2008
November 22nd, 2008 | 2008, works
LIBIA CASTRO AND ÓLAFUR ÓLAFSSON – galería adhoc, Vigo – 06.11.-13.12.2008
Uterus Flags – Rúa Joaquín Loriga, Vigo, Spain
Press release:
adhoc Galería, Rúa Joaquín Loriga 9, 36203 Vigo España
T: +34 986 228 656 F: +34 986 441 543 E: info@adhocgaleria.com
LIBIA CASTRO AND ÓLAFUR ÓLAFSSON
Public Installation and Exhibition
From November the 6th to December the 13th 2008
Opening: Thursday 6th November at 8 pm
Libia Castro (Madrid) and Ólafur Ólafsson (Reykjavik) have been working in collaboration since 1996 and have established their centre of work in the cities of Rotterdam and Berlin. They have taken part in important exhibitions developed in different institutions: Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Akureyri Art Museum, Iceland; Video Festival, Beijing, China; Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and in Platform Centre for Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey and the 8th Havana Biennale, Cuba.
(press release continues at the bottom of this post – followed with a Spanish version)
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October 7th, 2008 | 2008, works
Dein Land gibt es nicht – public intervention – wall-painting
Artists:
Ingo Abeska, Libia Castro und Ólafur Ólafsson, Tanja Dabo,
Enks, Igor Grubić, Delaine und Damian Le Bas,
Lisl Ponger, Nada Prlja, Khaled D. Ramadan,
Andrea Ressi, Szu Szu, Sylvia Winkler / Stephan Köperl
The project “TIT FOR TAT – Counter Images for Transcultural Thinking and
Acting” takes place also on the following locations: Afro-Asian Institute,
Chiala Afriquas, ISOP, KHG-Galerie, Megaphon, Minoriten-Galerien
im Priesterseminar, University Center for Theology, Pubic Space.
The second major part of the exhibition opens also on 4.10, at 2 pm,
at Minoriten-Galerien im Prieserseminar, Bürgergasse 2.
Co-produced by steirischer herbst, Afro-Asian Institut, ISOP, KHG,
Chiala Afriquas, Megaphon, Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten & < rotor>
< rotor >
association for contemporary art
Volksgartenstraße 6a, 8020 Graz, Austria
0043 / 316 / 688306, rotor@mur.at
http://rotor.mur.at
(more text information on the show at the end of this post)
September 29th, 2008 | 2008, works
Everybody is doing what they can – Reykjavík Art Museum – 18.09 – 02.11-2008
Installation view Everybody is doing what they can, in the center of the image; recording of a portrait of Methúsalem (Dúi) Þórisson is starting
Fyrir sýninguna Allir gera það sem þeir geta ákváðum við að skapa virkt rými í A sal Listasafns Reykjavíkur þar sem við fengjum einstaklinga úr mismunandi geirum samfélagsin til okkar í myndbandsupptökur. Við settum upp upptökuver og tókum upp portrett/viðtöl við fólk þar sem það ræddi um sjálft sig, hvaðan það er og samfélagið útfrá uppvexti sínum, námi, störfum og reynslu.
Frekar enn að velja hina “hlutlausu” leið, notuðum breytilega (litaða) lýsingu, reyk, confetti og ábreiður (sem við vörpuðum yfir módelin) sem truflandi þætti, en líka til að undirstrika að mynd er alltaf sköpun, bygging og afbygging – hversu “ósýnileg”, meðvituð eða ómeðvituð sem hún er.
Á sýningunni gefst gestum kostur á að upplifa þessa hópmynd. En sökum heildar-tímalengdar þess efnis sem sett er fram á sýningunni, verður fólk að velja og hafna og þar með setja saman sýna eigin hópmynd og um leið upplifun af verkinu.
Libia Castro og Ólafur Ólafsson
(English version coming soon)
Camera-, sound-, light- and editing-assist: Hafsteinn Gunnarsson, Hendrik Linnet og Kristinn Loðmfjörð
(Scroll down for list of participants and text by Hafþór Yngvason director of Reykjavík Art Museum)
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August 17th, 2008 | 2008, works
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 | 2008, works
Manifesta 7 – Trentino, Italy “PRINCIPLE HOPE” – 19.07 – 02.11 2008
Installation view, 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-ongoing
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 | 2008, works
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.