ART NEWS:June 02

Employing artist residencies as research generators, deploying open studios as a way of public broadcast and community engagement, and publishing political controversies and culturally sensitive issues, this multilayered and multi-venue exhibition project, “Politics of Sharing” invites Germany and New Zealand/Aotearoa into an enquiry. As a limited economy or a confined ecology of how we subconsciously decide on what to share, and with whom, the exhibition emerges from a research visit, to a shared mental space at the closing of its last episode. “Politics of Sharing: On Collective Wisdom” is an antipodean perspective, it crosses with a Continental/European approach to create a trilogy of exhibitions with unfolding content in three phases: Berlin, Stuttgart and Auckland, focusing on the reflections, and understandings of collective wisdom Info: ifa-Galerie Berlin, Linienstraße 139-140, Berlin, Duration: 1/6-10/7/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Sun 14:00-18:00, www.ifa.de

The exhibition “Caméra(Auto)Contrôle” is the core of the 50JPG—50 Days for Photography in Geneva 2016. The exhibition focuses on a world contaminated by the Western lifestyle that nevertheless retains a few throwbacks to the old surveillance regime. The exhibition has developed an uncategorized approach in order to blend the most diverse positions between the optical control carried out by drones, the self-generated control wrought by Facebook, and a camera control exercised by counterpowers, be it the press or artists. The exhibition defends militant positions like the cheerful reappropriations of devices and systems of control that have been carried out. Info: Curator: Joerg Bader, Centre de la photographie Genève, Rue des Bains 28, Bâtiment d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Duration: 1/6-31/7/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Sun 11:00-18:00, www.centrephotogeneve.ch

“Bridge Over Troubled Water”, is part of an ongoing collaborative project between the performance collective MSL (Antti Jussila and Jari Kallio) and artist Jaakko Pallasvuo, that explores ideas of queerness, nonlinear time, and climate change anxiety. Their project, and the resulting exhibition at CCA, reimagines ‘60s musical duo Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel as time-travelling protagonists whose association with a more hopeful era is at sharp odds with our increasingly precarious contemporary existence. The exhibition at CCA features new material filmed on location across Finland and Lapland, shown as part of a sculptural installation that includes designed lighting, costumes, and pierced silicone body parts. Info: Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry, 10-12 Artillery Street, Derry~Londonderry, Duration: 4/6-23/7/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 12:00-18:00, http://cca-derry-londonderry.org

Between 1975 and 1985, during and after the Khmer Rouge regime, an estimated one million people fled Cambodia, and over 100,000 Cambodians resettled in the United States, while others took refuge in Canada, Australia and Europe. “INTERLACE: Three Artists in the Cambodian Diaspora” looks at the artistic practice of Anida Yoeu Ali, Amy Lee Sanford and LinDa Saphan, three female artists of the same generation who grew up as refugees in foreign countries, invested with the dilemma of dealing with issues of hybridity, otherness and displacement. While they continue to negotiate their diasporic positions in their lives, the works featured in the exhibition reveal their migratory past as a significant time of transition. Info: Curator: Loredana Pazzini-Paracciani, inCube Arts, 314 West 52nd Street, New York, Duration: 10-30/6/16, Days & Hours: Wed-Fri 12:00-18:00, Sat 12:00-17:00, www.incube-arts.org

Manifesta examines the cultural topography of Europe and implements it in an artistic manner. Under the leadership of Christian Jankowski, a video and concept artist, Manifesta 11 takes up the theme of “What People Do For Money: Some Joint Ventures”. Various artists address this question and elaborate on it in an artistic way. The resulting videos will be screened on a floating stage on Lake Zurich, which has been specially constructed for the event. During the day, this Pavilion of Reflections serves as an outdoor bathing facility, while in the evenings, it is transformed into a place to reflect on the various works of art. Info: Curator: Christian Jankowski, Manifesta 11, Various Locations, Zurich, Duration: 11/6-18/9/16, http://m11.manifesta.org

For 21 years, LISTE Art Fair has been making relevant contributions to the promotion of young artists and galleries. LISTE’s focus has been on introducing new galleries with young, emerging artists. The strict selection policy of the jury, composed of museum people, combined with the fact that the number of galleries, is kept intentionally low (79 galleries) and the high level of sophistication of those galleries are reasons for LISTE’s extraordinary success, international reputation and drawing power. For many years now, every young, ambitious gallery has sought to be a part of this most important art event. Info: LISTE – Art Fair Basel, Burgweg 15, Basel, Duration: 13-19/6/16, Days & Hours: Mon (13/6) 12:00-17:00 (Preview-by invitation only) & 17:00-21:00 (Opening reception), Tue-Sat (14-18/6) 13:00-21:00, Sun (19/6) 13:00-18:00, Admission: Single entry: CHF/EUR 20, Reduced price: CHF/EUR 10, After 20:00: CHF/EUR 6/Students free, www.liste.ch

With its worldwide reputation as the premier European Art Fair, Art Basel’s European Edition brings the international artworld together in Basel, with more than 280 galleries showing works from 4,000 artists, ranging from Modern great masters to current emerging stars and attracts nearly 90,000 visitors from across the globe. The Fair is organized around eight sectors, which together encompass a vast range of artistic mediums, including paintings, sculpture, installations, film and videos, multiples, prints, photography, and live performance. Info: Art Basel Art Fair 2016, Messeplatz 10, Basel, Duration: 16-19/6/16, Days & Hours: Thu-Sun 11:00-19:00, Admission: Day Ticket: CHF 50, Evening Ticket, after 17:00: CHF 28, Two-Day Ticket: CHF 85, Permanent Ticket: CHF 120, Reduced Day Ticket for Students/Seniors: CHF 38, Combination Ticket for Art Basel and Design Miami/Basel: CHF 70, https://www.artbasel.com