Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, Uterus Flags, 2005

Curator: Edith Doove

For participating artists etc. see www.superhasselt.be

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Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, Casa Beyond – Info Coffeepot, 2005

Pursuit of Happiness
4 September through 30 October 2005
Opening hours: Wednesday through Sunday 11.00 – 18.00 hrs.
Address: Hogeweide 3-3b, 3541 BC Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht

Organized and produced by Bureau Beyond
www.beyondutrecht.nl / www.pursuitofhappiness.nl

Featuring new work by:
Monica Bonvicini (I), Esra Ersen (TR), Jacob Kolding (DK), Guillaume Leblon (F), Erik van Lieshout (NL), Claudia & Julia Müller (CH), Tomas Saraceno (AR), Libia Pérez de Siles de Castro (ES) & Ólafur Árni Ólafsson (IS), Barbara Visser (NL).
Films & Videos by:
Sol Aramendi, (AR) Persijn Broersen and Margit Lukács (NL), Loulou Cherinet (SE), John Bock (D), Dagmar Keller and Marti Wittwer (D), Aernout Mik (NL), Helena Muskens and Quirine Racké (NL), Anri Sala (AL), Corinna Schnitt (D), Santiago Sierra (ES), Marijke van Warmerdam (NL).

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Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, Chapter 3: The Noise of Money

The lives of many world citizens are affected by forced migration, while numerous others can travel freely and frequently. The harsh reality of people who do not move by their own choice is at odds with the lives and liberties of the privileged, like artists, who are invited to exhibit their work all over the world.
Yet, many artists are pre-occupied with their fellow men: and in their work migration and mobility, assimilation and translation, are key issues today. Alongside cinematic and documentary approaches the essentially visual discipline of contemporary artists seems even to be a conditio sine qua non to analyse and deconstruct the complex imagery and semantics concerned. The �On Mobility� project explores various views of the subject and it shows works made by artists who examine mobility in the broadest sense.

Curator: Saskia Bos, director De Appel.

www.onmobility.net

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Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, installation view: Dyn Lân bestiet niet (Your country doesn´t exist) – Vitrine with post-stamp prototype

“Show me the creative force of Rotterdam” said Sjarel Ex when he was appointed Managing Director of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. The exhibition called ‘Project Rotterdam’ is the response. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen gathered a large number of artists and designers to show the public the current artistic barometer on Rotterdam art and design.

Press Release Project Rotterdam

http://www.mac.com/PARTICIPATING ARTISTS & DESIGNERS

Babak Afrassiabi, Iran 1969, Lara Almarcegui, ES 1972, Atelier Van Lieshout, NL, established in 1995, Antistrot, NL, working together since 1997, Bas van Beek, NL 1974, Jurgen Bey, NL 1965, Marc Bijl, NL 1970, Bik Van der Pol, NL, working together since 1994, Frank Bruggeman, NL 1966, The Buggers, NL, working since 2004, Jason Coburn, UK 1969, Ronald Cornelissen, NL 1960, Crimson, NL, established in 1994, €unit, NL, established in 2005, Fucking Good Art, NL, started in 2003, Joost van Gorsel, NL 1980, Jeanne van Heeswijk, NL 1965, Philippine Hoegen, NL 1970, Aletta de Jong, NL 1967, Jeroen Jongeleen, NL 1968, Hella Jongerius, NL 1963, Chris Kabel, NL 1975, Aleksander Komarov, Belarus 1971, Dirk van Lieshout, NL 1973, Melvin Moti, NL 1977, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, ES 1970- IS 1973, Bertjan Pot, NL 1975, Bas Princen, NL 1975, Olga Russel, NL 1968, Tomas Saraceno, Argentina 1973, Charlotte Schleiffert, NL 1967, Wieki Somers, NL 1976, Spacemaker (pseudonym Aad Stierum), NL 1964, T, (©), H & M, NL, established in 2000, Telcosystems, NL, working together since 2001, Sophia Tabatadze, Georgia 1977, Ellie Uyttenbroek, NL 1965, & Ari Versluis, NL 1965, Lidwien van de Ven, NL 1963, Hans Wilschut, NL 1966, Mels van Zutphen, NL 1963
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The first Reykjavik Art Festival dedicated to visual art will open May 14/15 2005. This international exhibition brings attention to Iceland as a site of cultural production and coincides with the staging of the first major exhibition of the work of Dieter Roth in his adopted homeland. In recognition of the significance of Roth in Iceland and for recent contemporary art practice, his work provides the thematic inspiration for the Festival’s exhibition. Material Time/Work Time/Life Time brings together both Roth’s contemporaries and a recent generation whose work could be said to share the artist’s interest in collapsing the boundaries between art, life, and materiality.
In the spirit of Roth’s excessiveness, over twenty venues and sites have come together to work in unison for the first time. Encompassing Reykjavik itself, the surrounding communities, as well as the major Icelandic towns and outdoor locations, the exhibition will introduce the work of international and Icelandic artists with works made specifically for this exhibition. This ambitious project opens simultaneously with the Dieter Roth exhibition that will be housed in Reykjavik’s two major museums. The starting point for Material Time/Work Time/Life Time will be in the Roth exhibition itself where artists will be invited to extend Roth’s later, unfinished works.
Artists selected for the exhibition range from those whose practice could be said to relate directly to Roth’s work and those whose concerns, though not immediately informed by Roth, are conceptually allied. Directly suggestive of the working practice and processes of Roth are, for example: the accumulative installations of Thomas Hirschhorn and Jonathan Meese; the material and geological flux of works by Urs Fischer and Olafur Eliasson; archives of the everyday such as that of Fischli and Weiss or Haraldur Jonsson; and the textual and conceptual projects of Lawrence Weiner and Kristjan Gudmundsson. Other artists have been selected for their broad interest in Roth-like themes or forms: such as temporality and the ephemeral, evident for example in the work of Gabriel Kuri and Hreinn Fridfinnson; an investigation of daily life or behaviour as exhibited by Carsten Höller and Libia Pérez de Siles de Castro and Ólafur Árni Ólafsson; the experiential sculptural encounter such as that created by Mico Assael and Hekla Jonsdottir; and the performative exploration of time and materiality revealed in the work of artists such as Ragnar Kjartansson and Matthew Barney. Roth’s multifarious project is such that the residue of his legacy can be traced in a variety of overlapping and even conflicting directions. Formal and conceptual, monumental and unstable, Roth’s work remains a fertile and under-appreciated source for contemporary practice.

Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson – Chapter 3: The Noise of Money, Museum ASÍ

Material Time/Work Time/Life Time

Artists:
Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla (US/Puerto Rico), Micol Assaël (Italy), Matthew Barney (US), Margrét Blöndal (Iceland), Olafur Eliasson (Iceland/Denmark), Fischli and Weiss (Switzerland), Hreinn Fridfinnson (Iceland), Gabriela Fridriksdottir (Iceland), Dan Graham (US), Kristjan Gudmundsson (Iceland), Elin Hanssdottir (Iceland), Thomas Hirschhorn (France/Switzerland), Carsten Höller (Sweden/Germany), Hekla Jonsdottir (Iceland), Haraldur Jonsson (Iceland), Brian Jungen (Canada), John Bock (US), Ragnar Kjartansson (Iceland), Gabriel Kuri (Mexico), Anna Líndal (Iceland), Jonathan Meese (Germany), Anri Sala (Albania), Bojan Sarcevic (Bosnia), Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson (Spain/Iceland/Netherland), Lawrence Weiner (US), Wilhelm Sasnal (Poland)

Curator Jessica Morgan

Press Release Reykjavík Art Festival

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’Dyn lân bestiet net’ (Jouw land bestaat niet) luidt de verontrustende mededeling van het kunstenaarsduo Libia Pérez de Siles de Castro en Ólafur Árni Ólafsson. Met Beetsterzwaag als uitvalsbasis zal het duo de komende weken in vrolijke belettering deze uitspraak in het Fries verspreiden via billboards en blinde muren en via lokale en landelijke pers. Dezelfde tekst circuleerden de kunstenaars eerder in lokale taal in IJsland, België, Turkije, Cuba en in Hongarije.

De interventie is typerend voor de twee kunstenaars die met weldadige lichtheid onderzoek doen naar de gevolgen van sociale en politieke afspraken op het leven. Het duo stelt tegelijkertijd de context ter discussie waarin kunst wordt gepresenteerd en wat kunst is en wat niet. Hun werk is op reis: het bevat vaak onderdelen van eerder werk en zoekt elementen en confrontaties op uit haar tijdelijke omgeving.
Als afsluiting van hun werkperiode in het Kunsthuis geven Pérez de Siles de Castro en Ólafsson op 16 januari in Kunsthuis Syb een presentatie over hun werkwijze en projecten met een installatie van video werk, fotografie en documentatie materiaal. Aansluitend is er een borrel waarbij IJslandse en Spaanse hapjes worden geserveerd.

Werkperiode van 2 t/m 15 januari 2005
Tentoonstellingsperiode 16 t/m 23 januari
Presentatie en borrel met IJslandse en Spaanse hapjes op zondag 16 januari om 16.00 uur
Openingstijden zaterdag en zondag van 13.00 tot 17.00 uur en op afspraak

Dit project wordt mede gefinancierd door de Mondriaanstichting en de Provincie Fryslân.

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