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You will find here the most importants events, exhibitions and forums in Europe.
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The Essence of Things. Design and the Art of Reduction
(> 19/09/2010) - Weil am Rhein / Vitra Design Museum |
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It is in the nature of human beings to seek the simplest solution. In fact, the idealism of "edle Einfalt” (noble simplicity) and "stille Größe” (quiet grandeur) pre-dates classicism, and the "less is more” principle of modern design has remained a guiding notion through the postmodernist era up to the present. The exhibition illuminates the influences and motifs of a principle whose impact on design transcends time and place. The diversity of this phenomenon is documented in such examples as the legendary Thonet chair No. 14, furniture and product design by Gerrit Rietveld, Le Corbusier, Charles and Ray Eames, Max Bill, Dieter Rams, Shiro Kuramata and Jasper Morrison up to the iPod. In the exhibition, these objects will be complemented by photos from the fields of architecture, fashion and art. Despite all the rationalisation of method and material, concentration on functional essentials and abstraction of shape up to the very disappearance of things, the principle of simplicity demonstrates its great complexity.
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Oggetti e Progetti | Alessi: storia e futuro di una fabbricia del design italiano
(> 19/09/2010) - München / Pinakothek der Moderne |
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One of the really great figures of design - Alessandro Mendini - is curating and designing a retrospective of the last 30 years of Italian design specially for Die Neue Sammlung. Mendini focuses his exhibition on a key player in the design world: the Alessi company, which has very successfully morphed from a small metal-working firm into a creative factory in the field of design with global operations. Not only with its products but above all through its influential ideas, actions and meta projects Alessi wrote European design history and provided inspiration for reflections on the future of design.
Mendini incorporates into his exhibition concept a critical reflection on the design tradition at Alessi, which extends from the famous tea and coffee set ¿Bombé¿ from the immediate post-war period via the "Bel Design" of the 1950s and 1960s and postmodernism through to the fairly contemporary pluralist design, and in doing so he simultaneously highlights the development of design in Italy. Highly typical are the so-called meta-projects in which "pure" architects tackled classic design tasks, though the creations were presented as "multiples", "collector's items".
However, Mendini's conception extends beyond the company's earlier projects and also addresses the present with its radical changes. Mendini effectively addresses the general design strategies and approaches adopted by current design such as sustainability, energy balance, recycling, new technologies and production processes etc., but also aspects relating to the cultural dynamism between East and West and the altered aesthetics of a globalized world characterized by rapid changes.
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Hans Luz
(> 19/10 /2010) – Stuttgart |
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Architekturgalerie am Weißenhof
1960 gründete er das planungsbüro hans luz + partner, das von seinem sohn christof nun schon in dritter generation fortgeführt wird.
er selbst bezeichnet sich als einen bleistiftgärtner - vom hausgarten bis zu städtebaulichen großplanungen setzt er seine liebevollen, detailgenauen handskizzen ein und erklärt mit kreide und buntstift seine visionen. die ausstellung in der architekturgalerie zeigt eine auswahl kostbarer skizzen aus seinem oeuvre. den zweiten teil bildet mit dem thema blickfelder sein leidenschaftlich gepflegtes hobby der fotografischen beobachtung mit fotos der landschaft um das birkacher feld- naturverbunden, sensibel, emotional und sehr persönlich.
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The Informal City of Century XXI
(> 23/09/2010) - Berlin |
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Aedes Am Pfefferberg
The exhibition is an interactive show and suggests a visit to the metropolis of the future based on the urbanization of favelas (slums). São Paulo agglomerates more than 1500 favelas and an immense challenge to transform them into districts integrated within its territory. Favelas as part of the city which does not have legal urbanization – where subdivision of the land is uncontrolled and the buildings have no planning, resulting in so called “spontaneous settlements”, having little or no infrastructure and services. This is a reality common to almost all metropolises on all continents. The Paraísópolis favela serves as background and matrix of study for the project. It reveals all the problems of its surroundings. The exhibition presents the result of various collaborations by brazilian and international architects under for headings: Connections, Transition, Fruition and Transformations that show interventions in utilizing alternative technologies for water, sewage, energy, erosion control and transport as well as proposals for housing, infrastructure and park
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Measure of Man – Measure of Architecture
(> 23/09/2010) - Berlin |
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Aedes Am Pfefferberg
Recent years have witnessed a growing sense of responsibility among architects, urbanists, artists, activists and representatives from related disciplines worldwide, to use their specialist knowledge, skills and networks to improve ordinary daily life by tackling issues which otherwise often remain unaddressed- in urban, suburban and rural environments, mostly, though not explicitly, in developing countries or regions struggling with harsh natural environments. A defining characteristic of these architecture and urbanism projects is their intention to function as instigators of social, infrastructural or economic change, over and above functioning as an aesthetic object.
Based on observing patterns and needs of indigenous life, these projects develop insightful solutions and new typologies for living, learning and working. They serve to generate local identity and through this increase social, educational and economic potential. At the same time they offer a local response to global challenges such as migration, poverty or energy sustainability..
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A Gentil Carioca
(> 10/10/2010) – Berlin |
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IFA-Galerie
In der zweiten Ausstellung der Reihe "connect" stellt "A Gentil Carioca" einen von Laura Lima, Marcio Botner und Ernesto Neto im Jahr 2003 gegründeten Kunstraum im Zentrum Rio de Janeiros vor. Aus der Gruppe der Künstlerinnen und Künstler, die der Kunstraum vereint, geben neun künstlerische Positionen in einer gemeinsamen Inszenierung Einblick in die Arbeitsweise von "A Gentil Carioca", in die lokale Kunstszene im Spannungsfeld kritischer, künstlerischer Debatten und spielerischer, poetischer Landschaften.
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DAM Architectural Book Award 2010
(7 - 10/10/2010) - Francfort/Main |
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Deutsches Architekturmuseum
Exhibition of the awarded books at the Frankfurt Book Fair
Even in this era of growing competition through new media and communication methods books on architecture still remain the basic architectural medium. Identifying the best architectural books published in the current year by way of this competition and presenting them to architecture enthusiasts is thus a fundamental task of the 2010 DAM Architectural Book Award.
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The History of Reconstruction | The Construction of History
(> 31/10/2010) - Munich |
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Pinakothek der Moderne
For years now, »reconstruction« has been the subject of a heated and emotionally laden debate, both in the public arena and among experts. Reconstructions, however, can be found since Antiquity ¿ carried out for a variety of reasons and with a differing understanding of returning something to its »original« state. By taking a look at history, the problems and arguments can be seen better in a wider historical context and help relieve the discussion of its emotional aspect. Various motives in favour of reconstructing lost buildings are presented and analysed in the exhibition at the Architekturmuseum, focusing on some 150 representative examples. The spectrum embraces reconstructions carried out for reasons of religious continuity or due to national considerations, as well as in response to aesthetic or commercial wishes. Models, paintings, plans, photographs and animations provide both a stimulating and informative insight into a controversial subject.
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Invisible Shadows
(4/09 – 7/11/2010) – Herford |
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Marta
Crisis, what crisis? Both positive and negative events come, go or cast their shadows, much as does the flood of information, comments and prognoses that accompanies them — but the perceived pace seems to be quickening. However, newspapers, television or the internet fail to mention the indescribable growing sense of foreboding which is developing somewhere in between. Vague fears, barely palpable anxieties and underlying threats shape an attitude to life that has lost a lot of its serenity somewhere between a changing present and an uncertain future. In short: the quest for answers, security and a clear order usually leads to the uncomfortable realisation that the world is confusing and puzzling, and on top of everything else, is in constant motion.
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Formula_X. Plasma Studio
(2/10 – 14/11/2010) - Berlin |
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Deutsche Architektur Zentrum
The German Center for Architecture DAZ will launch a new exhibition series called FORMULA_X in the autumn of 2010: This new format is dedicated to the national and international up-and-coming generation of talented architects. Three offices will present their architectural positions in monographic exhibitions, directly succeeding one another, as well as in a lecture and in interviews. The focus of the presentation will be on the individual design methodology and the design processes of each office. The goal of the new series, FORMULA_X, is to demonstrate the qualities in varying architectural positions, as well as giving insight into the facets of sustainable ideas.
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cbp – International Conference on Building Performance
(20 & 21/09/2010) – Berlin |
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Konferenzzentrum des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie
Die icbp ist das internationale Forum für die Gebäudeperformance der Zukunft. Aus dem Blickwinkel unterschiedlicher Disziplinen werden die nächsten Schritte für Politik, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft auf dem Weg zu einer nachhaltigen Gebäudeperformance diskutiert. Effizientes Teamwork aller Akteure, der Einsat z innovativer Technologien und effektive Nachhaltigkeit sind die Schlüsselstrategien zur Bewältigung der Herausforderungen im Hinblick auf Energieeffizienz und Klimaschutz, produktive Arbeitswelten und lebenswerte Städte.
Herausragende Referenten stellen Innovationen von A wie Architektur über Energiedienstleistungen, Fassadentechnologie, Gebäudeautomation, Lebenszykluskosten bis Z wie Zertifizierung vor. Nationale und internationale Best Practice Beispiele zeigen Lösungen aus der Sicht von Investoren, Bauherren und Nutzern.
In Vorträgen, Podiumsdiskussionen und persönlichen Gesprächen entwickeln Vertreter aus Wirtschaft und Politik, aus Forschung und öffentlicher Verwaltung konkrete Ideen und Impulse für eine neue Partnerschaft für Gebäudeperformance.
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Stadt macht Landschaft – bdla-Planerforum
(8 – 10/10/2010) – Cologne |
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Bund Deutscher Landschaftsarchitekten
Im Rahmen des bdla-Planerforums 2010 wird diskutiert, welchen Einfluss der Organismus „Stadt" auf die umgebende Landschaft hat. Nicht nur, dass die landschaftlich geprägte Peripherie der städtischen Bevölkerung als Naherholungsraum dient. Zugleich sind eine Vielzahl von Infrastruktureinrichtungen wie Verkehrswege, Mülldeponien, Kraftwerke etc. in die Landschaft ausgelagert. Diese Elemente sind für das Funktionieren von Stadt unerlässlich. Mit der Regionale 2010 sollen das Bewusstsein und planerische Ansätze entwickelt werden, wie diese Infrastruktur-Elemente gestalterisch eingebunden und als Teil von Landschaft verstanden werden können. Auf dem Programm stehen drei Exkursionen zu Projekten der Regionale 2010 - Neuland-Park Leverkusen und Projekt metabolon, Grundes C und Projekt agrohort in Bonn, Projekt terra nova und ehemaliger Kiesabbau. Am zweiten Veranstaltungstag geht es u.a. um die städtebauliche Entwicklung Kölns. Zur Diskussion stehen der Masterplan Innenstadt sowie das Projekt RegioGrün zur Schaffung eines äußeren Kölner Grüngürtels. Ein Sonntags-Spaziergang durch den Rheinpark rundet das Programm „Stadt mach Landschaft" ab.
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In Progress
(> 12/09/2010) - Hornu / Grand-Hornu |
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Le progrès s’est longtemps incarné dans la création industrielle de nouveaux produits qui répondaient à des besoins réels d’amélioration de la vie quotidienne. Soucieux du bien-être pour tous, le designer a occupé une place-clé dans la création de ces objets et a souvent été associé à l’idéologie du progrès. Une dizaine de designers ont été invités par Grand-Hornu Images pour repenser cette notion de progrès. Ils ont été choisis pour l’intérêt de leurs travaux, leur ouverture internationale et la reconnaissance de leur pratique. Il s’agit de Big Game, Sébastian Bergne, Matali Crasset, Delo Lindo, Étienne Mineur, Ana Mir & Emili Padros, Normal Studio, Satyendra Pakhalé et Studio Wieki Somers. L’exposition « In Progress » témoigne de leur réflexion en initiant une recherche et des éléments critiques qui appartiennent au design et à ses modes d’action.
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Charles Szymkowicz. D’Apollinaire à Van Gogh : l’expression du génie européen
(18/06 – 19/09/2010) - Stavelot / Abbaye de stavelot |
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Peintre né à Charleroi en 1948, professeur de dessin et de peinture aux Académies des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi et de Bruxelles, Charles Szymkovicz est un des pionniers belges de la Nouvelle Figuration et du Néo-expressionnisme européens. Il a réalisé, tout au long de sa carrière, de nombreuses expositions personnelles en Belgique et à l’étranger (Berlin, Paris, Cologne, Barcelone, Milan, etc.). Son style expressif et puissant, l’emploi de couleurs vives, percutantes donnent à ses œuvres une force étonnante. Travailleur acharné, toujours fidèle à sa ville natale, il est connu pour ses nombreux portraits, dont ceux de son grand ami : le poète, musicien et chanteur français Léo Ferré.
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Santiago Calatrava, Architecte, Sculpteur, Céramiste
(> 27/09/2010) – Liège / Grand Curtius |
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L’exposition révèle, pour la première fois en Europe, la recherche fondamentale et appliquée à laquelle se livre le célèbre architecte dans son activité d’artiste plasticien. Dessinateur inlassable, Calatrava conçoit des formes, des sculptures, des mobiles, des meubles, des céramiques, des verres,. En acceptant de prêter à Liège ses œuvres sculptées, peintes, tournées, mobiles, l’artiste se met à nu, et lève le voile pudique de son intimité artistique, en donnant à voir et à comprendre une part de lui-même qu’il avait réservé jusqu’ici à ses proches.
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Pier Luigi Nervi, l'architecture comme défi
(4/06 – 24/10/2010) – Bruxelles / CIVA |
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L'Italien Luigi Nervi (1891-1979) est l'un des plus grands architectes ingénieurs du XXème siècle. Spécialiste du béton armé, il a produit des chefs d'œuvre dispersés à travers le monde (St. Mary Cathedral à San Francisco ou George Washington Bus Terminal à New York entre autres). Explorant les divers aspects de sa personnalité eet son travail du début des années '20 jusqu'aux années ’70, l’exposition s’intéresse aussi à ses recherches pionnières concernant les matériaux et technologies de construction, ses structures remarquables et ses constructions publiques.
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Piet Stockmans. Retrospectieve
(3/07 – 24/10/2010) – Gent / Design Museum |
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For over 40 years now Piet Stockmans (born 1940) has cherished the medium of porcelain in all its facets: he designs industrially produced dishware, he manufactures artisanal objects and he creates artistic installations.
In his work, shape and content interlace. Here, repetition plays an important role. The repetitiveness of the industrial process translates into an artistic means of expression in his work.
Owing to his original, multi-facetted and cutting-edge way of working with porcelain, Stockmans has a unique place in the Flemish design world, and he is more than deserving of the exhibition.
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Concrete Day 2010
(21/10/2010) - Brussel / Brussels Expo |
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Concrete Day is hèt jaarlijkse professionele evenement voor de hele betonindustrie. Het biedt een overzicht van alle mogelijkheden en oplossingen die er zijn in het domein van beton. De organisatie van Concrete Day is in juni 2010 overgenomen door Artexis. Concrete Day en Artexis vormen een solide combinatie, dankzij de ervaring die Artexis heeft in deze sector met beurzen zoals easyFairs ‘Industrie- & Projectbouw’. Een aantal overlappingen qua aanpak en organisatie leveren mooie synergievoordelen op. Het vertrouwen van CPE, de vorige organisator, in Artexis is groot.
De feestelijke dertigste editie van Concrete Day heeft plaats in Brussels Expo, paleis 12, op donderdag 21 oktober. Concrete Day is als professioneel evenement gegroeid van seminarie tot een vaste waarde als het trefpunt (met congres, beurs, workshops en awards) voor de betonindustrie. De beurs trekt een duizendtal experten en geïnteresseerden in beton aan om nieuwigheden uit de sector te ontdekken of om op zoek te gaan naar nieuwe oplossingen voor hun klanten. Deze unieke en brede waaier van activiteiten maakt van deze dag een must voor alle betonprofessionals. Daarnaast trekt het evenement steeds meer spelers uit de bouwsector aan. De beursvooruitzichten zijn positief: de beurs is nu al voor 50% volgeboekt met nog een aantal maanden te gaan. Ook deelnemers kunnen zich binnenkort online registreren voor een bezoek aan Concrete Day.
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The Upside Dome
(>31/10/2010) – Leuven |
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Vier jaar geleden studeerden Pieterjan Gijs (1983) en Arnout Van Vaerenbergh (1983) beiden af als ingenieur-architecten aan de K.U.Leuven. Sindsdien deden ze ervaring op in verschillende architectenbureaus. Onder de naam Gijs Van Vaerenbergh werken ze samen in een multidisciplinaire praktijk waar ze zich bezig houden met installaties en sculpturen, veelal tijdelijke constructies waarmee de publieke ruimte opfleuren en toeschouwers een 'collectieve ruimtelijke ervaring' willen bezorgen. Nu doen ze dit met The Upside Dome, een installatie die tijdelijk de ontbrekende koepel doet ontstaan op de Sint-Michielskerk in Leuven.
De installatie kijkt vanuit een hedendaags perspectief naar de architectuur van één van de meest prestigieuze Barokkerken van de Lage Landen. Door gebruik te maken van de eeuwenoude techniek van kettinglijnen ontstaat een nieuw bouwwerk. The Upside Dome is een maquette op werkelijke schaal gemaakt van honderden meter kettingen en vormt letterlijk en figuurlijk de tegenhanger van de nooit voltooide koepel. Deze moderne en tastbare constructie dialogeert met de barokke ruimte van de kerk en doet de bezoeker als tijdelijk visioen op een nieuwe manier de ruimtelijkheid ervaren van dit eeuwenoude gebouw. Dit hedendaags kunstproject vestigt de aandacht op het erfgoed en tast het gevoel, de grenzen af van wat kerkarchitectuur voor burgers en publiek anno 2010 kan betekenen.
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Global Award For Sustainable Architecture 2007 2008 2009
(>5/09/2010) - Paris / Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine - Palais de Chaillot |
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Quinze architectes réunis par le Global Award depuis 2007, vingt en 2010 : un collège d’architectes de tous les continents se créé. Ils témoignent de l’ampleur et de la complexité du challenge écologique par la diversité et la beauté de leur architecture, portée par une même éthique, ancrée dans des sols, des cultures, des sociétés que parfois tout sépare. Une exposition itinérante consacrée aux 15 premiers lauréats du Global Award a été produite par la Cité de l’Architecture et circule dans le monde entier, après son inauguration à Copenhague lors du Climate Summit de novembre 2009.
Stefan Behnisch (Allemagne), Balkrishna Doshi (Inde), Françoise-Hélène Jourda (France), Hermann Kaufmann (Autriche), Wang Shu (Chine), Fabrizio Caròla (Italie/Mali), Alejandro Aravena (Elemental - Chili), Andrew Freear (Rural Studio – Etats-Unis), Philippe Samyn (Belgique), Carin Smuts (Afrique du Sud), Patrick Bouchain (France), Thomas Herzog (Allemagne), Bijoy Jain (Inde), Diébédo Francis Kéré (Allemagne/Burkina Faso), Sami Rintala (Norvège).
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Richard Deacon. The Missing Part
(5/06 - 19/09/2010) – Strasbourg / Musée d’Art Moderne |
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Né en 1949 au Pays de Galles, Richard Deacon est aujourd’hui internationalement reconnu comme une des figures marquantes de la sculpture contemporaine. Il s’est rapidement imposé comme un étonnant fabricateur de formes et comme le créateur d’un univers plastique épousant la mobilité du vivant. L’exposition, The Missing Part, réalisée en étroite collaboration avec l’artiste, offre la première vision rétrospective de son œuvre sur plus de 40 années et rassemble une quarantaine de sculptures ainsi que quelque 120 dessins, gravures et photographies.
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BIG Bjarke Ingels Group. Yes is more.
(17/06 - 31/10/2010) - Bordeaux / arc en rêve centre d’architecture |
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arc en rêve centre d’architecture consacre sa grande exposition d’été au groupe BIG réunissant quatre-vingts architectes, urbanistes et chercheurs. Le titre de l’exposition, Yes is More est un jeu de mot à sens multiples signifiant notamment une ouverture à toutes les données d’une commande telles que le budget, le site, le programme, les demandes spécifiques et parfois contradictoires du client, etc.
De la piscine du port de Copenhague (2003) aux logements du quartier d’Orestad posés sur une gigantesque dalle en pente et créant l’idée de montagne en ville (2008) en passant par la promenade en vélo à travers le pavillon de Shanghai (2010), les réalisations de BIG sont des expériences architecturales fortes volontairement éloignées des standards minimalistes relevant du « politiquement correct » et du formalisme digital vide de sens.
Installée dans la grande galerie d’arc en rêve, l’exposition prend la forme d’une bande dessinée géante faite d’un ruban de 130 mètres de longueur qui se déroule à travers les 450 m² de la galerie. L’installation est complétée par la présentation de trente maquettes, dont une étonnante construction en Lego, ainsi que de dix-neuf films d’animation.
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Principio Potosí
(> 6/09/2010) - Madrid / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía |
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The project Principio Potosí centers on analyzing the notion of modernity and its universal expansion, which has taken place since the colonization of Latin America. The exhibition will display examples of Andean colonial painting and works by international artists, inviting viewers to reflect on relationships between sixteenth- to eighteenth-century colonial art and the contemporary world. Beginning with examples of viceregal painting from the Potosí School, the project’s line of investigation relates these isolated fragments of history to the conditions of artistic production today. Principio Potosí is an aesthetic proposal with an ambiguous meaning. "Principio" in Spanish can refer to, on the one hand, a temporal meaning or a beginning—the enduring memory of Potosí. On the other hand, it also refers to technique, such as a mechanical principle or rule, which is repeated on different global coordinates in time and space. These two potential foci form the basis for the project, which together with the exhibition will include several seminars, conferences and publications.
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With a Probability of Being Seen. Dorothee and Konrad Fischer. Archives of an attitude
(> 12/10/2010) – Barcelona / Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona |
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Konrad Fischer (Düsseldorf 1939–1996) influenced the Conceptual art of the 1960s and seventies in many ways. In the beginning of the sixties, Fischer studied painting with Bruno Goller and Karl Otto Götz at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf, where he became friends with other artists such as Manfred Kuttner, Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter. It was together with Richter that Fischer, in October 1963, organised an event entitled Living with Pop – A Demonstration for Capitalist Realism in a furniture store in Düsseldorf. This first public appearance of the two artists was a performance, a happening, an alternative exhibition outside the conventional white cube of the art gallery and a protest rolled into one. Konrad Fischer, who during those early years painted under the name of Konrad Lueg, his mother’s maiden name, soon counted among the young avant-garde artists in West Germany. The first chapter of this exhibition is dedicated to Konrad Lueg, with a selection of works made between 1964 and 1969. The first motifs come from the world of sport – football players and boxers – and are then followed, from 1965 onwards, by a preoccupation with the phenomenon of serial motifs and patterns, for which he uses industrially produced textiles and plastic films that are either painted, feature simple shapes or are combined to form multi-piece wall installations. Lastly, in Paris (1968) and Munich (1969), Konrad Lueg exhibited canvases painted in phosphorescent colours that momentarily capture the shadows of passing viewers cast by photographic flashlights.
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Antibodies.Works by Fernando & Humberto Campana 1989 - 2009
(>26/09/2010) – La Coruña & Vigo |
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Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza
The Brazilians Fernando and Humberto Campana are the most significant designers in present-day Latin America. In addition to designs for international manufacturers of furniture, lighting and home accessories, the majority of creations coming out of their Sao Paulo studio consist of custom-made one-off objects for the home characterized by recycling of found materials, idiosyncratic combinations and a surrealistic impression. The retrospective on the 20-year collaboration between the two brothers emphasizes the artistic working method and explains how the works take shape – from the first sculptures up to the interdisciplinary works of today – based on prototypes, experiments and one-off pieces.
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Hans Peter Feldmann
(22/09/2010 – 28/02/2011) - Madrid |
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Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Hans Peter Feldmann (Düsseldorf 1941) began his artistic career in the late 1960s. His first works were a series of small books in offset printing, titled “Bilders” (Pictures) in which he reproduced one or more images from an everyday object: tools, airplanes, knees, etc. Since then his interest in the photographic image, which he collects obsessively, has led him to produce several photography series. Some of them are as renowned as his “Time Series” in which he portrays an insignificant event, such as a ship passing by or a woman cleaning a window, in thirty-six images from an analog film cartridge. His interest in photography is not based on the individual image, but rather on the series and what seems to hold them together as a sequence.
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Music, Space & Architecture
(24/09 – 13/11/2010) - Amsterdam |
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ARCAM
For the project ‘Music, Space & Architecture’ ARCAM makes a unique journalistic inventory of objects and installations. It will bring visitors in contact with theories on music, space, sound art, city-sounds and the perception of making and listening to music. Among the things there are to discover are acoustical architecture-suitcases, 3D models of music, acoustical airplane detection, the Philips Pavilion and music from Kerlheinz Stockhausen that was made in four helicopters. Visitors can go on the ARCAM-island, where sounds from the (underwater-)surroundings are transformed into new dimensions. Also during the Amsterdam ‘Museumnacht’ (Museumnight) on November 6th ARCAM will be revolving around the ‘Music, Space & Architecture’ theme
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Best of Europe. Mies van der Rohe Award 2009
(24/06 – 20/09/2010) - Wien / Architekturzentrum Wien |
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The Mies van der Rohe Award is granted every two years by the European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona. The aim of the prize is to acknowledge and reward projects whose innovative character serves as orientation or even as a manifesto in the development of contemporary architecture. Furthermore, the award is intended to inspire architects to accept the entire European Union as the arena for their work and to support aspiring young architects at the outset of their careers.
Five finalists have been selected from the 340 projects nominated by experts from all over Europe — the distinguished jury was finally convinced by the Norwegian architects Snøhetta with the Oslo Opera House. The Emerging Architect Special Mention went to STUDIO UP in 2009 (Lea Pelivan and Toma Plejic) for the Gymnasium 46° 09' N / 16° 50' E in Koprivnica, Croatia. A total of 50 buildings from throughout Europe are presented with plans and photographs and, in particular, numerous models.
The touring exhibition is supplemented by a presentation of the 15 Austrian projects nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award.
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The Moderns
(> 23/01/2011) – Vienna |
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The exhibition confronts aesthetic innovation with scientific knowledge and, using notable examples, shows the link between art and natural sciences in early modernity. Revolutionary scientific discoveries such as Max Plank’s definition of the quantum (1900) or Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity (1905) meant a restructuring of physics and mathematics, new notions of space and time. These were taken up and reflected on by avantgarde movements such Cubism and Futurism. As with technical advances in electricity, radio and telegraphy, the development of modern metropolises, the extension of railways but also the mechanization of warfare bring in their wake a new way of experiencing the world. This entry into the modern age shatters and fragments the old world and initiates the depiction of many invisible elements and energies.
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Picasso. Peace and Freedom
(22/09/2010 – 13/01/2011) – Vienna |
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Albertina
In 1944, Picasso became a member of the French Communist Party, whose figurehead he remained until the end of his life. Yet his political thinking was entirely molded by his desire for peace and freedom. During those years, he painted, drew, and lithographed his famous image of the white dove, which turned into a global symbol of freedom and a human society that did not only look back on two World Wars, but was also confronted with such imminent catastrophes as the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Fifty paintings and one hundred drawings, as well as numerous historical documents, will highlight Picasso as a political figure and thus present a hitherto neglected, but nevertheless crucial chapter in the life of this exceptional artist.
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JapanLisztRaiding_zehn neue häuser
(11 - 27/09/2010) - Vienna |
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Architekturzentrum Wien
Roland Hagenberg commissioned 10 Japanese architect's offices to design 10 houses as temporary accommodation for Raiding, the birthplace of Franz Liszt. On a predefined surface area of 5m x 5m each, Jun AOKI, Terunobu FUJIMORI, Sou FUJIMOTO, Hiroshi HARA, Toyo ITO, Klein Dytham Architects, Kengo KUMA, SANAA, TEZUKA architects und Yasuhiro YAMASHITA experiment with associations on building in a rural setting. Removed from the urban context the result is non-urban places of retreat that combine individual atmospheres, materials and allusions to the history of the border region of Burgenland. Especially during the Liszt Festival, these innovative abodes by the 10 protagonists of the avant-garde and masters in the treatment of limited space could develop into an attractive alternative B&B — while setting a sign for the future. The exhibition at the Az W presents the 10 model studies completed specially for the Raiding Project as well as a documentary film shot on video by Roland Hagenberg.
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Martin Rauch – Erosion
(23/09 – 30/10/2010) – Graz |
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Haus der Architektuur
Erosion ist das bestimmende Element, das unsere Erde gestaltet. Lehm, Schluff, Sand, Schotter und Geröll sind die unmittelbaren Folgen davon. Martin Rauch beschäftigt sich mit großer formaler Klarheit und ohne Sentimentalität seit Jahrzehnten mit dem Material, das wie kein anderes ökologische und baubiologische Kriterien erfüllt. Sein Anspruch, den Baustoff, der fast überall verfügbar ist, mittels Stampflehmtechnik in Architektur zu verwandeln, die keine „Wunden“ hinterlässt, sondern als Umformung der Erde in (bewohnbare) Objekte Teil eines konsequenten Kreislauf-Denkens ist, kann an seinem eigenen Wohnhaus in Vorarlberg in beeindruckender Weise nachvollzogen werden.
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12th International Architecture Biennale
(29/08 – 21/11/2010) - Venice |
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The 12th International Architecture Exhibition will be directed by Kazuyo Sejima and titled People meet in architecture.
Two major projects will be developed for the 12th Exhibition: the Architecture Saturdays (a series of conversations, performances and weekly discussions with architects and critics) and the greater involvement of the Universities (educational opportunities for students of Architecture, Engineering, Design, etc.).
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Antibodies.Works by Fernando & Humberto Campana 1989 - 2009
(16/10/2010 – 15/01/2011) – Milan |
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Triennale Design Museum
The Brazilians Fernando and Humberto Campana are the most significant designers in present-day Latin America. In addition to designs for international manufacturers of furniture, lighting and home accessories, the majority of creations coming out of their Sao Paulo studio consist of custom-made one-off objects for the home characterized by recycling of found materials, idiosyncratic combinations and a surrealistic impression. The retrospective on the 20-year collaboration between the two brothers emphasizes the artistic working method and explains how the works take shape – from the first sculptures up to the interdisciplinary works of today – based on prototypes, experiments and one-off pieces.
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Warhol after Munch
(4/06 – 12/09/2010) – Humlebæk / Louisiana Museum |
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Warhol’s “Munch pictures” are rarely shown and the showing of them together in a museum exhibition is unique. Placing Edvard Munch, whom most people view as the painter of the innermost reaches of the soul, alongside Andy Warhol, who is normally classed as the apostle of the surface, may seem the strangest choice of all. But there are three good reasons to do so. First, in 1984 Warhol actually made a long series of prints that are copies or rather versions of four major subjects by Munch – the iconic The Scream, Madonna, Self-Portrait and The Brooch. Secondly, Warhol and Munch both worked intensively with the print medium, with the concepts of quantity and repetition as guidelines. Thirdly, the juxtaposition of Warhol and Munch seeks to modulate the image we have of the two artists by showing that Warhol is less superficial than he is normally viewed – and Munch correspondingly more a painter of the surface than we think.
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SANAA's Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne, Switzerland
(19/06 – 15/09/2010) - Copenhagen / Danish Architecture Center |
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This year, the summer exhibition at the Danish Architecture Centre features the world-renowned and Pritzker Prize awarded Japanese architects, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, and their design studio SANAA. One of their most recent buildings in Europe is the 'Rolex Learning Center' in Lausanne, Switzerland, an extension to the Technical Faculty, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. It is already being rumoured that this building will become an international architectural icon. The exhibition will present the new 'Rolex Learning Center' to the Danish public, while offering insights into other prominent projects from SANAA and the poetic architectural idiom that is their trademark.
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10+ Design Forecast
(> 31/10/2010) – Copenhagen / Danish Design Centre |
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This main exhibition takes stock of Danish design in the first ten years of the new millennium and examines which design trends have a big role to play in the years to come.The framework and form of the exhibition are based on the number 10 and the plus sign, which are recurring features throughout the exhibition. The number 10 refers to the first ten years of this millennium and the ten examples highlighted in the exhibition. The plus sign refers to the added value that design can contribute. From different angles, the ten examples explore today’s design competence.
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'My precious' - International modern woodwork exhibition
(> 9/01/2011) - Copenhagen |
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Danish Museum Art & Design
17 members of the Danish Association of Furniture-Makers have decided to show, together with 15 furniture-makers from Australia, Japan, France and Sweden, what the best craftsmanship can produce today and what the differences are between the furniture-making traditions of the different countries.
Each participant was given the task of creating a unique work in wood that can function as a container for at least one object which holds a particular fascination for him or her. The container should not be larger than 50 × 50 × 50 cm and should primarily be made of wood.
The furniture-makers should tell the story of the significance of their chosen object, which may be of a philosophical or symbolic nature, and they should document their design and production process.
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Oiva Toikka - Moments of Ingenuity
(30/05 – 19/09/2010) – Helsinki / Design Museum |
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In 2010, Oiva Toikka (born 1931) will celebrate his career of 50 years as a designer for Iittala. In honour of the event, Design Museum's summer exhibition of 2010 will be a major retrospective of Oiva Toikka's work. Oiva Toikka is known as a playful spirit in Finnish design and as someone who has always followed his own path. His colourful and rich idiom of form has gained many admirers, both in Finland and abroad. As an artist and designer, Toikka is a perpetual seeker and experimenter. He began his collaboration with Arabia-Nuutajärvi-Iittala in 1956–1959 with stylized animal sculptures that he created at the Arabia factory's Art Department. In 1963, Toikka began his work in glass that has continued to the present day. Alongside ceramics and glass, Oiva Toikka has designed, among other works, textiles, opera sets and costumes, and plastic products.
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Aalto, Ervi and Revell - the builders of a new Finland
(> 8/10/2010) - Jyväskylä |
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Alvar Aalto Museum
Studio Aalto in Helsinki is now a venue for an exhibition presenting the architectural cooperation between Alvar Aalto, Aarne Ervi and Viljo Revell. The year 2010 marks also centenary of the birth of both Viljo Revell and Aarne Ervi. Ervi worked at Aalto’s office between 1935 and 1937 and Revell between 1936 and 1937. During 1936, Aalto’s office moved to a new building at Riihitie – now known as the Aalto House – which housed both the office and the home of the Aalto family. Contemporary projects involving both Ervi and Revell included the design of Finland’s pavilion for the World’s Fair in Paris.
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Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2007 • 2008 • 2009
(6/10 - 21/1/2010) - Helsinki |
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Museum of Finnish Architecture
The worldwide energy and environmental crisis becoming utmost critical in our day, leading architects around the world have adopted a new perspective: to build our global civilisation on new relations between human organisation and resources. The Global Award for Sustainable Architecture was established in 2007 to foster worldwide debate on architecture. The award is given annually to five architects who share the ethic of sustainable development and have constructed an innovative and ecological approach.
The exhibition presents Stefan Behnisch (Stuttgart, Germany), Balkrishna Doshi (Ahmedabad, India), Françoise-Hélène Jourda (Paris, France), Hermann Kaufmann (Schwarzach, Vorarlberg, Austria), Wang Shu (Hangzhou, China), Fabrizio Carola (Naples, Italy), Elemental (Santiago, Chile), Rural Studio (University of Auburn, Alabama, USA), Philippe Samyn (Brussels, Belgium), Carin Smuts (Cape Town, South Africa), Construire (Paris, France), Thomas Herzog (Munich, Germany), Diébédo Francis Kéré (Gando, Burkina Faso / Berlin, Germany), Sami Rintala (Bodo, Norway), Studio Mumbai (Bombay, India)
Producer: Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine, Paris, France.
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Urban Africa. David Adjaye
(> 3/09/2010) - London / Design Museum |
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One of the leading architects of his generation, David Adjaye has stepped out of his regular line of work to photograph and document key cities in Africa as part of an ongoing project to study new patterns of urbanism. Often regarded as a continent defined by underdevelopment, poverty, war and tourism, through this exhibition Adjaye presents Africa in a different light, examining the buildings and places which have a special resonance with his preoccupations as an architect. This detailed survey will reveal a unique snapshot of life in Africa today, documenting the nature of urban life in a developing continent, a unique geo-cultural survey profiling the African city in a global context.
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Sustainable Futures - Can design save the world ?
(> 5/09/2010) – London / Design Museum |
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From the world’s first carbon neutral city to a refrigerator which doubles as an aquarium, this exhibition explores a range of products, concepts and projects that address issues of sustainability in their design. Through prototypes, samples, products and film, you can find out more about your impact on the world and how to change it.
The exhibition is presented around five themes: Cities, Energy and Economics, Food, Materiality and Creative Citizens, this overview shows the changing role of the designer and reveals how design can make a difference.
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Francis Alÿs
(15/06 – 5/09/2010) - London / Tate Modern |
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A man pushes a massive block of ice through the streets of Mexico City until it melts to nothing. Five hundred volunteers walk over a huge sand dune in Lima, Peru, digging with spades and shifting the dune a few centimetres as they go. These are the works of the celebrated artist Francis Alÿs (born Belgium, 1959), and the subject of a major exhibition at Tate Modern.
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John Bock: New Comminsion for Then Curve
(10/06 – 12/09/2010) – London / Barbican Art Gallery |
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The internationally-acclaimed, Berlin-based artist John Bock is renowned for his surreal installations combining performance, sculpture and film. Drawing on an idiosyncratic range of interests, Bock creates an absurd amalgamation of references from the disciplines of economics, fashion, film, politics, philosophy and music, among others. In Bock’s installation a modified mobile home lands like an alien space ship in the middle of The Curve, where it docks with parasitic structures suspended from the ceiling. These make-shift architectural structures house various enterprises: a pub, a noodle restaurant and shops. Resembling a utopian, plug-in city constructed of found materials and handmade elements, the installation alludes to the original plan for the Barbican’s Frobisher Crescent which was to include a shopping arcade one level above The Curve. Live performances by Bock and other actors periodically animate the installation and can be viewed on screens in the gallery.
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Green Lighting Exhibition
(> 27/11/2010) - Manchester |
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CUBE
This innovative Green Lighting Exhibition, which includes a new LED street light which replaces a 500w highway lamp with an 84w new light, is a chance to see the very latest in new low-energy lighting solutions to help professionals design and build better low-carbon buildings and places. Visits are via our seminar programme and at other times by appointment. (CUBE Space, Lower Ground Floor)
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Passivhaus Products Exhibition
(> 27/11/2010) - Manchester |
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CUBE
The North West Construction Knowledge Hub (NWCKH) is hosting an exhibition of Passivhaus products at the CUBE gallery in Manchester, in conjunction with Passivhaus specialists Green Building Store.
This innovative Passivhaus Exhibition shows cutting-edge building products and practices to demonstrate the three key elements of insulation, draught-proofing and ventilation which underpin the international standard of Passivhaus for ultra-low energy homes. This shows how a whole house can be heated by just the white goods or a towel rail, and where even so the indoor winter temperature doesn’t fall below 16C and annual heating bills are just £75. Strong in Sweden, Austria and Germany, the Passivhaus method is gaining interest in the UK. This exhibition is to help professionals design and build better low-carbon buildings. Visits are via our seminar programme and at other times by appointment. (CUBE Space, Upper Ground Floor) Funded by ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) and the NWDA (Northwest Regional Development Agency) as part of the North West Construction Knowledge Hub.
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What is The Surreal House? – London
(11/09/2010) |
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Study day with the Open University.
This study day explores issues raised by The Surreal House exhibition currently at Barbican Art Gallery, and considers the role and meanings of the theme of the house in modern and contemporary art, film, architecture and culture. It includes presentations and discussions by curators, art historians and writers.
With Jane Alison, Senior Curator, Barbican Art Gallery; Gill Perry, Professor of Art History, OU; Barry Curtis, Professor of Art History, Royal College of Art; Brian Dillon, UK Editor of Cabinet; Dagmar Weston, Dr of Architectural Theory, Edinburgh University; Krysztof Fijalkowski , Dr of Art History, Norwich School of Art and James Lingwood , CoDirector, Artangel.
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Lida Abdul
(24/09/2010 – 2/01/2011) – Lisbon |
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Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
The work of this Afghan artist, who is based in the USA, has already been defined as beauty that hurts. In fact, her videos show fictions that are as enchanting as they are melancholic. Filmed in Afghanistan, they show the scars of war through unusual performance situations which involve, for example, painting a ruined house white, or filling the holes in an abandoned Soviet airplane with cotton.
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Roboterträume (Robot Dreams)
(9/06 – 12/09/2010) – Basle / Museum Tinguely |
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Robots are no longer found just on the factory floor or as highly developed imaginary creatures in science-fiction stories. They are moving into our homes, taking to the water or the air, optimizing artificial limbs, helping autistic children and surveying fields. Borrowing its title from Isaac Asimov, the exhibition endeavours to pin down the term ‘robot’ and its association with various concepts such as power, control and fear. The projects go on the trail of pressing questions of embodiment, the interaction between man and machine, biopolitics and various forms of swarm-oriented thinking (e.g. community-organised thinking), also feedback from developments in the realm of artificial intelligence relative to the perception of human behaviour and human intelligence.
Exhibition in collaboration with Kunsthaus Graz.
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Klee meets Picasso
(6/06 – 26/09/2010) – Bern / Zentrum Paul Klee |
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The Zentrum Paul Klee is celebrating its 5th anniversary. And this exhibition is the highlight of its 2010 anniversary year. Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee are widely regarded as the two great opposites of modern art: the former, Mediterranean and very much focused on the here and now; the latter, romantic and spiritual. Picasso was a force of nature. He enthralled his contemporaries, challenging them one way or the other to agree or disagree. Klee, too, was deeply impressed by the Spaniard, and there is no doubt that his involvement with Picasso influenced his work. The exhibition contrasts Klee with Picasso and illustrates Klee’s artistic relationship with his great fellow artist. The exhibition comprises around 180 works from the Zentrum Paul Klee, many museums and from private ownership.
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Swiss Pavilion Expo 2010 Shanghai
(22/09 – 4/11/2010) – Zurich |
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ETH
The Swiss Pavilion at Expo 2010 is all about “rural-urban interaction”. Meant to emphasize the significance to Switzerland’s sustainable development of a healthy symbiosis of city and hinterland, the collocation “rural-urban interaction” had also set the tone for an architectural competition held in 2006 under the aegis of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.
The competition was won by Basel architects Buchner Bründler and element GmbH, exhibition designers also based in Basel, with a project distinguished by its semiotic richness and originality.
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Under Destruction
(15/10/2010 – 23/01/2011) – Basle |
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Museum Tinguely
“Under Destruction” is a group exhibition, featuring some twenty internationally known contemporary artists, that examines the use and role of destruction in contemporary art. Fifty years after Jean Tinguely's historic Homage to New York (1960), the present exhibition proposes a series of alternative approaches to a theme traditionally associated with the more spectacular and inherently protest-oriented work of Tinguely, Gustav Metzger and others in the 50s and 60s. Predominantly kinetic, the show largely consists of works whose mechanisms reveal themselves in real time to the viewer. The strikingly spectacular nature of some works is complemented by an unexpected sense for subtlety and quietude in other works, the combination of both progressively revealing the rich diversity of destruction in contemporary art.
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Charlotte Perriand
(> 24/10/2010) - Zürich |
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Museum für Gestaltung
Charlotte Perriand (1903–1999), one of the most innovative interior and furniture designers of the 20th century, did not only strive towards a change in forms but also towards an improvement in social conditions. After the tubular steel furniture, which she developed particularly in partnership with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, she preferred the natural material of wood with its free forms. At the same time her photography, which she approached in a radically modern way, became an impulse for her work. There followed grand stagings of magical objects found on beaches or in junkyards. Charlotte Perriand shared this interest for the poetry of “Art Brut” with Pierre Jeanneret and Fernand Léger, with whom she repeatedly worked. The opening of the archive now provides a longoverdue opportunity to rediscover this important pioneer as a furniture designer, as a photographer and—with her reconstructed large-format collages—as a socially committed woman.
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Sketches of Space
(19/06 – 19/09/2010) - Luxemburg / MUDAM |
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Attila Csörgő is one of the best-known young Hungarian artists, who is featured at prominent international exhibitions and art fairs, like the Venice Biennale in 1999. He has won the prestigious Nam June Paik Award in 2008. Exploring the adjoining territories of art and science, he makes devices of his own design that attest to a mindset that is playful and humorous, as well as philosophical.
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Daniel Buren
(9/10/2010 – 22/05/2011) - Luxemburg |
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MUDAM
The Centre Pompidou-Metz and Mudam Luxembourg collaborate by inviting Daniel Buren to create installations for both of these young art institutions of the Greater Region, more specifically in response to the exceptional architectures of the two buildings signed Ieoh Ming Pei (for Mudam) and by Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines (for Centre Pompidou Metz). At the Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Daniel Buren is making the “Grand Hall” his working space
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Connecting-Stockholm
(7/09 – 10/10/2010) - Stockholm |
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The Swedish Museum of Architecture
Sara Göransson and Filipe Balestra from Urban Nouveau* have designed a long-term strategy that turns the segregated capital of Sweden into a network city.
Urban Nouveau* will move its practice to the exhibition space of Arkitekturmuseet from the 7th of September to the 10th of October to take Connecting-Stockholm to a public level. A gigantic model of the connected city will be under construction while interviews with community representatives, politicians and ordinary citizens take place. Both local Stockholmare and global visitors are welcome to join the discussion and model making, becoming part of the design team. The strategy frames Stockholm’s future growth onto urban bridges, which connect previously disconnected suburbs. The new connections will increase the perimeter of housing along green areas, bringing people closer to Nature. The spaces in-between connections may become new permaculture courtyards to maximize local food production and consumption, minimizing imports and transportation. The development of the city is directed towards a self sustainable landscape.
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International Skyrise Greenery Conference 2010
1st-3rd November 2010 |
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The conference is co-organized by the National Parks Board and International Green Roof Association (IGRA). The conference themed " Surfaces of Creativity : Spaces of Delight" will serve as a platform for the holistic exchange of ideas in the new innovations of urban greenery and its potential to transform our cityscapes and the lives of the people. International urban greenery experts from various disciplines, the academia, architects, landscape architects, landscape contractors, policy-makers and stakeholders will come together to discuss the present and future trends of this growing sector.
Topics will also include the various essential aspects of skyrise greenery such as specifications and installation of green roofs and vertical greenery systems, technical studies (eg. heat shield and the thermal aspects, integration of skyrise greenery with sustainable eco-processes) as well as the sharing of the experience garnered from global political incentives and guidelines. The conference will be presented in forms of lectures, workshops, projects and site excursions.
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