15 mei 2014
In the course of this opening day I took a look at our fellow Platforms-exhibitors to see what might be interesting, these are some of the spaces/initiatives/collectives that I liked:
Marian Wijnvoord @ ATRANS from Berlin
Marian Wijnvoord @ ATRANS from Berlin
REM Brand Name project/Vehicle team a very active and succesful group of beautiful Greek girls doïng lottery
Totaldobze is our neighbour from Latvia, it is an art-centre that wants to be a platform for a number of disciplines to meet and expand borders
I loved this drawing for their Black Holes project
Explosion of Speech is a growing project for everybody to participate in a poem with burning questions
Les YperYper have a very effective way of using material
Parabola from Stockholm
Cowgirls in video and pictures at Microwesten from Germany
Jeroen Geel and Christian Herter at Alpineum Produzentengallery from Luzern
Christian Herter closeby
The muy sympatico booth had been covered with psychedelic wallpaper and this artist was great: Steph Yates at ED Video from Guelph, Canada
SUDLAB from the south of Italy, a great wall, I am sorry i didn’t speak with these guys
A great installation from a great artist, Maria Lianou, who collaborated with somebody whose name I didn’t get in this installation. The neonsign says breathe.
ABC-gallery from Russia with a groupshow
ABC-gallery from Russia also
Mind on matters is an interactive project by Andrea Hvistendahl from Stockholm who lets the public in diferent countries exchange sticks and stones with messages on them
And the sticks tend to look like this
I thought Dienstgebäude from Zürich was an interesting space with artists like this Andreas Marti
And Dutch artist Wink Witholt
Photo gallery Wien shows worm castings by Lea Titz
And a Roumanian Berserik at Lateral Artspace from Roumania
Orizontas Gegonoton uit Griekenland maakte mooi gebruik van de ruimte met veel kunstenaars
VSVSVS from Canada had a beautiful interactive project in which they kept peoples stuff for some time in exchange for a 3D-print designed by them. The booth eventually filled itself with a social sculpture.
A number of organiziations presented themselves in the Platforms-section among which Fulbright Greece. The Fulbright fundingpossibilities are well known and nowadays they try to raise their budget by asking artist who were funded to make an artists edition of a work.
The editions are presented on the fair, a very nice and appropriate initiative which makes a win win situation for artists and the Fulbrightorganization.
A kids corner is also organized with the help of artists who created examples of what one can doe with a shopping bag, later lots of kids would be cutting, gluing and painting bags.
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