17/7/2012
Art Stays
Different venues, Ptuj
The 10th yearly edition of the Art Stays International Festival of Contemporary Art will be taking place this summer, the fourth time in the context of Art Ptuj Summer Festivals. This year's festival is entitled "Display" and presents works of over 150 artists, 16 curators will present 55 events.
The ART STAYS International Festival of Contemporary Art, one of the most important contemporary
art festivals in Europe, is celebrating its 10th anniversary and will bring together contemporary,
mainly visual artists from all over the world.
This year's festival will be held under the slogan DISPLAY (screen/show!). The word display has many
meanings, but all of them fit perfectly with the aim of the festival. It is a shopwindow, a space, and a
dialogue that we opened with many artists who will come to Ptuj to display their work, carry out a
performance, or be a part of our artist in residence programme to get creative in the oldest town in
Slovenia.
In the year when the Art Stays festival is part of the European Capital of Culture, some of the
greatest names of the contemporary art scene will be hosted: Venice Biennale Golden Lion Award
winner in 2005, Regina Jose Galindo from Guatemala, Indian artist Gigi Scaria, presented in the
Indian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2011, established Polish artist Lech Majewski, Tonis Saadoja
from Estonia, one of the most important Fluxus (celebrating its 50th anniversary) artists, Yoko Ono,
Ilona Nemeth from Slovakia, Chilean artists Fernando Prats and Ivan Navarro, Hungarian artists
Laszlo Laszlo Revesz and Eike Berg, German-Kenyan couple IngridMwangiRobertHutter, one of the
most important Vietnamese artists Tiffany Chung, Raymundo Sesma from Mexico, Maitha Demithan
from United Arab Emirates, as well as younger, emerging artists such as Marco Bernardi, Roberto
Fassone, and Elena Mazzi from Italy, Kinki Texas and Christiane Draffehn from Germany, Zoie So
from Hong Kong, Jose Molina from Spain, Kensuke Koike from Japan, Marlon De Azambuja from
Brazil, Cyryl Zakrzewski from Poland, Slovenian artists such as son:DA, Dušan Kirbiš and many more.
The festival will also host daily lectures by artists and curators, as well as workshops as part of the
Summer Academy that will take place during the festival.
The program consists of presentations of contemporary art from 26 European countries and six
other continents and special projects, such as the presentation of installations by European
academies, light art installations and performances, live media set The Are of Bustle by Italian artists
(Claudio Rocchetti, Manuel Frara/interno3, Riccardo Piovesan, Alessandro Sgarbi, Andrea
Cazzagon) musical performances by artists from the U.S., Germany and Italy, everyday DJ sessions
and much more.
A group of curators, in collaboration with the leading organizations and galleries from around the
world, has produced a festival that reaffirms the important role played by Art Stays in the European
art scene.
CONTACTS:
KUD ART STAYS, Culture and Arts Society, Prešernova ulica 1, 2250 Ptuj info@artstays.si - www.artstays.si
Press office: sanja.selinsek@gmail.com, +386 40 588 657
Art director: jernejforbici@gmail.com, +386 70 242 249
Creative director: marikavicari@gmail.com, +39 349 39 99 169
President of the society: vladoforbici@gmail.com
EXHIBITION SPACE ART STAYS, Krempljeva ulica 1, Ptuj
EUROPE PAVILION
artists: Paolo Angelosanto, Eike Berg, Marco Bernardi, Dustin Cauchi, Kyriaki Costa, Alessia De
Montis, Christiane Draffehn, Roberto Fassone, Alina Gavrielatos, Jill Höjeberg, Arve Hovig, Filip
Jovanovski, Dušan Kirbiš, Evgeniy Khvostyuk, Daiga Kruze, Angela Loveday, Lech Majewski, Elena
Mazzi, Jose Molina, Ilona Németh, Johannes Nielsen, Darina Peeva, Noisy Pig, Ana Pimentel, Massimo
Premuda, Laszlo Laszlo Revesz, Tonis Saadoja, Sasha Drutskoy, Mijn Schatje, Son:Da, Shendra Stucki,
Jakob Tolstrup, Cristina Treppo, Tim Roeloffs, Marek Schovanek, Kinki Texas, Peter Wehinger, Grace
Weir, Maria Wolfram, Ceren Selmanpakoglu
18. 7. - 1. 9. 2012
50 YEARS OF FLUXUS
Yoko Ono
24. 7. - 1. 9. 2012
ANTARCTICA PAVILION
Fernando Prats
18. 7. - 1. 9. 2012
MON - SUN 10.00 - 18.00, (4. 8. - 1. 9. 2012 / TUE - SAT 10.00 - 16.00, SUN 10.00 - 13.00)
GALLERY MAGISTRAT, Mestni trg 1, Ptuj
AFRICA PAVILION
Evarist F. Chikawe, Etoudi Essamba, George Fikry, Mbuno Kivuthi, IngridMwangiRobertHutter,
George Lilanga, Mamba, Ester Mahlagu, Mikael Malikita in Richard Onyango
18. 7. - 1. 9. 2012
MON, TUE, THU 7.00 - 16.00, WED 7.00 - 18.00, FRI 7.00 - 14.00
MIHELIČEVA GALLERY, Dravska ulica 3, Ptuj
SOUTH AMERICA PAVILION
razstava / exhibition
AMERICA BETWEEN IDENTITY AND MASK
curator: Antonio Arevalo
artists: Ivan Navarro, Marlon De Azambuja, Gianfranco Foschino, David Perez Karmadavis, Regina
Jose Galindo, Ronald Moran, Felipe Aguila, Maria Rosa Jion, Dario Escobar, Luis Gonzales Palma,
Priscila Monge, Carlos Motta, Ishmael Randall Weeks, Omar Urena, Enrique Zamudio, Carlos Motta
31. 7. - 1. 9. 2012
TUE - SAT 10.00 - 16.00, SUN 10.00 - 13.00
ART SALON, Prešernova ulica 1, Ptuj
ANARCHIST COOKIE SHOP
Marek Schovanek
NORTH AMERICA PAVILION
Janet Bellotto, Nadia Buyse, Ben Darrah, Dean Dempsey, Karen Oremus, Raymundo Sesma
21. 7. - 1. 9. 2012
TUE - SAT 10.00 - 16.00, SUN 10.00 - 13.00
GALLERY TENZOR, Slovenski trg 13, Ptuj
ASIA PAVILION
Chen Nong, Tiffany Chung, Kensuke Koike, INFINITE SAREE Biological Arts Theatre/ S.
Chandrasekaran, Gary Cass, Santha Bhaskar, Madhura Nayak, Hind Bin Demaithan, Trong Gia Nguyen
Maitha Demithan, Gigi Scaria, Ceren Selmanpakoglu
20. 7. - 1. 9. 2012
MON - FRI 9.00 - 13.00, WED 9.00 - 17.00, SAT 9.00 - 13.00
HOTEL MITRA, Prešernova ulica 6, Ptuj
ELENA MAZZI
28. 7. - 1. 9. 2012
MON - SUN 9.00 – 21.00
PTUJ’S CASTLE
CYRYL ZAKRZEWSKI
28. 7. - 1. 9. 2012
MON - SUN 9.00 - 18.00
GALLERY FO.VI, Strnišče 6, Kidričevo
TJAŠA ČUŠ & IGOR MOLIN - SI VS. IT FIGURE
29. 7. - 1. 9. 2012
MON, WED, THU 9.00 - 13.00, SAT 13.00 - 18.00
ART FACTORY, Breg 9, Majšperk
DUŠAN KIRBIŠ
29. 7. - 1. 9. 2012
MON - FRI 9.00 - 18.00, SAT 9.00 - 13.00