Curating transnational projects: the local in the Global

Inspired by the successful  format that the Fórum Permanente has developed in partnership with GAM's [Global Art and the Museum] coordinators, Hans Belting and Andrea Buddensieg from the ZKM- Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany for an intense programme of debates and discussions on the theme "The Global turn of contemporary art in Brazilian Collections" that took place at the Goethe Institut headquarters in São Paulo in August 2008, our proposal for the critical gathering in São Paulo is to centre the debate on the following theme: "Curating transnational projects: the local in the Global" were issues such as 1. developing curatorial processes in a globalised world considering local contexts or 2. national interests versus local ones or 3. transnational cultural interchanges, etc. read more (portuguese)...

WORKSHOP - The Global Turn of Contemporary Art in Brazilian Collections

Organized by Goethe-Institut São Paulo, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany, and Forum Permanente for Art Museums, São Paulo

This two-day workshop will be introduced by Hans Belting and Andrea Buddensieg, who will provide an overview of the goals and activities of the project GAM. The statements of Ana Belluzo, Ana Leticia Fialho, David Moreno Sperling, Fernando Oliva & Marcelo Rezende, Ivo Mesquita, Jochen Volz, Laymert Garcia dos Santos, Martin Grossmann, Ricardo Basbaum, and Taisa Helena Palhares & Marcelo Arajo (20 minutes each) are to highlight the speakers’ personal views and experiences, both institutional and intellectual.

The meeting in Sao Paulo will be the first of several workshops which are to examine the global turn in contemporary art in different local contexts. The aim is to build up a body of comparative knowledge that can be discussed and applied in a cross-cultural perspective.

The workshop is coordinated by Andrea Buddensieg and Hans Belting (ZKM), Joachim Bernauer (Goethe-Institut São Paulo), Martin Grossmann (ECA-USP, CCSP and Forum Permanente) and Laymert Garcia dos Santos (Unicamp).

SONSBEEK 2008

The Permanent Forum, in partnership with the Dutch Consulate and the Mondrian Foundation, will be at Sonsbeek 2008 to provide a CRITICAL REPORT of the exhibition.

The 10th international Sonsbeek sculpture exhibition presents 28 leading artists from 14 countries under the title Sonsbeek 2008: Grandeur.

The Netherlands’ major sculpture exhibition is taking place in Sonsbeek Park in Arnhem from June 13 through September 21. Sonsbeek 2008 is the 10th sculpture exhibition in a series that has built up an almost legendary reputation since 1949.

Artistic director Anna Tilroe has selected 28 international artists to give meaning to the theme of ‘Grandeur’. Specially for Sonsbeek 2008 they are making a piece of sculpture or an installation that reflects a point of view that is very much their own and at the same time represents the aspiration for human greatness.

This Sonsbeek exhibition expressly seeks the public’s involvement in art that, according to Anna Tilroe, ‘wants to be more than just art for the art world’. The prelude to the exhibition is a solemn and festive Procession on June 8. Before being placed in the park, the works of art will be carried through the city centre by hundreds of inhabitants of Arnhem organised into ‘Guilds’.

Selected artists: Alain Séchas - France; Ana Maria Tavares – Brazil; Brody Condon – USA; Charlie Roberts – USA; Eylem Aladogan – Netherlands; El Anatsui - Nigeria; Fernando Sánchez Castillo - Spain; Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger - Switzerland; Hans van Houwelingen - Netherlands Jean-Michel Othoniel – France; Johan Creten – France; Johan Simons - Netherlands; Joseph Sumégné – Cameroon; Marijke van Warmerdam - Netherlands; Matthew Monahan – USA; Michel François – Belgium; Nindityo Adipurnomo & Mella Jaarsma – Indonesia; Rini Hurkmans - Netherlands; Rona Pondick – USA; Serge Onnen - Netherlands; Stephen Wilks – Great Brittain; Lara Schnitger – USA; Thomas Houseago – Great Brittain; Tomas Saraceno – Argentinia; Willem Boshoff – South Africa; Yasue Maetake - Japan

see the documentation of the exhibition

You can read more about the artists in the attached file or on the website www.sonsbeek2008.nl/artists 2008