Jury - the Spring Exhibition 2010 + 24/7
Claude Closky (FR) b. 1963, Jury President
Artist and Curator. Lives and works in Paris.
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At first sight, Claude Closky is an artist who rubs shoulders with immateriality. He is at ease with electronic media, and some of the objects he makes do not reveal themselves instantly: the books, for example.
Among the materials he uses — images, texts, numbers, and sounds sampled from our environment — language seems to be the most direct instrument of appropriation. But this does not make his work any less concerned with its material specificity, its degree of visibility, with how it occupies the space.
Closky takes hold of the most ordinary modes of everyday communication and lays open its forms by discreetly re-articulating it, or redistributing visibility or words. He plays with the day-to-day rules, codes and hierarchies that punctuate our existence. You think you’re slipping into automatic actions, but in fact you have entered a maze. The result can be surprising, the disappointment is calculated, and a persistent throbbing remains.
Read more here:
Internet projects: www.sittes.net
General info:
www.closky.info
Cecilia Gelin (SE), b. 1963
Art Historian and Researcher. Lives and works in Gothenburg.
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Gelin was the director of NIFCA, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki from 1996 to 2006. NIFCA was a laboratory for experimental exhibition forms, curatory practices, public programmes, critical discourse, etc. She has been chief editor of the Swedish art periodical Paletten, and has taught and researched in art history. Cecilia Gelin has been responsible for the preliminary work for a ceramics triennale to take place in Lidkøping 2010, and is at present catalogue editor for Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art as well as project leader for the theoretical programme The Saloon.
Johan Holten (DK), b. 1976
Art Historian, Curator and Director at Heidelberger Kunstverein.
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Has curated over 40 exhibitions featuring such artists as Walid Raad, Andreas Siekmann, Marcel van Eeden and Simons Starling. Since 2006, he has been director of one of Germany’s largest art associations, Heidelberger Kunstverein, and is chairman of the Association of German Art Associations.
Børre Sæthre (NO), b. 1967
Artist. Lives and works in New York, Berlin and Oslo.
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His art draws on architecture, interior design and scenography. Via installations that are both aesthetically seductive and psychologically disturbing he creates futurist and fairytale scenarios. He has recently exhibited at Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense i Denmark, PSA in New York, Towada Art Center in Japan, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway and the Astrup-Fearnley Museum for Moderne Kunst in Oslo.
Salla Tykkä (FI), b. 1973
Artist. Lives and works in Helsinki.
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The theme of her filmic works is emotional and psychological transformations lived out by young women. The films take place in a combination of natural and constructed surroundings, and the situations are ambiguous and emotionally charged via the skilful use of filmic effects that remind one of Hitchcock.
Salla Tykkä is Finland’s most prominent young artist within film and photography, with recent solo exhibitions at De Appel in Amsterdam, St. Gallen in Switzerland, Portikus in Frankfurt and group exhibitions at PS1 in New York and Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
Read more at www.sallatykka.com
