bare house ulaanbaatar
11.10.2011 - 03.10.2011
'Bare House Ulaanbaatar' is part of an international exhibition and publication project that comments on the built environment, reflecting upon the past and present ideals of modern society through different traditions and experiences around the world. The project focuses especially on architecture and the dimensions of personal existence with a core idea that as much as we design our environments, these environments design us - and as such we as well as our houses stand naked in the world. This is not a nakedness we should – or could – do away with, but which compels us to be more attentive and subtle with our surroundings.
Dugarsuren Batzorig (MGL), Ganbat Enkhjargal (MGL)), Sedbazar Ganzug (MGL), Aletta de Jong (NL), Chris van Mulligen (NL), Christine Saalfeld (GER/NL), Karin Suter (CH/NL), Togmidshiirev Enkhbold (MGN), Oula Salokannel & Annu Wilenius (FIN)
Zanaabazar Fine Arts Museum, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
In cooperation with Blue Sun Contemporary Art Center & Aalto University, Pori Department of Art and Media, Supported by Arts Council Mongolia, House Company, Alfred Kordelin’s Foundation, Swedish Arts Council in Finland, Kone Foundation, Finnish Arts Council
Opening: Opening 3 October 2011, 15h
the secret garden
19.11.2011 - 21.10.2011
The exhibition The Secret Garden- inspired by British author Frances Hodgson Burnett‘s novel from 1911 of the same name- now uses the gallery space as the specific, real basis for the general- both physical and digital- distribution of art works of its artist around the art circuit and brings together works from artists of the gallery that have not been previously seen at the gallery space. The works on display essentially don‘t pretend to relate in any other context but their affiliation with the gallery. At the same time, the exhibition‘s title offers itself as a loose Leitmotif for diverse strategies of distinction and moments of dissolution of definitions such as Inside and Outside, the Self and the Other, Reality and Mystery, Experience and Thought.
Marc Bauer, Stefan Burger, Discoteca Flaming Star, Dani Gal, Virginia Overton, Elodie Pong, Tanja Roscic, Yorgos Sapountzis, Sylvia Sleigh, Megan Francis Sullivan, Karin Suter
Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zurich, Switzerland
Opening: Opening 21 October, 18hrs
ontological relativity
30.11.2011 - 30.10.2011
'Ontological Relativity’ is referring to an essay by Willard van Orman Quine an American philosopher and logicus. The title indicates an actual visual and mental research project. The ontology is the philosophical study of the nature of being, existance or reality as such, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations. Traditionally listed as a part of the major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics, ontology deals with questions concerning what entities exist or can be said to exist, and how such entities can be grouped, related within a hierarchy, and subdivided according to similarities and differences.
Kunst Rotterdam Noord, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Kunst Rotterdam Noord is een initiatief van Carlo van Driel © 2006
Opening: 16 September 2011, 18h
http://www.culturelekaartrotterdam.nl/agenda-1/calendar:2011-09-19-kunst-rotterdam-noord