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LOOP Barcelona Balcony at artgenève 2020

30 January — 2 February 2020

— A specialised section of artists' film and video through monographic presentations by international galleries

LOOP Barcelona Balcony at artgenève 2020
Artists
Zbynek Baladran, Adrián Balseca, Cecilia Bengolea, Olga Chernysheva, Péter Forgács, LOOP Barcelona Balcony at artgenève 2020, Patrick Hough, David Maljkovic, Angelika Markul and Nashashibi / Skaer
Venue
artgenève – Palexpo SA
A project by
LOOP Barcelona in collaboration with artgenève
Contributor
This project would not have been possible without the implication of all the participating galleries, and part of the LOOP family: Albarrán Bourdais, àngels barcelona, Ani Molnár Gallery, BERG Contemporary, Galería SENDA, Gandy gallery, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, GRIMM, Iragui, narrative projects
Tickets & register
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Entrance to the Fair is free with the professional accreditation. The tickets' cost is otherwise listed on the website.

Date and hours
30 January — 2 February 2020 Add to calendar
As a first collaboration with artgenève, LOOP Barcelona presents a selection of artists' film and video in the context of the partnering French fair.

LOOP Barcelona BALCONY proposes an overview of video and film today, within the context of artgenève. There lies the reason for the name ‘Balcony’.

The section features 10 stands as individual projections rooms, in the likes of the LOOP Fair. The selection results into a series of monographic presentations, so to facilitate the reception of the medium while slowing down a fair’s hectic pace. Picked among the participants of last year’s LOOP Fair in Barcelona, the galleries have been selected with the intention to establish a dynamic dialogue with artgenève’s overall programme. This collaboration was first initiated at LOOP Barcelona 2019, with a dinner-gathering and party promoted by artgenève at the Ocaña Rastaurant in Plaza Real, an emblematic venue located in the centre of the city.

131 minutes & 48 seconds of video art

In museums, biennials and galleries people tend to wonder about the duration of the videos, and this is exaclty why we decided to emphasize the temporal aspect of the medium – and particularly in a country like Switzerland !

Hence we thought of the title “131 minutes & 48 seconds of video art”, which simply refers to the total duration of the works presented in our section. Following the same reasoning, the participating galleries are being addressed and distributed according to the duration of the film they present. Time, thus, becomes the guiding principle of the section in its entirety.

5’10’’
David Maljkovic, Afterform, 2013 / Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna

6’
Zbynek Baladran, Catastrophe, 2019 / Gandy gallery, Bratislava

6’03’’
Cecilia Bengolea, Lighting Dance, 2018 / àngels barcelona, Barcelona

6’19’’
Nashashibi / Skaer, Lamb, 2019 / GRIMM, Amsterdam & NY

8’32’’
Angelika Markul, Marella, 2019 / Albarrán Bourdais, Madrid

9’26’’
Adrián Balseca, Phantom Recorder, 2018 / Galería SENDA, Barcelona

11’50’’
Olga Chernysheva, Park, 2017 / Iragui, Moscow

22’14’’
Patrick Hough, And If In A Thousand Years, 2017 / narrative projects, London

27’49’’
Sigurður Guðjónsson, Enigma, 2019 / BERG Contemporary, Reykjavik

29’
Peter Forgács, Venom-A Diva in Exile, 2018 / Ani Molnár Gallery, Budapest

About the time we live in

LOOP Barcelona, the platform that since 2003 has been dedicated to the study and promotion of the moving image, has been invited to participate to artgenève 2020 with a section dedicated to offer visitors a glimpse of the broad panorama of video and film in today’s contemporary art scene.

Departing from a selection of 10 international art galleries, the program aims at exploring through video and film a series of closely intertwined topics, which deeply affect our fragile contemporaneity: the global economy, ecology, technology, and migration.

In an era marked by the impact of uncontrolled human activity on Earth, the importance of protecting our ecosystem becomes a core research subject for contemporart art and other disciplines alike. The collaboration between diverse agents working in fields as different as science and dance, results in the production of new forms of knowledge. And this is precisely what viewers will see reproduced on the screens of LOOP Barcelona BALCONY at artgenève.

The selection in details

The connecting thread between nature and culture, its close observation and its effects on humanity, becomes clear in the works of artists such as Angelika Markul (Albarrán Bourdais, Madrid), Sigurôr Guojonsson (BERG Contemporary, Reykjavik), Cecilia Bengolea (àngels barcelona, Barcelona) or Adrián Balseca (Galería SENDA, Barcelona).

At the same time, it is our fragility as human beings that is constantly pushed into the foreground, as we are also affected by geopolitical and geo-economic affairs in the construction of our personal (hi)stories. The imagery produced by artists illustrating personal testimonies –in the form of a shared collectivity or a common memory –, can be found in the works by Peter Forgács (Ani Molnár Gallery, Budapest), Nashibi / Skaer (GRIMM, Amsterdam), Olga Chernysheva (Iragui, Moscow) or Patrick Hough (narrative projects, London).

Finally, let’s not forget that the origin of video art, is intrinsically linked to society’s technological advancements. This is, indeed, the last thread to touch upon when thinking about the themes that LOOP Barcelona BALCONY aims to survey. A critical view of the power embodied in the algorithms of a digital society, controlled by big corporations, is something to be perceived in the work by Zbynek Baladran (Gandy gallery, Bratislava) whereas David Maljković’s film (Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna), inspired by a cartoon published in a Croatian architectural magazine from the 1960s, satirizes modern architecture and urban planning.

Adrián Balseca

Artist
www.adrianbalseca.net/en/work.html

1989, Quito

Adrián Balseca

Adrian Balseca’s work aims to activate strategies of representation, narration, and/or interaction in order to highlight cultural specificities of a particular place. It explores the relationship and tensions between industrial and craft practices, revealing a fascination with the historical processes, and the configuration of materials involved in the production of manufactured goods. His work often involves transforming the composition of daily objects or certain civil laws into other material forms, or legal experiences. These projects —from small interventions to large-scale ‘site-specific’ actions or video documentations— elaborate on ideas of emerging economies, nature, power, and social memory.

Last update: October 14th, 2019.

Cecilia Bengolea

Artist, Participant

1979, Buenos Aires

Cecilia Bengolea

Cecilia Bengolea (Buenos Aires, 1979), works on a range of media including performance, video and sculpture. Using dance as a tool and a medium for radical empathy and emotional exchange. Infused with the symbolic energies found within nature and relationships, her compositions are formed around ideas of the body – both individually and collectively – as a medium. Bengolea develops a broad artistry where she sees movement, dance and performance as animated sculpture.

Bengolea has collaborated with dancehall artists such as Craig Black Eagle, Bombom DHQ, Damion BG, and with artists Dominique Gonzalez Forster and Jeremy Deller. Her collaborative work with French choreographer François Chaignaud, Pâquerette (2005-2008) and Sylphides (2009), have earned several awards such as the Award de la Critique de Paris in 2010 and the Young Artist Prize at the Gwangju Biennial in 2014. They have also co-created dance pieces for their dance company as well as for the Ballet de Lyon (2013), the Ballet de Lorraine (2014) and Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal.

Cecilia Bengolea’s work is a part of numerous public and private collections including TBA21 Accademy, Mire Fond Cantonal de La Ville de Geneve, The Vinyl Factory, Le CNAP, Le Consortium, Peter Handschin and Martin Hatebur, Fiorucci Arts and Trusts, Tank Shanghai, Fundacion Arco, Jimena Blazquez Bonte,  Fernando Arriola.

Olga Chernysheva

Artist
www.olgachernysheva.ru

1962, Moscow

Olga Chernysheva

Olga Chernysheva is a leading name from the Moscow generation emerging in the 90s who made a name for herself during a period of great political and cultural changes, which were, however, partly determined by the difficult reforms of the Soviet system and the economic problems that affected a large part of the population. Her work in different media – including very short essays which she combines with still or moving images – is based on a close observation of the reality around her. Chernysheva was born in Moscow in 1962. She studied in Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow (specialization Animation) and in the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. She represented Russia at the Venice Biennale of 2001. Her works were displayed at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015), Manifesta 10 in Saint-Petersburg (2014), 1st Bergen Triennale, Bergen, Norway (2013).

Last update: October 8th, 2019

Péter Forgács

Artist

1950, Budapest

Péter Forgács

Péter Forgács is a media artist and independent filmmaker, based in Budapest. Since 1978 he has made more than thirty films and several media installations. He is best known for his “Private Hungary” series of award-winning films and installations, which document ordinary lives that were soon to be ruptured by an extraordinary historical trauma that occurs off-screen. His international debut came with The Bartos Family (1988). Since then he has received several international festival awards – New York, Budapest, Lisbon, Marseilles, San Francisco and Berlin. Between 2000-2002 Forgács was artist in residence at The Getty Museum/Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, where he created The Danube Exodus: Rippling Currents of the River installation. He represented Hungary in 2009 at the Venice Biennale with his project entitled ‘Col Tempo – The W. Project’. In 2018, Forgács’s piece ‘Venom’ was awarded with the Acquisition Award at Loop Barcelona.

Last update: October 17th, 2019.

 

Angelika Markul

Artist
www.angelikamarkul.net

1977, Szczecin

Angelika Markul

Angelika Markul (Szczecin, 1977) lives and works in Paris. She graduated at the National School of Fine Arts of Paris, with a recognition in the multimedia lab of Christian Boltanski.
She has recently received the Coal 2016 Award, which recognizes the work of artists whose art is environmental compromised. She also received the Sam Art award in 2013.
Among her recent individual exhibitions, we can find Terre de départ, at the Palais de Tokyo (2014), and Naturaleza Reimaginada, currently on display at the Muntref in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Her artistic practice shifts between video, sculpture and installation, contributing with a poetic and plastic vision about dangerous or conflicting situations. Her works, dark and powerful, draw a map of humanity back to the most remote places. She is interested in uncommon and isolated landscapes; being time, memory, mankind and nature the common thread of her work.

Artists: Zbynek Baladran, Patrick Hough, David Maljkovic, Nashashibi / Skaer