Wednesday, 14 September 2016

LAST CHANCE TO ENTER FOR $100,000 FUTURE GENERATION ART PRIZE





•Exhibition announced at Venice Biennale



The closing date for entries for the fourth edition of the Future Generation Art Prize with a value of US$100,000 is extended until midnight on Sunday 2 October 2016, to give all young artists the chance to participate.



Entries can be submitted online at www.futuregenerationartprize.org



An exhibition of the work of the shortlisted artists will go on show in Kiev from February to April 2017and will be presented internationally as an official collateral event at the Venice Biennale, opening on Wednesday 10 May 2017.



All artists up to the age of 35 of all backgrounds, working in any medium, anywhere in the world are encouraged to apply. Supporting the application process, more than 600 correspondents all over the world will be nominating artists for the prize and over 50 Partner Platforms worldwide will be ambassadors for the Future Generation Art Prize to encourage artists within their regions to apply.



The main prize will be awarded by an international jury in the amount of US$ 100,000, split between $60,000 in cash and $40,000 investment in the production of a new work. In addition US$ 20,000 will be awarded to up to five Special Prize winners, nominated by the Jury. A Public Choice winner will be selected through online voting and announced at the Award Ceremony.



The pioneering Future Generation Art Prize established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in 2009 is a worldwide contemporary art prize created to discover, recognise and give long-term support to a future generation of artists. Judged by a distinguished jury, The Prize aims to make a major contribution to the careers of younger artists involved in the dynamic cultural development of societies in transition, many of whom have found it difficult to get their voices heard. The competition is open to all artists up to the age of 35 of all backgrounds, working in any medium, anywhere in the world. 



Press Enquiries: Jane Quinn/Dennis Chang, Bolton & Quinn +44 (0) 20 7221 5000

jq@boltonquinn.com or dennis@boltonquinn.com

Sunday, 28 August 2016

Calling all talented young Artists...


 You could win $100k to boost your Art career! Apply for the #FutureGenerationArtPrize
Deadline September 2016
 click here for more info: http://bit.ly/1UoAhu5

Sunday, 8 May 2016

Online collaboration opportunity with London-based collective They Are Here



Are you Interested in paid work as a ghostwriter for two fictional characters?

We are looking for Lagos-based artists, writers, photographers and social media enthusiasts to be ghostwriters for an ongoing art project.

You would be working across Facebook, Twitter & Tumblr, creating content as a fictional character.

If you are interested, please email 200 words about yourself and why you would like to take part, plus a photograph that conveys a personal take on Lagos.

This project is organised by artists Harun Morrison & Helen Walker, who collaborate as They Are Here (www.theyarehere.net)



Please email contact ( at ) theyarehere.net by 5 June 2016 to be considered

This project is kindly supported by the British Council UK / Nigeria season 2015 – 2016, VAN Lagos & Project Space Lagos.

Wednesday, 9 December 2015

Black Tears showing on Thursday 10th December at AWCA's Big 60 2015




Why is she crying?

Black Tears invites you to cross from the public to personal by displaying intimate moments of despair, pain, truth, and triumph openly through the use of highly performative video shorts. Black Tears is an undoing series by Tito Aderemi-Ibitola.

Igbeyawo- video short

Ko Si Nkan Kan -video short

Bolatito- video short

Oro- Performance | Live shoot 

 

Saturday, 21 November 2015

Watch Yourself opens Sunday 22nd October at Rele Gallery



Please join us for the opening of Watch Yourself from 2pm Sunday 22nd November

Watch Yourself
Rachel Maclean, Jack Saunders, Dominic Watson, Zoe Williams

Curated by David Dale Gallery
22.11.15 – 29.11.15

Rele Gallery
5 Military Street
Onikan, Lagos
Nigeria

David Dale Gallery, in partnership with Video Art Network Lagos, are delighted to present Watch Yourself, a multi-channel video installation of work by UK based artists Rachel Maclean, Jack Saunders, Dominic Watson & Zoe Williams. Presented as part of the British Council’s UK/ Nigeria 2015-16 seasonWatch Yourself is the second in a series of collaborations between David Dale Gallery and Video Art Network Lagos.

The organisations first collaborated when David Dale Gallery invited Video Art Network Lagos, alongside five other international organisations, to participate in International Artist Initiated, a project devised as part of Festival 2014, the cultural programme of the XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Working with artist initiated, or focussed, organisations from across the six Commonwealth territories, the programme consisted of a series of exhibitions and events by the invited organisations that responded to either the context of the Commonwealth Games within Glasgow, or was representative or indicative of contemporary culture within their nation through the lens of an artist-led organisation. Taking place over multiple venues in Glasgow’s east end, International Artist Initiated incorporated visual art exhibitions, public art, events, performance and publications as a celebration of the diversity of self-organised cultural practice internationally.

Video Art Network Lagos’ contribution was titled Owambe, a colloquial expression for a party where the who-is-who in the Nigerian society are in attendance. Watch Yourself is developed as a sequel to the project’s initial iteration in Glasgow, and is presented in similar terms as a glimpse of contemporary culture within UK and artists’ representations of this. The exhibition brings together artists working within culture directed by the online totality of media. Characterised by the hyper – personal, subjective, seductive or aesthetic – the artists work within forms now defined by the multiplicity of online video production, and the half truths jostling for attention that the commodification of moving image has necessitated. Merging humour, vanity and seduction, an undercurrent of dark anxiety permeates all the works, questioning the depth of a surface orientated culture.

Monday, 19 October 2015

TVE Lagos Edition!!!


Working between the Caribbean, Africa and Aotearoa, Transoceanic Visual Exchange (TVE) aims to negotiate the in-between space of our cultural communities outside of traditional geo-political zones of encounter and trade. Featuring screenings, installations and expanded cinema – by contemporary artists across Barbados, Auckland and Lagos.

The three spaces involved – Fresh Milk, VAN Lagos and RM

The exhibition will run daily from 25th-31st October at New 3 Old 6, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos Nigeria,

Screening times: 12-5pm

Artists:

Darcell Apelu
Rebecca Ann Hobbs
Sonya Lacey
John Vea
David Gumbs
Versia Harris
Katherine Kennedy
Nicholas Whittle / Alberta Whittle
Tito Aderemi-Ibitola
Nkechi Ebubedike.
Mohamad ElWassify
Lambert Mousseka
Diana Kamara
Akwaeke Emezi
Ayiba-Tare Raine

Opening Reception Sunday 25th October 3pm


Wahala Dey