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19/10/2011

Tina B. Festival

Different venues, Prague

The sixth year of the TINA B. Festival is presenting ‚green‘ works by a hundred contemporary artists from around the world in the Fallout Shelter beneath Hotel Jalta and at other locations around Prague

Prague, 10 October 2011 – Are you interested in the latest trends in contemporary art from around the world? TINA B. has found them for you! This autumn for the sixth year running she has invited progressive artists from literally all over the world to Prague. Around a hundred artists have been invited, among them, for instance, the special guest at TINA B. 2011 the famous Chinese artist Yuan Gong, or the Dutch artists Tjerk Ridder and Peter Bijl who are coming to Prague with their migrating eco-caravan. The theme of this year’s festival is ART – ECO – BIO.

From 20 October to 13 November 2011 TINA B. will be exhibiting unconventional ‘green’ works at several locations around Prague. ‘The main centre of contemporary art this year is in an unusual location – the Fallout Shelter beneath Hotel Jalta at Wenceslas 45, right in the heart of Prague. Another festival hub is (A)void Gallery on the river quay below Rašín Embankment, where exhibitions of open-air installations will be on display. Some of the works on the quay can be seen by visitors on board an old tourist boat anchored opposite the gallery’, says the director of the TINA B. Festival Monika Burian Jourdan.

Many of the works on show as part of TINA B. 2011 will be exhibited at the festival’s home venues – Vernon Projekt (Heřmanova 12) and Vernon Gallery (Janovského 23) in Prague 7. Two festival sections will be open for viewing at Vernon Gallery’s new exhibition space, Vernon Depot, located in Holešovice at U Průhonu 22.

TINA B. will also be screening films at BIO OKO cinema in the Holešovice district of Prague (Františka Křížka 460/15). For those who enjoy discussions, a debate will be held at this same location on the theme of read-made art as a means of recycling art.

This year the mysterious festival patroness TINA B. will herself assume the role of curator (for the sections ECO BIO GOES AROUND THE WORLD, TINA B. BY THE WATER, TINA B. OUTDOORS and SPECIAL PROJECTS) presenting numerous interesting Czech and foreign personalities. The section MAKING UP – TEARING DOWN, which offers visitors a number of bold performances, is being organised by the curators from the group VestAndPage (Verena Stenke/DE/ and Andrea Pagnes/IT/). Contemporary Swiss, Israeli, and Italian art is being selected and organised for TINA B.‘s LITTLE ABSURDITIES section by the Swiss curator Oliver Orest Tschirky/CH/. The section called UNIVERSAL HABITAT, MY HABITAT is being organised by the curators of Polish projects Aleksandra Grzonkowska/PL/ and Anna Zalewska/PL/. The curator of the section URBAN MAPS, which is intended to explore urban public areas, is Claudia Zanfi/IT/. The debate section TINA B. TALKS is run by the curator Igor Zanti/IT/. The German section of the festival is being organised by the curators Florian Grond/A/ and Monika Burian Jourdan /DE/. The video-projects of art videos in the VIDEOART section is curated by Aleš Vašíček/CZ/.

VIP OPENING DAYS

The most interesting part of the TINA B. Festival are always the VIP OPENING DAYS. These take place from 20 to 23 October 2011 and you should make sure not to miss them! These four days offer a unique opportunity to meet in Prague with all the curators, artists, collectors, and journalists. And what is the TINA B. programme offering this year?

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The TINA B. Contemporary Art Gallery in Prague is a unique art even that is organised each year in Prague by Vernon Gallery. TINA B. does not just refer to the festival’s mysterious patroness, it also stands for ‘This Is Not Another Biennial’. Thanks to its openness the festival regularly draws thousands of visitors through its ‘gates’. As always TINA B. will be presenting the latest trends in the fields of new media, light art, video art, performance, and more.

The theme of this, the sixth year of the TINA B. Contemporary Art Festival is ART – ECO – BIO. ‚Ecology and environmental protection are among the biggest issues in the world today. Ecology is understood as a political, perhaps even economic, but rarely as an artistic theme. But art is also a part of public life and can change many things“, says the director of the TINA B. Festival Monika Burian Jourdan.
Artists all over the world have something to say on the theme of environmental protection and the sixth year of the TINA B. Festival is giving the space to do so: „As many as a hundred contemporary progressive artists will be exhibiting at the TINA B. Festival 2011 and will offer their artistic visions of new ways of thinking about the environment“, adds Monika Burian Jourdan.
TINA B. 2011 does not end with the three-week showcase of art in Prague. This year again the mysterious patroness of the festival will travel outside Prague and appear in Gdańsk, Poland, in December.
Come visit all or at least some of the locations where TINA B. 2011 will be and explore with us unusual fusions of art and ecology. We look forward to seeing you!

For more information, visit our website at http://www.tina-b.cz, Facebook (Tina B. Fest) or follow us on Twitter (@TinaBFest).

If you have any other questions, please contact:
Anna Baumová, PR Manager.
Telephone: +420 773 915 501. Email: anna.baumova@tina-b.com

LOCATIONS:

FALLOUT SHELTER IN THE UNDERGROUND OF HOTEL JALTA
Vaclavske namesti Prague 1

VERNON DEPOT
U Pruhonu 22 Prague 7 Holesovice

BIO OKO
Františka Křížka 460/15 Prague 7 Letna

VERNON GALLERY
Janovskeho 23 Prague 7 Holešovice

VERNON PROJEKT
Hermanova 12 Prague 7 Holesovice

(A)VOID GALLERY on riverbank on Rasinovo nabrezi
Rasinovo nabrezi (riverbank) Prague 1

Opening hours: Tuesday–Sunday, 12 noon–6 pm, free admission

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