Sonsbeek 2016
The members of the selection committee include Ute Meta Bauer (Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore), Jan Boelen (Z33 Hasselt), Fulya Erdemci (former SKOR, Istanbul Biennial), Hicham Khalidi (TAG, Marrakesh Biennial), Kasper König (Münster Sculpture Projects), Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez (L’Internationale, Manifesta Journal), Gabriëlle Schleijpen (Dutch Art Institute DAI/ArtEZ / Studium Generale Gerrit Rietveld Academy) and Barbara Visser (visual artist, Society for Arts/Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences).
1. Ade Darmawan/ruangrupa
Ade Darmawan (born in 1974, Jakarta, lives and works in Jakarta, Indonesia)
Ade Darmawan is an artist, curator and director of ruangrupa. He studied at Indonesia Art Institute (I.S.I), in Graphic Art Department. A year after His first solo exhibition in 1997 at the Cemeti Contemporary Art Gallery, Yogyakarta (now Cemeti Art House), He stay in Amsterdam, Netherlands for two years residency at the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten. In 2000, with five other artists from Jakarta he founded ruangrupa, an artists’ initiative, which focuses in visual arts and its relation with the social cultural context especially in urban environment.
His works range from installations, objects, digital print, video and public art. As an artists and curator he has been participated in many art projects and exhibitions in several cities in Indonesia and International. He was involved in a collaboration project Riverscape in-flux (2012), and Media Art Kitchen (2013) with several South East Asia curators and artists. From 2006-2009 he was a member of Jakarta Arts Council, in 2009 he became the artistic director of Jakarta Biennale and since 2013 he is the executive director of Jakarta Biennale.
ruangrupa (artist initiative, lives and work in Indonesia)
ruangrupa is an artists’ initiative established in 2000 by a group of artists in Jakarta. It is a nonprofit organization that strives to support the idea of art within urban and cultural context by involving artists and other disciplines such as social sciences, politics, technology, media, etc, to give critical observation and views towards Indonesian urban contemporary issues. ruangrupa also produce collaborative works in the form of art projects such as exhibition, festival, art lab, workshop, research, as well as book, magazine and online-journal publication.
In the experimentation area, the group runs Art Lab, an art project programme designed to conduct research and creative collaborations on the urban and media issues. Art Lab serves as a collaborative space for individual artists as well as interdisciplinary groups from Indonesia and abroad. To support the contemporary art development, the Promotion and Support Division has opened the RURU Gallery, providing a space to exhibit visual art works by young artists and curators, by holding six exhibitions in a year. The division also holds art and visual culture writing workshop, as well as curatorial workshop; both workshops are held once a year and publish an online publication Jarakpandang.net.
Since 2004, ruangrupa held Jakarta 32°c, a biennial visual art exhibition by Jakarta students. It involves curatorial process, young artist experimentation, art writing, and exhibition organization. ruangrupa specifically supports the development of video art through research, documentation, as well as the biennial international video festival, OK. Video. The Research and Development Division regularly conducts research, discussion, and publication. We also publish Karbonjournal. org, an online journal focused on the public space phenomenon as well as visual culture among the citizen
2. Moritz Küng
Moritz Küng (born 1961, Switzerland, lives in Barcelona)
Küng is an exhibition curator and book editor working at the intersection of contemporary art with architecture, film and performance. Most of his curatorial works have an outspoken site-specific character.
He was artistic director of the Architektur Forum in Zurich, curator at Le Magasin, centre national d’art contemporain in Grenoble and at Fondation pour l’Architecture in Brussels, head of the visual arts program for the annual theatre and performance Festival a/d Werf in Utrecht, head of the exhibition department at the deSingel, international arts campus in Antwerp and designated director of the new centre for contemporary art El Canodrom in Barcelona.
Recent projects include Aglaia Konrad – Frauenzimmer ZWEI within the frame of curated by_vienna (2014), Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster – Ballard Garden at deSingel, Antwerp (2014), Mevis & Van Deursen – Our Art at the 26th Brno Biennial for Graphic Design (2014), Peter Downsbrough – The Book(s) at Fabra i Coats, Barcelona (2013), The Umbrella Corner, a solo exhibition series in six chapters at ProjecteSD, Barcelona (2012-13), the group show The fifth column at the Secession, Vienna (2011), the symposia The Age of Less at La Loge, Brussels (2013) and Making and Collecting Artists’ Books at ArtsLibris, Barcelona (2014) or the seminar The disappearance of the exhibition at the HfG-University of Arts and Design, Karlsruhe (2013).
He realized comprehensive solo exhibitions with artists such as Lewis Baltz, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ann Veronica Janssens, Matt Mullican, Bas Princen, Allen Ruppersberg, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Cerith Wyn Evans or Heimo Zobernig, and architects such as Christian Kerez, Lacaton & Vassal, Office KGDVS, R&Sie, SANAA or Eduardo Souto de Moura as well as group exhibitions on cartography and contemporary art, architecture and film, process- and performative art as well as track-exhibitions in public space. He initiated the long-term projects APP.BXL in Brussels (1994-1997), Curating the Library (2003-2009) and Curating the Campus (2004-2014), both in Antwerp and curated twice the Belgium pavilion at the 25th Sao Paulo Art Biennale (2002) and the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale (2008) where he acted in 2010 as a member of the jury for the Golden Lions.
3. Apolonija Šušteršič & Maria Lind
Maria Lind (born in Stockholm, where she lives and works)
Lind is currently the director of Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm. From 2008-2010 Lind was director of the graduate program, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College and from 2005-2007 director of Iaspis in Stockholm. 2002-2004 she was the director of Kunstverein München where she together with a curatorial team ran a programme which involved artists such as Deimantas Narkevicius, Oda Projesi, Annika Eriksson, Bojan Sarcevic, Philippe Parreno and Marion von Osten. From 1997-2001 she was curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm and, in 1998, cocurator of Manifesta 2, Europe’s biennale of contemporary art. Responsible for Moderna Museet Projekt, Lind worked with artists on a series of 29 commissions that took place in a temporary project-space, or within or beyond the Museum in Stockholm.
Among the artists were Koo Jeong-a, Simon Starling, Jason Dodge, Esra Ersen. There she also curated What if: Art on the Verge of Architecture and Design. She has contributed widely to newspapers and magazines and to numerous catalogues and other publications. She is the co-editor of the books Curating with Light Luggage and Collected Newsletter, Taking the Matter into Common Hands: Collaborative Practices in Contemporary Art, as well as the report European Cultural Policies 2015 and The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art. Among her recent co-edited publications are Contemporary Art and Its Commercial Markets: A Report on Current Conditions and Future Scenarios and Performing the Curatorial: With and Beyond Art. She is the 2009 recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement. In 2010 Selected Maria Lind Writing was published by Sternberg Press.
Apolonija Šušteršič(born in 1965, Ljubljana, lives and works in Ljubljana)
Artist and architect Apolonija Šušteršič has focused on the social aspects of living environments manifested in art as well in architectural contexts since the 1990’s.Her cross-disciplinary approach to creating works within urban environments leads to a socially engaged practice that brings together artists and architects, critics and curators that goes beyond art and architecture, and takes the form of everyday life.
Typically, Šušteršič’s broad ranging interest starts with a phenomenological study of space and continues its investigation into the social and political nature of our living environment. Her critical analysis of space usually focuses on the processes and relationships between institutions, cultural politics, urban planning and architecture. Situated somewhere between art and public services, Šušteršič’s practice creates and integrates communities of users who develop scenarios of alternatives and spaces for hope.
Šušteršič finished her architectural studies at the School of Architecture in Ljubljana in 1992 and continue her education at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam. Between 2003 and 2008 she taught at the Swedish Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm, in 2013 she finished her doctoral studies at Lund University, Malmö Art Academy and currently she started up a new department for Art & Public Space at Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
4. Joanna Warsza
Joanna Warsza (born in 1976, Warsaw)
Warsza is a curator for visual, performing arts and architecture. She is currently the Head of the Public Program of Manifesta 10 (June 28 – October 31, 2014). Warsza curated the Pavilion of Georgia at the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia in 2013 and one of the curators of the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, 2013 and was associate curator of the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art.
Warsza works mostly in the public realm, examining social and political agendas. In 2009 and 2010 she worked in Tbilisi on two projects in the public realm: Betlemi-Mikro-Raioni and Frozen Moments. Architecture Speaks Back. She is the editor of Stadium X-A Place That Never Was (2009), Forget Fear (2012), Ministry of Highways: A Guide to the Performative Architecture of Tbilisi, published by Sternberg Press in May 2013.