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GUEST: solo exhibition at ICIA Bath, Art Space 1, 6th May - 18th June 2010

Artist-in-Residence: 4th March - 6th May 2010

Artist Talk: Margareta Kern in conversation with with Dr Daniel Hinchcliffe: 6th May 2010, 7 - 8pm

GUEST, Margareta Kern, 2010
Photo by: Marcus Kern / Post-production: Basia Hrymowicz

Kern's photographic and video work to date has drawn on documentary portraiture, the process resembling anthropological 'field work', the artist returning home with field notes, photographs, videos and sound recordings. The residency in Bath has evoked this process - the artist being away from home, a 'guest', attempting to both integrate while observing her new environment. During her residency, Kern wore a specially designed 'work wear' tailor-made by her mother. Kern met with University staff that wear uniforms or protective clothing, such as physics lab technicians, security staff, postal workers, chefs and cleaners, and took a photograph as a record. To continue reading please click here http://www.bath.ac.uk/icia To read GUEST a-n Blog please click here.

Supported by the Arts Council England, University of Bath's department of Social Science and the Institute of Contemporary Interdisciplinary Arts.

Kunsthalle Budapest
Over the Counter: The Phenomena of Post-socialist Economy in Contemporary Art
18 June 2010 - 19 September 2010
Curators: Eszter Lázár and Zsolt Petrányi
OPENING: 17 JUNE, 2010, 7 P.M.

The exhibition called Over the Counter has been inspired by the economic illusions, utopias, creativity and frustration that Central Europe has been home to recently, and is made relevant by the global economic crisis which began in 2008, and which can be looked upon as a negative critique of the process of adopting the capitalist order. Continue reading here. http://www.mucsarnok.hu

ARTISTS: Matei Bejenaru, Bukta Imre, Mircea Cantor, Olga Chernysheva, Anetta Chisa, & Lucia Tkácová, Erhardt Miklós, Andreas Fogarasi, Kristina Inciuraité, Interorient, Keserue Zsolt, Margareta Kern, Johanna Kandl, Yuri Leiderman, Kristina Leko, Anna Molska, Deimantas Narkevicius, Nemes Csaba, Lucia Nimcova, Uriel Orlow, Dan Perjovschi, REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT, R.E.P., Katerina Sedá, Société Réaliste, Mladen Stilinovic, Lukasz Skapski, Kamen Stojanov, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, Clemens von Wedemeyer.

"GUESTS' Installation at Kunsthalle Budapest.
More info and images about the work please see guestworkerberlin.blogspot.com

Journeys with No Return
Kurt-Kurt Gallery, BERLIN
11 – 20 JUNE 2010
Exhibition Preview: Fri 11 June, 2010, 7pm
Talk 2-3pm Sat 12th June: Curators Alice Sharp and Peter Cross, with the exhibition artists Melanie Manchot and Margareta Kern.
Special opening 8-11pm 17th June: Inselgluck/Kulturtage

The Berlin exhibition of Journeys with No Return is planned to open at Kurt-Kurt and is organized in association with the Kunstverein Tiergarten, concurrently with the 6th Berlin Biennale which opens on 10th June 2010 and the weekend of the Moabiter Kulkurtage, 17-20 June.The exhibition will feature 12 artists: KIRAN KAUR BRAR / ERGIN CAVUSOGLU / ADAM CHODZKO / JÜRGEN EISENACHER / MARGARETA KERN / MELANIE MANCHOT / OLAF NICOLAI / DENIZHAN OZER / ZINEB SEDIRA / MAYA SCHWEIZER / NASAN TUR / CLEMENS VON WEDEMEYER

www.kurt-kurt.de
http://www.journeyswithnoreturn.com/content/exhibitions/berlin.html

Text in Context
Southbank Centre, London
8th July 2010

Creative practitioners are increasingly breaking out of their individual forms to explore cross-genre possibilities. This symposium brings together writers, artists and performers from various disciplines. Through short performances, presentations and discussion, it will generate a creative space for new explorations, connections and audiences. This is an open event.

Presented by Brand literary magazine in association with University of Greenwich and London Literature Lounge. Part of Literature Festival.
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/literature-spoken-word/tickets/brand-text-in-context-53696

RECENT EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS

The 28th State: European Borders in an Age of Anxiety
Tate Britain, October 2009

The symposia questioned how artists and curators in Europe are currently engaging with ideas around borders, nationhood, social organisation and collaboration. What is role of art within this context, particularly in relation to the current state of European politics and increasing social unease within many rapidly changing populations?

Part of Borderline project, curated by Sonya Dyer. Supported by Chelsea Programme, Chelsea College of Art and Design and City Inn Westminster. The videos of the symposia is available on the Borderline website http://borderlineproject.org.uk/
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/symposia/19662.htm

Clothes for Living and Dying/Odjeca za Zivot i Smrt International touring solo exhibition 11 October - 8 November 2009 - Kunstverein Worms, Germany 3 September - 31 September 2009 - Galerija Umjetnina Slavonski Brod, Likovni salon Becic, Croatia 8 April - 14 June 2009 - Impressions Gallery /Bradford/UK 12 September - 18 October 2008 - Margaret Harvey Gallery /St Albans/UK 15 May - 29 May 2008 - HDLU: PM & Bacva Galerija /Zagreb/Croatia For images from the exhibition in Zagreb please click here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/margaretakern/
Installation images from the Impressions gallery, 2009, Bradford, UK
'Clothes for Living and Dying' brings together two interrelated projects 'Graduation Dresses' and 'Clothes for Death' in order to explore the significance and role of clothing in two rites of passage: graduations and funerals. For further information about the exhibition please see the exhibitions page.

For more recent events and exhibitions please see exhibitions page...