Visiting artists in Denmark
In collaboration with the Danish Arts Council artist-in-residence-program,
DIVA
(Danish International Visual Art Exchange
Program), Copenhagen city's
CPH AIR
(Copenhagen Artist in Residence) and
S.A.I.R
(S�lyst Artist in Residence), U-turn has invited several significant foreign artists to stay and work in Denmark. Among other
things, the artists will work on projects to be exhibited at U-TURN quadrennial for contemporary art in fall 2008.
Upcoming Residencies
K�ken Ergun (TR)
April - Juni 2008 (S.A.I.R)
April - Juni 2008 (S.A.I.R)
Roi Vaara (FI)
August-September 2008 (S.A.I.R)
August-September 2008 (S.A.I.R)
Jan Mancuska (SK/CZ)
1. August - 15. September (CPH AIR)
1. August - 15. September (CPH AIR)
Former Residencies
What is to be done?
In October and November 2007, the artists Dmitry Vilensky, Olga Egorova and Nikolay Oleynikov of the aforementioned Russian art collective 'Chto delat?'('What's to be done?') will be in residence
in Copenhagen (
CPH AIR
).
The collective, which produces a bilingual newspaper (Russian/English) of the same name, has garnered international attention by being both significant and precise in their treatment of important themes and topics in contemporary art discourse.
They present multiple perspectives concerning questions that sometimes appear in the context of varied attempts at building bridges between the Russian and other national art scenes; questions as to how the Russian society and the intellectual milieu as well as the Russian art scene might proceed after the fall of communism, or how to cultivate an art scene, a network and a discourse from below.
Individual issues of of Chto delat? commonly revolve around a question. These have included: how do we define a community today?; where can we produce art/ where can we find space to freely express ourselves?; how can we interpret the term, 'international' today?; how can we define the 'political' field in comparison to the 'artistic'?, and how are we to understand political melancholy?
Chto Delat? has been participating in many international exhibitions as well as publishing projects like Documenta 12 magazine and MUTE magazine. They are also engaged in a broad variety of social and political initiatives such as European and Russian Social Forum (Chto delat? has been responsible for organising a cultural program for Russian Social Forum since its is very beginning in 2005) and they work in co-operation with different activist groups in Russia and abroad.
During their residency, the collective will focus on a context-specific work investigating the relationship between Scandinavia and Russia, through examining the Scandinavian phenomenon 'Next-Stop Sovjet' and the time in Russia during the 'Perestroika' reforms.
The collective, which produces a bilingual newspaper (Russian/English) of the same name, has garnered international attention by being both significant and precise in their treatment of important themes and topics in contemporary art discourse.
They present multiple perspectives concerning questions that sometimes appear in the context of varied attempts at building bridges between the Russian and other national art scenes; questions as to how the Russian society and the intellectual milieu as well as the Russian art scene might proceed after the fall of communism, or how to cultivate an art scene, a network and a discourse from below.
Individual issues of of Chto delat? commonly revolve around a question. These have included: how do we define a community today?; where can we produce art/ where can we find space to freely express ourselves?; how can we interpret the term, 'international' today?; how can we define the 'political' field in comparison to the 'artistic'?, and how are we to understand political melancholy?
Chto Delat? has been participating in many international exhibitions as well as publishing projects like Documenta 12 magazine and MUTE magazine. They are also engaged in a broad variety of social and political initiatives such as European and Russian Social Forum (Chto delat? has been responsible for organising a cultural program for Russian Social Forum since its is very beginning in 2005) and they work in co-operation with different activist groups in Russia and abroad.
During their residency, the collective will focus on a context-specific work investigating the relationship between Scandinavia and Russia, through examining the Scandinavian phenomenon 'Next-Stop Sovjet' and the time in Russia during the 'Perestroika' reforms.
Works by Chto delat?/What is to be done?
Nevin Aladag
From February to May 2007, the Turkish/German artist Nevin Aladag (1972) was in residence in Copenhagen (
DIVA
). Aladag, a graduate of the Akademie
der Bildenden K�nste M�nchen, now lives in Berlin.
A product of the Turkish diaspora, cultural identity among young immigrants is one reoccurring themes in her artistic practise. She has often worked with young people of a similar background in her local environment in Munich, and later, in Berlin.
In the past Aladag has worked with photography, video, installation, drapery, t-shirts, graphic prints and other mediums. In general, her work stresses the importance of non-verbal communication, focusing on picturation, gesturality and other signifiers either directly or metaphorically indicative and communicative of the complex process of building an identity when one occupies the margin between two cultures.
A product of the Turkish diaspora, cultural identity among young immigrants is one reoccurring themes in her artistic practise. She has often worked with young people of a similar background in her local environment in Munich, and later, in Berlin.
In the past Aladag has worked with photography, video, installation, drapery, t-shirts, graphic prints and other mediums. In general, her work stresses the importance of non-verbal communication, focusing on picturation, gesturality and other signifiers either directly or metaphorically indicative and communicative of the complex process of building an identity when one occupies the margin between two cultures.