Suggested Value at Künstlerhaus Bremen


Pilvi Takala
Suggested Value
Opening: Fri 1 June 2012, 6:00 p.m.
2 June - 26 August 2012



There are rules regulating how we live together. And just what happens when someone ignores the conventions tacitly laid down by society can be seen in the works of the Finnish artist Pilvi Takala. She herself is usually the main protagonist in performances which she films with a concealed camera and which form the basis for video, photography and installation works and for publications. In these works, the artist approaches and penetrates closed systems, links into existing orders so as to crack their codes. Her preferred sphere of action therefore is public or semi-public space, for example, a shopping centre, the European Parliament or a leisure park. Suggested Value consists of five works which all rotate around issues to do with the value of objects, their genesis, peculiarity and measurability. Pilvi Takala explores the mechanisms inherent in the genesis of value by evaluating the commercial value of a book, examining the importance of intellectual work, or experimenting with cash.


Opening: Fri 1 June 2012, 6:00 p.m.
Welcoming speech: Waltraut Steimke, Managing director Künstlerhaus Bremen
Introduction: Stefanie Böttcher, Artistic director Künstlerhaus Bremen

Programme
Wed 13.6.2012, 7:00 p.m. / Worte auf und ohne Bilder / Book launch and lecture by Prof. Dr. Michael Glasmeier, Art historian
Thu 12.7.2012, 7:00 p.m. / Persönlicher (Mehr-)Wert?: An welchen Werten orientieren wir uns? / Lecture by Prof. Dr. Reinhold Mokrosch, Protestant theologian, University of Osnabrück


Guided tours
Thu 28.6.2012, 7:00 p.m. / Thu 2.8.2012, 7:00 p.m.


Künstlerhaus Bremen
Am Deich 68/69
28199 Bremen
www.kuenstlerhausbremen.de

EVA International: After the Future




After the Future
Curated by Annie Fletcher

19 May–12 August 2012
Opening: Friday 18 May, from 18h

Starting point:
Limerick City Gallery of Art
Carnegie Building
Pery Square
Limerick City, Ireland
and continuing to various locations across the city.


Participating artists
Yael Bartana, Zanny Begg & Oliver Ressler, Marcel Broodthaers, Anibal Catalan, Fergus Daly & Katherine Waugh, Kate Davis, Luc Deleu, Priscila Fernandes, Soren Thilo Funder, Aoibheann Greenan, Emma Houlihan, Greg Howie, Sanja Ivekovic, Sam Keogh, Barbara Knezevic, KwieKulik, Hyewon Kwon, Art Links Limerick, Jose Carlos Martinat, Gavin Murphy, Ailbhe Ni Bhriain, Doireann Ni Ghrioghair, Adrian O'Connell, Sara O'Gorman, Mark O'Kelly, Niamh O'Malley, Sarah Pierce, Deirdre A Power & Jacki Hehir, Alice Rekab, Laura Smith, Faber Studios, Pilvi Takala, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor

Theatre of life at CoCA in Torun




Theatre of life
Life, life itself… is the absolute art!


Exhibition opening: Friday, 18th May, 7 PM
Saturday
19th May, from 12 AM to 12 PM for European Night of Museums, free entrance for intense program of performances, lectures and screenings

19th May at 6.30 PM: lecture Art Tribes by Achille Bonito Oliva



Artists: John Cage, Yoko Ono, Marina Abramović, Valie Export, Natalia LL, John Baldessari, Neša Paripović, Ulay, Marek Sobczyk, Katarzyna Kozyra, Maurizio Cattelan, David Michalek, Pierre Bismuth, Jonathan Monk, Vanessa Beecroft, João Onofre, Francesco Vezzoli, Gil Kuno, Partick Tuttofuoco, Nezaket Ekici, Pilvi Takala, Marlene Haring, Ana Prvački, Mihoko Ogaki, Malin Ståhl, Branko Milisković, Francesco Fonassi, Nicola Ruben Montini, Lerato Shadi, Maks Cieślak.


Curated by: Dobrila Denegri


More at CoCA website


Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu
87 – 100 Torun
Waly gen. Sikorskiego 13
Poland


tel.: + 00 48 56 610 97 00


csw.torun.pl



TRACK opens in Ghent



Curators: Philippe Van Cauteren and Mirjam Varadinis
Organised by: S.M.A.K., the Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent
Supported by: City of Ghent, Flemish Community, National Lottery and Port of Ghent
TRACK is a temporary exhibition in the public and semi-public space of the city of Ghent. Philippe Van Cauteren and Mirjam Varadinis invited 35 artists to make an in-depth exploration of six typical neighbourhoods in Ghent and to come up with artistic proposals that interact with the different communities in various ways. The curators took the time to select surprising, meaningful and hidden locations in the wider city centre of Ghent and invited artists who have an affinity with the thematic context of the various places. The selected artists use the local reality as a fertile source of inspiration to reflect upon the city and the contemporary human condition in a global light. The results of their explorations are not simply traditional works of art, but artistic projects with an intense relationship with the city and its inhabitants that will leave permanent traces.
ARTISTS
Lara Almarcegui
Pawel Althamer
Sven Augustijnen
Massimo Bartolini
Johanna Billing
John Bock
Michaël Borremans
Mike Bouchet
Christoph Büchel
Peter Buggenhout
Mircea Cantor
Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset
Cerith Wyn Evans
Cao Fei
Peter Fischli & David Weiss
Cyprien Gaillard
Mekhitar Garabedian
Christina Hemauer & Roman Keller
Tadashi Kawamata
Alon Levin
Bart Lodewijks
Emilio López-Menchero
Mark Manders
Teresa Margolles
Tatzu Nishi
Ahmet Öğüt
Tobias Putrih
Kateřina Šedá
Superflex
Pilvi Takala
Javier Téllez
Tercerunquinto
Benjamin Verdonck
Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan
Erik Van Lieshout
Danh Vo
Lawrence Weiner