27/5/2015
Loop Festival
Different venues, Barcelona
The latest proposals of video and moving image art. The XIII Edition, including its Fair, Festival, and Studies, develops its artistic programme and space of debate around two driving themes: What about Collecting Video Art? and Beyond the Image: Sound.
The XIII Edition of LOOP Barcelona, including its Fair, Festival, and Studies, will develop its artistic programme and space of debate around two driving themes: What about Collecting Video Art? and Beyond the Image: Sound.
Through these three sections
–
Fair, Festival, and Studies
–
LOOP
Barcelona
presents a careful
selection of video pieces, a program
me
of exhibitions in the principal sp
aces of the c
ity,
interventions in public spaces, and displays a wide program
me
of
discussions
and professional
encounters regarding video art be
tween
28
May and
6
June
in the C
ity of Barcelona.
On the one hand, the
LOO
P Fair
,
4
–
6
June
, will take place in the
Hotel Catalonia Ramblas
,
where more that 45 galleries will present
solo shows
by contemporary video artists in
various
rooms. M
any of
these showings
will be world premieres. During these three days,
LOOP
Studies
w
ill present a
n
extensive
program
me
of
discussions
and professional encounters
regarding
video art in a large workspace that
will encourage
reflection
upon
LOOP 2015
’s two
main
lines of work.
Among this year’s
new
additions to
LOOP Barcelona
is the
launch
of the first edition of the
Discovery Award
, with the support
of Es
trella Damm. The purpose of the
award is
to
stimulate
the production of vi
d
eos and
films
by international artists through an open call to the artistic
community. The winner of the Di
scovery Award, that
offers
a prize
o
f 5,000 euros, will be
announced
on
5
June at a party in the
Antig
a
Fà
brica
Estrella Damm
,
where there will also be
an
exhibition of the ten pieces by this year’s finalists.
LOOP Barcelona is not only an event for prof
essionals, but it also
strives
to
engage
the
audiences
. For this reason, between
28
May and
6
June
, diverse city spaces will welcome
vid
eo exhibitions organized
within the framework
of
LOOP Festival
. The recently
opened
Museu de Cultures del Món
, as well as numerous spaces
within
the
premises
of the
Antic
Hospital de la Santa Creu
,
among these,
the
Bi
blioteca Nacional de Catalunya and
la Capella
,
will join for the first time the
city spaces
that welcome exhibition projects and artistic
interventi
ons. These spaces include,
the
Filmoteca de Catalunya
,
the
cine Zumzeig
,
the
Merca
t
de la Boqueria
,
the
Virreina
-
Centre de la Imatge
,
the
Reial Cercle Artístic
,
the
Museu Picasso, the
Ateneu Barcelonès
,
the
Museu Frederic Marès
, and the
Palau del Baró de
Quadras
, a
modernist building constructed by Josep Puig i Cadafalch and
current
headquarters of the
Institut Ramon Llull. Arts Santa Mónica
will present a new piece by artist
Jordi Colomer
,
winner of the fir
st edition of the award for video creation recent
ly launched by
Xarxa de
Centre
s i
Espais d’Arts Visuals de Catalunya
,
Arts Santa Mò
nica
,
and
LOOP Barcelona
,
and
that
also
counts
on the support of the
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.
During LOOP dates
, there will also be a number of diverse
,
special
interventions in public
spac
es of the c
ity with the
fourth edition of the project UMVA
(Unidad Móvil de video
arquitectura). This project, made in collaboration with the Universidad de Arquitectura de la
Salle, consists
of
putting
architecture students
in
contact
with local artists for the production
of pieces and works of investigation.
Image: Burkhard von Harden, Die Narbe. Part II, 2009-2014
For more information, please consult www.loop-barcelona.com
Press contact
Beatriz Escudero & Ainhoa Pernaute +34 932 155260 press@loop-barcelona.com
LOOP Fair
and
LOOP Studies
4 – 6 June. Hotel Catalonia Ramblas (C/ Pelayo, 28. Barcelona)
LOOP Festival
28 May – 6 June. Various locations within the city