ArtAids Nederland

Mission

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 from several Thai provinces. Pratchaya Phinthong is a participant in the 2008 More to Love project.

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 this theme. The results were ten special works of art, each reflecting the artist’s personal view of the Aids problem. ...

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.

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 raise awareness of HIV and Aids in Thailand and seeks to change prevailing attitudes. The works created for this project ...

ArtAids and Gerald Van der Kaap at FIB- Heineken 2009

Benicàssim Visitors to FIB-Heineken will be able to visit the work Yes, Negative by Gerald Van der Kaap at the festival venue from July 16 to 19. Yes, Negative consists of two vans containing video installations in which a doctor directly addresses the viewer to explain issues related to the AIDs test procedure, in order to reduce people’s fear of taking the test. This work was created by the Dutch artist in 2008. It was commissioned ...

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 results were ten special works of art, each reflecting the artist’s personal view of the Aids problem. These high-quality pieces ...

Lawrence Weiner

Born 1942, New York (US) / Works in US Lawrence Weiner was born in New York. In the late 1960s he was one of the most important exponents of Conceptual Art. Conceptual artists rebelled against the commercialisation of art and the recognition paid to the unique art object. They shifted their attention from the outward appearance of the work to the idea, which usually took definite form only as a written text. Weiner’s work consists mainly ...

Rirkrit Tiravanija

Born 1961, Buenos Aires (AR) / Works in TH/US/DE Rirkrit Tiravanija, born in Buenos Aires to Thai parents, currently lives and works in Thailand, New York and Berlin. He gained a reputation in the early 1990s with his interactive performances, which involved placing everyday activities in an artistic context. In one performance he appeared as a cook and prepared a meal for his audience. He also installed a recording studio in a museum and transformed his ...