Lumen Travo Gallery

OTOBONG NKANGA: However long the night, the dawn will break

Lauren — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:22:01 +0000

For her solo show at Lumen Travo gallery, Otobong Nkanga proposes a body of works linked with research and various projects done in 2011 and 2012.

In 2011 Nkanga started exploring ways of working with woven textile in combination with the techniques of drawing and photography.

“However long the night, the dawn will break” summarizes the state of creation, being in a space of struggles: at some point things start to make sense and finally one day everything falls in place, maybe not as you had planned it but obviously as it is supposed to be.

Nkanga uses various media such as drawing, sculptures, installations, performances and photography to process her research material and to combine this with autobiographical references in order to create a collage of fragmented narratives.

Stephen Willats: How the future looks from here

Lauren — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:34:28 +0000

Since the early 1960’s, the artist, Stephen Willats (UK), has been leading a critical examination of environments shaped by contemporary life and has initiated the representation of a social agenda in art practice. Willats is one of the forerunners of conceptual art in Europe, embracing cybernetics, computer technology, semiotics and behavioural and social psychology in the furtherance of the element of interactivity which continues to be one of the key drivers in his work. This has inspired Willats to take his art practice directly into a range of environments that represent universally familiar contemporary cultural icons such as the housing estate or the urban shopping street.

How the Future Looks From Here, was made with a young couple living in Brooklyn, New York, and articulates their insights into the conflicts between the intentions of new technologies and media in society, and the actual affects of people’s personal relations. The work is located and referenced to the couple’s home and expresses their questions about the world outside.

February/March 2012

Lauren — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:57:11 +0000

ZARINA BHIMJI

09.01.12 – 09.03.12
Solo Show
Whitechapel Gallery London

FRANCK BRAGIGANT

15.03.12 – 22.04.12
Artecontemporanea gallery
Brussels

MICHEL FRANCOIS

15.10.2011 – 29.01.12
45000 AFFICHES / 1994 – 2011 Solo show
CCC – Centre de Création Contemporaine, Tours
And the same show is presented at:
MAC’s, Site du Grand Hornu, Musée des Arts Contemporains de la Fédération
Wallonie-Bruxelles, BE

MESCHAC GABA

Opening 07.03.12
in situ Fabienne Leclerc Gallery, Pari

NI HAIFENG & MESCHAC GABA

15.03.12 – 24.06.12
Cer Variabil (groupshow)
Collectors house, Heerlen

MONALI MEHER

until 30.03.12
Who is afraid of oriental girls (group)
Delta Lloyd, Amsterdam

OTOBONG NKANGA

24.01.12 -16.09.12
Object Atlas- Fieldwork in the Museum
Weltkulturen Museum Frankfurt, Germany

IBRAHIM QURAISHI

29.01.12 – 18.03.12
Group Show
Devi Art Contemporary Centre Delhi, India

HANS SCHOLTEN

16.03.2012 – 03.06.2012
Recente Aanwinsten
De Hallen, Haarlem
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Groupshow

Lauren — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:53:34 +0000

FEBRUARY 2012

Lauren — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:19:03 +0000

Lumen Travo at Art Rotterdam, Booth 24

09.02.12 – 12.02.12
Otobong Nkanga & Ibrahim Quraishi
with Michel Francois, Rini Hurkmans & Hans Scholten and Jens Pfeifer
SEE: http://www.artrotterdam.nl
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JANUARY 2012

Lauren — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:09:31 +0000

DENNIS ADAMS

05.01.12- 25.02.12
Mind the Gap (Group show)
Kent Gallery, New York

18.11.11 – 30.01.12
Walking on Wolves
Galeria Moises Perez De Albeniz
Pamplona, Spain

MARGRET WIBMER

01.12.11 – 04.02.12
Another World – Eine andere Welt
Kunstraum Dreieich, Germany

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M Portraits: Ibrahim Quraishi

Lauren — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:37:40 +0000

M portraits explores a fictive world full of personal narratives that underline the Arab Spring. Examining more than 40 works of sculpture, painting, film, photo’s and eatable goods it plays with the lines between parody and notions of realness that are deliberately blurred to reveal hidden paradoxes. Moreover, the fictive realities that are presented play with internal political mechanisms and create power ruptures. With this exhibition Ibrahim Quraishi creates schisms on how to be political and at the same time playful as an artist.

Lumen Travo invites you to experience this world of political and cultural fictivities and taste the realness of the different narratives.

Independent curator Robert Kluijver and London based art advisor Rola Nassár will be the opening speakers on “M. Portraits”.

More work by Ibrahim click here
http://www.ibrahimquraishi.org

With thanks to: de taart van m’n tante

NOVEMBER 2011

Lauren — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:38:52 +0000

DELPHINE BEDEL

hard copy: a collection of artists books edited by Delphine Bedel
Publishers: Monospace Press, Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD)
Book launches in November:
Centre de la photographie – Genève (3.11.11)
OffPrint Paris (10-13.11)
Miss Read / KW – Berlin (25-27.11)
www.hard-copy.tumblr.com

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Connect | Group Exhibition Rijksakademie Alumni

Lauren — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:10:45 +0000

To coincide with the Captial A initiative and RijksakademieOPEN Lumen Travo will present an exhibition of works by Rijksakademie Alumni. All of the chosen artists are represented by Lumen Travo and are a reflection of different generations of artists affiliated with the Rijksakademie.

The following artists will be on show:
Tiong Ang, Franck Bragigand, Delphine Bedel, Meschac Gaba, Dianne Hagen, Jean Bernard Koeman, Monali Meher,
Otobong Nkanga, Yvonne Dröge Wendel.

Two artists were advisors at the Rijksakademie: Dennis Adams and Michel François.

Three Days of A simultaneously takes place with the Open Studios of artists at the Rijksakademie and De Ateliers, as an integral part of the weekend. This project underlines Amsterdam’s role as a lively centre for culture. At the same time, by collaborating in this unusual way, the galleries want to make a statement about the importance of the Rijksakademie as an international cultural platform, currently under threat of devastating cultural budget cuts.

Three days of A
SPECIAL OPENING HOURS:

Friday 25.11.11 From 10:00 – 20:00
Saturday 26.11.11 From 10:00 – 20:00
Sunday 27.11.11 From 10:00 – 20:00

SHARED AND DIVIDED: RINI HURKMANS & HANS SCHOLTEN

Lauren — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:35:24 +0000

SHARED AND DIVIDED is the first official collaborative project between Rini Hurkmans and Hans Scholten. Originally the work is made in the context of KAAP 2011 exhibition (Fort Ruigenhoek, Groenekan).

Rini Hurkman’s work focuses broadly on aspects of the human; she deals with notions of loss, safety, empathy and comfort. By working with elements taken from different cultures she expresses universal feelings.
Hans Scholten works with the idea of what the future image of worldwide urbanisation can be. The basis of his conceptual work is a large archive of photographs he has taken in many cities around the world.

Drawing on their own experience, Hurkmans and Scholten experience a city together – the basis for the exhibition SHARED AND DIVIDED.

Their film works were developed in Istanbul among other reasons because of it’s unique location between Asia and Europe. It is both a meeting point for continents and a location, which showcases cultural divides as well as commonalities. The three video works shown at Lumen Travo, explore themes like separation and connectedness. They portray a city with its own laws, literally divided into different parts, but also shared by its occupants and by them.