DI/S Case Studies: KONTEJNER - Sustainable venue management
DI/S - Digital Inter/Section, a multiyear project supported by Creative Europe, has released four case studies of new business models for digital arts organisations. The Zagreb case study revolves around experimenting with economic sustainability and community engagement for Kontejner’s new venue, a small centre for contemporary art practices.
DI/S Case Studies: KIKK | Klub Pavillon - Sponsorship through members’ club
In 2022 KIKK opened an exhibition space in Namur (Belgium) dedicated to the digital experience that increased the organisation's dependence on public funding. To reduce this dependence, KIKK has looked into developing new private support through a members' club, based on adherence to the project and its values, that guarantees a unique offer to members while securing funding for an exhibition space for digital art that is open around the year.
DI/S Case Studies: Chroniques - Market of Digital Imagination
DI/S - Digital Inter/Section, a multiyear project supported by Creative Europe, has released four case studies of new business models for digital arts organisations and the creative sector. One of the partners is Chroniques in Marseilles known for the Biennale des Imaginaires Numériques across the south of France. The case studies and other tools are available as open source through the project’s website.
Miguel Andrade Valdez Exclusive for The MUST
Multi-disciplinary artist Miguel Andrade Valdez has created an exclusive carpet for The MUST, a curated online marketplace for artist-made fashion and design. The Avocado 01 (Avocado Landscapes) rug is woven by the master weaver Inocencio Fernández using locally-sourced wool from Peru.
We are not alone.
We were able to dive into the whole ecosystem of digital arts organisations, says Mario Kunovsky from Signal in Prague. Signal Festival is one of the largest digital festivals in Europe, yet struggling with long-term and sustainable financing. Signal has conducted a pilot project as part of DIS Digital Inter/Section.
Business is beautiful
Business is beautiful says AC Coppen from the agency The Catalysts, the business partner in the consortium of digital arts organisations in DIS Digital Inter/Section. You can make money out of something that you are passionate about.
The Catalysts conducted a market study, reporting on the challenges of business models and providing sustainable solutions for digital arts and culture organisations. The report, The business of digital art: Economic models and insights into the future, is available as open source, true to the vision of Digital Inter/Section.
All that blooms at the intersection of media, technology, art and culture
Let's promote and cherish all that blooms at the intersection of media, technology, art and culture, says KIKK’s Delphine Jenart. KIKK is a platform, for promotion and distrubution of digital arts including an internationally renowned festival in Namur, Belgium, but also hosts digital arts exhibitions, labs, a coworking space and residencies. Why is it important? It’s our responsibility, continues Jenart.
Digital Art X New Business Models
Collaboration ranks high when European digital arts and culture organisations look at how to develop income streams and business models while promoting sustainable, ethical and inclusive economic growth. Meet Fabien Fabre and Chroniques, a partner in DIS - Digital Inter/Section, a project supported by Creative Europe, that is preparing to launch 4 case studies to support the CCS sector.
Ingela Ihrman talks about her exhibition Frutti di Mare at Malmö Konsthall
The title is in Italian, but to me, Frutti di Mare is something you call a pasta or a pizza where maybe some tinned clams and pre-peeled prawns swim in a sea of cheese. Frutti di Mare in Swedish is related to tutti frutti and Lasse Holm's canneloni macaroni hit. A 90s dream of something tropical to aspire to that might say more about those who long for it than the actual location on the Mediterranean or any other turquoise waters., says Ingela Ihrman about her ongoing exhibition at Malmö Konsthall.
David Elia and Rob Goyanes in Conversation
In October 2023 writer Rob Goyanes and David Elia met up for an online conversation about art, landscape and environment and sources of inspiration from the light of Rio and the south of France to Color Field painting and Jaques Tati - and surprisingly into Weird Barbie’s house in the lates film.
David Elia trained as a designer but has in last years focused more on painting and drawing. Still there’s much that connect his paintings and his design objects, he brings a keen interest in the environment, history and social questions into his work abstracted into grids and dots. Rob Goyanes is a writer and editor from Miami, Florida, living in Los Angeles. He works as an editor for book publishers, popular and unpopular magazines, fiction writers, artists, curators, and music labels.
I recognized the special light there [in the South of France] that artists often talk about. Cezanne and Matisse always spoke about how the light was very conducive to their work, that luminous quality. The light in Rio, it’s a different kind of light, it’s stronger, yet the sky is much darker.
(Photo: Mat Smith Photography)
Miguel Andrade Valdez in Mexico City
In Mexico City artist Miguel Andrade Valdez opens at the gallery Proyecto Nasal.. The exhibition premiers a new series of painting and drawing on canvas. It takes us back to the artist’s beginnings as a painter after having focused on sculpture and installations for many years, it also takes us into the body and mind. The exhibition is titled la peil which means ”the skin”. Exhibition text by Art Insider PR founder Sofia Bertilsson.
Between us and the world, our skin embraces us, protects us from evil and holds us together like a bag of bones, blood, guts and neurons. Our skin is the house our body built that our mind started to fill with memories, emotions, foibles, fads and dreams. Room by room, it stores and archives, losing the battle against clutter that piles up in the attic. Where to put our teenage dreams? The books we read? Physical memories of hands held, someone else’s skin?
World of Art and Design Fall 2023 Art Special
Fall is here and we’re highlighting artists from Scandinavia, via the South of France to Peru and Mexico. We love to hear artists talking about their work and the inspiration behind it - this newsletter is dedicated to the long read. Read the conversation between artist and designer David Elia and critic Rob Goyanes about art, landscape and environment and about sources of inspiration from the light of Rio and the South of France to Color Field painting and Jacques Tati - and weird Barbie, dots and grids.
With disarming humor and playfulness, Ingela Ihrman's work tackles questions concerning the conditions of one's own existence. By donning sculptural costumes fabricated by herself, the artist pretends to be someone else: a giant otter giving birth, a blooming giant water lily, a fig splitting in two. At the same time, the work brings forth the imbalance and the problems that have arisen ever since humans began to distinguish themselves as superior to nature. Hear the artists talking about her ongoing exhibition Frutti di Mare at Malmö Konsthall which she coincidentally envisioned as a giant pizza.
In Mexico City artist Miguel Andrade Valdez opens at the gallery Proyecto Nasal. The exhibition premiers a new series of paintings and drawings on canvas. It takes us back to the artist’s beginnings as a painter after having focused on sculpture and installations for many years, it also takes us into the body and mind.
Ingela Ihrman at Malmö Konsthall
Fall 2023, Malmö Konsthall presents the largest exhibition of the internationally recognized Swedish artist Ingela Ihrman to date. With disarming humor and playfulness, Ingela Ihrman's work tackles questions concerning the conditions of one's own existence. By donning sculptural costumes, fabricated by herself, the artist pretends to be someone else; a giant otter giving birth, a blooming giant water lily, a fig splitting in two.
Cathy Abrahams Here: the Ghost is Me at Kåseholm Castle
Art and design are showcased at a stunning estate in the lush landscape of Österlen in Sweden. The exhibition showcases Cathy Abraham's series titled Here: the Ghost is Me in which she explores the accumulation of discrete acts, emphasising the importance of repetition and meditation. Each painted mark holds a symbolic significance, with the artist's brushstrokes mirroring her spiritual journey. The exhibition is part of a collaboration between South African gallery THEFOURTH and Kåseholm, launches "Northern Southern Exposure" a project that aims to foster innovation and exchange in various geographies.
Finalists Announced for CHART Architecture 2023
Responding to the theme New European Bauhaus, each team applying to CHART Architecture 2023 has conceptualised an architectural project that foregrounds the three principles of sustainability, aesthetics and inclusion, as well as incorporating elements of universal design.
The CHART Architecture 2023 Finalists
Petal by Lasovsky Johansson Architects (Juras Lasovsky and Hanna Johansson)
Off The Shelf by Anton Boman, Jonathan Lindberg and Matthew Wilson
Komorebi by Joanna Maria Lesna, Thomas Enee and Miguel Sousa Rebelo
Ruin by Thomas Røn Jensen, Kathrine Vand and Sebastian Siggaard
Habitat by Martin Viggo Meincke and Astrid Marie Strandbygaard
CHART Architecture is a competition inviting teams of emerging architects and architectural studios to submit proposals for architectural structures to be installed in the iconic courtyards at Charlottenborg during CHART August 25 – 27 2023.
Heritage Craft and Contemporary Design from Peru - Taller Tarapacá
Taller Tarapacá combines heritage craft with contemporary design from Peru. Its collection has a strong focus on material and craft, combined with clean, architectonic lines and a minimal esthetic.
From the Chalkworks to the Eel Grass Meadows - Anna Ling at Lunds konsthall
Lunds konsthall presents a retrospective exhibition with the artist Anna Ling, born in 1971 in Gothenburg and since many years living in Malmö. In the exhibition, which is on view throughout the summer, we meet the artist’s strong interest in nature and our relationship to it, and works that are characterised by both beauty and serious effects of climate change. We follow Ling's observations, from coral reefs to a local limestone quarry, in large, ink drawings and films, and through the artist's long-term field studies we also see the effects of the measures taken to restore nature. Ling has exhibited at Moderna Museet Malmö, GIBCA, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, as well as at Lunds konsthall. The exhibition runs May 20 - August 27, 2023.
New Book by Artist Sophie Tottie Published by Art and Theory Publishing
SOPHIE TOTTIE: AiWHEtL (catalogue and related works)
The world is always inevitably changing. At the same time, we humans look for patterns and regularities. AiWHEtL revolves around doing and thinking as a process of understanding, in which the result essentially cannot be owned but remains in constant change. (Sophie Tottie)
In Sophie Tottie’s recent work re-workings of previous work, for example material and leftover products like paint and brush cleaner is incorporated and reused in new work. Tottie’s works function as prisms that weigh, measure, and materialize something that seem to belong to an inner, intangible reality but which manifest themselves in an outer material and physical existence.
(Photo credit: Emil Fagander. Courtesy Art and Theory Publishing)
What does it mean to be human? Ingela Ihrman upcoming show at Malmö Konsthall
In a playful way, Ingela Ihrman’s work explores what it means to be human. With humour and sincerity, she lifts questions concerning identity and belonging by looking at different life forms and how we relate to one another. She focuses on strong emotions connected to everyday life, such as lust, longing and loneliness. Where: Malmö Konsthall. Dates: September 30 2023 - January 14 2024.
(Photo: Ingela Ihrman, One Fig, 2020. Video still)
A Roman Journey at Antica Libreria Cascianelli
An artist obsessed with maps, flags, the footprints of space and time. An antique bookshop in the heart of Rome that looks as popping out from Balzac’s novel The Magic Skin. An art curator and travelling reporter who thinks that all the places you can imagine are real. The exhibition Journey Analogue comes from this combination of people and places. Luca Di Luzio artworks transforms Antica Libreria Cascianelli - just behind Navona square and beside the entrance of the archaelogical site of Domitian Stadium – in a contemporary wunderkammer, with the help of stage designer Valentina La Rocca (Libreria Cascianelli co-owner) and art writer Fabio Sindici. The title pays homage to Renè Daumal’s unfinished novel Mount Analogue, a surrealist chronicle of an impossible journey. The result is an art installation conceived both as hide and seek game and exploration in a parallel universe.
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