ars viva 09/10: History
Mariana Castillo Deball, Dani Gal, Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda
20.2.-4.04.2010
Poster ars viva 09/10 - Geschichte/History
Design: Manuel Raeder
The Kölnischer Kunstverein is delighted to be able to present this year’s prestigious ars viva prize exhibition on the theme of History. The Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e.V. (Cultural Circle of German Industry in the BDI, reg. charity) awarded the ars viva prize for visual arts of € 5,000 each to Mariana Castillo Deball (b. 1975), Jay Chung and Q Takeki Maeda (b. 1976/77), and Dani Gal (b. 1975). Three exhibitions (in the Museum Wiesbaden, in the Kölnischer Kunstverein and in the migros museum für gegenwartskunst in Zurich) in the series ars viva are linked to the promotional prize, and these will be accompanied by a catalogue in two languages and an artist’s edition. The three prize-winners were chosen from 44 artists in whose work the investigation of the construction of historical facts is of central importance.
Mariana Castillo Deball, Do ut des, 2009
Mariana Castillo Deball, The stronger the light your shadow cuts deeper, 2010
Installationsansicht 2010
Foto: Simon Vogel
It is striking that all the prize-winning artists engage in their work with the question of the construction of history, how and why it comes to be used today in the political but also the economic sphere. They concentrate in their works on the historical document as the smallest common factor on which, seen from today, agreement can be reached.
Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda, ohne Titel, 2009
Installationsansicht 2010
Foto: Simon Vogel
Dani Gal, Seasonal Unrest
Installationsansicht 2010
Foto: Simon Vogel
Lumpenball 2010
5.02.2010, ab 20 Uhr
Carnival party for members and friends of Kölnischer Kunstverein
Lumpenball Einladungskarte
August Sander, Maskenball, um 1926
© Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur
August Sander Archiv, Köln; VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2012
Mariana Castillo Deball
Su 20.2.10, 4 pm
Portrait Mariana Castillo Deball
Other countries, other institutions
Discussion with Henriette Bretton-Meyer
Do 1.7.10, 19 Uhr
Place: Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Art association: today, tomorrow, yesterday
Discussion with Wulf Herzogenrath and Florian Waldvogel
We 7.7.10, 7 p.m.
Venue: Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Positions - Visions II
Curatorial approaches for contemporary art biennials
with Kathrin Rhomberg and Vít Havránek
5.5.10, 7 p.m.
Kathrin Rhomberg (Foto: Manfred Unger), Vít Havránek (Foto: Abbe Libansky)
Open studio day
at Kölnischen Kunstverein and at Schokoladenmuseum
Sat 5.6.10, 2-6 p.m.
Shruti Mahajan, Adapter/Adaptor, 2009, Gouache auf Papier
China City
Mon 7.6.10, 8 p.m.
Kölnischer Kunstverein, cinema at "Die Brücke"
CHINA CITY, 2010, Filmstill
Subject and Society. Melanie Gilligan and Polly Staple
Artist Talk
Su 27.6.10, 12 a.m.
Portrait Melanie Gilligan,
Photo: Alessandra Chila
Altruism as a Working Principle for Independant Art Institutions in Czech Republic
Guided Tour and Talk with Noemi Smolik
30.6.10, 7pm
Place: Bonner Kunstverein
Poster, Last Chance to See, 2010,
Design: lange+durach
From Warhol to „The Wire“; on the proximity of art and television
Kalup Linzy, Melody Set Me Free, 2007
Videostill, Digital video, color, sound,
15 min 10 sec
Courtesy of the artist and Taxter & Spengemann, New York