Trajector Art Fair
dal 29/4/2011 al 30/4/2011
Segnalato da
29/4/2011
Trajector Art Fair
Hotel Bloom!, Bruxelles
A platform for a range of approximately 30 international art spaces, galleries and curators to present some of the best contemporary art to a Brussels audience: project spaces, artists' initiatives and independent curatorial projects that provide important platforms and experimentation grounds for emerging contemporary artists in the international arena.
April 2011 sees Trajector Art Fair return to Brussels after its first appearance in the Belgian capital in 2010.
Trajector Art Fair is an initiative by Hotel Bloom! and Centrifugal Projects that will take place on 30 April & 1 May 2011, coinciding and collaborating with Art Brussels.
In 2011, Trajector Art Fair will once again transform Hotel Bloom! into a vibrant ‘boutique hotel art fair’ providing a platform for a range of approximately 30 international art spaces, galleries and curators to present some of the best contemporary art to a Brussels audience.
Trajector’s traditional focus has not been on the commercial gallery sector, but on the project spaces, artists’ initiatives and independent curatorial projects that provide important platforms and experimentation grounds for emerging contemporary artists in the international arena. In part a celebration and playful game with the role of non-profit organisations, project spaces and independent curators within the art commerce systems, Trajector takes the original concept and reconfigures it as a hotel art fair in Brussels' top design hotel. Tongue-in-cheek, critique or hardcore commercial? That's largely up to the participants and audience to determine.
And, indeed, with the inclusion of young commercial galleries and established galleries presenting solo projects or artist-initiated projects for the first time in 2011, the questions and games become even more complex.
In addition to the core presentations by individual exhibitors, Trajector Art Fair will deliver two special programmes of interest to not only an art-specialist audience but also a broad public.
As an experimental context that predates the recession and current funding cuts to arts and cultural budgets across many European regions, we are also pleased to announce that one of the special programmes for 2011 is the thematic strand entitled Neuconomics’. Details of this programme are located here.
The second and most substantial of the 2011 programmes is ‘Taut – Fashion & Art’. Since successful appearance last year as the specific programme Taut – That Certain Tension Between Fashion & Art, Taut has now become a standing feature of Trajector’s manifestation. Full details of the programme are located here.
To see who participated in 2010
http://www.trajectorartfair.org/archive2010/exhibitors.htm
Image: Zoë Walker & Neil Bromwich, Bank of Reason (Everything is Of The Earth All Else is Vanity) 2011, watercolour on paper, 31 x 41 cm
VIP drinks reception: 30/04/11 16:00 until 19:00
Hotel Bloom!
rue Royale 250 - Brussels
Saturday 30 April 2011, 11:00 to 21:00
Sunday 1 May 2011, 11:00 to 19:00
Prices: Ticketholders will have access to all aspects of the fair and the Taut programme. However, in some cases, reservation of seats may still be advised. Events with advised reservation will be noted in the programme section of the site and in Taut sub-site.
Standard ticket: 5 euros;
Concession ticket: (children under 16 or on presentation of student card etc) 3 euros
Hotel guests: free; please present your hotel room key at the Trajector ticket desk at any time during the fair’s open hours.
Art Brussels Deal: (with presentation of valid Art Brussels ticket): 3 euros