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- Biljana Ciric is an artist and a curator.
ANXIETY AS AN ARTISTIC TOOL - KEREN CYTTER SOLO EXHIBITION (solo)
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| Date | ... closedMar 30, 2012 - May 20, 2012 |
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| Venue(s) |
Magician Space (Beijing, China) |
| Curator(s) | Biljana Ciric |
| Artist(s) | Keren Cytter |
| Organizer(s) |
Magician Space (Beijing, China) |
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EXHIBITION SYNOPSIS
About Anxiety as an Artistic Tool - Keren Cytter Solo Exhibitionby Biljana Ciric
Magician Space will be hosting Israeli artist Keren Cytter's solo exhibition - Anxiety as an Artistic Tool (curated by Biljana Ciric) from March 30th till May 20th. This will be her first ever exhibition in China. Cytter has a prolific body of work including numerous films, plays and novels. She is also the co-founder of a dance company - Dance International Europe Now (D.I.E. Now). Four pieces of filmic works are selected to illustrate the creative development in her practice over the past decade, these works include Brush, Der Spiegel, Four Seasons and Video Art Manual. These works reflect her own doubts and anxieties as starting point, reminding us our the lack of faith in the basic human values.
"Brush" is Cytter's first lengthy film. The artist developed a love story in six parts between a man and a woman who are brought together through a symbol on a metal hair brush that appears at the beginning of the movie. In this story the symbol is both the reason for them to fall in love and, in the end, the reason that they separate. The fact that their relationship turns out to be a one night stand gives further insight into the loneliness and anxiety within both of the characters..
"Der Spiegel" illustrates the dilemmas and struggles that exist within the love triangle between a forty year old woman, her husband and her lover. The video is played in a loop, without a clear sense of beginning, middle and end, where the audience could enter and exit freely.
“Four Seasons” has the atmosphere of a thriller, with dramatic music. The opening scene involves a woman bleeding heavily in his bath tub while a woman ─ his neighbor, Lucy ─ comes over to complain about the noise. The neighbor calls her again and again “Stella.” The story overlaps in time between two characters.
“Video Art Manual,” the piece starts with shot of a young man in an office like setting who confidently explains that he will reveal the mysteries of the new media that established a new type of viewer (i.e. those who became the producers of content). The story shifts when there is an electricity outage, and consequently there is no internet, no hot water, no TV, no mobile phones, no refridgerator. The only thing working is a wooden duck telephone that was sitting on the table of the young man who first introduced the manual.
Keren Cytter was born 1977 in Tel Aviv, Israel. She lives and works in Berlin. In 2009 she was awarded the Absolut Art Award and shortlisted for the Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst in Berlin. In 2008 she received the Ars Viva 2008; Preis für Bildende Kunst des Kulturkreises der deutschen Wirtschaft, Berlin, and in 2006 the Bâloise Art Prize in Basel.
On March 29th, Cytter will also be giving a talk at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art from 2pm to 4pm, and on March 31st her stage piece - Show Real Drama will be presented in Penghao Theatre from 2pm.
WORKS (9)
No.2
video
ARTIST: Keren Cytter
No.1
video
ARTIST: Keren Cytter
No.2, 2007
video
ARTIST: Keren Cytter
No.1, 2007
video
ARTIST: Keren Cytter
No.3
video
ARTIST: Keren Cytter
No.2
video
ARTIST: Keren Cytter
No.1
video
ARTIST: Keren Cytter
No.2
video
ARTIST: Keren Cytter
No.1, 2001
video
ARTIST: Keren Cytter
2012(3)
- Anxiety as an Artistic Tool - Keren Cytter Solo Exhibition (curator, solo)2012.03.30 - 2012.05.20
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Magician Space(1)(9) - Taking the Stage OVER - in collaboration Ke Center for Contemporary Art and Goethe Institut presents SHOW REAL DRAMA (curator, solo)2012.03.24 - 2012.03.25
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Ke Center for the Contemporary Arts(1)(1) - Taking the Stage OVER - Caster by Annie Vigier & Franck Apertet (les gens d’Uterpan) (curator, solo)2012.02.17 - 2012.02.17
... closed
18 Gallery (Shanghai)(1)(1)
2011(9)
- Taking the Stage OVER - Legacy of Marina Abramovic –Future of Performance (curator, solo)2011.12.17 - 2011.12.17
... closed
18 Gallery (Shanghai)(1)(8)(1) - Taking the Stage OVER - Tino Sehgal (Rockbund Art Museum) (curator, solo)2011.09.01 - 2011.09.25
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RockBund Art Museum Shanghai(1)(1) - Taking the Stage OVER - Tino Sehgal (Minsheng Art Museum) (curator, solo)2011.07.19 - 2011.08.21
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Minsheng Art Museum(1)(1) - Taking the Stage OVER - Tino Sehgal （Shanghai MOCA） (curator, solo)2011.06.21 - 2011.07.10
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai(1)(1) - Taking the Stage OVER - Snow Man (curator, solo)2011.05.21 - 2011.05.21
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RockBund Art Museum Shanghai(1)(6)(1) - Reality & Actions - Bestue Vives (curator, group)2011.05.07 - 2011.06.20
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Magician Space(1)(6) - Taking the Stage OVER - The Human of the Future By Bestue Vives (curator, group)2011.05.01 - 2011.05.01
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Zendai Contemporary Art Exhibition Hall(1)(18)(1) - Taking the Stage OVER - Re-performing History (curator, group)2011.03.19 - 2011.03.19
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18 Gallery (Shanghai)(1)(90)(1) - The Third Party - An Exhibition in Three Acts - The Third Party - A Group Celebration! (artist, group)2011.01.09 - 2011.01.31
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Platform China Contemporary Art Institute Space A(1)(46)
2010(5)
- Body as a Museum - Hu Xiangqian Solo Exhibition (curator, solo)2010.10.23 - 2011.02.05
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Tensta Konsthall(4) - Moved, Mutated and Disturbed Identities (curator, group)2010.09.07 - 2010.10.10
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ddmwarehouse(1)(103)(2) - Contemporareity: Contemporary Art of Indonesia (curator, group)2010.07.22 - 2010.08.19
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai(1)(56) - Warmed up Ice - Lu Jiawei Solo Exhibition (curator, solo)
2010.04.25 - 2010.06.06... closed
18 Gallery (Shanghai)(1)(13)(5) - Blography (curator, group)2010.01.23 - 2010.03.07
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Osage Gallery Limited (Hongkong)(1)(117)(15)
2009(5)
- Contemporary Vietnamese Art Insight (curator, group)2009.09.12 - 2009.09.12
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183 Jiaozhou Rd, Shanghai(1)(7) - History in the Making: Shanghai 1979 - 2009 (curator, group)2009.09.09 - 2009.10.10
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436 Jumen Rd(1)(113) - Who Cares About The Foture (curator, group)2009.09.07 - 2009.10.06
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Building 18, M50 Shanghai(1)(58)(3)(3) - Art Economies beyond Pattern Recognition (curator, group)2009.05.30 - 2009.07.20
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Osage Gallery Limited (Shanghai)(1)(26)(56) - Mommy Party (curator, group)2009.05.01 - 2009.05.01
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CANART Institute of Contemporary Arts(20)
2008(3)
- Showtime (curator, group)2008.11.03 - 2008.11.03
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ddmwarehouse(3)(26) - STRATEGIES FROM WITHIN YUTAESARSPBIXAGKNUG NUUNG CHIEN LUOC TU BEN TRONG (curator, group)2008.09.07 - 2008.09.25
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Ke Center for the Contemporary Arts(18) - Book Launch of Rejected Collection (artist, solo)2008.08.12 - 2008.08.12
... closed
(1)(1)
2007(4)
- Soft Power: Asian Attutude (curator, group)2007.11.17 - 2007.12.28
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Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art(1)(39) - Rejected Collection (curator, group)2007.09.01 - 2007.09.10
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Ke Center for the Contemporary Arts(1)(88) - "Migration Addicts" - 52nd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia−Collateral Events (curator, intl event)2007.06.06 - 2007.06.15
... closed
various venues in public space, Venice(1)(12)(11) - Intervention - Art Action (curator, group)2007.01.09 - 2007.01.21
... closed
Art Mofile(1)(11)(17)
2006(5)
- Shanghai Duolun Exhibition of Young Artists (curator, group)2006.09.05 - 2006.10.20
... closed
Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art(1) - 2006 Move on Asia - Clash and Network (Shanghai) (curator, group)2006.07.14 - 2006.08.04
... closed
Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art(1) - EIKASIA and The Pride of Progress (curator, solo)2006.07.08 - 2006.07.23
... closed
ddmwarehouse(1)(10)(1) - Migration Addicts 2006 - Singapore (curator, intl event)2006.06.08 - 2006.07.16
... closed
Sculpture Square(3) - Future Landscapes (curator, group)2006.01.20 - 2006.02.15
... closed
Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art(1)
2005(2)
- Migration Addicts 2005 - Shanghai (curator, group)2005.04.14 - 2005.05.16
... closed
ddmwarehouse(1)(17)(1)(8)(1) - Shanghai Cool: A New Summit of Asian Innovation (curator, group)2005.03.02 - 2005.04.03
... closed
Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art
