CASZUIDAS URBAN SCREEN FESTIVAL AWARD

The 1st CASZUIDAS Urban Screen Festival Award of Virtueel Museum Zuidas has been granted to the German artist Andreas Templin for "as if to nothing" and to the British artist duo John Wood & Paul Harrison for "Shelf". The jury, headed up by SKOR director Fulya Erdemci, intentionally named not one, but two artworks as winners in order to emphasize the scope and possibilities for presenting artworks on an urban screen.

eco-japan-cup 2008

Andreas Templin's new videoartwork "as if to nothing" is one of the recipients of this year's eco-japan-cup. The computer-based artwork received one of the runners-up-prizes in the art-category. The prize-ceremony was held in Tokyo on December 12th.

"as if to nothing", 2008, computer-based single-channel videowork with sound

The videowork „as if to nothing“ comprises of a selection of statistical data of the earth and its population. This data, gathered from various governmental sources, displayed in a very specific and subjective interdependency, is combined with the highly dramatic second move of Bruckner‘s 7th symphony which is looped for the screening. This music-piece, a tour-de-force through the human emotions, is used to underline the weight of the subject-matter of this artwork.

Andreas Templin winner of EGOART-prize 2006

The work nominated for the competition was "Monument for Donatella Versace", an installative mixed-media work with performative elements of the year 2005. The art-group "EGOART" hands out this prize. They state about it: "The prize is focused on contemporary art and also has the ambition to encourage projects with unconventional character even if those works would cross the frame of the established ethical, social or sociological rules."
exhibition on view at Bastart gallery, Bratislava/Slovakia. Please check www.egoart.sk for details



"Monument for Donatella Versace" in Berlin on the occasion of Artforum 2005, presented by Safia Dickersbach art management and pr, photography by Sven Meurer




On this occasion I would like to thank especially:
Version Festival Chicago, Doug vander Hoof, Safia Dickersbach, Sven Meurer, Christin Aileen Spiess and Magistrale Berlin

"crashed satellite", winner of Concours Belluard Bollwerk International

shown 19.06. inner-city of Fribourg and 24.06. in the exhibition space of the Belluard Bollwerk.

with the kind support of the Fondation Nestlé pour l’Art and Canton Fribourg www.belluard.ch




opening of the festival with the directors Stéphane Noël and Gion Capeder