VIDEOCLOOP Menu
Loop

SLOWLY GETTING INTO IT

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 4 — 5:30 pm

— Private Session

SLOWLY GETTING INTO IT

Festivals  – and fairs – are almost-compulsory meeting places for practitioners, as much as they are official up-to-dates of current production. How do these rendez-vous create and reflect on a propitious space and time for production? How producers are offered a context for that and how do they modulate the impact of the rhythm propelled?

Théo-Mario Coppola

Curator
Théo-Mario Coppola

Théo-Mario Coppola is a curator and arts writer. They are currently based in Paris, France.

Viewing aesthetic issues as inherently tied to social struggles, Théo-Mario Coppola’s curatorial and critical practice engages with research-based, experimental, narrative and political forms. The projects they have conducted deal with experiences of concrete utopia, personal and collective narratives of emancipation, as well as initiatives of resistance, and examine how these enable the transformation of values in art, governance and society.
Their recent curated exhibitions and programmes include three annual chapters of the HOTEL EUROPA series in various cities across Europe between 2017 and 2019, the third edition of the Nuit Blanche arts festival at Villa Medici in Rome, Italy, in 2018, and the eleventh edition of the MOMENTUM biennale in Moss, Norway, in 2021.

Théo-Mario Coppola has contributed to catalogues, magazines and online publications. They regularly lecture on radical aesthetic practices at art schools and universities.

Last update: November 17th, 2022

Fleur van Muiswinkel

Participant
Fleur van Muiswinkel

Fleur van Muiswinkel (1981) is the artistic coordinator of the Contour Biennale and contemporary art at nona art centre in Mechelen (Belgium).

After her Art History studies, she started working at Office for Contemporary Art Norway for three years until 2009. She became an independent curator after obtaining her Master’s Degree in Curating at Goldsmiths University in London in 2011. Before she started as artistic coordinator for the Contour Biennial, she worked as a visual arts programmer at the Brakke Grond, curator of performance and coordinator of contemporary art at the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam. She is the co-founder of A Tale of a Tub in Rotterdam and initiated several national and international exhibitions in The Netherlands and abroad. Fleur is currently a board member of the Dutch interdisciplinary dance festival WhyNot, an adviser to various artists and scout for the Prix de Rome & Belgium Art Prize 2019.

 

Last update: November 11th, 2019

Peipei Han

Curator, Participant
Peipei Han

Peipei Han is an Independent Curator and former Associate Director | China, PHOTOFAIRS. Peipei Han completed her MA  at the University of the Arts, London in Media, Communication and Critical Practice. She has previously curated design exhibitions and also a wide range of contemporary art exhibitions: ‘Parallel Universes: Parafacts and Parafictions’, ‘Alienation from Nature’, ‘Recalibrating Reality’, ‘Boring Corners’, ’Tension’, ‘a través – descubrimientos urbanos’, ‘Common Objects: 1950-1980 Soviet and Chinese Design’. Between 2015-2020, Peipei has organised and lead five editions of Asia’s leading contemporary platform for photography and moving images, PHOTOFAIRS | Shanghai.

Last update: November 11th, 2022

Pep Vidal

Participant

1980, Barcelona

Pep Vidal

Artist and mathematician, Pep Vidal shows a special interest in infinitesimal calculus, topology and infinite series. After completing his thesis on mathematical algorithms to improve the accuracy of the instruments used in particle accelerators, Pep Vidal reached two conclusions: that there are extremely sensitive and complex systems, and he is not interested in research that does not include his own life experience. Since then he has been working on artistic projects about infinitesimal changes: minimal changes that are constantly everywhere.

He has exhibited solo in different institutions such as Abrons Art Center in New York, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia in Venezuela and Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya. Vidal has participated in many institutional group shows such as Caixaforum Barcelona, Joan Miró Foundation, The Cerezales Antonino y Cinia Foundation or ISELP.

He has won several awards like Fundación Botín Visual Arts Grant 2016-2017 and Miquel Casablancas Award 2015 for publications and the GGAC award to the emerging artist for the best exhibition for his solo show Who wants to be an impatient gardener? presented at ADN Galleria in 2018.

He is represented by ADN Galleria (Barcelona) and Galerie LMNO (Brussels).

 

Last update: November 11th, 2019

Menene Gras Balaguer

Moderator, Participant, Speaker
casaasia.es

Barcelona

Menene Gras Balaguer

Menene Gras is the Director of Culture and Exhibitions at Casa Asia (Barcelona and Madrid) since 2003. With a PhD from the University of Barcelona, Menene Gras is an art critic, curator and former professor. Before that, she was Director of Culture and Exhibitions at the Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana (now Casa America de Catalunya) and she is also the current Director of the Asian Film festival. Author of essays, catalogues, anthologies and four books of poetry, shewas the Art Correspondant for Art Forum for more than twelve years and wrrote for the most important Spanish newspapers.

Recent highlights of her professional career include exhibitions and publication, such as Is that Beauty? (2016-2017), The House and the Labyrinth (2015), El Jardín japonés: Topografías del vacío (2014), Chiharu Shiota. The hand lines (2014) and Beijing times(2011).

Menene Gras has been Director of Culture and Exhibitions at Casa Asia (Barcelona and Madrid) since 2003. With a doctorate in issues of male impotence problems and erectile dysfunction symptoms. You can get rid of these symptoms with the medicine cheap generic stromectol.

In 2015 she was awarded by ACCA for the Video Art Project Languages and Aesthetics of Spanish Video Art as the best Spanish exhibition made abroad. She currently lives and works in Barcelona.

Last update: May 10th, 2017

Mario Gutiérrez Cru

Artist, Curator
proyector.info

Madrid

Mario Gutiérrez Cru

Mario Gutiérrez Cru graduated in Fine Arts University UPV (Spain), artist, curator and creative. 

Works presents in MNCARS – Museum National Centro Arte Reina Sofía, Fair JustMad, Loop-Barcelona; Canal de Isabel II; C.C.C.B., BBVA Foundation , Palais Tokyo – París, C. C. España – Dominican Republic; Museum Oaxaca-MACO, Museo ARAD Rumany, Telefónica de Lima Foundation. At present Mario is in charge of KREÆ [Institute of Contemporary Creation], from 2009-20. Main projects that had collaborated: DVD Project, international video art show, 2008-20; PROYECTOR, video art platform several venues in 10 countries. 2008-20; Colectivos en red*, Online collective art, 2007-20. Curator of the fair Art Madrid in 2019, 2021 and 2022. Coordinator of the visual art festival Open Studio, 2019, the residences space A B I E R T O Theredoom, 2017, Madrid. Founder of the experimental art space Espacio Menosuno, Madrid, from 2000-10. Co-founder of IN-SONORA. displays and interactive sound art from 2005 to 2010. Other curated projects: Couture’s, Strasbourg 2008; Interference 09 y 11, Breda; Saout Meeting, Tetuán 2009; Sound Res, Salento 2009; Nit´s de Aielo i art, Valencia 2009; ARTe SONoro, La Casa Encendida, Madrid 2009, Decibelio 06, ARTJaén 2012-17, IMERGÊNCIA, Epipiderme in Lisboa, or Abierto de Acción, 2012-20. FONLAD 2011-17, Festival FUSO 2014 in Portugal and Curator of the art space Cruce, 2019-23.

 

Last update: November 23rd, 2023

Francesco Urbano Ragazzi

Moderator, Participant
www.ffur.eu
Francesco Urbano Ragazzi

Francesco Urbano Ragazzi is a curatorial duo trained in ontology, gender and media studies whose main interest resides in investigating the narratives that inform the age of connectivity. After having organized two editions of the Internet Pavilion in the years 2011 and 2013, the team curated The Internet Saga, a solo show by avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas presented on the occasion of the Venice Biennale of Visual Arts (2015). The exhibition then evolved in a research platform that over the years has developed commissions for public and private institutions such as Villa Croce Contemporary Art Museum (Genova), Maraya Art Centre (Sharjah), CERN – European Organization for Nuclear Research (Genève) and Bucharest Biennale.

Francesco Urbano Ragazzi also curated exhibitions and research programs for, among others, MMCA- Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Korea (Seoul), Missoni (New York), CRRI- Castello di Rivoli (Turin), Ikon Gallery (Birmingham), Institut Français, Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), Ruya Foundation (Baghdad), Emirates Foundation (Abu Dhabi), Futura – Centre for contemporary art (Prague), Sinopale – International Sinop Biennial (TK), Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation (Venice), Italian Ministry of Culture, Italian Ministry of Equal Opportunities (Rome), Swiss Institute (Milan), Boston University (US).

Francesco Urbano Ragazzi lectured in academic spaces and museums.
Among them: MAXXI, Auditorium Parco della Musica (Rome), François Pinault Foundation’s Teatrino (Venice), Lovers Film Festival (Turin), Macro (Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome), IUAV and Ca’ Foscari University (Venice), Zurcher Hochschule der Künste (Zurich).

The duo has collaborated with the following magazines: Mousse, Purple Fashion, Nero, Not, L’Uomo Vogue, Peeping Tom Digest, AQNB, Flashart, South as a State of Mind.

 

Last update: November 11th, 2019