An exchange project between artists from Serbia and Sweden.
Art workshop 17-24 oct, exhibition 25 oct-23 nov
Participating artists: Nina Todorovic, Zoran Todovic, Anica Vucetic, Isidora Ficovic, Vera Stevanovic, Predrag Terzic and Daniel Loncar.
Project Warming is meant to be the beginning of the process of collaboration between visual artists from Serbia and Sweden. The artists of different background and different poetics gathered together on this starting point, with the idea of putting back together the former cultural models.
Warming is a key word, it is essential and very comprehensive as a phenomenon, which is clear in both countries, Sweden and Serbia. This way we want to warm up the wish of the other for freeing, accepting the happenings, and for possibility of new encounter between the image and the thought. Simply, to confirm oneself, to affirm, to become, to get closer
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Stina Pehrsdotter and Niclas Hallberg exhibits at the artist-run gallery
Garageprojektet/GREASE in Hammenhög.
VERNISSAGE wednesday 8 october
Inner Departure (photo and video) concerns questions about the clash of interests between reality and fantasy, substantial processes versus dreamlike situations.
The exhibition ends 23 november.
Formverk participates at art swap europe for artist-run initiatives and international exchange
The Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste (IGBK) invites European artist associations and networks that have their own exhibition spaces and run international exchange projects to participate in ART SWAP EUROPE.
An open forum for presentations and a workshop will take place in Berlin on 11 and 12 October 2008 in cooperation with the Akademie der Künste
SOL INVICTUS
Gustaf Broms works in wide variety of media – photo, video, installation – often conceptual.
Even if the materials have changed over time he focus on and returns to questions concerning time and space, matter and mind, inner and outer.
”SOL INVICTUS grew out of an idea to see the cyclic flow of life. It becomes clear this time of the year coming up to winter solstice, marking the breaking point, the years breathing. See the greatness of nature, its lack of linear concepts – all is in transformation – no beginning, no end.”
Broms is interested in the meeting between a close personal experience of death, in linear time, next to the idea of the cyclic concept of change represented by SOL INVICTUS.
This gives a gap, a problem concerning the intellect in relation to reality and your experiences.
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Formverk participate with The Exquisite Corpse Video Project
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In April 2008 The 9th International Bienniale of Miniature Arts opend in Gornji Milanovac, Serbia.
Stina Pehrsdotter curated the swedish part. The qualifications for participation was that the works must not be bigger than 10x10 cm.
She based her choise on interesting, current artists, represented with differences in material and technique.
One of the swedish artists, Sara Appelgren, won the first prize in the photo cathegory for the piece You will always be important to me.
Now the swedish works from the bienniale are shown at Formverk, and the exhibition has been added with bigger works from the same artists.
Sara Appelgren, Paul Bodoni, Maria Hallberg, Ronny Hansson, Niclas Hallberg, Signe Johannessen, Andreas Ribbung, Erik Rören and Thomas Wahlström.
photo. Stage #1 Sara Appelgren
March 14 – April 19
Opening 18 pm March 14
Exquisite Corpse Video Project and Vitruvian Woman are two international video collaborations, involving over 40 artists from all parts of the world. The exhibition, initiated by the instigators Kika Nicolela, Brazil and Michael Chang, Denmark, opens on Saturday March 14 at 18.00 pm and participating ECVP artists from England, Norway, Denmark and Sweden will also be attending the opening. With these art video projects the artists are forging a new kind of collective consciousness, a sharing and shaping of ideas through both sound and vision. As pioneers of new communications technology, these artists are often called upon to use a second language to communicate with each other and to overcome the diversity of different cultures. Their attempts to work cooperatively have strengthened their respect for each other as artists, as global citizens and as representatives of a new way of connecting people from all corners of our planet.
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Gabriel van Hoften
”It is called private parts but you cannot travel, or open a bankaccount
without telling what you have inside your pants.”
These words explains Gabriël van Hoften's installation at Formverk.
The installation is about the freedom to be what you want to be.
A protest against the biggest discrimination in the world: gender discrimination.
Gabriel van Hoften is a many-sided artist, using self developed symbols
and a unique blend of colours, inbedded in the visual art as well as in the sound art.
Lars-Erik Wahlberg, is a wellknown artist in Eskilstuna, and he has
the playing as a benchmark in his artistic field.
The base is almost always second hand bargains, old toys and stuffed animals,
pulled out from its original context, to be placed in a new one.
– It is things with their given function and a predestined cute meaning, but by placing them
in a new and foreign surrounding I change the ”list of contents”,
and something not quite that cute can appear instead, says Wahlberg.
November 28 - December 6
Open Sat-Sun 12-16, extra open Mon-Fri 14-18
An artistic exchange-project for youngsters in Sweden, Serbia and Albania.
In March 2009 Formverk (art zone) achived funding from Swedish Institute, under their programme Creative Force Western Balkans, for the project DigitalCrossing NoBorders. It's concernig artistic creativity in digital media. The collaboration has been realized between youngsters in Pozarevac, Serbia, Tirana, Albania and Eskilstina, Sweden. By showing similarities and differencies in the conditions for young people living in these three regions, we raise the understanding of the importance of diversity and gender equalitiy in the work to build a democratic community. Digital media - photo and video - offers a democratic and open way of working.
In the project Formverk (art zone) has realized several workshops. We started gathering youngsters in Eskilstuna, and they shot pictures from their neighborhood. This material we brought to Pozarevac, where we worked at the Cultural Center with serbian youngsters who used the swedish photos as a starting point, they shot new pics from their environment, and manipulated and made montages out of it. Also a videopiece was produced, in a similar way. In September we made a equivalent workshop for the youngsters in Eskilstuna, when they continued working on the photos and made new ones by melting pictures together. All the material we took to Tirana in October and Albanian youngsters worked on in the same way as earlier, and we presented the result in an exhibition directelly after the workshop.
Now it's time to present the result for the audience in Eskilstuna!
The exhibition shows all the produced material, several digital photos and two videoworks, made together by the young people participating in the project.
The 16th of December the last exhibition will be presented at the Cultural Center in Pozarevac.
31 contemporary artists from Eskilstuna
June 6-July 5 2009
Open every day 12.00-16.00 during the jubilee week, 7th-14th of June, and weekends 12.00-16.00 until 5th of July.
AVTRYCK shows the power, the quality and the self-will in the art from Eskilstuna. The exhibition focuses on the potential the active artists have. It’s a large variation in technique and style, with a broad spectra of different expressions; graphics, drawings, paintings, textile, video, photo, installation and objects.
AVTRYCK is initiated by Carl Anders Thorheim and Carina Marklund in cooperation with eskilstuna350år and Formverk (art zone).
Pictures of Nothing
Michael Chang works in the tradition of abstract expressionism, minimal art and color field painting, but he refers to the images he creates as being very real opposed to abstract. Michael Chang finds his motif in the space that occurs when something is deleted, rejected or slightly altered.
”One of the ideas represented in these images, is a quiet presence, which we can try to acknowledge and get familiar with.” Michael Chang explains.
Michael Chang uses traditional materials in his investigation of the space occupied by the mundane. He is a painter, printmaker and new media artist.
Michael Chang is based in Copenhagen. He is affiliated with CDS Art & Visibility, Gallery of Contemporary Art located in Bredgade, Copenhagen.
Pictures of Nothing is created especially for Formverk(art zone). The exhibition includes prints created at Crown Point Press in San Francisco, and also paintings, drawings, aquatints, photographs, video and something the artist refers to as alterations.
www.michaelchang.dk/
Formverk participates at V.art09 International art fair in Värnamo, Sweden.
Inner Departure, Niclas Hallberg and Stina Pehrsdotter
Exquisite Corpse Video Project, volume 2, world wide premiere.
V.art09
Human Emotion Project is a worldwide video collaboration project started and managed by Alison Williams, South Africa.
The project invites international artists using film and video to interpret human emotions visually.
So far HEP 2009 has had over 15 screenings around the world.
At Formverk (art zone) we show a selection of the most interesting videos, curated by Niclas Hallberg.
1st International Artist Initiatives Istanbul Meeting
Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency is organizing the 1st International Artist Initiatives Istanbul Meeting in cooperation with Art Pie as a parallel event of the 11th International Istanbul Biennial, between 02nd-06th October 2009 in Istanbul 2010 Art Production Center Kadırga. It will include a fair, discussions and presentations. The general aim of the meeting is to create a communication platform among artist initiatives from various European and other countries for sharing information, experience and best practices and to enhance new cooperations on the way to Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture. As it is the parallel event of the 11th International Istanbul Biennial, the fair will also serve as a showcase for the participating artist initiatives in the international art scene.
DISGRACED
Anders Weberg investigates the relation between sexual guilt, pleasure and pain with an installation and a number of video pieces.
Anders Webergs work is primarily concerned with identity. The human body lies at the root of projects that formally and conceptually chart identity and its construction as a preamble to broaching matters of violence, genders, memory, loss or ideology in which personal experiences co-exists with references to popular culture, the media and consumerism.
Currently based in Malmö and has exhibited at numerous art/film festivals, galleries, and museums internationally.
The exhibition also includes a new work:
Unpixelated
In Japanese porn, it is required by law that the male and female genitalia be blurred to obscure it from sight. The fogging of the sexually explicit area using pixelization or mosaic blurring is referred to as bokashi.
In Unpixelated, software is used on censored pornographic films in order to reconstruct the blurred area to its original state. Once the software is applied, a mosaic blur is then applied to the rest of the image leaving only the once censored pubic hair or genitalia to be viewed.
February 19 - 21, 2010
Friday 12-22, Saturday 11-20, Sunday 11-18
Professional Preview: Thursday 19-24 (only for invited)
In only a few years Supermarket has become an international art happening of importance. This time the art fair will fill Kulturhuset in central Stockholm with a carnival atmosphere. Among the exhibitors are galleries from Montreal, Kiev, Västerås, Istanbul and Mallorca.
At Supermarket Formverk introduces a special Exquisite Corpse Supermarket edition, a video-workshophappening with artists from the worldwide video project The Exquisite Corpse Video Project.
Formverk (art zone) invites video artists from USA, Brazil, South Africa, Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden to make experimental collaborational videoart, and simultaneously show the process during the fair.
January 9 - February 14, 2010
Open Sat-Sun 12-16
We start the new decade with an exhibition with ten artists from Nyköping - Claude Büchler, Inga Berg, Peter Dewoon, Ruth Laué, George Badawi,
Börje Wahlström, Irem Babovic, Daniel Loefgren, Annica Edwall and SolBritt Büchler Mellangård in memoriam.
The show is an interesting gathering in different techniques and materials, and we find both the established artists active in many years,
and younger, emerging artists with power and energy.
The exhibition consists of stone sculptures, colourful graphics, ceramic objects, paintings and more.
Microwesten and Fridey Mickel Art Berlin! (FMAB)
February 24 - March 27, 2010
Opening Wednesday 24 February, 19.00
Performance "Sense of Calm" 20.00 arranged by Sackarias Luhanko
Artists:
Valentina Bardazzi - Carola Göllner - Kim Dotty Hachmann
Niclas Halberg - Julia Hürter - Christoph Kopac - Viola Lopes
Mirco Magnani - Nicolas Manenti - Stina Pehrsdotter - Paul Rascheja
Matthias Roth - Bertram Schilling - Mirko Tzotschew - Ricarda Wallhäuser
an exhibition curated by Formverk (art zone) at Eskilstuna Art Museum,
Mars 27 – April 18, 2010
Formverk (art zone) curates the exhibition Serbian Contemporary at Eskilstuna art museum, with six artists from Serbia: Bosiljka Zirojevic, Igor Lecic (Leche), Djula Santa, Anica Vucetic, Predrag Terzic and Nina Todorovic.
The exhibition is a continuation of the artistic exchange programme Formverk (art zone) started in 2008, which has resulted in exhibitions in Eskilstuna, Novi Sad and Belgrade. For Serbian Contemporary we have invited three of the artists we have worked with before, and three more new contacts. The exhibition shows a cross-section of expressions, representing the contemporary art scene in Serbia. The artists are well established in their genres, and have developed their own interpretetions of the present age, in mediums as painting, photography, video and objects. One of the artists, Djula Santa, is present at the opening reception. He will also give a lecture at the art museum Tuesday, March 30, in which he presents the exhibition and gives his picture of the contemporary art scene in Serbia.
nordic artist-run initiatives
May 8 - June 13, 2010
We have invited five artist-run spaces, one from each Nordic country, to present themselves and the artists behind.
Exhibitiors:
Gallery 69 (NO)
700IS Hreindyraland (IS)
Kuten (FI)
Spanien19C (DK)
Candyland (SE)
Formverk (art zone) (SE)
During the exhibition period Formverk (art zone) has extended opening hours:
Tuesday-Friday 11-17, Saturday-Sunday 12-16
Andreas Eklöf
August 20 – 22, 2010
During the summer of 2010 Andreas Eklöf started a design-project under The Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås, where he is studying fashion / design.
The purpose was that over a 10-week period explore and experiment around the area "Myself". Andreas had also some watchwords in mind during the work; opposites, tints of shape, balance/imbalance, illusion, deconstruction.
The project was done in collaboration with nine artists and designers which during the year has acted as strong inspiration and creative source for Andreas.
Thanks to: Charlotte Bakos, Meggi Sandell, Maria Hallberg, Johan Vesanen, Ann-Catrin Ingestad, Douglas Guterstam, Marit Cooper, Stina Pehrsdotter and Niclas Hallberg.
Daniel Stubenvoll & Janina Krepart, Hamburg
Aug 27-29, 2010
Formverk (art zone) continues the autumn period with another short weekend exhibition by the two art students Daniel Stubenvoll and Janina Krepart from Hamburg. They make an exhibition tour in Sweden during a month. They start with an exhibition at Gallery Hangups in Stockholm, coming to Eskilstuna and Formverk (art zone) and ending at Neon Gallery in Brösarp, south of Sweden. The concept for the exhibition tour ”Quasi” is to create installations on location and change the works to the different places.
September 4 - October 10
open: weekends 12-16, Mon Sep 6 - Thu Sep 9, 12-16 (closed Sep 18-19 due to Formverks participation at Alt_Cph art fair in Copenhagen)
Alicia Felberbaum's The Dance of the Medusa is a compilation of random moments filmed spontaneously without participants being aware. Only after viewing the rushes, was the narrative created, by unravelling a story within the footage. By capturing someone in a particular situation, Felberbaum uses editing to enable her to entirely manipulate the context and create a new storyline. A new installation in a collection of works produced by the artist using this specific technique, The Dance of the Medusa is an assemblage of footage from two separate occasions at the same beach: two girls playing in the sea and two others playing with the waves.
Alicia Felberbaum (based in London, UK) (studied Goldsmiths, Master in Fine Arts, 1994) is an artist working in experimental video, new media and installations. A recipient of several art grants, Alicia was awarded a Fellowship from NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) for research on the relationships between interactivity, databases, and the narrative form.
September 4 - 9
open: Sat-Sun 12-16, and Mon-Thu 12-16
Shirish Beri’s works, which tend to reflect his values and concerns in life have been bearing their distinct mark on modern Indian architecture since 1975. They strive to address his life concerns of man moving further away from nature, from his fellow human beings and from his own self. Through his work, Shirish Beri probes the multisensory and the immeasurable dimension of space while trying to evoke a reflective pause amidst today’s clutter and background noise. He feels that issues of sustainability can be aptly addressed only through the right attitudes and goals. His designs try to achieve an inherent sense of unity and harmony with various natural and man-made elements and forces. He has designed a number of campuses for national & regional level institutions for research, rehabilitation, health care and education, along with various other types of buildings.