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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 48
NEWTOPIA: The State of Human Rights Contemporary Arts Exhibition in Mechelen and Brussels 01.09. – 10.12.2012 between wars as historical events and the ubiquitous representation of war in contemporary entertainment, politics, and collective consciousness. Recent solo exhibitions include: An-My Lê, Murray Guy, New York (2010); Small Wars: Photographs by An-My Lê, Marion Center, Santa Fe, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, National Media Museum, Bradford, UK; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, and Johnson Museum, Ithaca (selection) (2006/8); Trap Rock, Dia: Beacon, Beacon (2006/8). Recent group exhibitions include: After the Goldrush, Metropolitan Museum, New York (2011/2); The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1837 to Today, Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich (2010/1); Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Guggenheim Museum, New York (2010); Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2009); On the Subject of War, Barbican Gallery, London (2008); SOFT MANIPULATION, or Who is afraid of the new now?, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg, and Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen (2008); That Was Then…This Is Now, P.S.1, New York (2008); Marlon Brando, Pocahontas, and Me, The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2008); transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix, ARKO Art Center, Seoul, and Viet Art Centre, Hanoi (2007/8). THOMAS LOCHER was born in 1956 in Munderkingen, Germany. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Writing and language dominate the work of Thomas Locher. Locher has consistently analysed the everyday language of bureaucracy, politics, legislation, and power. Legal texts, maxims or phrases are de-constructed and scrutinised to expose linguistic fallacies and problems with meaning. Locher esteems the ability of the medical profession to perform diagnosis, and sees his work in the same light, through the use of image and text. "It has something to do with seeing, with perceiving and understanding people. In brief: with decoding signs." However, his works do not represent linguistic or sociological research, nor are they theories set into image. They stand as artworks, as aesthetic units in their own right; their consistent design, sober at first glance, at second glance soaked in irony, allow us to follow his considerations without resort to linguistic theories. Recent solo exhibitions include: Insolvenzen, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen (2012); suspended, Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna (2010); x und noch etwas y dazu, KUBUS, Lenbachhaus, Munich (2010); Supplements Signs Signifiers, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart (2009); Erscheinungen, Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn (2007); showcase/showcase, Sammlung Schürmann, Berlin (2007). Recent group exhibitions include: Erschaute Bauten. Architektur im Spiegel zeitgenössischer Kunstfotografie, MAK, Vienna (2011); politics. ich-ichs-wir, Kunsthalle Ravensburg, Ravensburg (2011); squatting. erinnern, vergessen, besetzen, Temporäre Kunsthalle, 49
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