Stroom Invest lectures 2007
Wednesday May 9, 2007, 8 pm
Location: Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Language: English
Curators Edith Doove (Belgium), Kestutis Kuizinas (Lithuania), Mihnea Mircan (Romania), Mirjam Varadinis (Switzerland).
Four international curators, ‘unusual and non-suspect' and up till
now only marginally active in The Netherlands, will give short lectures
about their ideas, ideals, practice and motivations. This evening is
part of a conference for artists and curators from The Netherlands and
abroad, organized by Stroom Den Haag in concurrence with the Invest
subsidies awarded in 2006. This conference also comprises a program of
studio visits, presentations, and informal meetings.
In addition to the organisation of exhibitions, lectures,
projects and various events, Stroom is responsible for the development
and execution of a subsidy program aimed at art and artists from The
Hague. One of the recently introduced new subsidies is called Stroom Invest.
This is a grant for young, recently graduated artists helping them in
the further development of their career and stimulating their active
participation in the art scene in The Hague.
Edith Doove (1963) founded ed.projects - International
Art Agency in Brussels in 2005. She is active as a freelance curator
and art critic. Up to this day she has curated several exhibitions in
Belgium and abroad; in addition she writes for national and international
newspapers, magazines and catalogues. Projects she is currently
involved with include a.o. ‘Parallellepipedum' (working title), a cross-over
project with scientists and artists commissioned by the University and city of Leuven (2007-2010), and ‘Landgraaf25', various art projects in Landgraaf (2007).
Kestutis Kuizinas (1968), since 1992 director of the
Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) in Vilnius, Lithuania. As a curator he
has worked in both Lithuania and abroad, organizing shows like ‘Cool Places. The 7th Young Baltic Art Triennial' and ‘Lithuanian Art 1989-1999',
both in the CAC. In addition he was the curator of the Luthuanian
pavilion at the 49th Venice Biennial
(featuring work by Deimantas Narkevicius, 2001) and the Lithuanian
contribution to the 26th Sao Paolo Biennial (2004). Since 2002 he has
been artistic director of the Baltic Triennial of International Art in
Vilnius.
Mihnea Mircan (1976) works for the Museum of Contemporary
Art (MNAC) in Bucharest. He organized shows like ‘Jaan
Toomik: Video Works' (2005), was the curator of Le Pavillon, in Palais de
Tokyo in Paris and of ‘Radio Killed the Video Star, Side B' by FRAC
Champagne-Ardenne in Reims (2005/2006). This year he is involved with the exhibitions ‘Sublime Objects' (with works from the collection of
FRAC Grand Est) and ‘Under Destruction #3' in the MNAC. He is the curator of the exhibition ‘Low-Budget Monuments' in the Romanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennial. He writes for various catalogues,
publications and magazines.
Mirjam Varadinis (1972) has been a curator of Kunsthaus
Zürich in Switzerland since 2002. Prior to that she worked for several
galleries and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. For Kunsthaus
Zürich she organized exhibitions with a.o. Mark Handforth, Urs Fischer
and Erik van
Lieshout (which opened on April 12 this year). Mirjam Varadinis has
written articles for magazines like ‘Parkett', and catalogues, like ‘Erik van Lieshout: This Can't Go on (Stay with me)'
(2007) and a publication on the artist Mark Handforth (2005).
Artists who received the Stroom Invest subsidy in 2006:
Seekee Chung, Barbara Ellison, Robin de Goede, Johan Gustavsson,
Nils Yttri Heggland, Stéphanie Jamet, Floris Kruidenberg, Clara Pallí
Monguilod, Keir Neuringer, Navid Nuur, Femmy Otten, Immanuel
Sirron-Kakpor.
- Wednesday 09 May '07 8 pm
- Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
- Entrance: free
