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Forum Kunsthof on 7 June 2013: Showing or Snowing Art in June? on Art, Value, Price, Work and the Market // Art vs. Market / Market games and the play of commons / Art vs. Multitude

2013-06-07, 13:30:

Public disputatio or polemic discussion with the participation of: Christoph Brunner, Daniel Morgenthaler, Garrett Nelson, Aoife Rosenmeyer, Aria Spinelli, and Stefan Wagner, moderated by Dimitrina Sevova (in English)

Performances by Burçak Konukman, Garrett Nelson & Sarah Bernauer, and P.F.T. (Peter Emch, Franziska Koch, Tobias Oehmichen). And open-air screening by Hila Peleg.

Second event of Opportunities for Outdoor Play? Playgrounds – New Spaces of Liberty (The Question of Form). A transdisciplinary collective research and production project curated by Dimitrina Sevova at Kunsthof Zürich in cooperation with Prof. Elke Bippus, Franziska Koch and the Bachelor Medien & Kunst, Vertiefung Bildende Kunst of the Zurich University of the Arts.

Announcement as PDF (590 KB). Curatorial text as PDF (597 KB).

Project blog: outdoorplay.tumblr.com

See also the documentation of the event.

1 May at Kunsthof Zürich: First event of Opportunities for Outdoor Play? Playgrounds – New Spaces of Liberty (The Question of Form)

2013-05-01: With three reading-performances, a lecture-performance and a screening by:

Benjamin Egger, Harun Farocki, Petra Elena Köhle & Nicolas Vermot Petit-Outhenin, Rudi Maier, Riikka Tauriainen

Curated by Dimitrina Sevova

Announcement with curatorial text available as PDF (644 KB).

See also the documentation of the event.

Exhibition: Creative Assemblages – When aesthetics meet the economy or what do they have in Common?

2013-02-05 - 2013-04-05: International group exhibition at Siemens Sanat, İstanbul, curated by Dimitrina Sevova, co-curated by Mürteza Fidan and Melih T. Görgün.

With the participation of Benjamin Egger, Petra Elena Köhle & Nicolas Vermot Petit-Outhenin, Ferhat Özgür, Elodie Pong, Roee Rosen, Riikka Tauriainen, Borjana Ventzislavova. Performances by Riikka Tauriainen, and Petra Elena Köhle & Nicolas Vermot Petit-Outhenin.

Opening: Tuesday, 2013-02-05, 19h00.

Performances: Wednesday, 2013-02-06, starting 18h30.

Curatorial text available as PDF (187KB).

Media-Scape Zagreb 2012 (Biennal for Time Based Art): Tactical Topics - Topical Tactics

2012-09-30 - 2012-10-19: Exhibition at the HDLU (Croatian Association of Artists), Dom hrvatskih likovnih umjetnika, Trg žrtava fašizma bb, Zagreb, with a series of performances and lectures, co-curated by Ingeborg Fülepp, Sibylle Hoessler, Iva Kovač, Işın Önol and Dimitrina Sevova in Zagreb, Croatia.

With Pablo Alonso and Ignacio Uriarte from Spain, Barbara Caveng from Switzerland, Cécile Colle}{Ralf Nuhn from France, Ana Elizabet, Igor Eškinja and Duje Jurić from Croatia, Andreas .muk. Haider and Mia Zabelka from Austria, Paul Magee from the UK, Martina Menegon and Stefano D’Alessio from Italy, Rivka Rinn from Israel and Germany, Heiko Daxl, Sibylle Hoessler, Peter Kees, Ilse Ruppert, Michael Saup from Germany, Riikka Tauriainen from Finland and Switzerland, Branka Uzur from Australia and Croatia.

Opening: Saturday, 2012-09-29, 20h00.

Sinopale 4 (Sinop Biennale): Wisdom of Shadow: Art in the Era of Corrupted Information

2012-08-01 - 2012-09-12: The main exhibition of the Sinopale 4, with a series of performances and events, co-curated by Aslı Çetinkaya, Elke Falat, Işın Önol and Dimitrina Sevova in Sinop, Turkey (with additional curatorial contributions by Beral Madra, Sean Kelly and Janet Kaplan).

With Alpin Arda Bağcık, Francesco Bertele, Brigitta Bödenauer, Amélie Brisson-Darveau, Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand, Quynh Dong, Monika Drożyńska, Köken Ergun, Harun Farocki, Karen Geyer, Shilpa Ghupta, Andreas (muk) Haider, Minna Hint, Berglind Hlynsdottir, Ashley Hunt, İnsel İnal, Volkan Kaplan & A. Erdem Şentürk, Petra Elena Köhle & Nicolas Vermot Petit-Outhenin, Eléonore de Montesquiou, Cat Tuong Nguyen, Chris Oakly, Bernd Oppl, Monika Rechsteiner, Reinigungsgesellschaft, David Rych, Sümer Sayın, Liddy Scheffknecht, Lina Selander, Özlem Sulak, Riikka Tauriainen, Hande Varsat, Stefanie Wuschitz, Associazione E (Francesco Ragazzi & Francesco Urbano).

Opening: Friday, 2012-08-24, 19h00. Artistic production process, including public performances, lectures and screenings, ongoing since 1 August.

Exhibition: In Growing up Amid the Historical Mysteries of Proximity: Pros & Cons of Being Neighbours

2012-06-16 - 2012-07-21: A group exhibition with live events co-curated with Işın Önol at ITS-Z1, Belgrade. With Ana Hoffner, Apartment Project (participants of the Reciprocal Visit and Re-Locate Projects), Assaf Gruber, Dragan Ilić, Ha za vu zu (Güneş Terkol, Güçlü Öztekin, Özgür Erkök), Petra Elena Koehle & Nicolas Vermot Petit-Outhenin, Lia Lapithi, Bernd Oppl, Riikka Tauriainen.

Opening: Saturday, 2012-06-16, 16h00.

Public Theoretical Symposium: Reality Manifestos - Can Dialectics Break Bricks? / A study of détournement as Art Forms

2012-01-19 - 2012-01-20: A two-day theoretical symposium organized in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name to contextualize the exhibition and the artists' works and raise a public critical discussion among scholars, the artists and a broad audience. With lectures by Mareike Bernien & Kerstin Schroedinger, The Centre of Attention, Brice Dellsperger, Eva Egermann, Maren Grimm, Esther Kempf, Lucie Kolb, Elke Krasny, Boyan Manchev, Işın Önol, Bernd Oppl, Małgorzata Radkiewicz, Dorothee Richter, Nicola Ruffo, Simone Schardt & Wolf Schmelter, Dimitrina Sevova. Curated by Dimitrina Sevova. Organized by Kunsthalle Exnergasse at Museum Halls, WUK, Währinger Straße 59, 1090 Wien.

|>> Program of the symposium

Exhibition: Reality Manifestos - Can Dialectics Break Bricks? / A study of détournement as Art Forms

2012-01-19 - 2012-03-03: A group exhibition with Marc Bauer, Sabina Baumann, Mareike Bernien & Kerstin Schroedinger, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Bogna Burska, Brice Dellsperger, Konstantinos Manolakis, Michele O’Marah, Cora Piantoni, Elodie Pong, “Schmale, Scheirl, Knebl Werke” (Toni Schmale, Hans Scheirl & Jakob Lena Knebl), Rebecca Ann Tess. Curated by Dimitrina Sevova. At Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Währinger Straße 59, 2nd Staircase, 1st Floor, 1090 Wien.

Opening: Wednesday, 2012-01-18, 19h00, with a performance by The Centre of Attention, and a sound performance and DJ set by DJ Sweatproducer (Anne Käthi Wehrli).

Finissage: Saturday, 2012-03-03, 19h00, with a public interview by Hans Scheirl.

|>> Curatorial Input

Invisible City - Technologies of the Body

2012-01-08 - 2012-02-05: An exhibition project as a result of a long-term research and collaboration between the artists Amélie Brisson-Darveau, Gisèle Schindler, Riikka Tauriainen, and the curators Işın Önol and Dimitrina Sevova. At Wäscherei Kunstverein Zürich, Dienerstrasse 70, 8004 Zürich.

Opening: Sunday, 2012-01-07, 19h00, with a reading of Antonin Artaud and Italo Calvino.

One Thousand Endless Tales – Dancing the Line of Flight (Story Telling)

2010-10-01 - 2010-11-21: A group thematic show in two chapters curated by Dimitrina Sevova, which takes a look at various forms of reflection on aesthetic possibilities and political implications of individual stories of ordinary people in relation to society at large. At White Space | Raum für aktuelle Kunst, Militärstrasse 76 (backyard, entrance via Kanonengasse), 8004 Zürich.

Opening of First Chapter: Friday, 2010-10-01, 19h00.
Opening of Second Chapter: Friday, 2010-10-29, 19h00.

Ich Tier! (Du Mensch)

2010-04-09 - 2010-04-25: A group show investigating the ethical-aesthetic-political aspects of human-animal relations, curated by Dimitrina Sevova at Perla-Mode, in conjunction with a mirror exhibition at Dienstgebäude, Ich Mensch! (Du Tier), curated by Isabel Reiss and Cathérine Hug, and a common series of special events.

Opening: Friday, 2010-04-09, 19h00.

Queerscapes – The Flow of Dunes and the Green Shimmer of the Oasis on the Horizon

2009-06-05 - 2009-06-07: The exhibition and art event of the Offpride – the alternative queer festival, Zurich, organized by Dimitrina Sevova, will take place at Cabaret Voltaire and Perla Mode on Fri / Sat / Sun, 5 / 6 / 7 June.

A three-day group show with screenings, lectures, performances, kindly hosted by Cabaret Voltaire/Dadahaus (Spiegelgasse 1) and Perla Mode (Langstrasse 84 /Brauerstrasse 37). Do-it-yourself from archives to everyday life art practices, providing a dense web of insights, approaches, positions, views, perspectives. And a movie program, live performances, talks, discussions, streamings.

Idea and co-ordination: Dimitrina Sevova, with the active support and inspiration of Anna Frei, Anne Käthi Wehrli and Lucie Kolb and the entire offpride queer festival organizing working group and queer scene

Documents in English: Invitation card, program, statement, portfolio

Dokumente auf Deutsch: Einladungskarte, Programm, Statement, Portfolio

Kunsthalle Winterthur: "Aggression"

2007-10-20 - 2007-12-04: Dimitrina Sevova is co-curating with Oliver Kielmayer the international group show "Aggression" at Kunsthalle Winterthur.

Dimitrina Sevova is also curating an exclusive program of lectures, screenings and discussions around the topic of "Aggression".

See also the Aggression newspaper (PDF, 449 KB).

"Fake" Curatorial Presentation

11 January 2006, 18h: Curatorial presentation by Dimitrina Sevova of the project "Critique of Pure Image - Between Fake and Quotation" at Les Complices, Zurich. The documentation of the project will be exhibited on 11-14 January.

"Fake", aka "Critique of Pure Image - Between Fake and Quotation"

7 October 2005: Opening of the project "Critique of Pure Image - Between Fake and Quotation" at the Center of Contemporary Art "Ancient Baths", Plovdiv. International exhibition (until 2005-11-08), three-day theoretical symposium with strong international participation (2005-10-08 till 2005-10-10).

"Collaborative Practices" @ Shedhalle

Our collaboration with the Art Today Association (from Communication Front to "Critique of Pure Image - Between Fake and Quotation") is at the center of code flow's contribution to the project and exhibition Polyphony - Collaborative Practices, Part 2
22 April-15 May 2005 at Shedhalle, Zurich

Communication Front et al.

1999-2002: You'll find some of our older projects, including the three editions of the international project for media art and theory Communication Front, and the Communication Front - Crossing Points East West book, on the CFront site.

Related Materials

Curatorship, Culture and the Public: Curatorial Practice in the Post-Soviet Age (Part I & Part II)

by Allan Siegel

2007-05-08: In an e-mail interview by Allan Siegel, Dimitrina Sevova and other curators give their view on the conditions of curating in an East European context in the post-Soviet age.

The Figure of the Successful Media Curator

2006-06-09: Here's code flow's contribution of 2006-04-01 to the symposium Art - Place - Technology. International Symposium on Curating New Media Art at Liverpool School of Art & Design and FACT:

Identifications of curatorial practices in media space. The figure of the successful media curator in the first decade of the 21st century

Symposium on Curating New Media

2006-03-30 - 2006-04-01: code flow participate in the symposium Art - Place - Technology. International Symposium on Curating New Media Art at Liverpool School of Art & Design and FACT. Lecture "Identifications of curatorial practices in media space. The figure of the successful media curator in the first decade of the 21st century".