Presentation AIR 092006

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artists in residence antwerp

an introduction

...all framed items are clickable...

...website...
http://www.airantwerpen.be/


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what is it & what does it?

where is it?

contact

residents

partners & support

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air Antwerpen is an international residence project for artists

The organisation wishes to prole itself as a breeding ground for contemporar

art, a place where art is developed and where artistic research is pursued.

AIR Antwerpen offers no exhibition platform for visual arts as such. Th

organisation is active within the national and international visual art

network and undertakes collaborative ventures which can result in researc

oriented co-production.

Thanks to its setting in a city with a rich cultural history and an effervescen

contemporary art scene, AIR Antwerpen is capable of initiating a spontaneou

dialogue between past and present, and the local and global.

airAntwerpen is more than a receptive workplace for artists from abroad


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airAntwerpen is rst and foremost a place where art is developed, and where reection and artistic

research is undertaken.

airAntwerpen offers living and working spaces to: artists from abroad

artists living and working in anders who wish to undertaka collaboration with an artist from abroad

possible partners in the cultural eld, in the context oco-productions and related presentations

curators

The organisation assists the residents with substansive and wheneverpossible also technical support with experimental productions. Theemphasis within AIR Antwerpen lies in the visual arts. Collaborationswith artists from other disciplines or with scientists are also possible.

The selection is made by an international Advisory Committee.

Direct applications are not accepted


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Living and work spaces.

In the former lockmasters residence air Antwerpen

offers space for 5 furnished living and work spaces with

a surface of approximately 30m2.

The communal space includes 2 tted kitchens,a bathroom, a collective work area and a patio.


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In the former lockmans residence, the project has

obtained a fabulous post industrial locationwith the help of the Port of Antwerp.

It is located on the border between the old and the

new harbour, close to thecity centre.

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an artistic impression of the surroundingsphotos by Tom Van Camp

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artists in residence Gregory S Maass & Nayoungim (Februari June 2006)

Douglas Park (April - June 2006)

Carla Zaccagnini(April - June 2006)

Michael Dans (May November 2006)

Maija Blafield (September December 2006)

Billie Zangewa (September November 2006)

Nathalie Djurberg (Februari - May 2007)

past residents Michiel Alberts (March - August 2005)

Christelle Fillod (June - October 2005)

Takahiko Suzuki (July - November 2005)

Nomadic Exposures (September - Februari 20

Seriall Workshop (September - October 2005)

Yuji Watabe (September 2005 - Februari 2006)

Matej Modrinjak (November 2005 - Februari 200

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+future collaborations with HIAP, Kulturbunker

Frankfurt & AIR Laboratory Warshau

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Gregory S Maass & Nayoungim1967, Haagen, Germany, lives and works in Berlin

1966, Seoul, South-Korea, lives and works in Berlin

statement:My idols are Elvis Presley and Robert Filliou and I am still in their debt.Precision and hope. The drawing as a Tour de Force in general,I am developing events and incidents.The process as a result.The event of the collision of proportions and ways of drawing, of concepts and things. E.g. a series of uncomfortable impactsof environment and art piece, the art piece wants to survive.The human being, a complex molecule, similar to a cloud. Especially in the ambient drawings I develop spaces and sceneriesin which dramas unroll, among the above mentioned drawing elements.Development in the process. Another series of drawings, in which a crystalline pattern of a Bezier Spline describes a surface,a peripatetic unfolds and is humanized.There are 36 different ways of interpreting a piece of art, more difcult are good comparisons. Nothing is like it seems and thatis good.

Abstraction as humor and abstraction of humor.In constant need of structures and methods, is irony a medium of erasing not of construction.Irony celebrates the emptiness, it does not build a basis on which one could build something, its a tool of coping with thecontemporary.The thought as an art work.My art works epitomizes an ination of references.


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Douglas Park


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Douglas Park1972, United Kingdom

Policy

Despite being almost excuses to enable and justify development anduse of ideas Ive had anyway and getting something done, in many

ways my work is illustration in reverse; most nalisation andoutlet being through working closely with visual artists, sometimeson collaborative joint-venture projects, exploring their approaches,intentions, concerns and end-results, as well as mine, ofteninuencing each others input and ultimate outcome; also, althoughoriginally a visual artist myself, before becoming more active withwriting, I remain mainly connected to and involved with art-scenes,while my literary output heavily references and resembles theproduction, content, appearance, perception and description ofartworks.

Unlike conventional descriptive and critical essays (which I

attempted in the past), they could perhaps (at least in principle)stand up alone, apart from original purpose and survive in their own right.

In these works, an already existing, accepted and crediblefamiliarity, but newly emerging and unknown strangeness in thephysical form and impact of language, imagery and scenarios conveyedgenerates and enforces a reality of inescapable conditions andcircumstances (environment, process, quality) which takes over.

At all levels, a sensorial physicality is brought about (in words,iconography and overall experience) containing nature and artice,

culturally elitist and down-to-earth material, minor triviality andserious importance, helpless passivity and active involvement, moralbenevolence and harmful exploitation, deliberate intention andunaccountable inevitability.

Both subject-matter and embodiment possess equal-measures of:technological and scientic precision and function; exquisitegrandeur, nery and high aesthetics; sedate and intense everydayreal-life; the fantastic, magical, hallucinogenic, visionary,bizarre, exotic, dreamlike and imaginary.

Other than by anthropomorphic metaphor and symbolism used andissues addressed, human presence and activity is usually excludeduntil nearly incidental, except where vaguely implied and appearingeetingly in cliched phrasing.

Dynamic Inventory / Itemised Miasma

Douglas Park


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Michael Dans


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Michael Dans1971, Verviers, Belgium, lives and works in Luik

Michael Dans dort tous les jours jusqu midi et ensuite les minutes qui sgrainent pour sa vie prive et son travail ne sontquune suite dincongruits qui, quand elles se croisent, plongent autrui dans la perplexit.

F.Curlet


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Thats all folks 200370 oiseaux mcaniquespeinture murale


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Small noise, 2003Bois color, mtalCentre dart et du paysageVassivire


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King size, 2001Chaussures pointure 50,scies main


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Looping, 2001BoisVenise, 49biennale E2N

Maija Blafield


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1973, Helsinki, Finland, lives and works in Helsinki

Maija Blaeld studied at the Helsinki Academy, at the Drama Academy (scriptwriter course). She did solo exhibition in theAcademy of Fine Arts and in the Galleria Huuto. She makes mixed media installations, prints and video about different topics.She made for example a lm about Marcel Bloemendal, a schizofrenic man, who is travelling around Europe in order to save

the world. All her work have something to do with the reality of objects and how the change in another environment. Thingswe know become unrecognisable after a little intervention.The small things in life, the special moments, is something she also focusing on.


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Maija Blfields lost and found office

Galleria Huuto, Helsinki, february 2005Installation with photographs on the walls (300cm x 80cm), sand and stockings, found notes andletters found from the streets.

Saving the World was also screened during the exhibition at the gallerys backroom.


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Satellite PictureColour photograph on aluminium 120cm

Small Heaven Young Artists biennaat Kunsthalle, Helsinki 2005


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Sciencectionmovie

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The science ction esthetics are about the phenomena where elements unreal and strange to everyday life are presented to exist, but


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e sc e ce c o es e cs a e abou e p e o e a e e e e e s u ea a d s a ge o e e yday e a e p ese ed o e s , bu

still remaining something unknown. The existence of these elements are presented dependent of capability to see them and believe

them to be real.

In this work the term science ction refers to situation, where elements familiar to ones environment are suddenly seen in an unexpected

and unfamiliar way and form and that way create an association different from original - and becoming something unknown.

Scienctionmovie tells about mundane everyday life and the universality of the basics of the life on this planet of ours.

This is a work in proggress, to be nished 2006-2007 during artists residencies in Antwerpen, Belgium and Benin, Wester Africa.

I give an example: A picture of an unindentied object, which can be taken where ever - at my home or on the other side of the

world.

At the same time this object is in reality very universal and recognizable all around the world .

In this example picture is seen an unidentiend object, which is a piece of chewing gum I found on a wall of a motel in Texas, US.

Billie Zangewa1973 Blantyre Malawi lives and works in Johannesburg


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1973, Blantyre, Malawi, lives and works in Johannesburg

Billie Zangewa graduated in Fine Arts at Rhodes University, South Africa.

Billie Zangewa remembers her mother working with textiles and experimented with sewing and embroidery while still at primary

school, later developing an interest in fashion and the eccentric designers of the fashion industry. At art school she used variousmedia but when she came across some silk swatches, it was a transformative moment. The luminous, sumptuous quality ofsilk, with its changing light and colour intensities, attracted Zangewa who realised it potential as a medium for her imaginativeembodiments of personal urban experience. Zangewa says:Silk has a fabulous reective quality, but at the same time I think it is quite modern and edgy... the fabric is also important indening my obsession with fashion & surface... the surface is as important as the thing you put on it.

Her initial work with silk resulteerde in a series of handbags with abstracted narratieve scnes of Johannesburg city, thedeveloping into two-dimensional narrative collages. Combining text, pop references and a range of effect including embroidery,beading, and pleating, she exploreer modern city life via personal stories pages in an intimate urban diary. The vulnerability

and innocente of the handreiking, sewing technique and edges create a tension with the opulent qualities of material.


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Nathalie Djurberg1978, Lysekil, Sweden, lives and works in Berlin


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Nathalie Djurbergs world is a grotesque combination of innocence, perversion,violence and (black) humour, moulded in plasticine and animated with, thebasic but laborious, step motion technique. Disturbing yet irresistible, her childlikeanimated paintings deal with harsh issues such as human beings inclinationtowards evil, but also afrm lifes beauty. Poised between melancholy and irony,desire and despair Djurbergs work which is visually inuenced by Westernpictorial and cinematographic traditions, Eastern European animations as wells Japanese and American cartoons generates a weird feeling which is heightenedby the soundtrack created by the musician Hans Berg in close collaboration with

the artist.


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Michiel Alberts1970,the Netherlands, lives and works in Antwerp


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The work that Michiel Alberts presents in AIR Antwerpen consists of photographic portraits and landscapes, collected in a book.The starting point of this work is the monologue Dreck by Robert Schneider. In this play, written in 1991, an illegal Iraqi roseseller wrestles with the fears and prejudices of the country in which he is staying. The fear of the population has become so

strongly instilled in him that it turns against him. From this alienating perspective, the monologue becomes increasingly bitterand hopeless.This piece, played by Michiel Alberts, was previewed last June at the Frascati theatre in Amsterdam.The visual section presented in AIR Antwerpen is not an illustration of the text. Michiel Alberts distilled the subject matter andentered into a dialogue with the city of Antwerp. In his book of photographs, he composes the portraits and landscapes intoa rhythm. Because of the sequence, a world develops that transcends the individual, a space in which fear and lonelinesspredominate.

The work is part of the nal project of the DasArts postgraduate course in Amsterdam.


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presentation Michiel Alberts at Air Antwerpen, 27/08/05


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Christelle Fillod1974, FR


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Christelle Fillod is in residence at AIR from june to october 2005. During her stay in AIR, she took the benet of the location inthe port of Antwerpen to reconnect with video and photo material that was made during a project developed on freighter. Sheis working on a book that should be nalized as an artist book.

The presentation of the book will be in AIR on the 17th of november 2005.

Christelle Fillod is an visual artist and performer. She graduated from the Beaux Arts National de Lyon andwas invited in Le Fresnoy, studio national des arts contemporains. She created site specic installation, videowork, performances. Her work is the emerging experience on a research about perception: On how a specicreality is given to our senses, on how do we travel through the layer of the senses, on how to perceive outsideof a predetermined culture, on how to move the point of assembly, on how to expand the world from within.She has worked and collaborated with artists such as Gary Hill, Florence Menini, Vanessa Briggs, Christine DeSmedt,Meg Stuart, Sachiyo Takahashi, Yukiko Shinozaki. Her works and performances have been exhibited internationally.

YOU CAN FOLLOW HER RESIDENCE THROUGH THE WEB SITE: WWW.AIRANTWERPEN. BE


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Takahiko Suzuki1962, JP


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**installation works and collaboration works.He is drifting around the world this 3 years. He is interested in collaboration with artists living in Belgium. The collaboration seriesis called collaboration between an artist and a space. It looks like his partners one-man show. He makes a special place forpartners work. However, the method is various depending on the partner. He doesnt like to be related to one shape.

He wants to have three collaborations in Antwerp.

1.Visual artist2.Experiment music3.Some specialists

He is looking for partners for collaboration in Sep, Oct, Nov 2005. If you have interest or any questions, please send e-mail to:[email protected] his collaboration, check here.http://www.nonprotgallery.com/suzuki/kaizen/ame_e.htmlHis home page is thishttp://www.nonprotgallery.com/suzukiIt has not been decided yet though he sent the application to acquire the budget. In the worst case, there is no budget. Pleaselet me know if you know any way for that in Antwerp.Also he has a web project. It is links pages of alternative or nonprot galleries around the world.http://www.nonprotgallery.comIf you have any information about that in Belgium, please let him know.


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nomadicExposuresBE


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nomadicExposures en AIR : an encounter that was a chance occurrence

its a fact that the nature of the place of invitation determines at rst to a large extent the praxis of nomadicExposures which mustnot be regarded as a collective but as a cooperation without any xed program. Nevertheless the walks and the conversationsare not only triggers of the communication but also the entries to each new project (workstations) which receives form duringpractice.


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Seriall Mobile Serigraphy WorkshopFR


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SERIALL is a mobile serigraphy (silk screen) workshop led by three young French artists. In their transformed truck, they aretravelling throughout Europe with the objective to realize projects with local artists or students, in search of the Europeancultural identity.

Exchange your knowledge and skills on this technique, and share your views on different visual cultures! You can do a shortproject like printing on canvas, T-shirts, stone, stickers..., or, for motivated people, SERIALL also offers the possibility of takingpart in the project that it will develop in AIR Antwerpen until October 15th.

Find out more about SERIALL at : http://seria l l .elshopo.com


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Yuji Watabe1974, JP


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Thinking about My Work

People are alive in the passage of time. The physical time-axis ows equally for everyone yet ones perception of the time-axisis subjective. An individuals thoughts and emotions can lengthen or shorten their experience of the time-axis.

An Escape from PaintingDrawing on the wall released me from the heavy burden of painting. I searched for a way to articulate the eeting existenceof things. I could not achieve this using the traditional methods of oil painting on canvas. When I drew directly on the wall, thedrawing became a temporary recording of the subject. Drawing the subject then became a way to extinguish it.

Method of Drawing

The gures are always drawn using only a pencil. All tones are made by the lines of the pencil. These lines clearly describe theamount of time spent creating these drawings. I choose to represent the gures in a monochromatic grey to avoid the subjectiveimplications and associations people have with color. Black and white gives the images a ghostlike quality that helps the viewerrelate to the concepts of absence and disappearance in the work. The source for the drawings is a photograph. Photographycatches a moment in time. Drawing is a way to prolong that moment within a new subjective time axis.

Choice of Subjects

I am interested in the way people appear and disappear. People meet and separate. After the separation one remains in thememory of the other. The time I spend talking to my friends is very important to me. After that time passes, these intimateexperiences remain in my mind as memories. I draw my friends on the wall in an effort to express these memories, a recreationof that special time.


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Matej Modrinjak1980, Maribor, Slovenia, lives and works in Antwerp


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A short draft of the project Alphakanal:

Alphakanal is a platform for interdisciplinary artistic Activity. It started in 2002 in the Academy in Vienna. The presentations, performances and

actions are streamed live into the web. The project is supported by the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.

I would like to prepare the project Alphakanal in Belgium. A workshop-like event with different participants that will last ve days long. To the

project are invited Academy of ne Arts Vienna, Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten van Antwerpen, HGK Basel and others. The theme

of the workshop is art scene. We will discuss different art models, art market, founding of projects. Compare the countries (example of Austria

as a centralised system, example of Belgium as a dispersed system) and gure out the good things within diverse systems.

Alphakanal agenda:

Monday, Tuesday

In rst two days members of the Alphakanal project will set up a studio where the theme will be discussed and streamed into the web. Some

people will be send to different cities in Belgium to gather information and get know more about galleries, museums, art centrums and other art

related institutions in order to get more transparent view on the art scene that is going on in Belgium.

Wednesday, ThursdayThe studio will be a platform where points of view will be exchanged between students of art, artists, theorists, gallery owners, other art related

people and internet audience.

Friday

Making a summary of the project, the last streaming and Late night show (nal party for all participants involved in the project)

At the moment the Alphakanal team is being selected (7 participants from the academy in Vienna that will come to Belgium).

The detailed agenda will be set in the ongoing month.

Some links on the web:

http://www.aplhakanal.net/http://www.akbild.ac.at/cvk/?I=de&app=searchsite&s=alphakanal&x=0&y=0

http://medien.akbild.ac.at/alphakanal/

Carla Zaccagnini1973, Buenos Aires, Argentina, lives and works in Sao Paolo, Brazil
http://www.alphakanal.net/http://www.akbild.ac.at/cvk/?I=de&app=searchsite&s=alphakanal&x=0&y=0http://medien.akbild.ac.at/alphakanal/http://medien.akbild.ac.at/alphakanal/http://www.akbild.ac.at/cvk/?I=de&app=searchsite&s=alphakanal&x=0&y=0http://www.alphakanal.net/


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Carla Zaccagnini

By Fernanda Albuquerque

Carla Zaccagnini is a versatile artist who uses a multiplicity of materials, techniques and ideas, and the most diverse resources. As the artist exercises an interrogativ

approach, her work incites a similar attentiveness in the observer. Percurso tico [optical journey] (2005), an intervention recently developed at the Pinacoteca do

Estado de So Paulo, involved a group of mirrors that allowed the public to observe one of the paintings from the institutions collection on another oor. Considerabl

motivation was required to discover what this work was about, since the painting in the mirrors much like the questions arising from the work itself was not

immediately obvious to the observer. Experience and contemplation where not an easy task, nor were they ment to be.

Jogo de memria [memory game] (2004) is comprised of a set of 36 similar pictures, among which the player must nd 18 matching pairs a difcult task. The work

proposes an exercise which we are not used to nowadays. Most often, we just train ourselves not to see, explains Zaccagnini. She usually describes her work as

enticements, or stimuli for the viewer to question what is seen and to reect on issues such as cultural public policies. Especially in Brazil, where the art institutions a

extremely fragile, it is very easy to point out imperfections, says the young artist, who has been living in So Paulo for the last 24 years. What I try to do is to transfo

these limits and imperfections into material for my work. This is what she did, for example, when she developed a project on Brazilian contemporary art at the Centro

de Arte Wilfredo Lam in Cuba. Her proposal was to donate a selection of books on Brazilian art to the institutions library.

Zaccagnini s multiplicity can be observed not only in her production; she is also a member of the editorial board of Brazilian magazine Nmero and writes for otherpublications, such as Art Nexus and Arte y Parte. In addition, she was assistant curator of the So Paulo Museum of Modern Art and was recently one of a group of

curators of Farsites, an exhibition in the inSite-05 programme. These activities dont seem to play a secondary role in Zaccagninis performance; rather, they are in

dialogue with her own production of artworks.

Published in Contemporary Magazine Annual, London, January 2006


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AIR Antwerpen enjoys the support of:

The City of Antwerp

The Port of Antwerp

The Flemish Region

Capacete Entretenimentos, Rio de Janeiro

Platform Garanti, Istanbul

07-12-2006: Sarah & Charles, Burckaan Gungu,Artist Talk in samenwerking met kunstenfestival 0090

05-12-2006: Hans Wuyts, Emre Erkael,Artist Talk in samenwerking met kunstenfestival 0090

02-12-2006 11-02-2007: Maija Blafield in het SMAK

Events
http://www.capacete.net/ingles/capacete.asphttp://www.platform.garanti.com.tr/plat_pop.htmlhttp://www.flanders.be/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=MVG_FL/Page/MVG_FL_Home&cid=1018548008451&c=Pagehttp://www.portofantwerp.be/http://www.antwerpen.be/http://www.platform.garanti.com.tr/plat_pop.htmlhttp://www.capacete.net/ingles/capacete.asphttp://www.hiap.fi/http://www.resartis.org/http://www.lokaal01.nl/index.phphttp://www.objectif-exhibitions.org/http://www.nicc.be/http://www.extracity.org/http://www.airantwerpen.be/


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26-10-2006: Artist Talk Michal Dans

28-09-2006: Presentatie Christina Meisner

10-09-2006: OPEN STUDIOS

26-08-2006: OPEN AIR festival met Mauro Pawlowski29-06-2006: Boekpresentatie Gagarin #13 door Wilfried Huet

27-06-2006: Artist Talk Douglas Park

01-06-2006: Artist Talk Lieven Paelinck

16-05-2006: Artist Talk Carla Zaccagnini

25-04-2006: Curator Talk Jaakko Rustanius

09-03-2006: Artist Talk Jochem Vanden Ecker

28-02-2006: Artist Talk Gregory Maass & Nayoungim

16-02-2006: Curator Talk Max Henry

04-01-2005: Matej Modrinjak: Living Room #414-12-2005: Artist Talk Yuji Watabe

09-12-2005: Matej Modrinjak: Living Room # 3

17-11-2005: Christelle Fillod: The Coil of a Snake: boekpresentatie

27-10-2005: Takahiko Suzuki: Show the Flag, presentatie

25-10-2005: Nomadic Exposures

-10-2005: Start Posterproject AIR Antwerpen

05-10-2005: Seriall: Open Workshop in Serigraphy

29-05-2005: Artist Talk Christelle Fillod

27-08-2005: Presentatie Michiel Alberts


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