Gloria Friedmann

Play-Back D'Eden

Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence (F)

30 March - 16 June 2013

The Maeght Foundation hosts contemporary artist Gloria Friedmann. Paintings, sculptures, videos, photography, installations: the exhibition will present all the diversity of the artist's work, with mainly recent works, many of which are entirely new, contrasting with older works. Between nature and culture, humanity and animality, the exhibition will extend to both the indoor and outdoor areas of the Foundation and will include the presentation of a monumental sculpture, Les Inséparables, created especially for the exhibition.

Hermann Nitsch

SINNE UND SEIN Retrospektive

nitsch museum, Mistelbach (A)

7 April 2013 - 31 July 2014

The ‘nitsch museum’ pays tribute to mark the 75th Birthday of Hermann Nitsch and his lifework in the form of a comprehensive retrospective that offers space to all levels of his oeuvre.
Within the Credo of Hermann Nitsch: "My work is a school of life, perception and sensation and to be experienced with all five senses" the exhibition is dedicated to „HERMANN NITSCH – SINNE UND SEIN Retrospektive“ and for the first time incorporating in the concept interactive methods of the five senses in the universal work of the artist.
The five senses are the center of Nitsch’s Orgien-Mysterien-Theater since the late 50s. The retrospective focuses on the five senses in any form. In terms of content, the importance of the senses in his oeuvre is explored by the selection of the works, the installation and the exhibition architecture. In addition, interactive installations offer special sensory experiences to the visitors. For the technical implementation of the interactive elements, the Ars Electronica Future Lab has joined in as partners of the exhibition. Using innovative technologies, Nitsch's work opens up to visitors in a previously unknown visual form.

Christoph De Boeck

The Digital Now

Drones / Birds - Princes of Ubiquity

Botanique + Tower's Art Gallery, Brussels

10 - 21 April 2013

Selected artists: Zimoun, Christoph De Boeck & Patricia Portela, Erica Scourti, Paolo Cirio, Esther Polak & Ivar van Bekkum, David Bowen, HC Gilje and more.
Curated by Bram Crevits.

Christoph De Boeck , Aernoudt Jacobs

Overtoon Exhibition

iMal Center for digital cultures and technology, Brussels

Opening: 17 April 2013 from 18:00 until 22:00

Exhibition: 17 April - 19 May 2013

Overtoon is a platform for research, production and distribution of sound art and media art grounded in a sonic approach, directed by Aernoudt Jacobs and Christoph De Boeck. The organization wants to support artists and give new impulses to the field of sound and media art. Overtoon offers yearly long-term residencies to artists with the aim to produce their works.

Overtoon launches its activities of the year with an exhibition at iMAL, partner of Art Brussels 2013. The exhibition presents new installations combined with prototypes or work-in-progress produced by Christophe De Boeck, Aernoudt Jacobs and artists-in-residence: Jeroen Uyttendaele and Jeroen Vandesande. The show will give you a glimpse of their working process and is completed with some recent and older works.

Lawrence Malstaf

Transposition: Motion is Action

Curated by Zhang Ga

National Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing, China

20 April - 12 May 2013

Transposition: Motion is Action - An International Media Art Exhibition.

Observing one billiard-ball moving towards another, David Hume, the 18th century skeptic, asked: “May I not conceive that a hundred different events might as well follow that cause?” A simple isomorphic collision results in myriad consequences. The Humean causal contingency proliferates in and seems further complicated by contemporary modalities in which the priming of motion can be concomitantly occasioned by mechanical, electronic, and digital intrigues, in reality and via virtuality, through material solidity and by way of data bits. Motion begets action; action incites motion whereby transposition reciprocates as permutation undergoes metamorphosis. Many a motion come to pass, invoking a subversion of dramaturgy; instigating a dislocation of space-time, inflicting a mishap of perception, or implicating a polemic and explicating a contention.

TRANSPORTER by Lawrence Malstaf: Two conveyor belts of about 13m long are set up next to each other and running in opposite directions. People can lay down on them to be transported very slowly. Hidden under the surface an invisible mechanism produces a subtle yet intense tactile experience for the spine. Halfway the trajectory the visitors are confronted with 2 horizontal mirrors moving up and down above them.

Stief Desmet

Finissage H U N T in Gent + Screening New Video Installation 'MIGRATOR' in Brussels

Stief Desmet

Finissage H U N T

Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent

Saturday 20 April 2013 from 12:00 until 18:00

The exhibition H U N T continues until Saturday 20 April 2013.
Open on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from 14:00 until 18:00 and Saturday from 12:00 until 18:00.

Finissage on Saturday 20 April 2013 from 12:00 until 18:00

Stief Desmet

MIGRATOR

Screening New Video Installation

w-o-l-k-e, Vaartstraat 45 rue du Canal, 1000 Brussels

Saturday 20 April 2013 from 19:00 until 23:00

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MIGRATOR wordt eenmalig vertoond op de unieke locatie w-o-l-k-e, die zich op de 11e verdieping van het flatgebouw achter de KVS in het centrum van Brussel bevindt. Het is op deze 11e verdieping dat de Migrator als ‘vogelfiguur’ een tijdelijk onderkomen vindt en vanwaaruit hij het voor hem onbekend geworden nachtelijk Brussel observeert en exploreert. De Migrator lijkt uit een breugeliaans tafereel te zijn gewandeld, de meerlagigheid van het personage en de talloze hedendaagse verwijzingen zorgen voor vervreemding.
Het resultaat van deze videoregistratie wordt simultaan op drie verschillende wanden geprojecteerd in de ruimte waar de Migrator tijdelijk verbleef. De installatie omvat eveneens restanten van het verblijf van de Migrator en in situ gecreëerde kunstwerken in combinatie met andere gerelateerde werken uit het oeuvre van Stief Desmet.
Stief Desmet is met MIGRATOR niet aan zijn proefstuk toe. Zijn eerdere videocreaties in samenwerking met Benny Vandendriessche zijn: EASYCHOPPERBUNNY (2005, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam), TOMAHAWK (2005, De Witte Zaal, Gent), GOLDEN RIVER (2006, Museum van Deinze en de Leiestreek) en LYCANTROPHY (2007, SMAK, Gent).

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MIGRATOR will be screened only once at the unique location w-o-l-k-e, which is located on the 11th floor of the high-rise building behind the KVS in the center of Brussels. It is exactly on the 11th floor of this building that the Migrator as a 'bird figure' finds a temporary shelter from which he observes and explores Brussels by night, a city that became unknown to him. The Migrator recalls a personage from a Brueghel painting, but the multi-layered character and the contemporary references create numerous associations of alienation.
The resulting video is projected simultaneously on three different walls in the room where the Migrator temporarily stayed. The installation also includes remnants of his stay and artworks created in situ combined with other related works from Stief Desmets oeuvre.
Previous video creations by Stief Desmet in collaboration with Benny Vandendriessche include: EASYCHOPPERBUNNY (2005, Brakke Grond, Amsterdam), TOMAHAWK (2005, De Witte Zaal, Ghent), GOLDEN RIVER (2006, Museum van Deinze en de Leiestreek) and LYCANTROPHY (2007, SMAK, Ghent).

upcoming exhibition

Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent

Opening: Sunday 5 May 2013 from 11:00 until 14:00

Exhibition: 5 May - 29 June 2013

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Sunday 5 May 2013:
Gent Matinees from 11:00 until 18:00