22/7/2014
Art Stays
Different venues, Ptuj
Relations(s). The 12th Festival of Contemporary Art features exhibitions (Allora & Calzadilla, Gilbert & George, Anne & Patrick Poirier etc), performances, concerts, screenings, lectures, talks, workshops for children and adults, and excursions to near-by exhibition spaces.
The Art Stays festival of contemporary art is returning for its twelfth edition this year, again with a rich programme and many new features.
The programme was prepared in collaboration with international galleries, museums, and curators. It will feature many exhibitions in various exhibition spaces, performances, concerts, screenings, lectures and talks on the main festival stage, workshops for children and adults, and excursions to near-by exhibition spaces.
We gave the festival the title Relations(s), as most of its programme deals with relations between artists. We will be hosting many important art tandems and groups, such as Allora & Calzadilla, representatives of the US at the Venice Biennale in 2011 and participants at the 2012 Documenta 13, the famous Gilbert & George, Anne & Patrick Poirier, participants at the Venice Biennale in 1976, 1980, and 1984, the Documenta in Kassel in 1977, and the Havana biennial in 2006, Botto & Bruno, Ilona Nemeth (who presented at the 49th Biennale in Venice in 2001) & Marian Ravasz, Rankle & Reynolds, ZimmerFrei, who presented at Manifesta 7 and many film festivals, CuoghiCorsello, Regina Jose Galindo (winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2005) & David Perez Karmadavis, Slovenian group BridA/Jurij Pavlica, Sendi Mango, Tom Kerševan, ConiglioViola, IngridMwangiRobertHutter, who exhibited in the African Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2009, Curandi Katz, Perino & Vele, who presented at the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999, brothers Lucio Perone and Peppe Perone, and many others. The accompanying programme includes several international projects and performances, such as Vision Gymnastic(s) and the already well-known The Area of Bustle. This year we will be setting up art works on the Drava River for the first time, as well as present a series of documentary art films under the name of Art Stays Kino at the City Cinema of Ptuj, as well as a Slovenian photography exhibition entitled Made in GT22. All together, we are presenting 90 artists from more than 20 countries.
Once again, we are showcasing artists who are already shining in museums and art biennials across the world, as well as those that will do so in the near future. We kindly invite you to join us again for events on the main stage, which will once again be set up in Ptuj’s Slovenski trg square, or at exhibitions in Miheličeva Gallery, Magistrat Gallery, the exhibition space of the Ivan Potrč Library, Exhibition Space FO.VI 2 in Ptuj City Theatre, on the Drava River, at the Art Factory in Majšperk, FO.VI Gallery in Kidričevo, EPEKA Space in Maribor, and other festival venues throughout the town and its surroundings.
The festival is here to connect, inspire, and challenge. See you in Ptuj!
Launch of the 12th Festival of Contemporary Art ART STAYS 2014 with the opening of the Info Point and the first exhibition in the Exhibition Space FO.VI2 in the City Theatre.
INVITING TO THE OPENING EVENTS OF THE 12th FESTIVAL ART STAYS
OPENING DAY:
WEDNESDAY, 23. 7. 2014
AT 18.00 opening photo exhibition MADE IN GT22
AT 19.00 official launch of the festival
opening Relation(s) 1 v / in Razstavišču FO.VI 2 v MGP
AT 21.00 opening Waterlation(s), followed by VODOSKOP 1.0 BridA / Jurij Pavlica, Sendi Mango, Tom Kerševan Vodoskop 1.0
22.00 - 24.00 OPENING PARTY
INFO POINT - DJHose
Different venues - Ptuj