Politically-aware artists marrying their activist tendencies to their creative expressions is a well-established practice. Festivals such as Artivistic and magazines, journals and blogs such as Art Threat, the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, and Visual Resistance have sprung up in recent years to support this fusion of politics and art. Reflecting on this naturally led me to speculate on how […]
das weisse haus is a new exhibition space for young contemporary art that will open its doors mid-December 2007 in Vienna, Austria. Their aim is the presentation and support of young Austrian and international artists of exceptional quality. das weisse haus serves as a platform where artists can interact with different spaces, present their work, attract essential publicity, and become […]
The inaugural Best Art Practices award for young curators has just announced the winners of this year’s competition. The jury received 132 applications from 32 countries in 5 continents. Their press statement (re-arranged a bit, and with URLs added by myself) follows: The purpose of the Best Art Practices Award, announced by the Italian Culture Department of the Autonomous Province […]
Liverpool Biennial is working with Jiyoon Lee, a curator based in Seoul and London, on an international exchange project involving artists and curators from Seoul and Liverpool. The exhibition-based project will investigate models of artistsâ studio and will involve residencies in each city. Liverpool Biennial is currently looking for expressions of interest from ambitious Liverpool-based curators who would see this […]
Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service is an exciting, friendly and customer focussed organisation that is a highly regarded East of England Renaissance Hub museum which is looking to recruit an Art Curator. You will have particular responsibility to develop, interpret and make accessible the nationally important collection of fine and decorative art held primarily in Ipswich and also in Colchester. […]
It’s the first of the month again! Hard to believe it’s November already. Time for the November edition of Pick ‘N Mix, my monthly annotated list of bite-sized items that have captured my attention recently. “CURATE OR DIE” is the title of a series of discussions at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. “The focus of classical museum work […]