WERKLEITZ FESTIVAL 2014

Mit Filmen u.a. von: Laurie Anderson, Maya Deren, Omer Fast, Christoph Girardet, Michel Gondry, Ute Hörner & Mathias Antlfinger, Buster Keaton, Ho Tzu Nyen, Ferhat Ozgür, Ekta Mittal & Yashaswini Raghunandan,… 

Das Werkleitz Festival wurde von Marcel Schwierin (Berlin) und Luc-Carolin Ziemann (Leipzig) kuratiert.

Film ist ein ideales Medium, um das Motiv des Doppelgängers zu visualisieren, denn nur dem Kino gelingt es tatsächlich, die täuschend echte Illusion der Verdopplung der Wirklichkeit auf der Leinwand zu erzeugen. Der Doppelgänger ist somit ein filmisches Sujet par excellence. In den mehr als 40 Filmen des Festivals begegnen den Zuschauern Doubles, Klone und Roboter, Spiegel-, Zerr- und Vexierbilder aller Art. Die Filme fragen nach dem Unterschied von Original und Kopie, verhandeln die politische Dimension der Austauschbarkeit beider und ergründen, wie Doppelgänger in einer Welt, in der Kopien allgegenwärtiger sind als Originale, zu Projektionsflächen und Orientierungspunkten werden. So unterschiedlich die Doppelgänger, so vielfältig sind ihre filmischen Verkörperungen: die Frage, wo das Ich aufhört und das Du beginnt, wird in Spiel-, Dokumentar- und Experimentalfilmen genauso verhandelt wie in Animationen, Videokunst und Musikvideos. Dabei treffen einfache Spiegeltricks auf komplexe digitale Animationen. Oft erscheinen die Künstler selbst in ihren Filmen und konfrontieren die Abbilder ihres Ichs mit der äußeren oder der inneren Welt, mal als beschwingter Slapstick, mal als verstörende Vision. 

EröffnungsveranstaltungFr, 25. April, 20.30 Uhr, Filmprogramm mit anschließender Geburtstagsparty im Puppentheater (Dock 1 und Foyer), Tickets: kostenfrei, kein Ticketverkauf

Filmprogramme im Kino Zazie: (Ticketverkauf über Kino Zazie)
Sa, 26. April und So, 27. April sowie Fr, 2. Mai und Sa, 3. Mai, jeweils 19.00 und 21.30 Uhr: „Gegenüber // Mirror, Mirror on the Wall“, „Me as We“, „Doppelgänger im Horrorfilm“ (Vortrag von Ralf Donis mit Filmbeispielen), „Sisters (Die Schwestern des Bösen)“, „Puppen, Doubles und andere Stellvertreter“, „Identical (?) Twins“, „Ghoststories“, „Dancing with Myself“ / Karten: 5,- EUR (ermäßigt: 3,-)

Installationen im Videorama:Werkleitz Schaufenster in die Stadt, Schleifweg 6, Halle (Saale)
April: „Dog Duet“ von William Wegman, US 1975
Mai: „Dog Duet“ von Pascal Lièvre, FR 2009

Infos: doppelgaenger.werkleitz.deDownload PDF: Filmprogramm.pdf

ART COLOGNE, 9-13 APRIL 2014

SOUVENIRS FROM EARTH & ART COLOGNE present FILM COLOGNE, a new sector at the Cologne art fair. 50 submissions from participating galleries are presented in a dedicated video lounge at the entrance area of the exhibition. From April 9th-13th the 9h program will be screened in the ART COLOGNE lounge and live on SOUVENIRS FROM EARTH through cable networks in France and Germany and on www.sfe.tv. 

The program was composed by SFE curator Alec Crichton with assistance of Daniel Hug, director of ART COLOGNE. 

Artists:

Brian Alfred / William Anastasi / Skip Arnold / Bill Balaskas / Delpine Balley / Anna Barha / Johanna Billing / Keren Cytter / Dennis Del Favero / Sebastian Diaz Morales / Per Dybvig / Volker Eichelmann / Ulrik Helfort / Lynn Hershman Leeson /  Alisson Hrablulk / Christian Jankowski / Sven Johne / Boaz Kaizman / Alan Kaprow / Manfred Kuttner / Adrian Lohmüller / Christina Lucas / Katja Mater / Anthony Mcall / Dieter Meier / Erkka Nissinen / Marcel Odenbach / Ferhat Özgür / Mary Reid Kelly / Claus Richter Miguel Angel Rios / Martha Rosler / Mika Rottenberg / Aida Ruilova / Anri Sala / Sam Samore / Fernando Sanchez Castillo / Larissa Sansour / Robert Seidel / Mathew Stone / Kerry Tribe / Stefanos Tsivopoulos / Eric van Lieshout / Ulla von Brandenburg / Matthew Weinstein

'Autonomous and Beautiful', Aksanat Beyoglu, Istanbul, 7 January 2014

Autonomous and beautiful

Artists:Ahmet Elhan, Ansen, Ardan Özmenoğlu, Erdağ Aksel, Ersan Deveci, Ferhat Özgür, Gülay Semercioğlu, Haluk Akakçe, Hussein Chalayan, İnci Furni, Murat Germen, Nazif Topçuoğlu, Osman Dinç, Ramazan Bayrakoğlu, Seçkin Pirim, Serkan Taycan, Seydi Murat Koç, Şükran Moral, Vahit Tuna, Yaşam Şaşmazer

Curator: Hasan Bülent Kahraman

opening: 7 January 2014, 6pm
Address: İstiklal Cad. No:8 34435 Beyoğlu-İstanbul
Tel: (0 212) 252 35 00-01
Fax:(0 212) 245 12 28
E-MAIL:akbanksanat@akbank.com

Contemporary art was born in the last 20 years. The new art emerging through changes in institutional structures as well as in structural features was bearing various different characteristics. The exhibition curated by Hasan Bülent Kahraman envelops these differences with two fundamental concepts: autonomy and beauty.

Autonomy is one of the most striking qualities of new art. This was achieved through a comprehensive and compelling relationship that it established with the political and the social. Notions such as memory, identity, belonging, space and body altogether formed the backbone of the works of this period, but at the same time, these were creating the plane of intersection of the social and the political.

At the same time, the exhibition establishes the beautiful as another structural feature of the new art. Perhaps the most overlooked characteristic of new art in Turkey is highlighted through the works in this exhibition. The exhibition advocates that the aesthetic beauty becomes a specific “tool” for the constitution of the aesthetics of the surface, the volume, the space and of the body. Equally, it argues that the beautiful is adopted by artists as a founding principle and emphasises that the new art in Turkey is turned into a distinctive but at the same time a political resistance context.

ABOUT ALL THESE... LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:Viafarini in collaboration with Gallery On The Move Opening December 10, 2013 until December 14, 2013 DOCVA Viafarini, Milan (Italy

ABOUT ALL THESE... LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

artists

Shadi Habib Allah, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Halil Altindere, Maria Thereza Alves, Carlos Amorales, Ziad Antar, Fikret Atay, Maja Bajevic, Zbynek Baladran, Rosa Barba, Yael Bartana, Rossella Biscotti, Luca Bolognesi, Candice Breitz, Egle Budvytyte, Erik Bünger, Miguel Calderón, Francisco Camacho, Barbara Ceriani Basilico and Alessandro Mancassola, Jordi Colomer, Minerva Cuevas, Hubert Czerepok, Kajsa Dahlberg, Dina Danish, Ra Di Martino, Jimmie Durham, Miha Erman, Ulrika Ferm, Jakup Ferri, Regina José Galindo, Dora Garcia, Ion Gregorescu, Daniel Guzmán, Khaled Hafez, Alban Hajdinaj, Pablo Helguera, Hiwa K., Judith Hopf, Jean-Charles Hue, Jesper Just, Hassan Khan, Ali Kazma, Yuri Leiderman, Anibal Lòpez, Los Carpinteros, Jorge Macchi, Dafna Maimon, Dorit Margreiter, Haroon Mirza, Ivan Mudov, Ciprian Muresan, Museo Aero Solar, Bruno Muzzolini, Stefan Nikolaev, Tomas Ochoa, Ahmet Ogut, Melik Ohanian, Damián Ortega, Fernando Ortega, Ferhat Ozgur, Adrian Paci, Steve Piccolo, Agnieszka Polska, Mark Raidpere, Pipilotti Rist, Mika Rottenberg, Aida Ruilova, Anri Sala, Hiraki Sawa, Katerina Seda, Artan Shabani, Mariette Schiltz and Bert Theis, Santiago Sierra, Melanie Smith, Sean Snyder, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Esme Valk, Helidon Xhixha, Shingo Yoshida, Nick Zedd and Richard Kern, Akram Zaatari, Brigitte Zieger.

Curator Fani Zguro

Viafarini in collaboration with Gallery On The Move

Opening December 10, 2013 until December 14, 2013

DOCVA Viafarini, Milan (Italy)

Once I used to watch the movies of Ingmar Bergman, now I paste notes taken from E-flux and Art-agenda. "All About These ... Ladies and Gentlemen" is nothing but an illustration of the images that set these notes in motion (Fani Zguro).

Viafarini presents “About All These… Ladies and Gentlemen”, a video screening curated by Fani Zguro  in collaboration with Gallery On The Move, from December 10 until December 14, 2013.

Image: Dora Garcia, Just Because Everything Is Different It Does Not Mean That Anything Has Changed: Lenny Bruce In Sydney, 2008, video HD, 60', english version, subtitled in english, With Richard Neville, Lawrence Shearer and Harli Ammouchi in the role of Lenny Bruce, Edition of 5 ex + 1 AP, Courtesy Galerie Michel Rein

Special thanks to: Prometeo Gallery di Ida Pisani, Dora Garcia, Galerie Michel Rein, Kurimanzutto Gallery, Studio Xhixha, Studio Sala, Galleria Kaufmann Repetto, Bruno Muzzolini, Lewin Quehl, Adrian Paci, Edson Luli, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Simone Frangi, Mariette Schiltz, Green Art Gallery, Galleria Francesca Minini, Galleria Franco Soffiantino, Ferhat Ozgur, Andrea Rosen Gallery, Gaia Fugazza, Pilot Galeri, Galerie Zak Branicka, James Cohan Gallery                

VIAFARINI DOCVA

Address: Fabbrica del Vapore, via Procaccini 4, 20154 Milan (Italy)

Tel: +39 02 45471153

E-mail: viafarini@viafarini.org

Web: www.viafarini.org | www.galleryonthemove.net

HISTOIRES PARALLÈLES : PAYS 18 November – 15 December 2013 centre chorégraphique national montpellier languedoc-roussillon Address: Boulevard Louis Blanc, 34000 Montpellier, France

HISTOIRES PARALLÈLES : PAYS MÊLÉS

artists

JENNIFER ALLORA & GUILLERMO CALZADILLA

CHAN-HYO BAE

BOUCHRA KHALILI

MWANZO MILLINGA

ERKAN ÖZGEN & SENER ÖZMEN

FERHAT ÖZGÜR

PUSHPAMALA N

ANNA-KATHARINA SCHEIDEGGER

COMMISSARIAT D’EXPOSITION : ALAIN BUFFARD

18 November – 15 December 2013

centre chorégraphique national montpellier languedoc-roussillon

Address: Boulevard Louis Blanc, 34000 Montpellier, France

Phone:+33 4 67 60 06 70

The exhibition will take place in the CCN until December 15^th 2013.

vidéos de ferhat özgür, rencontre entre ferhat özgür et alain buffard metamorphosis chat

jeudi 21 novembre . 19h . studio bagouet

Metamorphosis Chat is the title of Ferhat Özgür’s video shown as part of the exhibition. As its name implies, this is about an artistic chat. Throughout the week Turkish visual artist Ferhat Özgür and French choreographer Alain Buffard will take time to meet and bring together their approach to ideas and practices.  The audience will be invited to share this artistic encounter: from a selection of videos by Ferhat Özgür, the two artists will hold an open dialogue on their respective fields.

opening, show, talk quartiers libres

monday, november 18^th . 7pm . bagouet studio

as part of the ‘quinzaine des tiers mondes et de la solidarité internationale’ (fortnight dedicated to third-world countries and international solidarity), in association with cimade ngo

Quartiers libres night (title of the performance by Nadia Beugré, literally ‘free time’) invites us to explore, exchange and discover these parallel stories that take the form of an exhibition, a performance and discussions:

Opening of the exhibition Histoires parallèles, pays mêlés, featuring artists from outside Europe working on issues of territories, power, representations and genres.

Quartiers libres, solo work by Nadia Beugré in which the Ivorian dancer/choreographer frees herself from Western choreographies to address issues of violence against women in Africa.Discussions and meeting with local key players and witnesses regularly faced with migration, territorial and power issues, in association with and hosted by the ‘Maison des Tiers Monde et de la Solidarité Internationale Montpellier’ and Cimade NGO.

]domaines[ alain buffard

histoires parallèles, pays mêlés

november 18 and 21

Alain Buffard, who studied dance with Alwin Nikolais, met with US choreographers Yvonne Rainer and Anna Halprin, who would have a great influence on his career. Performer for Daniel Larrieu or Régine Chopinot among others, he created Good Boy in 1998, a solo work as uncompromising and straightforward as a manifesto. While ever changing, Buffard’s work has always been dealing with recurring issues. Following a period of questioning art, body and genre, the choreographer started to focus on the suggestion that dance is mainly about the body – as a political challenge – which cannot be ignored: his pieces are regularly shown during Montpellier Danse Festival and throughout the year: Baron Samedi, Tout va bien, Good boy.

Histoires parallèles : pays mêlés (parallel stories – blended countries) was created in the Spring 2013 in Nimes around the ethnography gallery of the Natural History Museum. This ]domaines[ in the CCN will provide for the re-invention of this event in a location not dedicated to visual arts. It reflects the variety of Alain Buffard’s practices, with no concern for hierarchy, and above all the need to shift presentation frameworks and assumed categories that go with them.

Histoires parallèles : pays mêlés illustrates a journey towards or from the other. Fragments of stories, networks of images and accounts combining special chronicles, uncommon paths, specific knowledge; a journey across different practices as the basis of our memories of the future.

Guest artists are willing to display these comings and goings from one culture to another, which do not however lead to a cultural blending.  They work on the plasticity of the world by refusing to set boundaries, forms and genres. They share the will to account for the nobleness and deep humanity of the people and subjects with whom they interact through works that illustrate contemporary practices within various converging areas.

From the other who fashions our own singularity we know that our future memory is already out there, elsewhere.

www.alainbuffard.eu

'On Line', Kuad Gallery

OnLine', Kuad Gallery 

KUAD GALLERY

Süleyman Seba Caddesi
No: 52 Akaretler 34357
Beşiktaş Istanbul Turkey
T. +90 212 227 00 08
F. +90 212 227 00 09
kuad@kuadgallery.com

Artists

Nazım Hikmet Richard Dikbaş, Ramize Erer, Tan Cemal Genç, Naci Güneş Güven, Ahmet Doğu İpek, Hüseyin Karabey, Melike Kılıç, Ceren Oykut, Ferhat Özgür, Çağrı Saray, Sencer Vardarman, Yuşa Yalçıntaş.

November-December 2013, Kuad Gallery will present an exhibition focusing on line. The realization of this exhibition was based on crucial reasons. We are witnessing the artist’s continuous commitment to the techniques of line. Furthermore the fact that line is the most fast and simple expression of idea and imagination and that there are many possibilities of drawing a line with computer techniques and that there is the moving line in video techniques has guided us to deal with the related works of art. However, we refrain to name this technique as “drawing” which is the traditional-classical and Modernist-poetic term. The political, social and cultural concepts and contents and the relational aesthetic in the images produced with various techniques of line invoke an updated gaze and perception of the viewer. Drawings and videos produced with lines propose decipherable and intelligible images and henceforth liberated forms of seeing which is an alternative to the hegemony of forms of seeing strictly programmed by digital images which are in turn are programmed by the consumption and media oriented visual culture.

Opening Coctail: 05.11.2013 6pm

For detailed information: Güneş Nasuhbeyoğlu, Executive Curator

VIDEOKUNST-BERN-SWITZERLAND

Videokunst.ch @ Progr.ch Videokunst.ch @ Bienzgut.ch

From 2004 to 2008, Videokunst.ch exhibited in a showroom the Zentrum für Kulturproduktion Programme in Berne. From 2008 to February 2010, there was a display window in the Speichergasse in Berne dedicated to Videokunst. Since April 2012, videokunst.ch has opened two new locations: LOCATIONS: Videokunst.ch @Progr.ch Progr_Center for cultural production, Waisenhausplatz 30, 3011 Berne Opening hours: weds.-fri.: 2-6 p.m., sat.: 12-4 p.m. Videokunst.ch @Bienzgut.ch in cooperation with Kunstachse Bienzgut, Video window, Library Bümpliz, Bernstrasse 77, 3018 Berne Play time: daily 10 a.m. - 10 p.m. EXHIBITION (both locations): FERHAT ÖZGÜR «women in love», 2013DVD, 13’20’’, loop Opening @ Progr.ch: Thurs., October 17, 2013, 6-8 p.m. Ferhat Özgür is a poetic chronicler of his surroundings and one of the most fascinating contemporary Turkish artists. Most of his incredible works emerge from the historically important melting pot of his home country, where different cultures and religions converge. He is a master of subtle nuances and of complex searches for clues. Furthermore, he is skilled at humorously and profoundly positioning his works in between the tensions of tradition and modern times: some are spontaneous observations, some cinematically composed pieces. His work «women in love», belongs to the first category. Three grown and experienced Turkish women talk about their deceased husbands in front of the camera. They also recount intimate details of their sexuality, talk about alcohol abuse or domestic violence. Even though the women don’t seem to remember any happy moments, the «main character» is – despite all the sufferings - still madly in love with her husband. She is collecting keepsakes and memorabilia of him – and even dedicates a little dance performance to her late husband. The well-positioned steps orchestrate the conversation and enable a direct, almost voyeuristic but still tender access to a Turkish living room. Once again, Ferhat Özgür manages to register the big topic of death and love in a video essay. With «women in love» he creates an ambivalent metaphor of reality and idealization.Exhibition @ Progr.ch till November 16, 2013 @ Bienzgut.ch till November 14, 2013 Ferhat Özgür, «women in love», 2013 www.bienzgut.ch www.kunstachse.ch www.progr.ch

7th International Contemporary Art Symposium in Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia-Alania 1st -15th August 2013

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SENSIBLE ACTION!  

Осмысленное действие!

ALANICA 2013

7^th International Contemporary Art Symposium

in Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia-Alania

1^st -15^th August 2013

Artists

Dilara Akay (Turkey) Sophia Cherkezishvili (Georgia),  Ivan Egelski (Russia), Alaadin Garunov (Dagestan) Aikaterini Gegisian (UnitedKingdom),Tembolat Gugkaev (North Ossetia-Alania), Khaled Hafez (Egypt),  Dejan Kaludjerovic (Austria/Serbia),  Stas Kharin (NorthOssetia-Alania), Taus Makhacheva (Dagestan), Natalia Mali (Dagestan), Marko Markovic (Croatia), Mediterranean Carpet Project ofMichelangelo Pistoletto   realized by Emanuella Baldi and Filippo Fabrica) (Italy), Damir Muratov (Russia), Ferhat Özgür (Turkey),Rivka Rinn (Germany/Israel), Sabina Shikhlinskaya (Azerbaijan), Johannes Vogl  (Germany), Kazbek Tedeev (North Ossetia-Alania)

Curator

Beral Madra

Venue of the Symposium and the Exhibition:

The Fine Art Museum of Vladikavkaz

Alanica2013 is an international Symposium of contemporary art being held in Vladikavkaz, North Osetia-Alania, since 2007: (www.alanica-art.ru; https://www.facebook.com/SymposiumAlanica

This year’s Alanica Contemporary Art Symposium will be curated by Beral Madra, art critic and curator active in contemporary art scene in Turkey since 1984.

For Alanica 2013,

Dilara Akay (Turkey), Sophia Cherkezishvili (Georgia),  Ivan Egelski (Russia), Alaadin Garunov (Dagestan) Aikaterini Gegisian (United Kingdom), Tembolat Gugkaev (North Ossetia-Alania), Khaled Hafez (Egypt), Dejan Kaludjerovic (Austria/Serbia), Stas Kharin (North Ossetia-Alania), Taus Makhacheva (Dagestan), Natalia Mali (Dagestan), Marko Markovic (Croatia), Mediterranean Carpet Project of Michelangelo Pistoletto   realized by Emanuella Baldi and Filippo Fabrica) (Italy) , Damir Muratov (Russia), Ferhat Özgür (Turkey), Rivka Rinn (Germany/Israel), Sabina Shikhlinskaya (Azerbaijan), Johannes Vogl  (Germany) , Kazbek Tedeev (North Ossetia-Alania)

 are invited to make a residency (1^st-15^th August), meet the local artists, intellectuals and people in symposium sessions, create  and exhibit their works across in a variety of mediums including installation, painting, sculpture, video, photography and performance art.

The aim and objectives of Alanica 2013 is to convey a new sensible relation to the world for the sake of a possible universality; to inseminate the imagination, world-view and ways of dialogue of international contemporary artists to the public sphere; to invoke the historic cosmopolitan legacy of the modern city of Vladikavkaz, and its mythical ancient and historical culture through contemporary art works as a heritage for future.

The works will be produced in Vladikavkaz, exhibited in the spaces of the Fine Art Museum of Vladikavkaz and donated to the Museum.

A forum with the participation of art critics, curators and culture experts from the South and North Caucasus region will be held 14^th of August.

Alanica is organized by the Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania and the National Centre for Contemporary Art and supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

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For more information:

Curator: Beral Madra madraberal@gmail.com;

Project Manager:  Gala Tebieva  alanica-art@lmail.ru +79188262922, skype:galatebieva;

Project Coordinator: Lylia Galazova  alanica-art@lmail.ru +79188265399 skype:alanica-art