15 Up-and-Coming Canadian Artists You Need to Keep Your Eye On
and we agree!
Nika is a highly talented, engaged, diligent and fierce artist.
We are excited about our upcoming projects with her.
to read more click:
http://notable.ca/15-up-and-coming-canadian-artists-you-need-to-keep-your-eye-on/
We are very proud to announce that
won an honourable second place at the RBC Painting Competition in Canada
for her work “Schnell schnell 17”!!
Initiated in 1999, the RBC Canadian Painting Competition counts as
the most relevant Art Prize for emerging artists in Canada.
We are excited about Nika’s future and our upcoming projects together.
Nika is going to be part of the Royal Bank of Canada Collection and as part of the competition, she is being exhibited throughout Canada.
http://canadianart.ca/news/rbc-canadian-painting-competition-2016-winner/
Her next solo show in Canada, will be opening October 24th in Montreal.
Additionally, Nika will be part of the Trans Time group exhibition opening oening October 6th in Paris.
It is great how Nika is actively supporting to not only increase the general awareness of this scene, but also filters out its beauty and transfers it in a way that becomes relatable and approachable for outsiders.
We are excited about
being part of the wonderful group exhibition at errant sound showing fragments of “Three Anachronisms”.
Opening today:
Tue 13.9. – So 18.9. 17:00 – 20:00, and Friday 16.9.: 13:00 – 16:00
“This year ‘Errant Sound – Project Space Berlin’ (formerly ‘Errant Bodies’) is awarded with the Project Space Award by the Senat of Berlin. Errant Sound group show works centering around sound matters and sound materialism, hereby also reflecting upon the way in which economic issues may arrest or fire the free imagination of the project space ethos.”
Works by: Mario Asef, Alessandra Eramo, Peter Cusack, Georg Klein, Brandon LaBelle, Thom Kubli (with Jo-ey Tang), Ines Lechleitner, Laura Mello, Jutta Ravenna, Kirsten Reese, Antje Vowinckel, Jeremy Woodruff
Performance Program
Thu 15.9. 20:00 with: Alessandra Eramo + Ines Lechleitner, Kirsten Reese, Antje Vowinckel, Jeremy Woodruff, Peter Cusack
www.berlinartweek.de/de/programm
Place: Errant Sound (Errant Bodies), Kollwitzstr. 97, 10435 Berlin
Award Ceremony
Friday 16.9. 2016 : Bar Babette, Karl-Marx-Allee 36, 10178 Berlin
17:30 : Talk with Chr. Kobald, Prof. Heinz Bude, Wibke Behrens, Lou Favorite, Anne Katrin Stork
19:30 : Award ceremony for project spaces and -initiatives moderate by Tim Renner (Kulturstaatssekretär)
21:00 : Project Space Party and performances
NIKA FONTAINE is currently showing at the Fashion Clinic in Düsseldorf.
The Wald bei Nacht series is a romantic expression and celebration of life.
The Northern nocturne forests stand opposite to the starry sky.
Both, the forest and the sky, contain an infinity of singularities that in its mass create a whole – which in our minds exists as a defined concept.
The glitter particles not only recreate the illusion of the stars, but they as well pixelate the image to a degree that ones eye looses any point of reference or spacial perspective. Instead, the picture reminds a divine matrix.
until November at Fashion Clinic
Grünstr. 5
40212 Düsseldorf
I walked in the forest last night.
Wanting to understand beauty
I walked in the forest last night.
It was everywhere
in the trees and between their branches
underneath the stones and beside the grass
across the sky and beyond the stars.
Everything was pure beauty
I want to know why.
I desperately wanted to get a closer look at my gaze from far away
and see what my eyes detect
so I broke my neck to fly above myself.
Hovering my dead body
I realize beauty lays in life
– by Nika Fontaine
MARIO ASEF‘s “Diagram is a Trivial Machine”
is his artist project for the latest print edition of the ARTMargins magazine.
ARTMargins publishes scholarly articles and essays about contemporary art, media, architecture,
and critical theory, appears Triannual by the MIT Press.
“Diagram is a Trivial Machine” is an artistic project aimed to understand how diagrams are related to knowledge.
Mario indicates that the diagram emerged almost at the same time as the birth of the machine.
Machine and diagrams are connected, because both lead towards the creation of narratives
that produce forms and aesthetics of sociocultural and political structure.
Knowledge about the world. Through his artistic approach to diagrams,
Mario produces an art space that can be introduced into the machinery of everyday life.
RACHEL LIBESKIND was announced in Artsy‘s
15 artists in NY summer group shows who deserve solo shows!
After Rachel‘s performance at Cuevas Tilleard Projects, Artsy listed her as one of the artist who deserved a solo Show in New York. In her performance she reenacts and reinterprets Leo Steinberg‘s lectures in front of reproductions of the masterpiece printed on tapestries at Walmart that depicted Christ‘s circumcision.
By rereading art history contextualized with iconographical religion, Rachel points out Christ’s Jewish beginnings within the tradition of catholical imaginary.
Across her multimedia practice, Libeskind excels at this sort of cheeky social criticism, drawing provocative lines between historical and contemporary pain points surrounding religion, identity, and gender.
– by Alexxa Gotthardt
We are very excited to hear that
was selected as a finalist of the RBC Canadian painting competition!!!
— For Fontaine, the glitter so often associated with ‘queerness’ in today’s art establishment is more a formal means: ‘At first I worked with acrylic and oil, and always tried to make my colors as intense as possible. But they were never strong enough for me. With the glitter, I get this intensity of color and brilliance, and in addition an interactive aspect, because every movement on the part of the viewer changes the coloration and sense of spatial depth.’ —
Read more: http://canadianart.ca/news/15-artists-longlisted-for-rbc-canadian-painting-competition/
We are super excited for our next upcoming exhibition!
A group exhibition with
Books shows beautiful and special works by artists, who use the book as an artistic medium and support: pages and cover have been altered, edited and elements extracted.
Books expands our aesthetical experience with the book as a cultural good.
This saturday, July 9th
from 7-10 pm
Graf-Adolf-Platz 1
40213 Düsseldorf
Our exhibition transcendental state of grace by NIKA FONTAINE will close this Sunday, June 26th.
Stop by and celebrate with us and a glass of Champagne!
26.6.2016
10am-8pm
Königsallee 92
Düsseldorf
We are happy that transcendental state of grace by NIKA FONTAINE was announced in the RHEINISCHE POST!!
The exhibition will close this Sunday evening, June 26th.