An interview about performance series created by the Israeli-born Ariel Aspell and Rachel Libeskind

To mark the end of the Jewish festival of Shavuot, which is also known as the Jewish harvest festival, Rachel Libeskind was interviewed by Deutschland Funk.

Schawuot als Performance: Interview mit der Künstlerin Rachel Libeskind

The word “Shavu’ot” actually has a broader meaning than just harvest, as it also commemorates the renewed reception of the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. Artists have been dealing with this festival for seven weeks, and not by chance, because during these seven weeks, the Omer Count takes place.

Seven weeks are counted between the two spring festivals of Passover and Shavu’ot.

In the week of the Jewish Holiday Shavu’ot, and as the grand finale to the Omer Count program, Ariel Efraim Ashbel and Rachel Libeskind presented an event inspired by the medieval tradition of “the Tikkun”. Hebrew for “amending” or “correcting”, it describes in the context of this holiday the tradition of studying the Torah for a whole night.

In this night-long-happening, they discussed this holy day, study, play music, make images and host guests. Thoughts, bodies, traditions, images and sounds, artists and guests created a tapestry of emerging performative contemplations.

wildpalms depicted for its participation in Arte Santander.

A mention of wildpalms’ participation at the Santander Art Fair, Arte Santander, was published in S Moda, from the prestigious Spanish newspaper El País.
The article mentions the work of Canadian artist Nika Fontaine, “Dissolution”, as well as showing an image of this piece.
wildpalms is happy to participate in the fair with Mauricio Limón de León and Nika Fontaine.

Arte Santander starts on July 12 and ends on July 16.
It’s at the Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos

C/ Real Racing Club, 3, 39005 Santander, Cantabria, Spanien

Booth #3.

Many thanks to all the ARTESANTANDER Team and Mónica Álvarez Careaga.

Guided by the mission of supporting a broader artistic ecosystem, ARTESANTANDER offers an inclusive platform to discover contemporary art and prioritizes collaboration, both institutional and private, in every aspect of the fair.
The participating galleries are selected for their curatorial risk and international outreach, creating an interesting and diverse panorama of current art. ARTESANTANDER works to make contemporary art collecting more accessible to new audiences and promotes a responsible culture that amplifies underrepresented voices.
Through critical educational programming, ARTESANTANDER attracts contemporary art collectors, curators, historians, amateurs and students. The fair carefully considers the context in which it takes place, ensuring the presence of Cantabria’s art galleries, as well as the local public.
ARTESANTANDER’s design seeks to reduce its environmental impact, guaranteeing the circulation of materials.

Felipe Castelblanco in Museo de la República

Opening June 22nd in Bogota.

More infos here

Territorios de agua / Cartografías del invisible is an exhibition by artist and researcher Felipe Castelblanco, organized by the Instituto Distrital de las Artes – Idartes through its Art, Science and Technology Line, in alliance with the Banco de la República, which will take over the El Parqueadero space of the Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia – MAMU between June 22 and July 20.

This project focuses on a corridor of biodiversity, multiculturalism and spirituality that connects sacred territories of the Siona, Inga, Kamnësnta and Quillasinga peoples, and covers the ascent of the Putumayo River from the lower Amazon to one of its sources in the Cocha Lagoon, in the department of Nariño, revealing the journey of water along altitudinal zones in the Andean-Amazonian region of southeastern Colombia.

Mario Asef & Kristin Burckhardt in SHELTER-BONE at HAUNT/Frontviews  with guest artists Burger-Bugge from May 24 – June 22, 2024 brings together multi-media works around “shelter” to ask how large-scale narratives affect the most intimate.

Mario Asef in The other animals with Andrea Hartinger and Evgenija Wassilew, from May 4, 2024 until June 23, 2024 at the Kunstverein Neukölln is showing a three-part exhibition series that deals with the cultural perception of the animal world in the context of urbanity and fable. The latter has a cross-cultural, historical and enduring place in literature.

Podcast: Art of the Americas launches a new series “En Todos Lados se cuecen Habas” with Roberto Uribe. A look from the Latin American artistic diaspora to current issues of arts and culture.

In this first series we will reflect on censorship for the visual arts.

Mauricio Limon performance is part of performance festival ROOMS, in Rotterdam.

Created by Marres, VIA ZUID, de Brakke Grond, Dansateliers en FASHIONCLASH

Young makers and established talents offer performance, theater, visual arts, dance, fashion and music. A weekend during which fragile dresses bring colorful stained glass to life, where conductor’s bodies turn into living scores, manuscripts get dictated and a shoe merchant brings you along into absurdist power relations

Line up:
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Merette van Hijfte & Pleuni Veen
Kinga Jaczewska
Mauricio Limon
David Maroto
Genevieve Murphy
Ika Schwander in collaboration with Fran Hayes

27 & 28 January 2024
01 – 06 PM
Location: Marres, Maastricht

Mario Asef participates in Anima Mundi #3 in Bartosz Nowak (Municipal Art Center). Poland

ANIMA MUNDI is a pan-European project based on collaboration and exchange in the field of sound art and sound performance, addressing issues of environmental change, ecology and sustainability. The specificity of sound art practices lies in its strong connection with the environment. Sound artists are particularly concerned with issues of space and its conditions, and since they often make recordings and field actions in nature, urban environments or in relation to architecture, their practice is strongly relational. These themes are reflected in ANIMA MUNDI’s focus on the multiple and diverse relationships between human and non-human beings and things, and between them and their environment. Dealing with human and non-human interactions and shaping a shared perception of space through sound, a new sensitivity and attentiveness to the matter of life is created through sonic, multisensory and multisensory experiences that become a starting point for a deeper understanding of our coexistence and entanglements with the world.

ANIMA MUNDI #3 is an exhibition featuring audiovisual and multi-channel sound installations, sound sculptures and sound performances by artists from Berlin associated with Errant Sound gallery and from Ireland associated with Farpoint Recordings. The individual works allow viewers to experience the transformation of matter, material and our environment, and allow them to travel to different places, landscapes and situations of human interactions.

Exhibition opening October 28, 2023, 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Exhibition open until 3.12.2023

performers: Mario Asef and Steffi Weismann

curators and producers: Janine Eisenächer (Errant Sound), Bartosz Nowak (Municipal Art Center) and Natalie Krekhno

artprice.com, french leading auction data and pricing company in the art market, has just released a report on Latin American Art.

The report mentions Pablo Leon de La Barra, Guggenheims curator and gallery personal friend who has seen works made by Jason Duval, Karen Paulina Biswell, and Felipe Castelblanco.

“Work initiated approximately ten years ago by the New York’s Guggenheim Museum is a perfect example: in 2013, its Mexican-born curator, Pablo León de la Barra, was hired by the Guggenheim as an expert on Latin American art. One of his missions has been to identify LatAm artists whose works are apt to be included in the museum’s permanent collections. Other prestigious museums have taken similar paths: the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Tate Modern in London and the MoMA in New York have all made considerable efforts to research and collect Latin American art, sometimes via specialized acquisition funds like the MoMA’s Latin American and Caribbean Fund.co. “Work initiated approximately ten years ago by the New York’s Guggenheim Museum is a perfect example: in 2013, its Mexican-born curator, Pablo León de la Barra, was hired by the Guggenheim as an expert on Latin American art. One of his missions has been to identify LatAm artists whose works are apt to be included in the museum’s permanent collections. Other prestigious museums have taken similar paths: the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Tate Modern in London and the MoMA in New York have all made considerable efforts to research and collect Latin American art, sometimes via specialized acquisition funds like the MoMA’s Latin American and Caribbean Fund.co. “

The report on Latin American Art emphasizes two very interesting aspects. The representation of female artists in the Latin American top 100 is 3 times higher than in the world top 100. And figures not known by the majority of the public have a high turnover.