MoMA New Photography 2008: Josephine Meckseper and Mikhael Subotzky
September 10, 2008–January 5, 2009

New Photography is the annual fall showcase of significant recent work in photography. This year's exhibition features the work of Josephine Meckseper (German, b. 1964) and Mikhael Subotzky (South African, b. 1981). In her photographs and signature vitrine displays, Meckseper explores the media's strategy of mixing political news and advertising content. Her installation includes a selection of larger-than-life-size photographs of models dressed in vintage lingerie from the 1950s, from her 2006 Blow-Up series. Also included is Quelle International (2008), a new group of pictures culled from a mail order catalogue popular in Germany in the 1970s that have been printed on reflective Mylar. In both series the artist uses the semantic codes of advertising to address issues of power and consumerism.

http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/exhibitions.php?id=8380&ref=calendar

Fortezza/Franzenfeste

Adam Budak, Anselm Franke/Hila Peleg, RAQS Media Collective: "SCENARIOS"

July 19 to November 2, 2008

Manifesta is one of the most important European Biennials of Contemporary Art and it takes place every two years in different cities. In 2008 for the first time Manifesta will take place not in a city but in a whole region: Trentino – South Tyrol, Italy. The area has been selected for its historical heritage, its artistic and cultural facilities and especially for its striking examples of industrial archaeology buildings, which are linked to the work history and the progressive industrialisation of the territory. This land has always been a bridge between Latin and German culture and it connects cultural developments as well as Southern and Northern habits.

Manifesta 7 will take place in several venues chosen amongst the most important examples of industrial archaeology existing in the Brenner axis, from Rovereto to Trento, from Bolzano to the fortress of Fortezza, to create a broad, multi-faceted event characterized as “100 miles in 100 days”.

Along with the various exhibitions, the whole territory itself can be seen as the catalyst for a series of collateral events, encouraging research and focusing on the relationship between different cultures.

http://www.manifesta7.it/

May 26 – October 17, 2008

The term “second nature” refers both to man’s ability to intervene in his environment and to the result of this intervention- a capacity that distinguishes him from other elements in the first nature. Man’s increasing domination of nature has often been criticized as an artificial construction, most notably since the 20^th century. Both populist and Marxist propaganda, but also various strands of esotericism which aimed to curtail man’s place in the universe, have thus spread the fear that this growing domination of nature will reduce man’s own naturalness and tighten the grip of (capitalist) society.

http://www.quadradoazul.pt/backoffice/images/imprensa/pressreleases/PT_4_7_second_nature-pressrelease%5B1%5D.pdf

The Kitchen: March 14 through April 26, 2008

COMA May 1 through June 11, 2008

Mika Tajima’s newly commissioned installations construct a kind of sequestered, phantom performance space borrowing imagery and references from various archival sources ranging from Herman Miller’s controversial office furniture system from the late 1960s to Mick Jagger’s role as a has been tock star in the 1970 cult film Performance. Interetsed in the given roles and multiple functions at play in performance as well as aesthetic tropes of early Modernism, Tajima creates sculptural sites for potential actions which also become surrogates for absent performers.

http://www.thekitchen.org/

http://www.coma-berlin.com/exhibitions/tajima/exhibition1.html

From March 27 − 30, 2008, Elizabeth Dee will be participating in The Armory Show at Pier 94 (12th Avenue at 55th Street) in New York. Located in Booth 1107, the gallery will be presenting a solo exhibition of works from the 1970s, 80s and 90s by Adrian Piper.

Elizabeth Dee will also be participating in LISTE 08 in Basel, Switzerland between June 3 - 8, 2008. At LISTE, the Elizabeth Dee booth will feature works by both Meredyth Sparks and Mika Tajima.

March 6 — May 11, 2008

Opening with a public reception March 6, Virgil Marti: Ah! Sunflower presents an installation by Philadelphia-based artist Virgil Marti. Marti bridges art and domestic decoration in his immersive environments of color, light and texture. Featuring a new wallpaper design, a fanciful chandelier, and richly upholstered seating among other components, Marti’s installation evokes an opulent interior while also addressing the centuries-old theme of vanitas, or life’s transience. The exhibition also features six innovative designs from Wallpaper LAB, which collaborates with contemporary artists to produce limited-edition wallpaper.

http://visarts.org/exhibitions/archive

 

Eighty-one artists are participating in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, which opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, on March 6, and runs through June 1, 2008. Installations and performances organized by the Whitney and Art Production Fund,will also be presented in association with Park Avenue Armory (67th Street) from March 6-23.

Since its founding in 1932, the Biennial has evolved into the Whitney’s signature exhibition as well as the most important survey of the state of contemporary art in the United States today. The exhibition will occupy the entire Museum, with the exception of the fifth floor, which is devoted to the permanent collection. For the first time, the Biennial will expand beyond the Museum’s Breuer building into Park Avenue Armory’s monumental Drill Hall and historic period rooms, creating an opportunity to present works that could not be accommodated within the Whitney’s walls and remaining true to the fluid, interactive way in which these works were conceived.

The 2008 Biennial is curated by Henriette Huldisch, Assistant Curator at the Whitney, and Shamim M. Momin, Associate Curator at the Whitney and Branch Director and Curator of the Whitney Museum at Altria, and overseen by Donna DeSalvo, the Whitney’s Chief Curator and Associate Director for Programs.

 

http://www.whitney.org/www/information/press/wb1108.pdf