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12/09/07

PRAGUEBIENNALE3

After nearly four months, Prague Biennale 3 is coming to a close. British curators and journalists are on a special visit this week to Prague. A new record of visitors has been set. The Mattoni prize has been awarded to the young painter Daniel Pitin.

Inaugurated May 24th, after nearly four months, Prague Biennale 3 will close its doors this coming Sunday, the 16th of September.
A large, international survey with around 250 artists from all over the world and three special, international stars, Marina Abramovic, Shirin Neshat and Vanessa Beecroft with video works the artist themselves esteemed to be most representative of their respective practices.
The great interest demonstrated by the world in this edition, even richer than the former, is bringing to Prague a group of 14 British curators, driven by the desire to visit the biennale as well as explore contemporary Czech art, which still lacks visibility abroad and is hardly represented by private galleries, museums and international collections. Among others, representatives from Tate Modern and the Hayward gallery in London will come this Thursday.

Prague Biennale 3 in this third edition, confirms itself as the most significant event of Central Europe and more. Its polyphonic formula with a broad spectrum of curators (after the example of the famous Aperto 93, in the Venice Biennale of the same year, conceived and curated by Helena Kontova and Giancarlo Politi and in which Maurizio Cattelan defined the exhibition that changed the structure of art in those years until today), based on 22 different curatorial projects, with artists coming from 35 different countries and a low budget, brought to Prague more than 40 thousand visitors - a number hitherto unrecorded for an exhibition of contemporary art in the Czech Republic. The visitors, whose average age was around 32, were 35% foreigners and 65% Czechs and Slovaks.

For this edition of the Biennale, our general sponsor Mattoni decided to create a prize for a young Czech artist, "Objev na Prague Biennale 3." The Mattoni prize, awarded by a jury consisting of Mattoni's director of strategic marketing, Gabriele Guzzo, the organizers of Prague Biennale 3, Helena Kontova and Giancarlo Politi and representatives of Czech artists and curators, Jiri David and Jiri Sefcik, will be officially given to Daniel Pitin the day of the biennale's closing.

Daniel Pitin, whose paintings were presented in the biennale in the section Expanded Painting was selected for his high degree of innovation and maturity as expressed in his work, influenced by cinematographic stills transformed into architecture and urban landscapes.

Prague Biennale will also award an unusual prize to an artist voted on by visitors, whose name will be revealed only after the closing of this edition.

05/06/07

PRAGUEBIENNALE3 catalogue

Who are today's emerging artists? And the photographers or the new tendencies from Central Europe? And what about the "German macho" painters? This and much more you will find in the PRAGUE BIENNALE 3 catalogue. It is being prepared as we speak. Where you can buy a page of advertising at the exclusive launch price.

PRAGUE BIENNALE 3 catalogue is being prepared at this very moment; it will be "a real new encyclopaedia of today's art in Europe".


Who are the emerging painters to look out for or the new tendencies from Central Europe raring to become international protagonists? And the artists whose work is characterized by a strong social content? This and much much more (circa 250 artists) you will find in the PRAGUE BIENNALE 3 catalogue being prepared now and which will come out for the opening of Prague Biennale 3 (May 24th).
The catalogue, printed in 15,000 copies and distributed globally, will take your work and your image across the world.
THE SPECIAL LAUNCH PRICE FOR A FULL PAGE COLOUR ADVERTISEMENT in this beautiful catalogue, 23x16,5 cm format, is 500 EUR. Hurry now to contact us and send us your artwork. This is a unique opportunity for Galleries, Artists and Events.

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21/05/07

PRAGUEBIENNALE3

INVITATION TO PRAGUE BIENNALE 3 PREVIEW
Thursday May 24^th 2007, 4 PM - 7 PM
Friday May 25^th, Saturday 26th from 11 AM to 7 PM

RSVP by May 23rd
Contact +420 222 314 690
No admission will be accepted without RSVP
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The full programme of PRAGUEBIENNALE 3, including a list of all the curators and artists, can be found on our website: www.flashartonline.com

15/05/07

PRAGUEBIENNALE3
24 May - 16 September 2007 Karlin Hall - Thamova 14 - Prague 8

In the labyrinth of Central Europe, collective memory and the boundaries of painting meet in Prague for the third year running.

Now in its third year, PRAGUEBIENNALE re-launches itself once more. Through a vast display of both recent and past works (from painting and photography to performance and installation art) this year's edition aims to explore and pinpoint the most significant aspects of Central European art. The show displays works by artists young and old, new and affirmed, as well as covering the very movements that shaped the sixties and seventies.
Special exhibitions have been dedicated to Czech minimalism and Slovak actionism, which, hitherto, have not been documented on an international level.
Following upon the success new artists have achieved after participating in 'Expanded Painting' (PRAGUEBIENNALE veritably 'baptised' or, so to speak, 'consecrated' Andro Wekua, Matthias Weischer, Dana Schutz, Tal R, Victor Man and Wilhelm Sasnal), Expanded Painting 2, will present twenty emerging European artists.
There will be a special focus on the 'School of Cluj' in Romania, which, after Leipzig and Dresden, is proving to be a veritable goldmine of contemporary painters.
Moreover, the fair pays homage to three seminal artists: Above all, however, the true stars of PRAGUEBIENNALE3 are indeed the very cultures and minor stories of Central Europe.

Director, PRAGUEBIENNALE3
Giancarlo Politi - giancarlo.politi@tin.it


SPECIAL GUESTS: Marina Abramovic, Vanessa Beecroft, Shirin Neshat

EXPANDED PAINTING 2

(Curated by Helena Kontova and Giancarlo Politi):
Special homage: Carla Accardi
Dimitrios Antonitsis, Michael Bauer, Pablo Bronstein, Bonnie Camplin, Valerio Carrubba, Radu Comsa, Jiri David, Jules de Balincourt, Igor Eskinja, Adrian Ghenie, Charlie Hammond, Kika Karadi, Nate Lowman, Angelo Mosca, Djordje Ozbolt, Daniel Pitin, Pietro Roccasalva, Alessandro Roma, Matthieu Ronsse, Stefan Sandner, Serban Savu, Josh Smith, Ulla von Brandenburg.

DER PROZESS. Collective memory and social history.

(Curated by Marco Scotini):
Janis Avotins, Zbynek Baladran, Chto Delat? / What is to be done?, Harun Farocki / Andrei Ujica, Luca Frei/Gruppo Parole e Immagini, Kaspars Goba, Ion Grigorescu, Dmitry Gutov, Iosif Kiraly, Armando Lulaj, David Maljkovic, Dan Mihaltianu, Ciprian Muresan, Vlad Nanca, Deimantas Narkevicius, Roman Ondak, Adrian Paci, Cristian Pogacean, Ian Tweedy, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, Vanghelis Vlahos, Martin Zet.

WHAT WENT WRONG

(Curated by Andrea Bellini):
Four top Californian artists will explore Prague, its culture and history in their project in situ prepared during their three-week stay in Prague. Chris Beas, Pentti Monkkonen, Eric Wesley, Mario Ybarra Jr.

STORY TELLERS

(Curated by Gea Politi e Sonia Rosso):
Art as Narration. Massimiliano Buvoli, Jeremy Deller, Luke Fowler, Mathew Sawyer, and Jonathan Monk.

ALIAS/ALIASES

(Curated by Virginia Hackermann):
The project concentrates on different aspects of identity: specifically, on virtual identities. Kathleen Cleaver, Virginia Hackermann, Victor Lucas, Massimo Poma, Lilith Pomme.

TRUCK ART

(Curated by Joe Frazer and Gea Politi):
The famous 'gallery in a truck' presents a project by British artist Jonathan Monk. The piece is inspired by artist John Chamberlain's story and a sculpture of his that accidentally ended up in the garbage.

GLOCAL OUTSIDERS

(Curated by Jiri David, Vasil Artamonov):
Provides a large view of recent contemporary art in the Czech and Slovak Republics. Jasper Alvaer, Vasil Artamonov / Alexej Klyuykov, Daniela Barackova, Ondrej Brody / Kristofer Paetau, Lada Gaziova, Eva Kotatkova, Jiri Kovanda, Ladvi, Dominik Lang, Vaclav Magid, Jan Mancuska, Marek Meduna, Jan Nalevka, Petr Pisarik, Reality, Evzen Simera, Jiri Skala, Vladimir Skrepl, Vaclav Stratil, Marek Ther, Jiri Tyn.

SECOND VIEW: New Czech and Slovak female photography

(Curated by Juraj Carny and Lydia Pribisova):
Michal Cernusak, Anetta Mona Chisa / Lucia Tkacova, Mario Chromy, Juraj Dudas, Richard Fajnor, Viktor Freso, Miroslava Gaberova, Marian Grolmus, Lukas Harustiak, Dorota Kenderova, Marek Kvetan, Matus Lanyi, Stano Masar, Michal Moravcik, Ilona Nemeth.

LEMON BAR. Site Sensitive and Context specific Art from Slovakia

(Curated by Juraj Carny and Lydia Pribisova):
David Baffi, Michal Cernusak, Anetta Mona Chisa / Lucia Tkacova, Mario Chromy, Juraj Dudas, Richard Fajnor, Viktor Freso, Miroslava Gaberova, Marian Grolmus, Lukas Harustiak, Dorota Kenderova, Marek Kvetan, Matus Lanyi, Stano Masar, Michal Moravcik, Ilona Nemeth, Vlasta Zakova.

CZECH MINIMALISM

(Curated by Martin Dostal):
The development of the movement between the '60s and '80s: Milan Grygar, Stanislav Kolibal, Jiri Kovanda, Karel Malich, Karel Miler, Jan Mlcoch, Petr Stembera, Zdenek Sykora.

BETWEEN ACTION AND CONCEPT

(Curated by Juraj Carny):
Milan Adamciak, Peter Bartos, Robert Cyprich, Stano Filko, Michal Kern, Julius Koller, Milos Laky, Alex Mlynarcik, Rudolf Sikora.

MONUMENT TO TRANSFORMATION – FRAGMENT#5

(Curated by Vit Havranek and Zbynek Baladran):
Monument of Transformation is an installation of artworks, objects and theoretical statements that develops in time. It started in 2006 as an interdisciplinary (art - art theory) project focused on the topic of cultural, social and political "transformation". Artists: Kajsa Dahlberg, Sanja Ivekovic, Alexander Kiossev, Milica Tomic.

BALTIC MYTHOLOGIES

(Curated by Laima Kreivyte and Luigi Fassi):
Emerging artists from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the context of a New Europe. Coolturistes, Merike Estna, Laura Garbstiene, Ugnius Gelguda, Kristina Inciuraite, Alice Kask, Kristine Kursisha, Katerina Neiburga, Mark Raidpere, Kriss Salmanis.

MACHO PAINTER

(Curated by Andreas Schlaegel):
A reaction to the return of neo-academic male painting in Germany: Heike Beyer, Susanne Bürner, Berta Fischer, Marten Frerichs, Tine Furler, Jukka Korkeila, Kirstine Roepstorff, Andreas Schlaegel, Gunna Schmidt, Milena Vrtalova, Christine Würmell, Haegue Yang.

THE NEW ROMANIAN SCENE

(Curated by Simona Nastac):
Presenting the most unusual Romanian artists. Matei Bejenaru, Victor Man, Ciprian Muresan, Sebastian Moldovan, Ioana Nemes.

BIZART TRAVEL AGENCY

(Curated by Xu Zhen and Davide Quadrio):
Experience China and its contemporary society and culture. An agency specialised in tailored travel for museums, curators, artists, collectors and anybody who is interested in investing in Chinese Art.

FROM KOSOVO TO KALININGRAD

(Curated by Aaron Moulton):
An extraordinary journey through Central Europe and the Ex-USSR. Luchezar Boyadjiev, Alexey Chebykin, Jakup Ferri, Ciprian Muresan, R.E.P. Group.

HUNGARIAN PROJECT

(Curated by Kati Simon and Gergely Laszlo):
An exploration of new Hungarian art. Istvan Csakany, Andrea Schneemeier, Aniko Lorant, Marcell Esterhazy, Zsolt Fekete, Miklos Mecs / Borbala Sarai / Csaba Vandor.

20/04/07

PRAGUEBIENNALE3

Glocal & Outsiders
The third edition of the most important event of Central European art can be found from the 24^th of May until the 16^th of September.

PRAGUE BIENNALE, has by now become a much anticipated appointment in the art world in general and particularly in all of Central Europe. It will be on view from May 24^th until September 16^th 2007. The seat of this event will be in its signature location where it was hosted last year: in the magnificent post-industrial space of Karlin Hall, this year radically transformed thanks to the futuristic modifications of Getulio Alviani. The theme that binds the PRAGUE BIENNALE 3 is Glocal & Outsiders, giving a survey of local cultural positions framed through an international lens.

The central nucleus will be represented by an attentive display of the new artistic realities of the Czech and Slovak Republic (New Scene, New Photography, Minimalism and Conceptual Art in the Czech and Slovak Republic from the Seventies until today, curated by Jiri David, Vasil Artamonov, Juraj Carny, Vladimir Birgus, Martin Dostal), What Went Wrong curated by Andrea Bellini presents three of the hottest Californian artists who will explore the culture and history of Prague. Baltic Mythologies provides emerging artists from the ends of Europe (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and is curated by Laima Kreivyte and Luigi Fassi).

From Kosovo to Kaliningrad translates and extraordinary voyage from throughout Central Europe and Ex-USSR as curated by Aaron Moulton. Marco Scotini's exhibition The Process dissects collective memory and social histories. And to finish, Expanded Painting unites all possibilities of painting and its tangents through the curation of Helena Kontova and Giancarlo Politi as obtained through direct collaboration from qualified tastemakers and artist friends.
These principally definitive projects, in addition to other as yet unannounced sections, cohere to define this event's scope. In the next press release PRAGUE BIENNALE 3's entire galaxy will be exposed complete with the names of nearly fifty invited artists.

Giancarlo Politi - giancarlo.politi@tin.it
Helena Kontova - info@praguebiennale.org
Directors Prague Biennale