Monthly Archives: November 2009
Viviane Sassen & Martine Stig: Cover
In September 2005 the photographers Viviane Sassen and Martine Stig travelled to Moscow with five ‘condom dresses’ by the Brazilian designer Adriana Bertini in their luggage. Stig and Sassen scouted around five locations in Moscow in search of young women – contemporary Cinderellas – to model the outfits. They recorded their quest in five series [...]
Grand Opening 1 Dec 2009: ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN
A project organised by ArtAids with the participation of twenty artists from Barcelona or with a special link to the city. The project is driven by a desire to increase awareness of the need for prevention and to reflect on the feelings of people living with HIV. The curator of the exhibition, Miquel Bardagil, sees it as the culmination of a project that began in 2008 and encompasses a very wide range of activities, some in collaboration with other institutions. In general, most of the artists participating in the project had not previously worked with the subject of Aids in any significant way, and thus the exhibition avoids predictable approaches and opens up new ways of seeing.
Pratchaya Phinthong
]Born 1974, Bangkok (TH) / Works in TH
Phinthong has recently gained a significant international reputation and was included in the 2006 Singapore Biennale. Curious, intelligent and socially aware, his projects include using art venues to raise funds for a small library in Thailand’s Ubonratchatanee province. He is currently sharing and developing ideas with art students [...]
Access for All
2004/2006 – Bangkok/The Netherlands
ABOUT THE PROJECT
‘Access for All’ was the theme of the biennial International Aids Conference held in Bangkok in 2004. In conjunction with the conference, Han Nefkens and Hilde Teerlinck, then director of the CRAC Alsace in Altkirch (FR), asked each of ten artists from different countries to design a work based on [...]
Núria Güell
Born 1981, Girona (ES) / Works in CU
Núria Güell is participating in the ArtAids project On the Outside Looking In, which is to be held in Barcelona in 2009.
Pep Dardanyà
(Caldes d’Estrac, 1961)
Pep Dardanyà is a visual artist, anthropologist and cultural administrator. He is currently director of Can Xalant, Centre for Creation and Contemporary Art. Pep Dardanyà uses video, photography and installations to create interventions that disrupt the viewer’s awareness in some way. His works initially refer us to the gaze and the nature of [...]
MORE TO LOVE: THE ART OF LIVING TOGETHER
ABOUT THE PROJECT
This ArtAids project brings together twenty visual artists from Thailand and Europe, a curator, people living with HIV and those involved in the fight against Aids. The project More to Love: The Art of Living Together, which takes the Thai expression ‘Putting their heart into your heart’ as its central inspiration, aims to [...]
Gerald Van Der Kaap
Born 1959, Enschede (NL) / Works in NL
The Dutch artist Van Der Kaap uses photography and video in an experimental manner and also works as a DJ and VJ. His works are well represented in Han Nefkens’ H+F Collection – several of which were included in exhibitions of works from the H+F Collection, such as [...]
ACCESS FOR ALL – THAILAND – FRANCE – THE NETHERLANDS 2004 -2006
ABOUT THE PROJECT
‘Access for All’ was the theme of the biennial International Aids Conference held in Bangkok in 2004. In conjunction with the conference, Han Nefkens and Hilde Teerlinck, then director of the CRAC Alsace in Altkirch (FR), asked each of ten artists from different countries to design a work based on this theme. The [...]
ASTURIAS – ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN