NEWSLETTER MARCH 2019

KÖRPERWENDE
From Nam June Paik to Hiroshi Ishiguro

NRW-forum - Dusseldorf, DE
29/03/2019 - 05/05/2019

In the 1960s, Nam June Paik built the first non-human action artist in history.  In 2018, the Japanese roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro had his android, Alter 3, conduct an opera and Pinar Yoldas' Kitty AI ruled the world. The exhibition Körperwende shows how artists negotiate the boundaries between human and machine, between living, artificial, and inanimate bodies.

When the film The Thieving Hand was released in 1908, the filmmaker had no idea how quickly prostheses and human machines would develop in the future. This early silent cinema fantasy about an obstinate kleptomaniac hand kicks the exhibition Körperwende - from Nam June Paik to Hiroshi Ishiguro off. Video excerpts from Nam June Paik's first non-human action artist, Robot K456, and Erika Kiffl's photographs of Paik's robot works at the 1993 Biennale are also on display, as well as Hiroshi Ishiguro's humanoid robot conductor, Alter 3, and Nick Ervinck’s futuristic 3-D sculptures of androids. Martina Menegon’s VR work addresses the split between real and virtual, flesh and data; Pinar Yoldas' Kitty AI proclaims a postapocalyptic, sociopolitical and economic manifesto. From the phenomenon of phantom limb pain in Oscar Santillan’s work to Ivana Bašić’s wax sculpture that exposes “healthy” and “deformed” bodies as ideological constructs, the exhibition explores the limits of the body and body image, the self and the other, and the perception of the body in space. Somewhere between artificial production, imaginative candor, and the fragility of the body, the works create atmospheres between amazement, alienation, fear fantasies, and beauty.

Artists: Erika Kiffl, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Ivana Bašić, Martina Menegon, Nam June Paik, Nick Ervinck, Oscar Santillan, Pinar Yoldas

The preview of the exhibition is from March 15 to March 17, 2019 as part of the META Marathon, a 42-hour digital festival on robotics. https://www.nrw-forum.de/presse/meta-marathon-2019

The exhibition is curated by Cis Bierinckx and is part of "HI, ROBOT! Das Mensch Maschine Festival", which takes place from March 13 to March 31, 2019 in Düsseldorf. "HI, ROBOT!" is a themed festival about the future of the human body, initiated by the tanzhaus nrw in cooperation with the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf and the Black Box—Kino im Filmmuseum, and funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. www.hi-robot.de

LOCATION: NRW-Forum Düsseldorf · Ehrenhof 2 · D - 40479 Düsseldorf 
   
Making of NESURAK

 

 

 

ART ZUID - AMSTERDAM SCULPTURE BIENNAL

Amsterdam, NL
17/05/2019 - 15/09/2019

The sixth edition of ARTZUID will take place from 17 May to 15 September 2019. The Amsterdam Sculpture Biennial will present an experience exhibition featuring more than 60 figurative sculptures and spatial installation art. The heart of the exhibition lies in Berlage’s monumental Plan Zuid area with its leafy avenues Apollolaan and Minervalaan. This green space will serve as a backdrop for the theatrical grouping of modern and contemporary figurative sculptures which will be interspersed with interactive spatial installations. . ARTZUID will include an extensive peripheral programme of activities including artist talks, debates, an educational programme, art walks and art happenings. The free exhibition is open 24/7. Information about the route and catalogues will be available from the information pavilion on Minervalaan or our webshop.

ARTZUID will feature new work by internationally renowned artists Jan Fabre, Antony Gormley, Matthew Monahan, Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara and Dan Graham, as well as young artists, including Ivan Cremer, Nick Ervinck, Sachi Miyachi, Gabriel Lester and Elsa Tomkowiak.

The sculpture route for this edition will be composed by Cintha van Heeswijck-Veeger in collaboration with Jhim Lamoree and Michiel Romeyn.

LOCATION: Amsterdam, NL
   

 

 

 

Current and upcoming projects

Expo Museum Hof van Busleyden 
Museum Hof van Busleyden, Mechelen, BE
17/06/2018 - 16/06/2019

(curated by Hans Martens)

 

  

META MARATHON: ROBOTICS
NRW-forum - Dusseldorf, DE
15/03/2019 - 17/03/2019

(curated by Cis Bierinckx)

Körperwende: from Nam June Paik to Hiroshi Ishiguro
NRW-forum - Dusseldorf, DE
29/03/2019 - 05/05/2019

(curated by Cis Bierinckx)

  

Art Zuid - Amsterdam Sculpture Biennal
Amsterdam, NL 
17/05/2019 - 15/09/2019

(curated by Cintha van Heeswijck-Veeger, Jhim Lamoree and Michiel Romeyn)

The kind stranger
UNArt Center, Shanghai, CH 
05/2019
(curated by Art Yan)

 

Computational sculptures by Nick Ervinck: between futurism and history 
Lecture at Recticel, Mäntsälä, FI 
07/05/2019

Groupshow with Renato Nicolodi and Sofie Muller
Rodez, FR
2020
(curated by Christa Vyvey)

  

DINZALUN
Prins Bernhardplein, Nuland, NL 
29/03/2019

THILAP
private commission, Gent, BE  
04/2019

  

REKAMKEIZUM
Park Bel-Air, Willebroek, BE 
2019

ANONOV
Nona, Mechelen, BE  
06/2019

  

RETMONER
Boekenplein, Waregem, BE 
23/06/2019

REDNOYER
VUB, Brussel, BE  
07/2019

  

OLNETOPIA
St Pete Pier, Florida, USA  
08/2019

   



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