SUN FOOT – MOTTO@WIELS. 25.04.2012

Posted in Events, Motto @ Wiels, music on April 24th, 2012

Portland Los Angeles 3 piece who play low volume tunes through small amps and a drum set that consists of a hand drum, cymbal, pan lids, and electronic drum pad, all three singing, playing random cheap electronic keyboards maybe, and switching of instruments probably. Good to listen to if you are interested in the sun and tired of negativity.  Sun Foot (Ron Burns [Smog, Hot Spit Dancers, Swell], Chris Johanson [the painter, The Deep Throats, Tina Age 13], and Brian Mumford [Dragging an Ox through Water, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Thicket, Jewelry Rash]) has a website with relevant information at http://j.mp/sunfootrbc.

Camiel van Winkel – During the Exhibition the Gallery Will Be Closed ( Valiz ) – MOTTO@WIELS – 13/04/12

Posted in Motto @ Wiels on April 5th, 2012

This post-conceptual perspective offers a new and revealing insight into the systematics of contemporary art and artisthood, in particular with regard to the relation between conceptual and visual aspects, the meaning of theoretical discourse, and the role of institutions and mediators.

Book presentation During the Exhibition the Gallery Will Be Closed with Bart Verschaffel (Ghent University), Margriet Schavemaker (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam) and Camiel van Winkel.

Sleeperhold Publications 4 – MOTTO@WIELS 14.04.12

Posted in graphic design, Motto @ Wiels, Uncategorized on March 29th, 2012


Sleeperhold Publications is an ephemeral platform for artist publications and functions as a valid excuse to experiment with the creation of content, different media and ways of distributing,… So far SHP released a photobook, a silkscreen posterset and a deck of gaming cards. There are no fixed methodologies in dealing with creation and, at its best, an entirely different tactic will be applied to every SHP number.

The fourth release on Sleeperhold is a paperback which functions as a collection of short stories. The work of the 14 artists shown in this publications functions as one continuous storyline, but every chapter can easily stand on it’s own.

Contributions by Beni Bischof, Jason Fulford, Dr Phullip Cribb, We Have Photoshop, Hiromi Nakajima, B.H. Friedman, Ferdinand Kriwet, Ward Heirwegh, Lieven Lahaye, Sara Deraedt, Aurélien Arbet, Jérémie Egry & Nicolas Poillot, J.G. Ballard, David Horvitz & Peter Sutherland. A text functioning as an interlude was written by Serge Delbruyère and Dirk Van Bastelaere.

Publisher: Sleeperhold Publications
Design: Ward Heirwegh
Language: English
224 pages, 16 x 22 cm
ISBN 9789081886406

PA/PER VIEW Art Book Fair 23-25 March 2012 @ Wiels

Posted in Editions, Events, Fairs, Motto @ Wiels on March 19th, 2012

Nick Oberthaler – Zweifel Und Gnade / le Doute et La Grace – Motto@Wiels 01/02/12

Posted in Exhibition catalogue, Motto @ Wiels, Zines on January 31st, 2012

WIELS Residency Program is happy to welcome you to the book launch :

Nick Oberthaler

ZWEIFEL UND GNADE / LE DOUTE ET LA GRÂCE

Edited by Nick Oberthaler, Alessandra Bellavita and Marianne Rapegno
Published on the occasion of the exhibition ZWEIFEL UND GNADE at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris.

In addition to his first catalogue, Nick Oberthaler will also present his artist-zine project BLACK PAGES, which he runs together with Vienna based artists Christoph Meier and Ute Müller, as well as the publication WALLPAPERISM, which he recently edited together with Geneva-based designer and publisher Izet Sheshivari from Boabooks and the artist-run space Motel Campo, Geneva.

Booklaunch : Where do we migrate to ? – Niels van Tomme, Aaron Schuster @ Motto@Wiels 09.01.12

Posted in Events, Exhibition catalogue, Motto @ Wiels, photography on January 8th, 2012
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Where Do We Migrate To? is a book published in conjunction with the traveling exhibition of the same title, which explores diverging ways in which forms of migration, experiences of displacement, and questions of belonging have been addressed by artists in recent years. For the book, four prominent international writers were invited to reflect on the themes from the exhibition. Ranging from the playful to the theoretical, from the poetic to the philosophical, their essays call for an increasingly complex understanding of the contemporary migrant experience. The book also includes nineteen postcards by the artists participating in the exhibition, designed specifically for the publication and presenting multiple visual interpretations of migratory encounters.

Publication editor Niels Van Tomme invites essayist Aaron Schuster for his presentation The Atopia of Philosophy, in which he asks how the figure of the exile, outcast, and migrant has become such a powerful metaphor for subjectivity in the contemporary imagination.

Aaron Schuster is a writer based in Berlin, where he is a fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry. He has lectured and published widely on psychoanalysis and contemporary philosophy, and his writings on art have appeared in The Believer, Cabinet, FriezeFrogMetropolis M, and De Witte Raaf. He coauthored the libretto for Cellar Door: An Opera in Almost One Act (JRP Ringier, 2008), and his The Philosophy of Schizophrenia will appear as a book from M.I.T. Press in 2012.

Niels Van Tomme is a New York based curator, researcher, and critic. His exhibition Where Do We Migrate To? opened at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture in Baltimore in 2011and will travel to Parsons The New School of Design in New York, the CAC in New Orleans, and the Rubin Center for Visual Arts in El Paso in 2012 and 2013. He is a Contributing Editor of Art Papers and publishes internationally in journals, magazines, and exhibition catalogues. Van Tomme is currently co-editing the book Aesthetic Justice, forthcoming from Antennae Series by Valiz, Amsterdam, in 2012.

Where Do We Migrate To?

Edited by Niels Van Tomme

Contributions by Svetlana Boym, Amitava Kumar, Aaron Schuster, and Niels Van Tomme

Artworks by Acconci Studio, Svetlana Boym, Blane De St. Croix, Lara Dhondt, Brendan Fernandes, Claire Fontaine, Nicole Franchy, Andrea Geyer, Isola and Norzi, Kimsooja, Pedro Lasch, Adrian Piper, Raqs Media Collective, Société Réaliste, Julika Rudelius, Xaviera Simmons, Fereshteh Toosi, Philippe Vandenberg, and Eric Van Hove

Published by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, Baltimore, 2011

Available from D.A.P. | Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.

ISBN: 9781890761141

Roma Publications @ Motto@Wiels. 21.12.11

Posted in Motto @ Wiels, music, photography, Uncategorized on December 16th, 2011

Roma Publications
presenting
Marc Nagtzaam – Reissue
Aglaia Konrad – Carrara

Talks by Bart Verschaffel, Kris Kimpe & Koenraad Dedobbeleer
Music by Marc Nagtzaam & Koenraad Dedobbeleer
Signing on request

www.romapublications.org

Alina Szapocznikow : Awkward Objects – Booklaunch + Lecture by Griselda Pollock – Motto@Wiels 14/12/2011

Posted in Editions, Motto @ Wiels on December 10th, 2011

“Alina Szapocznikow. Awkward Objects” is a collection of materials from the international conference “Alina Szapocznikow. Works. Documents. Interpretations.” organised at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw by the Museum team and Agata Jakubowska, PhD(May 15-16, 2009). By gathering world-renowned art historians, curators, critics and collectors, both the conference and the publication seek to fully represent and animate the new trends in research concerning works by Alina Szapocznikow.

Termed “post-surrealist” or “proto-feminist”, compared to Eva Hesse and Louise Bourgeois, Szapocznikow and her work today constitute one of the most interesting challenges for researchers dealing with 20th century art. “Alina Szapocznikow. Awkward Objects” is, by contributions by renowned art historians, critics and artists, a combination of multi-faceted insights into the artist’s diverse oeuvre that aim to place her in the context of the international world of art.

Authors: Griselda Pollock, Sarah Wilson, Agata Jakubowska, Ernst van Alphen, Tomáš Pospiszyl, Marta Dziewanska, Anke Kempkes, Paweł Leszkowicz, Jola Gola, Anda Rottenberg.

“Alina Szapocznikow : Awkward Objects”
Edited by Agata Jakubowska
Museum of Modern Art, 2011

Three Attempts for a Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of
 ALBERTO GARUTTI. Kaleidoscope Press

Posted in Motto @ Wiels, Motto Berlin store, Motto Zürich store on November 24th, 2011

This artist’s book was published on the occasion of the workshop with Alberto Garutti (29-30 September 2010) held at the Fondazione Galleria Civica – Centro di Ricerca sulla Contemporaneità di Trento in the context of the Trentoship / Trento.Link Program.

Alberto Garutti (b. Galbiate, Como, 1948) explores the narrative and immaterial dimension of Public Art, an area of multi-author intervention, revising themes of a conceptual nature. “This book is a kind of hypothetical catalogue – more a (self) provocation and (meta)reflection than a true editorial object – in which three different authors have been invited to suggest three different possible books, which constitute together a multiple solution of an aporia, i.e. three possible approaches (a fictional account; a conversation; a critical essay) to a monographic book that does not yet exist, and that maybe will never see the light of release.” (A. Viliani)

Co-published with the Fondazione Galleria Civica – Centro di Ricerca sulla Contemporaneità di Trento.

Edited by
Andrea Viliani

Author(s)
Chus Martínez & Ingo Niermann
Hans Ulrich Obrist & Stefano Boeri
Luca Cerizza

English / Italian
October 2010

Softcover, 19 x 27 cm
60 pages

ISBN 978-88-97185-00-0
EUR 18

Shifting Places. Peter Downsbrough – The photographs @ Motto@Wiels – 12.10.2011

Posted in Events, Exhibitions, Motto @ Wiels on October 7th, 2011

Alexander Streitberger, Shifting Places. Peter Downsbrough – the Photographs, Lieven Gevaert Series, Leuven University Press 2011.

Since the late 1960s Peter Downsbrough (1940) has been an important figure in contemporary art, associated with major international art movements such as minimal art, conceptual art, and visual poetry. In his artistic work he explores various fields including sculpture, architecture, books, film, and photography.

This book provides, for the first time, a profound insight into Downsbrough’s diverse and complex use of photography within his artistic work over the last 40 years. The author discusses the artist’s photographic work – which includes single prints, series, postcards, collages, and books – and relates it to fundamental issues of photographic practice and discourse such as the photograph as document, the representation of urban space, space-time relations, collage as an aesthetic and political means of expression, the relationship between still and moving image, and the context of presentation. The rich image material – some of which has never been published before – is arranged by the artist himself in order to create a fertile exchange between the topics of the text and his own intervention. Concluding with an exclusive interview with the artist, this book offers a real dialogue between artistic practice and theoretical reflection.

Alexander Streitberger will present the book and introduce in the Peter Downsbrough’s photographic work. Volkmar Mühleis will then act as a respondent to the issues raised in the book and the presentation.

Peter Downsbrough will be present and answer questions posed by the audience.

Alexander Streitberger is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) and director of the Lieven Gevaert Centre for Photography.

Volkmar Mühleis has a PhD in art history and is a lecturer of philosophy at the Hogeschool voor Wetenschap en Kunst, Sint Lucas, Gent.

Publication infos:
Shifting Places has been published by Leuven University Press, 2011
ISBN 9789058678720
 €34,50
Paperback · 188 pages, 
140 illustrations