Art and Awareness – Uranium Film Festival in Berlin

After taking place twice in Brazil, the International Uranium Film Festival came to Berlin in October 2012. The highlight of the festival was the screening of four movies about the nuclear disaster of Goiânia, 1987, one of them Cesium 137: The Nightmare of Goiânia (1990), a movie by already deceased Roberto Pires which had already… Continue reading Art and Awareness – Uranium Film Festival in Berlin

Call for Artists: International Sculpture Competition

The Artistic Landscape The Gabarron Foundation is welcoming international artists and designers to submit works for an international public sculpture competition for the future Parque de Levante in the city of Murcia, Spain. When finished, Parque de Levante will be the largest outdoor sculpture parc in Spain and one of the largest of Europe. In… Continue reading Call for Artists: International Sculpture Competition

TRASH exhibition at the New Children’s Museum

How do we decide what is trash? How does your trash impact the lives of others? How can we imagine new possibilities, and a new future for our trash? The current exhibition at the contemporary art center New Children’s Museum in San Diego, running from October 2012 for 2 years, aims to educate especially children… Continue reading TRASH exhibition at the New Children’s Museum

The Sun behind the Clouds

A meditation about the sky by Ettore Favini and He-He Parco Arte Vivente´s (PAV) 2012 art program, dedicated to the Ethos of the living,  is being concluded with the dual-person show The Sun behind the Clouds by Ettore Favini and the Anglo-German duo He-He (Helen Evans, UK and Heiko Hansen, D). The exhibition, curated by… Continue reading The Sun behind the Clouds

Exhibition at Kunstverein Springhornhof

The Simple Life 28 October–16 December, 2012 – Opening: Saturday, 27 October, 5pm; artist talk with Angela Bulloch 6pm Kunstverein & Stiftung Springhornhof – Tiefe Straße 4, D-29643 Neuenkirchen (Germany) With: Angela Bulloch, Josephine Meckseper, Shana Moulton, Simon Starling and winners of the Daniel Frese Prize 2012 Fabian Reimann and Niko Wolf The exhibition The… Continue reading Exhibition at Kunstverein Springhornhof

ART OF RESILIENCE festival in Latvia starting today

Art+Communication festival From October 4 to November 4, 2012 Riga and Liepaja will be the host cities for the 14th International Festival for New Media Culture “Art+Communication ‘2012”. The “Art+Communication” festival is renowned across Europe for its proposed innovative themes. Each year, the festival gathers around hundred participants from Latvia, Europe and other world countries,… Continue reading ART OF RESILIENCE festival in Latvia starting today

Eco-art exhibition: Photographed Rituals

Shai Zakai to give a lecture on eco-art & slow photography on Oct. 2nd at 20:30 in Jaffa (Israel) at the exhibition space. Searching for colleagues who were consistently trying to raise environmental awareness through their art, as Shai Zakai has been herself in the last 3 decades, she discovered the work of Chris Jordan… Continue reading Eco-art exhibition: Photographed Rituals

Environmental “artshop” and teaching laboratory this fall at Parsons the New School for Design

From the 27th of September, continuing over a four-month period, artists, designers, architects, dancers, chefs and scientists will be offering a wide array of interactive exchanges, ranging from workshops to of-site explorations at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (SJDC) at Parsons The New School for Design (NYC, USA). The focus of this laboratory lies… Continue reading Environmental “artshop” and teaching laboratory this fall at Parsons the New School for Design

Water, Water Everywhere

Water, Water Everywhere, a traveling media exhibition about diverse water issues, is being shown from August 1st to December 31st at Los Gatos Art Museum in the US (click here for details) and will be next at Upez African Humanitarian Development Project, Lagos, Nigeria (October 27 & 28). More information on the exhibition website

Betsy Damon’s Water Rules-Life

Eco-artist Betsy Damon’s work Water Rules-Life will be exhibited as part of Feminist and…, organized by Guest Curator Hilary Robinson at the Mattress Factory Art Museumin Pittsburgh (USA). This exhibition, open from September 7th 2012 to May 26th 2013, aims to “show that feminism is not a single-issue set of politics but rather a multi-vocal,… Continue reading Betsy Damon’s Water Rules-Life