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Contemporary Art

MOMENTUM Presents - TAKING FLIGHT: Birds & Bicycles

Birds & Bicycles is conceived as a ‘factory of metaphors’, taking as its premise the ideas of freedom and the notion of borders, forever shifting and perpetually being crossed, where bicycles symbolize physical freedom, and birds, metaphysical freedom. In Berlin, MOMENTUM extrapolates from the metaphor of birds and bicycles to build our program around the analogy of flight. Referring to the duality of the term flight as both an airborne means of travel and an escape from crisis, the metaphor of flight is integral to the historical and contemporary context of Berlin. In a city itself long divided, located in the geographical center of a divided Europe, the history of air travel in Berlin is a history of crisis, indivisible from the basic humanitarian need for freedom. MORE INFO: https://www.momentumworldwide.org/exhibitions/birds-bicycles/

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STATES OF EMERGENCY

The COVID pandemic appears to be here to stay. As we learn how to navigate this new reality amidst the ongoing chaos of (mis)information and mixed messages, we turn to one another for guidance. Artists – as cultural first-responders – are at the forefront of translating the felt experience of this time of emergency into visual languages, making sense of our precarious times. Featuring new works made since the start of the pandemic by artists from the MOMENTUM Collection, “States of Emergency” compiles their responses to a decade of global environmental and political crisis: particularly to the current pandemic emergency which has transformed all our lives. “States of Emergency” asks: What will emerge out of this global emergency?; While doctors and scientists race to heal our bodies, what will it take to heal the cultural aftermath of COVID?; What is the role of the artist in a state of emergency? “States of Emergency”, marking the end of MOMENTUM’s 10th Anniversary program, is a sequel to “COVIDecameron”, also available to view on ikonoTV. More Info on the Exhibition at MOMENTUM: http://www.momentumworldwide.org/exhibitions/states-of-emergency/

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The Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards

Presented by Asia Society and the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation on the occasion of COAL + ICE, the Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards aim to foster climate change awareness through the imagination and insights of an upcoming generation of visual artists. The jury of leaders selected three winners from a list of 13 videos - Mauricio Chades, Douglas Tolman and Alexa Velez.

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HOW ARE YOU?

How Are You? [Як ти?] is probably the most frequently asked question in Ukraine of the last weeks. With the Russian invasion of Ukraine and thus the start of a full-scale war, this otherwise trivial question, whether it’s asked by relatives or acquaintances, has suddenly gained a myriad of whole new meanings. Are you alive? Are you safe? How are you feeling? Do you need help? Do you still have a safe place to stay? – these are just a very few of them. This question has become the ultimate expression of love and support, an expression of much-needed hope that helps to survive yet another day full of uncertainty and danger to life. Ukrainian artists, whose feature films and video works were put together for the How Are You? screening program providentially posed this question in both the private and public domain, exposing Ukrainian reality of the years prior to the invasion i.e. during the war in Donbas that has lasted since 2014. Their inquiries engage with a wide spectrum of subjects and vary in execution, though the faint silhouette of war and the violence it brings looms in each and every work. Evidently, the scariest answer to the posed question is silence. So, the artists chose to speak out loud, even if their answer so far is grievous I’m not OK. This channel is curated by Kateryna Filyuk. Please consider helping Funds for Ukrainian Artists: https://linktr.ee/ikonotv.how_are_you

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What I don’t understand in Contemporary Art

I am the artist Vadim Zakharov, 62 years old. I have been working in contemporary art, for almost 43 of those years – since 1978. For me personally, the territory of misunderstanding has always been more important than understanding in art. But then, the misunderstanding was an incentive to move further beyond boundaries, frames, and definitions, pushing my misunderstanding even further. But that’s the old model. My personal incomprehension today seems to fall somewhere between “I don’t understand ANYTHING anymore” and “Тhere is NOTHING to understand!”. And all around is a barbed wire of post-communist, post-colonial, post-capitalist, gender, glamorous and other trends set by someone else. I chose a single question – What I do not understand in contemporary art today? and asked interesting artists of different generations and from different countries for their answers. Here are 20 responses. Some gave straightforward answers, others were more creative. I am very grateful to everyone who took part in this project: Ann Noël, Ireen Zielonka, David Krippendorff, Dagmara Genda, Per Christian Brown, Henrik Stromberg, Klaus Killisch, Sinisa Radulovic, Moritz Frei, Hans Peter Kuhn, Elana Katz, Junko Wada, Danica Dakić, Mladen Miljanovic, Ingrid Book & Carina Hedén, Zlatko Kopljar, Vitaly Komar, Arnold Dreyblatt, Yuri Albert, Victor Skersis © ALL THE INDIVIDUAL FILMS WERE MADE BY THE ARTISTS THEMSELVES

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USINA DE ARTE

Usina de Arte (Água Preta /Pernambuco/ Brazil), is an artistic and botanical project initiated by the Pessoa de Queiroz family. A dialogue between Art and Nature, the local community from North East of Brazil, and the public at large. Artists are invited to install their work in the old sugar cane plantation under the curatorial work of Marc Pottier. "Conversa com Artistas" is a collection of video interviews with artists (3 seasons) from Usina de Arte, short films filled with ideas, creativity, and art, the stories of how some of the installations were created and how the ideas came to the creators’ minds. Explore situations of strength and fragility, balance, and instability, present in nature, politics, social relations, and the world of work. This initiative aims to awaken the creative capacity of individuals, so that, as a community, we could fill in the gaps in sustainable development opportunities generated by the collapse of the regional sugar industry. In Portuguese with subtitles in English. [Discover more about Usina de arte, http://usinadearte.org] With Artur Lescher, Bené Fonteles, Carlos Vergara, Claudia Jaguaribe, Denise Milan, Flavio Cerqueira, Frida Baranek, Georgia Kyriakakis, Hugo França, Iole de Freitas, José Spaniol, Juliana Notari, Julio Villani, Liliane Dardot, Marcelo Silveira, Marcio Almeida, Matheus Rocha Pitta, Paulo Bruscky, Regina Silveira, Ronaldo Tavares, Tulio Pinto, Vanderlei Lopes.

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Berlin Art Link

Berlin Art Link is an online contemporary art magazine rooted in Berlin since 2010. It features international artists and curators and serves as a guide to Berlin’s local art scene. Berlin Art Link is published by MONA productions, a video and content production company focused on arts and culture. [Berlin Art Link, https://www.berlinartlink.com]

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Nina E. Schönefeld

"In case there would be a drastic political change in your country you will need special advice and gear to survive... Get prepared." Nina E. Schönefeld’s art examines the contemporary social and political climate. Through unusual mediums, objects, and videos, the artist questions the contemporary roles of artists, exploring the relationship between art, blockbuster movies, and the present digital age. Her stories imagine a world where, due to drastic political shifts, we need to fight for our democratic rights and survival. A concept that perhaps, and unfortunately, is not so far-fetched. Courtesy [Momentum Worldwide Berlin,https://momentumworldwide.org/]

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ART for the World

ART for The World is a Platform for Art, Culture, and Ecosystem, inspired by Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits". In Season 1 one can see how Human activities have a direct impact on the resources of our planet, as well as on animals and nature with whom we share the Earth. It is indeed clearly evidenced that human influences are the primary cause of global warming. This warming is altering the earth’s climate system, including its land, atmosphere, oceans, and ice, in far-reaching ways. Higher temperatures are worsening in many types of disasters, including storms, heat waves, floods, droughts, and pollution. A selection of AFTW’s shorts films on climate change and the environment from the long-features Stories on Human Rights (2008), Interdependence (2019), and Interactions (2022) Season 2 includes children playing the main roles related to the topics of Climate Change and Environment, Inequality and Poverty, Gender Equality, Trade and Environment, Freedom of Religion and Belief, and more. The short films are about Palestinian children trying to shoot a film, a teenager in a favela in Rio, two young street musicians in Teheran, a child of a village in Burkina Faso, a boy and his grandfather in Milan, Iranian girls playing football, a class of Sao Paulo preparing Carnaval and fisherwomen’s daughters in Tchad and two young workers traveling to Thailand from Thailand’s neighboring countries.

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#ArtSpeaksOut Climate

Discover the selection from our Open Call. When visual storytelling helps to connect our selves to important issues such as Climate

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#ArtSpeaksOut with Dance

Discover the selection from our Open Call. When visual storytelling and dance help to connect ourselves to important issues such as Climate

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#ArtSpeaksOut Shorts

Discover the selection from our Open Call. When beautiful shorts helps to connect ourselves to important issues such as Climate

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#ArtSpeaksOut Documentaries

Discover the selection from our Open Call. When short documentaries done in an artistic way help to connect ourselves to important issues such as Climate

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