EVA 2014 Artists and AGITATIONISM announced

EVA International is delighted to announce that EVA 2014 curated by Bassam El Baroni is entitled AGITATIONISM and features works by 56 Irish and International artists:

Participating artists:
Bisan Abu-Eisheh, Doa Aly, Kjersti Andvig, Martí Anson, Amanda Beech, Ann Böttcher, Jenny Brady, Benjamin de Búrca & Barbara Wagner, +billion- (James Merrigan), Luis Camnitzer, Chimurenga, Jacqueline Doyen, Tom Flanagan & Megs Morley, Zachary Formwalt, GRRRR (Ingo Giezendanner), Nilbar Güres, Iswanto Hartono & Raqs Media Collective, Rana Hamadeh, Siobhán Hapaska, Nicoline van Harskamp, Cécile Hartmann, Malak Helmy, David Horvitz, Luis Jacob, Jeffrey Charles Henry Peacock, Ramon Kassam, Patrick Jolley, Hassan Khan, Per–Oskar Leu, Alon Levin, Sofie Loscher, Mona Marzouk, Pauline M'barek, Asier Mendizabal, Metahaven, Nástio Mosquito, Catalina Niculescu, Seamus Nolan, Mark O'Kelly, Uriel Orlow, Neša Paripovic, Michael Patterson-Carver, Garrett Phelan, Elizabeth Price, Eva Richardson McCrea, Walid Sadek, Miri Segal, Ann-Sofi Sidén, Praneet Soi, Paul Tarpey, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Humberto Vélez, Carla Zaccagnini

AGITATIONISM is part of Limerick City of Culture 2014 and presents projects and new commissions generously supported by: Outset England and Outset Netherlands as part of the International Production Fund; Acción Cultural Española, AC/E; Artis Grant Progam; Coleção Teixeira de Freitas; Etxepare Basque Institute; French Embassy in Ireland; Iaspis, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee's International Program; Kontakt, the Art Collection of Erste Group and ERSTE Foundation; Mondriaan Fund; Office for Contemporary Art Norway, OCA; the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia. For further information and details please click here.

AGITATIONISM is open from 12 April to 6 July 2014, with an Opening on Friday 11 April from 6 – 9pm and a Professional Preview on Thursday 10 April. For further information about the Opening please click here or Professional Preview please click here.

Nástio Mosquito "African, I Guess" (2013), performace. Courtesy the artist

EVA 2014 Programme Launch
with performance by Nástio Mosquito

Friday 21 March, 7 – 9pm
IMMA | Irish Museum of Modern Art

The full programme for EVA 2014 AGITATIONISM will be launched at IMMA | Irish Museum of Modern Art on Friday 21 March from 7 – 9pm. As part of the launch Nástio Mosquito, who is undertaking a residency at IMMA in the lead up to EVA 2014, will premiere a new performance that responds to the question "can art do anything?"

This event is FREE and open to the public. Click here for further information and details about how to reserve a place.

Symposium: It Makes us Think of a Dance and a Fête as Much as of War (On Violence)

Saturday 22 March, 12 – 9pm
IMMA | Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Contributors: Mercedes Azpilicueta, Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Hadrien Laroche, Paulo Tavares, Milica Tomic
Screening by Jean-Luc Godard
Curated by Doreen Mende

On Saturday 22 March EVA presents It Makes us Think of a Dance and a Fête as Much as of War (On Violence), 12 – 7pm at IMMA | Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. This is the third and final part of Artistic Justice: Positions on the Place of Justice in Art, a series of three international symposia supported by the Anna Lindh Foundation leading towards EVA 2014 AGITATIONISM that opens in Limerick in April. This symposium is curated by Doreen Mende at the invitation of EVA 2014 curator, Bassam El Baroni.

This event is FREE and open to the public. Click here for further information and details about how to reserve a place.

New Website

EVA 2014 has just launched a new website for the 2014 Biennial so please excuse any hiccups. We will be adding new content in the coming weeks and uploading archive materials from previous EVA's on an ongoing basis.

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