'FAGGOTS'
February 18 - April 13, 2012

Preeten Gallery is pleased to present 'FAGGOTS', the first solo exhibition in Mexico of Berlin-bases artist Dean Sameshima.

Dean Sameshima's work derives from an going investigation on post-stonewall popular depictions of homosexual desire, particulary those of gay publications that circulated in the United States in the 1970's.

His choice of images comes from a time when the gay community in the United States had moved on from repression to celebration, from shame to joy. A time of an on-going search for love, new friendships, a feeling of the brotherhood, cruising, sex in public places, drugs, bars and sex clubs. This was a time of a flourishing sexual revolution, a time before the horror of AIDS.

Sameshima appropiates this distinctive homoerotic imagery but instead of portraying joy and optimism, the work suggests feelings of solitude, melancholy, and a longing for a glorious past.

The seemingly free flowing libidinal pulsion from which these images origanted seems now frustrated and replaced by an anxiety brought by the touch of death. In this way, Sameshima not only communicates a personal struggle with the existential void and the anguish that underlie desire,
he also scrutinizes historical narratives that outline queer desire in the western world.

'FAGGOTS' comprises four new silk screen of Samshima's ongoing Connect-the dots series. The artist has been collecting these puzzles from the 1970's seminal gay leather magazine Drummer. If the dots were connected, a sexually charged image would be revealed. The scant abstraction of these paintings suggests a potential progression towards representation and activates the anxious anticipation that characterizes deire.

Dean Sameshima's work is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Dean Sameshima has been featured in Art Forum, Flash Art, Modern Painters, Art in America, I-D Magazine, Index, Flash Photo, I-D, Soma and The New York Times. Instilled and lost, featuring selected works, was just published by Peres Projects. He was also included in the Cream 3, 2003 Catalogue and Vitamin PH, New perspectives in photography, 2006.

Dean Sameshima catalogues include Hysteric Seven (2002), and Young Men At Play, VOL. 1 & 2.

Lesser-Known Surrealist Drawings
January 27 - February 24, 2012

Fruit and Flower Deli Gallery in Stockholm is pleased to present John Kleckner solo show "Lesser-Known Surrealist Drawings".

In Living Color
January 21 - May 19, 2012

The FLAG Art Foundation is pleased to present the exhibition In Living Color. The exhibition presents a chromatic study from a wide range of artists including: Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Kristin Baker, Olaf Breuning, Dan Colen, Mark Grotjahn, Anselm Reyle, Gerhard Richter, Fred Tomaselli, Cy Twombly, and Rachel Whiteread. The majority of the works being shown have been completed in the past 2 years and many are on view for the first time in the U.S. Several have never been shown at all prior to this exhibition.

Among the newly completed works are Kristin Baker's Once in a Mooning, a night sky streaked with hues of luminescent blue injected with electrifying pink. Dan Colen created Zero for Conduct, a flower painting of deep reds, purples and blues specifically for the exhibition.

Several works will be on view in the U.S. for the first time. Gerhard Richter's digital print Strip is comprised of a system of parallel lines generated by dividing an earlier abstract painting by the artist vertically into a pattern of 8190 strips. Cy Twombly's Leaving Paphos Ringed with Waves (IV), which was shown in Athens at the last gallery exhibition of his work prior to the artist's passing, employs rich tones of turquoise with vermillion and yellow to portray the Mediterranean landscape and reference ancient literature and mythology. Rachel Whiteread's sculpture A.M., from her last show at her Rome gallery, inhabits the negative space within a windowpane, utilizing a jewel-like pink resin.

The exhibition explores color in a variety of contexts and ranges: within a framework of order and chaos, as a signifier of time and place, in relation to the medium of the work, and in monochromatic forms.

Peres Projects is pleased to announce its participation at Art 43 Basel with Alex Israel in Art Statements Sector.

June 14 – 17, 2012.
Basel, Switzerland

Blind Cut: Curated by Jonah Freeman and Vera Neykov
Jan 19 2012-Feb 18 2012

Marlborough Chelsea is pleased to present "Blind Cut," a group exhibition curated by Jonah Freeman and Vera Neykov. The works included address diverse notions surrounding the themes of fiction or deception. This collection, spanning several generations from Dada to the present, poses questions regarding identity, authorship, originality and reality. The practices and methodologies range from: depictions of fictional places, imagined personas, inaccurate histories, invented language, urban utopias and complex, unrevealed material gestures.

V1 GALLERY PROUDLY PRESENTS

THANKSGIVING

An exhibition by Eddie Martinez & Jamison Brosseau

OPENING: FRIDAY JANUARY 13. 2012. TIME: 17.00 - 22.00
EXHIBITION PERIOD: JANUARY 14 – FEBRUARY 04. 2012.

In Thanksgiving Martinez and Brosseau meet as friends and mutual admirers. Each presenting 7 new works that reflects on their current whereabouts on the artistic map.

Eddie Martinez (b. 1977, US) has created 7 works on paper. In these new works, Martinez's figuration is lending space to abstraction, while remaining distinctly Martinez. Martinez has developed a very concise end engaging visual vocabulary over the years and it is remarkable to watch it expand. His work takes influence from abstract expressionism, the CoBrA movement and neo-expressionism. Artist movements celebrated for their skill and innovation within the fields of drawing and painting. Like these, the work of Martinez is instantly engulfing, touchingly honest and original. Eddie Martinez has recently shown with Peres Projects in Berlin, Patricia Low in Genova and Saatchi Gallery in London.

Jamison Brosseau (b.1976, US) has created 7 new paintings on panels. Brosseau's work hoovers with ease somewhere between figuration, abstraction and the geometric. Humans and things are concentrated into iconic shapes and silhouettes that recount the essence of their former presence. In this sense Brosseau's tableaus are about pattern recognition, and if you let yourself wonder, there are many stories to be experienced.
Jamison Brosseau has recently shown in New York with Dodge Gallery and Participant Inc.

MATTHEW WILLIAMS VIDEO FOR GQ STYLE FEAT. ARTIST DAN ATTOE IN ADAM KIMMEL

FILM BY MATTHEW WILLIAMS

Paths Of The Destroyer - Pete Wheeler
17th December, 2011 - 17th March, 2012

Pete WHEELER's latest solo exhibition, Paths Of The Destroyer opens at Galleria Poggiali e Forconi this Saturday, 17th December with the vernissage from 6pm.

www.poggialieforconi.it

December 1, 3 & 4
Mondrian South Beach
1100 West Avenue
Miami

December 2
Pulse Miami
The Ice Palace
1400 North Miami Avenue
Miami

On the occasion of this year's Art Basel Miami, New York-based designer Mara Hoffman has teamed up with five young artists to create extremely limited edition swimwear prints. Alongside artists such as Spencer Tunick and John Newsom,Eddie MARTINEZ's print stands out with its characterful and brightly-coloured abstract imagery. The exclusive prints will be available alongside Hoffman's resort beachwear line in a pop-up shop for the duration of Art Basel Miami.

marahoffman.com

La Fresh Gallery
Conde de Aranda, 5
28001
Madrid

Opens 16 February 2012

Bruce LABRUCE presents his new show Obscenity at La Fresh Gallery, Madrid.

Gesamtkunstwerk - New Art From Germany

Saatchi Gallery
Duke of York's HQ
King's Road
Chelsea
London
England

18 November, 2011 – 30 April, 2012

On 18 November, the Saatchi Gallery will open Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art from Germany, the gallery's first survey of German art. The exhibition, which presents artists from or based in Germany (including Berlin, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Bremen and Cologne), confirms Germany's position as a powerhouse of European contemporary art.

Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art from Germany showcases 24 artists, most of whom have been little seen in the UK, but are rapidly establishing themselves in Germany and internationally. Their work, including sculpture, painting, drawing and installation, ranges from the grotesque and macabre to the lyrical and surreal, reflecting the diversity of German art now.

Perhaps best known for its Wagnerian associations, the word 'Gesamtkunstwerk' can be translated as a total, ideal or universal work of art, or as a synthesis of different art forms into one all-embracing unique genre. As such, many works in this exhibition reflect on the boundaries of art, in terms of our perception of it and its relationship to other disciplines. If their work points to a new kind of Gesamtkunstwerk it is one in which high and low culture, the avantgarde and the historical, the everyday and everything in between can co-exist.

Running through the exhibition is an inherent reference to another quasi-Gesamtkunstwerk: the baggage of postwar German visual culture and the work of earlier generations of German artists, from the Expressionists to Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Martin Kippenberger, Rosemarie Trockel, Gerhard Richter and Franz West, with whom many of the artists in this exhibition seem to be in conversation.

Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art from Germany features a selection of works by Dirk Bell, Alexandra Bircken, André Butzer, Zhivago Duncan, Ida Ekblad, Max Frisinger, Isa Genzken, Felix Gmelin, Jeppe Hein, Thomas Helbig, Georg Herold, Volker Hueller, Thomas Kiesewetter, Jutta Koether, Friedrich Kunath, Stefan Kürten, Josephine Meckseper, Kirstine Roepstorff, Markus Selg, Gert and Uwe Tobias, Corinne Wasmuht, Andro Wekua and Thomas Zipp.

saatchi-gallery.co.uk

Porn Film Festival Berlin 2011 in cooperation with Prinz Eisenherz Bookstore and Axel Hotel Berlin will launch a special book presentation of BRUCE(X)PLOITATION.
Wieland Speck will talk with Bruce LaBruce. Books are available and will be signed.

Sat 29.10. 16:00
Axel Hotel, Lietzenburger Str 13/15, 10789 Berlin

Atlantide Entertainment's queer cinema brand Queerframe, after distributing a box-set of Bruce LaBruce's latest two films, L.A. ZOMBIE and OTTO; OR, UP WITH DEAD PEOPLE, presents now the first Italian monograph about Bruce LaBruce.

Its goal is to illustrate the well rounded work and life of one of the most original and controversial queer artists of our times, taking the reader through a career that begins with the first self-produced works, such as the famous J.D.s fanzine, passes through the making of movies in Super8, film and video, the writing for art and fashion magazines, up to penetrating the world of contemporary art, performance, photography and theatre.

The reproduction in high definition of his photographic works take a prominent part of this monograph: subjects of the international gay hardcore scene, related to Bruce on both professional and private spheres; Asia Argento's well known portraits; photos of François Sagat, his latest muse and of those who are considered to be the second generation of the Queercore movement, created by Bruce, which counts artists such as Gio Black Peter, Slava Mogutin & Brian Kenny and Christophe Chemin.

The visibility and success achieved in the contemporary art domain, also thanks to his fame as an already established underground filmmaker, makes Bruce LaBruce one of the most interesting and productive artists out there. So was the situation that the prestigious art gallery Peres Projects signed him up, giving him the possibility to present his works in important world wide spaces.

More than anything Bruce LaBruce is a filmmaker. His first works in Super8, often made in collaboration with G.B. Jones, fellow canadian artist and videomaker, gave birth to the Queercore movement, which sees obvious attraction for visual language used as a reflection and desecration of the society that surrounds him.

His first experiments with cinema than evolved into producing, writing and direction of feature films, such as HUSTLER WHITE (1996), THE RASPBERRY REICH (2004) and L.A. ZOMBIE (2010) which were appreciated by international audience both in and out of important film festivals such as Berlin, Sundance or Locarno.

The monograph offers a complete view of Bruce's entire cinematic career, enriched by a dossier for each long feature film and a picture gallery, often formed by so far unpublished photos.

Editors: Cosimo Santoro and Giuseppe Savoca
Publisher: Atlantide Entertainment / Queer Frame
Number of pages: 152

It will be available for this spezial occasion in Berlin and in January 2012 outside Italy, and from late October on the website www.queerframe.tv

www.pornfilmfestivalberlin.de

This one goes out to all the Virgins, Vikings and Vampires out there - It's that time of the year again....HALLOWEEN!!!
Come party with us on Sunday, Oct. 30th @ HBC, Berlin.

Le Printemps de Septembre - à Toulouse
-festival of contemporary arts-

Musée les Abattoirs
6 Allées Charles-de-Fitte
Toulouse
France

Showing September 23, 2011 – October 16, 2011


Joe BRADLEY appears in the halls of the Musée les Abattoirs as part of Le Printemps de Septembre festival of contemporary arts, spread throughout the city of Toulouse, France. The 2011 edition of the festival, titled "another world", draws on the discontinuities of modernity and the struggles for expression in an image-saturated climate. There are few images or words, more multi-faceted materials and forms. "Actions, traces, totems, ceremonies and invocations will", in the words of the artistic director, "be among the tools or the references used by a whole family of artists in its search for new forms of expression."

Joe BRADLEY's works are colorful and child-like, described as "spontaneous, explosive, and infantile" by the curators. The landscape of his paintings is emblematic of his vision of the world - chaotic and full of incomprehension.

printempsdeseptembre.com

Berlin 2000-2011: Playing among the Ruins

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
4-1-1 Miyoshi
Koto-ku
Tokyo
Japan

Opening September 22, 2011
Showing September 23, 2011 – January 9, 2012


Kirstine ROEPSTORFF is exhibited as part of Berlin 2000-2011: Playing among the Ruins at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan.

Ever since the fall of the Wall in 1989, Berlin has undergone a continuous process of change, attracting world attention as a political, economic and cultural laboratory.
Since the 00s Berlin has become the hottest city in the world for artists. A loose social network is established facilitating cross-genre collaboration and interaction. In answer to the increasingly complicated socio-political situation that was driven by globalization, various social commentaries were concealed within every work, echoing through the streets of Berlin like music.
While the Wall stood, the people longed for liberation and Berlin came to symbolize their fight for freedom. This enthusiasm still remains and the free spaces dotted throughout the city are what make the present Berlin such a 'special place'. The micro-utopias presented 'here', these special places that we are permitted today, are expressed through videos, paintings, performances, etc., by 18 artists and projects that have gathered together from around the world to base themselves in Berlin. The history of society that replaces ideology, the reconstruction of stories, the relationship between spaces and identity brought about by intervention with the city, are questioned through performances, art, information, bodies, and urban spaces, demonstrating a spectacular creativity with a new phase of sensibility.

mot-art-museum.jp

WUNDER
Deichtorhallen Hamburg

Deichtorstrasse 1–2
20095 Hamburg, Germany

Opening 22 September, 2011
Showing23 September, 2011 - 5 February, 2012

Terence KOH takes part in WUNDER (miracles), an exhibition exploring the boundaries of occidental rationality; its outer, inner and historical boundaries. Centred around contemporary art, the interdisciplinary exhibition will explore the extraordinary; mysterious healings, incredible natural occurrences and the wondrous unknown, unexpected technical innovations, artistic ideas and also sheer coincidences.

deichtorhallen.de

Dash Snow

MACRO - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma
Via Nizza, 38
Rome
Italy

September 20, 2011 - December 11, 2011

Oh My!

Palazzo Rospigliosi
Via 24 Maggio, 43
Rome
Italy

September 20, 2011 - October 8, 2011

The great Italian contemporary art dealer Massimo De Carlo unveils a special, simultaneous trio of shows connecting three solo exhibitions from the most significant artists of the fertile New York scene. For the first time in Italy, Dan Colen, Dash Snow and Nate Lowman will be exhibited at three iconic Roman museums. Dubbed, the "Three Amigos" series, this is seen as one of the most important events of the exhibition season in Rome, a unique project that combines contemporary art and institutional places, historic and modern.

A collection of works by Dash SNOW, showcasing his politically incorrect eye, will be featured on the third floor of MACRO - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma. Among them, appears one of his final works, "Sisyphus, Sissy Fuss, SillyPuss" - a Super8 film portraying the artist's wife and daughter. This is Dash SNOW's first solo exhibition in a museum.


Dan COLEN is displaying twenty canvases in the baroque halls of the Palazzo Rospigliosi, depicting large scrawls of black text. His American style is disorienting against the classical atmosphere of the palace, creating an innovative dialogue between the epic and the contemporary. His show, titled "Oh God!", features pieces made especially for the exhibition.

massimodecarlo.it

Trash

Gagosian Gallery
Via Francesco Crispi, 16
Rome
Italy

September 19, 2011 - October 20, 2011

Gagosian Gallery presents Trash , a solo show by Dan COLEN, marking the artist's first major exhibition in Rome after last year's Poetry exhibition in Gagosian New York. This year, COLEN works even more fervently with raw materials, tapping into their individual histories and energies. Spinning through the aesthetic grist of streetwalking artists – from Robert Rauschenberg to David Hammons and Gabriel Orozco – COLEN works to revitalize the very stuff and syntax of painting. The spirited debris of the street - a flipflop, a paint can, rags, string, bottles, a tire, and so on - becomes the means by which paint is moved around on the canvas until they both (the tool and the medium) come to rest.

In the words of the artist, I'm interested in using the "real world" as a material and a force within my process. I like how these materials take some control away from me, allowing for a more uncertain future and yet a more finished piece.

gagosian.com

REMAP3 ATHENS
An International Contemporary Art Programme

Kerameikos-Metaxourgeio, Athens, Greece

12 September–30 October 2011

Opening:
Monday 12 September, 17:00

Peres Projects are pleased to present Leo GABIN Get That Patty Cake Going an exhibition as part of the Gallery Shows section at ReMap3 Athens.

ReMap is an international contemporary art platform open and free to the public, which is held bi-annually in the area of Kerameikos-Metaxourgeio in Athens, in tandem with the Athens Biennial. It is organized by ReMapKM, a not-for-profit organization.

ReMapKM's goal is to create an alternative platform for the production and experiencing of contemporary art within the urban context, to present an interactive environment within a cultural framework and to enhance Athens's positioning in the international contemporary art scene.

In its third incarnation, this year's ReMap3 will be serving as a meeting place for over 250 artists, art historians and curators from around the world. KM's own artistic community will also be represented within the 30 independent and the 25 gallery projects comprising this year's ReMap.

remapkm.org

abc - art berlin contemporary
about painting

Luckenwalder Strasse 4-6
10963 Berlin

September 7 - 10, 2011
Preview: 14:00 - 18:00 (invitation only)

Peres Projects will present the paintings of Joe BRADLEY at the art fair, abc, art berlin contemporary.

From 7 - 11 September abc, art berlin contemporary will address the topic of painting. 'about painting' will survey contemporary painting practices, presenting not only works on canvas, but also videos, photographs and sculptures that deal with the classical medium.

artberlincontemporary.com

OHWOW a pleased to present "Post 9/11" a group exhibition distinct of a decade and definitive of an era. The work of the nine artists represented defies categorization into a particular movement or style, yet poignantly references a collective history through works of painting, photography, sculpture, and installation. It brings together a collective of New York-based artists indicative of a free-spirited era and ethos within the Big City in years past.

Including art works from:
Dan COLEN
Terence KOH
Nate LOWMAN
Dash SNOW
Agathe SNOW

Opening: June 30, 2011, 18:00 - 21:00
Showing: June 30 - August 27, 2011
937 N. La Cienega
Los Angeles
CA 90069

Further information:
oh-wow.com

Photograph courtesy of Walker Art Center

John Waters curates Paul LEE as part of "Absentee Landlord" at the Walker Art Center.

"Who should room together in the world of contemporary art? Can a Russ Meyer photograph go to sleep in the same gallery as an Yves Klein blue chip masterpiece?"

Pop culture provocateur John Waters raises a host of questions in Absentee Landlord, his devious and sometimes irreverent curatorial intervention in the exhibition Event Horizon. Imagining the galleries as rental apartments, Waters sets up relationships among nearly 80 "roommate" artworks that may be friendly or belligerent, unruly or reserved, supportive or indifferent. Waters imbues his new role as curator with his trademark blend of subversion and insight.

Absentee Landlord features works from the Walker collection by Mike Kelley, Carolee Schneeman, Willem de Kooning, Cindy Sherman, Wolfgang Tillmans, Cameron Jamie, Sturtevant, and John Currin, Paul Lee all coexisting with several pieces by Waters.

June 11, 2011 - March 4, 2012
Opening June 11 11:00 - 17:00

Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55403
United States

For further information:
walkerart.org

Photograph: Mark Titchner "Ergo, Ergot," 2006
Courtesy the artist and Vilma Gold, London

The New Art Gallery and Home of Metal Festival present Mark Titchner solo exhibition "BE TRUE TO YOUR OBLIVION".

Newly commissioned works will be shown alongside key works from the artist's past practice. Amongst the brand new works will be a video portrait of Nicholas Bullen, a founding member of Napalm Death, and an enormous banner that combines digital image manipulation with the raw structure of a breeze-block wall.

The exhibition is presented as part of Home of Metal, a celebration of the music that was born in the Black Country and Birmingham.

The New Art Gallery,
Walsall,
United Kingdom
July 8 - September 11, 2011
Opening July 7, 2011, 18:00 - 20:00

For further information:
thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk

homeofmetal.com

The Arnhem Mode Biennale present a largescale installation by Amie DICKE as part of the Main Exhibition "Amber," at the AkzoNobel exhibition site.

June 1 - July 3, 2011,
Opening June 3, 2011

Main Exhibition: Amber
AkzoNobel Site
Velperweg 76
6824BM
Arnhem
Holland

For further information:
arnhemmodebiennale.com

Mark Titcher Artists' Talk
Tuesday June 7, 2011
18:00

Spike Island
133 Cumberland Road,
Bristol BS1 6UX
UK

Titchner works across a range of media to explore systems of belief, both secular and spiritual, often focusing on the marginalised, discredited or forgotten ideologies and objects we place our faith in. Motifs taken from advertising, religious iconography, club flyers, trade union banners, prog rock and political propaganda all vie for the viewer's attention. Here he discusses the influence of design upon and within his practice.

£3, free for Associates.
To book :
+49 (0)117 929 2266

For further information:
spikeisland.org.uk

Carlson Gallery, London are proud to present "COME OUT COME OUT WHEREVER YOU ARE", an exhibition of works compiled by Dan Colen in honor of the late Dash Snow

Opening May 19th 2011
Showing: May 19th - July 31st 2011

Carlson Gallery
6 Heddon Street,
2nd Floor South
London
W1B 4BT

For more information contact:
info@carlsongallery.co.uk
+44 (0) 2072872005

Opening hours:
Monday to Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday by appointment only

carlsongallery.co.uk

"Humor is important. There's no humor in heaven, but here on earth we need laughs."
Joe Bradley


Almine Rech are delighted to present Joe Bradley's exhibition "Duckling Fantasy".

14th May - 30th July 2011
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 - 19:00

Almine Rech
19 Rue Saintogne
F-75003 Paris

For more information contact:
+33 (0)1 45 83 71 90
contact.paris@alminerech.com

alminerech.com

Fred Torres Collaborations presents David LaChapelle in collaboration with assume vivid astro focus at CORE: club
"Amanda Lepore as Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe and Amanda Lepore as Andy's Liz"

Core
66 East 55th Street,
New York 10022, United States

May 13 - September 30, 2011
coreaccess.com

For more information:
fredtorres.com
mailbox@fredtorres.com

John Kleckner & Riley Payne

Tristian Koenig is proud to present John Kleckner in Melbourne, Australia.

Opening: Wednesday May 11th, 2011. 6-8pm
Exhibition: May 11th - June 18th, 2011

Level 1, 18 Ellis Street,
South Yarra,
Melbourne,
Victoria
Australia 3141
+ 61 3 9827 8485
www.tristiankoenig.com.au
Wednesday - Saturday, 12 - 6pm

For more information please contact:
Tristian Koenig
tristian@tristiankoenig.com.au

Saturday Sessions: PopRally Presents BENT by SSION
Friday, May 13, 2011
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Sunday, May 15, 2011
8:00 PM to 11:00 PM

SSION by Cody Critcheloe

PopRally, in conjunction with MoMA PS1's Saturday Sessions, invites you to the three-night debut performances of BENT by SSION. Playing a selection of songs from the new album BENT, SSION's loosely narrative spectacle-incorporating video backdrops, costumes, and props-touches on subjects from riot grrrl party anthems about dieting and dying in LA to having a hit record in purgatory and creating an underwater dance club. Various collaborators will make guest appearances.

SSION, created and led by Cody Critcheloe, is a continuously mutating Kansas City-based music and performance collective. Through the mediums of music video and live performance, the group focuses on visuals, theatrics, and music that blur the lines of fantasy and reality.

The performance will begin at 8:30 p.m. and take place in the Third Floor
Main Gallery each night. Admission includes the SSION performance and a cocktail reception. You must be 21 or older to attend this event.

Tickets: $15 when purchased online prior to the event, $17 at the door. Museum admission and MoMA memberships are not valid for this after-hours event.

For more information:
http://ps1.org/calendar/view/279/

Free Public Viewing Hours Added Every Sunday and Tuesday
During Spring Season

Opening: March 18, 5-9pm
David H. Koch Theater Orchestra Lobby and Upper Rings

(New York, NY, March 7, 2011) New York City Opera continues to highlight opera's modern cultural relevance with the return of Parallel Perceptions on Friday, March 18 from 5-9pm. Parallel Perceptions, a contemporary art exhibition initiated two years ago, pairs the work of six visual artists with the 2010–11 season's operas. The images offer a fresh perspective on our interpretation of opera's most archetypal characters and themes. The artwork will be displayed on the orchestra lobby level and the upper rings of the David H. Koch Theater, located at 63rd Street & Columbus Ave. This coming season, City Opera is offering free public viewing hours every Tuesday from 1-6pm, and Sunday from 5-8pm throughout the duration of the spring season (March 22 – May 1).

Curated by accomplished artist and photo editor Naomi Ben-Shahar, this season's exhibit will feature the six season images along with additional photographs by Kehinde Wiley, Isaac Julian, Pipilotti Rist, and Dash Snow.

The Shape We're In (Camden)
5 February – 27 March 2011

Dan Attoe
Matthew Darbyshire
Tracey Emin
Jack Strange

The Zabludowicz Collection is delighted to present The Shape We're In, an exhibition in three parts focussing on recent sculpture and installations by 22 emerging and established contemporary artists.
The title of the exhibition alludes to the action of shaping inherent in the production of three-dimensional objects and sculpture, but also to the spirit of socio-political critique that many of the works articulate. It also indicates an attitude of self-conscious reflexion on recent developments and acquisitions of the Zabludowicz Collection.
Taking place across three idiosyncratic locations: the former Methodist chapel at 176 Prince of WalesRoad, London; a number of vacant shops in the London Borough of Camden; and the 33rd floor of a skyscraper on New York's Times Square, The Shape We're In aims to encourage the public to engage with works in new and informal ways. The three iterations of the show also emphasize the Collection's ongoing dedication to context- specificity. Each of the three parts will engage with local contexts and communities, responding to each exhibition site.

The Shape We're In (Camden) presents site-specific installations of works from the Zabludowicz Collection, including several neons, in vacant shops around the local area. Local council-led initiatives currently encourage
176 Prince of Wales Road, London, NW5 3PT T: +44 (0)20 7428 8940 F: +44 (0)20 7428 8949 E: info@zabludowiczcollection.com

Agathe Snow: All Access World
January 28 – March 30, 2011

Deutsche Guggenheim
Unter den Linden 13/15
10117 Berlin Germany

All Access World, a new cycle of works by Agathe Snow, will be presented in an exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, from January 28 to March 30, 2011. It will form the sixteenth commission in an ambitious series launched in 1997 by Deutsche Bank and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation to facilitate the creation of major new projects by contemporary artists.

The exhibition takes as its subject the world's monuments, landmarks, and historical sites, focusing on the ways they shape collective memory and serve as potent touchstones of national identity. Snow explores how monuments could jettison these didactic aspects in favor of a supple multiplicity that would increase their relevance to contemporary life and make them vessels of genuine cultural exchange. This utopian ambition is articulated through her establishment of All Access World, a fictional organization that subjects monuments to an irreverent process of appropriation and transformation, reimagining them as consumer products that can be customized to reflect individual tastes, interests, and experiences.

Zach Feuer Gallery
548 West 22nd Street New York, NY 10011 Tel: +1 212 989 7700 info@zachfeuer.com www.zachfeuer.com Exhibition dates: February 26-March 26, 2011 Reception for the Artist: Thursday, March 3, 6-8PM Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10-6

Art manufacturer Zach Feuer is currently offering an improved/uprated next-generation version of the Mark Flood manpackable fire-and-forget surface-to-air career launcher system called the MURK FLUID ("Show"), for export to foreign countries. The next-gen FLUID system, full name Mark Flood MURK FLUID offers significantly extended intellectual engagement/misfiring range and enhanced aesthetic kill probability and culture-warhead lethality over the previous-generation exhibition system against all types of targets, including "small-size media" like Artforum, and ultraviolet lights. A series of handwritten addenda to the FLUID brochure also claim that the FLUID art-penis has "night-firing capability" and is difficult to jam (i.e. highly immune to critical jamming).

Antonio Ballester Moreno
"No Future"
Opening: february 10, 2011
featuring drawings he made between 1982 & 1987

Casadosantapau presents "Cruised or Be Cruised"
An exhibition curated by Dean SAMESHIMA
with Salvado Cidras, Terence Koh, Silvia Prada, Kirstine Roepstorff, Pepo Salazar and Dean Sameshima

December 15, 2010 - January 29, 2011
opening December 15, 8pm


Galeria Casado Santapau
Conde de Xiguena 5
28004 Madrid, Spain

Goldman Projects and The Suzanne Geiss Company present:

assume vivid astro focus
archeologist verifies acid flashbacks
An experiential labyrinth at Wynwood Walls

Opening December 2, 2010 6 PM - Midnight
On permanent view thereafter
NW 26th Street & 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL

Hours during Art Basel Miami Beach
December 2-5, 10 AM - Midnight
For more information please contact: info@suzannegeiss.com

8.11.2010 -> 27.02.2011
BIGMINIS
Fetishes of Crisis
CAPC
musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux

Are the mini and smallness a portent of crisis, or a reflection, a consequence thereof? Might they also be an effective and off-kilter response to THE crisis? With the exhibition BigMinis, the CAPC 's idea is to explore the special fascination wielded by the "scaled-down" object in a period of recession.While miniaturization may conjure up lower costs, less time, and less space, the production of the mini is, for its part, strategic. The mini resists reduction and scaling-down. It exists because of its small size. A cheeky smallness which reveals, in the current economic and cultural context, some of the capitalist pathologies in which the mini originates, and to which it responds.

Is the mini a regulatory object?

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The exhibition BigMinis brings together works by some 50 contemporary artists, on loan from public collections in France and abroad, private foundations and collections, galleries, and the artists themselves.The idea, which originates in the present-day economic state of affairs, unfolds against a backdrop of recession, and questions, in particular, the notion of "fetishes of crisis".

It is wrongly thought that in the mini, everything is proportionately scaled down: so the same might apply to the idea behind it, and its impact. Experience shows the opposite, however. The mini endures and marks. It apparently even withstands crisis. This exhibition is conceived with this in mind. In order to make the idea dialectical and spicy, large works informed by mini-ideas are also on view, thus indicating that the impact of an idea conveyed by an object is not proportionate to the latterís size. Otherwise put, the large works are far from having a monopoly on "big" ideas and small ideas are not necessarily proportionate to the size of the objects conveying them.

Bearing in mind the maximalist proportions of the CAPC, to which the exhibition makes a partial response, an arrangement had to be invented, with the bigminis not really being exhibited as standards. The new formula gallery on the museum's ground floor will look like a mental playground. And it will sometimes be necessary to look for the works amid a forest of stands with a post-Tetris look about them.

The minis are not aware of the canons of the day and age. One-off mini-artworks, if they may be so pigeonholed, are as if driven by life. It does not matter much if they are beautiful or ugly. Their dimensions and materials, as well as their technical and conceptual prowess makes them enviable and engaging, and stimulating for eye and mind alike. They surprise and impose themselves. Nothing can be taken away from them. Their impact goes so far as to arouse the kleptomania dormant in us. Unlike the "king size", the "mini" must be seen up close. It presupposes a focus, whence the grip it has on the sphere of desire. At the same time, the small creates the void around it, because in order to be seen, it needs more space. It thus takes up more room than its size might have us suppose, whence its capacity to become a fetish. Its relationship with the environment (the city for cars, the exhibition venue for art objects, the pocket for tamagotchis…) and with us thus becomes political.

After incarnating the object boom of the industrialized countries, when the shortening of skirts and compating of vehicles had taken on the dimension of a social phenomenon, creating the vogue for the word "mini" in theWest, the compact object is gauged today by the yardstick of the cute (symptomatic, superfluous, polished object), the disquieting (fetichized, serial, cult object) and the resistant (individualistic, Pear to Pear, critical object). We hate to love it and we love to hate it.We want it in secret and without ever having seen it enough.

The contemporary mini has sex appeal.

Peres Projects, a prominent contemporary art gallery with a presence in Los Angeles and Berlin is looking for a seasoned art sales consultant for a long-term career opportunity. The gallery is an exciting and fast paced environment with a growing roster of artists and a solid support staff.

The position will strongly focus on sales, including tending to existing gallery clientele but will be focused on introducing the gallery to new collectors and the associate's own contacts. A strong desire to build and maintain successful client relationships is a must.

This is a commission based freelance sales position with top earnings for those willing and able to sell. Please apply only if you have sold art previously with success. Candidates may live anywhere although Europe and specifically Germany is preferred, as are London and Paris. Fluency in German, French or other languages also a plus. Occasional travel for art fairs may be required.

Please provide cover letter, resume and brief sales history to berlin@peresprojects.com

www.peresprojects.com

October 30th - December 22nd, 2010
Opening Reception: October 30th, 6-8PM

For further information, please call 212 431 4977.

maccarone
630 greenwich street
nyc 10014
t: 212 431 4977
kitchen@maccarone.net
www.maccarone.net

Do They Know It's Halloween?!
Javier Peres & Blake Mawson are happy to present a party for the undead!

▲▲▲ZOMBIE BIKERS FROM MARS▲▲▲

Saturday, Oc†ober 30†h
@ Peres Projects Kreuzberg
Schlesische Strasse 26

w/DJs:
Jeremy Shaw (CIRCLESQUARE, !K7)
Little Mike (PHRUNKY)

+ Disgusting Displays Of Evil From:
Helga Wretman & JFK

2 € Cover Before Midnight / 4 € After
10 € WITHOUT COSTUME!

Cash Bar On Site

Some suggested (but not required) direction for our theme:

▲ BIKER /// LEATHER /// STUDS /// HALFORD meets HADES /// FREDDIE MERCURY RISING /// GANG-BANG-CHAIN-GANG /// WENDY O meets SIOUXSIE SIOUX /// ROTTEN AT ROADSIDE /// BAYOU VOODOO /// PHLEGM & THE HOLOGRAMS /// HANKY CODES OF THE DAMNED /// LARS ATTACKS /// SCREAM QUEENS FROM NEW ORLEANS ▲

Sponsor & support from:
Smirnoff Vodka
Expatriarch.com on BLN.fm

Please join us to celebrate the opening of FREEKS, by Joe Bradley.

When: Friday October 8th, 11pm - ?
Where: Kim, Brunnenstrasse 10

Scene Shifts
29 September 2010 – 9 January 2011

Bonniers Konsthall
Torsgatan 19
SE-113 90 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46 8 736 42 48
info@bonnierskonsthall.se
www.bonnierskonsthall.se


Pablo Bronstein, Miriam Bäckström, Keren Cytter, Inci Eviner, Gabriela Fridriksdottir, Ragnar Kjartansson, Ylva Ogland, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Pietro Roccasalva, Kirstine Roepstorff, Markus Schinwald, Sriwhana Spong, Catherine Sullivan

The autumn's major exhibition at Bonniers Konsthall is the group show Scene Shifts-a meeting between art and theatre. The exhibition is a unique collaboration with Royal Dramatic Theatre and joins 14 leading international artists with Sweden's best known actors. During three intense months, the exhibition will continuously give rise to new works and performances-both in Bonniers Konsthall's galleries and on Dramaten's stages.

Scene Shifts discusses the interest for theatre displayed by contemporary artists. In Scene Shifts, mechanical theatre meets musical movies, and computer animations walk hand in hand with Shakespeare. Artist Pablo Bronstein, in collaboration with three Dramaten actors, will produce a performance with tragic endings borrowed from world drama, while artist Kirstine Roepstorff will use well-known voices in her installation Silent Theatre. As a part of the exhibition, artist Ylva Ogland's version of Ingmar Bergman's model of Dramaten's main stage will be shown. For the exhibition, the artist will also produce a gigantic puppet that will dance on the national stage. In addition, we will be treated to Ragnar Kjartansson's vocal items à la Frank Sinatra and Gabriela Fridriksdottir's dreamy dance performance.

Contemporary art's interest in the theatre may be seen as a reflection of our time, when the guiding principle of culture is visibility and spectacle. However, the participating artists' theatrical experiments are also about opening a door to fiction's possibilities, providing the dramatic art with a space for a play of identities and roles, exploring the unique presence of physical bodies, words, gestures and movements.

Curator: Sara Arrhenius, Director
Assistant Curator: Caroline Elgh Exhibition Assistant: Sarah Hansson Light: Tobias Hallgren

For further information about the programme www.bonnierskonsthall.se
Tickets to performances at Dramaten www.dramaten.se

October 2010
October 30-31: MOVE!
Date: Saturday, October 30, 2010
Time: 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
MOVE! is a two-day event merging the worlds of fashion and art through the collaboration of designers and artists, organized by V Magazine's Cecilia Dean and style journalist David Colman. For more information visit:
http://www.vmagazine.com/move/

Group Show
"ANTES QUE TODO"
September 18, 2010 – January 9, 2011
Opening - September 17, 2010

Curated by - AIMAR ARRIOLA Y MANUELA MOSCOSO
Organized by - CA2M CENTRO DE ARTE DOS DE MAYO

Ignasi Aballí; Lorea Alfaro; Txomin Badiola; Antonio Ballester Moreno; Erick Beltrán; Bestué / Vives; Rafel G. Bianchi; Carles Congost; June Crespo; Discoteca Flaming Star; Patricia Esquivias; Jon Mikel Euba; Esther Ferrer; Nuria Fuster; Dora García; Fernando García; Rubén Grilo; Lilli Hartmann; Daniel Jacoby; Jeleton; Fermín Jiménez Landa; Adrià Julià; Dai K.S.; Tamara Kuselman; Daniel Llaría; Erlea Maneros Zabala; Pablo Marte; Fran Meana; Asier Mendizabal; Jordi Mitjà; Momu & No Es; Julia Montilla; Itziar Okariz; Antonio Ortega; Kiko Pérez; Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa; Gabriel Pericàs; Paloma Polo; Sergio Prego; Wilfredo Prieto; Tere Recarens; Red Caballo; Alex Reynolds; Xavier Ribas; Carlos Rodríguez-Méndez; Francesc Ruiz; Xabier Salaberria; Jorge Satorre; Javi Soto; Julia Spínola; Sra. Polaroiska; Alain Urrutia; Isidoro Valcárcel Medina; Azucena Vieites; Oriol Vilanova; WeareQQ

Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo
Avda. Constitución 23
28931 Móstoles, Madrid
T (+34) 91 276 02 21

Group Show
"Thrice Upon A Time"
Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden, September 11th - December 12
Curated by Richard Julin, Elisabeth Millqvist, and Tessa Praun
Inauguration by Director David Neuman


The exhibition is presented in three parallel chapters featuring 202 works from the collection. 66 artists ranging from Absalon to Zetterquist fill the exhibition spaces with photography, drawing, painting, film and sculpture.

Participating artists: Absalon, Karin Mamma Andersson, Janine Antoni, Maya Attoun, Uta Barth, Lynda Benglis, Christian Boltanski, Ann Böttcher, Anna Camner, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Cecilia Edefalk, Marcel van Eeden, Jens Fänge, Robert Guillot, Rune Hagberg, Lova Hamilton, Carl Hammoud, Annika von Hausswolff, Siobhán Hapaska, Maria Hedlund, Anton Henning, Carl Fredrik Hill, Bror Hjorth, Rebecca Horn, Olav Christopher Jenssen, Ernst Josephson, Matti Kallioinen, Kimsooja, R.B. Kitaj, John Kleckner, Sigalit Landau, Matts Leiderstam, Maria Lindberg, Walter De Maria, Mark Manders, Truls Melin, Ohad Meromi, Jan van Munster, Jockum Nordström, Cecilia Parsberg, Gabriel Orozco, Chris Ofili, Tal R, Håkan Rehnberg, Gerhard Richter, Boo Ritson, Ulf Rollof, Glen Rubsamen, Fred Sandback, Tom Sandberg, Johan Scott, Miri Segal, Jonathan Seliger, Cindy Sherman, Ann-Sofi Sidén, Santiago Sierra, Lena Svedberg, Fredrik Söderberg, Johan Thurfjell, Richard Tuttle, Uglycute, Charlie White, Gunnel Wåhlstrand, Rémy Zaugg, Johan Zetterquist, Christine Ödlund.


Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall / Frihamnen SE-115 56 Stockholm
Ph: 08 545 680 40 / art@magasin3.com / www.magasin3.com
Open: Thur 11am–7pm Fri–Sun 11am–5pm / Bus 1 or 76 to Frihamnen

Vogue Fashion's Night Out Sept 10th, 2010
TERENCE KOH for LANVIN
Meet and Greet the Artist 6:30-7:30pm
LANVIN Store Madison Ave&68th St.

BOY
AUGUST 26 - SEPTEMBER 11, 2010
OPENING: THURSDAY, AUGUST 26 6-9PM
CODY CRITCHELOE - SSION

104 greene street
new york city, ny 10012
212 226 3000
theholenyc.com

for more information visit: http://www.theholenyc.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/cody_ssion_PR.pdf

SAVE THE DATE:

Our next show, "ANTI" by Antonio BALLESTER MORENO will be the first to take place at both of our Berlin spaces; Kreuzberg and Mitte.

Join us for a double opening on September 11th, 7 - 10pm

Peres Projects Kreuzberg
Schlesischestrasse 26

Peres Projects Mitte
Grosse Hamburgerstrasse 17

Dash SNOW
Harmony KORINE
Ryan MCGINLEY

3+1

september 9 - november 6th, 2010
Galerie du jour Agnes b
44 rue quincampoix
75004 Paris

www.galeriedujour.com

Group Show
"Third Thoughts"
CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain: July 24th, 2010 - October 24th, 2010
Curated by Barry Schwabsky and Carol Szymanski

"First thought, best thought," counseled the poet Allen Ginsberg. But if the first thought is immediate certainty and purity of heart, and the second thought is the fall into self-consciousness, ambivalence, equivocation, and duplicity, then what is the third thought? A descent into utter confusion? The rescue of thesis and antithesis by their dialectical synthesis? Or something else altogether? The exhibition Third Thoughts considers works that use writing and language in ways that go beyond the univocal and the ambiguous to broach this third state of thought. Among the artists included will be Mel Bochner, Luca Buvoli, Tony Cragg, Tsibi Geva, Monique Prieto, Kirstine Roepstorff, Suzanne McClelland, Jack Pierson, Allen Ruppersberg, and Nedko Solakov.

CCA Andratx
Estanyera 2
E-07150 Andratx
Mallorca, Spain

www.ccandratx.com

Group Show
"Goddesses"
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo: July 1st 2010 - January 1st 2011
Curated by Andrea Kroksnes og Randi Godø

Drawing on its own collection, the National Museum shows Part II of its presentation "Women Who Move Art".
The title of the exhibition is taken from Lara Schnitger's sculpture "Fuck You / Fuck Me Goddess" from 2005. This sculpture is a large fantastical creature made from a framework of wooden sticks draped in scraps of cloth and decorated with beads, silk ribbon and fur. Armed with an aggressive, confrontational demonstration placard, it resembles a monster more than a goddess.
The title "Goddesses" is a cliché on which the exhibition seeks to throw new light. Forget expectations of a classical homage to women's art. Instead, the exhibition aims to reassess one traditional narrative of what women's art ought to be. In its plural form, "Goddesses" is meant as a devil-may-care critique of patriarchal notions about the masterpiece and the universally valid canon. Rather than a retelling of art history, the exhibition explores the issue of the conventional categories we use in describing art. "Goddesses" refers to the diversity of exceptions to that narrative.
The exhibition shows a cross-section of the richly varied ideas artists have worked with. The themes addressed include not just classical, feminist issues, such as the body, institutional critique, handcrafts and materials, but also language, concept and abstraction.
Visitors can view works by national and international greats such as Kirstine Roepstorff, Marina Abramovic, Gunnvor Advocaat, Vanessa Beecroft, Book and Hedén, Sophie Calle, Andrea Fraser, Isa Genzken, Marianne Heske, Ane Mette Hol, Løvaas & Wagle, Camilla Løw, Lara Schnitger and many others.

The Museum of Contemporary Art
Street address: Bankplassen 4, Oslo, Norway
http://www.nationalmuseum.no/

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JUNE 18, 2010

Javier Peres would like to announce that Peres Projects will open a 2nd Berlin location in the Mitte district of the German capital this fall. At the same time, we will close our Culver City location while maintaining our Chinatown,
Los Angeles office to organize temporary site specific projects throughout Los Angeles. Peres Projects Mitte is located on Grosse Hamburger Strasse, in the center of the historic Jewish quarter of Berlin.

This fall we will inaugurate our new Berlin location with a solo exhibition by Antonio Ballester Moreno occupying both locations, followed by presentations of solo exhibitions by the American artists Joe Bradley and Mark Flood later in
the year.

Peres Projects in Mitte will host solo exhibitions in the gallery's intimate 2 story space, while Peres Projects in Kreuzberg will continue to host larger scale solo and group exhibitions.

For further information, please contact Javier Peres at Javier@PeresProjects.com or Margherita Belaief at Margherita@PeresProjects.com.

Group show
"About Face"
Thomas Robertello Gallery
939 West Randolph Street
Chicago, IL 60607
http://thomasrobertello.com


Jason Robert Bell
Cody Critcheloe (SSION)
John Delk
Scott Fife
Emily Noelle Lambert
Nikki S Lee
Noelle Mason
Mike Nudelman
Ed Paschke
Grant Schexnider
Travis Leroy Southworth
Julie Weitz

VIDEODROME
Curated by Aaron Moulton
June 4-18, 2010

Opening on Friday June 4th at 8:00.

BERLIN BIENNALE
Special opening hours at AUTOCENTER
BBQ and party on Saturday June 12th.


Douglas Gordon, AIDS-3D, Spartacus Chetwynd, Oliver Laric, Vuk Ćosić,
Omer Fast, John Kleckner, Jorge Peris, David Levine, Daniel Baker,
Joep van Liefland, Oliver Payne & Nick Relph, 01100101001.org, Cory
Arcangel, Seth Price, Ignacio Uriarte, Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia
Tkáčová, Jeremy Shaw, Aleksandra Domanović, Daniel Kingery, Patrick
Tuttofuoco, Christian Jankowski, Arcangelo Sassolino


"I've lived my whole adult life talking about my life. I've lived in
front of cameras. And maybe I'll die in front of them."
-Quote taken from reality television superstar Jade Goody on her deathbed

"And therefore whatever appears on the television screen emerges as
raw experience for those who watch it."
-Brian O'Blivion in Videodrome


AUTOCENTER is pleased to present the exhibition "Videodrome". Using
Director David Cronenberg's cult classic as a point of departure, the
exhibition examines the relationship between spectator and spectacle,
simulated realities, the condition of secondhand experiences in
contemporary living, hardcore sex, snuff, virtual selves, cultural
mash-ups, historical cut-ups, human slips and so on.

Upon its release in 1983, Videodrome was a prescient dissection of how
the mediated experience of TV - particularly reality TV - would become
a learning device towards grooming ritual and daily practice. In turn,
reality television's voracious approach to serializing every waking
moment of human experience, no matter how absurd or inane, has made
any one of us into an unwitting participant of The Truman Show. This
reached an existential crescendo in spring 2009 with the late Jade
Goody, reality TV's recent martyr. As a symbol Goody is an uncanny
doppelganger to Videodrome's Brian O'Blivion, Cronenberg's stand-in
for Marshall McLuhan, who states repeatedly how "the television screen
is the retina of the mind's eye". Much like O'Blivion's fate, Goody's
cancer-stricken body, under the bludgeoning scrutiny of the video
camera, was dematerialized into a pulp of television snow the moment
she expired.

With the advancement of home cinemas such as VHS, Betamax and
Video2000, a sudden and unknowable surplus of films and visual
information was generated. Immediately the result was lifetimes of
imagery that no one will ever see. After the birth of the video store,
this condition reached hyperbole with the advent of user-generated
content. This codex of tireless image production influences much of
who we are and what we are composed of as social beings.

In Michel de Certeau's seminal book The Practice of Everyday Life from
1984, he pinpoints behavioral strategies of contemporary man as a way
to make us, the reader and ultimately the subject, become more
self-reflexive about our procedures for social engagement, leisure and
personal economy. One key concept is la perruque or "the wig," a
French expression that references the way people figuratively wear an
outfit or disguise to make viewers believe that what they are seeing
is what they think it is. Forms of posturing or "imposturing" create a
slippage between real, projected and now televised selves in an
attempt to maintain expectations from daily behaviors for the
experience of the viewer.

From a point of posturing based on projection, this blurring of self
is reminiscent of 60s experimental filmmaker Jack Smith's loosely
directed productions and the notion of the "human slip". Smith's films
capture awkward moments wherein actors sit in front of the camera
attempting to posture according to their mind's eye and Jack's
supposed expectations for "being" an unknowable and unscripted
character. The outcome is a teetering between this caricatured idea
and sudden moments of self-realization, the in-between liminal state
acting as this moment of slippage.

The works in Videodrome come together to make an ouroboratic machine
massaged by the medium it mimics. Reproductions of popular culture are
done through its self, asexually. We witness sublimation as a means of
mimicry. The outcome is a subliminal camouflage that, by referencing
the reference of a reference, eventually becomes some uncut simulacric
compound.

Image and icon production has reached a point of being completely
scrambled in terms of sequences of realization and consumption. The
results are parallel, simulated or even parasite realities each with
their own version and mash-up to boot eliciting an unquieting
collision of festering ambivalence and derealization. In terms of
cultural production the tendency might be described as "Karaoke
Conceptualism" which manifests as a form that is both conceptual and
physical, offers a mouthpiece for discourse, and like some form of
dementia allows us to repeat histories of any kind without risk or
foul. In effect, Videodrome offers a kind of psychic alchemy through
extraordinary rendition.

Long live the new flesh.


AUTOCENTER
http://www.autocenterart.de
Eldenaer Strasse 34 a
10247 Berlin

Group Show
"ANTIFOTO"
Kunstraum Düsseldorf: 11.Juni-18.Juli 2010
Opening: Thursday: 10.6.2010
The Böhm/Kobayashi University:
Saturday: 12.6.2010

with: Aleksandra Domanovic, Beni Bischof/Lasermagazin, Dean Sameshima, Jason Lazarus, Jeffrey Ladd/Books on Books, Joachim Schmid, Manuela Barczewski, Marei Wenzel/Iris Czak, Taiyo Onorato/Nico Krebs, Wassink/Lundgren

http://www.antifoto.de

Solo show
"Connected Isolation"
Hiromi Yoshii Gallery
1-3-2-6F Kiyosumi Koutou Tokyo 135-0024 JAPAN
May 15 - June 19, 2010

http://www.hiromiyoshii.com

Terence Koh
"Post Monument"
XIV Carrara Biennale, Italy
June 26 - October 31, 2010

http://www.2010.labiennaledicarrara.it

Solo show
"A Ear In A Pond, A Tooth In The Wall, A Knife In The Socket"
Loraini Alimantiri Gazonrouge
Kykladon 8 Athens 11361
May 14 - June 12, 2010

http://www.gazonrouge.com

Javier Peres/ Peres Projects is pleased to announce

GAGAKOH
a one night performance by
Lady Gaga & Terence Koh
20th of April
only in Tokyo, Japan

details to follow on www.PeresProjects.com

presented by MAC cosmetics/Viva Glam

Art Film Screening: SSION "BOY"
A Film by Cody Critcheloe, Curated by Stacy Engman

Presented by The Contemporary rt Department
of The National Arts Club
Monday, April 5, 2010, 8pm

RSVP Essential:
contemparts@thenationalartsclub.org

The National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park South, NYC

http://www.nationalartsclub.org/

Group show
"A about bauhaus...harm neu tues"
Curated by Matthew Brandt
Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art
8568 Washington Blavd.
Culver City, CA 90232
March 27 - April 17, 2010
Opening reception: Saturday, March 27, 2010 6-8pm
www.cardwelljimmerson.com

Artists: Gil Blank, Matthew Brandt, Sam Davis, Ed Heckerman, Peter Holzhauer, Alex Klein, Eve Fowler, Manya Fox, Les Krims, Louis Lawler, Lisa Ohwiler, Luciano Perna, Maha Saab, Phel Steinmetz, Dean Sameshima, Melanie Willhide, and Augusta Wood

Solo exhibition
Massimo de Carlo
Via Giovanni Ventura 5
20134 Milano, Italia
Opening March 22, 2010

Galleria Massimo De Carlo presents Dan Colen's first solo exhibition in Italy. Paintings, prints, photographs and new installations have been conceived and produced for the exhibition.

www.massimodecarlo.it

Please join Agathe Snow as she invades Anatole Shagalov's apartment.

On view will be sculptures, new and old, yet never before seen in NYC.

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 4th, 7 to 9 pm
Daily viewing hours: Friday, March 5th - Wednesday, March 10, 12 to 6 pm

34 East 70th Street
Apartment 2W

Group Show
"Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection"
Curated by Jeff Koons
The New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 1000
March 3 - June 6, 2010
http://newmuseum.org

"Skin Fruit" will be the first exhibition in the United States of the Athens-based Dakis Joannou Collection, renowned as one of the leading collections of contemporary art in the world. This will also be the first exhibition curated by Koons, whose early work inspired the evolution of the Joannou collection.

"Skin Fruit" will include over 100 works by 50 international artists spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the exhibition will spotlight the age-old preoccupation with the human form as a vessel of and vehicle for experience. Koons's title "Skin Fruit" alludes to notions of genesis, evolution, original sin, and sexuality. Skin and fruit evoke the essential tensions between interior and exterior, between what we see and what we consume.

Starting with the first, now-legendary exhibitions, such as "Artificial Nature" and "Post Human," at his DESTE Foundation's non-profit museum in Athens, Dakis Joannou has focused on works that present a new image of man. It is no coincidence that his collection developed in the cultural context of Greece, where Classical sculpture defined the Western canon of anatomical representation. Artists have arrived at a much more uncertain image of mankind in this new century, in which bodies are still idealized but also are assaulted by forces of our own making. Joannou's collection is comprised of more than 1,500 works by 400 contemporary artists, from the most eminent to those just emerging. For "Skin Fruit," Koons has selected sculptures, works on paper, paintings, installations, and videos by a group of artists including David Altmejd, Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, Nathalie Djurberg, Robert Gober, Mike Kelley, Terence Koh, Mark Manders, Paul McCarthy, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Kiki Smith, Christiana Soulou, Jannis Varelas, Kara Walker, and Andro Wekua, among others.

Selected Artists:
Paweł Althamer, David Altmejd, Janine Antoni, Assume Vivid Astro Focus (Eli Sudbrack), Tauba Auerbach, Matthew Barney, Vanessa Beecroft, Ashley Bickerton, John Bock, Mark Bradford
Maurizio Cattelan, Paul Chan, Dan Colen, Nigel Cooke, Roberto Cuoghi, Nathalie Djurberg, Haris Epaminonda, Urs Fischer, Robert Gober, Matt Greene, Mark Grotjahn, Adam Helms, Jenny Holzer, Mike Kelley, Terence Koh, Jeff Koons, Liza Lou, Nate Lowman, Mark Manders, Paul McCarthy, Dave Muller, Takashi Murakami, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Cady Noland, Chris Ofili, Seth Price, Richard Prince, Charles Ray, Tino Sehgal, Jim Shaw, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Christiana Soulou, Jannis Varelas, Kara Walker, Gillian Wearing, Andro Wekua, Franz West, Christopher Wool

Group Show
"Blind Sculpture"
Greene Naftali Gallery
508 W 26th Street
8th Floor
New York, NY 10001

For their exhibition at Greene Naftali, Gelitin will transform the gallery into a podium.

Gelitin will build a big sculpture.
At the opening they will be working all evening on the sculpture.
The following 10 days they will be working on the sculpture in the afternoons, early evenings.
The visitors can watch the happening of the sculpture.

Gelitin will be working on the sculpture blindfolded.
Working blindfolded is never a sensation, it is just a fact.
They will never see the sculpture until it is finished.
The sculpture will stay for the rest of the show.

Gelitin will be assisted by very very professional assistants who hand them ideas, nails, tape, glue, conversation, things, guide them to the ladder and hold the scaffolding.

Gelitin’s assistants are: Rita Ackermann, Rey Akdogan, Karen Azoulay, Francisca Benitez, Cecily Brown, Lucy Dodd Indiana, Cheryl Donegan, Jim Drain, Urs Fischer, Rainer Ganahl, Liam Gillick, K8 Hardy, Maria Hassabi, Laura Kaplan, Kika Karadi, Jon Kessler, David LaChapelle, Christopher Lucas, Tony Matelli, Adam McEwen, Sarah Mitchell, Slava Mogutin, Rob Pruitt, Chris Rosa, Marina Rosenfeld, Tom Sachs, Lucien Samaha, Jason Schmidt, Gedi Sibony, Junah Sibony, Amy Sillman, Michael Smith, Agathe Snow, Casey Spooner, Paige Stevenson, Jaiko Suzuki, Spencer Sweeney, Piotr Uklanski, Leilah Weinraub, Andrew WK, XXX Macarena (Tony Conrad, Jutta Koether, John Miller, and Greg Parma Smith) and Bree Zucker.

Performance Times: Thursday, January 28th 6-8PM (Opening Reception)
Friday, January 29th 3-7PM
Saturday, January 30th 3-8PM

Tuesday, February 2nd 3-7PM
Wednesday, February 3rd 3-7PM
Thursday, February 4th 3-7PM
Friday, February 5th 3-7PM
Saturday, February 6th 3-7PM

Come see this show.
Tell your mother about it and please bring your friends.



In cooperation with the AFCNY (Austrian Cultural Forum).
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Group Show
"Auto-Kino!"
Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin
Schlossplatz, Berlin-Mitte
February 5 - March 14, 2010

www.kunsthalle-berlin.com

AUTO-KINO!
presented by Phil Collins

Experimental films, essay films, art videos, docu-dramas, melodramas, krimis, and everything in between – from the warm leatherette of a passenger- or driver's seat. British artist Phil Collins turns the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin into a stationary indoor drive-in cinema. In a cluster of secondhand cars installed in the space, individual vehicles serve as booths or box-seats, offering the audience an intimate situation in which to enjoy a rotating program of artists' videos and film classics. In a playful way, this questions the set-ups in which video art is usually encountered, and reflects on perceptions of the public and the private.

In the 1950s the then extremely successful drive-ins were considered seedy "passion pits" and a moral hazard to youth. In Germany and Europe drive-ins never achieved the same popularity as in the USA: car-ownership was too scarce, ticket prices too high, and winter-month temperatures too low.

Auto-Kino! incorporates the attractions of this now almost extinct mode of spectatorship. Phil Collins and Siniša Mitrović, who jointly run the visual arts company Shady Lane Productions (Berlin/Glasgow), have programmed more than 100 titles covering a broad range of film and video, from the 1920's onwards, which generally relate to two main concerns. On the one hand, the works revolve around the sensual circuitry and emotional impact of moving images, positioning the viewer as a desiring subject. On the other, they explore the duality of authenticity and manipulation embedded in cinematic representation. The simultaneous erection and abolition of cinema's visual pleasures lie at the heart of significant parts of both contemporary filmmaking and visual arts – a traditionally maintained distinction which Auto-Kino! proposes is as blinkered as it is obsolete. Engaging the far-reaching implications of the phenomenon of drive-ins, Auto-Kino! offers the audience a fresh perspective on the promiscuous liaisons between film and the moving image in other visual media.

The evening and weekend programs present feature films from Germany's rich history of genre cinema, with an emphasis on the turbulent years of the 1930s and 1940s. Reimagining Schlossplatz/Marx-Engles-Forum as the site of a drive-in that never existed, Auto-Kino! brings together a selection of Ufamelodramas, West German thrillers and DEFA rubble films that invite the audience to look again at the relationship between the idea of national community, and the articulation of its social and political body in the light of cinematic representation.

With films by:
Karim Aïnouz, Telémacos Alexiou, Kenneth Anger, Kutlug Ataman, Alex Bag, Ilona Baltrusch, Rosa Barba, Pina Bausch, Christine Noll Brinckmann, Marcel Broodthaers, Nick Broomfield, Susanne Bürner, Filipa César, Declan Clarke, Martin Creed, Lucile Desamory, Christoph Doering, Harun Farocki, Jean Genet, Ezra Gerhardt & Alf Böhmert, Douglas Gordon, Veit Harlan, Todd Haynes, Christian Jankowski, Christoph Keller, Karl Kels, Alexander Kluge, Bruce LaBruce, Fritz Lang, Sharon Lockhart, Peter Lorre, Dušan Makavejev, Angela Melitopoulos, Elfi Mikesch, Ana María Millán & Eduardo Carvajal, Rosa von Praunheim, Yvonne Rainer, Helga Reidemeister, Anri Sala, Claudia Schillinger, Christoph Schlingensief, Werner Schröter, Detlef Sierck, Robert Siodmak, Sharon Smith & Felicity Croydon, Amie Siegel, Isabell Spengler, Wolfgang Staudte, Hito Steyerl, Klaus Telscher, Leslie Thornton, Raša Todosijević, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Gillian Wearing, Konrad Wolf, Zelimir Zilnik, Artur Zmijewski, and more.

Solo show
"Illuminating Shadows"
Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
Maria-Theresien-Str. 45
6020 Innsbruck, Austria
AND
Stadtgalerie Schwaz
Franz-Josef-Straße 27
A-6130 Schwaz / Tyrol
February 7 - April 4, 2010

Press conference:
Friday, February 5, 2010
10 am Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
11.30 am Stadtgalerie Schwaz

Opening:
Saturday, February 6, 2010
5 pm Stadtgalerie Schwaz
Words of welcome from Dr. Hans Lintner, Mayor of the City of Schwaz
Karin Pernegger, Director of Stadtgalerie Schwaz, will speak about the exhibition

7:30 pm Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
Opening by LR Dr. Beate Palfrader, Cultural Representative in the State of Tyrol
Dr. Beate Ermacora, Director of Galerie im Taxispalais, will speak about the exhibition

www.galerieimtaxispalais.at
www.stadtgalerieschwaz.at

Group show
"Waking The Dead"
Autocenter
Eldenaer Strasse 34a
10247 Berlin
January 15 - 30, 2010

http://www.autocenterart.de

Solo Exhibition
"Green Cube"
Noma Gallery
80 Maiden Ln. 3rd fl,
San Francisco, CA 94108
Tel: 415 391 0200
nomagallery@nomagallerysf.com
March 11 - April 11, 2010
http://www.nomagallerysf.com

Group Show
"In There, Out Here"
Leo Koenig Projekte
541 West 23rd Street
New York, NY 10011
January 8 - February 20, 2010

http://projekte.leokoenig.com

Curated by Bill Saylor
Aidas Bareikis, Joe Bradley, Sarah Braman, Brendan Cass, Bjorn Copeland, Jim Drain, Sadie Laska, Jonas Mekas, A.R. Penck, Joyce Pensato, Chloe Piene, Julian Schnabel and Michael Williams

Group Show
"Point to one end, which is always present"
Small A Projects
261 Broome Street
New York, NY 10002
January 8 - February 14, 2010
http://laurelgitlen.com/

Group Show
"All Creatures Great and Small"
Curated by Maria Brewińska
Zacheta National Gallery of Art
pl. Malachowskiego 3
00-916 Warsaw

All Creatures Great and Small develops themes initiated in the exhibition Hot/Cold - Summer Loving shown in Zacheta in 2007 that presented different forms of love, including the love humans feel for animals.

The forthcoming exhibition concentrates only on the problem of the world of animals, exploring artists' diverse takes on this problem and the range of ways of visualizing it in art. The point of entry for the exhibition is the desire to overcome the dogmatic anthropocentrism that places the human in the centre of the world as a privileged species of the highest ontological status. This viewpoint continues to dominate in contemporary science, and as a consequence we witness the exclusion of other species/phenomena of life on earth from the sphere of scientific knowledge in terms of their subjectivity or rights.

The theory of evolution presented in the book The Origin of Species (for which this year was a double anniversary, since it was 150 years since it was first published and 200 years since the birth of its author, Charles Darwin) put humans on the summit of the animal hierarchy, but not as a separate 'super-animal', but as a species that was part and parcel of nature and subject to its processes in the chain of natural changes. In 1872, Darwin published another book: On the Expression of Emotion in Humans and Animals, describing the world of animals through expressions of emotions which up until that point has been the purview only of the human species. This was a revolutionary thought for its day which presented animals and people not as separate or antagonistic worlds, but as connected to one another by degrees of similarity and close ties.

Although discontented commentators write that contemporary science generally encounters the Other only at its daily meal times (animals are often included in the group of all Others excluded by society or existing at its margins, beyond the 'centre'), nonetheless worthy of attention is a new wave of books, accounts and texts written between the 1960s and today (a large part in which was no doubt played by the ecological movements and struggles for animal rights that emerged on the wave of revolutionary changes in the 60s) formulating new approaches to the non-human world, its relations with the human world and vice-versa, and thus opening up new philosophical or ethical questions.

One of the elements in the radical changes in art, that also began in the 1960s, has been the fundamental change undergone in the way that artists approach the animal world and the relations between people and animals. The works shown visualize this world in its diverse aspects through the use of less or more engaged observation, the pleasure of watching, touching or possessing through domestication, the pleasures experienced by animals themselves in play, but also the question of enclosing their existences into the ghetto known as Zoological Garden. Works also make reference to difficult questions concerning the use of animals as commodities, of causing them pain and suffering, of eating their bodies. Many works upturn the semantics of animals, giving them the symbolic significance which culture has denied them through civilisational change. In others, animals become participants in experiments through which we observe their mutual interactions, or are also a part of formal artistic experiments. Amongst the questions relating to the relations between humans and animals are to be found works on the animalist aspect of human nature and on the desire to identify with an Other by 'becoming animal'.

The exhibition presents this world from a human perspective (as we do not know any other), and thus in the background also sketches out the image of humans as they emerges through their relations with the animal world.

The exhibition presents the works of the following artists:

Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Pilar Albaracin, Francis Alys, Dan Attoe, Roger Ballen, Kuba Bąkowski, Joseph Beuys, Bogna Burska, John Bock, Olaf Brzeski, Mircea Cantor, David Claerbout, Marcus Coates, Peter Coffin, Anna Dębska, Mark Dion, VALIE EXPORT, Angus Fairhurst, Peter Fischli&David Weiss, Peter Friedl, Leszek Golec&Tatiana Czekalska, Douglas Gordon, Jean-Charles Hue, Elżbieta Janczak-Wałaszek, Agnes Janich, Christian Jankowski, Marina Kappos, Mike Kelley, Kristof Kintera, Grzegorz Kowalski, Igor Krenz, Natalia LL, Yuri Leiderman, Dominik Lejman, Marcin Maciejowski, Artur Malewski, Chris Marker, Rafał Milach, Ciprian Muresan, Yach Paszkiewicz, Włodzimierz Pawlak, Elisa Pône, Marc Quinn, Jozef Robakowski, Zygmunt Rytka, Alain Séchas, Ene-Liis Semper, Deborah Sengl, Carolee Schneemann, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Roman Signer, Dusan Skala, Gabrielle Stellbaum, Eric Swenson, Javier Téllez, Gabriela Vanga, Minette Vári, Bill Viola, Martin Walde, Marek Wasilewski, Boyd Webb, William Wegman, Paweł Wieckowiak, The Wooster Group, Wunderteam, Erwin Wurm.

Group Show
"Youthful Gazes"
Curated by Kim Light, Nayla Hadchiti, Maya Karanouh, Hannah Algee
Kim Light / Lightbox
300 East 57th Street, #14F
New York, NY 10022
Monday, December 14, 2009, 6-9pm (one night only)
www.kimlightgallery.com

Group Show
"Contemporary artifices and Baroque difformities"
Curated by Claudia Gioia, with the scientific direction of Danilo Eccher
ARCOS-Sannio Museum of Contemporary Art
Corso Garibaldi, 1
82100 Benevento, Italy
December 18, 2009 - April 30, 2010

Group Show
Zeigen.
An Audio Tour through Berlin by Karin Sander.
Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin
Schlossplatz, Berlin-Mitte
December 5, 2009 - January 10, 2010
Opening December 4, 2009, 21 pm
http://www.kunsthalle-berlin.com/

Many international artists today live in Berlin - whether permanently or temporarily - who value the cultural climate in the city as one of the most exciting in the world, just as much as they themselves are at the same time contributing to its form and content.

With its program for the second year the Temporäre Kunsthalle reflects the many facets of Berlin's diverse art scene. International Berlin-based artists will be invited to curate all in all five exhibitions and projects. From their subjective points of view, they present artistic positions in independently and at times idiosyncratically conceived shows.

View of "Heartland," 2009. Left: Cody Critcheloe, Boy, 2009. Right: Carnal Topor, Purifications of the CalmDome, 2009.

ARTFORUM, critics' picks

Chicago

"Heartland"
SMART MUSEUM OF ART, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
5550 South Greenwood Avenue
October 1–January 17


This eye-opening group exhibition highlights the work of visual artists and other cultural producers who take tactical advantage of their peripheral geographic relationship to major urban cultural centers. From its title onward, "Heartland"-a collaboration between the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands-simultaneously embraces and debunks regional clichés. The independent spirit, bootstrapping gumption, and friendliness often attributed to midwesterners, for example, here takes the form of a determined DIY mind-set, a willingness to collaborate, and a savvy ability to get the job done by "making do."

Such methods are certainly not exclusive to this region, but they are arguably most prevalent (and essential) in cities like Detroit, Kansas City, Chicago, and Memphis. Falling real estate prices have enabled the Detroit-based, community-minded collective Design 99 to purchase studio and storefront space, while Lowndes County, Alabama-the birthplace of the first independent African-American political party-provides a rich vein of unwritten sociopolitical history for artist Jeremiah Day to tap. Oral histories and other forms of storytelling enable artists to situate a dislocated present in terms of a shared past or an imagined future, although sometimes, as in the comics-style drawings of Chicagoans Kerry James Marshall and Deb Sokolow, such place-based narratives can take surreal, truth-twisting turns.

The Chicago iteration of "Heartland" wisely includes smaller ancillary exhibitions of paintings by self-taught artist Joseph Yoakum and the Chicago Imagists, ensuring that the unique contributions of the city to the region's art are not overlooked. Overall, however, the focus is on shared practices rather than common stylistic attributes.
- Claudine Ise

Group show
"Berlin - Los Angeles. A Tale of Two (Other) Cities"
Galeria Massimo De Carlo
Via Giovanni Venture 5
20134 Milano, Italy
November 12 - December 19, 2009
http://www.massimodecarlo.it

Klara Liden - Josef Strau - Klaus Weber - Dan Rees - Kirstine Roepstorff - Maximilian Zentz Zlomovitz - Simon Fujiwara - Scott Olson - Frank Benson - Elad Lassry - Kaare Upson

The first full length trailer for Bruce LaBruce's upcoming film L.A. Zombie starring Francois Sagat, including music by France De Griessen.

http://www.lazombie.com/

Terence Koh
"Adansonias, A Tragic Opera in 8 Acts"
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
7 Rue Debelleyme,
75003 Paris, France

Act 8 debuts on October 22, 8pm.

http://www.ropac.net

Terence Koh will be participating in the "Performa-visual performance art biennial 09" in New York City.

Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn
Saturday, November 7 - Saturday, November 7, 10:30pm

Terence Koh presents a special performance that blends vocals, rock and synthesized music, mixed with a light and media installation.
Presented as Part of Target First Saturdays at the Brooklyn Museum.


National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park South
Thursday, November 19 6:00 pm

Terence Koh presents a lecture on art history.
Organized by Performa and the National Arts Club.


Tompkins Square Park
Saturday, November 21 - Saturday, November 21, 10:30pm
Presented by Performa.People will gather in Tompkins Square Park, following a set of instructions sent by the artist via various viral media.

http://performa-arts.org/

Group Show
"Spaced out / On Time"
CANADA
55 Chrystie Street, near Hester Street,
Lower East Side , New York, NY
September 11 - October 11, 2009
http://www.canadanewyork.com/

Group Exhibition
"Scherenschnitt - Kontur pur" / "Silhouettes - Pure Contour"
Museum Bellerive, Museum für Gestaltung/Design Museum Zurich, Switzerland
November 27, 2009 - April 4, 2010
http://www.museum-gestaltung.ch

Psaligraphy, the art of cutting out silhouettes, is an arts and crafts technique that creates an image through the remaining outline, the cut-outs or both. It is regarded as a typical Swiss handcraft, and silhouettes bring to mind a series of black-and-white cows, fir trees with chalets and images by Johann Jakob Hauswirth, the father of the much-practiced art in Switzerland. Silhouettes have also repeatedly fascinated artists for more than one hundred years. At the moment a growing interest can be observed in international contemporary art. The silhouette is also moving into three-dimensional space. New materials are being tested and points of intersection to various methods of production are being sounded out. The 7th Swiss Silhouette Exhibition is for the first time showing works in Zurich submitted for the competition organized by the " Friends of Silhouettes". The exhibition sheds light on silhouettes with traditional and contemporary positions from various perspectives.

Group Show
"The Embassy"
curated by Xerxes Cook and Alen Dellal
33 Portland Place, London, UK
October 15 - October 18, 2009

TERENCE KOH
ADANSONIAS,
A Tragic Opera In 8 Acts

ACT 1
6th October 2009
8 PM

GALERIE THADDAEUS ROPAC
7 Rue Debelleyme, 75003. PARIS.

Group Show
"New York Minute"
Curated by Kathy Grayson
Macro Future Museum, Rome
September 20 - November 1, 2009
http://www.macro.roma.museum/


New York Minute features sixty artists in and around New York City who capture the drama, danger, speed and savvy of the vibrant and diverse art activities happening in the city today. This exhibition brings together for the first time the best of the downtown community, showing behind the scenes connections and collaborations between artists not only in Manhattan but in the extended network that includes active art spots like Providence, Miami, San Francisco, or Philadelphia. New York is exploding with new talent and though not every one of these artists live in the city, every single artwork nonetheless contains the immediacy and energy packed into a New York Minute.

This exhibition is produced by the >DEPART Foundation, Rome in conjunction with the MACRO Museum, Rome and is supported by the Province of Rome, Adidas, Peres Projects, Wallspace, O.H.W.O.W. Miami, and Deitch Projects.

AARON BONDAROFF
AGATHE SNOW
ALAN VEGA
ARA PETERSON
AUREL SCHMIDT
ASSUME VIVID ASTRO FOCUS
BANKS VIOLETTE
BARRY MCGEE
BEN JONES
BRIAN BELOTT
BRIAN CHIPPENDALE
BRIAN DEGRAW
CHRIS JOHANSON
CORY ARCANGEL
DAN COLEN
DASH SNOW
DEARRAINDROP
EDDIE MARTINEZ
ESTER PARTEGAS
EVAN GRUZIS
FRANCINE SPIEGEL
GANG GANG DANCE
GARDAR EIDE EINARSSON
HANNA LIDEN
JD SAMSON
JIM DRAIN
JOE BRADLEY
JULES DE BALINCOURT
KATHERINE BERNHARDT
KEEGAN MCHARGUE
KEMBRA PFAHLER
KON TRUBKOVICH
LIZZI BOUGATSOS
MAT BRINKMAN
MARTHA FRIEDMAN
MATT LEINES
MICHAEL BELL SMITH
MICHAEL CLINE
MITZI PEDERSON
NATE LOWMAN
NECKFACE
NICO DIOS
PAPER RAD
PATRICK GRIFFIN
PETER COFFIN
ROSSON CROW
RY FYAN
RYAN MCGINLEY
SCOTT CAMPBELL
SPENCER SWEENEY
STERLING RUBY
STEVE POWERS
TAKESHI MURATA
TAUBA AUERBACH
TAYLOR MCKIMENS
TERENCE KOH
THREEASFOUR
TIM BARBER
TOMOO GOKITA
VALERIE HEGARTY
XYLOR JANE
YUICHI YOKOYAMA

Solo Exhibition
"Nuit: Sun forms of beneath"
Kunsthallen Brandts
Brandts Torv 1
DK-5000 Odense C
October 8 - January 31, 2010
http://www.brandts.dk

Avant-garde meets avant-garde. The New York-based limited-edition fashion and art publication Visionaire draws inspiration for its 57th issue from the unique two-seater smart fortwo. Visionaire 57 "2010" is the first plug-in electric issue of the publication. 52 internationally renowned curators and art collectors were recruited to select 365 works of art, making this issue, in the form of an electronic daily calendar, a ground-breaking compendium of contemporary art. The cooperation with Visionaire was motivated by the launch of the second generation of the smart fortwo electric drive.

The 52 guest curators for Visionaire "2010" include artists like John Baldessari, internationally renowned museum curators like Klaus Biesenbach (MoMA) or Christine Marcel (Centre George Pompidou), contemporary art collectors like Pharrell Williams, Mario Testino or the architect Zaha Hadid as well as actors Natalie Portman and Tilda Swinton. Fashion designers Raf Simons and Marc Jacobs and Dr. Renate Wiehager, head of the Daimler art collection, are also participating.

Each curator selected seven artists. Artists include Adel Abdessemed, Agathe Snow, Bruce Nauman, Cao Fei, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Gabriel Orozco, Gelitin, Guyton\Walker, Kalup Linzy, Kaws, Maurizio Cattelan, Nathalie Djurberg, Olafur Eliasson, Paul Chan, and Steve McQueen to name a few. In this way the Visionaire issue "2010" forms a compendium of contemporary art.

Group Show
"Scorpio's Garden"
Curated by Kirstine Roepstorff
Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin
Schlossplatz, Berlin-Mitte
September 25 - November 15, 2009
http://www.kunsthalle-berlin.com

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.
With Scorpio's Garden, the artist Kirstine Roepstorff (*1972) metaphorically interprets Berlin as a garden, thus highlighting the city's role as a platform for intellectual exchange and artistic production – a place where images, ideas and concepts find a favorable medium in which to grow, proliferate and compete with each other. The works selected for Scorpio's Garden take up motifs of development and growth, decline and decadence, control, spontaneity and sexuality. They reflect the dynamic competition distinguishing the art scene in this city, which is still making an effort to work its way out of the ruins of a traumatic century.
Neither a retrospective nor an outlook, the exhibition reflects Berlin's continuing appeal to artists from all over the world and their activities in this city. Its official birthday (the first mention of the city in a document is Oct, 28, 1237), as well as the day on which the Berlin Wall came down (Nov. 9, 1989), fall under the sign of Scorpio, which in the year's cycle of growth and decay stands for destruction, disintegration and dissolution, and thus, at the same time, for providing the potential for renewal.

Works by
Monica Bonvicini | Enrico David | Jason Dodge | Elmgreen & Dragset | Isa Genzken | Julian Göthe | Karl Holmqvist | Alexandra Hopf | Judith Hopf | Laura Horelli | Anna-Kavata Mbiti | Shahryar Nashat | Henrik Olesen | Kirsten Pieroth | Lotte Reiniger | Dean Sameshima | Dash Snow | Josef Strau | Suzanne Treister | Susanne Winterling | Amelie von Wulffen

Performances & Lectures by
Nevin Aladag | assume vivid astro focus | Gerry Bibby | Juliette Blightman | Kerstin Cmelka | Simon Fujiwara & Tim Davies | Karl Holmqvist | Judith Hopf | Fiona James | Sergey Karamyshev | Douglas Kløvedal | Warren Neidich | Gustav Opland | Yorgos Sapountzis | Egill Sæbjörnsson & Marcia Moraes | Elvis Schlaegel

Group Exhibition
"Access All Areas"
Galerie Max Hetzler
Oudenarder Straße 16-20
D-13347 Berlin
Germany
September 23 - November 7, 2009
Opening September 24, 2009
http://www.maxhetzler.com/

Organized by Arturo Herrera and Tanja Wagner

D-L Alvarez, Dan Attoe, Katarina Burin, Dieter Detzner, Paula Doepfner, Knut Eckstein, Ayşe Erkmen, Friederike Feldmann, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Katharina Grosse, Jens Hanke, Joe Hardesty, Dorothy Iannone, Šejla Kamerić, Alicja Kwade, Jonas Lipps, Michel Majerus, Michael Müller, Jens Nippert, Jens Nordmann, Chloe Piene, Antonio Gonzales Paucar, Berthold Reiß, Bernd Ribbeck, Jenny Rosemeyer, Josh Smith, Thaddeus Strode, Benedikt Terwiel, Alexander Wagner, Claudia Wieser

Solo Exhibition
Western Exhibitions
119 N Peoria St, Suite 2A
Chicago, IL 60622
September 11 - October 10, 2009
http://westernexhibitions.com

The shock rocker (and now horror film director) Rob Zombie's floating head looms over 6 pairs of kayakers on a melancholy seascape in Dan Attoe's new oil painting, "Sea Kayakers (You Are Not Special)". The Zombie apparition, a recurring prophet in Attoe's work, spouts a cryptic aphorism, in text delicately rendered by the artist. Is this phrase directed to us, the viewers, or to the kayakers, or both?

"Sea Kayakers (You Are Not Special)" anchors Dan Attoe's solo show in Western Exhibitions Gallery 2. He will also present several "daily drawings", an extension of a past project of making a small painting every day over a couple of years. In these drawings, Attoe illustrates whatever is holding his interest at the moment, be it a Far Side cartoon, rock and rollers, whatever happened in the local bar last night, a scene from one of the Pacific Northwest's legendary strip clubs, or a depiction of the Pacific Northwest's legendary topography. He uses these drawings as foundations for paintings and neon sculptures and makes them in a stream of consciousness manner, letting the images, text and ideas that pop into his head make their way onto the paper. Attoe states in a recent interview, available at the gallery, that "there is no overarching theme to my work, there are things that pop up frequently because of where I live, or because of things I was interested in as a kid, etc. I like to leave the subject matter open to interpretation."

This is Dan Attoe's second solo show with Western Exhibitions. The gallery also hosted his collaborative installation troupe Paintallica for a wild show in 2006. Attoe will be having a concurrent show at Peres Projects in Los Angeles, with whom he has had 5 prior solo shows. Other solo shows include MUSAC in Leon, Spain, Vilma Gold in London and 404 Arte Contemporanea in Naples. Group shows include the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux, France, AMP in Athens, Galleria Maria de Cardenas in Milan, the Saatchi Gallery in London and the Portland Art Museum in Oregon. His work has been discussed in Artforum, Artforum.com, Contemporary, Paper, Los Angeles Times, Art Review and LA Weekly. Paintallica recently completed an installation at the Country Club gallery in Los Angeles. Dan Attoe received his MFA from the University of Iowa in 2004 and he lives and works just outside of Portland, Oregon.

Printed Matter's New York Art Book Fair
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, Queens, New York
Project Room Second Floor
October 2 - 4, 2009
http://www.nyartbookfair.com
http://www.printedmatter.org
Peres Projects and Daddy The Magazine are pleased to present a special project room featuring artist's publications and editions by Terence KOH, Bruce LaBruce, Dash SNOW, and much more.

IL GIARDINO DEI LAURI
The Angela and Massimo
Lauro Collection

Località San Litardo,
ss Umbro Casentinese km 80,
Città della Pieve (PG), Italy
For information
+39 3486081926 –
info@igiardinodeilauri.it
http://www.ilgiardinodeilauri.it
Opening: From 13th September 2009

On 13th September 2009 in Città della Pieve (Perugia, Italy) will open Il Giardino dei Lauri: a new location dedicated to contemporary art, created by Angela e Massimo Lauro, two art collectors from Neaples, to show part of their private collection.

The exhibition of Il Giardino dei Lauri, curated by Marianna Agliottone, will present the most representative group of European and world talents of the new generation artists: a selection of 71 artworks where with the more "classical" artists like Takashi Murakami, Mariko Mori, Roxy Paine, Michael Heizer, Ugo Rondinone, the group Tim Noble & Sue Webster, or the italians Massimo Bartolini and Maurizio Cattelan, there will be the artworks of the most representative European and international artists under 40 like Aaron Young, Eric Wesley, Dash Snow, Piero Golia, Matthew Monahan, Piotr Uklanski, Urs Fischer and Gary Webb.

Dan Attoe will partake in the event "PAINTALLICA", hosted by Country Club on Thursday, August 13th from 7 - 9pm. This event will culminate in an installation by Attoe and a group of artists from the Pacific Northwest, including Jaime Boling, Bill Donovan, Jesse Albrecht, CeCe Cole, Jeff Decker, Shelby Davis, Gordon Barnes, Posie Currin, David Dunlap, Jay Schmidt, Dominic Bisignano, Jeremy Tinder and Chris Miller. For more information please contact:

Yaoska Davila

Country Club
451 N. Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036

www.countryclubprojects.com

land: +1.323.658.8852
mobile: +1.323.394.4306
facsimile: +1.323.9247346

Group show
"RANK, Picturing the social order 1516 - 2009"
Grundy Art Gallery
Queen Street,
Blackpool, FY1 1PX
UK
July 25 - September 12, 2009

http://www.grundyartgallery.com/

We thought it would be important and helpful to have an open memorial exhibition for Dash's community in New York City. We are asking Dash's community of friends to participate in an exhibition that would include photographs or video of Dash; works of art made for Dash or in memory of him; a small group of works by Dash in various media (just for exhibition); and an open wall where friends or admirers from the general public could write, paint, or paste something up on the wall. The outside of the gallery will feature a large recreation by his friends of his tag.

We anticipate opening to the public as early as Tuesday, July 21 at the 76 Grand Street gallery of Deitch Projects. The show would remain on view through mid-August. If you would like to participate in this exhibition by lending or creating artworks, please contact Kathy Grayson at Deitch Projects: 212 343 7300, kathy@deitch.com. We ask artists/friends who want to participate to bring artworks by the gallery beginning this Saturday, July 18th through Monday July 20th to begin installation that Tuesday. Artists are welcome to bring additional works anytime, however, that can be installed during the run of the show as well. All are welcome. Please pass this on to people you think would like to know about it.

Peres Projects is devastated by the news of Dash Snow's most untimely passing and extends deepest condolences to all who had the privilege of knowing him. Dash was the gentlest of souls and one of the most sensitive artists of his time. He found beauty where most would not know to look. We are forever grateful for all that Dash leaves behind, both in the body of artwork he created and of course also in the extraordinary family he so dearly loved. We will treasure his life always.

Please extend all wishes to:

c/o Peres Projects Los Angeles
2766 S. La Cienega Blvd.,
Los Angeles, CA 90034

c/o Peres Projects Berlin
Schlesische Str. 26
10997 Berlin Germany

THE BLACK PILLAR
presents

"Pictures:Tres" (2009)
by Dean Sameshima

Wednesday 1st April. 9:00 pm.
at Polyester
Travesía de San Mateo, 10
Madrid


"Pictures:Tres" unveils Sameshima´s artistic personality.
He checks his own archives, several material compiled through the years that he usually uses in his work, to offer it in another aesthetic place under another lens, half a resume, half step ahead. This images, texts and advertisements, mostly from the 70s even they refers also to our days, are his true resources: a group of icons, ideas and fantasies around desire. He doesn´t reject art referencies, beauty, violence or crime. Some of them show young naked men, with a corrupted and imperfect beauty to the eyes of usual moral or beauty codes. The collection offers some sort of emotional map of dreams and wishes, with an evident socio-political position close to the extensions of the queer movement. Sameshima makes what Barthes wouldn't doubt to call "textual terrorism", and the result is a metageneric collage able to include Genet and the Physique Pictorial, passing through Mapplethorpe, Jeffrey Dahmer (Milwaukee´s serial killer), Fassbinder or Andrew Cunanan.

Dean Sameshima (Torrance, California 1971) studied Fine Arts at the California Institute of the Arts and got a degree by the Art Center College of Design of Pasadena. He belongs to the new generation that is revolving the artistical scene of the american West Coast. Since 1995 his work has been shown at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Kunstverein Hamburg, the Tate Modern in London, Firenze´s Palazzina Reale and Los Angeles MOCA where he is part of the colecction. He lives and works in Los Angeles and Berlin. He is been represented by Peres Projects Gallery (Los Angeles, Berlin) and Taka Ishii Gallery (Tokyo). This is his first show in Spain.


The Black Pillar.
Testimonial Art for a Flat Black World
an Espinosa/Cañellas project
at Polyester
Travesía de San Mateo, 10.
theblackpillar@gmail.com

"Leaves of Ash"
Group show curated by Michael Nevin and Julie Dippelhoffer
Suzanne Tarazieve Paris
June 25 - July 25, 2009
Opening Thursday, June 25, from 4-9pm

Inspired by the poet Walt Whitman, Michael Nevin and Julia Dippelhofer set out to gather the work of artists that are contributors to the journal, and their friends and neighbors in Brooklyn. The fragmented natural world, portrayed by the six artists who make up this show, is both a reflection and a fabrication, a witty questioning of their surroundings as well as an observant documentation of them. From Yui Kugimiya's painting-based animations of cats brushing their teeth and speaking on cell phones to Kon Trubkovich's existentialist oversized vanity plates that question the nature of identity to Joe Bradley's symbolist canvases, there is a sense of joy in their observing, absorbing and transforming of the everyday into something transcendental and profound, something that speaks of what it is to live in a specific place, at a peculiar time.

http://www.suzanne-tarasieve.com/

Group show
"Elevator to the Gallows," Galerie im Regierungsviertel / Forgotten Bar Project
X Initiative, New York, NY
548 West 22nd Street,
New York, NY 1001
Opening Reception: June 23, 6-9 pm
Opening time: June 24 - 28, 2009, 1-9 pm

http://www.galerieimregierungsviertel.org/

http://www.x-initiative.org/

Group exhibition
Geba Geba summer show - Geba geba 4 weeks
Misako and Rosen
Kita-otsuka, 3-27-6, Toshima-ku,
Tokyo, 170-0004, Japan
June 22 - July 19, 2009
Opening reception: June 22 6-10pm

http://www.misakoandrosen.com

"Artists' Art / Artists' Books"
August 8 - September 20
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller
87 Newtown Lane
East Hampton, NY 11937

Artists included:
Terence Koh
Dean Sameshima
Roe Ethridge
Derek Sullivan
Seth Price
Fiona Banner
Paul Schiek
Jason Polan
Tauba Auerbach
Chris Duncan

http://www.GHbookseller.com/

Group Show
"Mexico: Expected/Unexpected, Colección Isabel y Agustín Coppel"
Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
July 11 - October 12, 2009

http://www.teatenerife.es/

House of Campari's FIRST LOOK group exhibition
8783 Beverly Boulevard (corner of Robertson)
Los Angeles, CA 90048
May 29 to June 14, 2009

Group Exhibition
"Can't Rape the Willing"
Second Floor
1143 Fulton Street #2
Brooklyn, New York 11238
May 2 - June 14, 2009

http://www.second-floor.info/

Kirstine Roepstorff
"Rainbows"
Galleri Christina Wilson
Esplanaden 8B
DK-1263 Copenhagen K
Denmark
May 7 - June 20, 2009

http://www.christinawilson.net

"THE NEW YORKERS"
V1 Gallery
Flaesketorvet 69
1711 Copenhagen V
Denmark
May 1 - June 22, 2009
Opening reception on Friday May 1, 5-10pm

THE NEW YORKERS
Jenny Holzer, KAWS, Francine Spiegel, Rammellzee, Dash Snow, Barbara Kruger, Joe Bradley, Jose Parla, Katherine Bernhardt, Futura, John Copeland, Ryan McGinness, Stephen Powers, Erik Foss, Doug James, Brian DeGraw, Agathe Snow, Peter Saul, Kostas Seremetis, Ryan Wallace, Takeshi Murata, Peter Sutherland, Daze, Erik Parker Timothy Walkiewicz, Bill McMullen, Sue Kwon, Andy Dolan, Noah McDonough, Greg Lamarche, Devin Flynn, Aurel Schmidt, Peter Beste, Richard Kern, Sarah Braman, Todd James, Brian Montuori

New York is difficult to fence in. It's offensively arrogant and perplexingly tolerant. Erotically alluring and nauseating repulsive. An oxygen tank for thoughts, and quicksand for illusions. Sentimental Samaritan and merciless lyncher. Empty talk at predictable receptions, and genuine interest in unlikely situations. Voluptuous muse, and flat canvas. Cool business card, target oriented CV, brief acquaintance, entertaining fuck, miserable marriage, harmonic partnership and lifelong friendship.

The exhibition The New Yorkers at V1 Gallery is equally difficult to map out. Quirky installations mixed with classical painting. Sprouts shoot up next to legends. Aesthetes hang out with rebels. The refined photograph with the crude posca pen. And surreal systems runs along coordinated chaos.

Veterans Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger brand the city with sharp words while young kid KAWS with his tongue in cheek and pen in hand creates fluffy havoc and death. The remarkably talented John Copeland's paintings, that at a glance resembles works from the 50s, reveal a world in which cynical competition, sexual frustrations, strategic warfare and suppressed feelings lurk under the decorative surface. Shooting star Francine Spiegel lets her feverish nightmares run amok over the canvas with a death, rot and destruction trailing rights behind. Peter Sutherland's poetic lens highlights sensitive nuances and tender colours in stark contrast to both Peter Beste's razor sharp portraits of musical identities and Dash Snow's slippery polaroids that clasp onto self-serving decadence and intriguing irony.

Sarah Braman's strange sculptures balance on the ground and at the knife's edge between genius and vexing, while they're throwing pebbles in Joe Bradley's minimal and provocative shoe, which in return kicks prejudiced hipsters in their hypocritical behinds. Hyped Agathe Snow from the 2000s empties a dustpan of art, shit and filth over traditions and superstition, while 80s cult hero Rammelzee unleashes his army of complex and gruff superheroes in a hierarchical world of catastrophes and doubtful redemption.

A common denominator for the city, the artists and the works is defiance against generalizations and predictability. And they are tangled together by connections that in some instances are straight as Broadway and in others are twisted as the alleys of Brooklyn. It races through time and dwells in the moment. Skips generation gaps and swoops under genre definitions. Pisses on narrow minds and gallantly opens the door for curiosity.

The New Yorkers is an ode to the thoughts that dare stand alone in both shade and sun, and at the same time also has the courage to open up and let inspiration flow freely. The exhibition is also a unique chance to experience a rare and sublime piece of New York in Copenhagen. The New Yorkers is curated by Mikkel Grønnebæk and Todd James.

http://v1gallery.com

Joe Bradley
Dan Colen
Paul Lee
Agathe Snow

"Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture"
Saatchi Gallery
Duke of York's HQ,
King's Road,
London SW3 4SQ
May 29 - September 13, 2009

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk

DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture
Tate Liverpool
Albert Dock
Liverpool
L3 4BB
May 1 – April 11, 2010

DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture takes an ambitious and revolutionary look at the history of modern and contemporary sculpture. This new Tate collection display continues to examine and question the trajectory of artistic innovation in twentieth-century art and beyond.

Sculpture in the form of object, installation, assemblage and ready-made will sit alongside more surprising forms, such as painting, video, photography, language and performance.

http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool

"Private"
Group show, works from Wuppertal based
Collectors of Contemporary Art at the
Von der Heydt Museum
Turmhof 8, 42103 Wuppertal
Germany
March 8 - May 24, 2009

http://www.von-der-heydt-museum.de

Agathe Snow, "Terrestrial Forms"
The Fireplace Project
851 Springs Fireplace Road
East Hampton, NY 11937
August 14 - 31, 2009
Opening reception on Saturday, August 15th, 6-9pm

http://www.thefireplaceproject.com

"Breakfast of Champions"
YINKA SHONIBARE SPACE
Sunbury House, 1 Andrews Rd.,
London E8 4QL
May 2 - 31, 2009

In Kurt Vonnegut's 1973 science fiction novel Breakfast of Champions, one of the main characters, an unknown pulp science fiction writer who eventually becomes the intellectual and spiritual leader of all mankind, amuses himself by pretending that mirrors are in fact holes or leaks between different universes. One's own reflection becomes the 'entry' and 'exit' point to a self-contained separate reality, whose purpose assumes a metaphysical triumph of re-invention, re-incarnation and re-generation.

The exhibition Breakfast of Champions offers different entry and exit points to alternate possibilities through a plethora of experiential environments. These create non-linear journeys between psychological and cultural reference points, which bring artist and viewer closer to the bare mechanisms of memory, desire and fear in the quest for self-realization.

http://www.breakfastofchampions.info

Mark Flood
"Chelsea Whores"
Zach Feuer Gallery
530 West 24th Street,
New York, NY 10011
May 22 - July 10, 2009

http://www.zachfeuer.com/

"Until the End of the World"
Curated by Max Henry
AMP
Epikourou 26 and Korinis 4
Athens, Greece 105-53
June 17 - September 26, 2009

http://www.a-m-p.gr/index.php

"Antonio Ballester Moreno"
Galería Maisterravalbuena
Doctor Forquet 1
28012 Madrid Spain
April 16 - May 23, 2009

http://www.maisterravalbuena.com/

"The Collectors"
Group show curated by Elmgreen and Dragset
Danish and Nordic Pavilions, 53rd Venice Biennale
June 7 - November 22, 2009

http://www.danish-nordic-pavilions.com/_pag/project.html

Terence Koh, Whaling, 2009 (video still)

"Marina Abramovic Presents..."
Group Exhibition
The Whitworth Art Gallery The University of Manchester Oxford Road
Manchester M15 6ER United Kingdom

Opens July 2009

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/whitworth

"HARD/Soft"
The National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park South
New York, NY 10003
March 4 - April 5, 2009

HARD/Soft is an exhibition that is part of the 3-part Pop Icons Series at the National Arts Club whereby guest co-curators from Fashion, Music, and Film are invited to explore these disciplines in relation to contemporary art. HARD/Soft is a group show that examines extremes in point of view from female perspectives--exploring the lines of dialogue inherent in the female as archetype. Artists invited for HARD/Soft include emerging and established female artists such as Katherine Bernhardt, E.V. Day, Amie Dicke, Tracy Emin, Rachel Howard, and Francesca Lowe. Exhibition co-curated by Brigitte Stepputtis, Head of Couture Vivienne Westwood, and Stacy Engman, Chief Curator of Contemporary Art, National Arts Club.

http://www.nationalartgallery.org

"A Fragile Reality"
Elizabeth Leach Gallery
417 NW 9th
Portland, OR 97209
March 5-28, 2009

Group show featuring works by:
Dan Attoe
Chris Churchill
Ry Fyan
Daniel Gordon
Nicola Lopez
Ryan Pierce

http://www.elizabethleach.com/

assume vivid astro focus, Oliver Husain, Terence Koh
Curated by Kevin Hegge
Exhibition runs February 13 to March 13, 2009
Opening Reception Friday February 13th from 7-9pm

Using fictional and mysterious biographies, the artists in this exhibition become part of their projects; malleable entities that reshape themselves with the work being presented. Having displaced themselves from their countries of origin, these three international queer artists use their cultural roots in their artistic explorations. By utilizing new media and web-based art practices, they are able to re-conceptualize the art persona so that viewers may reconsider how we rely on the artist as cultural representative.

A Space Gallery
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 110
Toronto, Ontario
CANADA
M5V 3A8

http://www.aspacegallery.org/programming.html

Agathe Snow, "Views From the Top, Vertigo and Constellations"

second edition proposed by María Inés Rodríguez
from 07 April 2009 until 14 June 2009

Based on narratives relating environmental problems, sexual dysfunction, religious and moral decadence and physical disorientation, the work of Agathe Snow, who was born in Corsica in 1976 and lives in New York, evokes the hell of decaying worlds but also suggests deliverance, celebration and survival.

Her installations generally comprise one or two monumental sculptures together with smaller pieces and performances. Her work featured recently in the Whitney Biennial in New York.


In collaboration with the Cité internationale des Arts

Jeu De Paume
1, place de la Concorde
75008 Paris
métro Concorde
information: 01 47 03 12 50

Dan ATTOE and John KLECKNER
"Rock Opera"
CAPC - Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux
7 rue Ferrère
33000 Bordeaux
France

February 12, 2009 - June 14, 2009

Group show curated by Alexis Vaillant

On the occasion of the exhibition of Jean-Luc Blanc (born in 1965) at the CAPC museum of contemporary art of Bordeaux (February 12 - June 14, 2009), over two hundred of the artist's works will be assembled in the thirteen rooms of the Foy Gallery. With the complicity of the curator Alexis Vaillant, moderator of the dialogue with the artist through which the exhibition took shape, it has been decided to combine's works (drawings and paintings) with those of other international artists as well as several antiques, jewellery, curiosities and sounds whom Jean-Luc Blanc feels empathy with. Set up in the spirit of a mischievous investigation and 'flânerie' characteristic of the perception of Blanc's idiosyncratic dandyism, this 'collective retrospective' highlights the idea that an artistic production can inhabit on the same level as its mental 'backdrop', presupposing that what is played on stage (the production of the artist strictly speaking) and what goes on behind the scenes (the zones of influence) are intrinsically linked. The conceptual and visual connections that result from such a scenario place this exhibition at the exact opposite of the obituary chronics that are characteristic of chronological and thematic retrospectives in which the accent is put on the more representative works of the artist. Here, the exhibition is thought up as a rock opera, in which the subtle glam rock dramaturgy and scenography shows the works in a completely different light. The spectator therefore makes his way through a personal aesthetic pantheon built according to the author's tastes and sensitivities. Such a space is closer to the 'potential space' than to disembodied brainstorming.

http://www.claudinecolin.com/fr/452-page3-jean-luc-blanc-opera-rock.html

Agathe SNOW
"Master Bait Me"

New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002
212.219.1222

January 28, 2009 - March 8, 2009

From The New Museum:

Commissioned expressly for the New Museum, Agathe Snow's installation of magnetized rubber handballs rises in a single floating column, held together by magnetic force, jail-like bars, and a little magic. Surrounded by images the artist has obsessively collected from newspapers, magazines, and advertisements, the column teeters between classical solidity and contemporary chaos. The handballs, transformed with glue and paint, conjure the artist's teenage years spent on the streets and playgrounds of the Lower East Side, or disassembled molecular structures attempting to reincarnate themselves as some as-of-yet-unknown strand of DNA. The caged column of balls is encircled by a warren of debased popular images: celebutantes and otherwise infamous tabloid denizens gallivant about the base of this peculiar pillar, their placement nodding towards the culture from which this relic hails, a culture that is both past and present.

Snow has a background engaging in large-scale, ad-hoc communal public performances ranging from twenty-four-hour dance marathons to guerilla dinner parties. In these works as well as in her sculpture, Snow engages in building communities by creating spaces in which people may eat and dance, or play and look. For Snow it is in the broken shadow of her column, in its cracks and fissures that a new Renaissance-spiritual, political, and artistic-might sprout forth. Snow asserts that the love powering this contemporary rebirth will not be one of total knowledge advocated during the historical Renaissance, but instead a love that acknowledges our inability to know completely. In Snow's vision, this new communal awakening will be one that willfully contradicts the tenets of empirical rationalism and instead be based in a reverence for those things outside the possibilities of human understanding: of myths, fables, clairvoyance, and the supernatural. It is these ambiguous and amorphous ideals and notions to which Snow has built her neoclassical pillar of the twenty-first century.

Master Bait Me is organized by Benjamin Godsill, Curatorial Associate.

The first survey of the artist's work opens on January 31, 2008 at MUSEO DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO
DE CASTILLA Y LEÓN (MUSAC), Leon, Spain.


Under the title The Inner Sound that Kills the Outer, the show brings together over 50 works produced between 2005 and 2008 in a range of formats (collage, painting, sculpture and mixed media)

Curated by Solvej Helweg Ovesen and Agustín Pérez Rubio
With Catalogue published by J.R.P. Ringier

On view until 21 June 2009

http://musac.es/index_en.php?ref=24700

FEEL BETTER NOW! (Apathy and the New Sincerity)
Mark Titchner 2008
Performed by Jonny Woo with Jeanette

Saturday, January 31st, 8PM - 9PM

Peres Projects
Schlesichestrasse 26
Berlin, kreuzberg 10997

Originally commissioned by the Serpentine Gallery, London in 2008, Peres Projects, Berlin presents an
expanded version of this text based performance work. This multi voiced work is presented in the various
guises of two of London's best loved alternative performers.

Alternatively humorous and disturbing this manifesto like assemblage, composed of fragmented found texts,
aphorisms and axioms, examines how the failure of mass protest in the last decade has led to a nostalgic
retreading of past failures.  Focusing on the use of the polemical style in entertainment and media and how
this consequently diverts social change towards individual selfishness.  Disembodied and contradictory
voices pile upon each other from crescendo to silence.

The work exists as a live companion to its sculptural equivalent 'Plateau Aurora Borealis', (2008) presented in the current show at Peres Projects. For more information please contact Margherita Belaief at Margherita@peresprojects.com.

During the holiday season opening hours are as follows:

Berlin:
Open by appointment only December 20th - January 12th, 2009

Los Angeles:
Open by appointment only December 20th - January 8th, 2009

for assistance and appointments please email tiffany@peresprojects.com

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17th 2008 7pm
1/9 unosunove arte contemporanea

THREEALITIES
AMIE DICKE – ALICJA KWADE – CHARLOTTE MOTH

Galleria 1/9 unosunove arte contemporanea opening hours:
Tuesday – Friday, 11am -7pm, Saturday 3 - 7pm and by appointment
For further information please contact the gallery:
Tel. +39 06 97613696
Fax +39 06 97613810
gallery@unosunove.com

Three young women, three artists coming from different countries, three artistic researches and styles: on this occasion Amie Dicke (1978, Rotterdam, NL), Alicja Kwade (1979, Katowice, PL) and Charlotte Moth (1978 Carshalton, UK) propose their vision and perception of reality through
personal media and techniques. The world is not just what we see and experience, objects don't have just one function: removed from their usual context, distorted and transformed, they are then presented to the viewer enriched with new significance and possible interpretations. This is how a pair of cut stockings, stretched, pinned and framed, can appear like a medieval cross, wine-soaked sheets become precious tapestries, common lamps and mirrors are transformed into mysterious and fascinating images from which a thin ray of light filters, like a precious treasure inside a jewel box. Light is one of the most powerful means through which these artists are able to investigate
and propose new prospectives. The light is sometimes an active element able, like in the work of Charlotte Moth, to transform the image of a fig tree in many others: the series of different levels of light and colours on the same photograph triggers a process of repetition and transformation which stimulates the viewer to question his/her own criteria of perception and classification. In other situations the light is just hinted, almost symbolic in its absence as the decay and deterioration of
Dicke's works give evidence; or it is suggested and hardly visible like in the artworks of Alicja Kwade which focus on the role of light as an indicator of preciousness and value.

IT AIN'T FAIR
Art Basel 2008
December 2 - December 7, 2008
3100 NW 7 Avenue / Miami / Florida / 33127


Opening December 2, 2008 - 8pm-midnight featuring Deitch Projects, Peres Projects, Nueva Galeria De La Barra, A.S.S. Gallery, A.M.P., Picturebox and TV Books with curators Tim Barber, Kathy Grayson, Andreas Melas, Dan Nadel, Pablo de la Barra, Nicola Vassell and Terence Koh.

Aaron Bondaroff, New York City's "Downtown Don", brings his expansive community of artists, musicians, and weirdos to IT AIN'T FAIR. The second exhibition in Bondaroff and Al Moran's groundbreaking O.H.W.O.W. space in the "West of Wynwood" district, this watershed project gets celebrated curators Tim Barber, Kathy Grayson, Andreas Melas, Dan Nadel, Pablo de la Barra, Nicola Vassell and Terence Koh to activate their various teams of artists in a huge multimedia exhibition featuring painting, sculpture, video and performance from artists all over the world with a focus on downtown Manhattan.

Over thirty artists will contribute to this exhibition, including a curated outdoor film series and a nightclub in the adjoining space that will include performances by The Gossip, A.R.E. Weapons, and JD Samson, just to name a few. A hub of art activity, O.H.W.O.W. will be the first and last place you go each night of this year's Art Basel Miami. Some of the featured artists at IT AIN'T FAIR include Tauba Auerbach, Stefan Bondell, Julia Burlingham, Scott Campbell, Kenneth Cappello, Comeau, Dearraindrop, Mark Delong, Chris Dorland, Jim Drain, Phil Frost, Patrick Griffin, Evan Gruzis, Brandon Herman, Gordon Hull, Todd James, Ben Jones, Kim Krans, Lachance, Adriana Lara, Jason Matthew Lee, Allan Macintyre, Eddie Martinez, Slava Mogutin, Noble, Jason Nocito, Rallou Panagiotou, Ara Peterson, Kembra Pfahler, Brad Phillips, Esther Planas, Michael Schmelling, Aurel Schmidt, Robin Schwartz, Ben Schumacher, Shinique Smith, Agathe Snow, Dash Snow, Francine Spiegel, Kon Trubkovich, Solange Umutoni, Jaimie Warren plus many more.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2008
OPENING NIGHT
LIVE MUSICAL PERFORMANCES
Featuring A.R.E. Weapons followed by DJ JD SAMSON (Men/Le Tigre)
8pm - Midnight
Cocktails provided by Campari and Grolsch

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2008
IT AIN'T FAIR BOOK FAIR OPENING
Featuring the release of O.H.W.O.W. and Deitch Projects collaborative book Aurel Schmidt MANEATER
plus new releases by Tiny Vices, TV Books and Picturebox
6pm - 10pm
Drinks provided by Grolsch

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2008
LIVE MUSICAL PERFORMANCES
Deitch Projects presents THE GOSSIP AFTER DARK
A performance of karaoke, video and other weird things plus Special Guest DJ's
9pm - 2am
Cocktails provided by Campari and Grolsch

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2008
WAREHOUSE MOVIE SCREENINGS
Featuring the Miami premiere of Ben Solomon, Dan Levin and Jenner Furst's CAPTURED
8pm
Drinks provided by Grolsch

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2008
WAREHOUSE MOVIE SCREENINGS AND SPECIAL GUEST DJ'S
Featuring the Miami premiere of Coan Nichols & Rick Charnoski's DEATH BOWL TO DOWNTOWN
8pm
Drinks provided by Grolsch

peanut gallery
Curated by Joe Bradley

November 22, 2008 - January 7, 2009
Opening Saturday November 22, 2008 6 -9pm

The Journal Gallery
168 North 1st Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
http://www.thejrnl.com/

KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststr. 69
D-10117 Berlin

Saturday, November 29, 2008 / 5 – 10 pm
Dates: November 30, 2008 – January 25, 2009

The exhibition Political/Minimal presents art works from the past forty years that are minimal in form and political in content.

The works reference Minimalism and formally delineate themselves with it. They are characterized by two- or three-dimensional shapes such as circle, square, sphere, or cube. However, the focus of these works lies not on geometrical abstraction or pure aesthetics. On the contrary, ecological, social, economic, and ethical statements are their conceptual framework. The works' titles, materials, or context of production refer to larger narratives.

Political/Minimal finds its points of departure from the tension between the self-referential aesthetics of Minimalism and the often outspokenly critical nature of artistic practice.

Curated by Klaus Biesenbach

Please come visit us for our last exhibition in Chinatown:

"Sack of Bones"
Group Exhibition
Curated by Blair Taylor and Ellen Langan
November 20 - December 20, 2008
Opening Reception November 20, 6 - 9 pm



The Temptation to Exist
Douglas Gordon, On Kawara, Terence Koh and Andy Warhol
November 22, 2008 – January 24, 2009

YVON LAMBERT
20 Hoxton Square, London N1 6NT England

Yvon Lambert London is pleased to present The Temptation to Exist, a group exhibition featuring works by Douglas Gordon, On Kawara, Terence Koh and Andy Warhol. The exhibition will run from November 22nd and will feature a new performance by Terence Koh at the opening reception on Friday November 21st.

The exhibition takes its title from E. M. Cioranʼs book The Temptation to Exist in which the author deliberates the ʻinconvenience of existenceʼ. According to Cioran, death itself becomes a symbol of relief from our relentless temptation to exist in a world of transient objects. At the entrance of the lower gallery a 17th century still-life depicting a skull and bones, a motif used by Old Master
artists as a reminder of mortality, will be displayed as the central piece of the show. This theme of mortality is addressed by each artist in the exhibition.

Terrence Koh will perform in front of a mural-like gold mirror while masquerading as an angel. The mirror, which will remain on the wall as a relic of the performance,seeks to recapture elements of Leonardo Da Vinciʼs Last Supper mural in its scale and the transience of the crumbling muralʼs fading materials. By reinventing himself as a creature that transcends matter the artist suggests that he transcends death as well.

Dan COLEN will be presenting a new suite of drawings during the first section of this show titled "i live there..." and a singular large photo-realistic painting during the second section titles "An allegory of faith..."

I live there...
November 27 - December 17, 2008

An allegory of faith...
Dec 18 - Feb 7, 2008


GAGOSIAN LONDON
17-19 Davies Street
London W1K 3DE
Opening hours: Mon-Sat 10-6

FLAUNT magazine issue 97 "Right on Time"
cover image by Amie DICKE

Issue 97 also includes article on Amie's work titled "Dualism, Conflict and Polarity" by Paul Coover (page 136 - 139)


Instead of treading the path most taken, Flaunt Magazine has made it a point to consistently break new ground, earning itself a reputation as an engine of the avant-garde and an outlet for outsider culture. Published 10 times a year for the last 9 years, Flaunt takes pride in re-inventing itself continuously while consistently representing a hybrid of all that is interesting in entertainment, fashion, music, design, film, art, and literature.

Joe Bradley "Schmagoo Paintings"
October 25 - November 30, 2008

"The working title for the exhibition is 'Schmagoo Paintings'. I came across the word 'Schmagoo' in a book about New York City drug culture in the 1960's, it was (is?) used as a slang for Heroin. This struck me as kind of funny, that a narcotic as deep and dark as Smack could end up with such a goofy nic name. Sounds like a Jewish super hero or something. The word stuck with me, and I began to think of 'Schmagoo' as short hand for some sort of Cosmic Substance... Primordial Muck. The stuff that gave birth to everything. Base matter. The Bardo. In approaching this body of work, I have been thinking of Painting as a metaphor for the original creative act. The Word made Flesh. The transmutation of Schmagoo into Alchemical Gold. Heavy shit, and I realize I am in over my head and bound for failure, which hopefully will provide for a few laughs." - Joe Bradley

CANADA
55 Chrystie Street
New York, NY 10002

http://www.canadanewyork.com/

Materialized: New American Video and...
Bergen Kunsthalle, Norway
October 10 - November 7, 2008

Curated by Kathy Grayson, the show includes works from AVAF, Terence KOH, Dash SNOW, and Dan COLEN.

http://www.kunsthall.no/kunsthall/index.php

Sobey Art Award Exhibition set to open on August 27, 2008

The exhibition of the 2008 Sobey Art Award presented by Scotiabank, will open to the public on August 27, 2008 and is hosted by the Institute for Contemporary Culture (ICC) at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). The Sobey Art Award, presented by Scotiabank, is presented annually to an artist under forty who has exhibited in a public or commercial art gallery within 18 months of being nominated.

The 2008 Sobey Art Award exhibition features works from the five shortlisted artists. They are as follows:

West Coast/Yukon: Tim Lee
Prairies/North: Daniel
Ontario: Terence Koh
Québec: Raphaëlle de Groot
Atlantic Canada: Mario Doucette

The winner of the 2008 Sobey Art Award presented by Scotiabank will be announced at a gala reception at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) on Wednesday, October 1, 2008. The artists and curators will be in attendance.

BABYLON: MYTH AND TRUTH
Pergamon Museum, Berlin Germany
26 June - 05 October, 2008


An exhibition of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in cooperation with the Musée du Louvre and the Réunion des musées nationaux in Paris, as well as the British Museum in London, on view in the Pergamon Museum on Berlin's Museum Island.

Babylonian subjects can be found throughout European art and culture from ancient times to the present. The myth of Babylon, recorded in the Bible as the story of Babel, illustrates the innermost fears of man in a timeless way. For thousands of years, Babylon has served as a metaphor for the darker sides of civilisation: repression and lack of freedom, terror and violence, hubris and madness.

September 13 - November 30th
Viewable at Central and Waterfront Sites in Yokohama

The Yokohama Triennale series of international exhibitions of contemporary art, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Hu Fang, Miyake Akiko, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Beatrix Ruf, will make its third exhibition in 2008. Based on the comprehensive exhibition theme set by the artistic director, a diverse range of artworks-including videos, installations, photography, painting, and sculpture-by about 60 to 70 selected artists from many countries will be put on display.
While showcasing newly-released artworks of the cutting-edge contemporary art around the globe, the Triennale will also feature many site-specific works highlighting the distinctive charms of the host city so that it will unfold the large extravaganza of art.

September 05 - November 09, 2008
U TURN
at Carlsberg Tap E
Gamle Carlsberg Vej 15
2500 Valby Copenhagen

U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art is the first international festival for contemporary art to be held in Denmark. On September 5, U-TURN will open with performances, public interventions and exhibitions in various venues throughout the city of Copenhagen. The main exhibition will be held on the grounds of the former Carlsberg brewery, inside the old tap factory Tap E, as well as in the Academy garden, open to the public for the first time. In the city centre, Nikolaj CCAC will serve as a second venue. The exhibition continues outside on streets, squares, walls and in the harbour with a total of twelve public art projects. Several other art projects will be realized in collaboration with a wide range of institutions such as Camp X, Cinemateket, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek and Takkelloftet (The Opera). Furthermore the exhibition Food for Thought opens at Stege Sugar Factory 26 July and runs through to 14 September.

WALL ROCKETS
Curated by Lisa Dennison
opens October 03, 2008

The FLAG Art Foundation is pleased to announce our third exhibition, WALL ROCKETS, curated by Lisa Dennison. The title of the exhibition refers to a painting completed in 2000 by Ed Ruscha, arguably one of the most innovative artists over the past four decades. WALL ROCKETS will include works by a large number of international artists whose artworks, whether directly or indirectly, have been influenced or inspired by Ruscha's iconic style.

Show includes Dan Attoe
Lightness of Being - works from the Frank Cohen Collection
Initial Access, Wolverhampton, UK
September 6 - December 19, 2008

http://www.initialaccess.co.uk/

Dan Colen
Terence Koh
Meet Me Around the Corner – works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection
Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway
June 14 - August 31, 2008

http://www.af-moma.no/?exhibition_id=115/

Show includes Terence KOH and Kirstine ROEPSTORFF
Museum of Contemporary and Modern Art
Rovereto, Italy
28 June - 16 November, 2008
Curated by Achille Bonito Oliva in collaboration with Lorenzo Benedetti, Iara Boubnova, Cecilia Casorati, Hu Fang, Christiane Rekade, Julia Trolp

assume vivid astro focus
"ENEL Contemporanea 2008"
Curated by Francesco Bonami, Rome, Italy

From Artforum.com:

As soon as I arrived at the Area Sacra di Largo Argentina in the sultry Roman evening and looked down into the ancient ruins, I experienced something like an LSD-induced time warp: Bedouin transvestites had taken over four ancient temples dating from the fourth century BC. "It is a discotheque!" exclaimed an Italian passerby as he looked upon the colorful, pulsating encampment below. His female companion said, "It is not possible!" But there it was: Eli Sudbrack's assume vivid astro focus collective was making its debut in Rome. Flashing neon hieroglyphs adorned the walls of the Temple of Juturna, and a multicolor projection bathed the columns of the oldest temple, devoted to fertility goddess Feronia.

As I descended the steps into the sacred psychedelic ruins, Roman artist Ra Di Martino said, "Strangely enough, this is the first time I've been inside these temples." Wearing a kitschy crucifix adorned with images of the Madonna, the Italian journalist and provocateur Roberto D'Agostino seemed to be enjoying himself immensely, joking around with curator Francesco Bonami in a streamer-lined corridor. Standing before a giant poster of a woman in red who was too-much-woman-to-be-a-woman-like a transgender Jocelyn Wildenstein with exaggerated red lips and formidable cleavage to match-Bonami later commented that it took more than a month to get permission to invade the archaeological dconsidering the nature of the intervention and the bureaucratic rigmarole typically required to get authorization for anything in Italy. However, it seemed particularly ironic that this exhibition would be permitted today, given the condemnations of gay culture by Gianni Alemanno, the recently elected neofascist mayor, along with his dismantling of the previous administration's extensive cultural initiatives. But perhaps the key here was the influence of the exhibition's corporate sponsor: Enel, Italy's largest power company.

Dean Sameshima
"Love in the USA"
Louise Blouin Institute, London, UK
July 24 - 31, 2008

Dan Attoe
"Important if True (Hootenanny in E)"
Burnett Art Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
August 23 - November 2, 2008

assume vivid astro focus
"The Rocky Mountain People Show"
Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea of Trento, Italy
July 16th - November 2nd, 2008


Enter into the fantastic and multicoloured world of assume vivid astro focus, in amongst coloured walls and stickers of every kind: this is what is awaiting at the lower level of the Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea of Trento, destined to house an alternative and joyful dimension which will involve even the most sceptical spectator. A universe of colour inundates every corner of the gallery in a union of visions. The access key is the sharing of ideas and the multiplicity of the creators.

The space will be inaugurated on Tuesday 15th July at the gallery at via Belenzani 46, and will close on Sunday 2nd November.

On the occasion of The Rocky Mountain People Show project at the Galleria Civica of Trento, assume vivid astro focus present a collective space covered with psychedelic wallpaper, coloured carpet, various decorations and stickers all brought together with music and videos which can be chosen and produced by the visitors themselves. The visitors become participants in an atmosphere in which everyone can express themselves in a free and original way.

Bruce LaBruce
"Pretty Ugly"
July 10-August 29, 2008
Opening reception July 10, 6-8 pm
at Gavin Brown's enterprise & Maccarone
Curated by Alison Gingeras


From Artforum.com:

On a lovely summer evening, what could be nicer than strolling to the West Village, looking at art, and hopefully not being too vibed out by the self-absorbed crowd? Curated by Alison Gingeras, "Pretty Ugly" is a supersize group show sprawling between Gavin Brown's Enterprise and Maccarone, fortresses of coolness where, according to the press release, "the fluidity of 'pretty' and 'ugly' will be played with and almost posit 'pretty ugly' as a third term which might apply to a vast range of artists and works, thereby fusing the two galleries into a single exhibition."

This viewer spotted three categories: "Gross," "Kitschy," and "Weird Body Parts." Some works were all of the above. Indeed, among the gross were the exalted Viennese male cutters Hermann Nitsch and Rudolf Schwarzkogler (whose photos documented a mummy's nasty doings with a dead chicken), a fresh, juicy placenta (by Corey McCorkle), and Bruce LaBruce's equally vibrant Blow Job with Pig Blood. Karen Kilimnik's early scrawl DEATH TO PIGS! looked comparatively jaunty in a fancy frame. A kitschy John Currin tableau titled Equality in the Workplace shows a business meeting between a smarmy "suit" and a lady coworker whose boobs droop out of her blouse and onto the table like fleshy Slinkies. Lots of Hans Bellmer (weird doll body parts). Otto Dix's ugly Germans. A Joel-Peter Witkin bod-mod torso with scarified "wings" in a punishing corset. A stunning Alice Neel painting of a spastic-looking Religious Girl.

Peres Projects is pleased to announce its participation in the 2008 NY Art Book Fair.

Location
Philips de Pury & Company
450 West 15th Street at 10th Avenue, 3rd Floor NYC

Fair Hours
Friday/Saturday, October 24 & 25, 2008 11am - 7pm
Sunday, October 26, 2008, 11am - 5pm

Admission to the NY Art Book Fair is free.

http://www.nyartbookfair.com/

New book by Los Angeles writer explores pop icons and fan culture with reading and launch at Peres Projects Los Angeles

Event Details:
FEVER PITCH – a New Book by Bradford Nordeen
Reading and Launch Party
Thurs Aug 7, 6:00–9:00pm

http://www.bradfordnordeen.com/

Dan Attoe
"American Dreams," curated by Tania Pardo, MUSAC, Leon, Spain
May 17 - July 6, 2008
http://www.musac.es/index_en.php?ref=22000

"Contemporary Northwest Art Awards," Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, USA
June 14- September 14, 2008
http://www.pam.org/asp/special_exhibitions/exhibitions.asp?sort=upcoming

Terence Koh
"Captain Buddha," curated by Martina Weinhart, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany
May 28 - August 31, 2008
http://www.schirn-kunsthalle.de/index.php?do=exhibitions_detail&id=83&lang=en

Please join us for a very special evening:

5th Anniversary of
Peres Projects, Los Angeles

and

Terence KOH: "The Whole Family"

Saturday, May 10, 2008

6 - 10 pm

969 Chung King Road
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Live entertainment and beverages.

First Issue – February 2007
Launching at The Armory Show – Pier 90 – Booth 304, New York
Opening February 21, 2007

Javier Peres is very pleased to present the inaugural issue of DADDY, a quarterly journal of art in an edition of 2000

DADDY is an image-based publication made just for you.

DADDY will be available at Peres Projects Los Angeles (969 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, California), Peres Projects Berlin (Schlesische Str. 26, 10997 Berlin, Germany) and at finer museum stores and booksellers internationally.

For further information or reproductions please contact Richard Lidinsky at tel. (213) 617-1100 or daddy@peresprojects.com

www.daddythemagazine.com

Peres Projects Athens
15 Leonidou St Athens 10437 Greece

Peres Projects will open in Athens from July through November 2007 in a semi-derelict modernist building. The building is located at 15 Leonidou Street in the Keramikos neighborhood of Athens, an area known for its production of ceramics in ancient times, and the city's only functional cemetery through the Roman era. Today, the area is known for its' red-light district populated by junkies, hookers, pimps and drug addicts, many of who we've already befriended. The area is also home to large concentrations of immigrants, mainly Chinese and middle eastern people so it is also known as the Chinatown of Athens. The area is totally safe compared to similar areas in other majour cities but for Athenians it is an area that is both shady and full of possibilities. There are several really cool little bars, restaurants are popping up, you get the drift…

We will only be using the top 3 floors of the building, as well as the rooftop, and leave the ground and first floors empty and derelict. We will not be making any improvements to the space, other than making sure we have functioning internet, electricity and toilets. Some images are included to give you an idea of the building's exterior and the interior. Our exhibitions and events will be in coordination with the 1st Athens Biennial, aptly titled "Destroy Athens" which will take place in the neighborhood and nearby area of Gazi.

We will produce a catalog for each of the exhibitions and also dedicate an issue of Daddy, our new art journal to the complete Greek adventure, both in and out of the gallery.

For more information contact athens@peresprojects.com

09/11/2006
John KLECKNER, first solo show in Berlin, Germany.
Opening 11/11/2006, open through December 16th, 2006

Dan COLEN presents a new body of work at Peres Projects, Berlin from September 30-November 4, 2006.
Opening night: Saturday, September 30, 6-9pm

Opening September 9th, 6-9pm

Saturday, July 22, 2006 - 10:00pm

California art-rock collective My Barbarian presents a musical-theatrical performance piece, "Medieval Morality," an original adaptation of the Everyman saga, in which a lowly artist is teased and tempted by the Devil while being dominated by a Valkyrie-like sadist-angel. A collapsed conflation of psychedelic harmonies, folk art satires and fantastical hand-made costumes, My Barbarian's "Medieval Morality" confronts the power dynamics of the art world with humor, intelligence and extroverted energy. My Barbarian first presented the piece at the Mak Center Schindler House in Los Angeles in 2004, and has adapted the play for Berlin with the assistance of Berlin-based artist Jan Hammer, who will also participate in the performance.

MANGOES
A group exhibition featuring Nate LOWMAN, Jeff ONO, Marcus KNUPP and Joe BRADLEY
July 1 2006 - August 5 2006

CEREMONIES OF CONSUMMATION
Delia GONZALEZ & Gavin RUSSOM

May 4 – June 24, 2006
Opening Thursday, May 4, 6 – 9 pm

"CEREMONIES OF CONSUMMATION" featuring Delia Gonzalez and Gavin Russom will be on view at Peres Projects Los Angeles (969 Chung King Road, LA) through June 24, 2006. Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, from 11:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M.

Group show: LAXed: Paintings from the Other Side
April 28 - June 2, 2006
Opening: Friday, April 28, 7-9pm

Gerald Davis Lecia Dole-Recio Kim Fisher
Matt Greene Gustavo Herrera Violet Hopkins
Elliott Hundley John Kleckner Nick Lowe
JP Munro David Ratcliff Henry Taylor
Rob Thom


"LAXed: Paintings from the Other Side" will be on view at Peres Projects Berlin (Schlesische Strasse 26, Kreuzberg) through June 2, 2006. Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, from 12 PM to 6 P.M.

YOU HAVE MORE FREEDOM THAN YOU ARE USING
Dan ATTOE

June 23 – July 22, 2006
Opening Friday, June 23, 7 – 9 pm


"YOU HAVE MORE FREEDOM THAN YOU ARE USING" featuring Dan ATTOE will be on view at Peres Projects Berlin (Schlesische Str. 26, Berlin, Germany) through July 222, 2006. Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, from 11:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M.

Opening March 25th, Amie Dicke, "Private Property"
25 March -22 April, 2006

Opening April 28th, "LAXed; paintings from the other side"
28 April - 2 June, 2006

Dan ATTOE, "You have more freedom than you are using"
24 June - 22 July, 2006


Gallery Details:

Peres Projects
Schlesische Str. 26
10997 Berlin (Kreuzberg)
Germany
tel. +49 30 6162 6962
berlin@PeresProjects.com

...to the Lower East Side
The artist Terence Koh (formerly known as Asian Punk Boy) and his L.A.- (and, recently, Berlin-) based dealer, Javier Peres, are opening a new space on Ludlow Street in New York's Chinatown, called Asian Song Society.

Yes, that's A.S.S. to you, and its Web site announces, "Proud to Show Only Asia Artists."

Peres tells us that "the main focus of A.S.S. will be to do ambitious exhibitions within the confines of the small space we have. The gallery will not represent the artists it shows, just exhibit and sell the works (but not always)."

He promises events and performances too, and, judging by the inaugural show, it sounds like it will be a raucous good time indeed. On March 10 at 10 pm, the space will open with the exhibition Future Cock, which will feature a single neon sculpture by Koh presented in an environment mimicking the famous backroom of the New York City bar the Cock. (Peres himself will also be in town for his booth at the Armory Show.)

Don't miss this one; we hear these guys know how to put on a party.

Peres Projects will be exhibiting at:
The Amory Show
New York City
March 9 - 13, 2006
Pier 92, Booth 92-206

Opening January 7- February 11, 2006
"there's no fooling you (The Classics)":
Dan ATTOE
Elliott HUNDLEY
Raqib SHAW