News
Electra's Irene Revell is a guest speaker at 'Working with HE
to develop digital strategy in Visual Arts organisations'
Queen Mary, University of London
Wednesday 14 October 2009
2pm - 6pm
Irene Revell will present on 'Building successful collaborations with universities'
reflecting on Electra's recent experience working with London College of Communication's Angus Carlyle
on Sound Escapes and working with MA Sound Arts graduates of London College of Communication for their
final show, Audio Forensics, in 2008.
This event is the final seminar of the ACE London supported Digital Knowledge
Research, Workshop and Support Programme. The programme is geared towards assisting
Visual Arts RFOs to build up their knowledge about and capacity to develop future
relationships with the Higher Education sector and helping to support and build digital knowledge
and infrastructure within the Visual Arts.
To book a place at the seminar, please go here.
Offer & Exchange: Sites of Negotiation in Contemporary Art
Commission No. 3: SHIFT by Stefan Brüggemann
Yvon Lambert Gallery booth D3 at Frieze Art Fair 2009
Preview 14 October 2009, 15 - 18 October 2009
SHIFT is the third part of the project Offer & Exchange: Sites of Negotiation in
Contemporary Art, a series of site-specific commissions inviting artists using legal
contracts as artistic frameworks, curated by Daniel McClean and Lisa Rosendahl.
Stefan Brüggemann's project, SHIFT will take place at the Yvon Lambert Gallery booth during
the Frieze Art Fair 2009.
SHIFT consists of two artworks: one artwork has been created by Stefan Brüggemann; the other
artwork has been created by Robert Barry. The artists have agreed
that authorship of the two artworks will be transferred back and forth between them at the end
of every five-year period, so that a work attributed to Stefan Brüggemann will become a work
attributed to Robert Barry at the end of every five years and vice-versa. This process will
continue indefinitely. The rules for the shifting authorship structure will be contained in two
certificates of authenticity, placed on the back frames of the artworks.
Further information about SHIFT can be found in the press release here.
Further information about Offer & Exchange can be found here.
Electra commissioned work by Karl Holmqvist in
'Scorpio's Garden' at Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin-Mitte
25 September - 15 November 2009
A group show compiled by Kirstine Roepstorff.
The exhibition Scorpio's Garden is a subjective snapshot of the current Berlin art scene,
bringing together works and performances of more than 30 international artists.The show includes work by Karl Holmqvist
which was commissioned by Electra for the recent 27 Senses exhibition at Kunstmuseet KUBE in Ålesund, Norway.
Further information about Scorpio's Garden can be found here
and 27 Senses is here.
Image: Simon Wågsholm
Momentum 5th Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art
'Favoured Nations'
Momentum Kunsthall and Galleri F15
Moss, Norway
29 August - 18 October
Opening Saturday 29 August 14.00
Press preview Thursday 27 August 11.00 - 16.00
Curated by Lina Dzuverovic (Electra) and Stina Högkvist
(National Museum of Art Architecture and Design, Oslo)
Participating Artists:
A Kassen, Mats Adelman, Roger Andersson, Asmundur Asmundsson,
Fia Backström, Maja Bajevic, Petra Bauer & Annette Krauss, Nina Beier & Marie Lund, Maja Borg, Liv Bugge,
Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, Jacob Dahlgren, Ida Ekblad, Marte Eknæs, Andreas Eriksson, Jan Freuchen,
Carl Michael von Hausswolff/ Juan Pedro Fabra/ Jan Håfström, Hannaleena Heiska, Saskia Holmkvist, Karl Holmqvist,
Lars Laumann & Benjamin A. Huseby, Klara Liden, Darri Lorenzen, Josefine Lyche, Eline McGeorge, Are Mokkelbost,
Jani Ruscica, Marthe Thorshaug, Helgi Thórsson, Salla Tykkä, Gaeoudjiparl featuring Martha Hviid & Tordis Berstrand
Punkt Ø proudly presents Favoured Nations, the fifth edition of Momentum, focusing on the work of artists with a background from, or a connection to, the Nordic region. The exhibition features 31 artists and groups spread across two outstanding and strikingly different venues - Momentum Kunsthall and Galleri F15.
Further information about this exhibition can be found here.
Offer & Exchange: Sites of Negotiation in Contemporary Art
Commission No. 2: DEATH COUNTER by Santiago Sierra
Hiscox, London EC3
1 January 2009 - 31 December 2009
A new artwork by international artist Santiago Sierra is to be unveiled on the facade of Hiscox insurers'
Headquarters in the City of London. The giant LED sign documents the annual number of human deaths worldwide,
from any cause, over the course of one year starting from zero on New Year's Eve. The piece is the second part of
Offer and Exchange: Sites of Negotiation in Contemporary Art, a series of site-specific commissions curated by
Daniel McClean and Lisa Rosendahl and produced by Electra.
Further information about Santiago Sierra - DEATH COUNTER can be found here
and the press release can be downloaded here.
Further information about Offer & Exchange is here.
Image: Santiago Sierra - DEATH COUNTER, Hiscox, 2009
Reverse Karaoke, Kim Gordon & Jutta Koether
opens as part of Sonic Youth etc. Sensational Fix
Conceived as an overview of the 25 years of multidisciplinary endeavours Sonic Youth have undertaken,
'Sonic Youth Etc. - Sensational Fix', curated by Roland Groenenboom, includes Kim Gordon and Jutta Koether's
installation Reverse Karaoke, originally commissioned by Electra for the Her Noise exhibition, South London Gallery, 2005.
The exhibition will tour to Museion, Bolzano
(10th October 2008 - 4th January 2009), Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and KIT- Kunst im Tunnel
(31st January - 10th May 2009) and Malmö Konsthall, Malmö (30th May - 20th September 2009).