15.09.-06.10. VIEWINGCLUB 8 in Bonn/Germany

VC 8, in cooperation with Kunstverein Bonn, Germany, details www.bonner-kunstverein.de and viewingclub.org (please note: site no longer active)

Here is a text on Viewing Club I wrote

BERLIN
LONDON
HAMBURG
PARIS
LOS ANGELES
Chicago
Dublin
Vienna
Nottingham
Nice

viewingclub.org

Viewing Club is a nomadic artspace started 2005 in Berlin by artists Heike Kelter (D) and David Tidball (GB). Viewing Club is a non-profit project about artistic curatorial self-empowerment.

Since 2005 Viewing Clubs were held in Berlin, Hamburg, Bonn, Vienna and London. In every city partnerships were formed with curators, artspaces and art-organisations to cooperate or host Viewing Club presentations.
Viewing club is an open format, whose strength is its permanent alteration of exhibition concepts (for instance shows in pubs and karaoke bars, sculpture shows in parks or as attachment to White Cube shows) and its integration in different cities and their art-scenes.
Viewing Club is independent from common formats of exhibiting and thereby can be staged and initiated everywhere.

Viewing Club shows emerging and established positions of contemporary art. Through changing international participants (by invite or recommendation) a di-vers and unique temporary groupshow develops with every Viewing Club.
Viewing Club is a platform for active cultural exchange, networking and a contribution to staging contemporary art on an international scale directly out of the artists’ studio.
Artists that have exhibited with Viewing Club include

Andreas Hofer
Theo Ligthart
Florian Kompatscher
Iskender Jediler
Ulli Wulff
Ralph Andersen
Robert Welch
Richard Tate
Martin Mcginn
Dexter Dalwood
David Tidball
Heike Silbernagel
Andre Butzer
Klaus Haas
Eric Robertson
Maja Körner
Tine Furler
Olivia Berkemeier
Bianca Schoenig
Lutz Braun
Thomas Zipp
Thomas Helbig
Ben Contrell
Mariola Groener
Astrid Sourkowa
Ulli Hakel
Jens Mentrup
Daniel Müller-Friedrich
Andreas Templin
Chris Krönke
Joep van Liefland
Tjorg Douglas Beer
Chris Pate
Markus Sendlinger
Thomas Schrören
Bettina Semmer
Peter Stauss

Viewing Club No.6 Lovelite, Berlin/Germany

04.02- 04.03. Viewing Club London

held at the Uxbridge Arms Pub

Andreas Templin, "Untitled (Heidegger)", 2003, c-print, different versions


"This was the second viewing club held in London, at The Uxbridge Arms, Elephant & Castle.
There were 150 artists contributing work. The D Band came from Berlin to play especially on the opening night.
Wheelie made a stop in London on their tour across Europe, which started in Berlin and finished in Glasgow. Work was exhibited inside Wheelie (photos here later). Again the event was well attended, a good time was had by all that could find it.
Critics and galleries were in attendance.The show ran for four weeks." Quoted from the no longer existing website viewingclub.org

RE-ESCAPE, Hamburg/Germany

11.11.- 27.11. re-escape.com



"In November 2005, there will be installations, sculptures, exhibitions and actions as well as films in different places of the city of Hamburg. The participants are young artists from Hamburg and internationally acknowledged artists.

Spaces which appear strange to the normal user of the city or which have withdrawn from his disposal, or where overfunctionalized regimentations of use imply latent manipulation, mesures and concepts put in concrete terms are practised for general re-vitalization and prevention of town planning faux-pas. Furthermore, different anti-regression mechanisms, exploit left-overs of quality of life, exit scenarios, utopian wrong tracks and inner migration schemes will lead to camp building in urban space."

Participating artists included: John Bock, Manfred Pernice, Luke Fowler and many others.
My work was part of the presentation of Viewing Club held in a bar at the Elbterrassen.