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NEWTOPIA: The State of Human Rights Contemporary Arts Exhibition in Mechelen and Brussels 01.09. – 10.12.2012 Recent solo exhibitions include: Olga Chernysheva: In the Middle of Things, BAK, Utrecht (2011); CLIPPINGS, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin (2011); Olga Chernysheva, Calvert 22, London (2011); Inner Dialog, Tresor im Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna (2009); Isle of Sparks, Foxy Production, New York (2007); Involutions, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels (2007); Second Life, Russian Pavilion, 49 th Venice Biennale (2001). Recent group exhibitions include: 1 st Kiev Biennial of Contemporary Art, Kiev (2012); Modernikon: Contemporary Art from Russia, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2011); Ostalgia, The New Museum, New York (2011); Glasnost: Soviet Non-Conformist Art from the 1980s, Haunch of Venison, London (2010); 6 th Berlin Biennale (2010); Etats de l´artifice, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (2010); Futurologia, Garage Center for Contermporary Culture, Moscow (2010); Dress Codes, 3 rd ICP Triennial, International Center of Photography, New York (2009); 11 th Istanbul Biennial (2009); Russian Dreams, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach (2008); On Duty, 2 nd Moscow Biennial of contemporary art (2007); Time of the Storytellers, Kiasma, Helsinki (2007). www.olgachernysheva.ru JOHAN CRETEN was born in 1963 in Sint-Truiden, Belgium. He lives and works in Paris, France Johan Creten’s work consists mainly of ceramic and bronze sculptures. He combines a contemporary artistic way of thinking with a great feeling for craftsmanship, tradition and symbolism, as well as a deep knowledge of art history. References to extreme ideological positions are combined with reflections on the absurd, fragile nature of our relations with others. His figurative sculptures operate as complex metaphors with a dense underlying socio-political agenda. Fascism, fanaticism, racism, extreme right-wing ideology and sexual discrimination are all issues that concern the artist. Often he locates his sculptural installations in historically loaded spaces with substantial added value: for example, a quarantine area in the Mediterranean sea (Sète), a Roman underground water reservoir (Istanbul) and the Renaissance rooms at the Louvre (Paris). Among others, he was artist in residence at the Villa Arson in Nice, the Kohler Foundation in Wisconsin, and the Bass Museum of Art in Miami. Recent solo exhibitions include: Pliny’s Sorrow, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels (2011); Dark Continent, Galerie Perrotin, Paris (2010); Johan Creten. Sculptures, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris (2008); Narcissus Saved, Transit, Mechelen (2006). Recent group exhibitions include: Beauté animale, de Dürer à Jeff Koons, Grand Palais, Paris (2012); Bêtes Off, La Conciergerie, Paris (2011-12); Big Brother. L'artiste face au tyrans, Palais des arts et du Festival, Dinard (2011); Passion Fruits (Olbricht Collection), me Collectors Room, Berlin (2010); Monument, Middelheimmuseum, Antwerp (2010); La Conquête de la Modernité. Sèvres 1920/2008, Musée international des céramiques de Faenza, Faenza 30
NEWTOPIA: The State of Human Rights Contemporary Arts Exhibition in Mechelen and Brussels 01.09. – 10.12.2012 (2009); Sonsbeeck 2008: Grandeur, Arnhem (2008); Sand, Parrisch Museum, Southampton (2008). NINAR ESBER was born in 1971 in Beirut, Lebanon. She lives and works in Paris, France and Beirut, Lebanon. Ninar Esber is a writer and an artist who works with elaborate performances and videos which involve her body extensively, albeit with a certain slowness, at times even stillness. Here, the concepts of suspension and teasing find themselves confronted with architecture (walls, towers and promontories), daily objects (tables, chairs), and contemporary mythologies (superheroes, popular singers and actors, pin-up girls etc.) Performance and text play a decisive role in her videos, which often revolve around questions of gender and identity, with a decidedly feminist outlook. Recent solo exhibitions and performances include: One Hour Book, Darat Al Funun, Amman (2010); The 2 Ladders, Appartement 22 at Tate Modern, London (2010); Katiusza’s Ladders, Nowa Soda, Krakau (2010); What’s on a Girl’s mind, Galerie Sans titre, Brussels (2009); On the Roof of Abu Ghrab, Darb, Cairo (2008); Quatrième Nuit, Appartement 22, Rabat (2008); Revues Parlées, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2008); Focus Ninar Esber, Côté Court, Pantin (2007). Recent group exhibitions include: 12 th Istanbul Biennial (2011); Sentences on the banks and other activities, Darat Al Funun, Amman (2010); A Proposal for Articulating works and places, Riso Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo (2010); Nous ne vieillirons pas ensembles, Galerie des Multiples, Paris (2010); One day I will be a Star, Maison du Livre, de l'Image et du Son, Villeurbanne (2009); Traversées, Grand Palais, Paris (2008); Sexy Sook, Point Ephémère, Paris (2007). www.ninaresber.com STELIOS FAITAKIS was born in 1976 in Athens, Greece. He lives and works in Athens. Stelios Faitakis was one of the pioneering figures in the street art movement that flourished in Athens since the mid-1990s. His work is informed by graffiti and urban culture, Byzantine (and particularly Cretan) icon painting, Mexican muralism, traditional Greek shadow theatre, Japanese woodcuts, and old master painting. The artist explores subjects culled from history, politics and current affairs and issues relating to the abuses of power and authority. His figurative paintings and murals are political and social allegories, packed with visual information, multi-layered narratives and dense symbolism. Faitakis’ view of humankind is dystopian: his works are dominated by fallen angels, corrupt officials, modern day sinners, perpetrators and victims; contemporary martyrs and miscreants boiling in the cauldron of a world gone awry. 31
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