Press Kit (August 30th/31st, 2012) - Goldmann Public Relations ...

NEWTOPIA: The State of Human Rights
Contemporary Arts Exhibition in Mechelen and Brussels
01.09. – 10.12.2012
Geometria wn"trza, Galeria Arsena", Bia"ystok (2007); Transfer, Zach%ta
Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw (2007); Szellemek hidja, Platan Gallery,
Budapest (2007). Recent group exhibition include: NatureNation, Museum
on the Seam, Jerusalem (2009); Lucim lives on, Znaki Czasu Centre of
Contemporary Art, Torun (2009); Da Le Corbusier ai Blokers, Istituto
Polacco di Roma, Rome (2008); Greenhouses, Center for Contemporary
Art, Tel Aviv (2008); Bodycheck, 10 th Triennale Kleinplastik, Alte Kelter,
Fellbach (2007). www.kozakiewicz.art.pl
NEVAN LAHART was born in 1973 in Kilkenny, Ireland. He lives and works
in Dublin, Ireland.
Nevan Lahart works in a wide variety of media: painting, sculpture,
installation, video, animation and performance, creating expansive, visually
saturated environment that are a literal optical and discursive assault on the
viewer. The subject matter of his work could be very loosely described as
encompassing current affairs, television, the media, social and political
perceptions and injustices, and the history of art and life as he finds it. His
art practice aims to engage in creative collaboration in ways that may be
seen as both humourous, subversive, and deeply critical of the status quo,
globalisation and the neo-liberal economic order.
Recent solo exhibitions include: A Title in a Haystyack (2 Bit Part time
Amateur Productions), Triskel Arts Center, Cork (2011); Genuine Irish Mug,
Catalyst Arts, Belfast (2010); A Colonial Subject in Washington DC, Solus
Nua, Washington (2010); Heavens Full and the Fire Escapes are Locked,
Heavens Full, London (2009). Recent group exhibitions include: Dublin
Contemporary, Dublin (2011); From Us, Through Them, To You, Butler
Gallery, Kilkenny (2011); Twenty, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
(2011); Paper Work, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin (2009); The
Gold Standard, NES, Skagaströnd (2009); Trouble in Paradise: Examining
Discord in Nature and Society, Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona (2009), the
6 th Annual, 30 th Biennial E V+ A, Limerick (2006). www.nevanlahart.com
AN-MY LÊ was born in 1960 in Saigon, Vietnam. She lives and works New
York, USA.
An-My Lê fled Vietnam with her family as a teenager in 1975, the final year
of the war, eventually settling in the United States as a political refugee.
Since 1999 she has explored the military conflicts that have framed the last
half-century of American history: the war in Vietnam and the recent war in
Iraq. Her photographs and films examine the impact, consequences, and
representation of war. Whether in colour or black-and-white, her pictures
frame a tension between the natural landscape and its violent
transformation into battlefields. Suspended between the formal traditions of
documentary and staged photography, Lê’s work explores the disjunction
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