Somewhere in Between: Contemporary Art Scenes in Europe

Somewhere in Between: Contemporary Art Scenes in Europe
Bozar

In the exhibition Somewhere in Between, BOZAR offers a glimpse of the cutting edge of what is currently happening in various European contemporary art scenes and their networks. Five independent artistic players are given carte blanche in the spaces of the Centre for Fine Arts. They present a selection of work by artists and curators from their extensive international network.

Since the 1970s, a network of diverse art scenes, operating outside the regular art market and established institutions, has been developed throughout Europe. These are often independent initiatives which function on modest resources, remaining under the radar of the wider public, but at the same time creating a huge dynamic. They are small and medium-sized non-profit organisations, often without institutional backing but set up and driven by artists, curators and committed cultural players. Their programmes are not about big names, market values or potential audiences, but purely about providing a platform for the artist's work. As such they fill a gap, literally ‘somewhere in between’ the commercial gallery circuit and the established art institutions.

The balance has shifted in recent years within the international visual art world. Market value has become more important and is increasingly putting public institutions and individual participants under pressure to succeed and take economic and often political interests into account.

The exhibition initiates an almost atypical institutional dialogue between worlds that are aware of each other's existence but, de facto, function separately.

Five artistic participants are given carte blanche to fill the exhibition halls at the Centre for Fine Arts: three Brussels art spaces (Etablissement d’en face, Komplot and La Loge), the Prague curator Michal Novotný who offers his perspective on the Eastern European art scene, and finally the investigation by Kunstenbibliotheek and the students on the Curatorial Studies course at the KASK (Ghent).

Somewhere in Between takes visitors on a journey through the artistic hotbeds of Europe and introduces them to lesser-known networks of artists and independent curators who are increasingly exchanging their hometowns for a (temporary) life in residencies, workshops, studios and art spaces from Tbilisi to Berlin, Riga to Lisbon, Athens to Rotterdam and Zagreb to Brussels.

Visitor information:
Somewhere in Between
Contemporary Art Scenes in Europe
20.06 -19.08.2018

BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Rue Ravenstein 23, 1000 Brussels
Open: Tuesday to Sunday, 10 am > 6 pm (Thursday: 10 am > 9 pm)
Closed: Monday
Tickets: € 8 – 6 (discounts on www.bozar.be)
On 20th of June BOZAR organizes a series of round table talks and performances moderated and composed by Aria Spinelli and Elena Sorokina, as part of Somewhere in Between.


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