Tag Archives: contemporary art

The 7th Triennial of Contemporary Art

June 20 – 29 September 2013, Resilience, Organised by the Moderna galerija with Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova,Ljubljana,Slovenia In recent years the concept of resilience has grown out of the global trend of developing sustainability in the societies of the global North. In natural sciences or physics, a resilient body is described as flexible, durable, [...]

Ecology and cybernetics towards network society capitalism

June 21-22nd,2013, The World Earth – Conference, in Berlin The exhibition and the conference The Whole Earth are dedicated to the story of the image of the “blue planet”. The project takes its starting point in historical developments in California since the 1960s : using materials from cultural history and artistic works. Curated by Diedrich [...]

Art, Environment, Sustainability – Call for articles

For an upcoming issue of Antennae Submission Deadline: 1st of September 2013 “At the forefront of today’s social issues are questions related to the human relationship to nature and the environment, the meaning of a sustainable future and the relationship of environmentalism to modernity and today’s economic structures. While the sciences have, until recently, dominated [...]

Eco-Aesthetics: Contemporary Arts and the Politics of Ecology

Saturday, 2 March, 2013, 2-7pm Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL The first issue of Third text, a bimonthly appearing journal on art in the global context, in 2013 is a special issue focusing on Contemporary Arts and the Politics of Ecology and is accompanied by the conference on the same topic in London. The event [...]

Call for papers on The Politics of African Contemporary Art – Seismopolite Journal of Art and Politics

Recent approaches to African contemporary art often celebrate the advent of a global contemporary art scene in which they see an abolition of the provincialist and historicist concepts that were imposed by the West during the colonial period. One assumes that by taking part in new and post-historical/ post-national networks of exchange, facilitated by large-scale [...]

ZNE! in Sao Paulo

Opening: February 12, 2013 – 7 pm February 22 – April 7, 2013, Memorial da América Latina, Sao Paulo After stops in Mumbai, Addis Ababa and Beijing, the exhibition zur nachahmung empfohlen! – expeditionen in ästhetik und nachhaltigkeit (examples to follow! – expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability) is coming to Sao Paulo, Brazil which marks its [...]

[UN]NATURAL LIMITS – Austrian Cultural Forum New York

Jan 23 – April 1, 2013 Austrian Cultural Forum New York 11 East 52nd Street – New York, NY 10022 Artists: Desire Machine Collective, Thomas Hirschhorn, Mathias Kessler, Superflex, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Lois Weinberger Curated by Dieter Buchhart & Arnaud Gerspacher Curatorial Advisor: Mathias Kessler The new international group exhibition [UN]NATURAL LIMITS, which opened on [...]

Exhibition: Burnt Stars by Jenny Brown

Australian Artist Jenny Brown, currently residing in Berlin, Germany on a DAAD scholarship, is inviting to her exhibition Burnt Stars  – Meditations on resistance, resilience and systems, curated by Adam Nankervis at stattberlin, an art space (in Berlin) dedicated to new forms of artistic expressions. The opening event is on Thursday 17 January 2013 at [...]

Shifting Baselines Residency and Exhibition Project

Gallery Talk & Exhibition Opening Monday, January 7, 2013 – 6pm @ Santa Fe Art Institute Shifting Baselines Exhibition January 8 – 25 – Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm @ Santa Fe Art Institute Shifting Baselines, an exhibition curated by ecoartspace founder Patricia Watts, opening on the 7th of January, 2013,  will show existing [...]

TRASH exhibition at the New Children’s Museum

How do we decide what is trash? How does your trash impact the lives of others? How can we imagine new possibilities, and a new future for our trash? The current exhibition at the contemporary art center New Children’s Museum in San Diego, running from October 2012 for 2 years, aims to educate especially children [...]

COAL Prize Art and environment 2013 – Call for proposals

Theme: Adaption The Coal Prize Art and Environment rewards each year a project by a contemporary artist involved in environmental issues. Its goals are to promote and support the vital role which art and creation play in raising awareness, supporting concrete solutions and encouraging a culture of ecology. The winner is selected out of ten [...]

The Sun behind the Clouds

A meditation about the sky by Ettore Favini and He-He Parco Arte Vivente´s (PAV) 2012 art program, dedicated to the Ethos of the living,  is being concluded with the dual-person show The Sun behind the Clouds by Ettore Favini and the Anglo-German duo He-He (Helen Evans, UK and Heiko Hansen, D). The exhibition, curated by [...]

Exhibition at Kunstverein Springhornhof

The Simple Life 28 October–16 December, 2012 – Opening: Saturday, 27 October, 5pm; artist talk with Angela Bulloch 6pm Kunstverein & Stiftung Springhornhof – Tiefe Straße 4, D-29643 Neuenkirchen (Germany) With: Angela Bulloch, Josephine Meckseper, Shana Moulton, Simon Starling and winners of the Daniel Frese Prize 2012 Fabian Reimann and Niko Wolf The exhibition The [...]

Wendy DesChene + Jeff Schmuki: Mosantra

Patricia Watts, ecoartspace founder and west coast curator was recently invited to write a short essay for a gallery exhibition catalogue titled Monsantra published by TNG Gallery in Calgary featuring the work of Canadian artist Wendy DesChene and American artist Jeff Schmuki. The essay is online here. Since 2006 when she curated Hybrid Fields at [...]

Nature’s Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art, and Invention

May 22 – December 02, 2012 The Field Museum, Chicago  Harnessing technology and inspired by nature’s amazing design concepts, Nature’s Toolbox features innovative, eye-capturing contemporary art which helps visitors understand and appreciate the life-or-death interdependence between the 10-20 million species on earth – including humans – and the quality of the environment we share.   [...]