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A selection of current and upcoming exhibitions with focus on
contemporary arts & design.
Design Museum
28 Shad Thames
London
Until 30.01.2011
Photograph by Gilbert McCarragher.
Visitors are literally able to penetrate his world, characterised by designs of simplicity, grace and visual clarity.
His most important projects are documented through models, film, photographs and architectural elements. Aa dedicated blog enables a detailed insight into them.
designmuseum.org/exhibitions/2010/2010-john-pawson
www.plainspace.co.uk
"Inside installations"
Museum S.M.A.K.
Citadelpark
Ghent, Belgium
Until 27.03.2011
A look behind the scenes, revealing the ‘invisible
processes’ which take place in a museum (such as the presenting,
documenting or preserving), "inside installations" questions
in a playful way the very nature of an installation as a work of art.
Bringing 10 installations from the museum's collection face to face
with one another and with the space in which they are located, the
exhibition invites viewers to apprehend scenography or presentation
contexts as a part of the work itself, for example while showing
installations following different presentation scenarios.
The exhibition is also an offshoot of or a
reflection on a European research project, Inside Installations:
Preservation and Presentation of Installation Art, which took
place between 2004 and 2007.
With works by: Leo Copers, Honoré d'O, Loek Grootjans, Noritoshi
Hirakawa, Mariusz Kruk, Mark Manders, Dennis Oppenheim, Jason Rhoades,
Andreas Slominski, Paul Thek, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Klaus vom Bruch and
Wolf Vostell.
Installation View. (c) S.M.A.K.
www.smak.be
www.inside-installations.org
Contemporary Ceramics: "Circuit céramique. La
scène contemporaine française"
Musée des Arts Décoratifs
Contemporary Space & Permanent Collection
07, rue de Rivoli 75001 Paris
Until 20 February 2011
Next to a retrospective on French design, Paris based museum Les Arts Décoratifs
shows a selection of young plasticians working between craftmanship,
contemporary arts and design.
Next to a dedicated contemporary space, part of the exhibition engages
a dialogue with tradition as it is incorporated into the museum's
permanent collections.
Further information (in French):
www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr
Upcoming
- Freak show : strategies for (dis)engagement in design
Gallery Helmrinderknecht
contemporary design
Linienstrasse 87
Berlin
13 November 2010 - 15 January 2011
El Ultimo Grito, Peckham shield, 2010, cardboard and resin table, 180x120x72 cm, unique piece.
Photo: Shira Klasmer. Courtesy gallery Helmrinderknecht.
Freak Show: Strategies for (Dis)engagement in Design is a selling
exhibition of objects by a very special selection of international
designers that think differently and who challenge the system. They
are the “freaks” that are showing us that design is no longer what
we thought it was.
Curated by Sophie Lovell
With works by: Auger-Loizeau, Pieke Bergmans, Dunne & Raby, El
Ultimo Grito, Martí Guixé, Stuart Haygarth, Kueng Caputo, Mathieu
Lehanneur, Studio Makkink & Bey, Jerszy Seymour.
Danish artist Ferdinand Ahm Krag constructs landscapes that challenge common time/space representation.
A kind of mindmap, the installation featured at Art Forum assembled found pictures with elaborate drawings.
Mixed media on paper
100 x 40 cm
Courtesy IMO Projects, Copenhague, Denmark
IMO projects
Mixed Media
102 x 76.2 x 102 cm
Photo by dcorm.
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Natalie Obadia.
rinabanerjee.com
Indian
born and New York based artist Rina Banerjee produces peculiar works
that interpret "specific colonial moments that reinvent place and
identity as complex diasporic experiences."
Her oeuvre blends and reinvents materials, heritage textiles, fashion,
colonial objects and furnishings, as well as historical architecture,
upon which she seems to tell a story.
at Jeune Création Paris Festival 2010 - Charlotte Charbonnel
French artist Charlotte Charbonnel poetically captures ever changing elements of nature, such as cloud phenomena reproduced in jars.
Light installation with 3 jars of 3 Liters each, light table, wood & neon light.
70 x 25 x.22cm.
Courtesy the artist.
www.chalrotte-charbonnel.com
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Retrospective: Ruhr.2010 exhibition project 'About Her'.
In September, 2010
d.c|o|r.m hosted a temporary exhibition project in
Dortmund on the occasion of Ruhr.2010, a European cultural project
taking place in the Ruhr area (Essen / Bochum / Dortmund), Western Germany.
Titled 'about her', this exhibition gathered a dozen works by
established and emerging women artists, while revealing archetypal
continuities and dialogues between handicrafts traditionally assigned
to women (with several works made of textiles or weaving) and
contemporary practice.
Addressing questions such as women's expected social role or
representation in the media, the project also questioned boundaries
between fine arts, fashion and design as it involved fashion designers.
Participating artists were: Julie Verhoeven (NL / UK), Cindy
Sherman (US), Valérie Mréjen (FR), Karin Bos (NL), Katja Kottmann
(GER), Hoda Tawakol (UK / GER), Jenny Palmborg (SWE).
(Photograph: From Valérie Mréjen, Manufrance, 2005. Filmstill.
Courtesy Galerie Le Borgne, Paris.)
Upcoming: d.c|o|r.m in Paris.
d.c|o|r.m now has a permanent representation in Paris.
Your contact in Paris: Geneviève (genevieve@dcorm.com).
Geneviève Bertrand Maïdah has a core expertise in handicraft &
design, spanning from traditional to contemporary practice.
Following studies in sociology and anthropology, she collected several
years experience in the field of communication within major cultural
institutions, as well as in the advertising branch. A cultural
omnivore and talent spotter, she constantly snaps surprising eye
candies, with novelties ranging from graphic, object design, to
installation, street or fine arts.
Official launch in France is in preparation, we'll keep you informed
when it takes place!
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