ART NEWS:Sept.01

Richard Saltoun GalleryRichard Saltoun Gallery presents the 4th exhibition devoted to Conceptual Art made in Britain during the ‘60s and ‘70s. The exhibition “Some Dimensions of my Lunch: Conceptual Art in Britain: Part 4”, brings together two artist: Ed Herring, a land artist who first gained attention in the ‘60s for his “environmental statements: and Roger Palmer, who combines photograph and text to subvert the traditional view of landscape. This final exhibition in the series illustrates the forgotten history of Conceptual art in Britain, bringing to the forefront works by two undervalued and under-recognised artists, who irrevocably changed our concept of the traditions of modern art. Info: Curators: Joy Sleeman & Richard Saltoun, Richard Saltoun Gallery, 111 Great Titchfield Street, London, Duration: 1-30/9/16, Days & Hours: Mon-Fri 10:00-18:00, www.richardsaltoun.com

bergenBergen Assembly is a perennial model for artistic production and research that is structured around public events taking place in the city of Bergen every 3 years. Originating from the “Bergen Biennial Conference” in 2009 and its critical thinking around the biennial format, the Bergen Assembly seeks to devise alternative timeframes and densities for public presentation and perception today. Pointing to the multitude of practices in contemporary art and related research, the Bergen Assembly 2016 offers three distinct propositions, expanded and developed in different temporal registers by the artistic directors: Tarek Atoui, freethought, and PRAXES. Exhibitions, live events, and publications are continually introduced and produced throughout the year, with a convergence of activities taking place in September, 2016. Info: Bergen Assembly 2016, Duration 1/9-1/10/16, Full program: http://bergenassembly.no

Biennale Mediacity SeoulThe 9th edition of SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul is held in all branches of Seoul Museum of Art under the title “NERIRI KIRURU HARARA”. The biennale is composed of exhibitions, summer camps, publication projects and programs, all conceived as interdependent components. The works and projects participating in Mediacity Seoul 2016 allude, or relay suggestions to the following questions: how to formulate individual and common expectations out of unsought-for inheritances, be it war, disaster, poverty or displacement; how to generate as many versions of futures as possible and imagine plots of radical discontinuity, within the context of South Korea that is marooned in a peninsula-cum-island and finally, how to enable time-slip into these futures through the language of art and the capabilities of media. Info: Artistic Director and Curator: Beck Jee-sook, SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2016, Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), 61 Deoksugung-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul, Duration: 1/9-20/11/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Fri 10:00-20:00, Sat Sun 10:00-19:00, http://mediacityseoul.kr

Academy of the Arts of the WorldFounded in 2012 by the city of Cologne, the Academy of the Arts of the World is a loose virtual collective of art practitioners – visual artists, musicians, dancers, writers, film-makers, curators – from different backgrounds and continents, as well as a cultural institution and a production platform. The PLURIVERSALE, now running into its fifth edition, is a curated program built upon a handpicked, subjective constellation of events ranging across different cultural disciplines and different regions and weaving a complex, quasi-literary narrative. With its screenings, performances, symposiums and concerts, each PLURIVERSALE consistsof separate artistic and discursive elements which, in themselves, can reach high degrees of complexity. But together, they tell a singular story. Info: Curators: Ekaterina Degot, David Riff & Aneta Rostkowska, Academy of the Arts of the World, Cologne, Herwarthstraße 3, Academyspace, Cologne, Duration: 2/9-16/12/16, Days & Hours: Thu-Fri 15:00-19:00, Sat-sun 13:00-18:00, www.academycologne.org

SAO PAULO ART WEEKLatitude: Platform for Brazilian Art Galleries Abroad and SP-Arte host the 1st Art Weekend São Paulo. The Weekend takes place the weekend before the opening of the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo, and brings together 36 Galleries for openings, talks and free events, taking advantage of São Paulo’s rich cultural scene. The weekend also includes Gallery walks throughout the city. The walks are split into four circuits and located in Centro/Barra Funda, Itaim, Jardins, Pinheiros/Vila Madalena. Each of the circuits can be explored on foot or with a free shuttle service that covers a pre-established route, with pick-up and drop-off locations near the participating galleries. Info: Info: Art Weekend São Paulo, São Paulo, Duration: 2-4/9/16, Art Circuits: Centro/Barra Funda, Itaim, Jardins, Pinheiros/Vila Madalena, Days & Hours:  Fri 2/9/16 17:00-22:00, Sat-Sun 3-4/9/16 12:00-20:00, www.latitudebrasil.org

biennale guanzuThe exhibition part of the 11th Gwangju Biennale entitled “The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do?)” opens to the public on September 2. The title is not a “theme” or a “concept,” but indicates a set of parameters of The biennale. It is about placing art center stage, art’s capacity to always say something about the future, connect dots over small and big distances, embeddedness in particular situations, and mediation. What happens if we try to tease out more of the artworks in this eclectic, kaleidoscopic, and puzzling adventure? If we accept their invitation to engage, and take their interpellation more at face value? Info: 11th Gwangju Biennale, 111 Biennale-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju, Duration: 2/9-/11/16, www.the8thclimate.org

Galpão VBThe first solo exhibition of Akram Zaatari in Brazil, spans Associação Cultural Videobrasil entire space. One of the most influential Lebanese artists working today, Zaatari is the author of an oeuvre that reflects on image making and its ties to politics, desire, and memory. The artist in “Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright” presents six pieces and invites us to experience them against one another. For the exhibition, the curators picked works that explore the delicate breach between public and private space, on the one hand, and between past and future, on the other, re-writing homo-social attitudes of male individuals in an Arab context. Info: Curator Solange Farkas & Gabriel Bogossian, Galpão VB, Avenida Imperatriz Leopoldina, 1150, São Paulo, Duration: 3/9-3/12/16, http://site.videobrasil.org.br

Busan Biennale 2016The Busan Biennale 2016 theme is “Hybridizing Earth, Discussing Multitude”. This year’s biennale consist of two exhibitions (Project 1, Project 2) and multifarious programs (Project 3). Project 1 is held at the Busan Museum of Art is an exhibition that sheds light on Chinese, Japanese and Korean experimental avant-Garde art that spontaneously came into being in each country in the ‘60s to ‘80s. The project features 137 artworks submitted by 64 artists or teams from three countries. Project 2: is a thematic exhibition to be held under the title “Hybridizing Earth, Discussing Multitude”. This project is an exhibition that reexamines the biennale system that came into being around the world in the 1990s and will present the role and nature of biennales where new discourses on contemporary art are raised by multiple intelligences. Project 3 features a multitude of programs including academic and educational programs to bring light to the exhibition theme. Info: Artistic Director: Yun Cheagab, Curators: Project 1: Guo Xiaoyan, Sawaragi Noi, Tatehata Akira, Ueda Yuzo & KIM Chan dong, Project 2 Curator : Yun Cheagab, Busan Biennale 2016, Main Venue: Busan Museum of Art, 58 APEC-ro, Haeundae-gu, Busan, Duration: 3/9-30/11/16, Days & Hours: Sun-Fri 10:00-18:00, www.busanbiennale.org

Deweer GalleryNasan Tur in his first solo exhibition in Belgium at Deweer Gallery presents several new photographic works, among others the new series “Sea View”. He presents himself as a true cross-media artist who engages with photography, sculpture, installation and even woodblocks. Existing work is combined with new work, such as the brightly coloured neon letters that together form the misspelled words “communism”, “socialism” and “capithalism”. In his new work Sea View” (2016), Tur presents a series of photographic images of seascapes. The question is whether these seascapes, in the light of the refugee crisis, are really as clean, calm and peaceful as they might seem at first sight. Info: Deweer Gallery, Tiegemstraat 6A, Otegem, Duration 7/9-9/10/16, Days & Hours: Wed-Fri 14:00-18:00, http://deweergallery.be