News
Opening this week is an interesting exhibition as part of the Irish Year of Design, ID2015, based in Dublin Castle. The exhibition is showcasing a wide range of design, from the press release;
Fresh Talent exhibition shines a light on the creative new wave of designers emerging since 2011 who work within and across disciplines. The exhibition includes a mix of award winning graduate projects from Ireland’s major universities and from Irish students abroad as well as a selection of designers and practitioners who are establishing their businesses. The exhibition draws from a range of fields and incorporates a range of design disciplines: craft, architecture, set design, visual communication, product design, fashion, design engineering all feature.
Alongside this is a series of talks and workshops, one of which is being led by the very talented Sheena Flynn this Saturday 4th July. More info here
Some work exhibited at ID2015
Also open this week and worth checking out is the PhotoIreland Festival 2015
From the press release;
Ireland’s International Festival of Photography & Image Culture. Vibrant, friendly, all-inclusive: A festival for all to enjoy!
Celebrating its sixth edition, PhotoIreland is delighted to present the work of young talented artists and photographers from around the world. Based in various venues around Dublin, this year promises to deliver a diversity of accomplished contemporary works from Irish and international artists.
PhotoIreland Festival is grant aided by The Arts Council of Ireland and the Dublin City Council
Festival run: 1-31 July
Official Launch: 2nd July
PhotoIreland Book Fair: 2-5 July
Highlight Events:
– Under the Influence by Dominic Hawgood, opening 2 July, at the Oonagh Young Gallery
– 13 Kinder by Christiane Peschek, opening 4 July, at The Copper House
– Greetings From Ireland Worldwide at the City Assembly House
– Summer Campus 2015, to include International Portfolio Reviews along with a series of talks
– The Asia Pacific Photobook Archive for the first time in Europe, coming to Dublin
– Island – Australia, opening 4 July, at The Copper House
– Exclusive: Eamonn Doyle’s new book ON launches at The Library Project, 3 July
More at photoireland.org/festival/year-2015
UNDER THE INFLUENCE
Dominic Hawgood at the Oonagh Young Gallery as part of the PhotoIreland Festival
03.07.2015 – 31.07.15
And finally, some lovely photos over at Hyperallergic this week of artists just living the life
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, Coyoacán, Mexico. Photograph by Chester Dale, Chester Dale papers.
Exhibitions
Cork Photo 2015 Festival Launch at Cork Photo HQ
Jun 26, 2015 01:10 pm
3 July at 7.30pm
Cork Photo HQ, Camden Palace Hotel, Cork
Join us for the launch of Cork Photo 2015 July 3rd at 7.30pm. This festival celebrates photography across Cork city. This year’s launch event also sees the opening of the Cork Photo HQ exhibition at Camden Palace Hotel, Camden Quay. This exhibition displays a variety of styles, techniques and approaches and is testament to the versatility of the photographic medium. Featuring national and international artists: Chloe Lelliott, Colin Aherne, Joan Alexander, Martin Seeds, James Parkin and Orla O’Byrne.
The festival programme showcases photographic exhibitions and also features artist talks, workshops and cinema screenings. All exhibition listings can be found on the festival map online or the print version available in all venues.
corkphoto.com
Zenda Williams at The Quay, Skibbereen, West Cork
Jun 25, 2015 03:27 pm
Navigation of a Non-Place
3 July to 7 of July 2015 | Opening on Friday 3rd of July at 7pm
11:30 to 3pm
Navigation of a Non-Place is an exhibition of photographs, multimedia and printing and will be opened by installation artist and photographer Tomasz Madajczak. Navigation of a Non-Place is comprised of photographs taken in three locations, Cork City, Cobh and Skibbereen. Artist Zenda Williams was born in Hong Kong SAR, China in 1974. The architecture in Hong Kong and the mind-set of been a Hongkonger, caught between east and west, and the contrast of living in Ireland has informed the artist and had a profound influence on her work.
Admission is free and all are welcome.
Further information:
T: 087-0579547
E: zendawilliams@eircom.net
The Quay, Skibbereen, West Cork, just off the Main Street (behind O’Sullivans Toy Shop).
Seán Scully at Crawford Art Gallery
Jun 20, 2015 03:32 pm
Figure/Abstact
June 27 – September 12, 2015
Crawford Art Gallery, Emmet Place, Cork
Crawford Art Gallery presents Figure/Abstact, a major exhibition by the internationally celebrated artist Seán Scully from June 26 – September 12.
Figure/Abstact is Scully’s first ever museum show in Cork and coincides with his seventieth birthday on June 30.
Figure/Abstact will feature works from 1964 to the present, most of which have never been exhibited before. Scully is best known for the epic ‘stripe’ paintings he has made since the early 1980s: few are aware that he explored figurative painting before turning to abstraction. The exhibition will feature examples of his earliest drawings and paintings, tracing his evolution as an artist through the 1960s and into the 1970s and beyond. The largest work featured is Horizontal Soul (2014), a monumental oil on canvas over eight metres in length.
To mark the occasion, and to celebrate Scully’s achievements as an Irish artist on the international stage, the Crawford Gallery will restore the síneadh fada over the ‘a’ in the spelling of ‘Seán’ for the duration of Figure Abstract‘s run in Cork.
For further information or images contact: dawnwilliams@crawfordartgallery.ie
www.crawfordartgallery.ie
Fiona Cashell and Talia Moscovitz at The Cube, Dublin 8
Jun 26, 2015 02:53 pm
Digital image scan from mold damaged 35mm color slide
Groundless
Photography Exhibition on the Emotional Impact of Viewing Screens
10 to 18 July 2015 | Opening 10 July 6 to 9pm
Part of the 2015 PhotoIreland Open Programme, Groundless is composed of three individual photographic projects that seek to peer through the glowing surface of the digital screen to probe the murky emotional and psychological tensions at work beneath. Groundless marks the public premier of Vertigo and Warped by Talia Moscovitz and the Irish premier of Second Window by New York based/Tallaght raised artist, Fiona Cashell. The photographic works are presented in vibrant site-specific projection installations that unite the private act of staring into a personal computer screen with the public experience of viewing a gallery exhibition.
The Donnelly Centre, Cork Street, Dublin 8
T: 01 677 0107
E: patricia@accesstoarts.com
www.thecubecreativehub.com
http://fionacashell.com
http://taliamoscovitz.com
Eamonn Doyle Book Launch at the Library Project
Jun 26, 2015 01:40 pm
3 July at 7pm
The Library Project, Temple Bar, Dublin
Following the successful launch of Eamonn Doyle’s well-received first photobook on March last year, we celebrate the arrival of his second title: ‘ON’.
photoireland.org/festival/year-2015
Diarmait Grogan & William Hamilton at The MART Gallery
Jun 26, 2015 01:14 pm
Shanghai Ritual
7th – 12th July | Opening Reception: 6.00pm – 8.30pm Sunday, 5th July
The MART, 190a Rathmines Rd, Rathmines, Dublin
Opening hours: Tues – Sun, 1 – 6pm
Irish artists Diarmait Grogan and William Hamilton spent a year in Shanghai, culminating in a shared photographic portrayal of the city. Shanghai Ritual is an atmospheric study of place and displacement, set in the largest city proper in the world in 2013.
These images present an imaginary city, the combined impressions of two artists who sought to consolidate their conflicting senses of disconnection and empathy while living abroad. Ultimately, it is a tribute to a vibrant city, caught between times, that will soon be changed forever.
With thanks to Laois County Council.
For further information: info@mart.ie
www.groganphotography.com | www.williamhamilton.ie | www.mart.ie
PhotoIreland 2015: ‘JIGEUM’ | South Korean Emerging Artists at South Studios
Jun 26, 2015 12:27 pm
JIGEUM
4 – 12 July | Opening: 4 July at 6pm
South Studios, 27/28 New Row South, Dublin 8
Introducing fresh new work from South Korea by emerging artists from the Chung Ang University: Chankyu Kim, Youngdon Jung, Hyungsik Kim, A-Ri Kim, Jaeyeon Kim, Taejoong Kim, Taejun Yoon, and Youngjin Yoo.
Cocurated by Kyungwoo Chun and Hyosup Jung.
The exhibition offers a rare insight into contemporary photographic practices in Korea, presenting us with a varied and ever surprising array of projects.
photoireland.org/festival/year-2015/
Christiane Peschek at The Copper House Gallery
Jun 26, 2015 12:24 pm
13 Kinder
4 – 31 July | Opening: 4 July at 8pm
The Copper House Gallery, St Kevin’s Cottages, Synge Street, Dublin 8
Christiane’s 13 Kinder explores the captivating process of self-projection as seen through the eyes of German and Austrian children, aged between 4 to 10.
Christiane Peschek worked with these children for several months, using the question “How do you want to be when you can become whatever is in your mind?” as a starting point. Their responses were represented through visual language, breaking the restraints of the written word, to better realise a child’s view of the world and their position within it. The work looks at the link between the memory and legacy of the past, the interpretation of the present and the possibility and desire for the future.
photoireland.org/festival/year-2015
PhotoIreland 2015: Dominic Hawgood at the Oonagh Young Gallery
Jun 26, 2015 12:21 pm
Under the Influence
3 – 31 July | Opening: 2 July at 6pm
Oonagh Young Gallery, 1 James Joyce Street, Liberty Corner, Dublin 1
Hawgood’s practice combines photography, moving image, CGI and lighting design, and explores the aesthetic crossovers between advertising, art and technology. His award winning series Under the Influence, examines the use of exorcism within London based African evangelical churches, and the merchandising of these contemporary rituals. The enigmatic experience of seeing deliverance first hand becomes the inspiration for a series that engages with topics about authenticity, desire, and the real.
Hawgood’s technical proficiency and clarity of vision extend beyond the picture plane into the gallery itself, creating an immersive experience similar to current installation art practices. The staging of this work in Oonagh Young Gallery, a dedicated contemporary art space, serves to underline this link with contemporary art.
This multidisciplinary approach to photography represents an exciting departure with a practice rooted in traditional methodology yet conspicuous in its technological and conceptual rigor. Through this series of works and their structured presentation, an inherent ambiguity is highlighted. What is real? Is it fact or fiction we are witnessing? With an eye for detail, every aspect of Hawgood’s work has been thoroughly considered
photoireland.org/festival/year-2015
PhotoIreland 2015: ‘Greetings From Ireland Worldwide’ | Group Exhibition at The Library Project
Jun 26, 2015 12:15 pm
4 July – 2 August
The Library Project, Temple Bar, Dublin
After its launch at The Library Project, Dublin, on December 2014, and its forthcoming show at the Triennial of Photography Hamburg, Greetings From Ireland Worldwide will exhibit the selected 40 artists at this year’s festival. Now seeking participation by photographers worldwide, we aim to build a large repository of images from and about this imaginary country.
photoireland.org/festival/year-2015
PhotoIreland 2015: ‘Island – Australia’ | Group Exhibition at The Copper House Gallery
Jun 26, 2015 12:12 pm
Island – Australia
4 – 31 July
The Copper House, St Kevin’s Cottages, Synge Street, Dublin 8
Going beyond the clichés of the island Down Under, the selection of works offers an insight into Australia’s people, landscapes and way of life. Navigating between the real, the expected and the imagined, the images presented constitute a suggestive and subjective portrait of Australia, poetical and sometimes harsh.
Presented by the Australian Centre for Photography and curated by Claire Monneraye, the exhibition includes works by Markus Andersen, Katelyn Jane-Dunn, Charles Kasprzak, Kristian Laemmle-Ruff, Jesse Marlow, Raphaela Rosella, Chris Round, David Maurice Smith, Juliet Taylor and Wouter Van De Voorde.
photoireland.org/festival/year-2015
PhotoIreland 2015: ‘In Good Light – The Wild Atlantic Way’ Exhibition at Patrick Donald Gallery
Jun 26, 2015 11:52 am
The Wild Atlantic Way
1 – 31 July
Patrick Donald Gallery, Dawson Street
Patrick Donald is currently touring the The Wild Atlantic Way and collecting some stunning images for his exhibition with the Photo Ireland Festival taking place from the 1st to the 31st July. Patrick’s aim is to cover the The Wild Atlantic Way over 2 years as hopefully produce a book at the end. He acknowledges how long the route is and how much there is to cover and in order to do it justice he wants to dedicate this time to it. His work in the PhotoIreland Festival this year will consist of 18 very large format pictures in black & white which will feature the best of his shots taken on this tour.
www.patrickdonald.com
Windy Arbour Artist Group at the Ranelagh Arts Centre
Jun 26, 2015 11:11 am
Poppies
25 June – 9 July
Ranelagh Arts Centre, Ranelagh, Co. Dublin
The windy arbour artist group using the working title ‘ARTBEAT’ will be presenting an exhibition of contemporary art at the Ranelagh Arts Centre. The exhibition runs for two weeks from Thursday 25th June 2015 to 9th July. This presentation includes works by five amateur artists working in various mediums and styles.
Stuart works in acrylics on canvas, painting in the style of Chagall and Kadinsky. The symbolism he portrays alludes to various themes, for example, War and peace. Jonathan also paints using acrylics on canvas and expresses himself mainly in musical themes. Francis paints mainly in watercolour and creates images from places of his past. Niall works in acrylics on canvas and depicts images from nature, in particular the animal kingdom and these are painted in his own unique style. Finally Sid creates pictures using the unusual medium of gel and felt tip on board, creating designs that are geometrically abstract.
Artbeat tries to present a very diverse range of art and attempts to appeal to a varied range of taste.
www.ranelagharts.org
NCAD Continuing Education in Art and Design Exhibition
Jun 26, 2015 10:56 am
3 – 9 July
Opening Times: Daily: 10am – 5pm, Sun: 2pm – 5pm, Closing: Thursday at 2pm
Design Building, NCAD, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 4
The much anticipated annual showcase of work by part-time students of the NCAD Continuing Education in Art and Design (CEAD) will feature about 1,000 works from a wide range of disciplines including painting, print, sculpture, bronze, photography, jewellery, ceramics, textiles, stained glass, multi media and much more. Many pieces are for sale.
www.ncad.ie/about/ncad-season-of-exhibitions-2014/cead-exhibition/
PhotoIreland Festival 2015
Jun 26, 2015 10:54 am
Ireland’s International Festival of Photography & Image Culture. Vibrant, friendly, all-inclusive: A festival for all to enjoy!
Celebrating its sixth edition, PhotoIreland is delighted to present the work of young talented artists and photographers from around the world. Based in various venues around Dublin, this year promises to deliver a diversity of accomplished contemporary works from Irish and international artists.
PhotoIreland Festival is grant aided by The Arts Council of Ireland and the Dublin City Council
Festival run: 1-31 July
Official Launch: 2nd July
PhotoIreland Book Fair: 2-5 July
Highlight Events:
– Under the Influence by Dominic Hawgood, opening 2 July, at the Oonagh Young Gallery
– 13 Kinder by Christiane Peschek, opening 4 July, at The Copper House
– Greetings From Ireland Worldwide at the City Assembly House
– Summer Campus 2015, to include International Portfolio Reviews along with a series of talks
– The Asia Pacific Photobook Archive for the first time in Europe, coming to Dublin
– Island – Australia, opening 4 July, at The Copper House
– Exclusive: Eamonn Doyle’s new book ON launches at The Library Project, 3 July
photoireland.org/festival/year-2015
PhotoIreland 2015: Katrin Koenning at The Lab
Jun 26, 2015 10:52 am
Feber
2 – 12 July
The Lab, Foley St., Dublin 1
For the first time in Ireland, PhotoIreland presents the work of Melbourne based artist Katrin Koenning, offering a unique insight into a very personal visual investigation, an ongoing research on her everyday.
Katrin’s selection of prints and videos complements Claire Monneraye’s presentation on Australian photographic practices, giving us a deeper view on the varied artistic practices coming from the region.
photoireland.org/festival/year-2015
‘Free Range’ | A Group Exhibition at Unit 4
Jun 25, 2015 03:21 pm
Free Range
Exhibition curated by Felicity Clear and Beth O’Halloran
2 – 18 July 2015 | Opening: 2 July at 6.30 pm
Unit 4, James Joyce Street, Dublin 1
Opening Times: Thursday, Friday and Saturday 11 – 4pm
Free Range is a varied and eclectic exhibition of work from the group known as ‘The Place’ who have been nesting in the Incubation Space in Dublin City’s Arts Office, The Lab since April.
‘The Place’ is a collective of fifteen artists who graduated from NCAD together and who continued to work and further their arts education using the resources that are freely available. Each of them maintains their own studio practice.
They also attend lectures, events and openings, and relay the information gleaned to the rest of the group. They organise artist talks, workshops and critiques, directing their personal learning in the manner best suited to each of them and extending this to the collective.
The exhibition will be complemented by two events:
– There will be a public presentation and discussion of the collective’s experiences in Unit 4 on Saturday 4 July.
– A VAI Show and Tell devoted entirely to The Place collective will be held in the Incubation Space on 11 July.
Exhibiting Artists: Aileen Malone, Annabel Potterton, Dee Kerins, Donal Moriarty, Dorothy Moorhead, Gary O’Reilly, John McMenamin, Kate O’Neill, Mercedes Blanco, Nathalie Slachmuylders, Philip O’Meara, Phyliss Ryan, Shiela Ryan, Sue Reid
‘Display Show’ | Group Exhibition at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios
Jun 25, 2015 10:37 am
Display Show
Curated by Gavin Wade (with Celine Condorelli & James Langdon).
2 July – 29 Aug 2015 | Opening Thursday 2nd July 2015, 6pm
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin
Celine Condorelli, Andrew Lacon, Eilis McDonald, Flore Nove Josserand,Yelena Popova, Gavin Wade, Christopher Williams.
Art is not exhibited, art exhibits. Display Show initiates a set of artworks embedded with, and reliant upon, explicit conditions of display as a combination of functional attributes.
Display Show proposes to consider display as intrinsic to artistic production and interpretation, as the process of taking shape that redefines both notions of art as work and art as exhibition. In examining the politics of exhibition and display strategies, we seek to articulate practices more than critiques, and to this end find appropriate vocabularies, discern possible methodologies, and define relevant genealogies.
This exhibition project will be unfolded through an enquiry into forms of display, including an ongoing survey of radical display practices from the twentieth century, such as those of Franco Albini, Lina Bo Bardi, Frederick Kiesler, El Lissitzky, and Carlo Scarpa. These historical approaches will be considered through form and function and how they work in creating specific display conditions.
For more information on the exhibition, please visit: www.templebargallery.com/gallery/exhibition/display-show
‘STILL, WE WORK’ National Women’s Council of Ireland Legacy Project at Callan Workhouse Union,
Jun 18, 2015 03:20 pm
STILL, WE WORK
National Women’s Council of Ireland Legacy Project: Representations of Women’s Work
27 June – 5 July 2015 | Opening: Friday 26 June at 6pm
Curated by Hollie Kearns, Rosie Lynch and Monica Flynn
Callan Workhouse Union, Callan, Co. Kilkenny
Open 12 – 5 daily
ARTISTS: Sarah Browne | Vagabond Reviews | Miriam O’Connor | Anne Tallentire
Mary Butler, Kilkenny Arts Officer, will welcome Alice Mary Higgins, NWCI, to formally open the exhibition followed by an excerpt from ‘Burn in Flames: Post-Patriarchal Archive in Circulation’, as part of ‘In the Shadow of the State’ by artists Sarah Browne and Jesse Jones.
A specially curated programme of events presented with the exhibition explores issues surrounding women and work today. Updates and details at: facebook.com/NWCILegacyProject and twitter @StillWeWork
Admission free.
www.nwcilegacyproject.com | www.abhainnrifestival.com
Song of the Sea: The Exhibition at the Butler Gallery
Jun 26, 2015 01:00 pm
Song of the Sea: The Exhibition
4 July – 11 October
Butler Gallery, The Castle, Kilkenny
The Butler Gallery is delighted to present a collaboration with Kilkenny-based and Oscar nominated Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon.
In celebration of the July 10th Irish release of Cartoon Saloon’s highly anticipated new film Song of the Sea, Butler Gallery presents an interactive, multi-media exhibition of original drawings, prints, storyboards, animation, music and scene-realisation.
An Animator-in-Residence will be present in the gallery at select times during the run of the exhibition and throughout the Kilkenny Arts Festival August 7th – 16th.
www.butlergallery.com
‘Delicate Matter’ | Group Exhibition at the Luan Gallery
Jun 26, 2015 11:20 am
Delicate Matter
3 July – 30 August | Opening: 3 July at 6pm
Luan Gallery, Athlone, Co Westmeath
Luan Gallery is open Tuesday – Saturday 11.00 – 17.00, Sunday 12.00 – 17.00 and is closed on Mondays.
Luan Gallery is delighted to present Delicate Matter an exhibition showcasing the superb talents of Karen Donnellan, Jennifer Hickey and Liz Nilsson throughout July and August.
Delicate Matter will invite the viewer to explore the tactile beauty of carefully crafted sculpture and installation works in glass, porcelain and textiles. These works are inspired by the delicate matters concerning human existence such as:
• the metaphysical which, along with energy and light, inspires Karen Donnellan’s works in glass
• the relationship between nature and the human spirit – which informs the china sculptures of Jennifer Hickey, and
• the mental architecture of memory – which inspires Dublin based designer Liz Nilsson’s conceptual installations
Together these works will present audiences with both a literal and conceptual feast of Delicate Matter.
Delicate Matter will see each artist occupy a solo space in the gallery. Jennifer Hickey’s works in porcelain and bone china will fill the New Gallery Space and Karen Donnellan’s glass structures will play with the light in the River Gallery while the fantastic textile works of Liz Nilsson will feature in the Library Gallery, a nod to its former connection with the Athlone Woollen Mills.
athloneartsandtourism.ie
Anna Macleod at The Dock
Jun 26, 2015 11:15 am
Water Conversations – A survey of works, 2007-2015
4 July – 12 September | Opening: 3 July at 6pm
The Dock, St. George’s Terrace, Carrick on Shannon, Co. Leitrim
Gallery opening times: Monday to Friday 10am – 5.30pm, Saturday 10am – 5pm
WATER CONVERSATIONS is the umbrella term for an ongoing series of works by Leitrim-based artist Anna Macleod that addresses water through political, social and cultural lenses. Macleod’s aim has been to build an alternative, global commons map of this finite resource—water—a substance that is at the core of life itself.
Articulated as a series of actions, small sculptures, posters, drawings, sound works, interdisciplinary collaborations, public interventions and site specific works, WATER CONVERSATIONS explores the complex interstices between landscape and geopolitics, science and technology, culture and tradition.
To date projects have been realized in Ghana, West Africa: a variety of locations through Northern India; Colorado, USA; Ireland and the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, Alberta Canada and Almería, Spain and in October 2015, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia.
thedock.ie
‘Product Recall’ | Group Exhibition at Galway Arts Centre
May 26, 2015 03:55 pm
Product Recall
Curated by Anne Mullee
30 May – 4 July | Opening reception is 6pm on the 29th May 2015
Galway Arts Centre, 47 Lower Dominick Street, Galway
Damien Flood (IRL), Veronica Forsgren (SWE), Tom Watt (IRL), and Sarah Baker (USA)
Responding to the imagined ‘recall’ of an idea or a situation, Product Recall strives to eviscerate the meaning of the displaced, misfiring ‘product’; whether real or imagined, and explore the credo of material culture (gone bad).
Prompted by the protocols adopted by global conglomerations to retrieve products that could maim or even kill the consumer, Product Recall invites four artists to respond to the implications of the necessity to rescind an invitation to consume, buy, assimilate or adopt.
The predominately new work shown in this exhibition spans installation, video, paintings, drawings and performance, each in its own way considering the implications of a system gone askew, where accepted norms break down, transform and reorder themselves into that which may no longer function as initially intended. The collective ideations around the temporal world challenge the viewer to confront their own relationship with the object- product, the apparent crux of 21st century Western society.
Damien Flood is a painter based in Dublin. Using the notion of defunct belief systems he endeavours to look at the world anew and question the mundane and everyday around us. His paintings often have an unfinished, ephemeral quality. The body of work he has made for Product Recall is partly informed by a recent residency in Dubai, UAE, a glittering city created in the desert by the country’s ruling class.
Swedish artist Veronica Forsgren is also resident in Dublin. For this exhibition she explores the influential writings of Philip K. Dick, specifically his futuristic tale of off-the-shelf ‘experiences’ that can be bought and downloaded into the human brain (We Can Remember it for You Wholesale), on which the 1990 film Total Recall is based. Forsgren aims to create socially engaging pieces that encourage the audience to slow down and reflect, a tactic she refers to as “soft activism”.
American artist Sarah Baker lives in London, where her practice engages investigates interpersonal relationships between different castes of society, through scripted storytelling in video and images. Her protagonists are often gold diggers who have clambered to the highest echelons of the privileged classes. The iconic status of olfactive luxury, or perfume, is her focus here, with both the objectification of the scent bottle and the power of perfume explored through drawings, photography and a performative lecture.
Belfast-born artist Tom Watt deals with altering the existing architecture of a space, or temporarily assigning it a new function. For Product Recall he repurposes the first floor gallery of Galway Arts Centre, creating a vast ramp that bisects the space, creating a ‘negative space’ beneath, a potential site for a cache of recalled objects.
galwayartscentre.ie/exhibitions/19-product-recall?lang=en |annemullee.com/exhibitions/product-recall/
‘Queertopia: It takes a village’ | Kieran Moore in Group Exhibition at 68projects, Berlin
Jun 26, 2015 11:57 am
Queertopia: It takes a village
27 June – 5 September 2015
68projects, Fasanenstraße 68,D10719 Berlin
Opening hours: Tue-Sat, 11am-6pm
Patron: BorisDittrich, Advocacy Director, LGBT Rights at Human Rights Watch
25 artists explore the themes of corporality, sexuality, gender identity and the expectations of a society based on a binary gender model. In our society everyone is classified as either male or female. This binary conception results in a System of pre-defined desires, Needs and roles, which are tailor-made for men, women and the heterosexual relation between the two sexes. But what happens if we think one or even several steps further?
Alexandra Baumgartner, Norbert Bisky, Beka Bolkvadze, Carina Brandes, Kelli Jean Drinkwater, Antonio Da Silva, Anita Dube, Eva, Arlene Gottfried, Bertram Hasenauer, Roey Heifetz, Yousef Iskandar, Rajkamal Kahlon, Rona Kobel, Friedrich Kunath, Servando Cabrita Moreno, Kieran Moore, Onorato, Jack Pierson, Benjamin Reich, Michael Rockel, Jeshoshua Rozenman, Christian Schad, Elizabeth Schmirl and others.
68projects.com/category/exhibitions-present | thecompleatemoore.com
Victoria J. Dean in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Jun 26, 2015 11:08 am
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2015 is open until 16th August:
Sat – Thurs 10am – 6pm
Fri 10am – 10pm
The Royal Academy Main Galleries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BD
Co-ordinated this year by Michael Craig-Martin RA, works are included by Royal Academicians (including Eva Rothschild, Cornelia Parker, Tracey Emin, Grayson Perry, Tadao Ando, Jock McFadyen, Michael Craig-Martin and many more), invited artists and through rigorous open submissions.
www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/summer-exhibition-2015
David Dunne in ‘ROOTS’ | Group Exhibition at On The Ground Floor, Los Angeles
Jun 19, 2015 01:45 pm
ROOTS
June 27 – July 25
3616 Mount Vernon Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90008
Los Angeles, CA – On The Ground Floor (OTGF) is pleased to present ROOTS, a group exhibition of seventeen global emerging artists rendering narratives that evoke our natural world, our native lands, our troubled families, and our forgotten. Combining histories, memories, and shifting cultural landscapes; these artists probe their geneses and offer up musings on food, farming, and tiny acts of freedom.
Curated by Malika Ali and featuring the works of Harris David Harris, Ilyn Wong, Marie-Lois Rodriguez, Shahar Tuchner, Maria Buyondo, Zara Kuredjian, Donna Cooper Hurt, Ann Oren, Lindsey Schulz, Tereza Swanda, David Dunne, Alexandra Carter, Lauren Jo, Dimitra Skandali, Nicole Foran, Natalie M. Ball, and László Mészáros.
On The Ground Floor is a South LA based alternative arts space established in the spring of 2014. OTGF hosts art shows, talks, readings, performances, and workshops that seek to foster meaningful conversations about the arts, create organic connections for artists, and preserve space for artistic experimentation and exploration. Located at 3616 Mount Vernon Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90008 on the ground floor of a two-story residence situated above historic Leimert Park.
www.onthegroundfloor.co
Nadine Stewart at The Embassy of Ireland, Berlin
Jun 16, 2015 04:30 pm
Even II
24 June to 1 of July 2015 | Opening 24th June, 7pm
Nadine Stewart presents new works focusing on the intimacy of drawing and the art production process in a studio environment. Stewart uses the repetition of simple elements and a serialised use of the grid to convey minimalist aesthetics and a disciplined structure in the creation of work. Drawings on wood and paper reveal a sensitivity to the materials and tools that Stewart uses in her practice.
Further information: nadinestewart.wix.com
RSVP to attend here: www.dfa.ie/irish-embassy
The Irish Embassy, Jägerstr. 51, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Atsushi Kaga at Jack Hanley Gallery, New York
Jun 16, 2015 03:55 pm
I am here with you
2nd July to 14 August 2015 | Opening 6pm 2nd July
The first solo show by Atsushi Kaga in New York
Further Information:
E: begaratsushi@gmail.com
T: 0861937946
www.atsushikaga.com
327 Broome Street, New York
www.jackhanley.com
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