NEWS
KUNSTMUSEUM RAVENSBURG / (WAHL) FAMILY. THOSE WE ARE /
CHANTAL REGNAULT
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
(WAHL) FAMILY. THOSE WE ARE
14 July to 5 November 2023
Opening: Thursday, 13 July 2023, 7 pm
Family can mean happiness or chaos, identification or separation, be a burden or embody solidarity and security. Family is a complex and emotional network of relationships that cannot be reduced exclusively to biological criteria. Whether by blood or by choice, family ties are a topic that concerns everyone. "(ELECTIVE) FAMILY. DIE, DIE WIR SIND" asks how we define belonging and paints a multi-layered picture of what family can be. The group exhibition brings together works by fourteen contemporary artists and invites us to reflect on family relationships, constellations and their socio-political links.
The selected works bring the unconscious dynamics of family relationships to the fore, telling of great feelings, bizarre habits and special challenges. They thematise family and social responsibility and show people who subvert conventional role attributions in order to follow their individual life plans as a community. Whether in spirit or in real life - (elective) families are, at best, the people with whom we identify, who shape us and who give us support and orientation.
With works by Guy Ben-Ner | Andrea Bowers | Miriam Cahn | Chto Delat | Asta Gröting | Sharon Hayes | Verena Jaekel | Pixy Liao | Joanna Piotrowska | Chantal Regnault | Allen Ruppersberg | Corinna Schnitt | Thomas Struth | Johan Tahon
ANIMAL FANTASTIQUE. THE COLOURFUL WORLD OF FAMILIES
The exhibition is completed by a space for children to get creative surrounded by sculptures and prints from the Selinka Collection of the Kunstmuseum. Made possible by the Friends of the Kunstmuseum.
Children's vernissage: Saturday, 15 July 2023, 10 a.m.
TROIS CENT SOIXANTE REVUE / POLITIQUES DE LA MEMOIRE / HAÏTI /
NICOLA LO CALZO
FRIEZE / WHAT ARTISTS DO WHEN THEY CAN'T SLEEP /
RUT BLEES LUXEMBURG
Courtesy- © Remedios Varo, The Vera and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada and Surrealist Art, Israel Museum and DACS/VEGAP
Courtesy- © The Easton Foundation and DACS; photograph- Christopher Burke
Courtesy- the artist; photograph- Jeff Moore
Courtesy- © Rut Blees Luxemburg and DACS
ACUMEN Magazine / La route des songes / Taisiia Cherkasova
The Art Newspaper Edition Française / L'art contemporain du Bénin fait escale à Rabat / Emo de Medeiros
CITIES OF THE NIGHT AT RIBA LONDON / FESTIVAL OF ARCHITECTURE
01 June - 30 June
What if the night, often neglected and underestimated in the discourse on cities and architecture, is actually the lifeworld that holds the keys to our everyday experience. Might the night be more than a rotation that recharges our daily life? Could the night be a transformative space, that lets us dream our collective future?
For the second time RIBA hosts the Royal College of Art during the London Festival of Architecture, bringing together three artists who re-present and re-inhabit the urban night: Rut Blees Luxemburg, Alisa Oleva and Chooc Ly Tan.
In daytime, most everything is apprehended under the light of just one furiously burning sun. But as the planet turns and daylight fades, we see things coloured by a medley of embers, the jaundiced haze emitted by a sodium streetlight, the pale glow of a screen, the ancient shimmer of deceased stars, and so many other disparate and distant points of illumination. While objects are uniformly presented to vision under one radiant light source during the day, those same objects are seen at night in a luminescent range that has no hierarchical direction.
Urban Night Practice is an artistic investigation into this metamorphic potential that emerges in cities during the night. The artists in this exhibition — Rut Blees Luxemburg, Chooc Ly Tan, and Alisa Oleva — all have practices that are receptive to the possibility of a transformation that is paradoxically rendered most clearly in darkness. As such, the artworks in this show are composed by night but given here as proposals for new ways to navigate and envisage the urban landscape by day.
Elliott Mickleburgh
Join us for the party on the 22 June 7pm onward
DJ set by Chooc Ly Tan
RIBA First Floor Gallery, 66 Portland Place, London W1B 1AD
ESCLAVAGE, MÉMOIRES NORMANDES. ROUEN, L’ENVERS D’UNE PROSPÉRITÉ
A selection of photographs from the research KAM by Nicola Lo Calzo is presented at Corderie Vallois in Rouen as part of the exhibition, « Esclavage, Mémoires normandes » a first major exhibition in the process of recognizing the history and memory of slavery in Normandy. Prints from the series AYITI, REGLA, AGOUDA are presented along with works by artists Emmanuelle Gall, Gilles Elie-Dit-Cosaque, Elisa Moris Vai between others.
The exhibition on the memory of slavery will open on May 10, 2023, at the end of a collegial process involving the towns of Honfleur, Le Havre and the Rouen Normandy Metropolis, as well as various museums, municipal and departmental archives and the "Villes et Pays d'art et d'histoire" label…
The aim?
To shed light on Normandy's involvement in the triangular trade in the 18th and 19th centuries, by comparing objects in collections and contemporary accounts. Bordeaux, Nantes and La Rochelle have been the focus of much research, and are now taking responsibility for their role in the slave trade and the ensuing trade in Western Europe through various cultural and commemorative events. Until now, Normandy has remained somewhat on the sidelines of this general movement in favor of greater transparency in local - town, regional -, individual and collective history. In fact, it is the responsibility of Europeans, and in particular of these coastal towns, in the crime against humanity that was slavery (law no. 2001-434 of May 21, 2001). The Rouen-Le Havre-Honfleur conglomerate, however, had a weight comparable to that of Bordeaux or Nantes... It was absolutely necessary to revisit this history, not only from an ethical point of view, but also in view of its medium- and long-term consequences for the region and its development.
Tracing history
The ship-owning families - in other words, those who financed the boat trips in order to make a profit from them - were mostly from Rouen. However, as the boats left from Le Havre and, to a lesser extent, Honfleur, it was long claimed that the triangular trade did not concern Rouen, despite the fact that it was heavily involved in financing this commercial eco-system…
Genesis
Long before the 18th century, Normans were accustomed to transatlantic travel. The ember trade in Brazil and attempts at colonization in New France took them to the Americas, while the first Norman trading posts were opened in West Africa as early as the 17th century. A number of objects document this way of life and, in particular, the environment of Norman navigation: a beautiful astrolabe, maps and ivory objects, whose very material bears witness to early links with the African continent. A yoyo from the collections of the Musée de la Ferronnerie Le Secq des Tournelles is particularly emblematic, illustrating the ambivalence of the period.
A very present past
While the exhibition at Corderie Vallois brings to light certain elements of the past, what is perhaps most interesting is the echo that this effort to elucidate it finds in some of our contemporary issues. At a time when clothing is being manufactured in India, for example, at a human cost...
Textile fiber and cotton fabric production was one of Rouen's most important sectors in the triangular trade. The factories in the Cailly valley were particularly involved in the production of indiennes, a type of painted or printed cotton canvas. But it's not just about documenting the past for its own sake, as the exhibition questions our post-industrial era in the light of it.
Exhibition curator
Mathilde Schneider, Director of Musée Beauvoisine, Chief Curator of Heritage
Isabelle Gard, Project Manager, Public Services
Bruno Varin, assistant curator and cultural mediator
Scientific assistance: Simon Jean-Nebbache, PhD in museology
Practical information
From May 10, 2023 to September 17, 2023
Musée Industriel de la Corderie Vallois, Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville
Open daily from 1.30 pm to 6 pm
Admission: €4
Access
from Paris by train > Rouen - Rouen Rive-Droite stop
from Rouen with the T2 astuce network > Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville - Mairie V. stop Schoelcher
from Hameau de Frévaux with the F4 network >Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville - André Gide stop
Recognized as an exhibition of national interest by the French Ministry of Culture, it receives exceptional financial support from the French government.
The virtual exhibition, soon to go online, receives special support from FRAME
*One ticket for one of the three tours entitles the holder to reduced rates for the other two.
Fortunes and servitudes at Hôtel Dubocage de Bléville, 1 rue Jéröme Bellarmato, Le Havre. Exhibition from May 10 to November 10, 2023. Full price: €5 / concessions: 3€
D'une terre à l'autre at the Musée Eugène Boudin, Honfleur. Exhibition from May 10 to November 10, 2023. Full price: €8 / Reduced: €6.50
Libération / L'Amitié, un mode de vie très politique / Nicola Lo Calzo
Le Monde / Itvan Kebadian
Centre Claude Cahun / Juste à côté de nous, Amazonie
31 May — 03 September 2023
Parc du Grand Blottereau et Centre Claude Cahun, Nantes, France
Between May and September 2023, the Claude Cahun Centre for Contemporary Photography in Nantes and the Rencontres photographiques de Guyane have imagined a co-commissioning of two exhibitions entitled Juste à côté de nous, Amazonie. This regional cooperation project will be held simultaneously, between May and August, at the Grand Blottereau Park and, between July and September, at the Claude Cahun Centre for the Voyage à Nantes.
The aim of this collaboration is to create a territorial continuity for the artists. The exhibitions thus delve into a selection of series produced during the residencies or research in the archives of local photographers supported by the Rencontres photographiques de Guyane since 2013. The works of Nicolas Derné, Karl Joseph, Guillaume Martial, Julie Boileau, Nicola Lo Calzo, Vano, Mirtho Linguet and Karen Paulina Biswell look at and stage the dense life of men and women confronted with everything that nature opens, swallows and forgets.
Sharing Perama - Sharing Art / ECC Italy / Biennale de Venise
curated by Barbara Polla and Dominique Fiat
until 27th November 2022
The non-profit organisation Sharing Perama has been invited to participate in the European Cultural Centre Biennale 2022, which will open in April 2022 in Venice, alongside the Venice Biennale.
Perama is a neglected and fascinating suburb of Athens, originally created by migrants a century ago: the first settlements followed the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1922. Perama is one of the few cities that still remembers that it was created by migrants and, as such, it resembles New York. It also resembles New York in its extraordinary diversity, be it social, industrial or territorial.
Liminal Realities by Marios Fournaris
The exhibition SHARING PERAMA, SHARING ART, will highlight this diversity through the photographs of Marios Fournaris. The artist, born in Perama, obtained his Master of Fine Arts degree in the UK and then returned to live and work in Perama, and now photographs Perama on a daily basis, especially when the sky is overcast, as Perama is far from the "white sea blue walls" that one usually imagines when thinking of Greece.
Perama is reflected in the photographs of Marios Fournaris, like a self-portrait. Marios Fournaris' photographs will be printed in large format, on "blue back", to give the viewers the impression that they are really in Perama and that they live here, in the shadow of the steel swans.
A Love Song by Robert Montgomery
In this landscape, poetry is in every street, behind the hills, in the harbour, in the shops, in the memories of the people, in the music of the Rebetiko. Allen Ginsberg was here in 1961, and sang Perama in his poetry. The post-situationist artist and poet Robert Montgomery found Perama to have many similarities with the city where he was born, Glasgow, where his grandfather was a miner. Montgomery knows from the inside the hard times of industrial work and the worst times of unemployment. Before writing and installing his luminous poems in Perama, the artist spent a lot of time in the city, to get a feel for its atmosphere. His first poem is entitled THE BEGINNING OF HOPE. The exhibition SHARING PERAMA, SHARING ART will feature photographs (by Marios Fournaris and Robert Montgomery himself) of this luminous poem and of the next work to be installed in the public space of Perama: A LOVE SONG.
Dreaming Perama by Christos PANAGOS & Charalambos MARGARITIS
Along with words, moving images best capture and convey the soul and memories of a place. Filmmaker Christos Panagos, a connoisseur of Perama, spent time with Barbara Polla, the founder of SHARING PERAMA, walking around the town in search of her memories. Together with Charalambos Margaritis, a specialist in video/film animation, Christos Panagos conceived the medium-length film DREAMING PERAMA, a docu-fiction mixing real images and animation, past and present, beauty and loss, fear and love. Viewers become like sleepwalkers while watching this immersive and hypnotic film, and can retrieve the memories of others for themselves: Perama belongs to everyone. The film (work in progress) and its storyboard will be presented, together with Robert Montgomery's poetry, with the images of Perama for a total immersion of the spectators in the space.
Curators
Barbara Polla, founder of Analix Forever Gallery, Switzerland, and president of the Sharing Perama Foundation. As an independent curator, she has organised numerous exhibitions on the theme of imprisonment, video, and created Video Forever in collaboration with Paul Ardenne. She is currently preparing a book on Perama, with photographs by Marios Fournaris.
Dominique Fiat, founder of the Galerie Dominique Fiat, France, located in the Marais district of Paris since the early 2000s, is also an independent curator creating artistic projects.
Her approach is characterized by a transdisciplinary vision, the discovery of young talents such as Camille Henrot or Hicham Berrada, and the importance she gives to the "Global South" and particularly to Africa and the Mediterranean.
The SHARING PERAMA - SHARING ART project is driven by ecological values and reflections on environmental issues which are addressed through the artworks themselves which are presented in a unique way by the artists.