Europe, Europe

[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/12″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” overlay_strength=”0.3″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”5/6″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” overlay_strength=”0.3″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]Europe is a continent consisting of different nations and different linguistic and cultural entities. This makes the European art scene even more diverse than the other studied art scenes. Due to this complexity the exhibition has been correspondingly extensive. The exhibition’s curators Hans Ulrich Obrist, Thomas Boutoux and Gunnar B. Kvaran, has formed an “organic curator model” that allows the exhibition to change and evolve over time. The exhibition at Astrup Fearnley Museet brings together over 30 young artists under the age 35 from eight European cities: Berlin, Brussels, Paris, London, Zurich, Prague, Lisbon and Oslo. The exhibition is the first part of an extensive and evolving exhibition series that will travel on to other European art institutions. The curators have selected two artists from each city/art scene, a Correspondent and an Alternative Space, – an artist run exhibition space. The Correspondents are invited to contribute to the exhibition, by suggesting two additional artists to be included in the selection. Altogether the exhibition will gather over 30 artists and eight Alternative Spaces from the chosen eight European cities. During the length of the exhibition the Alternative Spaces will present a week-long special project in a separate space within the show. The exhibition’s theme The general theme of the exhibition is the artists mobility and migration in Europe, the fluidity of artistic ideas and the encounter between different artistic and cultural scenes. This development in the last years comes from the fact that interrelationship between European countries has changes radically with the development of the EU and the disappearance of frontiers between nations/countries. Even though the EU has been mainly developed to facilitate financial and commercial transactions in Europe without any visible interest of including artistic and cultural questions into this important project, the artists have taken advantage of the fading frontiers, and established themselves where they see new possibilities. Adding to this is also the fact that in the 90ies the EU initiated a new reformation (the Bologna Agreement) within the art schools in Europe bringing them from the state of traditional art schools based more on technical skills to a more academic research based education. This reformation has radically changed the knowledge production within the art school often resulting in the fact that the art school/universities are more producing intellectuals who then become artists or even critics, curators, gallery workers or other kind of professionals within the art world. Europe is a territory that is more polycentric than ever before, where artists come and go from one city to another, without no longer being attached to their home countries nor determined by the canons and rules that have long defined and structured the various European Art Nations until now. The exhibition will highlight this and will touch the issues surrounding migration and common European identity. Participating artists (alphabetically): Gabriel Abrantes (1984), Portugal Nel Aerts (1987), Belgium Harold Ancart (1980), Belgium Ed Atkins (1982), England Neil Beloufa (1985) France Juliette Blightman (1980), Germany Petter Buhagen (1983), Norway Simon Denny (1982), Germany Anke Dyes (1980), Germany David Douard (1983), France Joana Escoval (1982), Portugal Loretta Fahrenholz (1981), Germany Eloise Hawser (1985), England Camille Henrot (1978), France Hedwig Houben (1983), Belgium Emil M Klein (1982), Switzerland Barbora Kleinhamplová (1984), Czech Republic Richard Loskot (1984), Czech Republic Helen Marten (1985), England Joakim Martinussen (1984) & Halvor Rønning (1984), Norway Mélanie Matranga (1985), France Inka Meißner (1980), Germany Caroline Mesquita (1989), France Kaspar Müller (1983), Switzerland Model Court – Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Lorenzo Pezzani, Oliver Rees. England Shelly Nadashi (1981), Belgium Vilém Novák (1981), Czech Republic Katja Novitskova (1984 ), Germany Richard Parry (1983), England Aurora Passero (1984), Norway André Romão (1984), Portugal Pamela Rosenkranz (1979), Switzerland Pavla Sceranková (1980), Czech Republic Mariana Silva (1983), Portugal Patrick Staff (1987), England Pavel Sterec (1985), Czech Republic the–family – Wojciech Kosma, Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor, Llewellyn Reichman, Irene Moray, Brian Doose. Germany Hannah Weinberger (1987), Switzerland Katie Widloski (1986), USA Peter Wächtler (1979), Belgium Tori Wrånes (1978), Norway Correspondents (alphabetically): John Beeson (1984), Germany Fredi Fischli (1986), Switzerland Monica Holmen (1982), Norway Martha Kirszenbaum (1983), France Vaclav Magid (1979), Czech Republic João Mourão (1984), Portugal Anne-Claire Schmitz (1981), Belgium Luis da Silva (1978), Portugal Jamie Stevens (1985), England Alternative Spaces: New Theater, Germany (Berlin). Opens September 25. Abilene, Belgium (Brussels). Opens October 9. A Certain Lack of Coherence, Portugal (Porto). Opens October 23. Arcadia Missa, England (London). Opens November 6. 1857 Norway (Oslo). Opens November 20. Treize, France (Paris). Opens December 4. ETC gallery, Czech Republic (Prague). Opens January 8. HA-CIE-ND-A, Switzerland (Zurich). Opens January 22. Curators: Thomas Boutoux, Gunnar B. Kvaran and Hans Ulrich Obrist. Events: In conjunction with the exhibition there will be organized a Performance Weekend with the participating performance artists November 1-2. A movie weekend November 15-16, with a special focus on the exhibition’s video artists. During the whole exhibition period there will be a focus on the European art scene, EU and cultural politics in our regular Thursday Events. 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