Galerie West News

Haroon Mirza

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Haroon Mirza wins Northern Art Prize 2010.

Jan van der Ploeg

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Jan van der Ploeg: Wall painting No. 304, 305 & 306. Galerie Ruth Leuchter Düsseldorf, Germany Open: 21.01 — 02.04.2011

Nicolas Milhe

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Nicolas Milhé is participating in Lage 3:20 #1. A group show at Lage 3:20, Berlin.Other participating artists: Alexine Chanel, Jacques Alexandre Gillois, Clemens Helmke, Norvin Leineweber & Bruno Nagel.
Opening: 19.01.2011

Berndnaut Smilde

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Berndnaut Smilde is participating in Kammerspiele. A group show at Mischpoke.
Open: 28.01.2011 — 13.02.2011

Haroon Mirza

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The Last Tape. A new performance by Haroon Mirza, featuring Richard ‘Kid’ Strange at the Chisenhale Gallery, London.
13.01.2011, 19:00

Chisenhale Gallery presents The Last Tape, an evening event by Sheffield and London-based artist Haroon Mirza. This one-night performance brings together a sculptural and aural assemblage by Mirza and a spoken-word performance of unrealised Ian Curtis songs by cult musician and actor Richard ‘Kid’ Strange within a stage format borrowed from Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape.

Haroon Mirza (b. 1977, London) lives and works in London & Sheffield. Recent solo exhibitions include Anthemoessa at Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin (2010) and The Last Tape at Vivid, Birmingham. Recent group exhibitions include The British Art Show 7 (2010), Life: A User’s Manual, Art Sheffield (2010), The Sheffield Pavillion, 11th Istanbul Biennial (2009) and New Contemporaries 2008, The A Foundation, Liverpool, London (2008). Mirza has been shortlisted for the 2010 Northern Art Prize and has a solo exhibition at Lisson Gallery in February 2011.

Admission to the performance is free but booking is required. Please email mail@chisenhale.org.uk to reserve a place.

This event has developed from an initial exhibition by Haroon Mirza at VIVID, Birmingham in 2010 and is kindly supported by Lisson Gallery.

Vincent Ganivet

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Vincent Ganivet: I believe in miracles 10th anniversary of the Lambert Collection at the Musée d’art contemporain, Avignon. Open: 12.12.2010 — 08.05.2010

I believe in miracles
10th anniversary of the Lambert Collection
December 12, 2010 — May 8, 2011

More than a retrospective, the exhibition "I Believe in Miracles" brings together a number of artists invited to take part in thematic exhibitions and have marked the site over the last 10 years, for instance with "Artists Collections" in 2001, "A fripon, fripon et demi" in 2003, "Figures of the Player, the Paradox of the Actor" in 2006, or those invited to have their first large scale exhibition in France, including Andres Serrano, Candice Breitz, Francis Alÿs and Christian Marclay, as well as Cy Twombly, Sol LeWitt, Miquel Barceló and Douglas Gordon.

The artists
Artistes anonymes du XXe siècle av.J.-C. au XIXe siècle, Pierre-Marie Agin, Antoine + Manuel, Azzedine Alaïa, Francis Alÿs, Carlos Amorales, Alice Anderson, David Askevold, Miquel BarcelÓ, Robert Barry, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jean-Charles Blais, Bill Beckler, Gilles Bensimon, Joseph Beuys, Christian Boltanski, Katia Bourdarel, Louise Bourgeois, Slater Bradley, Candice Breitz, Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, Andre Cadere, Julia Margaret Cameron, Mircea Cantor, Etienne Carjat, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paul Cézanne, Christo, Robert Combas, François-Xavier Courrèges, Salvador Dali, Daniel Dezeuze, Delvaux, Jan Dibbets, Jason Dodge, Marcel Dzama, Bernard Faucon, Dan Flavin, Spencer Finch, Gisele Freund, Hamish Fulton, Ryan Gander, Vincent Ganivet, Anna Gaskell, Gilbert & George, Nan Goldin, Douglas Gordon, Loris Gréaud, Shilpa Gupta, Raoul Hausmann, Isabell Heimerdinger, Garry Hill, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Douglas Huebler, Koo Jeong-a, Burn Jones, Donald Judd, Idris Kahn, On Kawara, Zilvinas Kampinas, Anselm Kiefer, Jannis Kounellis, Joseph Kosuth, Joey Kotting, Barbara Kruger, David Lamelas, Bertrand Lavier, Louise Lawler, Zoe Leonard, Claude Lévêque, Sol LeWitt, Ogle Winston Link, Richard Long, Robert Mangold, Édouard Manet, Christian Marclay, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Henri Matisse, Adam McEwen, Jonas Mekas, Jonathan Monk, Vik Muniz, Rei Naito, Rika Nogushi, Dennis Oppenheim, Giulio Paolini, Giuseppe Penone, Jean Prouvé, Man Ray, Odilon Redon, Kay Rosen, Robert Ryman, Julian Schnabel, Richard Serra, David Shrigley, Andres Serrano, Edward J. Steichen, Kimsooja, Daniel Spoerri, Haim Steinbach, Catherine Sullivan, Niele Toroni, Stephan Toth, Richard Tuttle, Cy Twombly, Salla Tykka, Nick van Woert, Francesco Vezzoli, Mark Wallinger, Lawrence Weiner.

Jasper Niens

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Interview with Jasper Niens about 35-II, his site specific installation for Art Basel Miami Beach, here on Vernissage TV.

Maarten Janssen

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Blick ohne Ende at the Centrum Beeldende Kunst Dordrecht. A group show with Tjebbe Beekman,Ronald de Bloeme, Arjan van Helmond, Maarten Janssen, Michael Marwick & Lidwien van de Ven. Curated by Jurriaan Benschop.
Opening: 1812.2010, 17:00
Open: 18.12.2010 — 29.01.2011

BLICK OHNE ENDE - NEDERLANDERS IN BERLIJN
Blick ohne Ende brengt het werk samen van zes Nederlandse kunstenaars die zich in Berlijn hebben gevestigd en internationaal aan de weg timmeren. Zij voegen zich in een traditie van Nederlandse kunstenaars die de grens overgingen om zich artistiek verder te kunnen ontplooien. In de tentoonstelling ligt het accent op de schilderkunst. Het laat zien dat in de schilderkunst nog altijd een bijzondere kracht ligt van de Nederlandse kunst, met daarbinnen grote diversiteit aan benaderingen.
Het internationale karakter van Berlijn biedt kunstenaars nieuwe contacten en perspectieven. Bovendien dwingt het ze tot inhoudelijke reflectie op werk en herkomst. Enerzijds wordt de Nederlandse identiteit van deze kunstenaars versterkt door hun verblijf in Berlijn en anderzijds wordt ze daardoor juist gerelativeerd.

DE DEELNEMENDE KUNSTENAARS ZIJN: Tjebbe Beekman, Ronald de Bloeme, Arjan van Helmond, Maarten Janssen, Michael Markwick en Lidwien van de Ven.
De tentoonstelling is samengesteld door Jurriaan Benschop, sinds 2006 woonachtig in Berlijn en auteur van het boek Wonen tussen de anderen. Een portret van kunststad Berlijn (Athenaeum - Polak & Van Gennep, 2009).
Bij deze tentoonstelling is een begeleidende publicatie verkrijgbaar.

Peter Luining

Sun, 26 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Article about square 4_4 by Peter Luining at welikeart.nl.

Peter Luining (1961, Hoogkerk) is een internet kunstenaar van het heerlijk ontregelende soort. Hij maakt gebruik van de combinatie van bewegend beeld en geluid, die door de interactie van een gebruiker gestuurd wordt. Check het imposante organogram op de site van Luining; het geeft je een idee van het veelomvattende werk en onderzoek dat hem telkens weer op nieuwe paden brengt. Van de porno-site pastiche http://www.prettycensored.com tot sites opgemaakt in louter html-kleuren als http://www.ff00ff.com en http://www.00ffff.com. Zijn werk geeft je soms dat kenmerkende gevoel van paniek als een site zich tegen je keert als bezoeker of aan de haal gaat met je beeldscherm. Klik bijvoorbeeld eens op http://ctrlaltdel.org/rect_z1/, http://www.lfoundation.org/scratch/ of http://splash.ctrlaltdel.org/attacki.html. Geen zorgen – er raakt niets beschadigd.

Ook was Luining een periode actief als domeinnaam handelaar. Zijn onderzoek naar de destijds ook in de kunstwereld zeer lucratieve handel in domeinnamen mondde uit in een presentatie/performance op Art Frankfurt, meer dan 200 domeinen werden door Luining te koop aangeboden. Opsteker voor Marlene Dumas: www.marlenedumas.com is nog steeds beschikbaar.

De laatste tijd wordt het werk van Luining meer minimalistisch en geometrisch. Het speelse is gebleven evenals het streven naar een organische browser. Kijk en klik naar flash filmpjes met geluid: http://o0.org/ of http://ctrlaltdel.org/nitter/. Sol Lewitt zou er lyrisch van raken! Op http://www.ctrlaltdel.org/ vind je een hele reeks speelse werken. Luining vertelt zelf:

“Daarom heb ik mijn site ook heel snel Ctrl/Alt/Del genoemd. Dat zijn de toetsen op een pc die je indrukt als je computer vastloopt. Waar ik in die tijd op uit was, was het ‘resetten’ van de manier waarop je surft. Je klikt op een button en ergebeurt iets anders dan je verwacht. Elke pagina kan weer anders zijn. Ctrl/Alt/Del is altijd een site gebleven die constant verandert. Dingen zijn niet makkelijk terug te vinden.”
De hele tekst van het interview met Metropolis M vindt je hier.

Haroon Mirza

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000
S1 Artspace new premises presents Fifteen. With works by Kate Allen, Simon + Tom Bloor, Theo Burt, Ross Chisholm, Chris Clarke, Katie Davies, Sean Edwards, Josephine Flynn, Babak Ghazi, Tommy Grace, Jerome Harrington, Steve Hawley, Paul Housley, George Henry Longly, Duncan Marquiss, Haroon Mirza, Ryan Mosely, Emily Musgrave, Steve Dutton + Percy Peacock, James Pyman, James Richards, Florian Roithmayr, Giles Round, Matthew Smith, Sarah Staton, Graeme Stonehouse, Shaan Syed, Rosanna Traina, Nicole Wermers, Julie Westerman & Katy Woods. Curated by Louise Hutchinson and George Henry Longly.
Opening: friday 10.12.2010
Open: 11.12.2010 — 05.02.2011

Inhabiting any new premises requires its potential occupant to conduct a survey and inspection of the building to test its condition and value. For an artist-led space, this survey involves more than an assessment of bricks and mortar; it has to be tested in other ways. To mark the inauguration of its new premises and the occasion of its 15th anniversary as an artist-led project, S1 Artspace has invited over 30 artists to survey its new space, to test it out according to the criteria of their specific practices.

The exhibiting artists have already played a key part in S1’s history: the list includes previous and current studio holders as well as artists who have contributed towards S1’s programme over the last 15 years. However, the exhibition attempts to turn the tables on the concept of the survey show: it is not an occasion of looking backwards, a retrospective survey that simply attempts to celebrate what has already been. Rather, the exhibition itself is presented as a testing space, where selected artists have been invited (back) based on their capacity to both reflect and test out key concerns and issues considered intrinsic to S1’s programming (past, present and future).

Certain artists have been selected to address the architectural potential and limitations of the new premises, where the industrial layout and double-storey height of the space presents a new set of productive constraints against which to work. Others deal more explicitly with the mechanisms and vocabulary of display and presentation, using the context of a new exhibition space to interrogate the process of exhibition itself. Collegiate or collaborative approaches are made central elsewhere in the exhibition, where the line between individual and collective practice is wilfully blurred.

Some works are conceived as support structures or frameworks for hosting or housing the practice of other artists; as emergent environments that establish their own rules, relations and dialogues between artworks and site. The critical concerns of the exhibition (and issues relating to artist-led activity more broadly) will be further addressed and tested through a series of talks, panel discussions and events, collectively entitled S1 Assembly. Together, the exhibition and events programme operate both as a survey of S1’s (past) activity and for surveying its new premises and the potential therein; where the past is drawn upon as a way to test the conditions of the present, as a point of provocation against which to develop and debate possibilities for future action.

David Horvitz

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

David Horvitz is an artist whose work adopts a nomadic personality, shifting seamlessly between the Internet and the printed page, the West Coast, East Coast, and beyond, avoiding any particular definition or medium. Born in Los Angeles and currently based in New York—although his location may change at any given moment—Horvitz frequently encourages participation from both his friends and a web-based audience for his projects, channeling the spirit of conceptual artists who reach out to a community greater than their immediate surroundings. He infuses his practice with generosity and free distribution. - Jenny Borland (Bomb Magazine)

Mixtape #20 is by Brooklyn based artist, David Horvitz, who we interviewed in our Concept Issue and featured in our 01 Magazine Group Exhibition. We are really excited about David&'s new book (which was released today), 'Everything That Can Happen In A Day', which features images of people documenting his daily initiatives on his 2009 blog.

Says David about the mixtape below - All of the songs are from what is currently in my iTunes. My computer is old and falling apart and has no memory, so what is in my iTunes are usually recent acquirements, or songs that have stayed on my computer for years because I can write with them on.

And When You Kiss Me, I Don't Want Anything Else

1. Former Ghosts - And When You Kiss Me
2. Infinite Body - He Runs Without Feet And Holds Without Hands
3. Evangelista - You Are A Jaguar
4. Ches Smith + These Arches - One Long Minute
5. Sibylle Baier - Tonight
6. Ches Smith's Congs For Brums - Difference
7. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Song for Bob
8. Marquis de Tren & Bonny Billy - 64
9. Ô PAON - Nunavik
10. Good for Cows - Invisible Goth
11. Christian Gleinser - Coming Around Again
12. Former Ghosts - Red String

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David Horvitz

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000
127 PRINCE (on the art of social practice and the social practice of art) presents: Horvitz in conversation with Kristina Lee Podesva.

Jan van der Ploeg

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000
Jan van der Ploeg, Warriors II. De Mestre Place, Sydney (Sarah Cottier Gallery).

Arianne Olthaar

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000
Arianne Olthaar is participating in Black Cube at Arti, Amsterdam. Other artists: Femke Schaap & Sjerk Timmer, Tijmen Hauer & Regina Kelaita, Rosa Barba, Tim Leyendekker, Nora Martirosyan, Ruchama Noorda.
12.11.2011, 20:30

Vincent Ganivet

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000
Vincent Ganivet: concrete jungle.
Brest, Ecole des Beaux-arts.

David Horvitz

Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000
studiorent. A series of editions by David Horvitz, which will subsidize the rent of his artist-studio in Brooklyn, New York. Each new piece will be made in the studio during the respective month. Descriptions of current and past pieces will be posted on this web-page.

David Horvitz

Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000
deprofessionalize, 22.75"x16.5", white newsprint, reflex blue. A new poster/work by David Horvitz. More info an order here.

Marius Lut

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000
No 1 matches. Marius Lut & Fabian Westphal. Kunstruimte 09, Groningen, the Netherlands. Opening: 07.11.2010, 15:30
Open: 07.11 — 18.12.2010

Simon Gush

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000
Simon Gush: 4 for Four, a speculative montage for David Oistrakh and Sergei Prokofiev. Micheal Stevenson, South Africa.
Open: 21.10.2010 — 27.11.2010

Michael Stevenson is pleased to present a four-screen video installation by Simon Gush.

4 for Four: A speculative montage for David Oistrakh and Sergei Prokofiev is a musical and visual composition with four storylines that are both independent and interrelated. The piece takes as its point of departure the relationship between the Russian virtuoso violinist David Oistrakh (1908-1974) and Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), one of the most important Russian composers of the 20th century. The two were friends and colleagues who suffered the tensions of working under the Soviet regime while striving to contribute towards shaping its new identity.

The first video in the installation establishes this starting point with a performance of Prokofiev's First Violin Sonata in F minor. Prokofiev dedicated this piece to Oistrakh, who performed the first and third of its four movements at Prokofiev's funeral. Here, the piece is performed by violinist Nadja Nevolovitsch, accompanied by pianist Yannick Van De Velde. The sonata provides a soundtrack for the installation, and the tempos of each movement are subtly echoed as the pace shifts from screen to screen.

The second screen depicts a panel of blue sky, interrupted only by clouds and the occasional bird. This is the sky above the Odessa steps, a reference to Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein's silent film Battleship Potemkin (1925). This pioneering propaganda film dramatised the 1905 rebellion of the battleship's crew in the Ukrainian port of Odessa. The best-known scene is the (fictional) massacre in which Russian soldiers march down the steps, mercilessly cutting down the rebels and bystanders. This scene is regarded as exemplary of Eisenstein's theory of montage, where new ideas are seen to arise from 'the collision of independent shots'.

In the third video Gush has multiple protagonists enact the illusion of walking through a wall. There is a reference here to David Copperfield's famous illusion of 1986 in which he walked through the Great Wall of China. Gush's primary interest is in the idea of the moment of being inside a wall, a concept that recurs in the artist's work as encapsulating a moment of potential.

The final video focuses on the image of a Norwegian glacial landscape, static and silent. Alluding to the slow movement of geologic time, this screen is a reminder of the transitory nature of human life, a eulogy to the passing of Prokofiev and Oistrakh.

Gush puts forward the notion of speculative montage as an open-ended response to Eisenstein's use of montage as a political tool. Fascinated with the complexities of 'speaking politically', Gush adopts a strategy of not approaching things directly, believing that the most effective way to communicate is through allusion and devices such as metonymy and metaphor. In his work, the act of 'saying something political' is continually examined and rehearsed.

Gush held his first major solo exhibition, Sidestep, at Michael Stevenson in 2009, and his first European solo show, First and Third, at Galerie West, The Netherlands, in 2010. 4 for Four premiered in June this year at the SMAK Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent, Belgium.

Born in 1981, Gush graduated with a BA(FA) from the University of Witwatersrand in 2003, and in 2008 completed his postgraduate studies at the Hoger Instituut van Schone Kunsten in Ghent, Belgium. Recent group exhibitions include Halakasha at the Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg (2010); the Lulea Summer Biennial, Sweden (2009); and Die Keuze van Koen van den Broek at Indian Caps, Antwerp (2009).

Jan van der Ploeg

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000
Jan van der Ploeg, Warriors. De Mestre Place, Sydney (Sarah Cottier Gallery).
Open: 23.09.2010 — 31.01.2010