NEWS | EXHIBITIONS

04: THE SNOW SHOW

In the winter of 2004 a unique cultural event, The Snow Show, will take place in Lapland. Internationally recognized architects and artists will collaborate to design installations using as their primary materials snow and ice. These designs will be built into an outdoor exhibition of 30 structures in Kemi and Rovaniemi. The event will be open to the public in March, 2004. The Snow Show is curated by New York independent curator Lance Fung together with the director of the Kemi Art Museum Unto Käyhkö and the Director of the Rovaniemi Art Museum Hilkka Liikkanen.

Top international artists and architects to collaborate in works of snow and ice in the winter of 2004

The Snow Show is a first-of-its-kind exhibition that explores the exciting structures that result when artists and architects experiment with building in snow & ice. Each project will be large scale: they'll be freestanding with a footprint of approximately 80 square meters, and up to 8 meters high. The 3,000,000 Euro budget will allow the participants to explore their creations?all the while realizing their ephemerality. The results of this global cultural project will be on view in Finland's Lapland in the winter of 2004, with a preview exhibition at the summer 2003 Venice Biennale.

Collaboration is a key part of the project: over sixty of the world's most exciting artists and architects from 30 countries will pair up to design these experimental works. In addition to being made of arctic elements?snow and ice?they can include video, sound, light and traditional art media as well as other architectural materials. The Snow Show will open in the Finland towns of Kemi and Rovaniemi with a press viewing during February 2004, followed by an invitational participant opening. The exhibition will be open to the public from March through early April 2004.

The Snow Show: Venice, an exhibition of the drawings, photographs, models, and interviews with the participants, will focus on the collaborative process and it's effect on the individual creators. The Snow Show: Venice will be on view at UNESCO's Palazzo Zorzi from June 11 through July 25, 2003 during the 50th International Art Exhibition / La Biennale di Venezia: Dreams and Conflicts ? The Viewer's Dictatorship.

International university competitions (administered by the Oulu University Department of Architecture and the Helsinki Art Academy) are open to architecture and art students to compete to design two collaborative pieces for The Snow Show. In addition, plans call for an international children's educational project to be offered on the Internet. Full documentation of the project will manifest as a catalogue and a full-length documentary.

The Snow Show is the work of New York City independent curator and art dealer Lance Fung, in conjunction with Hilkka Liikkanen, director of the Rovaniemi Art Museum, and Sarianne Soikkonen, curator of the Kemi Art Museum. The exhibition for The Snow Show:

Venice is designed by Daniel Korb Productions

ARCHITECTS

ANAMORPHOSIS
TADAO ANDO
ASYMPTOTE
SHIGERU BAN
YUNG-HO CHANG
DILLER + SCOFIDIO
FO ARCHITECTS
FUTURE SYSTEMS
ZAHA HADID
HEIKKINEN & KOMONEN
COOP HIMMELB(L)AU
STEVEN HOLL
HOLLMEN, REUTER, SANDMAN
ARATA ISOZAKI
LOT-EK
GREG LYNN
MORPHOSIS
MVRDV
OCEAN NORTH
JUHANI PALLASMAA
SNOHETTA
STUDIO GRANDA
UN STUDIO
ENRIQUE NORTEN
ANDERS WILHELMSON
WILLIAMS & TSIEN
LEBBEUS WOODS



ARTISTS

PAWEL ALTHAMER
ROBERT BARRY
TOP CHANGTRAKUL
GRÖNLUND / NISUNEN
LOTHAR HEMPEL
JENE HIGHSTEIN
RICHARD HUMANN
ANISH KAPOOR
KAIJA KIURU
SOL LEWITT
TATSUO MIYAJIMA
ERNESTO NETO
YOKO ONO
OSMO RAUHALA
JOHN ROLOFF
EVA ROTHSCHILD
KIKI SMITH
DO-HO SUH
RICKY SWALLOW
BEN VAUTIER
RACHEL WHITEREAD
LAWRENCE WEINER
JACKIE WINSOR

02: Component Design

Current exhibition in the Building Centre Trust gallery
6th February – 6th April 2002

"The bits that make buildings, bridges (and sculptures) beautiful.

This exhibition explores the fruitful collaboration between designers and manufacturers and extends the themes of the recently published book Component Design by Michael Stacey.
The exhibition investigates the contribution made to celebrated designs by components, from extrusions and claddings to castings and metal formings. Contributors include artists, architects, engineers, product designers, fabricators and manufacturers. Projects featured include buildings, bridges, furniture and sculptures."

Admission free

NOTE: This place has exceptional interdisciplinary lectures!

26 Store Street
London WC1E 7BT
Tel 020 7692 6209
Fax 020 7436 7169

1 of 360 unique nodes used in the sculpture Quantum Cloud, Antony Gormley
picture: Building Centre Trust

02: Documenta 11

From June 8th until September 15th 2002 Documenta11 will take place in several exhibition spaces in Kassel. Projects and works of more than 100 international artists of every generation will be presented. The exhibition includes pieces of every type of media: sculpture and drawing, photography and architecture, film, video, sound- and internetworks, performance and concert.

02: Art 33 Basel

"Art collectors, gallery owners, artists, curators and art lovers from countries all over the world have already marked the dates of the annual family meeting of the art world in their calendar: from June 12 to 17, ArtBasel , the International Art Show, will take place in the city of Basel (Switzerland) for the 33rd time. Art Basel is undisputedly the world’s largest and most important show for modern and contemporary art and constitutes the highlight of the art summer of 2002 together with the Documenta 11, which opens on the preceding weekend.

The high acclaim of Art Basel is based on the high quality and unique variety of the works exhibited as well as its international audience. Once again, over 50,000 visitors (2001: 55,000 visitors) and more than 1,000 media representatives (2001: 1,500 journalists) are expected from all continents. They come to see the most cosmopolitan and most select offerings of the international art market and to meet the insiders and stars of the art scene. "

02: 8th International Architecture Exhibition - NEXT

The Biennale di Venezia is to organize the 8th International Architecture Exhibition - NEXT, directed by Deyan Sudjic. The Exhibition will run from September 8 to November 24, 2002. It will take place in the historical site of the Giardini di Castello as well as in the Arsenale area.

"The 2002 architecture Biennale offers a unique opportunity to explore the shape of architecture around the world in the decade to come.
It will highlight 100 individual projects selected by the director with advice from an international panel of critics. They are projects that are real, rather than speculative fantasies, but which are not yet built. Each of them has been carefully chosen for their inherent qualities, rather than as representing the work of an individual architect. They are the buildings that, when they are finished, will have the kind of impact and significance that the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao had when it opened five years ago, they will be the next Pompidou Centre, the next Sendai Mediatheque, the next Rotterdam Kunsthal.
They are chosen for the way they are moving forward the debate on social and philosophical issues. They are chosen for the quality of their architecture. As a result, a visit to Venice will be essential for anybody interested in contemporary architecture. The Biennale is bringing together the key international projects that will be taking shape over the next five years, offering an experience not possible anywhere else. At the same time architecture is not a subject of exclusive interest only to the professional architect or critic. Through the use of striking exhibition design, lighting and graphics - as well as an integrated curatorial appraoch to the display, the Biennale will also have a wide popular appeal.
The exhibition will be structured into distinctly organised sections; next home will look at the emerging domestic world; next place at large scale urban schemes; next work at the work. next generation will look at the emerging talents of younger architects and so on. The 2002 Biennale will look also at the impact of new technologies and new materials. It will be physical and material, rather than virtual". Deyan Sudjic

September 26 - 30, 2002
Preview: September 25, 2002

ART FORUM BERLIN, The International Fair for Contemporary Art, is Europe's only comprehensive fair dedicated solely to the presentation of contemporary art and emerging production. Delighting visitors with a captivating overview of the most recent trends in the international contemporary art scene, ART FORUM BERLIN offers the perfect setting in which to immerse oneself in the discovery of new artists and new art projects from all over the world. Set in the context of Europe's most rapidly expanding cultural capital, ART FORUM BERLIN draws collectors, curators, critics and art-lovers from all nations in increasing numbers each year. As one Canadian collector described his visit to last year's fair: "Exciting art in an exciting time in an exciting city - what could be better!".