Opportunities: Call for participants de Appel Curatorial Programme 2016-17

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Participants of de Appel Curatorial Programme 2015-16 at the Istanbul Biennial. Courtesy de Appel arts centre

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
DE APPEL CURATORIAL PROGRAMME 2016-17

Deadline: 18 January 2016

de Appel arts centre
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
www.deappel.nl

Initiated in 1994, the Curatorial Programme of de Appel arts centre aims to offer young curators a condensed package of experiences and skills that can be seen as instruments to refine their thinking and enhance the development of their professional career. It is one of the oldest curatorial programmes, but continues to adjust its curriculum to new circumstances in the curatorial field.
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Memorable Exhibitions 2015

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As we reach the end of 2015, M-KOS again invited a selection of art professionals for our fifth annual survey to share their most memorable exhibitions, art works, performances, events and other moments of this past year. All these were memorable from the perspectives of our invited reviewers, yet surely some entries can be debated by our readers joining us in the comments section below. All are welcome to suggest any other must see art moment in this year’s art listings.

This year’s participants include: Jonathan Shaughnessy (Associate curator, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa); Cheryl Sim (Curator, DHC/ART, Montreal); Thomas Kneubühler (Artist, Montreal/Switzerland); Dominique Fontaine (Independent curator/Founding director of aPOSteRIORI, Montreal); Guy Sangster Adams (Editor, Plectrum – The Cultural Pick, London, UK); Maria Ezcurra (Artist/Art educator, Montreal/Mexico); Romeo Gongora (Artist, Montreal); Karen Tam (Artist, Montreal); Stephen Connolly (Film maker, London, UK); Oli Sorenson (Artist/Editor, M-KOS, Montreal); Miwa Kojima (Managing editor, M-KOS, Montreal)
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Tammi Campbell “New Works” at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montréal

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Tammi Campbell, Monochrome with bubble wrap and tan packing tape (detail) 2015. Acrylic on linen. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montréal

Tammi Campbell, Monochrome with poly and tan packing tape, 2015. Acrylic on linen. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montréal

Tammi Campbell, Monochrome with poly and tan packing tape (detail) 2015. Acrylic on linen. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montréal

Tammi Campbell, New Works, 2015 Exhibirion view. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montréal

Tammi Campbell, New Works, 2015 Exhibirion view. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montréal

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TAMMI CAMPBELL
NEW WORKS

21 November – 23 December 2015
Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montréal

Galerie Hugues Charbonneau is pleased to present Tammi Campbell’s first solo exhibition in Montréal. The artist offers a collection of seven works that cleverly play with the mechanics of painting, the illusion of the senses, and viewers’ expectations.

This new body of work closely follows research begun by Campbell in her previous series titled, Work in progress and Paper series. In open dialogue with the legacy of Modernism and Minimalism, she explored the specificity of the medium of painting and the fetishism of the creative process through works that are painted in trompe-l’œil, but appear to remain unfinished. In Work in Progress, Campbell created simulated beige and green strips of masking tape that effectively imitate the process behind the making of geometric, hard-edge abstract paintings. In Paper series, the potential of the white page is left untouched, as no pictorial element can be detected on its surface, until one realizes that the page itself is made entirely of paint.
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Niamh McCann “Just Left of Copernicus” at VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland

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Niamh McCann, Just Left of Copernicus (installation view, VISUAL Carlow), 2015. Cardboard, plywood Photo: Aisling McCoy. Courtesy of the artist

Niamh McCann, Just Left of Copernicus (installation view, VISUAL Carlow), 2015. Cardboard, plywood Photo: Aisling McCoy. Courtesy of the artist

Niamh McCann, Kavalier and Clay, 2015. 29.7 x 21cm. Watercolour, oil paint + pencil on paper Courtesy of the artist

NIAMH McCANN
JUST LEFT OF COPERNICUS National Tour

Just Left of Copernicus (Roof of the Story)
VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland
03 October 2015 – 03 January 2016
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Just Left of Copernicus (A Prologue)
Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick
21 January – 24 March 2016
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Just Left of Copernicus (The Pastoral)
Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Co. Meath
01 September – 21 October 2016
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Niamh McCann’s practice looks to the visual cultural landscape to invite a reconsideration of our relationship to the world around us, questioning how this world constitutes us as subjects, and how we, in turn, give this world form. As an artist, her exploration of these themes takes the form of concise multi-media work, presented within larger installations and site-responsive pieces.
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Essex Road II at Tintype, London

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Exterior, Tintype gallery, Essex Road (project), 2014 Courtesy Tintype. Photo: Cameron Leadbetter

Helen Benigson, Essex Road Hen Party, HD video still, 2015 ©Helen Benigson. Courtesy the artist and Tintype

Uriel Orlow, Letters from Edna, 2015. HD video still ©Uriel Orlow. Courtesy the artist and Tintype

Melanie Manchot, Lower Street, 2015. HD video still ©Melanie Manchot. Courtesy the artist and Tintype

John Smith, Fresh Fruit Venerable, 2015. HD video still ©John Smith. Courtesy the artist and Tintype

Jem Cohen, Unseen Unsaid, 2015, selected still ©Jem Cohen. Courtesy the artist and Tintype

Ruth Maclennan, Zigni, 2015, selected still ©Ruth Maclennan. Courtesy the artist and Tintype

Sebastian Buerkner, Eaves Apart, 2015, selected still ©Sebastian Buerkner. Courtesy the artist and Tintype

Jordan Baseman, E, 2015, selected still ©Jordan Baseman. Courtesy the artist, Matt’s Gallery London and Tintype

Exterior, Tintype gallery, Essex Road (project), 2014 Courtesy Tintype

ESSEX ROAD II

10 DECEMBER 2015 – 16 JANUARY 2016
TINTYPE, LONDON

Private View: Wednesday, 9 December 2015, 6.00–8.30pm

Artists: Jordan Baseman, Helen Benigson, Sebastian Buerkner, Jem Cohen, Ruth Maclennan, Melanie Manchot, Uriel Orlow, John Smith

Essex Road II, the second edition of Tintype’s Essex Road Project, is comprised of eight specially commissioned short films by critically acclaimed artist-filmmakers, each inspired by the mile-long street situated in the borough of Islington, North London, from which the project takes its name, and where the gallery is also located.
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Opportunities: ArtOMI 2016 residency, Ghent, New York, USA

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ArtOMI 2016 residency

Deadline: 30 November 2015

Location: OMI International Arts Center, Ghent, New York, USA [map]

Duration: 4 weeks (16 June to 12 July 2016)

Disciplines: Visual Arts, Sound Arts, Performance, Socially Engaged Practice

Eligibility:
Application is open to artists from all over the world who have been professionally active for at least the past 3 years. Disciplines included: all practices that are labeled visual arts, sound art, performance, social practice. If you work in a category not listed here please contact us to see which of our residency programs is your best fit.
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Thomas Kneubühler “Dark Matter” at Patrick Mikhail Gallery, RIDM Headquaters & Galerie B-312, Montréal

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THOMAS KNEUBÜHLER
DARK MATTER

11 NOVEMBER – 19 DECEMBER 2015
(Vernissage: 12 November 2015, 17.00 – 20.00)
PATRICK MIKHAIL GALLERY

12 – 22 NOVEMBER 2015
(Vernissage: 13 November 2015, 17.00 – 19.00)
RIDM HEADQUARTERS

19 NOVEMBER – 19 DECEMBER 2015
(Vernissage: 19 November 2015, 17.30)
GALERIE B-312

 

Dark Matter is a three part exhibition by Thomas Kneubühler, a Swiss artist based in Montréal, presented at different venues across Montréal – Patrick Mikhail Gallery, RIDM Headquaters and Galerie B-312. Dark Matter unites Days in Night and Land Claim, two of Kneubühler’s recent projects. Produced as the result of an artist residency at CFS Alert, a military and research station in the high Arctic located 800 km from the North Pole, Days in Night examines the phenomenon of 24 hour-long polar nights, an experience of living in the dark and the limits of how much one can see. (shown at Patrick Mikhail Glalery and RIDM Headquarters) Similarly, Land Claim (shown at Galerie B-312) investigates mining conditions in Northern Quebec, a highly controlled territory hidden from the public eye and its connection to global markets. Thomas Kneubühler is interviewed below about his upcoming exhibition series, by fellow artist Andreas Rutkauskas Continue reading “Thomas Kneubühler “Dark Matter” at Patrick Mikhail Gallery, RIDM Headquaters & Galerie B-312, Montréal”

David Ben White “Inside Outside” at l’étrangère, London

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Exhibition view (left: Inside Outside 12, 2015; right Fabrication of Pleasure 36, 2014) © David Ben White. Courtesy the artist and l’étrangère

DAVID BEN WHITE
INSIDE OUTSIDE

30 October – 5 December 2015
l’étrangère, London

l’étrangère is delighted to present Inside Outside: a new body of work encompassing painting and sculpture by the British artist David Ben White. Absorbed within the language and aspirations of modernist architecture, design and art, White’s paintings and sculptures disrupt the self-enclosed logic of this prescriptive legacy through a subversion of its objects and spaces.
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