11 — 12 October 2008, Berlin 11 — 12 October 2008, Berlin ART SWAP EUROPE . Preface Artist-run initiatives and project spaces initiated by artists play an important role alongside the established art market. They not only facilitate contact between the artist, the artwork and the audience, but also give artists the opportunity to grapple with other artistic perspectives. Artist-run initiatives also permit experimental approaches, since most of them are not commercially oriented. A large number of such artist initiatives are already cooperating with one another in various ways throughout Europe. Since links are usually established through personal contacts the ‘Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste’ (IGBK) seeks to stimulate the expansion of networks and the exchange between visual artists and their initiatives on the European level. The IGBK also aims to thematise chances and obstacles of artists’ mobility. On 11 and 12 October 2008, IGBK hosts ‘Art Swap Europe’ (www.artswap-europe.eu), an open forum for presentations of concepts and spaces, for panel discussions and face-to-face meetings. The compilation at hand contains self-portrayals of and brief information on 76 European artists’ projects and exhibition spaces presented within the scope of the forum in alphabetical order. Berlin, October 2008 5 6 GALLERIES 26cc, Rome 8 PENG! raum für kunst, Mannheim 102 7. Stock, Dresden 10 petersburg project space, Amsterdam 104 91mQ art project space, Berlin 12 Piramid Art Center, Istanbul 106 A Certain Lack of Coherence, Porto 14 Plan 9, Bristol 108 Artist Studios South Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv 16 Platform, Vaasa 110 Art Laboratory Berlin, Berlin 18 Prima Center Berlin, Berlin 112 Art Pavilion, Podgorica 20 Produzentengalerie M, Potsdam 114 a Sala, Porto 22 Produzentengalerie Passau, Passau 116 arttransponder, Berlin 24 Pryzmat Gallery, Cracow 118 Cargobar, Basel 26 Rael Artel Gallery, Tartu 120 CirkulationsCentralen, Malmö 28 Remont Gallery, Belgrade 122 Cultural Center ‘CK’, Skopje 30 rosalux, Berlin 124 Dada Post, Berlin 32 Senko Studio, Viborg 126 D.I.V.O. Institute, Kolin 34 Spanien 19C, Aarhus 128 EINSTELLUNGSRAUM e.V., Hamburg 36 Sparwasser HQ, Berlin 130 Exhibition Centre Constantin Brâncusi, Chisinau 38 Stapelhaus, Cologne 132 FIT–freie internationale tankstelle, Berlin 40 START ART, Reykjavik 134 Formverk, Eskilstuna 42 Stedefreund, Berlin 136 Galleri 69, Oslo 44 Studio 44, Stockholm 138 Galleria Espoonsilta, Espoo 46 Substitut, Berlin 140 Gallery of the Slovak Union of Visual Arts, Bratislava Trottoir, Hamburg 142 48 Unten Drunter, Malmö 144 Gallery Titanik, Turku 50 UNWETTER, Berlin 146 Guestroom, London 52 uqbar, Berlin 148 Hafriyat Karaköy, Istanbul 54 Verkligheten, Umeå 150 Heidelberger Forum für Kunst, Heidelberg 56 video tank, Zurich 152 Het Rondeel, Maastricht 58 Visite ma tente, Berlin 154 Hobusepea Galerii, Tallinn 60 The White Tube, Oslo 156 IDEE 01239 e.V., Dresden 62 :mentalKLINIK, Istanbul 158 Immanence, Paris 64 Networks of artist-run initiatives presented IMPEX, Budapest 66 at ART SWAP EUROPE 161 JET, Berlin 68 K2 Contemporary Art Center, Izmir 70 Koh-i-noor, Copenhagen 72 Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund 74 Kunstbahnhof Dresden, Dresden 76 Kunst-Imbiss, Hamburg 78 Künstlerforum Bonn, Bonn 80 KUNSTFAKTORProduzentengalerie, Berlin 82 Kunstpflug e.V., Brück 84 Kunstverein GRAZ, Regensburg 86 Lådan / the mobile box, Gothenburg 88 LE (9) BIS, Saint-Etienne 90 Lokal-int, Biel 92 MAD WOMAN IN THE ATTIC, Porto 94 microwesten, Berlin, Munich, Kassel, Oberstdorf 96 montanaberlin, Berlin 98 Oficyna Malarska,Warsaw 100 7 26cc, Rome 8 a e c e e b 26cc d a. office b. residency space/exhibition space c. main exhibition space d. bathroom e. street accesses N otes 26cc is an independent space for contemporary art PROFILE IN BRIEF that started in 2007, born through the initiative and NAME OF THE GALLERy / the project — 26cc reflections of a group of young artists and curators, Address — Via Castruccio Castracane 26, 28a, with the will to propose and promote contemporary 00176 Rome culture on the basis of sharing, of the discussion of COUNTRy — Italy ideas and paths and of active collaborations with Email — [email protected] other similar institutions throughout Europe. 26cc WEBPage — www.26cc.org organizes and hosts workshops, seminars, lectures, PHONe — +39 0698182991 exhibitions, screenings and events. OPENINg hours — Tuesday – Sat. 4 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. 26cc poses itself as a focal point, at the same time CONTACT PERSON — Gabriele Gaspari as a physical space and as a place for ideas from FOUNDINg year — 2007 where to start paths, links, confrontations and NUMBER OF MEMBERS THAT ARE ARtists — 5 relationships with the most actual contemporary Other members — 3 researches in Italy and, above all, abroad. NUMBER OF ORGANISERS / RESPONSIBLE PERSONS OF During its first season of activities, 26cc has THE EXHIBITION SPace — 8 achieved the important goal of reaching a local FINANCING OF THE GALLERY / THE PROJECTS — visibility which goes far beyond expectations; the Membership fees, self-funding, sponsors public joined our program, which included two WHO IS RESPONsible for the programme? — A group exhibitions with international artists, several mixed group of 8 people is responsible for the screenings and presentations, as well as two hosted development of the programme, which comes projects (‘nomadSPACE’ and ‘Performatica’) that out of the discussion of urgent topics within made 26cc one of the most active places in Rome contemporary culture for the proposal of contemporary arts and artists WHAT KIND OF EVENTS ARE USUALLY ORGANISED? — during 2008. Our first project has been an exhibition, the second Our second season will have a different character, one was developed as a series of articulations: A focusing on international cooperation and workshop, several meetings and presentations, a exchange, with projects that will encourage and documentation platform and, again, an exhibition. lit a dialogue between Rome and other European We plan to organize further meetings in order cities which is yet to be improved in terms of to develope a network with independent spaces concrete collaborations. The concern of our abroad, also in the perspective of a small residency project is to encourage the movement of people program that we plan to start in autumn 2008 and ideas throughout the European panorama THEMATIC FOCUS AND ARTISTIC APPROACHES — of non-profit and independent spaces, and this The first project (the opening exhibition, titled character will reflect on next year’s program, which ‘payattentionplease’) aimed at a reconsideration will include a residency program for young foreign of the spectacular, playing a perceptive relation artists, a forum of European organizations, as between the works and the viewer as a matter well as the creation of a web platform for arts and of attention and time. The second project (titled communications. This, we believe, can be a way to ‘Sensitive Timelines’) was aimed at an analysis of develop ideas and common grounds that would the use of different narrative structures among allow 26cc to act on a European level, starting artistic productions, focusing on the works by artists the construction of a network of various other that combine different registers and approaches organizations. to one medium and to narration itself. We have also developed a documentation platform with materials from different areas such as cinema, theatre, sound and writing, to show the same topics from different points of view NUMBER OF EXHIBITIONS PER ANNum — 5 AVERAGE DURATION OF THE EXHIBITIONs — 45 days NUMBER OF OTHER EVENTS PER ANNum — 6 and more COUNTRIES YOUR ORGANISATION IS COOPERATING With — Germany, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Romania 9 7. Stock, Dresden Notes 10 ‘In the beginning there was the Table. Four tables PROFILE IN BRIEF forming a long board, crossing the room. Chairs, NAME OF THE GALLERy / the project — 7. Stock armchairs and benches all the way around. A table address — Wilsdruffer Str. 3, 01069 Dresden to sit at and talk, to dance on, to give a speech. COUNTRy — Germany Then, the first visitors came. Sometimes ten guests Email — [email protected] were arriving, sometimes one hundred, sometimes WEBPage — www.stock7.de we stayed on our own.’ (Jenny Krist) FOUNDINg year — 2003 NUMBER OF MEMBERS THAT ARE ARtists — About 10 Our artist initiative 7. Stock was founded in 2003 FINANCING OF THE GALLERy / the projects — Public by a group of young artists and scientists in funding the historic city centre of Dresden. We run and WHAT KIND OF EVENTS ARE USUALLY ORGANISED? organise a program of weekly artist talks, lectures, — Artist talks, lectures, discussions, workshops, workshops, performances and meetings dealing (sound-) performances, etc. in the fields of visual with all kinds of art and science. We try to be an arts, sound art, film, dance, poetry and various open project space with low or no borders between sciences speakers/artists/performers, the audience and THEMATIC FOCUS AND ARtistic approaches — 7. us. In general we try to offer space and time to Stock does not have any thematic focus or the every action somebody is planning, if we think it is like, but we have a row of social principles, e.g. relevant to be presented and discussed in a ‘public’ no entrance fee, no borders between guests, situation. We do not take entrance fee, our events audience and the organisers. We are interested in are for free. 7. Stock means ‘7th floor’ in German. real exchange and constructive discussions about The place we are running includes two more floors artistic questions, since we think it happens too with studios that are mainly used by the organisers. little in our lonesome working conditions NUMBER OF OTHER EVENTS PER ANNum — About 50 We see ourselves as local intersection in the COUNTRIES YOUR ORGANISATION IS COOPERATING alternative European artist network. In 2007 we With — We usually cooperate with people not with ran an international residency program, where a countries number of artists from several European countries, as well as Israel and Japan, took part.