Month: June 2015

crisis of now 现实的危机

Letter of support for Greece

Letter of support for Greece

Over the past five years, the EU and the IMF have imposed unprecedented austerity on Greece. It has failed badly. The economy has shrunk by 26%, unemployment has risen to 27%, youth unemployment to 60% and, the debt-to-GDP ratio jumped from 120% to 180%. The economic catastrophe has led to a humanitarian crisis, with more than 3 million people on or below the poverty line. … Letter of support for Greece

Artist 艺术家

Lu Pingyuan 陆平原

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Lu Pingyuan, living and working in Shanghai, is a young, one of a kind artist. He expresses his thoughts and art concepts through “stories” he creates: a practice of his own, rare in the art world. His stories – often extraordinary, enigmatic, wondrous, eventually frightening – are all developed from art-related topics. … Lu Pingyuan 陆平原

Artist 艺术家

Com & Com

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http://www.com-com.ch/

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COM & COM (Johannes M. Hedinger / Marcus Gossolt)

 

Com&Com (artist duo est. in 1997 with Marcus Gossolt). Com&Com’s recent projects include Point de Suisse (2014), Bloch (2011), and Mocmoc (2003-08), among others. Com&Com participated in eight Biennials, such as, Venice Biennial and biennials in Shanghai, Singapore, Sharjah, and Moscow. Their solo exhibitions involve projects at the Kunsthaus Zurich, Kunstwerke Berlin and Centre Pasquart Biel (retrospective). In the last seventeen years the duo participated in over 130 exhibitions. For more information, see http://www.com-com.ch

… Com & Com

Artist 艺术家

Yan Lei 颜磊

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https://yanleidocumenta13.wordpress.com
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YAN Lei was born in Hebei Province, China in 1965, and graduated from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now known as the China Academy of Art), in Hangzhou, in 1991. Yan is a singular and unconventional figure in the Chinese contemporary art world. Adopting an independent and distant attitude, he explores and unveils different issues, such as power relationship, competition or the closeness of values and prices, that exist in the art system, through various media ranging from painting, sculpture, installation to video and performance. His works often incorporate multiple and often contradictory values. This ambiguousness shows, on the one hand, the artist’s alertness to and reflection on the various problems in art making today, and on the other, the solitude that he has from being part of the system and his complex feelings confronted with vulgar reality. … Yan Lei 颜磊

Artist 艺术家

Zheng Yunhan 郑云瀚

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1978 born in Heilongjiang, P.R. China
Artist and professional exhibition designer, live and work in Beijing.
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1978年出生于黑龙江，职业艺术家、空间设计师，现生活在北京。

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Artist 艺术家

David Siepert & Stefan Baltensperger

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www.baltensperger-siepert.com

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Zurich based artists Stefan Baltensperger (Switzerland, 1976) and David Siepert (Germany, 1983) have been collaborating since 2007. Baltensperger + Siepert’s artistic practice reflects critically upon social, cultural, and political issues. By immersing themselves in diverse systems, they aim to expose and manipulate them. Since 2010 the focus of their work has been on political matters and on developing an understanding of postcolonial structures. … David Siepert & Stefan Baltensperger

Artist 艺术家

Thomas Eller

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http://www.thomaseller.com/

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Thomas Eller (born 8 September 1964) is a German visual artist and writer. Born and raised in the German district of Franconia he left Nürnberg in 1985 to study fine art at the Berlin University of the Arts. After his forced dismission he studied sciences of religion, philosophy and art history at Free University of Berlin. During this time he was also working as a scientific assistant at the Science Center Berlin for Social Research (WZB). … Thomas Eller

Artist 艺术家

Wang Yiquan 王懿泉

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Wang Yiquan, born in 1987 in Beijing, is an artist currently based in Shanghai. He graduated from Beijing International Studies University with a BA in Journalism(2010) and then studied MA Narrative Environments at Central Saint Martins in London(2012). … Wang Yiquan 王懿泉

Artist 艺术家

Xu Qu 徐渠

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http://www.xuqu.org/

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Xu Qu, b. 1978 Jiangsu Province, graduated from the Oil Painting Department at the Nanjing Arts Institute in 2002. He studied under Professor John Armleder at the Braunschweig University of Art in Germany from 2005 to 2007, and graduated in 2008. He lives and works in Beijing. … Xu Qu 徐渠

Artist 艺术家

Tang Nannan 汤南南

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http://www.tangnannan.com/

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Tang Nannan (B. 1969, Yunxiao, Fujian Province,China), 1988 Graduated from: Department of Fine arts, Jimei Normal Technical School, 1995 B.F.A. Graduated from Department of Fine arts, Xiamen University, 2004 M.F.A.Graduated from Department of Fine arts, Xiamen University, Currently Teaches in the Art College, Jimei University, China Academy of Art  PHD candidate. … Tang Nannan 汤南南

Artist 艺术家

Salla Tykkä

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http://www.sallatykka.com/

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Salla Tykkä is a visual artist who works with film and video since 1996. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki 2003 and participated in the Venice Biennale 2001.

Her latest solo exhibitions include: BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, 2013; Drimart Garibadi, Istanbul, 2012; EX3, Florence, 2011; Hayward Gallery Project Space, London, 2010. … Salla Tykkä

Artist 艺术家

Marc Lee

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http://1go1.net

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Marc Lee (born 1969 in Switzerland) creates network-oriented interactive projects since 1999. Experimenting with information and communication technologies, his projects locate and critically discuss economic, political, cultural and creative “issue-clusters” that are essential for communication processes in digital networks. … Marc Lee

Artist 艺术家

Chim Pom

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http://chimpom.jp/

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Artist collective formed in 2005 in Tokyo with Ushiro Ryuta, Hayashi Yasutaka, Ellie, Okada Masataka, Inaoka Motomu and Mizuno Toshinori and all in their twenties at the time. Responding instinctively to the “real” of their times, Chim↑Pom has continuously released works that fully intervene in contemporary society with strong social messages. … Chim Pom

Art works 作品

The Random Darknet Shopper 自由黑暗网络买手

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https://wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.bitnik.org/r/

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!MEDIENGRUPPE BITNIK

The Random Darknet Shopper

online / offline robotic project

2014

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The Random Darknet Shopper is an automated online shopping bot which we provide with a budget of $100 in Bitcoins per week. Once a week the bot goes on shopping spree in the deep web where it randomly choses and purchases one item and has it mailed to us. The items are shown in the exhibition «The Darknet. From Memes to Onionland» at Kunst Halle St. Gallen. Each new object ads to a landscape of traded goods from the Darknet. … The Random Darknet Shopper 自由黑暗网络买手

Artist 艺术家

!Mediengruppe Bitnik

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https://wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.bitnik.org

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!Mediengruppe Bitnik (read – the not mediengruppe bitnik) live and work in Zurich/London. They are contemporary artists working on and with the Internet. Their practice expands from the digital to affect physical spaces, often intentionally applying loss of control to challenge established structures and mechanisms. !Mediengruppe Bitniks works formulate fundamental questions concerning contemporary issues. … !Mediengruppe Bitnik

Artist 艺术家

The Double Fly Art Center 双飞艺术中心

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http://www.doubleflyart.com/

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The Double Fly Art Center established in 2008, graduates by 9 young people graduated from identical academy and department. All the time, “Double Fly” to the name of a “Art Center”organization and creation seems to be related with the contemporary art activities and works, They specializes in a great variety of artistic model, traditional’s like Ink of birds and flowers, sketch avatar; modern’s such as modern dance, the third brother animation. … The Double Fly Art Center 双飞艺术中心

Artist 艺术家

Chen Qiulin 陈秋林

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Chen Qiulin (1975 born in Yichang City, Hubei Province) graduated from Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Print Department. She is an outstanding artist of China’s younger generation. Her works concern the social impact from China’s political and economic reforms. … Chen Qiulin 陈秋林

Artist 艺术家

Cao Kai 曹恺

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Cao Kai, a contemporary artist and independent curator.

Born in 1969, from Changzhou, Jiangsu Province. After graduating from Nanjing Academy of the Arts  in 1992，he worked in Nanjing TV Station for many years. He established PEEXIE Studio in Nanjing in 2000, whose work includes the creation, criticism, historical research, exhibition, and education of experimental films and video art, associating with other fields, such as documentary, new media art and digital art. … Cao Kai 曹恺

Artist 艺术家

Yuan Gong 原弓

http://www.yuangong-art.com/
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Born in Shanghai in 1961, Yuan Gong obtained a PhD degree at the Chinese National Academy of Arts in 2012, but has immersed himself in different aspects of Chinese contemporary art since the 1990s. Being both creator and researcher, designer and planner, Yuan Gong is a multiple facets artist playing at the interface of conceptual art, performance and fine arts. Using a large variety of media, his artworks address many philosophical questions, reflecting his concerns about the Chinese society and the art system. … Yuan Gong 原弓

Artist 艺术家

Xu Tan 徐坦

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http://www.xutan-keywords.com/work/

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Xu Tan was born in Wuhan, Hubei Province in 1957 and currently lives in Guangzhou and Shenzhen. In 1993, he became a member of the “Big Tail Elephant Group” (Da Wei Xiang), an experimental artistic group formed in Guangzhou. His work has been shown around the world, including at the 53rd and 50th Venice Biennials, the 2nd Berlin Biennia, the 2nd Guangzhou Triennial and the 4th Kwangju Biennial, amongst others.
… Xu Tan 徐坦

Artist 艺术家

Marianne Heier 马瑞安•海儿

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http://marianneheier.no/

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Marianne Heier (b. 1969) lives and works in Oslo. In her projects she often explores specific institutions ‘from the inside’. Her work can be seen as situated within an institution-critical artistic tradition; but Heier’s critique from the inside is more often the result of personal engagement, motivated by personal, lived experience, than of a calculated, strategic institution-critical praxis. Questions related to economy and the circulation of value are central in her work, and she has often used gifts as an artistic strategy. … Marianne Heier 马瑞安•海儿

interviews 访谈

2015年5月1日


Li Zhenhua: Viewer is the closest person for the artist
李振华：对艺术家来说观众是最亲近的人
英译中：马楠

Li Zhenhua is one of curators of the Main project of the 3rd Ural Industrial biennial of contemporary art. He has visited Ekaterinburg in April. We discussed what it means to be a curator, that a budget does not always play a definitive role and that a viewer is the same art object as a piece of art. To illustrate this interview we’ve chosen some projects of the artists who are working with Zhenhua.
李振华是第三届乌拉尔工业双年展当代艺术部分的主项目策展人。他四月份到访叶卡捷林堡期间我们探讨了什么是策展人，还谈到展览预算不总是决定性因素，以及观众和艺术作品同样重要等等问题。 … 2015年5月1日

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2015年6月11日

开通这个网站的主要目的，还是希望能让整个想法越来越规整，不间断的通过这一非线性的逻辑，推进整个项目的整体情况。