August 17th, 2008 | works, 2008
Recent Works - Künstlerhaus Bethanien - 14.08 - 31.08 - 2008
Installation view Recent Works
Vistitor listening to/viewing the music piece The Constitution of The Republic of Iceland
Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson work with a wide range of artistic media and examine themes relevant to the socio-political situation of public and urban space; their art is a matter of language, urban identity and the effects of globalisation on local communities. The projects are ‘nomadic’: numerous journeys, long periods staying on site and cooperation with local communities and activist groups are established components of Castro’s and Ólafsson’s artistic practice.
In Studio 3, Castro & Ólafsson are showing selected works from the past five years as a representative insight into their artistic practice. Sculptures, photographs, video and sound works made in such contrasting places as Cuba, Spain, the Netherlands, Iceland, Turkey and Germany reflect their personal, poetic-realistic style of committed artistic work as well as the everyday life of a wide spectrum of people – together with its minor and major events, encounters and spaces.
Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson are participants in the International Studio Program of Künstlerhaus Bethanien.
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August 16th, 2008 | works, 2008
Manifesta 7 - Trentino, Italy “PRINCIPLE HOPE” - 19.07 - 02.11 2008
Caregivers, 2008
THE EUROPEAN BIENNIAL
OF CONTEMPORARY ART
TRENTINO – SOUTH TYROL, ITALY
19 JULY – 2 NOVEMBER 2008
All exhibition venues open from 10.00 am to 7.00 pm.
Official Opening: 19 July, 2008.
http://www.manifesta7.it
“PRINCIPLE HOPE”
Curated by Adam Budak
Rovereto, Manifattura Tabacchi and ex Peterlini
Artists:
Alterazioni Video, Michelangelo Antonioni, Knut Åsdam, Bernadette Corporation, Margrét H. Blöndal, Michal Budny, BURGHARD, Nina Canell, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, Claire Fontaine, Oskar Dawicki, Evelina Deicmane, Rä di Martino, Miklós Erhardt and Little Warsaw, Igor Eskinja, Tim Etchells, fabrics interseason, Famed, Didier Fiuza Faustino, João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva, Heide Hinrichs, Heidrun Holzfeind, Runa Islam, Ricardo Jacinto, Ragnar Kjartansson, Barbora Klímová, Daniel Knorr, Adam Leech, Deborah Ligorio, Miks Mitrevics, Christian Philipp Müller, Ewa Partum, Gianni Pettena, Riccardo Previdi, Philippe Rahm, Pamela Rosenkranz, Janek Simon, Luca Trevisani, Tatiana Trouvé, Uqbar Foundation, Guido van der Werve, Nico Vascellari, Danh Vo, Johannes Vogl, Stephen Willats, ZimmerFrei.
Be(com)ing Dutch - Van Abbe Museum - 24.05 - 14.09. 2008
Avant-garde Citizens, 2007-
Samm´s Story, Janneke´s Story and Mpia´s Story
Avant-Garde Citizens (title inspired by the essay We Refugees, written by Hannah Arendt in 1943) is a research into the life and diaspora of refugees and undocumented migrants in the world today, with the Netherlands and it’s rizomatic network as a departure point. The first four video-portraits/testimonies, so far, form the core of the work. They are recordings of people which all have been denied asylum in The Netherlands and also share the experience of having been detained and imprisoned in one or more of the country´s detention- and deportation centers and prisons (8-13 months each) for not possessing a legal permit to stay in the country.
March 18th, 2008 | works, 2008
Bæ Bæ Ísland - Akureyri Art Museum - 15.03. - 11.05. 2008
The Constitution of the Republic of Iceland, 2008
For this work we collaborated with the composer Karólína Eiríksdóttir. We commissioned Karólína to write a music piece where all the 81 articles of the constitution would be sung. The piece is scored for soprano, baritone, piano, double bass and mixed choir and was premiered by soprano Ingibjörg Guðjónsdóttir, baritone Bergþór Pálsson, pianist Tinna Þorsteinsdóttir, bass player Gunnlaugur Torfi Stefánsson and the chamber choir Hymnodia directed by Eyþór Ingi Jónsson.
The work was premiered at Ketilhúsið in Akureyri on March 15th and the performance was a part of the art exhibition Bæ, bæ Ísland, which opened the same day at the Akureyri Art Museum. Curator of the show is Hannes Sigurðsson.
We dedicate this work to the artist Huseyin Alptekin who passed away on new years eve 2007 and whom we loved and admired as a friend and as an artist.
In the show we also present for the first time an overview of the work Your country doesn´t exist - 2003-08, which has taken on various forms.
October 22nd, 2007 | works, 2007
Sequences - Real-Time Art Festival - Reykjavík - 12.10 - 21.10 2007
Kitchen Choreography, 2005
Projected every evening, for the duration of the festival, on a house wall in the city center of Reykjavík, at the corner of Vegamótastígur and Grettisgata.
Video, Black and white / sound - Length: 15 min.
Presented by Safn www.safn.is
In Safn is also to be seen, until 11. November, the video-document Processing Cod, 2005. This is a video registration from a fish-processing plant in the East Fjords of Iceland. Around half of the workers in the plant are immigrants coming from many different places, such as The Philippines, Columbia, Serbia, Poland and Capo Verde.
15 July - 09 September - Avant-garde Citizens - at De Vreemdeling, Rotterdam
Avant-garde Citizens
De Vreemdeling is a public art show organized by the Center of Visual Arts in Rotterdam (CBK) in memory of the philosopher Pierre Bayle, who died 300 years ago in Rotterdam, as well as celebrating CBK’s 25th anniversary.
With works from: Sylvia B. / Libia Castro en Ólafur Ólafsson / Kimberly Clark /
Paul Cox / Ras Elijah en Stichting U-Behave / William Engelen / Jeroen Jongeleen / Dirk van Lieshout / Stefan Rinck / Wendelien van Oldenborgh / Judi Werthein /
Hulya Ylimaz /
For more info (in Dutch) click here
23. june 2007 Chapter 3: The Noise of Money - at The Day of Architecture - Den Haag
Photos from installation of the work in “De Visafslag” on The Day of Architecture in Scheveningen, Den Haag
For more info on The Day of Architecture click here
For earlier installations of the work Chapter 3: The Noise of Money click here, here and here
For text on the work scroll down.
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Vrouwen aan het woord - Landgraaf (NL)
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Vrouwen in Landgraaf, dat is het thema van de workshop die het kunstenaarsduo Libia Castro en Ólafur Ólafsson twee weken lang geeft aan veertien eerstejaars studenten van de Academie voor Beeldende Kunst in Maastricht. Het resultaat van deze workshop wordt aanstaande vrijdag, 25 mei om 16.00 uur gepresenteerd in het Landgraaf25 huis.
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March 16th, 2007 | works, 2007
Here as the Center of the World - DAI Workshop - Diyarbakir
Dinner at the night of arrival.
FOR PRESS RELEASE SCROLL TO BOTTOM
Workshop leaders: Erkan Özgen (Diyarbakir), Libia Castro (Esp), Ólafur Ólafsson (Iceland)
Project Co-curator: Lucy Cotter (Ireland), Project manager: Rik Fernhout (NL)
