For this international festival, 17 Copenhagen-based artist-run spaces have been asked to each invite an international artist-run space to come to the city and curate an exhibition at the local premises.
THE FESTIVAL
Artist Run is an international festival for artist-run spaces. 17 Copenhagen-based artist-run spaces have been asked to each invite an international artist-run space to come to Copenhagen and curate an exhibition at the local premises, with participation in a joint opening event at all spaces througout Copenhagen and subsequent conference at Overgaden, Institute of Contemporary Art.
ARTIST RUN CONFERENCE
Artists have organized in the formation of alternatives to the establishment, with the Salon des Refusés of 1863 in Paris as an early (if not the earliest) example. The phenomenon of the artist-run space is based on a long tradition and carries with it connotations and definitions making the artist-run space an already integral part of the institutionalized art world.
This conference looks at the current status of the artist-run and presents four panel debates, structured around a series of key questions. During the two days the aim is to create nuanced and complex knowledge about the artist-run initiatives with their various ways of working and to approach the practical, aesthetic and theoretical outcome of the self-organized
For each debate a keynote speaker will introduce a specific approach. A panel consisting of representatives from the local and international artist-run spaces participating in the Artist Run festival will form the debates along with a moderator and the audience.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Allison Collins from Institutions by Artists http://www.arcpost.com
Marco Vera from Mexicali Rose http://artistsspace.org/exhibitions/radical-localism-2
Study 1 by Tim Dallett and Adam Kelly from Artifact Institute http://arcpost.ca/commissions/study-1
Maria Miranda research fellow at La Trobe University http://the-ari-experience.com
PANEL DEBATE PARTICIPANTS
Please see exhibtions section below
EXHIBITIONS
1. 68M2
ARCADIA MISSA
GALLERY (UK)
DUO SHOW WITH TAKESHI SHIOMITSU AND SANDRA VAKA OLSEN
This exhibition explores the ideology of ‘purity’ in contemporary aesthetics. Purity is bound with conceptions of the screen. This exhibition on the one hand deals with the digital, whilst also exploring how contemporary ideas of purity have been constructed through art and it’s history, and, in particular, labour. With various, but carefully chosen approaches, Shiomistu and Olsen’s work challenges and complicates the deployment of an aesthetics of purity.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Takeshi Shiomitsu, Sandra Vaka Olsen. Curators: Tom Clark and Rózsa Farkas
OPEN
10.05-31.05
HOURS
Thur - Sat 13-18
ADDRESS
Prags Boulevard 43, 2300 Kbh S.
WEBSITES
www.arcadiamissa.com
www.68squaremetres.org
2. ANDEL 31
SOLOWAY (US)
SOLOWAY AT ANDEL 31
For this exhibition exchange Soloway will present a selection of works from its current directors. This selection extends the ongoing conversations around curatorial practices into a dialogue between the respective bodies of work.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Tomer Aluf, Derek Franklin, Annette Wehrhahn and Emily Weiner
OPEN
10.05.-18.05
HOURS
Mon 12.05 9-12 + 13-18
Tue-Thur 13.05-16.05 14-22
Sat-Sun 17.05-18.05 11-17
EVENT
Artist breakfast Mon 12.05 9- 12 & 15-18.
For more happenings see website.
ADDRESS
Refshaleøen, Teaterøen: I Bunkeren,
Williams Wainsgade 8, 1432 København K
WEBSITES
www.soloway.info
www.facebook.com/Andel312012
3. ANOTHER SPACE
INSITU (DE)
EPISODE 7: ANOTHER SPACE
Episode 7: Another Space presents works from nine Berlin- based artists, who portray occupation of hostile areas, travel, adventure and the invention of illusive or alien spaces. romantic perceptions of adventure, reflection and idle immersion are abandoned for the rational attempt to control the unknown, to appropriate places according to one’s own rules, and to follow inclinations towards collective adaptations.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Bram Braam, Pia Greschner, Mahony, Florian Neufeldt Luca Vanello, Ulrich Vogl, Wolf von Kries, Sinta Werner, Markus Zimmermann. Curators: Marie Graftieaux, Nora Mayr, Gilles Neiens
OPEN
10.05.-31.05
HOURS
Thur-Sat 12-16 or by appointment:
anotheranotherspace@gmail.com
ADDRESS
Vermlandsgade 75, ap. 4A, 2300 Kbh. S.
WEBSITES
www.insitu-berlin.com
www.anotherspace.dk
4. ANTECHAMBER
THE WINTER OFFICE
(ONLINE)
REPLACEMENT MODELS
FOR THE ARTIST-RUN SPACE
For the exhibition THE WINTER OFFICE will gather a series of monochromatic drawings in the form of a publication. Each drawing will encompass a series of minimalistic explorations of form and space, which, as a combined effort, will suggest a “new” architecture for the artist-run space.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Hugo Hopping, Johanna Ferrer Guldager and Sara Armento.
OPEN
Publication will be distributed at relevant sites throughout the duration of the festival including at the conference. For more info see website.
ADDRESS
Online
WEBSITE
www.antechamber.dk
5.BETON
WESTWERK (DE)
ARCHAEA
Archaea is a group show of artists primarily from the artist-run spaces in Hamburg, curated by Carsten Rabe from Westwerk. The Archaea are a domain of single-celled microorganisms. They were viewed as extremophiles living in harsh environments, such as hot springs and salt lakes, but they have been found in a broad range of habitats, including soils, oceans and the human navel.
CURATOR
Carsten Rabe.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Anna Myga Kasten, Anne Vagt, Dragan Prgomelja, Gesa Lange, Gosia Machon, Isabell Kamp, Jessica Leinen, Sylvie Ringer, Thomas Jehnert, Olaf Böckmann, Hoda Tawakol, Thomas Juddisch, Rio Grande
OPEN
10.05.-11.05
HOURS
13-20
ADDRESS
Prags Boulevard 43, 2300 Kbh S.
WEBSITES
www.westwerk.org
www.betonartspace.com
6. DIAKRON
YALE UNION (US)
ISSUE 1: EFFECTS OF ART
ISSUE 2: INFRASTRUCTURE
In The Effects of Art we have invited contributors to adress the effects art has in the world, beyond the immediate and easily traceable intended institutional effects, and the tools we employ to reckon with those very processes. In Infrastructure we have invited contributors to address the role of infrastructure in the field of art, to envision new types of infrastructure as well as to differentiate key concepts and structures already in place.
CONTRIBUTORS
Issue 1: Irit Rogoff & Florian Schneider, Stephen Wright, pascal Gielen, thomas Ulrik Madsen and Simon O’Sullivan. Issue 2: Mikkel Bogh, Stine Hebert, Tom Vandeputte, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Benedikte Bjerre, Amitai Romm, Marie Kølbæk Iversen, Søren Andreasen and Willy Ørskov.
OPEN
Web issues published online
ADDRESS
Online
WEBSITES
www.yaleunion.org
www.diakron.dk
7. GREEN IS GOLD
DAVID DALE GALLERY
& STUDIOS (UK)
MARCO GIORDANO & JUSTIN STEPHENS
Working primarily in painting and assemblage, Stephens works towards a point of foregrounding all component parts, the resultant surface becoming a compression of all possible interpretations. Giordano, by contrast, wears his references on his sleeve - though contemporary culture, etched in surreally colorful stone, creates an equivalent disconnect of meaning. Meaning in each becomes unnecessary noise. but to what clarity is unclear.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Justin Stephens, Marco Giordano
OPEN
10.05.-24.05
HOURS
10.05.-11.05 12-15
12.05.-24.05. Thur-Fri 12-17
and Sat 12-15
ADDRESS
Hyskenstræde 3,1207 Kbh K
WEBSITES
www.daviddalegallery.co.uk
www.gigstudio.dk
8. OFFICIN
ORAIBI BOOKSHOP (CH)
OFFICIN INVITES ORAIBI BOOKSHOP INVITES INTERNATIONALISTISK IDEALE
With a startning point in a revisited Situationism, Officin invites Oraibi, who invites Copenhagen-based editorial project Internationalistisk Ideale to make an artistic presentation of selected books from the Oraibi- catalogue with a specific focus on the movement’s Danish-French liaison.
CURATORS
Tiphanie Blanc and Ramaya Tegegne
OPEN
10.05-11.05
HOURS
13-17
ADDRESS
Malttorvet 2 St., 1799 Kbh V
WEBSITES
www.facebook.com/oraibi.oraibi
www.officin.com
9. KONTORPROJECTS
MELK (NO)
WASTELAND
Wasteland by Kaja Leijon. Wasteland investigates how our imagination is affected by film, and how people in everyday life integrate images from fiction into their own lives. the film attempts to understand how preconceived conceptions influence the way we see and interpret our surroundings.
EXHIBITING ARTIST
Kaja Leijon
OPEN
10.05.-17.05
HOURS
Wed, Thur, Fri 12-17
Sat, Sun 12-16
ADDRESS
Værnedamsvej 7A Baghuset,
1829 Frederiksberg C.
WEBSITES
www.melkgalleri.no
www.kontorprojects.dk
10. KOH-I-NOOR
SIC (FI)
POSTERS
The show consists of posters made in collaboration / dialogue between Finnish artist Olli Keränen from SIC and Danish artist Jacob Borges from Koh-i-noor. The posters have been made via e-mail exchanges.
OPEN
10.05-09.06
HOURS
Mon-Wed 15-24,
Thur 15-02,
Fri-Sat. 13-02
ADDRESS
Café Din Nye Ven,
Skt. Peders Stræde 34, 1453 København K
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Olli Keränen and Jacob Borges
WEBSITES
www.sicspace.net
www.koh-i-noor.org
11. NEW SHELTER PLAN
PARALLELOGRAMS
(ONLINE)
We have asked five artists to make a digital video “collage” as a group collaboration. The project will take shape as a unified video piece (both on a monitor at New Shelter plan and online) and as separate, individual vignettes (online only). As with Parallelograms, this project will be instigated by the artists’ response to source material we provide: a scene from an experimental play by lonesco.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Khalil Huffman, Alexandria McCrosky, Sara Magenheimer, Mary Voorhes Meehan, Derek Larson. Curators Leah Beeferman, Matthew Harvey.
OPEN
10.05-05.06
HOURS
Wed-Sat 13 -17
ADDRESS
Malttorvet 2, 1. sal, 1799 Kbh V
WEBSITES
www.parallelograms.info
www.newshelterplan.com
12. NLHSPACE
RAYGUN (AU)
SHARING LOVING GIVING #2
This show is embedded in the discipline of social practice and focuses on the gesture of giving and receiving. At NLHspace the artists Alexandra Lawson and Tarn McLean will create a space for interaction but also a situation that visualizes and plays on the roles artists and a participating audience assume - the rules of exchange through gift giving.
EXHIBITING ARTIST
Tarn McLean, Alexandra Lawson
OPEN
10.05-31.05
HOURS
Window display open 24 hours
ADDRESS
Vesterfælledvej 63, 1750 Kbh V
WEBSITES
www.raygunlab.com
www.nlhspace.dk
13. ODRADEK
HORSEMOVE /
WAYNEHORSE (NL)
WAYNEHORSE - BRAIN WHORES
This show is an attempt to map a specific structure of the abject desire in the fragmented space of post-modernity. WayneHorse has developed a performance / video, drawing art into an absurd and bizarre form of black humor, representing an almost autistic standpoint as a counter productive, counter-cash-flow of pure substance. It may sound like an articulation of tar or flowing hot asphalt.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Willehad Eilers
OPEN
10.05-01.06
HOURS
Wed-Fri 12-17 Sat-Sun 12-15
ADDRESS
Gammel Kongevej 23,
Baghuset Bygn. 3, 1610 Kbh V
WEBSITES
www.waynehorse.com
lehmanbros.net/ODRADEK.html
14. OK CORRAL
CIRKULATIONS-
CENTRALEN (SE)
ENA ELLER ANDRA SIDAN /
ENE ELLER ANDEN SIDE
In this group show we have arranged to merge Ok Corral with the Swedish space CirculationsCentralen. In our collaboration we focus on the meeting between two sides. In the meeting we investigate the idea of ”another side”. Can it be a physical place, is it a parallel universe, or is it just the back of an object you have in front of you?
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Clara J:son Borg, Arngrímur Borgþórsson, Solveig Lindgren Inderbitzin / Joanna Thede, Elias Björn, Maja Gade Christensen, Jakob Steensen, Jonas Palm
OPEN
10.05-24.05
HOURS
Wed-Sat 13-17
EVENT
There will be a performance by Elias Björn
at the opening
ADDRESS
Malttorvet 2 St., 1799 Kbh V
WEBSITES
www.cirkulationscentralen.com
www.ok-c.org
15. EXHIBITION SPACE
SYDHAVN STATION
QUEENS PARK RAILWAY
CLUB (UK)
BUILD THEN BURN
The exhibition Space Sydhavn Station in Copenhagen and Queens Park Railway Club from Glasgow are both artist- run exhibition spaces. They are both located on functional train stations. Queens Park Railway Club is run by Patrick Jameson and Ellis Luxemburg, and besides showing their own work, they have invited Olivia Guertler and Owen Piper to show works. The title of the show is “Build then Burn”. In a variety of medias such as sculpture, paintings, collages and photography, the artists will interact with and create works that break with or relate to the context of the station.
EXHIBITING ARTIST
Patrick Jameson, Ellis Luxemburg, Owen Piper, Olivia Guertler
OPEN
10.05-25.05
HOURS
Thur-Sun 13-17
ADDRESS
Ernst Kapers Vej 1, 2450 Kbh SV
WEBSITES
www.queensparkrailwayclub.co.uk
www.sydhavnstation.info
16. YEARS
CASTILLO /
CORRALES (FR)
L’OMBRE D’UN DOUTE / I TVIVLENS SKYGGE
This exhibition tells the story of someone who might be very brilliant or a complete chancer. This exhibition tells the story of possibly the most overlooked self-advertising genius the art scene has ever produced. This exhibition tells the story of someone who has been going down for most of life, but that might have been the idea. This exhibition spans four decades, and will be on soon.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
CASTILLO / CORRALES; Thomas Boutoux, Joachim Hamou, Benjamin Thorel
OPEN
10.05-31.05
HOURS
Thu-Sat 13-17
ADDRESS
Tagensvej 58 st.tv., 2200 Kbh N
WEBSITES
www.castillocorrales.fr
www.years.dk
17. YNKB
EMBROS THEATRE (GR)
WALKING THE ROUTES OF THE DISPLACED.
HERE AND THERE.
The project addresses archival material collected in Athens by two artists from EMBROS Theatre in collaboration with immigrant communities and other residents of Athens who are under threat. We hope for this to allow deeper understanding of what is happening in Athens, as well as how “here and there” connect.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Christina Thomopoulos, Eleni Tzirtzilaki
OPEN
10.05-31.05
HOURS
Window exhibition open 24 hours
ADDRESS
Baldersgade 70 st tv, 2200 Kbh N
WEBSITES
www.embrostheater.blogspot.dk
www.ynkb.dk
See full program on the web site.
Different venues - Copenhagen