October 12. ‘Local Encounters #4: Elena Agudio/Savvy Contemporary’ at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.

Elena Agudio is a Berlin based art historian and curator. Her research is focused on the sharing and exchange of knowledge and skills across disciplines and cultures. She studied Art History at the University of Venice – Ca’ Foscari and in 2010 she received her PhD in Art and Design at the University of Palermo. From 2005 to 2010 she lectured at the University Iulm of Milano and at the University of Architecture of Palermo. Since 2007 she is writing for and coordinating the direction of the Italian art magazine Art e Dossier.

She is artistic director of the non profit association AoN_a platform for Neuroscience and Art, a project in collaboration with the Medical University of Charité and The School of Mind and Brain of the Humboldt University encouraging both a dialogue and lasting cooperations between contemporary art and the cognitive sciences, for which she has been curating projects at the Deutsche Guggenheim (Berlin) and the Library of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice).
http://www.association-of-neuroesthetics.org/

Since 2013 she is artistic co-director of SAVVY Contemporary, a non profit Berlin based art space founded and directed by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, where she is curating and co-curating exhibition projects, discursive programmes and series, among which – currently – Speaking Feminisms dedicated to an exploration of current feminist practices and alliances, That, Around Which The Universe Revolves investigating ryhthmanalysis and the interrelations of space and time, memory, architecture and urban space, How Does The World Breathe Now, a film screening series critically reflecting on our now and the role of art in the society, and SAVVY Funk, a radio programme and exhibition for Documenta 14.
http://www.savvy-contemporary.com

Among the most recent curated exhibitions and projects: Ivana Franke: Retreat Into Darkness. Towards A Phenomenology Of The Unknown (Schering Stiftung, Berlin), Amos Gitai. The Law Of The Pursuer(Forum Expanded, Berlinale 2017, SAVVY Contemporary), What The Tortoise Murmurs To Achilles (SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin), Feedback Control Mode (HALLE 14, Leipzig),The Ultimate Capital is the Sun. Metabolism in Contemporary Art, Politics, Philosophy and Science (Exhibition, Symposium, Publication), nGbK, Berlin; Giving Contours to Shadows, Berlin (nbk, SAVVY Contemporary, Maxim Gorki Theater, Gemäldegalerie), Marrakech, Dakar, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Lagos; Embodied Cognition (…) An interdisciplinary dialogue addressing Tino Sehgal’s work, (30th-31st May, 2013), Peggy Guggenheim Collection’s Library, Venice; In Other words – The Black Market of Translations / Negotiating Contemporary Cultures (3 March/15 April 2012), NGBK and Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin; Totem and Taboo. Complexity and relationships between art and design (Oct/Nov.2011), Museum Quartier, freiraum quartier21, Vienna;

She is member of SYNAPSE – The International Curators’ Network organized by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
She was curator in residence at CRIS (Curatorial Residency in Stockholm) and in autumn 2017 will be at Helsinki International Curatorial Programme (HICP) organized by HIAP.

http://www.elenaagudio.net/

 

Local Encounters’ at Bethanien Künstlerhaus.

This program aims at introducing to you a series of local projects, with a recognized trajectory and fully engaged in the local scene. The agents invited to present their projects are key practitioners to enter in contact with the diversity of the art spheres in Berlin. The objective of these encounters is twofolded: On the one hand, they will facilitate a deeper knowledge of the cultural infrastructure of the city; on the other hand, they will provide the chance of a series of meetings in an informal atmosphere that might facilitate long time contacts.

  8th September. ‘Local Encounters #3: Uqbar’ at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.

The name “uqbar” was taken from a novel by the writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986). In Borges’ novel the word “uqbar” is an entry in a fictitious encyclopaedia. The word is a construct, a letter combination without meaning, used by the author in order to show how knowledge and meaning are constructed. The problem of the constitution of meaning, signification and interpretation is central to the discussion around the term of the representation. Representation in the broadest sense means a switching procedure, which functions through references and replacement, and is an integral component of each art form. The association aims at promoting contemporary art and culture, above all implementing, supporting and hosting projects, which dedicate themselves to the research and promotion of experimental, interdisciplinary artistic and cultural practices in the international context.

http://projectspace.uqbar-ev.de

‘Local Encounters’ at Bethanien Künstlerhaus.

This program aims at introducing to you a series of local projects, with a recognized trajectory and fully engaged in the local scene. The agents invited to present their projects are key practitioners to enter in contact with the diversity of the art spheres in Berlin. The objective of these encounters is twofolded: On the one hand, they will facilitate a deeper knowledge of the cultural infrastructure of the city; on the other hand, they will provide the chance of a series of meetings in an informal atmosphere that might facilitate long time contacts.

  17th August. ‘The Domestic as a Model for Institutions’ talk at Nottingham Contemporary

6.30-8.30pm

Free. The Project Space
Nottingham Contemporary

Artist and curator Lorenzo Sandoval explores possibilities of spatial arrangement in art institutions, focusing on the potential of domestic spaces as sites for formal and informal encounters.

Lorenzo Sandoval works in the crossing points of artistic practice, curatorial processes and spatial design. He holds a B.F.A and a Masters in Photography, Art and Technology from the UPV, (Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia). Sandoval has attended international residencies in Berlin, (GlogauAIR), Portugal (Vila Nova) and in Nairobi, (Kuona Trust Studio). He was production manager of the EACC, (Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló) and is one of the founding members of the independent space. His ongoing project ´Mutant Matters´, produced together with the architect collective S.T.I.F.F., was commissioned by Savvy Contemporary (Berlin) and also presented at Ar / Ge Kunst (Bolzano). Sandoval publishes with Broken Dimanche Press. More: http://www.lorenzosandoval.net/

  April 26th. ‘Local Encounters #2: Horse & Pony Fine Arts’ at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.

Founded by artists Carrick Bell and Michael Rocco Ruglio-Misurell in 2013, HORSEANDPONY Fine Arts is an artist-run space with the aim of providing artists, curators, and other project spaces the opportunity to extend or act outside of their existing practices.

http://horseandponyfinearts.com

‘Local Encounters’ at Bethanien Künstlerhaus.

This program aims at introducing a series of local projects, with a recognized trajectory and fully engaged in the local scene. The agents invited to present their projects are key practitioners to enter in contact with the diversity of the art spheres in Berlin. The objective of these encounters is twofolded: On the one hand, they will facilitate a deeper knowledge of the cultural infrastructure of the city; on the other hand, they will provide the chance of a series of meetings in an informal atmosphere that might facilitate long time contacts.