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DIALOGUES OF WINTER,
DISCOURSES OF SPRING
A Series of Art Talks and Collaborations Inviting
  Artists, Artist-run-spaces, Curators and Cultural Producers

DOWDOS presents:

       
Tuesday 18. April at 8pm at Sparwasser HQ, Torstrasse 161, Berlin-Mitte


Host:   Joel Mu, independent curator

Guests: Henrikke Nielsen + Suzanne van de Ven
(This evening's talk will be held in English)

  When curating under the term: "independent", degrees of 
experimentation are generally presumed, whether rightly or not. This 
lingering association, which in reality may have less to do with 
curators and more to do with certain curatorial contexts, is 
nonetheless a possible feature of curatorial practice. These contexts, 
be they conventional or non-conformist, predicated by some situational 
context or produced 'neutrally' in either temporary or ongoing 
projects, forces one, when linking 'independent' with 'experimental', 
to critically link a relation between different exhibiting spaces and 
curating, in much the same the way. 

  In response to these and other issues, Berlin-based independent 
curator Henrikke Neilson and Amsterdam-based independent curator 
Suzanne van de Ven will, from the contexts of their of work, discuss 
recent, current and fore-coming projects vis-à-vis the curatorial and 
artist profession in general.
Henrikke Neilsen is an independent curator with current projects in 
Berlin and Copenhagen. She is also an art critic for Art Asia Pacific 
and Flash Art International as well as having teaching commitments at 
the Danish Art Academy, Jutland. In 2004, the exhibition, "The build, 
the unbuilt and the unbuildable" was exhibited at the Institute of 
Contempoary Art, Copenhagen, followed by the 2005 co-founding of the 
independent project space CROY NIELSEN in Berlin. In November 2005 
Nielsen curated the exhibition Suspend Disbelief in Sparwasser HQ. For 
2006, Henrikke Nielsen has been invited to guest curate "Was ware wenn 
#5" at JET in Berlin.

Suzanne van de Ven is an independent curator (e.g. The 24th 
Contemporary Artists Exhibition, Aksanat Istanbul, PORTAL I-II, 
Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel and Cargo Series, Loods 6 Amsterdam) 
and writer (Metropolis M, Paletten, Art-Ist) based in Amsterdam. She 
currently holds a guest-professorship for Exhibition Practice and 
Analysis at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, 
implemented by the curating class of the University of Amsterdam in 
cooperation with the Sandberg Institute in 2002 and conducted it since, 
and is a member of the advisory board of SKOR, the Dutch foundation for 
art and public space. Van de Ven is presently working on an exhibition 
project in Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam that will translocate to 
subsequent places, among which Diyarbakir (Turkey), and on a 
collaborative project in Tallinn ( Estonian Art Museum).




  TONIGHT'S TALK HAS BEEN KINDLY SUPPORTED BY THE ROYAL NETHERLAND'S 
EMBASSY, BERLIN



 
  next talk: Tuesday 25/04 @ 8PM

  Guests: "Whitney Program Revisted: Berlin-Based Artists Discuss the 
Program's Relation to their Practice"

Co-Hosted by: Henriette Bretton-Meyer + Michael Baers

  online program: http://www.sparwasserhq.de/Index/HTMLmar6/DOWDOS.htm

DOWDOWS Concept and Hosted by: Michael Bears, Henriette Bretton-Meyer, 
Saim Demircan, Catherine Griffiths, Joel Mu and Lise Nellemann.
   
  Continuing Sparwasser HQ's already 5 year commitment to self economy 
and auto curating, DIALOGUES OF WINTER, DISCOURSES OF SPRING (DOWDOS) 
re-visits Sparwasser HQ's program of "artists inviting artists" in a 
series of evening talks open to nomadic artists, curators, cultural 
producers and artist-run-spaces currently residing or moving through 
Berlin. These talks hosted by Michael Baers, Henriette Bretton-Meyer, 
Saim Demircan, Catherine Griffiths, Joel Mu and Lise Nellemann have 
been organized to turn Sparwasser HQ into an Open Studio, which works 
towards building future collaborations and partnerships in Berlin and 
elsewhere.
   
  Opening on Tuesday 28 February at 8pm and then every other Tuesday 
until the 06 June, DOWDOS will provide the initial architecture for 
invited participants to make new, or establish further contacts in 
Berlin, by communicating and distributing their own subject-brand of 
artistic ideas.  Sharing and testing these ideas (and practices) within 
6 different hosted settings, DOWDOS will re-examine the model of 
Artists Talks' by exploring different modes of presentation and 
discussion. Each evening will have its own particular agenda, structure 
and intended outcome, including moderated discussion, presentations of 
artist-run-spaces and exchanges between curators, open studio and 
collaborative projects with partner exhibiting spaces.





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creative dialogues between visual artists in Denmark and international 
contemporary art.

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