Nov 18th – Dec 18th, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, November 18th 6-9pm
Galleri Box
Kastellgatan 10
Gothenburg, Sweden
Time Capsule
Time Capsule is a presentation of Chinese artist Lu Pingyuan’s work process during his stay in Gothenburg as IASPIS fellow. In order to explore new ways of exhibition production and to remove himself from the standard practices of showing exhibitions of contemporary art in China today, Lu has chosen to present his work in the form of models even though the work has been created in full scale. The artist sees the gallery space as a medical capsule where the art becomes the active ingredient and the space the inactive vessel – the capsule. This specific capsule is a slice of time from his stay in Sweden and Lu’s medicine that helps him to achieve calmness. The exhibition orbits round subjects such as; competition within the art world and the different rules this game has in China and the Western world, artists frustration over always being pressured for innovation and originality and investigates the relationship between communist ideology and contemporary art.
Lu Pingyuan b. 1984, Zhejiang, China is a graduate from Shanghai Institute of Design China Academy of Art who now lives and works in Shanghai. His solo exhibitions and several group shows include: ”Autonomous breathing” in M50 Creative Space, Shanghai (2010). The Youth Sale Store, Peking Fine Arts, Beijing (2010), DDM warehouse space, Shanghai (2009): Art Economies beyond Pattern Recognition, Osage Gallery, Shanghai (2009): KÅT A4 Galleri Box, Gothenburg (2009): Xiaozhizuo no. 8, Zhenda MOMA (2009): Xiaozhizuo no. 5, Shopping Gallery Shanghai (2008)
With the support of IASPIS and The Mommy Foundation. Thanks to Louise Lam for interpreting.
Presentation by artists Lu Pingyuan och Hu Yun, CN
Friday October 7th 6.30–8.30 pm
Galleri Box, Kastellgatan10, Göteborg
On Friday the 7th of October this autumns IASPIS artist-in-residence Lu Pingyuan and Shanghai based artist Hu Yun presented their artistic practice as well as the creative milieu in China today. The discussion was moderated by Biljana Ciric co-curator of the Manchester Asia Triennale 2011.
Lu Pingyuan will exhibit later this autumn at Galleri Box, 19th of November–18th December.
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Lecture by Shanghai based curator Biljana Ciric on Wednesday October 5th from 6-8pm at Hörsalen at the Gothenburg Konstmuseum, Götaplatsen.
Serbian independent curator and writer Biljana Ciric lives and works since several years in Shanghai. Previously she worked at Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art and co-curated the Chinese participation in the Singaporebiennale 2006. Her project Migration Addicts was part of the Venice Biennale 2007 and the Shenzhen/Hong Kong Bi-city Biennial of Urbanism and Architecture. Among her exhibitions one can find Strategies from Within – Contemporary Art Practices in Vietnam and Cambodia and a retrospective of Yoko Ono, both at the Ke Center for Contemporary Art, the Guangdong Museum of Art. She has further curated the site specific public interbvention project intrude 366, 2008, and in 2009 History in Making: Shanghai 1979–2009: 30 Years Retrospective of Shanghai Contemporary Culture. Her most recent project is Contemporaneity – Contemporary Art of Indonesia at the Shanghais MoCA, and Body as a Museum that was shown at Tensta konsthall last winer 2010-11. She is the initator of Taking the Stage Over, a yearlong investigation realted to performative aspects within contempoitrayt art and has presented Bestue Vives, Tino Sehgal and Antti Laitinen. She is the co-curator för Asia Triennial Manchester 2011 that opened this September.
Biljana Ciric is a regular contributor to several publications such as Yi Shu Journal, Flash Art and participated in the former number of Paletten.
Biljana Ciric expert visit in Gothenburg is organized by curator Karen Diamond and artist Josefina Posch, with the support of Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Galleri Box and IASPIS
As one of the jurors for the selection I must say that there were plenty of risktaking and innovative projects submitted from unexpected places around the world and I am happy to announce that the apexart Francise in 2012 will be in Mexico City curated by Jaya Kloara Brekke and Julio Salazar and in Johannesburg curated by Katharina Rohde.
For more information go to apexart
The artist included in the video screening are: Jordan Baseman (UK), Brice Dellsperger (FRA), Magdalena Dziurlikowska (PL/SE), Frida Franker (SE), Eliana Ivarsdotter Haddad (SE), Richard Phillips (US), Eszter Szabó (HU).
For detailed information on the program go here.
On Thursday morning the Guerrilla Girls met up with a great mix of almost 30 artists, filmmakers and cultural producers for a brainstorming workshop at Galleri Box.
Part of the Nordic Tour Gothenburg stop, the Guerrilla Girls Frida Kahlo and Kathe Kollwitz conducted a classroom visit with students from the Valand School of Fine Arts at the Gothenburg University.
Guerrilla Girls gearing up for the classroom visit
Using the former Fine Arts Library at Valand for the meeting
Guerrilla Girls Performance at Konsthallen Gothenburg
Wednesday April 20th from 6-8pm
Free and Open to the public
Workshop at Galleri Box, Gothenburg
Thursday April 21st from 10 am – 1pm
Free but mandatory registration at guerrillagirls@snowballproductions.com
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