Thursday, 21 February 2013
Wednesday, 26 December 2012
Puma Peace Screening 28th December 2012 at Freedom Park Lagos
Video Art Network, Lagos
in the spirit of the Season invites you to
28 December 2012
7pm – 10pm
The Amphitheatre,
Freedom Park, Lagos Island, Nigeria
films4peace, curated by Mark Coetzee, is an annual film commission by PUMA.Peace, featuring 21 of today’s most innovative artists visually interpreting the subject of peace.
films4peace is organized by Video Art Network, Lagos in collaboration with Uzora Projects and The Life House, Lagos
films4peace features the following:
Janet Biggs (USA)
Ergin Cavuşoğlu (Bulgaria)
Magali Charrier (France)
Gregory Crewdson and Costanza Theodoli-Braschi (USA and UK)
Yang Fudong (China)
Tom Gran and Kayleigh Gibbons (UK)
Max Hattler (Germany)
Isaac Julien (UK)
Peterson Kamwathi (Kenya)
Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy (Ireland)
Nandipha Mntambo (Swaziland)
Michael Nyman (UK)
Noriko Okaku (Japan)
Jacco Olivier (Netherlands)
Bill Porter (UK)
Levi van Veluw (Netherlands)
Hank Willis Thomas and Terence Nance (USA)
films4peace.com, www.vanlagos.org, www.freedomparklagos.com, www.uzoraprojects.com
For more information please call +234 7055680104
VAN LAGOS KINDLY REQUESTS YOU COME WITH ONE ITEM THAT SYMBOLISES PEACE TO YOU TO THE SCREENING!
Thursday, 8 November 2012
Afrika Eye Film Festival- The Moving Image
The first ever virtual continental collaborative Afrika Eye Film Festival Discussion Friday 9th November 2012 evening at iHub with African Interactive, Bristol UK, all on Film and Digital Media The theme is "The Moving Image"
The discussion will focus on how the Digital can expand the audience for the African moving image and also explore new forms of film production, funding, distribution models and opportunities on collaborative projects between Kenyan and British film makers. All this will happen in a Unique format-depending on where you are on Friday. The audience will get to interact with both panels in Bristol and in Nairobi's iHub via an intergrated weblink
Panel: iHub, Nairobi 5-7pm
Producer, Director- Bob Nyanja
Producer Director - Wanuri Kahiu
Producer, Director, Writer and Film Legend - John. E. Maina
Moderated by Jenny Muigai aka @skinnyfilmmaker
Panel :- Watershed Theatre, Bristol 2-4pm
Writer, Producer - Andrew Mugoya
Producer, Director - Simon Bright
For more info on the event and bios of the panelist click here > http://afrikaeye.org.uk/2012/
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The discussion will focus on how the Digital can expand the audience for the African moving image and also explore new forms of film production, funding, distribution models and opportunities on collaborative projects between Kenyan and British film makers. All this will happen in a Unique format-depending on where you are on Friday. The audience will get to interact with both panels in Bristol and in Nairobi's iHub via an intergrated weblink
Panel: iHub, Nairobi 5-7pm
Producer, Director- Bob Nyanja
Producer Director - Wanuri Kahiu
Producer, Director, Writer and Film Legend - John. E. Maina
Moderated by Jenny Muigai aka @skinnyfilmmaker
Panel :- Watershed Theatre, Bristol 2-4pm
Writer, Producer - Andrew Mugoya
Producer, Director - Simon Bright
For more info on the event and bios of the panelist click here > http://afrikaeye.org.uk/2012/
(The event is free but space is limited so kindly reserve your place by RSVP to this email).
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Friday, 5 October 2012
ART:SCREEN fest 5-7th October
Please join us in Örebro, Sweden as we lecture and present
Nigerian Video art at art:screen.
5 - 7 October 2012, Örebro, Sweden.
art:screen fest (former Örebro International Videoart Festival) is a festival whose main concept is to invite curators from different video art events and festivals from around the world to curate screening programmes. And to provide an international platform for networking and co-operation possibilities between curators.
This years festival offers 16 screening programmes, 5 video installations and one work-shop run by the Swedish artist couple Stina Pehrsdotter and Niclas Hallberg.
The festival also offers 2 official lectures focusing on artist-run initiatives by VAN Lagos from Nigeria and Wilfried Agricola de Cologne from Germany, which will provide insights into today's world of video art and moving image.
During the festival there will be a Web TV studio run by Christian Immonen and Stefan Bedin, Sweden reporting from the festival activities, that could be follow through a mobile phone, Ipad and PC.
For more information please check the art:screen fest website:
http://www.artscreen.se/fest.
5 - 7 October 2012, Örebro, Sweden.
art:screen fest (former Örebro International Videoart Festival) is a festival whose main concept is to invite curators from different video art events and festivals from around the world to curate screening programmes. And to provide an international platform for networking and co-operation possibilities between curators.
This years festival offers 16 screening programmes, 5 video installations and one work-shop run by the Swedish artist couple Stina Pehrsdotter and Niclas Hallberg.
The festival also offers 2 official lectures focusing on artist-run initiatives by VAN Lagos from Nigeria and Wilfried Agricola de Cologne from Germany, which will provide insights into today's world of video art and moving image.
During the festival there will be a Web TV studio run by Christian Immonen and Stefan Bedin, Sweden reporting from the festival activities, that could be follow through a mobile phone, Ipad and PC.
For more information please check the art:screen fest website:
http://www.artscreen.se/fest.
Friday, 21 September 2012
Motions I Time I Space at the Museum Folkwang
Screening
Azubuike’s Women, get rid of this Monster (2011) focused on women’s physiology and psychology. The video exploring the challenges of fibroids as it affects a woman’s health; her access to health care and the gender bias she faces in her community. Ogunji’s My Father and I Dance in Outer Space (2011) connects the physical and metaphysical, thus reemphasising the Yoruba philosophy that death is not the end of life but rather a transition from one form of existence to another. Loco Metta I Fractual Scapes (2011) by Emeka Ogboh explores the multidimensionality of Lagos a postcolonial cosmopolitan city famous for its beautiful chaos and functional co-existence of traditional past and modern present – seamlessly performed by the city’s multicultural and multi-ethnic population (Lagosians). While Jude Anogwih combined photography, painting an video components in Dystopia (2011) to interpret Nigeria’s changing (eco)system since the discovery of oil ten decades ago.
The video works presented displayed a symbolic and literal as well as obvious and subliminal narrative of Nigerian society. The selection was chosen to provide a point of discourse on video and new media in practices of contemporary art in Africa.
Motions I Time I Space was organised by Video Art Network, Lagos with the kind support from the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos.
Wednesday, 11 April 2012
Future Generation Art Prize Last Call
Last Call for Applications for the Second edition of the $100,000 Future Generation Art Prize
Application submission is closing on May 6, 2012
Application procedure for the second edition of the biannual Future Generation Art Prize, launched by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, is closing on May 6, 2012. Applications available online at the competition’s website: futuregenerationartprize.org
The Prize is open to all artists up to the age of 35 with the aim of acknowledging and giving long-term support to a future generation of artists. The Prize is unique because of its global reach and highly democratic form of application via the Internet.
The artists may apply with their work without any restrictions concerning gender, nationality, race or artistic medium. Participants must fill in all fields of the Application Form and upload a photo or video of between three and seven of their artworks.
Since February 6, 2012, young artists from all continents, living in 97 countries, have applied for the second edition of the Future Generation Art Prize.
More than 50 international non-profit art organizations based in over than 38 countries support outreach to artists around the world as well as 100 correspondents engaging young artists under 35 from wherever they may live and work.
The winner will be announced in December 2012, coinciding with an exhibition of the shortlisted artists at the PinchukArtCentre in Kiev from October 2012 to January 2013.
The Main Prize winner will receive a total of $100,000: $60,000 as a cash award, and $40,000 toward the production of new work. An additional $20,000 will be allocated to fund artist-in-residency programmes for the Special Prize winner.
Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Andreas Gursky and Takashi Murakami are Mentor Artists for the Prize, providing advice and support for the winning artist. Andreas Gursky will present an exhibition of his own works at the PinchukArtCentre parallel to the shortlisted artists exhibition.
The panel of international jurors for the will be announced along with names of 20 artists shortlisted for the Prize in June 2012. Mykyta Kadan, the winner of the national PinchukArtCentre Prize 2011 will also participate, bringing the maximum number of artists in the exhibition to 21.
A distinguished international Board oversees the Future Generation Art Prize. In addition to chairman Victor Pinchuk and the four Mentor Artists, the Board’s membership includes Eli Broad, Dakis Joannou, Elton John, Miuccia Prada and art museum directors Richard Armstrong (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum), Glenn D. Lowry (The Museum of Modern Art), Alfred Pacquement (Musée nationale d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou) and Sir Nicholas Serota (Tate).
Notes to editors:
Timeline of the Prize
Artists may submit applications at www.futuregenerationartprize.org from February 6 to May 6, 2012. The panel of jurors for the 2012 prize will be announced along with names of the artists shortlisted for the Prize.
Following the close of applications, an expert Selection Committee comprised of members chosen by the jury will review all applications and decide on a shortlist of as many as twenty artists, whose names will be announced in June 2012. These artists will participate in the Prize exhibition by showing existing works highlighted in their applications and may also create new works specifically for the PinchukArtCentre. The winner of the national PinchukArtCentre Prize also will participate, bringing the maximum number of artists in the exhibition to 21.
The exhibition will be on view from 27 October 2012 to January 2013. The international jury will gather in Kiev in December 2012 to view and discuss the artists’ works. The jury will select one main Prize winner, who will receive a total of $100,000 ($60,000 as a cash award, and $40,000 toward the production of new work). An additional $20,000 will be allotted to fund artist-in-residency program to the special prize winner. Images of works by all the shortlisted artists will be posted on the PinchukArtCentre website, and members of the public will be invited to vote via the Internet for People’s Choice Prize.
50 Partner Platforms representing more than 38 countries support the application process and the Prize in 2012. It shows how successfully the Prize has extended its global network and range to involve artists from different regions around the world, especially reaching growing regions such as South America, Australia, Africa and Oceania.
Partner Platforms in 2012: www.futuregenerationartprize.org/partner-platforms
Victor Pinchuk
Victor Pinchuk is one of Ukraine’s most successful businessmen, whose role in civic, international affairs and philanthropic organizations has made him a leader in Ukraine’s growing interaction with Europe and the world.
For more than 12 years Mr. Pinchuk has been developing and supporting a number of philanthropic projects in Ukraine. In 2006, he consolidated these activities under the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, making it the largest private Ukrainian philanthropic foundation, known for implementing projects in important fields for social development.
In September 2006, Victor Pinchuk founded the PinchukArtCentre, one of the largest centers for contemporary art in the Eastern Europe. Mr. Pinchuk is a major collector of contemporary art.
Victor Pinchuk Foundation
The Victor Pinchuk Foundation was established in 2006 by Ukrainian businessman and public figure Victor Pinchuk. It is the largest international, private, non-partisan, philanthropic foundation based in Ukraine. Its goal is to empower future generations to become the change makers of tomorrow. To achieve this goal, the Foundation develops projects, builds partnerships in Ukraine and worldwide and invests in three directions:
- Investing in people, to boost human capital;
- Investing in society, to promote social responsibility;
- Investing in the world, to foster a more integrated world.
www.pinchukfund.org
PinchukArtCentre
PinchukArtCentre is the largest and most dynamic private contemporary art centre in Central and Eastern Europe. It is dedicated to fostering artistic education, creation and appreciation in Ukraine. The PinchukArtCentre is a leading international centre for contemporary 21st-century art. It provides a sustainable contribution to the cultural participation and emancipation of Ukrainian art and society. And it gives a significant contribution to the cultural dialogue between East and West, and between national identity and international challenge. Among recent were shown personal exhibitions by Jeff Wall, Gary Hume, Olafur Eliasson, Candice Breitz, Damian Ortega, Sergey Bratkov, Subodh Gupta, Damien Hirst and others.
www.pinchukartcentre.org
Press Enquiries:
Dennis Kazvan
Communications Director,
Victor Pinchuk Foundation
Email: press@pinchukartcentre.org
Tel: +380 44 4941148
General Enquiries:
Björn Geldhof
Artistic Manager, PinchukArtCentre
Email: bjorn.geldhof@gmail.com
Tel: +380 67 230 26 50
Application submission is closing on May 6, 2012
Application procedure for the second edition of the biannual Future Generation Art Prize, launched by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, is closing on May 6, 2012. Applications available online at the competition’s website: futuregenerationartprize.org
The Prize is open to all artists up to the age of 35 with the aim of acknowledging and giving long-term support to a future generation of artists. The Prize is unique because of its global reach and highly democratic form of application via the Internet.
The artists may apply with their work without any restrictions concerning gender, nationality, race or artistic medium. Participants must fill in all fields of the Application Form and upload a photo or video of between three and seven of their artworks.
Since February 6, 2012, young artists from all continents, living in 97 countries, have applied for the second edition of the Future Generation Art Prize.
More than 50 international non-profit art organizations based in over than 38 countries support outreach to artists around the world as well as 100 correspondents engaging young artists under 35 from wherever they may live and work.
The winner will be announced in December 2012, coinciding with an exhibition of the shortlisted artists at the PinchukArtCentre in Kiev from October 2012 to January 2013.
The Main Prize winner will receive a total of $100,000: $60,000 as a cash award, and $40,000 toward the production of new work. An additional $20,000 will be allocated to fund artist-in-residency programmes for the Special Prize winner.
Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Andreas Gursky and Takashi Murakami are Mentor Artists for the Prize, providing advice and support for the winning artist. Andreas Gursky will present an exhibition of his own works at the PinchukArtCentre parallel to the shortlisted artists exhibition.
The panel of international jurors for the will be announced along with names of 20 artists shortlisted for the Prize in June 2012. Mykyta Kadan, the winner of the national PinchukArtCentre Prize 2011 will also participate, bringing the maximum number of artists in the exhibition to 21.
A distinguished international Board oversees the Future Generation Art Prize. In addition to chairman Victor Pinchuk and the four Mentor Artists, the Board’s membership includes Eli Broad, Dakis Joannou, Elton John, Miuccia Prada and art museum directors Richard Armstrong (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum), Glenn D. Lowry (The Museum of Modern Art), Alfred Pacquement (Musée nationale d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou) and Sir Nicholas Serota (Tate).
Notes to editors:
Timeline of the Prize
Artists may submit applications at www.futuregenerationartprize.org from February 6 to May 6, 2012. The panel of jurors for the 2012 prize will be announced along with names of the artists shortlisted for the Prize.
Following the close of applications, an expert Selection Committee comprised of members chosen by the jury will review all applications and decide on a shortlist of as many as twenty artists, whose names will be announced in June 2012. These artists will participate in the Prize exhibition by showing existing works highlighted in their applications and may also create new works specifically for the PinchukArtCentre. The winner of the national PinchukArtCentre Prize also will participate, bringing the maximum number of artists in the exhibition to 21.
The exhibition will be on view from 27 October 2012 to January 2013. The international jury will gather in Kiev in December 2012 to view and discuss the artists’ works. The jury will select one main Prize winner, who will receive a total of $100,000 ($60,000 as a cash award, and $40,000 toward the production of new work). An additional $20,000 will be allotted to fund artist-in-residency program to the special prize winner. Images of works by all the shortlisted artists will be posted on the PinchukArtCentre website, and members of the public will be invited to vote via the Internet for People’s Choice Prize.
50 Partner Platforms representing more than 38 countries support the application process and the Prize in 2012. It shows how successfully the Prize has extended its global network and range to involve artists from different regions around the world, especially reaching growing regions such as South America, Australia, Africa and Oceania.
Partner Platforms in 2012: www.futuregenerationartprize.org/partner-platforms
Victor Pinchuk
Victor Pinchuk is one of Ukraine’s most successful businessmen, whose role in civic, international affairs and philanthropic organizations has made him a leader in Ukraine’s growing interaction with Europe and the world.
For more than 12 years Mr. Pinchuk has been developing and supporting a number of philanthropic projects in Ukraine. In 2006, he consolidated these activities under the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, making it the largest private Ukrainian philanthropic foundation, known for implementing projects in important fields for social development.
In September 2006, Victor Pinchuk founded the PinchukArtCentre, one of the largest centers for contemporary art in the Eastern Europe. Mr. Pinchuk is a major collector of contemporary art.
Victor Pinchuk Foundation
The Victor Pinchuk Foundation was established in 2006 by Ukrainian businessman and public figure Victor Pinchuk. It is the largest international, private, non-partisan, philanthropic foundation based in Ukraine. Its goal is to empower future generations to become the change makers of tomorrow. To achieve this goal, the Foundation develops projects, builds partnerships in Ukraine and worldwide and invests in three directions:
- Investing in people, to boost human capital;
- Investing in society, to promote social responsibility;
- Investing in the world, to foster a more integrated world.
www.pinchukfund.org
PinchukArtCentre
PinchukArtCentre is the largest and most dynamic private contemporary art centre in Central and Eastern Europe. It is dedicated to fostering artistic education, creation and appreciation in Ukraine. The PinchukArtCentre is a leading international centre for contemporary 21st-century art. It provides a sustainable contribution to the cultural participation and emancipation of Ukrainian art and society. And it gives a significant contribution to the cultural dialogue between East and West, and between national identity and international challenge. Among recent were shown personal exhibitions by Jeff Wall, Gary Hume, Olafur Eliasson, Candice Breitz, Damian Ortega, Sergey Bratkov, Subodh Gupta, Damien Hirst and others.
www.pinchukartcentre.org
Press Enquiries:
Dennis Kazvan
Communications Director,
Victor Pinchuk Foundation
Email: press@pinchukartcentre.org
Tel: +380 44 4941148
General Enquiries:
Björn Geldhof
Artistic Manager, PinchukArtCentre
Email: bjorn.geldhof@gmail.com
Tel: +380 67 230 26 50
Friday, 2 March 2012
Future Generation Art Prize
The Future Generation Art Prize established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation is a worldwide contemporary art prize to discover, recognize and give long-term support to a future generation of artists. The Prize will be a major contribution to the open participation of younger artists in the dynamic cultural development of societies in global transition.
The Prize is an innovative new international award for artists up to 35 years of age, investing in the artistic development and new production of works. Awarded through a competition, judged by a distinguished jury, the Prize is founded on the idea of generosity, a network of outstanding patron artists and institutional partners, and a highly democratic application procedure.
After the great success of the first edition, which culminated with an internationally acclaimed exhibition in Venice during the 2011 Venice Biennale, we are pleased to launch the second edition of the prize, which will conclude with an exhibition in Kiev at the end of 2012.
The Future Generation Art Prize 2010 received over 6,000 applications from over 135 countries, and this past summer its 21 shortlisted artists participated in a special exhibition at the 54th Venice Biennale. The winner was Brazilian artist Cinthia Marcelle, who was awarded with a $100,000 prize. The exhibition included 21 finalists, among whom were Fikret Atay (Turkey), Cao Fei (China), Keren Cytter (Israel), Nicholas Hlobo (South Africa), and Hector Zamora (Mexico).
Since it was founded, the Future Generation Art Prize has successfully established an exciting platform for global contemporary art. Artists around the world under the age of 35 may enter the competition The 2012 application will be open for three months online: 6 February – 6 May 2012.
After the application period, the Selection Committee will shortlist twenty artists for an exhibition at the PinchukArtCentre in Kiev, which will be judged by an International Jury. The Jury will then award one main prize of $100,000.
For more information and to apply: http://futuregenerationartprize.org
VAN,Lagos and CCA,Lagos are Platform Partners for the Future Generation Art Prize
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