Three contemporary art exhibitions and over forty
multidisciplinary events offer varied perspectives on the theme
of Utopia of Access
Uniarts Helsinki is set to open a Research Pavilion in May in the
context of the 57th Venice Biennale. During a span of five months,
the Pavilion will host three contemporary art exhibitions and over
forty multidisciplinary events. Under the theme Utopia of Access,
the Pavilion calls for a variety of interpretations on urgent topics of
debate using experimental methods. Over a hundred artistresearchers
from European art universities will introduce their own
contribution to the Pavilion in the field of contemporary art, music,
performing arts, and curating.
“The purpose of the Research Pavilion is to increase the dialogue
between contemporary art and research and to bring about new
kinds of multidisciplinary exhibition practices. During the summer of
2017, the Pavilion will present a remarkably skilled and diverse
community of European experts in contemporary art, which will
bring an outstanding addition to the programme of the Venice
Biennale”, says Professor Anita Seppä, the Research Pavilion’s
commissioner.
The Research Pavilion is a follow-up to the pilot project that took
place in Venice in 2015, and thanks to the enthusiastic reactions
from the international art and research field, the university was
encouraged to develop the concept further. Uniarts Helsinki has
invited Konstex and the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme
(NARP) as its main partners for the Research Pavilion. The
networks represent a large number of Norwegian and Swedish art
institutions of higher education. In addition, Academy of Fine Arts
Vienna and Zurich University of the Arts will also produce one
exhibition each for the Research Pavilion.
The programme of the Research Pavilion consists of three 6-week
contemporary art exhibitions and 46 multidisciplinary art events
activities called Camino Events.
The inaugural event at the Research Pavilion in May is an exhibition
curated by Jan Kaila and Henk Slager, You Gotta Say Yes to
Another Access, which shows a diverse cross-section of how Nordic
artist-researchers from higher art institutions view topical themes
such as the openness of art, geopolitics, capitalisation of knowledge
and new visual techniques.
In July–August, the Research Pavilion will host Galleria del Vento,
an exhibition by Florian Dombois. Dombois will build a wind tunnel
during the exhibition’s run. He will bring along the machine from his
transdisciplinary research laboratory at the Zurich University of the
Arts and will collect all other material by going out into the lagoons
of Venice on a boat with golden sails.
The final exhibition at the Research Pavilion, Hauntopia/what if,
runs from September to October and is produced by the Phd-inpractice
programme of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In the
exhibition curated by Anette Baldauf and Renate Lorenz, the
artists bring unresolved forms of social violence of the past back to
the present, and invite these ghosts to leave their trace in the here
and now, and to envision potentially more ethical futures.
EXHIBITIONS
You Gotta Say Yes to Another Access 11 May – 2 July 2017
Curators: Jan Kaila and Henk Slager
Artists: Andrea Coyotzi Borja & Sinem Kayacan, Andre Alves,
Behzad Khosravi-Noori & Rene Leon-Rosales, Bull.Miletic, Eva
Weinmayr, Mireia c. Saladrigues, Niran Baibulat, Stacey Sacks, Tao
G.V. Sambolec and Vincent Roumagnac.
Producer of the exhibition: Uniarts Helsinki
Florian Dombois: Galleria del Vento 8 July –13 August 2017
The exhibition will include five Palaver discussions and workshops
that will be held every Saturday in a Palaver-setup of the show. The
artist will be present throughout the exhibition.
Producer of the exhibition: Research Focus in Transdisciplinary at
Department of Cultural Analysis, Zurich University of the Arts
Hauntopia/what if 8 September – 15 October 2017
Curators: Anette Baldauf and Renate Lorenz
Artists: Aline Benecke, Katalin Erdodi, Zsuzsi Flohr, Sílvia das
Fadas, Till Gathmann, Moira Hille, Zosia Holubowska, Hristina
Ivanoska, Janine Jembere, Ruth Jenrbekova, Belinda Kazeem-
Kaminski, Mihret Kebede, Annette Krauss, Sandra Monterroso,
Rafal Morusiewicz, Lisa Nyberg, Reading Group, Naomi Rincon-
Gallardo, Masha Seligerus, Keiko Uenishi
Producer of the exhibition: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna