GLOBALE AKADEMIE? Tagung der Internationalen Sommerakademie Salzburg

Kursprogramm: 18. 6. – 27. 8. 2016 Tagung: 5./6. 8. 2016 Kursprogramm Festung Hohensalzburg, Mönchsberg 34, 5020 Salzburg Tagung Künstlerhaus Salzburg, Hellbrunner Straße 3, 5020 Salzburg „Globale Akademie?“ ist das Motto des Kursprogramms und der Tagung der Internationalen Sommerakademie. Bereits seit ihrer Gründung 1953 ist die Sommerakademie der Internationalität ihrer Lehrenden und Studierenden verpflichtet. Die […]

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Trevor Paglen Wins The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2016

Trevor Paglen (b.1974, USA) has been awarded the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2016 at a special ceremony in The Photographers’ Gallery this evening, Thursday 2 June 2016. The £30,000 award was presented by BBC journalist and HARDtalk presenter Stephen Sackur.  The Prize is awarded to a photographer of any nationality for their significant contribution […]

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9. Berlin Biennale

4. 6. – 18. 9. 2016 blog.berlinbiennale.de The 9th Berlin Biennale for contemporary art may or may not include Contemporary Art. The Prancing Elites may or may not be the official brand ambassadors of the 9th Berlin Biennale. A pop album by artists may or may not replace the press release. Performance art may or […]

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Fotofestiwal Łódź

9. 6. – 19. 6. 2016, Łódź / Poland www.fotofestiwal.com This year’s anniversary edition of Fotofestiwal will begin on 9 June 2016 and last until 19 June 2016. The main theme of the fifteenth festival will be the experience intrinsically linked to photography from its very beginning – travel and the various forms of its […]

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with/against the flow. Zeitgenössische fotografische Interventionen

ifa-Ausstellungsreihe zu zeitgenössischer Fotografie aus Deutschland beginnt mit Positionen von Viktoria Binschtok und Michael Schäfer im Heidelberger Kunstverein 18. 6. – 28. 8. 2016, Heidelberger Kunstverein Hauptstraße 97, 69117 Heidelberg Wir leben im Zeitalter der Bilder: Fotografien dominieren Nachrichten- und Informationskanäle, kommen immer öfter aus der Handykamera und verbreiten sich schneeballartig im Netz. Als Auftakt […]

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6 x 6 Questions About the Future of Photography

Peggy Buth, Charlotte Dualé, Harun Farocki, Abrie Fourie, Anne Hardy, Inga Kerber, Philipp König, Susanne Kriemann, Michael Part, Josephine Pryde, Clunie Reid, Max Schaffer, Dirk Stewen, Una Szeemann & Bohdan Stehlik, Toilet Paper Magazine, Tris Vonna-Michell, Lidwien van de Ven Landesgalerie Linz, 25. 5. – 21. 8. 2016 Museumstr. 14, 4010 Linz The Kunstverein in […]

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Preisträger und Bilanz der 62. Internationalen Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen

Am 10. Mai gingen die 62. Internationalen Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen mit einem Besucherrekord von über 20.000 Eintritten zu Ende. Bei der Preisverleihung im Oberhausener Lichtburg Filmpalast wurden insgesamt 17 Preise verliehen. Der Hauptpreis des Festivals, der Große Preis der Stadt Oberhausen im Internationalen Wettbewerb, ging in die Schweiz an die Regisseurin Louise Carrin für Venusia, eine […]

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Awåragaude? Gerald Domenig at the Secession

Wiener Secession Friedrichstraße 12, 1010 Vienna Apri 22 – June 19 2016 Photography, drawing, and writing (texts) are the preferred genres of the Austrian artist Gerald Domenig, who lives in Frankfurt am Main. He has worked in these media since the 1970s, building a sizable oeuvre distinguished by formal consistency and thematic openness. In Domenig’s […]

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Past Future Housing: Exhibition with works by Morgan Fisher and Karina Nimmerfall at the MAK Center in L.A.

April 21 – June 25, 2016 Mackey Garage Top 1137 S Cochran Ave Los Angeles, CA 90019 In its ninth iteration, the MAK Center’s Garage Exchange Vienna-Los Angeles exhibition series brings together former artist-in-residence Karina Nimmerfall and Los Angeles-based artist Morgan Fisher. Looking back at housing and urban planning in the U.S., the two artists […]

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Prix Thun for Art and Ethics: Oliver Ressler

The Austrian artist and filmmaker Oliver Ressler has been selected for the 1st Prix Thun for Art and Ethics Award. This new art prize, endowed with CHF 25,000, aims at promoting artists who support a sustainable world. The prize in the form of an art project was initiated by the artist George Steinmann who grew […]

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Jörg Scheller Awarded the ADKV-ART COLOGNE Prize for Art Criticism 2016.

Award for independent, strong-willed and exceptionally well-written art criticism.The art scholar and independent critic Jörg Scheller will be honored with the Prize for Art Criticism 2016. The 3,000 euro prize is awarded by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Kunstvereine (ADKV) in cooperation with the ART COLOGNE and is meant for independent journalists. By selecting Jörg Scheller the […]

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Pluriversale IV

18.3. – 24.6.2016 in the ACADEMYSPACE at Herwarthstraße 3 in Cologne The PLURIVERSALE is a three-month long series of interdisciplinary events. Find the full program here: www.academycologne.org A growing awareness of Cologne’s own colonial history provides the point of departure for the exhibition Afrikahafenfest by locally based artists PETER GÜLLENSTERN and JÜRGEN STOLLHANS, whose associative, […]

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The Secret Life of Images

Anna Barriball (GB), Susan Hiller (US), Sofia Hultén (S), Stephanie Kiwitt (D), Elizabeth McAlpine (GB), Lucy Skaer (GB), Emily Wardill (GB) Kunstverein Freiburg: 18. March – 1. May 2016 The Secret Life of Images explores the performative, theatrical, autobiographical, and political testimony embedded in various forms of abstraction. The geometrical facets of a sculpture, the […]

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Ghosts of the Civil Dead: Picturing the Society of Exclusion

Opening: 11.3. 2016 at 6.00 PM Exhibition dates: 11.3– 7.5 2016 Venue: tranzit/sk, Beskydská 12, Bratislava Wednesday–Saturday, 2–7 PM This exhibition argues for a historical perspective on today’s society of exclusion. It makes connections between the workings of institutions such as the prison, the camp and the border wall/fence in managing economic inequality and social conflict through the […]

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Stan Douglas 2016 Hasselblad Award Winner

The Hasselblad Foundation is pleased to announce that Canadian artist Stan Douglas is the recipient of the 2016 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography for the sum of SEK 1,000,000 (approx. EUR 110,000). The award ceremony takes place in Gothenburg, Sweden on October 17, 2016. The day after, on October 18, an exhibition of Douglas’s […]

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POPCAP ’16: Outstanding African Photography

The international photography competition POPCAP is pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 fifth anniversary edition. This year’s winners from South Africa, Jersey, England, France and Germany were chosen by an international panel of 20 renowned judges from 900 applications from 94 countries. The award aims to foster interest in and support for contemporary […]

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