16 - The Red House, Centre for Culture Indefinite Destinations - Sofia Version

Dear Friends,

These are two upcoming shows I'm excited to be in. if you are in Vienna or Sofia please come to the openings.

all the best
Basim

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Basim Magdy
www.basimmagdy.com

Street and Studio - From Basquiat to Séripop
25 June – 10 October 2010

KUNSTHALLE WIEN
Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna
Austria
www.kunsthallewien.at

… and the streets look really good to me, they look like art … I wanted to paint the town red, paint the town black.
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Downtown 81 (1981)

With its major summer exhibition Street and Studio the Kunsthalle Wien brings the rough style of the street into the exhibition hall. Urbanity and mobility characterize a contemporary generation of artists who regard the metropolis both as their source of inspiration and means of expression: the US painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose work constitutes a landmark for various forms of painting and video art relating to urban or suburban cultures, provides the center of gravity for the show. From this starting-point, the presentation unfolds a network of positions that share a vitality informed by the street and urbanity and spans from the results of Basquiat's productive collaboration with other artists such as Andy Warhol, Francesco Clemente, or Keith Haring to works by younger artists like Rita Ackermann or Séripop.

Having never ceased to pervade pop culture since its emergence, this subversive pictorial language tells of the quest for identity, political responsibility, the commercialization of public space, and the fight for survival caused by social injustice.

The show centers on both art-historical key figures such as Blek le Rat, Jenny Holzer, or Sophie Calle and contemporary artists from Kader Attia and Brad Downey, Christian Eisenberger, Basim Magdy, and Ari Marcopoulos to Evan Roth, Séripop, and Rita Vitorelli, who are represented by new works created for the occasion.

List of artists: Rita Ackermann, Eric Andersen, Charlie Ahearn, Kader Attia, Banksy, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Dara Birnbaum, Blek le Rat, Sophie Calle, Francesco Clemente, Jane Dickson, Brad Downey, Christian Eisenberger, Futura, Dani Gal, Ingo Giezendanner (GRRRR), Shaun Gladwell, Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer, Mark Jenkins, Leopold Kessler, Lady Pink, Sol LeWitt, Basim Magdy, Ari Marcopoulos, miz JUSTICE, Ramm:ell:zee, Robin Rhode, Evan Roth, Séripop , Rita Vitorelli, Andy Warhol

Curators: Cathérine Hug, Thomas Mießgang
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Indefinite Destinations - Sofia Version
16 June 2010 until 2 July 2010

THE RED HOUSE - CENTRE FOR CULTURE AND DEBATE
Neofit Rilski Str. 70
1000 Sofia
Bulgaria
www.redhouse-sofia.org

Curators: Vessela Nozharova (Bulgaria) and Oyku Ozsoy (Turkey)

Artists: Ergin Çavusoğlu (Bulgaria/UK), Alina Viola Grumiller (Austria/Turkey), Basim Magdy (Еgypt/Switzerland), Stefanos Tsivopoulos (Greece/The Netherlands), Mürüvvet Türkyılmaz (Turkey), Katarina Zdjelar (Serbia), Arthur Zmijewski (Poland), Bora Petkova (Bulgaria), Kalin Serapionov (Bulgaria)

After its first version in Depo in Istanbul in the beginning of this year, the exhibition Indefinite Destinations is to be shown in Sofia with minor changes. Indefinite Destinations uses the notion of transformation as a starting point to look at contemporary societies. The transformations are political, economical, social and emotional challenges to the modern man. We often complain that we live in an uncertain time. Sometimes we feel like there is nothing we can hold on to. But at the same time we all are going through a fascinating period of transition: the transformation and restructuring of whole systems in the world. This is the basis of a primary controversy - between flexibility and stability, between order and disorder, and that precarious balance between them. Indefinite Destinations visit to Sofia is supported by Anadolu Kültür (Turkey), Art Affairs and Documents Foundation (Bulgaria) and Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center (Istanbul, Turkey).

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And finally, below are some images of my work at:
Ce qui vient / What Comes
Les Ateliers de Rennes - Biennale d'art contemporain
30 April - 18 July 2010

www.lesateliersderennes.fr

Curator: Raphaële Jeune

Artists:
Anonymous (RO), Barbara Noiret, Barking Dogs United, Basim Magdy, Berdaguer & Péjus, Bureau d’études, Catherine Contour, Claude Lévêque, Colectivo Tercerunquinto, Dafna Maimon, Davide Balula, Didier Courbot, Djamel Kokene, Dora Garcia, Francesco Finizio, Frédéric Dumond, Hinrich Sachs, Jocelyn Cottencin, Julien Prévieux, Kan-Si, Laurent Duthion, Mario Garcia Torres, Mario Merz, Mati Diop, Mauro Cerqueira, Renata Poljak, Reynald Drouhin, Simona Denicolai et Ivo Provost, Société Réaliste, Stéphanie Bühler, Thierry Boutonnier, UltralabTM, Benoît-Marie Moriceau, Goldin+Senneby, Liam Gillick, Pierre Bismuth, Stéfanie Bourne, Thomas Hirschhorn, Flavien Théry, Aggtelek, Yona Friedman, Piniang, Damien Marchal, Alain Michard, Emmanuelle Lainé.

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