SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL

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Sympathy for the Devil, la deuxième exposition de la Vanhaerents Art Collection, rassemble les œuvres d’artistes internationaux donnant forme aux idées véhiculées par le morceau éponyme des Rolling Stones. La rénovation du bâtiment industriel de 1926, d’une superficie de 3500 m² et la nouvelle construction ont été exécutées par le bureau d’architecture Robbrecht & Daem.

Sélection de site Internet des artistes exposés: James Lee Byars, Wim Delvoye, Nick Ervinck, Urs FischerAntony GormleyJenny Holzer, Matthew Day JacksonClaude Lévêque, et Jean-Luc Moerman.

Vanhaerents Art Collection, Bruxelles. 30.04.2011 > 30.11.2013.


INVOCATIONS OF THE BLANK PAGE

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Both Vlatka Horvat and Ignacio Uriarte re-work blank sheets of paper, cutting, ripping and reassembling their fragile forms to create new geometrical patterns. Selection of Websites: Martin Creed, Michel François, Ryan Gander, Gareth Long and William Wegman.

NICC, Anvers. 22.04.2011. > 05.06.2011.


BERLIN-WEEKLY.COM — WEEK 26

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Berlin-Weekly.com is an on- and offline gallery space with a weekly update. Daniela Friebels installation desk is a drawing constructed on a grid of very thin nylon thread and black drinking straws cutting the gallery space into half. Berlin-Weekly.com is a project by Stefanie Seidl.


TASTE MY PHOTONS — LAST DAYS

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For Taste my photons… attention shifts to the photographic medium itself – in a most unexpected way. The guest curator Wim Bosch researches the tension between documentary photography and fine art. Selection of websites: Ruth van Beek, Bert Danckaert, Michael John Whelan, Sabrina Jung, Astrid Korntheuer and Ingo Mittelstaedt.

Noorderlicht, Groningen. 05.03.2011 > 17.04.2011.


ES SIND DIE KLEINEN DINGEN, DIE TÖTEN

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Avec war hier! paru en 2008, le photographe Patrick Desbrosses proposait un long périple, très personnel, à travers les différents paysages de l’Allemagne contemporaine.

Spielraum, Berlin. 16.04.2011 > 08.05.2011.


I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY

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Benjamin Alexander Huseby works with photography and installation, often juxtaposing his somewhat disparate interests in esoteric science, natural history and counter culture. I Wanna Dance with Somebody is the first single of Whitney Houston’s second album and was a big hit in 1987. Lars Laumann introducing Vela Arbutina, Benjamin Alexander Huseby and Rein Vollenga.

Galerie West, Den Haag. 02.04.2011 > 07.05.2011.


DING DONG — EMOKISS

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Mike Swaney’s work, made of paper collages and paintings, recall an imaginary everyday life often inspired by childhood. Pica Pica is a collective of 3 artists from Liège, Belgium : Boris Magotteaux, Manuel Falcata and Jerome Degive.

ALICE gallery, Bruxelles. 07.04.2011 > 07.05.2011.


VIOLET STRAYS: MORPHINE

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Robert Yoder is the first artist to exhibit at Violet Strays, the new curatorial project of Serrah Russell and Alyssa Volpigno. Featuring artists and thinkers in all mediums, Violet Strays, seeks to emphasize temporality while forging connections between artists and the internet.
Other Websites: Lucas Blalock and Ryan Horvath.

Violet StraysMorphine. 01.04.2011 > 07.04.2011.


RADICAL AUTONOMY

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The participating artists share a conceptual approach and a minimalist design, while influenced by conceptual art, Fluxus and Zero.
Selection of websites: Etienne Chambaud, Edith Dekyndt, Sean Edwards, Ryan Gander, Mark Geffriaud, Ane Mette Hol, Navid Nuur, Gabor Ösz, and Mark Pimlott.

NETWERK Art Center, Aalst. 16.04.2011 > 19.06.2011.


STUDIES FOR AN EXHIBITION

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Mathieu Copeland is the fourth guest curator invited by the David Roberts Art Foundation to be part of the Curators’ Series. Copeland’s group show, Studies for an Exhibition, explores how exhibitions are to be envisaged in regard to transient thoughts – an art that reveals itself through time, as movements of transitions, as possible studies giving the feeling of what is, and what can be.

Selection of Websites: Elena Bajo, Emma Bjornesparr, Roman Opalka and Yann Sérandour.

David Roberts Art Foundation, Londres. 07.04.2011 > 11.06.2011.