# 5contempoLAB | SUPER[M]ART[KET] | Art Management Round Table

# 5contempoLAB | SUPER[M]ART[KET] 

Art Management Round Table

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19 October 2015 | 18:00 to 20:00 pm

Bulgaria, Varna 

location: Graffit Gallery | 65 Bul. Knyaz Boris I 

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The fifth art management laboratory  - contempoLAB in 2015 will be held as a round table on the problems and trends of good presentation of the artist and it is dedicated to the tools to build a successful career in local and international markets.

#5contempoLAB | SUPER[M]ART[KET] is a product of collaboration between the Raya Georgieva Foundation, The Association of Varna Artists, Graffit Gallery, Bulart  Gallery and Stefan Stoyanov Gallery (Bulgaria – USA). The speakers are leading international experts, gallerists, curators, art dealers and museum professionals from Bulgaria, Austria, Turkey and Croatia, members of the international jury for the project of the Association of Varna artists - SUPER[M]ART[KET] , which will be presented to the audience in Varna , November 2015 and in Sofia, 2016. In the basis of the SUPER[M]ART[KET] project is inserted the  idea of creating a kind of simulacrum of the global art market where active participants are included unprejudiced. The simulacrum is formed by the selection of works from those artists who have accepted the invitation, which was through an open call. The exhibition of selected works will create mini-art market model according to the criteria of the expert jury. The 2015 edition of contempoLAB  /the educational platform created under the frame of the CONTEMPO festival since 2010/ is in the context of this research and it was programmed as a result of the study of the attitudes of local artistic communities and the critical need for knowledge about successful presentationat the global art stages.

#5contempoLAB|SUPER[M]ART[KET] is designed both for artists early in their career and for established ones who want to develop their presentation skills, for gallerists, curators, art dealers, cultural operators and art students. During discussions best practices will be examined in the relationship artist - curator / gallerist / dealer – collector: the possibilities  and the tools for emerging artists to participate in global art  forums , the survival strategies in the gallery practices, the museum as a brand and others.

 SPEAKERS AND SUBJECTS

 §  How to position an emerging artist on the world art forums?

BASAK SENOVA (TURKEY) – curator. Editorial correspondent for ibraaz.org; co-founding member of NOMAD, as well as the organizer of "ctrl_alt_del" and "Upgrade!Istanbul". Senova was the curator of the Pavilion of Turkey at the 53rd Venice Biennale. She curated Zorlu Center Collection (2011-2012). She co-curated the UNCOVERED project (Cyprus) and the 2nd Biennial of Contemporary Art, D-0 ARK Underground (Bosnia and Herzegovina). In 2014, she acted as the Art Gallery Chair of (ACM) SIGGRAPH 2014 (Vancouver); the curator of the Helsinki Photography Biennial 2014 and the Jerusalem Show. In 2015, she curated the Pavilion of Republic of Macedonia at the 56th Venice Biennale and recently appointed as the curator of 4th Biennial Land Art Mongolia 360°.

§  What is the curator’s role in the successful carrier of the artist

BRANKO FRANCESCHI (CROATIA)  - curator. The director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Split, Croatia; the director of the Virtual Museum of Avant-garde Art and president of the Institute for the Research of Avant-garde (2010 – 2014); the executive director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, Croatia (2004 -2008); the program director at the Miroslav Kraljevic Gallery, Zagreb (1987 -2004). He was the curator of the Pavilion of the Republic of Croatia at the 55th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2013); co-curator  the ARK D-0 Biennial in Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina; curator for the Croatian pavilion at 26th Sao Paulo Biennial (2004), 2nd International Biennial in Prague (2005), 52th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2007), 11th International Architecture Exhibition , Venice  (2008); the member of the curatorial team of the International Biennial of Young Artists, Bucharest (2006, 2012).

 §  The museum as a brand

NADEZHDA DZHAKOVA (BULGARIA) Art historian, curator. Since 2012 she is the Chief curator of the Sofia Arsenal – Museum of Contemporary Art (SAMCA) in Bulgaria.

 §What is the role of the art dealer/gallerist in the successful carrier of the artist  

     STEFAN STOYANOV (BULGARIA- USA) – art dealer, gallery owner. He runs  Stefan Stoyanov gallery at New York ( successor of Lux gallery in Manhattan , 2002). During 55 Biennial in Venice (2013) at the Cuba`s Pavilion he has presented the Cuban dissident artist Maria-Magdalena Campos Pons. The Stoyanov gallery is focused under art created by women and under research of ethical problems into the present society. He has several awards in New York and many exhibitions, curated by him has been listed by Whitney Museum of American Art and MOMA

§  What is the working model in the relationship between artist- private gallery – collectors

HANS KNOLL (AUSTRIA) - gallery owner, curator, . He runs Knoll gallery  in Vienna since 1985 and Knoll gallery in Budapest since 1989. He is a member of the Association of Austrian Galleries. He is professor for cultural management of the Cultural Studies Institute, Vienna, at the Vienna Music University, the Institute for Cultural Management and the Webster University in Viennaq focused under gallery work. Member of Art Moscow – international art fair since its establishment in 1996. He leads the project Eastern European Collectors - a research about collecting in former communist counties. He was awarded with Golden Decoration of Honour of the Republic of Austria as a pioneer of cultural exchange after 1989.

 §  Methods and techniques to attract the attention of curators and gallerists

DORA DONCHEVA - gallerist owner and curator based between Varna and Brussels. Communications Director at the International Festival of Contemporary Art- Product, Varna ( 2006 - 2008 ), co-curator the International Biennial of Visual Arts August in Art (2000 – 2003), Curator at CONTEMPO - the International Festival of Contemporary Art since 2009; owner of Bulart gallery  since 1996; Editor of Art News Bulletin –  e- magazine for international art news, since 2002. 

§Good practices in public funding of projects in the field of culture

DESISLAVA GEORGIEVA – expert in public administration, presently work as a head of "Festivals and projects" in Culture department, Municipality of Varna.

§ Characteristics of the Bulgarian art market

 PETRA DIMITROVA – manager of Graffit gallery since 2011; director of Vertigo – international contemporary dance and alternative performance arts festival.

 CONTEMPOLAB is an educational art management platform for young professionals, artists, gallerists, curators and cultural operators. The platform was created as part of the structure of the festival CONTEMPO, organized by the Raya Georgieva Foundation.

#5contempoLAB|SUPER[M]ART[KET] is a fifth edition of contempoLAB, organized by collaboration between Raya Georgieba Foundation , The  Association of Varna Artists, Graffit Gallery, Bulart Gallery and Stefan Stoyanov Gallery ( BG/USA) . The event is funded by the Fund Kultura of the Municipality of Varna, M TEL, construction company Comfort and private sponsors.

RAYA GEORGIEVA FOUNDATION (RGF) was created in  Varna, Bulgaria in 2009 in a honor of the artist Raya Georgieva (1978-2009) with a main goals to keep the memory of the talent and creativity of its patron; to support young artists, to create a stages for dialogue and creative experimentations by festivals, events, free platforms and educational streams. www.contempovarna.org

contacs:

Raya Georgieva Foundation | +359 887 244 882| www.contempovarna.org 

The Association of Varna Artists | + 359 988 366 992 | www.sbh-varna.com

Graffit Gallery | +359 888 556 393 | www.graffitgallery.com

ISEA 2015 - 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art

ISEA2015 - 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art

dayes: 14-18 | 08|  2015, Vancouver, Canada.

deadlines: 20 December, 2014 

21st International Symposium on Electronic Art will be held August 14-18, 2015, in Vancouver, Canada. The ISEA2015 symposium welcomes submissions for three broad types of activities:

1 – An exciting art program that will run throughout the duration of the symposium>>>the submission of artworks, installations and performances alike. Please see our call for artworks to find out how you can be part of it: http://isea2015.org/call-for-proposals/call-for-artworks/

2 – A set of workshops and tutorials will occur on Friday the 14th, and Saturday the 15th of August 2015. See the call for workshops and tutorials for more details on how to propose your own workshop or tutorial:http://isea2015.org/call-for-proposals/workshops-tutorials/

3 – The academic symposium will occur from Sunday the 16th to Tuesday the 18th of August 2015. It includes the following activities for which we solicit submissions:

  * Long Paper with Oral Presentation

  * Research Notes with Oral Presentation

  * Short Paper with Demonstration or Poster Presentation

  * Round Tables and Square Panels

  * Institutional Presentations 

ISEA2015 submissions in the Long paper, Research notes, and Short paper categories need to be the full length version of the paper (not only the abstract). Each submission will be thoroughly reviewed by members from our International Program Committee. Accepted submission will be published in the ISEA2015 Proceedings (with an ISBN/ISSN). These proceedings will be available online prior to the symposium.

For more details on how to contribute in any of the above categories, 

see our call for papers and panels 

here:http://isea2015.org/call-for-proposals/papers-posters-and-panels/   

Submissions are to be made through our 

ISEA2015 EasyChair portal: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isea2015

Important dates:

- 10 August 2014: Early bird submission deadline for artworks

- 15 September 2014: Notification of early artworks acceptance

- 20 December, 2014: Submission deadline for full research or art papers, research notes, panels, workshops and tutorials

- 20 December 2014: Late submission deadline for artworks

- 15 January 2015: Notification of acceptance for artworks, workshops and tutorials

- 15 February, 2015: Notifications of acceptance of full research or art papers,  research notes, and panels

- 21 February, 2015: Submission deadline for short research or art papers with demonstration or poster presentation, research or art demonstrations, institutional presentations

- 21 March, 2015: Notifications of acceptance for short research or art papers with demonstration or poster presentation, research or art demonstrations, institutional presentations

- 14-18 August, 2015: ISEA2015 Symposium

Symposium Organizers

Dr. Thecla Schiphorst  (Symposium Director)
School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT)
Faculty of Communication, Arts & Technology (FCAT), 
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.

Dr. Philippe Pasquier (Symposium Director)

School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT)

Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.

Kate Armstrong (Artistic Director)
Independent Curator, Director of the Social + Interactive Media (SIM) Centre,
Emily Carr University of Art+Design,
Vancouver, Canada.

Malcolm Levy (Artistic Director)
Founder and Director of the New Forms Festival
Vancouver, Canada.

more about :

ISEA INTERNATIONAL

The series of ISEA symposia is coordinated by ISEA International. Founded in the Netherlands in 1990, ISEA International (formerly Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts) is an international non-profit organization fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organizations and individuals working with art, science and technology. ISEA International Headquarters is supported by the University of Brighton (UK).

www.isea2015.org

Lecture and workshop about Critical Curatorial Practice,Ljubljana

Elke Krasny: Unplanned History – Writing It Down/Writing It Up as a Critical Curatorial Practice
Lecture and workshop,Ljubljana
dates: March 13 & 14, 2014
deadline for application workshop: February 28, 2014

In recent spatial practices and engagement in urban transformation, debates have surrounded the putative master planning and the putative un-planning or un-planned. This opposition has been undisputedly at the heart of critical spatial practice and theory.
LECTURE (IN ENGLISH)
The title of this lecture proposes a paradox as its starting point: unplanned history. History eludes planning, it has already happened. Still, the notion of the unplanned, as the lecturer emphasizes, is not the only conduit into history. Quite on the contrary, the writing of history, as feminist and postcolonial scholarship have shown, needs care and planning.

Elke Krasny will position a different genealogy of feminist urban curating (largely unwritten) and feminist strategies for writing an urban history that otherwise will have remained untold and invisible. These two histories will be unfold in parallel as part of an ongoing exploration of critical spatial practices in urban curating and of feminist (proto-)curatorial models of conviviality and the writing of unwritten history.
WORKSHOP (IN ENGLISH)
In combination with the lecture, the workshop will look at the interrelations and interdependencies between critical practices of artistic production, curatorial approaches, issues of urban epistemology and research-based strategies. The focus will be on conviviality and care and on issues of vulnerability, resistance, knowing bodies of agency/(un)known bodies of writing.

The workshop is free of charge and will be held in English. The number of participants is limited.

Applications will be accepted up until Friday, February 28, 2014.

MORE ABOUT THE LECTURE, WORKSHOP SCHEDULE AND APPLICATION

XX CSAV Artists Research Laboratory ,Open call

XX CSAV Artists Research Laboratory , Italy
deadline: March 31, 2014

Tacita Dean: " Comoggardising: the benefits of creative indolence" 
dates : 30 June – 23 July 2014

about CSAV
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 curator and guest lecturers, as well as conferences held by artists, critics and experts of other disciplines.

During this year laboratory, Tacita Dean will invite the young participants to re-find what the Swiss writer Robert Walser named ‘sluggardising’. Interpreted by Dean as the ability to work while appearing to be doing nothing, most often when lying down, this is an important state for the artist and it is often misinterpreted or misunderstood. The level of brain idleness that will be encouraged during the workshop is very rigorous indeed and difficult to achieve. It is an invitation to identify new time and new space in one’s life in order to move closer to discovering an unconscious level to one’s art practice.

about application rules 
The laboratory is free of charge. Accommodation expenses in Como are to be covered by the participants. To apply click here
The lab is open to candidates between 18 and 35 years old. No study certificate is required, but English is essential.
To apply, please fill in the application form and upload a CV and a portfolio of artworks.
The documents uploaded need to be in pdf format - max 10 Mb and 30 pages for the portfolio.
->Audio and video files can be sent on CD or DVD to:
CSAV, Fondazione Antonio Ratti Villa Sucota, Via per Cernobbio 19, 22100 Como, Italy.

The documentation will be returned only on demand, to those who will enclose a pre-stamped and addressed envelope. If you are sending any material by post, please specify it on the form into the note box.

In case of a collective practice, only one of the members is required to fill in the application form. Please specify it in the note box of the application form and also indicate the name of the collective and the names of all the other members.


The application and all required materials must be sent by the 31st of March 2014.

about the artist
Tacita Dean was born in 1965 in Canterbury, UK. She studied at Falmouth School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art before moving to live and work in Berlin in 2000.
The films, drawings and other works by Tacita Dean are extremely original. Her recent film portraits express something that neither painting nor photography can capture. They are purely film. And while Dean can appreciate the past, her art avoids any kind of academic approach. Dean's art is carried by a sense of history, time and place, light quality and the essence of the film itself. The focus of her subtle but ambitious work is the truth of the moment, the film as a medium and the sensibilities of the individual.

Dean's solo exhibitions include Tate Britain, London; MACBA, Barcelona (2001), Tate St Ives (2005), Schaulager, Basel (2006), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2007), Nicola Trussardi Foundation, Milan; ACCA, Melbourne (2009), MUMOK, Vienna; Turbine Hall (Unilever Series), Tate Modern, London (2011) and the New Museum, New York (2012). Most recent exhibitions include The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia and her latest film project JG at Arcadia University Art Gallery, Philadelphia (2013) and Frith Street Gallery, London (2013) and c/o Jolyon, 2012-2013 at Frith Street Gallery, London (2013).

Shows in 2013 also included Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro; Fundación Botín, Santander; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea in Seoul and Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, MAMbo.
Forthcoming shows in 2014 include The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, UMFA, National Gallery of Denmark, SMK and Sydney Biennale.
Dean has taken part in many group exhibitions including Venice Biennale (2003, 2005 and 2013), Sydney Biennale (2005) and Sao Paulo Biennale (2006 and 2010), and she recently participated in dOCUMENTA (13) (2012). Dean was awarded the Hugo Boss Prize in 2006 and the Kurt Schwitters Prize in 2009.

contacts:
CSAV
Fondazione Antonio Ratti
Villa Sucota
Via per Cernobbio 19
22100 Como
Italy
www.fondazioneratti.org

2nd Istanbul Design Biennial

2nd Istanbul Design Biennial | call for ideas 
deadline:  February 1, 2013

The second edition of the Istanbul Design Biennial will be realized between 18 October and 14 December 2014 by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV), and will comprise a wide range of events, workshops, conferences and screenings centered around its exhibitions program. Under the overarching title The Future Is Not What It Used To Be, the Biennial's curator, Zoë Ryan, revisits the manifesto as a platform and catalyst for critical thinking in design. The biennial asks, how can we reclaim the manifesto for the 21st century and beyond, not only in the production of texts, but through actions, services, provocations, or objects and seize the potential to incite inventive outcomes? As a platform for generating new ideas, the biennial invites submissions for contemporary manifestos that explore the complex role of design in today's society.

The full exhibition outline and submission guidelines can be reviewed on the website, click here

Istanbul Design Biennial explores a cross section of fields, from urban design (environmental, urban and regional planning) to architecture, photography, industrial, graphic, fashion, textile and interaction design, and all related creative fields. There are therefore no disciplinary or geographic limitations to the projects that can be submitted for inclusion in the Biennial.

The Future is Not What it Used to Be | 2nd Istanbul Design Biennial
18 October–14 December 2014
Curated by Zoë Ryan
Associate Curator: Meredith Carruthers

contact:
Istanbul Design Biennial
Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts
Sadi Konuralp Caddesi No: 5
Sishane 34433 Istanbul
ist.designbiennial@iksv.org

Checkpoint Helsinki>>We are Open! -seminar

International seminar in the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
We are Open! -seminar

Organising openness in artistic, curatorial and institutional practices
29th–30th August 2013

Checkpoint Helsinki and Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma organise a two-day seminar to explore the concept and practices of openness in producing and mediating contemporary art. Openness is a central concept according to which Checkpoint Helsinki, Kiasma and many other organisations function and is frequently used to describe how we should relate to each other. We are Open! -seminar will provide ideas about how openness can be applied in the work of artists, curators and institutions.

The invited speakers are:
Aaron Levy (director, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, USA)
Juha Huuskonen (independent curator, Helsinki)
Can Gülcü and Katharina Morawek (directors, artistic and executive team, Shedhalle, Zürich)
Matteo Lucchetti (independent curator, Brussels)
Oliver Marchart (political and cultural theorist, Vienna)
Dana Yahalomi (artist, Public Movement, Tel Aviv)
Ganzeer (artist, Egypt, part of On the Move: Political Strategies in Art programme of HIAP)

On Thursday the 29th of August the invited artists and curators present their talks in three thematic sessions. The topic of openness is discussed within the frameworks of knowledge production, curating, collaborative working methods, public space and audience. Opening speech will be at 10:30 and the programme at Kiasma will finish at 17:00. After the talks everyone is invited to a casual evening gathering at 19:00 in Gallery Augusta (Suomenlinna).

On the second day, Friday the 30th of August, the audience and the speakers have a possibility to delve into the themes of the first day in the form of a facilitated open space workshop and find ways to apply the topics of the first day to their own practices and needs. The workshop will start at 10:00 and finish at 16:00. In June 2012 Checkpoint Helsinki organised a previous open space workshop, where more than a hundred art professionals discussed the needs of the art field and the activities of Checkpoint Helsinki. Checkpoint Helsinki aims to continue working as a platform for artists, curators and other art professionals to discuss and network.

The seminar is free of charge, but the seating is limited. Enrolment by 22nd of August and further information: coordinator Laura Kokkonen, seminar@checkpointhelsinki.fi, tel. +358 40 480 4366.

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/509029362499726/

Checkpoint Helsinki is a new, non-profit art organisation that commissions and produces artworks and projects by emerging international artists. We are Open! seminar, organised in collaboration with Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, is part of the pilot year programme of Checkpoint Helsinki. Checkpoint Helsinki's first commission is titled Chimney Project and it can be seen in the city space during the Helsinki Festival, during the last week of August.

www.checkpointhelsinki.fi/en