This weekend five young Zürich based galleries will open their doors and welcome the visitors to a Rendez-view.

BolteLang will presents the second solo show by Swiss artist Florian Germann; Freymond-Guth & Co. will open the first European retrospective of Wales-born painter Sylvia Sleigh; Claudia Groeflin Galerie will present two solo shows by Vanessa Niloufar Safavi and Melodie Mousset; Karma International will be present with a solo show by Swiss artist Emanuele Rossetti and Rotwand Galerie with a solo exhibition by Hannu Karjalainen.
Furthermore, there will be a group show curated by Fredi Fischli and Darsa Comfort with the participation of seven Zurich based gallery.

For the complete program, click here.

Happy holidays to you all. We’ll be thinking about you while we’ll be soaking up the sun on a beach somewhere. See you all back here in September.

Five weeks, five European cities, five successful parties. The Volvo Subject60 tour has come to an end. Disguised as fancy launch events for Volvo’s all-new S60, the tour was a carefully planned and monitored behavioral experiment. Six secret experiments, designed to unveil the naughty side of the citizens, were integrated in the party and monitored by anthropologist Katarina Graffman. The research proved the Milanese to be particularly naughty. Take a look at the images after the jump…

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Me and My Mother is a flipbook realized by Mousse Publishing in conjunction with the eponymous Ragnar Kjartansson exhibition at EX3 Contemporary Art Center in Florence. The book recreates two of the three videos in the project, dividing them into a sequence of images that gradually change from one page to the next, to highlight the three key elements in the work: the maternal figure, an apparently scornful action, and chronological spacing that underscores the inexorable flow of time. Click on see more for a little preview of the book…

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From July 7 to July 12, at Centre Pompidou, the curator Raimundas Malasauskas proposes to reinvent everyday the scenario of an ideal day through a succession of intriguing appointments spread during five days of performances, readings and projections. The artists featured are Pierre Bismuth, Lorenzo Cirricione, Géraldine Longueville, Ana Prvacki, Michael Portnoy, Manon de Boer, Aaron Schuster, Marcos Luytens, Rosalind Nashashibi, Gintaras Didziapetris, Gabriel Lester, Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Audrey Cottin, Sam Durant, Raphaël Siboni et Fabien Giraud, Benjamin Seror et Adva Zakai.

Thermostat is a project that gather 24 French art centers and German Kunstvereine which will be presenting up to 30 joint exhibitions and events between June 2010 and April 2011. The program is based upon an initiative developed by the association of French centres d’art – d. c.a. and the French Institute in Germany and is aimed at initiating co-productions and promoting curatorial exchange on an international level.

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The Darktown Cakewalk: Celebrated from the House of FAME is a thirteeen-hour performance that will take place at Chisenhale Gallery, London, on Saturday, the 10th of July, from 10am to 11pm. The artist and musician Linder, in collaboration with musician Stuart McCallum and fashion designer Richard Nicoll, created an epic invocation of glamour and fantastical pageantry in which witch trials and beauty queens, ragtime and Euro Pop merge to enfold the viewer in a secret history of prejudice and dissent. Best known for her photomontages, such as her artwork on the cover of the 1977 Buzzcocks single Orgasm Addict, over the last three decades Linder has consistently questioned roles of gender identity and commodification in society.

On the evening of Saturday July 3 at Riso, the contemporary art museum of Sicily in Palermo, the brand new Galleria SACS will be opening with a site-specific video installation by Gabriella Ciancimino, If Iu Fil Homsik, Tink in Dailect! – Ritratto in nero di seppia. Besides being an expositive space, the SACS Gallery will also host readings, meetings and seminars with artists and curators.
On the same day, at 7 p.m., Massimo Minini will present his book Pizzini / Sentences, published by Mousse Publishing. Halfway between a book and a memoir, the publication collects anecdotes and memories of the art dealer. For further informations on the book click here.

Soft Information in Your Hard Facts is a catalogue published by Mousse Publishing on the occasion of Gabriel Kuri’s exhibition at Museion, Bolzano. Organized into two different parts, the book is edited by Vincenzo de Bellis, with texts by Vincenzo de Bellis, Letizia Ragaglia and Catherine Wood.
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On June 5th and 6th, for 40 hours non-stop, the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art presented the 7th edition of PARTY AT SERRALVES – one of Europe’s biggest festivals of contemporary artistic expression. In its 7th edition, Party at Serralves brought around 500 artists and tens of thousands of visitors, to the city of Porto. From music, dance, performance, theatre, circus, cinema, video, photography and more, the performers were all around the Museum…

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This evening, at 7.30 pm, you are all invited to Viafarini for the presentation of Souvenir d’Italie. A nonprofit art story, a book edited by Mousse Publishing.
Twenty years after the birth of Viafarini, the publication present the story and the protagonists of the contemporary art world in Italy through the experience of the nonprofit organization.

Click on the image and have a look to some of our new publications

Pizzini / Sentences, Little Constellation / Contemporary Art in Geo-cultural Micro Areas
and Small States of Europe and Pamela Rosenkranz / Our Sun

Marcello Maloberti has developed a site-specific performative setting for the Generali Foundation in Vienna. Die Schmetterlinge essen die Bananen took place on May 20 and, besides the eclectic title, was equally eclectic in its method of production…

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