Author Archives: jolanta
“Sommerfreuden“ (“Summer Pleasures”) at the Vienna Ringturm
On its 60th birthday, the Ringturm is attracting the attention of the international art scene. For the eighth time, Wiener Städtische Versicherungsverein will wrap the Ringturm – this year with the work “Sommerfreuden“ (“Summer Pleasures”) by Croatian artist Tanja Deman. (Vienna, 11 May 2015) Today, work is set to start on the façade of the […]
Chris Burden: “My God, are they going to leave me here to die?”, 1975
At 8:20 p.m., the body artist Chris Burden entered a large gallery of the Museum of Contemporary Art, did not look at his audience of 400 or more, set a clock for midnight, and lay down on the floor beneath a large sheet of plate glass that was angled against the wall. So began on […]
Manuella Muerner Marioni at Artfiact Gallery
ARTIFACT GALLERY New York City presents MANUELLA MUERNER MARIONI May 13- 31, 2015 / Opening Reception: Wednesday May 13, 2015 at 6 p.m. You and your friends are cordially invited !!! The artist will be present at the Opening Reception – Looking forward to see you :-)) Adress Gallery: ARTIFACT, 84 Orchard Street, New York 10002, […]
56th Venice Biennale Art Activism
Gulf Labor is an active participant in the 2015 Venice Biennale’s central exhibition, All the World’s Futures, which is curated by Okwui Enwezor. They are a coalition of artists, writers, architects, curators, and political cultural advocates. The group staged a series of protests dedicated to its investigations of labor conditions in the Persian Gulf: May 8, 2015, […]
Museum of Modern Electronic Music – is scheduled to open in 2017
Techno museum to open in Frankfurt “Music is the key to technology,” Brian Eno once said. And true to this maxim, Frankfurt is set to become the home of Germany’s first museum for electronic music. But a stereotypical museum this most certainly is not. The MOMEM – or Museum of Modern Electronic Music – is […]
Activists New and Old Jab Art World
Artist-activists target art world’s hypocrisy and corruption while rubbing elbows at events by By Jennifer Smith for WSJ Last weekend, the art-activist group the Guerrilla Girls engaged in a typically bumptious gesture: projecting images from their latest campaign on the side of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s building in lower Manhattan as a block […]
Gulf Labor and Other Arts Groups Occupy Venice’s Guggenheim
VENICE — At 10:20am this morning, two boatloads of artists and activists occupied the dock landing of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection (PGC) in Venice. It marks the first joint action between GULF (Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction) and Gulf Labor, which is an official participant in the 2015 Venice Biennale, and two Italian organizations, Sale Docks […]
Ukrainian artists occupy Russian pavilion at Venice Biennale
Mock occupation by activists in military uniforms mimics Russia’s military incursion into east Ukraine Mimicking the Russian military involvement in east Ukraine, a group of Ukrainian artists and activists have staged a mock-occupation of the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale, descending on the venue in camouflage fatigues. The artists then urged visiting tourists to […]
e-flux: “Architecture as Intangible Infrastructure,”
Nikolaus Hirsch, Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle “Architecture as Intangible Infrastructure,” Issue One Architecture remains the most tangible way of constructing the social. Yet, the system we call “architecture” is not reducible to the physical, the tactile, the obvious. In the history of avant-garde architecture, immateriality and intangibility carried a promise of liberation, of escape […]
Tonight: Sounds Like-Nicholas des Cognets, Mike Calway-Fagen, Janelle Iglesias, Tom Scicluna at DV
Tonight: Sounds Like-Nicholas des Cognets, Mike Calway-Fagen, Janelle Iglesias, Tom Scicluna May 8 – July 20, 2015 Reception, Friday, May 8, 7 – 11 pm Dimensions Variable presents Sounds Like, a group exhibition including the work of Mike Calway-Fagen, Nicholas des Cognets, Janelle Iglesias and Tom Scicluna. The exhibition will run from May 8 – July, 20, 2015. Please join us […]
