NADOUR COLLECTION @ BROTKunsthalle
Come Invest in Us. You'll Strike Gold - The Exhibition
20 Artists from the MENA (Middle East and North Africa)
Curated by Diana Wiegersma
Vernissage
/Opening:
10. September 2012/Sept 10th, 2012 - 19 Uhr/7pm
Ausstellungsstätte/Venue:
HilgerBROTKunsthalle, Absberggasse 27, 1100 Wien/Vienna
Nähere Information/Further information:
www.brotkunsthalle.com
Die Ausstellung läuft bis 3. November 2012. The exhibition runs until November 3rd, 2012.
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caption: Babak Kazemi, A Report for William Knox D'Arcy - Portrait. Framed photograph, 21 x 15 cm.
Artists featured in the exhibition:
Adel Abidin // Haig Aivazian // Kader Attia // Fayçal Baghriche //
Taysir Batniji // Shahram Entekhabi // Ninar Esber // Karim Ghelloussi //
Babak Golkar // Babak Kazemi // Bouchra Khalili // Majida Khattari //
Djamel Kokene // Ahmed Mater // Leila Pazooki // Sara Rahbar //
Baktash Sarang // Sama Al Shaibi // Oraib Toukan // Hajra Waheed
“Come Invest in Us. You’ll Strike Gold” refers to the words spoken
by Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika after being elected for
the first time in 1999. As much as this was an economic promise
addressed to his country, it was also a seductive wink to foreign
investors. Since then, entrepreneurs have indeed honored his invitation
with the heavy support of various international governments.
Based on artist Djamel Kokene’s eponymous work, Come Invest
in Us. You’ll Strike Gold – The Exhibition scrutinizes the scope of
Western, as well as Arab, economic and financial interests at stake
in the MENA region, interests that the recent popular uprisings
and concurrent inter national political gamesmanship and strategic
maneuvering have only made more blatant. The project offers diverse
perspectives on how artists from the MENA region
and its diaspora reflect on the contexts, consequences
and aftermaths of the various investments, transactions
and contracts that have been made with and within the region.
By exploring such multifaceted issues as the wealth of the territory as
a whole, oil and gas drilling, militarization and the armaments
industry, the flow of people and goods, real estate, building and civil
engineering works, and brands and luxury goods, the works shown
in the exhibition shed light on the true motivations behind the many
questionable business dealings – invariably money, control and
power – and, in extension, on how this is affecting the social,
political and cultural environment of the entire region, as well as
its inhabitants. Ultimately, the exhibition also reveals how these
financial and economic dealings are impacting aesthetics and forms
in the Arab World and Iran.
Zur Ausstellung erscheint ein Katalog.
A catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition.
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UPCOMING SHOW @Hilger contemporary:
curated by - curated by Claire Breukel
Peterson Kamwathi Waweru - Simon Vega
Vernissage/Opening:
20. September 2012/Sept 20th, 2012 - 19 Uhr/7pm
Hilger contemporary, Dorotheergasse 5, 1010 Wien
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NEWS FROM OUR ARTISTS:
Anastasia KHOROSHILOVA Starie Novosti (Old News) The Venice Biennale Project
Kunsthalle Baselland (CH)
15. September 2012 - 11. November 2012
Alfred HRDLICKA Raiffeisenbank Kitzeck
Steinriegel 78, 8442 Kitzeck
6. September 2012 - 7. Oktober 2012
Lukas Pusch
Stadtplanungsprojekt von Architekten Ton Matton und dem Filmemacher Michael Kockot
in Wittenburg//Entwurf für den "Großen Berg zu Wittenburg" zur Belebung des alpinen Sommertourismus
Projekt wurde zum Pilotprojekt des Landes Mecklenburg Vorpommern für Stadtplanung.
Eine Ausstellung mit "potemkinscher" Fassadengestaltung folgt am 21. Oktober.
Vasilena Gankovska
art@europarl
european parliament art collection
August 16 - October 31,2012
ort: parlamentarium, brussels, belgium
UPCOMING:
WE ARE PART OF IT:
PERFEKT POW WOW BANG BANG (Gretzlfest)
AN URBAN FAIR OF ART, FOOD & MUSIC
PERFEKT WORLD IN COLLABORATION WITH URBANAUTS
Wo? // Where?
Sankt-Elisabeth-Platz 9, 1040 Wien/Vienna
Wann? // When?
Saturday/Samstag - 15. September 2012/ Sept 15, 201
2
12 - 22 Uhr / 12 pm - 10 pm
(e)merge art fair - Washington DC - BROTKunsthalle @ ROOM 228
October 4 - 7, 2012
Further info:
[email protected]
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