In 2011, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain will host the next edition of project room @ aquarium, an artist-in-residency programme based in the so-called “Aquarium”, a 175 sqm steel and glass pavilion. This international residency programme, while welcoming proposals taking full advantage of the place’s very specific architecture, is encouraging applications aiming to stimulate exchange and debate in relation with the local context and socio-cultural issues in Luxembourg.

project room @ aquarium forms an integral part of the Casino Luxembourg’s agenda of exhibitions and events. Furthermore to the work that the participants are asked to realise during their stay in Luxembourg, they are expected to participate in the activities of Casino Luxembourg on specific occasions to be defined with the Casino team. Their project will be exhibited over a period of two months at the end of the residency and documented in a publication.

The residency is open to all individuals or artists' collectives wishing to develop their practice in a professional context by creating new work. Applicants are free to choose their means of artistic expression but must give documented proof of at least three years' work and exhibition practice and not be older than 40 years. In order to facilitate communication with the local scene, participants should be fluent in either English, French or German. All applicants must hold a valid visa for the duration of the residency.

Deadline for applications: 12 January 2011

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Temple Bar Gallery and Studios (TBG&S), Suomen Lontoon instituutti ja HIAP julistavat haettavaksi kuraattoriresidenssin Dublinissa syyskuussa 2011.

TBG&S ja HIAP ovat tehneet yhteistyötä vuodesta 2007 alkaen. Tänä aikana seitsemän taiteilijaa Irlannista ja Suomesta on tehnyt luovaa työtään Dublinissa ja Helsingissä vastavuoroisessa vaihdossa. Kuraattoriresidenssitoiminta alkoi Dublinissa onnistuneesti 2010, ja toimintaa jatketaan vuonna 2011.

Kuukauden mittaista, syyskuussa 2011 toteutettavaa residenssijaksoa voivat hakea Suomessa asuvat ja nykytaiteen parissa aktiivisesti työskentelevät kuraattorit. Vapaamuotoinen hakemus tulee jättää osoitteeseen HIAP ry, Tallberginkatu 1 C 97, 00180 Helsinki maanantaina 14.2.2011 mennessä. Valinnasta ilmoitetaan maaliskuun lopussa.

Kuraattori saa käyttöönsä yksiön ja työhuoneen Dublinin keskustasta ja 1000 euron suuruisen kuukausistipendin lisäksi hänen matkakustannuksensa korvataan. Lisäksi Suomen Dublinin suurlähetystö kustantaa kuraattorille hänen aikatauluistaan riippuen loppukeväästä 2011 kaksi-kolmipäiväisen vierailun Dubliniin, jonka tarkoituksena on saada ensikosketus kaupunkiin ja sen taidekenttään, ja helpottaa näin prosessia varsinaisen residenssikuukauden osalta.

Residenssinsä aikana kuraattori työskentelee yhdessä Temple Bar Gallery and Studiosin projektistudioista. TBG&S:n henkilökunta ja kuraattorit antavat vierailevalle kuraattorille tukensa verkostoitumisessa, Dublinin kuvataidekenttään integroitumisessa ja paikalliseen visuaaliseen kulttuuriin perehtymisessä.

Tavoitteena on, että kuraattori valmistelee residenssin aikana näyttelyehdotuksen TBG&S:n galleriaan huhtikuun 2012 - maaliskuun 2013 väliselle ajalle. Parhaassa tapauksessa näyttely tai projekti tuo yhteen Suomen ja Irlannin visuaalisen kulttuurin, kuitenkin sijoittuen kansainväliseen taiteen kontekstiin. Näyttelyyn on mahdollista saada tukea Näyttelyvaihtokeskus FRAME:lta. Lisäksi vieraileva kuraattori järjestää yhdessä vastaanottavan organisaation kanssa jonkin pienimuotoisen julkisen tilaisuuden kuten luennon, screeningin, performanssin tai keskustelun residenssin aikana.

Kuraattoriresidenssi TBG&S:ssa syyskuussa 2011 ajoittuu samanaikaisesti Dublin Contemporaryn, uuden laajan nykytaidenäyttelyn kanssa (6.9.-31.10.2011). Esillä on sekä irlantilaista että kansainvälistä nykytaidetta, sekä nousevia että jo paikkansa vakiinnuttaneita taiteilijoita niin Dublinin suurissa kulttuuri-instituutioissa kuin vastikään perustetuissa uusissa tiloissa. Lisätietoa näyttelystä www.dublincontemporary.com.

TBG&S on merkittävin nykytaiteen tila Dublinin keskustassa. Temple Barissa, Dublinin kulttuurikortteleissa sijaitseva TBG&S on ollut Dublinin taide-elämän kulmakivi jo yli neljännesvuosisadan. Käyttötarkoitukseensa suunniteltu rakennus sisältää 30 työhuonetta taiteilijoille sekä korkeatasoisen gallerian. Taiteilijoiden ja taidehallinnon yhteistyönä vuonna 1983 syntyneen organisaation perusajatuksena on alusta lähtien ollut tarjota hyvin varustettuja työtiloja ammattitaiteijoille, tuoda näytteille korkeatasoista irlantilaista ja kansainvälistä nykytaidetta sekä edistää visuaalisen kulttuurin tietämystä, ymmärrystä ja arvostusta.

Yhteistyössä Suomen Lontoon instituutti ja Näyttelyvaihtokeskus FRAME.

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Kuraattori Marita Muukkonen, HIAP ry
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Temple Bar Gallery & Studios
Suomen Lontoon instituutti

Current Helsinki International Curatorial Programme resident Martin Renteria aims to create exchange programmes between Mexican and Finnish artists and art institutions. The residency in Helsinki is organised by FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange and HIAP - Helsinki International Artist-in-residence Programme.

“In Mexico there are many artists, but no performing spaces, supporting organisations or budgets. The performance art scene in Finland is very different. Active live art centres such as Perfo! in Pori, Platform in Vaasa, Turku and Tampere as well as Là-bas and New Art Contact in Helsinki are very focused, knowing the needs of the artists”, says Martin Renteria, currently studying the Finnish live art curating scene in Helsinki.

During his residency, the curator focuses on researching Finnish performance artists and planning an exchange between Finnish and Mexican performance artists. Finnish artists already confirmed for his international performance art festival ‘Transmuted 2011’ are Roi Vaara, Willem Wilhelmus, Irma Luhta and Suvi Parilla. The 10-month-long performance art festival organised in February-November 2011 in Mexico will feature 130 artists from 50 countries around the world.

A performing artist himself, Renteria has performed in Suomenlinna and Vaasa during his residency. Using his body, he plays with universal concepts such as space, power, balance, time and uncertainty.

“I like to explore time, space, the relation between the present and the future in our personal lives – the psychological perception of time. The psychological perception of time in Finland is completely different than anywhere else. My upcoming performance will explore this question, in a slightly sarcastic and ironic way.”

Martin Renteria will perform at the performance art event organised by NYTE ry in 3H+K Gallery in Pori 17 December. Finnish artists include Heidi Montti, Teemu Kilpeläinen, Tiia-Mari Aalto, Aapo Korkeaoja and Peter Rosvik.

The Helsinki International Curatorial Programme is organised by FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange and HIAP – Helsinki International Artist-in-residence Programme.

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The board of the Finnish Fine Arts Academy Foundation has decided to extend  Laura Köönikkä’s assignment as the Artistic Director of FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange until the end of June 2011.

Köönikkä's responsibilities include presentations of grant applications, taking charge of residencies, visitor programs as well as the exhibition in the Alvar Aalto Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2011.

La Galerie, a non profit Contemporary Art Centre located in the suburbs of Paris, hosts each year a foreign curator in residence for a period of three months. First organised in 2006, the aim of the residency is to put on an exhibition at La Galerie within the context of a public art centre, and to meet artists and professionals working in the contemporary art field in France.

Founded in 1999, La Galerie offers a programme based on the notion of art as a sensory experience and a reflection of our relation to the world through a conceptual approach. Four exhibitions a year (two monographic, two thematic) offer hitherto unseen works by internationally recognized artists together with those of emerging French artists.

The centre's main activities are to produce art works, publish bilingual reference publications, host artists and curators in residence and develop educational activities in relation to the artistic programme.

Residency dates: 7 April – 9 July 2011
Exhibition dates: 28 May– 23 July 2011

Deadline: application to be emailed This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to the attention of: Marianne Lanavère, Director at the latest 10 January 2011.

Details on the residency and application criteria can be downloaded here.

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Within the framework of the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art in 2012, curated by Artur Żmijewski, artists from all over the world are requested to send in their artist material for a research investigation, following the conditions below.

We accept artistic material in hard copy formats not bigger than A3 (297 x 420 mm or 11.69 x 16.54 in.), printed images, digital data, as well as DVDs. PDFs in A4 (297 mm x 210 mm or 11.7 x 8.3 in.) or fax will also be accepted. Please do not send any original artworks.

We welcome all possible languages of your artistic comments and explanations. However there should equally be an English version.

As the research also focuses on the question whether artists consider themselves to be political, please inform us about your political inclination (e.g. rightist, leftist, liberal, nationalist, anarchist, feminist, masculinist, or whatever you identify yourself with) or whether you are not interested in politics at all.

Please send your artistic statement or presentation as a hardcopy via regular mail, via e-mail or fax to the following address or number before January 15, 2011:

Berlin Biennale
– Open Call –
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststraße 69
10117 Berlin/Germany

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The Berlin Biennale is organized by KW Institute for Contemporary Art and funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation).

The Hayward Gallery Project Space at the Southbank Centre in London presents 'Airs Above the Ground' (2010), a new film by the Finnish artist Salla Tykkä.

The film focuses on the Lipizzan horse, the oldest extant pedigree breed in Europe. The stallions are bred to perform haute école or 'high school' classical dressage, including the stylized and highly controlled jumps and poses known as 'airs above the ground'.

Featuring footage of young foals running through seemingly wild woodland and adult stallions completing balletic feats of dressage, Tykkä's film explores the uncertain line between nature and culture. It might also be read as an investigation into past and present anxieties regarding class, race, and (genetic) destiny.

Salla Tykkä was born in 1973 in Helsinki, Finland, where she lives and works today. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki 2003. She has been working with photography, video and film since 1996, and she participated the Venice Biennale 2001.

The exhibition is curated by Tom Morton and supported by FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange.

Salla Tykkä: Airs Above the Ground

Hayward Gallery Project Space
Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London

Private view 19 Nov, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Exhibition open 20 Nov - 2 January, 10am - 6pm

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Salla Tykkä

Italian curator and art critic Lorella Scacco offers a broad survey of the development of video art in the Nordic Countries from the 60’s up to today.

‘Northwave: A Survey of Video Art in Nordic Countries’ investigates the concept of the Nordic through opinions by theorists and artists from the last decade (1999-2009).

The bilingual (Italian / English) book is divided into two parts. The first essay investigates the early video experiments of the 60s through the 80s in the Nordic Countries. The second essay studies the “Nordic Miracle” generation in the 90s and up to now, describing the issues, trends and work of these artists.

Finnish artists featured in the book include Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Lauri Astala, Elina Brotherus, Laura Horelli, Liisa Lounila, Mika Taanila, Salla Tykkä and Roi Vaara.

'Northwave: A Survey of Video Art in the Nordic Countries' is published in 2009 by SilvanaEditoriale.

Northwave is supported by FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange.

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Lorella Scacco

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Helsinki-based painter Anna Tuori  has been selected as Young Artist of the Year 2011. Tuori is the 27th young Finnish artist selected for the award.

Tuori (born 1976, lives and works in Helsinki) has spoken to Finnish and international art audiences with her unique painterly language for many years already, demonstrating her stylistic capacity for transformation.

Recurring elements in Tuori’s works include dreamlike distorted worlds, disintegrating idylls, elements of horror, landscapes, faceless human figures and seemingly lost animals. However, the brushwork and the palette also occupy an important role in her art.

The prize consists of an award of 20,000 euros, given by the City of Tampere with support from Nokia Plc., as well as a solo exhibition in the Tampere Art Museum in with an attendant publication. The exhibition will be open to public 19 February 2011.

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Jussi Niva: Timely Remains -kirja esittelee kuvataiteilija Jussi Nivan maalaustuotantoa 1990-luvulta tähän päivään. Kahden kirjoittajan artikkelit ja niiden lomittainen teoskuvasarjojen esitys hahmottaa kuvaa tilallisesti moniulotteisesta taidemaalarista.

Kirjan pääkirjoittaja on Hollannin taide- ja tiedeakatemian professori Miele Bal, joka on tunnettu mm. lukuisista analyyttistä teoksistaan nykytaiteen, barokin ja feminismin saroilta. Artikkeli  "Timely Remains" avaa Nivan uudemman tuotannon maalauksissa tapahtuvaa ajan ja tilan käsitteiden monitasoista esitystä sekä abstraktion tulkintaa.

Toisen kirjoittajan, Inkamaija Itiän artikkeli "Esittämisen tila ja jälkimoderni näyttämö: Jussi Nivan Exposet" analysoi Nivan varhaisempien teossarjojen näyttämöllisyyttä panoraaman ja montaasin käsittein.

Jussi Niva: Timely Remains ISBN 978-952-5654-28-8
Kirjan koko 25 x 29 cm, 200 sivua, kovat kannet, lankasidonta, 62 teoskuvaa, neliväripainatus

Taitto: Helena Sandman ja Jussi Niva
Parvs Publishing

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Jussi Niva
Pars Publishing