday 28 January, was presented today at a press conference at BolognaFiere. The conference announced new features of the next edition, which will strengthen the national and international leadership of Italy’s top exhibition devoted to art.
Duccio Campagnoli, President of BolognaFiere, Alberto Ronchi, Bologna’s Councillor for Culture,
and  Massimo Di Carlo, Chairman of the Association of Italian Galleries, presented the first two
important new aspects of the next Arte Fiera.
First, the exhibition’s new artistic direction, entrusted to two of Italy’s top art experts:  Giorgio
Verzotti, who will curate the contemporary art section, and Claudio Spadoni, who will be in charge
of modern art.  As Duccio Campagnoli affirms, “These choices have confirmed and strengthened our collaboration with Italian gallery owners and their Association, and will certainly confirm and expand Arte Fiera’s role as the largest and most complete exhibition in Italy and the foremost opportunity for modern and contemporary Italian art. We will give even greater emphasis to new galleries, young artists, and international participants. With our renewed agreement with the City of Bologna and the commitment of its Councillor for Culture, we want to achieve our goal of presenting not just an art fair that involves the city, but of having the entire city live for art – both during and after Arte Fiera.
In these tragic days for our region, the heritage lost under the rubble of the earthquakes makes us
understand the value of art as a sign of history, a symbol of society, of shared emotion.”
Second, President Campagnoli and Councillor Ronchi presented the agreement between the City of
Bologna and BolognaFiere to organize the cultural and exhibition programme that will accompany
Arte Fiera and confirm Bologna’s vocation as a city of art and culture.
The cultural initiatives offered by Arte Fiera and the City will be coordinated and presented by
MAMbo (Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna), directed by Lorenzo Sassoli de’ Bianchi and curated by Gianfranco Maraniello, with a coordination committee that includes the artistic directors of Arte
Fiera. Giorgio Verzotti, art critic, was chief curator at Castello di Rivoli (Turin) and at M.A.R.T. (Rovereto).
Claudio Spadoni, art historian, is the scientific  director of MAR (Ravenna) and has curated many
exhibits for public museums and galleries in Italy.  Thanks to the arrival of the two new directors and the division of their responsibilities, Arte Fiera will expand its horizons to modern art as well: the exhibition and galleries will offer not only contemporary art, but an entire century of fine Italian art, art which since the early 20th  century has filled museums and galleries all over the world, thereby recovering artists who otherwise would have been excluded from the original format.
“Bologna has always been important,” notes  Giorgio Verzotti, speaking of his new assignment.
“Arte Fiera has confirmed its role as Italy’s foremost art fair thanks to the quality of its galleries and, consequently, of the works shown. We have to continue in this direction while simultaneously
innovating. With regard to contemporary art, my task will be to confirm this excellence, increasing the Fair’s power to attract new galleries in Italy and abroad, and to maximise its internationalisation.
The Technical Committee and I will carefully evaluate proposals from galleries to characterise the
event based on concrete guidelines, with rigorous selection, to create an exhibition that will be truly
one-of-a-kind and honour it international fame.” The goal of making Arte Fiera “the largest fair of Italian art” is also a priority for Claudio Spadoni, who will curate its expansion to the early 20th
 century. “I see this assignment as a historical possibility to return space to those great Italian artists, who will be promoted by involving galleries and awakening the public and collectors to the unique historical and artistic heritage they represent.
In this way, Arte Fiera will confirm its national leadership and become even more important
internationally, attracting a larger number of collectors, especially from abroad.” Bologna and its art institutions are working as a team to consolidate the success of Arte Fiera Off events, which attract tens of thousands to Bologna in renewed interest in art. Starting this year, museums will play a principal role in hosting events, coordinated by the artistic director of MAMbo,  Gianfranco Maraniello. “It will be an opportunity for the city to show and recover little-known sites dedicated to art. In Arte Fiera’s new formula, they will be natural sites on a path leading to artistic pleasure. Bologna and its historical centre will be transformed into a great museum, open to everyone.”
According to Massimo Di Carlo, Chairman of the Association of Italian Galleries, “The plan for this
new Arte Fiera is important and ambitious because it creates a dialogue between city institutions and the organisation of the Fair. This in itself is new for an Italian fair. In these critical and tragic times, art is demonstrating its ability to conserve an intrinsic value and to appease the spirit. In early 2013, Arte Fiera Art First will be the first exhibition on the calendar as well as the first due to its strategic position. There is great esteem for the two new directors in professional circles, and expectations are very high. Our galleries will go all out, because Arte Fiera is crucial for us. We have an important and profitable relationship with BolognaFiere and its president. Arte Fiera is a jewel that adds value to BolognaFiere’s activities and is a reference point for gallery owners. In this difficult climate, we have to find even more energy to demonstrate the quality of our work and to reinforce the year’s most important event.”
-press office Arte Fiera Bologna-

for program and collateral events see more in  http://www.artefiera.bolognafiere.it

Art Paris Art Fair 2013

Art Paris Art Fair 2013
Modern + contemporary art + design
Russia Guest of Honour

28 March–1 April 2013
Opening: 27 March 2013

The springtime event for modern and contemporary art in Paris
Held from 28th March to 1st April, Art Paris Art Fair brings together 140 galleries from 21 countries under the majestic roof of the Grand Palais. The fair presents a wide range of modern and contemporary works and is open to all forms of artistic practice including contemporary design. A series of talks and a VIP programme for collectors titled Springtime in Paris will focus on the best of contemporary art and contribute to highlight the role of Paris as one of Europe's leading capitals for art.

A fundamentally new selection
The 2013 selection will bring a very high proportion of new galleries (61 new arrivals this year) and one of the highest levels of foreign participants (43% of exhibitors are coming from outside France). Bosnia, Finland, Russia (with a major representation of 11 galleries), Saudi Arabia, Slovenia and The United Arab Emirates are making their first appearance at the fair.

Art Paris Art Fair is reinforcing its unique identity not only by showcasing both the diversity and the specificity of the artistic scenes from all around Europe, but also by focussing on the art scenes of the East—from Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Russia Guest of Honour
For the first time Art Paris Art Fair is inviting a country as guest of honour. This year it is Russia. A central platform hosts eleven galleries from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-don, and Vladivostok, while 15 or so European galleries are presenting work by their Russian artists. Showcasing work by some 90 artists, Art Paris Fair will offer an exceptional panorama of Russian art: from the Russian émigrés of the 1930s to the non-conformist movements of the Soviet period through to the most contemporary production.

Promises: a new section for young galleries
Art Paris Art Fair launches a new section called Promises devoted to the promotion of recent galleries that have been established for less than five years. Twelve galleries make up the 2013 selection to encourage the discovery of new talent: 16th Line (Rostov on Don), Leonardi Agosti (Sète), Backslash (Paris), Duplex 10m2 (Sarajevo), Edward Cutler (Milan), Lam Art Gallery (Riyadh), Lehr Zeitgenössische Kunst (Cologne), NK Gallery (Antwerp), de Roussan (Paris), Vincent Sator (Paris), Trinity Contemporary (London), and XPO Gallery (Paris).
Promises is supported by l'Officiel Art.

Artdesign platform: exploring the relationship between art and contemporary design
Dedicated to the exploration of the links between design and contemporary art, the Artdesign platform brings together a cutting-edge selection of eight galleries which present exclusive pieces produced in a confidential mode by contemporary talents. On show there will notably be sculpture-objects by Hubert le Gall (Mazel Galerie), recent creations by Matali Crasset  (Domeau et Pérès and Slott Gallery), unique pieces by Mattia Bonetti (Cat-Berro Gallery), and jewellery made by artists and designers (Galerie MiniMasterpiece).
The Artdesign platform is supported by IDEAT Magazine.


Practical information
Opening (by invitation only): Wednesday 27 March 2013, 6–8pm

Hours: Thursday 28 March, Saturday 30 March and Sunday 31 March: 11:30–8pm
Friday 29 March: 1130–10 pm
Monday 1 April: 11:30–7pm

Admission: 20Euro / 10 Euro for students and groups
Catalogue: 20 Euro

Travel: For travel arrangements and accommodation, please take advantage of our partnership with Turon Travel, T + 1(212) 925-5453 / apaf@turontravel.com.

Press relations: 2e bureau
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List of Exhibitors 2013 as of 16th January
10 Chancery Lane Gallery (Hong Kong) | 16th Line Gallery (Rostov sur le Don)* | 313 Art Project (Seoul) | A2Z Art Gallery (Ivry-sur-Seine) | AD Galerie (Beziers/Montpellier) | Louise Alexander Gallery (Porto Cervo) | Galerie Alexis Lartigue (Neuilly-sur-Seine)* | ALFA Galerie (Paris) | Analix Forever (Geneva) | Galerie Anne de Villepoix (Paris)* | Arka Gallery (Vladivostok)* | Arte Estampa (Madrid)* | Galerie Arts d'Australie • Stéphane Jacob (Paris) | Backslash Gallery (Paris)* | Galerie Helene Bailly (Paris)* | Baudoin Lebon (Paris) | Galerie Renate Bender (Munich)* | Galerie Christian Berst (Paris)* | Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès (Paris) | Galerie Blue Square (Washington, DC)* | Bodson-Emelinckx Gallery (Brussels)* | Galerie Jean Brolly (Paris) | Cat-Berro Galerie (Paris)* | Galerie Bernard Ceysson (Saint-Etienne/Luxembourg/Paris/Geneva) | Galerie Pierre-Alain Challier (Paris) | Clair Galerie (Munich/Saint-Paul de Vence) | Galerie Claude Bernard (Paris) | Galerie Claude Lemand (Paris)* | Galerie Coullaud & Koulinsky (Paris)* | Galerie Da End (Paris)* | De Primi Fine Art (Lugano) | Galerie De Roussan (Paris)* | Domeau & Pérès (La Garenne Colombes) | Galerie Dukan (Paris) | Duplex 10m2 (Sarajevo)* | Edward Cutler Gallery (Milan)* | Eidos Immagini Contemporanee (Asti) | Erarta Galleries (London)* | Galerie Les Filles Du Calvaire (Paris) | Flatland Gallery (Utrecht/Amsterdam) | Gagliardi Art System (Turin) | Galerie Christophe Gaillard (Paris)* | Galerija Fotografija (Lljubljana)* | Galerie Claire Gastaud (Clermont-Ferrand) | Gimpel & Müller (Paris/London) | Gallery Grinberg (Moscow)* | Galerie Guillaume (Paris) | H.A.N. Gallery (Seoul) | Galerie Mark Hachem (Beirut/Paris)* | Galleria Heino (Helsinki)* | Heritage International Art Gallery (Moscow)* | Galerie Thessa Herold (Paris)* | Galerie Ernst Hilger (Vienna) | Galerie Catherine Houard (Paris) | IFA Gallery (Shanghai) | Ilan Engel Gallery (Paris) | Galerie Imane Farès (Paris) | Inda Galeria (Budapest) | Galerie Iragui (Moscow)* | Galerie Catherine Issert (Saint-Paul de Vence) | J. Bastien Art (Brussels) | Galerie Pascal Janssens (Ghent) | Galerie Jean Fournier (Paris) | JGM. Galerie (Paris) | Galerie Bernard Jordan (Paris)* | La Galerie Particulière (Paris) | Galerie La Ligne (Zürich)* | Galerie Lahumière (Paris) | Lam Art Gallery (Riyadh)* | Laurent Delaye Gallery (London)* | Lehr Zeitgenössische Kunst (Cologne)* | Galerie Leonardo Agosti (Sete)* | Gallery Lilja Zakirova (Heusden)* | Galerie Maeght (Paris)* | Magnin-A (Paris)* | Kálmán Makláry Fine Arts (Budapest) | Mam Galerie (Rouen)* | Marina Gisich Gallery (Saint-Petersburg) - Ural Vision Gallery (Ekaterinburg)* | Mazel Galerie (Brussels) | Galerie melanieRio (Nantes)* | Galerie MiniMasterpiece (Paris)* | Galerie Alice Mogabgab (Beirut) | Galerie Frédéric Moisan (Paris)* | Galerie Lélia Mordoch (Paris) | Nadja Brykina Gallery AG (Zurich)* | NK Gallery (Antwerp)* | Nuovo Gallery (Daegu)* | Galerie Nathalie Obadia (Paris/Brussels) | Oniris - Galerie d'Art Contemporain (Rennes) | Galerie Paris-Beijing (Paris/Brussels) | Galerie Priska Pasquer (Cologne) | Pechersky Gallery (Moscow) | Herve Perdriolle Inde(s) (Paris)* | Galleria Giuseppe Pero (Milan)* | Pièce  Unique (Paris)* | Galerie Placido (Paris)* | Galerie Polad Hardouin (Paris)* | Pop/Off/Art Gallery (Moscow/Berlin)* | Galerie Catherine Putman (Paris) | Galerie Rabouan Moussion (Paris) | RCM Galerie (Paris)* | Revue Noire (Paris) | Galerie Richard (Paris/New York) | J.P. Ritsch-Fisch Galerie (Strasbourg) | Rue Française By Miss China (Paris)* | Sarah Myerscough Fine Art (London)* | Galerie Sator (Paris)* | Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea (Milan)* | SEM ART Gallery (Monaco)* | Semiose Galerie (Paris) | André Simoens Gallery (Knokke) | Galerie Slott (Paris) | Galerie Véronique Smagghe (Paris) | Michel Soskine Inc (Madrid/New York)* | Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve (Paris)* | Galerie Taiss (Paris) | Galerie Tamenaga (Paris/Tokyo/Osaka) | Galerie Tanit (Munich/Beirut)* | Galerie Daniel Templon (Paris) | The Empty Quarter (Dubai)* | Galerie Patrice Trigano (Paris) | Trinity Contemporary (London)* | Galerie Tristan (Issy les Moulineaux)* | GVQ - Galerie Vanessa Quang (Paris) | Várfok Gallery (Budapest)* | Venice Projects (Venise) | Galerie Vieille Du Temple (Paris) | Galerie Vu' (Paris) | Galerie Wolkonsky (Munich)* | XPO Gallery (Paris)* | Galerie Zürcher (Paris/New York)
*new participant


Grand Palais
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris

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