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  2009-10 Exhibition Schedule
 

 

September 16 to October 24, 2009
A Way Beyond Fashion
curated by Robert Punkenhofer
A Way Beyond Fashion explores important issues raised by the fashion industry such as the projection of identity, the research for new technology and the question of sustainability in mass consumption.

November 4 to December 19, 2009
AVANT-GUIDE TO NYC: Discovering Absence
curated by Sandra Skurvida
Avant-Guide to NYC maps the art environment of New York of the twentieth century, reconnecting historic sites to their present functions. Marcel Duchamp's studio, Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century, and Group Material — where are these places, and what are they now, in the constantly shifting cultural fabric of New York? The exhibition presents artists' works produced in response to the sites.

January 6 to February 20, 2010
The Incidental Person
curated by Antony Hudek
The exhibition argues that the Incidental Person stakes out a new position, outside of the 20th-century triad Joseph Beuys-Marcel Duchamp-John Cage. Unlike the latter, the Incidental Person does not seek to solve the "art-life" or "mind-body" problems. Instead, she or he fails to see them as problems at all, since for the Incidental Person art, life, mind, and body cannot be understood in opposition to one another.

March 13 - April 17, 2010
free size
curated by Logan Bay
For apexart's Franchise 2010 we received 243 exhibition proposals from 63 countries, and jurors submitted over 5,000 votes to identify a winner. In a mass produced world of global goods, the act of creation is often lost or forgotten. Hidden machinery cranks and sweats out elements of our everyday life, yet we rarely glimpse the environment where ideas are physically forged. To produce the exhibition free size artists will work directly in the Sinudom Silk Screen factory, in Samut Sakhon, Thailand, along side employees creating works of art.

April 7 - May 22, 2010
Don't Piss on Me and Tell Me it's Raining
Curated by Bad at Sports
For the last five years Bad at Sports, a collective based in Chicago, New York, and San Francisco, has attempted to document their art world from the inside. The artists in the collective have logged close to 300 hours of audio interviews and (what might best be described as) reportage and produced thousands of blog posts and tweets for their site, badatsports.com. For this exhibition they are continuing "to pull out all the stops" and will be "getting by with a little help from their friends."

May 28 - June 4, 2010
iEmotions-Means of Emotions
organized by ABACA
The exhibition will explore how the consistent access to the internet in the western world has sythesized emotions. The selected work for this exhibition will critique the cybernetic myth about the emancipated access of useful information, and the fairy tale of global networking and sharing.

June 9 - July 26, 2010
Men With Balls: The Art of the 2010 World Cup
curated by Simon Critchley
The FIFA World Cup is the most important and widely watched sporting event in the world and will run this year from June 11-July 11, 2010, in South Africa. The germinal idea for the show is very simple: to create the perfect football environment, a sort of mini-soccer paradise at apexart for watching games. Around the games themselves, there will be talks, events and a series of works that show the curious place that soccer has in contemporary art.

 


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