CC#1, WALL TO WALL by Egill Sæbjörnsson, 2009
CC#1, WALL TO WALL by Egill Sæbjörnsson, 2009
CC#2, Dan Rees, Keep Your Art Soft and Sweet, You Might Have To Eat It, 2005
CC#2, overview with Maurizio Nannuci and Rosella Biscotti
CC#2, Bas Jan Ader, I'm To Sad To Tell You, 1971
CC#2, Nedko Solakov, Yellow Blob Story, 2008
CC#2, Mario Airo, Le Voci del Mondo, 2003
CC#2, James Lee Byars, Untitled (Secret Event), last half of the 80's
CC#3, exhibition view (from L to R): Erno Rubik, Tamara Dees, Erica Boom
CC#3, AE, Ramon Hulspas & Erik Vermeulen, The World Filled with Stuff, ongoing project since 2005
CC#4, overview
CC#4, overview
CC#4, Romeo Gongere, Pardon, 2007-2008
CC#4, Makode Linde, Untitled, 2009
CC#5, Nate Harrison, The (quick) Time Machine, 2003
CC#5, Katarina Zdjelar, The Perfect Sound, 2009
CC#5, GentClapping Group, 2009
2008 - 2010
CURATOR CURATOR
Series of exhibitions
Initiated by: Maarten Vanden Eynde and Maaike Gouwenberg
Involved curators: Karolin Tampere (NO), Lorenzo Bruni (IT), Remco de Blaaij (NL) and Kamila Wielebska (PL), Adnan Yildiz (TR), Jens Maier-Rothe (DE)
Location: HISK, Ghent, Belgium
Supported by: De Vlaamse Gemeenschap, BE
Dowload: CURATOR CURATOR (pdf)
As a typical Enough Room for Space project CURATOR CURATOR emerged out of a marriage between an open space or question, and a personal specific interest or focus on a problematic contemporary issue. In this case artistic director Hans Martens of the Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK) in Ghent gave carte blanche for a project to take place in the exhibition space of the HISK.
Our proposal, CURATOR CURATOR, provided an opportunity for emerging curators to develop a project within and with the only post-graduate visual arts institute in Belgium, in order to investigate the current curatorial preoccupation. It seems that more than ever the role and relevance of a curator is being questioned and challenged. Is there still a difference between a curator and an artist? If so, what is it? Can one person do both? What are the borders and limits of curating, and what is the relation between curating and creating?
We gave international curators the chance to experiment and develop a project, which might have been difficult to realise within the context of a regular exhibition venue. The only guidelines at the start of each project were the basic principals of the HISK: to experiment and find possibilities to develop oneself.
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April 2010
CURATOR CURATOR
Launch at HISK cafe, ArtBrussels, BE
Launch of the publication of CURATOR CURATOR, a series of exhibition projects by up coming curators in the presentation space of HISK in Ghent in Belgium in 2009 and 2009 initated by Enough Room for Space.
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25 September - 18 October 2009
CURATOR CURATOR #5: After All, Everything Is Different In The End
HISK, Ghent, BE
Jens Maier-Rothe (DE) focuses on the notion of listening, which is part of his ongoing research into the various manifestations of sound within fine arts. Twelve artists will 'visualise' how sound is perceived in many different ways, on various censorial layers, and how everyone has a subjective notion of synchronicity.
With: Mike Carremans / Brandon LaBelle / Gent Clapping Group / Nate Harrison / Jeuno JE Kim / Raimundas Malašauskas / Joris van de Moortel / Tisha Mukarji / Sarah Pierce / Thus & Hence / Ultra-red / Katarina Zdjelar / plus Jean-Luc Godard, Len Lye and Norman McLaren
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21 June - 12 July 2009
CURATOR CURATOR #4: Time-Challenger
HISK, Ghent, BE
"The original idea for "Time-Challenger" was based on the idea of opening a space-time for a discussion of how artistic reconstruction has been operating today through diverse conceptual approaches and contextual references in relation to current image politics. Recently, there have been numerous exhibition projects addressing artistic re-enactments, remakes, reproductions, and reinterpretations… “Time-Challenger” takes into consideration the art historical and analytical framework of these projects while taking a different direction by connecting the discussion to Antonio Negri’s concept of the “reconstruction of hope.” "
With: Gökçen Cabadan, André Catalão, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Olof Dreijer, Felix Gmelin, Lauren von Gogh, Romeo Gongora, Susanne Kriemann, Makode Linde, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Rinus Van de Velde, Viron Vert and a video interview with Ulus Baker by Aras Özgün
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6 February - 15 March 2009
CURATOR CURATOR #3: Towards Confluence
HISK, Ghent, BE
Two curators, Remco de Blaaij (NL) and Kamila Wielebska (PL), send in almost identical proposals and were invited to work together. With the river as a metaphor their exhibition will embark in a search for why things come together or why some things are separated and will never meet.
with: Æ - Ramon Hulspas and Erik Vermeulen, Erica Boom, Tamara Dees, Grzegorz Klaman, Joanna Malinowska, Tanja Muravskaja, Patrycja Orzechowska, Erno Rubik
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7 - 23 November 2008
CURATOR CURATOR #2:What is my name?
HISK, Ghent, BE
Why am I me (myself)? Am I me (myself) in respect to others and to the codification of the world or vice versa? Perhaps in this time we need a bit of oblivion regarding the way we communicate and handle the real in order to be able to reflect on how we perceive and communicate it and on who we really are.
Lorenzo Bruni (IT) presents an ambitious group show with 18 artists, including Rirkrit Tiravanija, James Lee Byars, Peter Coffin, Bas Jan Ader, Dan Rees, Felix Gonzalez-Torresa and Jonathan Monk. No less than 29 works will be spread around the building in order to stimulate new consciousness of perception of space.
With interventions by: Jonathan Monk, Dan Rees, Peter Coffin, Koo Jeong-A, Rossella Biscotti, Simone Berti, José Dávila, Mario Airò, Nina Beier and Marie Lund, Nedko Solakov, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Mario Garcia Torres, Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio
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12 September - 12 October 2008
CURATOR CURATOR #1: WALL TO WALL
HISK, Ghent, BE
Curator/artist Karolin Tampere (NO) worked intensively together with artist Egill Sæbjörnsson (IS), dissolving the presupposed roles of artist and curator. Their long dialogue and collaboration resulted in an installation in which two walls converse about the meaning of life, the universe and several strange objects in the room.
With: Karolin Tampere & Egill Sæbjörnsson