The Island is What the Sea Surrounds
Valletta 2018 - European Capital of Culture Opening of the exhibition: March 24, 7 pm, Exam Centre, Valletta/ Malta Exhibition: March 24–May27, 2018 Curated by: Maren Richter Artists: Heba Y Amin (Egypt), Hela Ammar (Tunis), Bettina Hutschek (Germany/Malta), Raphael Vella (Malta), Gilbert Calleja (Malta), Fernando Sanchez Castillo (Spain), Lida Abdul (Afghanistan), Adrian Paci (Albania), Susan Philipsz (Scotland), Aidan Celeste (Malta), Ibrahim Mahama (Ghana), Wael Shawky (Egypt/America), Antoine Cassar (Malta), Aaron Bezzina (Malta), Center for Political Beauty collective (Germany), Embassy for the Displaced/Scan Lab/Stevanos (International), Kristina Borg (Malta), transparadiso (Austria), Tania El Khoury (Lebanon), Fleeting Territories (Austria/Sweden), Manaf Halbouni (Syria/Germany) ............................................................ ![]() transparadiso are visiting professors at IUAV: workshop with transparadiso: Feb.12-16, 2018 talk by transparadiso: Feb. 14, 4:30 pm ............................................................... 4th Ural Industrial Biennial
Ekaterinburg/ Russia International Forum: Culture as an Enterprise Oct.23-24, 2017 Key speakers: Nicolas Bourriaud, Xavier Dectot, Barbara Holub, Vitaly Kurennoy, Lukasz Pancewicz, Lyudmila Petrova, Andy Pratt Workshop for the "Missing Things":
Barbara Holub and Dmitri Moskvin Sennaya Square, Ekaterinburg Oct. 22. 2017, 1-4 pm .......................................................... Urban Transformations and Qualities of Life in the Growing City
Symposium 14.9.-15.9.2017, FH Campus Vienna ![]() Panel discussion: 15.09.2017
"Vienna’s Peripheries – Urban Transformations and Qualities of Life in International Comparison " ................................................................
HafenCity University Hamburg a performative walk by Barbara Holub (guest scientist at HafenCity University) A Walk on the Wild Side: Hafencity from Oversea via Osaka to Trieste
Date: July 3rd, 2017, 6-8 pm meeting point: U-Bahn HafenCity Universität ............................................................ KU Leuven / Belgium
Dept. Urbanism and Strategic Planning Talk by Barbara Holub: Direct Urbanism. The Role of Art and Artistic Strategies for Socially Engaged Urban Planning March 21, 2017 .............................................................
Art & Function
Kunsthaus Mürz / Mürzzuschlag (A) opening: Nov.11, 2016: 7 pm exhibition: Nov.12, 2016 – Jan.15, 2017 curated by: Sabine Kienzer
artists: Gerry Ammann, Katrina Daschner, Carla Degenhardt, Ines Doujak, Sylvia Eckermann, Manfred Erjautz, Mathis Esterhazy, Sofia Goscinski, Christine und Irene Hohenbüchler, Ewa Kaja, Mihaela Kavdanska, Brigitte Kowanz, Constantin Luser, Sabine Ott, Werner Reiterer, Hans Schabus, Nita Tandon, Jochen Traar, transparadiso, Markus Wilfling. .............................................................. Fear of Life
– The City as a Habitat to All Social Design Symposium #3 Heiligenkreuzer Hof, Vienna Oct.7, 2016, 9:30 am - 8 pm with: Ruth Wodak, Barbara Holub, Oto Hudec, Ton Matton, Katerina Seda, Angelika Fitz, Antonio Cosme, Andrew Herscher, Pawel Althamer
curated by: Brigitte Felderer + Presentation of the Social Design Reader #1: Barbara Holub (ed.): Das Bienvenue: Ein Recht auf Raum für alle http://socialdesign.ac.at/archive/2016/10/7/save-date-social-design-symposium/index.html ................................................... Workshop for Dan Peterman
by transparadiso in the frame of the exhibition "Waste Value Rising" Kunsthaus Vienna Aug.26, 2016, 3-6 pm Special guest: Basak Senova
(curator, Istanbul/ Ankara) The particpants will have the opportunity to expand the "Mobile Models" by Dan Peterman and engage in a discussion on their personal and possible collective "values". We will continue building the growing structure of a "network-cloud" out of wasted bike joints and bamboo freshly harvested in Vienna. .............................................................. Book launch: Planning Unplanned
AIL/ Angewandte Innovation Lab, Vienna Sept.24, 2015, 7 pm Welcome: Gerald Bast (president/ University of Applied Arts, Vienna) Discussion: Stefan Gruber (architect), Barbara Holub (artist), Maren Richter (curator), Rudolf Scheuvens (dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Vienna University of Technology) Moderation: Elke Krasny (curator) more ..............................................................
Request for the unrequested interlinguality Date: May 14, 2016, 4-7 pm Location: Gemeindezentrum Pottenhofen / Lower Austria www.publicart.at A collective bilingual German-Czech Scrabble Game for producing the design of a sculpture for the new square in Pottenhofen | Lower Austria
a project by transparadiso Opening of the public art project: July 15, 2016 Nejprve budeme hrát simultánně ve dvou jazycích hru Scrabble: Při hře chceme vytvářet poetická slovní spojení mezi českým a německým jazykem. Ta se promítnou do objektu na sezení a stolování, který bude slavnostně odhalen 15. července 2016 na náměstí v Pottenhofenu. ............................................................... Die „größte“ Architekturschau Österreichs, gestaltet von ArchitektInnen und Stadtplaner-Innen: Im Rahmen der diesjährigen Ars Electronica sollen ihr Ideenreichtum, ihre Visionskraft und Planungs-kompetenz sichtbar werden und zwar in Form möglichst vieler Architektur-modelle.
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Die politische Dimension der Kunst
Kunststiftung Erich Hauser, Rottweil Symposium: 20. - 21.04.2018 Speakers: Jochen Becker, Alice Creischer, Helmut Draxler, Barbara Holub, Holger Kube Ventura, Annette Kulenkampff, Marc Lee, Christian Kosmas Mayer, Hermann Pfütze, Nasan Tur, Wolfgang Ullrich, Georg Winter ............................................................ CrossSections.Potentials
Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna Opening: Jan.10, 2018, 7 pm Exhibition: Jan.11-20, 2018 Presentation of the Blue Frog Society by Barbara Holub: Jan.12, 5 pm Curated by: Basak Senova Artists: Heba Y. Amin (EG/DE), Yane Calovski (MT), Ramesch Daha (AT), Ricarda Denzer (DE/AT), Nikolaus Gansterer (AT), Barbara Holub (AT), Otto Karvonen (FI), Bronwyn Lace (ZA), Marcus Neustetter (ZA), Isa Rosenberger (AT), Lina Selander (SE), Tamsin Snow (IE/UK) .........................................................
URGENT PERSPECTIVES #1 Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna (A) Opening: Nov.9, 7 pm Artists conversation: Nov.11, 2017, 2 pm Exhibition: Nov.10.-11,.2017 Artists: Dalila Gonçalves (AIR/Portugal), Vida Guzmić (AIR/Croatia), Nika Kupyrova (A), Gabriele Sturm (A)
curated by Barbara Holub for Kulturkontakt Austria .......................................................... SINOPALE - 6th Sinop Biennial
“Transposition / Aktarım” 1th August – 17th September 2017, Sinop, Turkey http://sinopale.org/ ![]() Sinopale Forum: Aug.20, 2017 Speakers: Nike Baetzner, Jonatan Habib Enqvist, Melih Görgün, Barbara Holub, Mahir Namur, Işın Önol. ............................................................ HARBOUR FOR CULTURES
8th CEI VENICE FORUM FOR CONTEMPORARY ART CURATORS CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST 2017 Symposium: Friday, May 12, 2017, 14.00 – 19.00 Location: Venice, UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe Palazzo Zorzi, Castello 4930 curated by: Giuliana Carbi, Barbara Holub, Elisabetta Porro, Paul Rajakovics SPEAKERS
Iara Boubnova (ICA, Sofia), Maja Ćirić (independent curator, Belgrade), Călin Dan (general director National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest), Shamina de Gonzaga (executive director World Council of Peoples for the United Nations, USA), Beral Madra (BM Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul), Maren Richter (Valletta European Capital of Culture 2018, Malta), Mick Wilson (head of Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg). The complete list of speakers and contributors is available here The full program of the event There is no fee for participation but you have to register online Curated by: Giuliana Carbi (trieste contemporanea), Elisabetta Porro, Barbara Holub, Paul Rajakovics .........................................................
OUT NOW: Barbara Holub (ed.): Das Bienvenue: Ein Recht auf Raum für alle Social Design Arts as Urban Innovation (editor), 2016
116 pages, color and b/w images German/ English Graphic Design: Schienerl A/D ISBN-10: 3741272450 ISBN-13: 978-3741272455 ............................................................ Request for the unrequested
voluntary interlinguisticality Design of the Square in Pottenhofen/ Lower Austria by transparadiso Opening: July 15, 2016, 5 pm www.publicart.at ..............................................................
Konferenz: Wir sind nie urban gewesen 7.10.-9.10.2015, Wien Institut für Europäische Ethnologie | Universität Wien, Hanuschgasse 3, 1010 Wien middletownurbanities.com ............................................................... Konferenz: Social Urban Art
12.11.-13.11.2015 HCU, Hamburg ![]() ................................................................
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Artistic strategies and urban interventions Opening: March 10, 2016, 7 pm Exhibition: March 11–May 13,2016 Projektraum des Deutschen Künstlerbundes, Berlin Curated by: Christina Paetsch Artists: Winfried Baumann | Stefan Fahrnländer | Pia Lanzinger | Christina Paetsch | transparadiso – Barbara Holub/ Paul Rajakovics ................................................................ .............................................................
Open Studio Day Tour //
Vienna Art Week: Atelier transparadiso Sa, 21.11.2015, 13:00 Treffpunkt: Atelier transparadiso Große Mohrengasse 34/3, 1020 Wien Tour 2.Bezirk mit Nika Koupyrova: Atelier Ronald Kodritsch, tat ort (Berlinger, Fiel), Atelier Konrad Strutz http://viennaartweek.at/de/program/176 ...........................................................
Book Launch: "Planning Unplanned - Can Art Have a Function? Towards a New Function of Art in Society" (eds.) Christine Hohenbüchler/ Barbara Holub Thu, Sept.24, 2015, 7pm, AIL / Angewandte Innovation Lab, Vienna http://www.ailab.at Franz-Josefs-Kai 3, 1010 Wien |
Bodied Spaces - Discursos cruzados entre corpo e espeaço
Cadernos do Rivoli 06 Editorial coordinator: Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro Launch of publication: Jan 20, 2018, Café Rivli, Porto (PT) Published by: Teatro Municipal do Porto Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda 2018 184 p, Portugiese/ English Texts/ contributions by: Ana Mira, Ana Rita Teodoro, Barbara Holub, Boris Charmatz, Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro, Juao Fiadeiro, Juao Mendes Ribeiro, Jorge Andrade + José Capela, Teresa Fradique, Tiago Guedes ............................................................ The Bartlett School of Architecture/ London
Talk by Barbara Holub Nov.23, 2017, 6:30 pm lecture series "constructing realities" at Here East/ Situated Practice ....................................................
Public Art Thinking: Symposium and Publication Launch Eastside Projects Birmingham Wednesday, 22 November 2017 1 – 5.30 pm Panel discussion with: Andy Reeve, Barbara Holub, Gavin Wade, Mel Jordan, Robert Garnett, Rosalie Schweiker, Vanessa Boni ..........................................................
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New Stakeholders of Urban Change: A Question of Culture and Attitude? Perspectives in Metropolitan Research 4 Hilke Marit Berger / Gesa Ziemer (eds.) Jovis, 2017 .............................................................. Times of Dilemma
Valletta 2018/ European Capital of Culture, Malta a public art project by transparadiso for "The Island is What the Sea Surrounds" (curated by Maren Richter) Workshops: for producing issues for a collective għana (traditional Maltese folk music) dialogue addressing current conflicts in urban and societal developments in Malta, which will be performed in a dialogical installation between land and sea, from March-June 2018. Dates: July 19, 2017, 5:30-7:30 pm July 20, 2017, 5:30-7:30 pm Location: St Elmo Examination Centre, St Elmo Place, Valletta / Malta ............................................................ TU Braunschweig (D)
Talk by Barbara Holub 23.05.2017 Barbara Holub stellt die Methode des direkten Urbanismus und künstlerisch-urbanistische Strategien anhand von exemplarischen Projekten, sowie ihre Forschung zu “Planning Unplanned” und die neue, transdisziplinäre und über die fluide Rolle des „urban practitioners“, vor. https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/arch ........................................................ transcript - Urban Studies, 2016 240 Seiten, kart., zahlr. Abb.
ISBN 978-3-8376-3448-8 .............................................................. ![]() Waste Value Rising/
Abfallwert steigend Opening: July 13, 2016, 7 pm with workshop by Dan Peterman: July 14, 3–6 pm Exhibition: July 14-Oct.30, 2016 Kunsthaus Wien/ Garage Artists: Folke Köbberling/Martin Kaltwasser (D), Dan Peterman (USA), RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co, F/ CH), transparadiso (A) Curated by: Barbara Holub ............................................................ Bodied Spaces
Discursos cruzados entre corpo e espaço | Crossed discourses between body and space | Festival Dias da Dança | Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes | Aula Magna April 28, 2016, 4 pm ![]() Espaço público e performatividade | Public Space and Performativity Talk by Barbara Holub
and discussion with: Ana Rita Teodoro and Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro Coordination and Moderation: Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro video of the talk ......................................................... THE TURN Art in Post-Spring Societies Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Wien Opening: March 17, 7 pm Exhibition: March 18–May 14, 2016 ![]() curated by: Christine Bruckbauer
and Patricia K.Triki Artists: Omar Abusaada, Noutayel Belkadhi, Mohamed Allam, Irena Eden, Stijn Lernout, Moufida Fedhila, Reem Gibriel, Inkman, Helmut Kandl, Johanna Kandl, Halim Karabibene, Huda Lutfi, Selma Ouissi, Sofiane Ouissi, Hamdy Reda, Faten Rouissi, Arslane Bestaoui, transparadiso ............................................................
Creating Common Good Kunsthaus Wien Opening: Nov.16, 6 pm Exhibition: Nov.17, 2015-Jan.10, 2016 www.kunsthauswien.com Vienna Art Week
Curated by: Ursula Maria Probst and Robert Punkenhofer Artists: Akram Al Halabi, Atelier Van Lieshout, Joseph Beuys, Bernhard Cella, Ramesch Daha, Democracia, Ines Doujak, Teresa Estapé, Peter Friedl, Leon Golub, Tamara Grcic, Gruppe Uno Wien, Markus Hiesleitner, Heidrun Holzfeind, Anna Jermolaewa, Folke Köbberling, Ernst Logar, Teresa Margolles, Adrian Melis, Lucy + Jorge Orta, Lisl Ponger, Pedro Reyes, Martha Rosler, Isa Rosenberger, Tim Sharp, Santiago Sierra und Jorge Galindo, Axel Stockburger, tat ort, Johanna Tinzl, transparadiso, Patricia K. Triki, Nasan Tur, Anna Witt, Ina Wudtke, Sislej Xhafa |
Shared Values, Ambulant Gardens, and Other Spaces
exhibition by transparadiso trieste contemporanea, Trieste Opening: Nov.25, 2017, 6 pm Exhibition: Nov.28 - Dec.29, 2017 ![]() .................................................... Harbour for Cultures
Trieste (I), Oct.28, 2017 13:00-15:00: H/C workshop by transparadiso: Production of desires for a Harbour for Cultures: Shared Values, Ambulant Gardens, and Other Spaces meeting point: in front of the Hydrodynamic Power Station, Porto Vecchio ![]() 15:30-19:00: EIGHTH CEI VENICE FORUM FOR CONTEMPORARY ART CURATORS FROM CENTRAL EASTERN EUROPE. Trieste session. HARBOUR FOR CULTURES. Continental Breakfast 2017. Location: Magazzino delle Idee 19:00: H/C opening of the exhibition exhibition: October 29 - December 13, 2017 Studio Tommaseo For more information please see: www.triestecontemporanea.it ..........................................................
Barbara Holub / solo show Pursuing, advancing Nachgehen, vorgehen Peithner-Lichtenfels Gallery, Vienna Opening: June 8, 2017, 7 pm Artist Talk: June 21, 7 pm with Barbara Holub and Lucas Gehrmann (curator, Kunsthalle Wien) Exhibition: June 9-July 7, 2017 ![]() Barbara Holub presents selected projects she conceived for various urban contexts during the past years, in which she addresses the vital issue,
what possibilities art has for establishing new social and communal values. The projects are connected by the essential questions: What kind of visions do we have? And how do we take initiative to pursue them? ............................................................
PICTURE Budapest – Østfold
Symposium: Feb.15-16, 2017 Location: Csepeli Munkásotthon (Csepel Workers’ House), 1215 Budapest Árpád u. 1. curated by: PLACCC Festival/ Budapest PLACCC Festival, in cooperation with its partner from Norway, Scenekunst Østfold and with the support of EEA Grants will realise the project PICTURE Budapest – Østfold focusing on the possible roles art can play in the redefinition of urban spaces.
Further info and program: PLACCC Festival ........................................................... Filmfestival "This human world"
Vienna, Dec.1-11, 2016 screening by transparadiso: date: Dec.3, 2016, 3:30 pm location: Top Kino, Vienna transparadiso will screen three videos on recent urban interventions dealing with migration, corruption and risk – for the first time as "trilogy":
Du bakchich pour Lampedusa (Sousse, Tunesien, 2014), 4'56" Je suis arabe - a right to poetics (Salzburg Museum, 2015), 12'40" The laughter that gets caught in your throat (Performing Public Art Festival/ Vienna Biennale, 2015), 4'49" ......................................................... East Centric Architecture Triennale Bucharest 2016
Agora Experiments Oct.8, 2016, 10 am: One direction versus many: Public debate with Barbara Holub Moderated by: Andreea-Livia Ivanovici Oct.8, 2016, 4 pm: Keynote by Barbara Holub Bucharest National Theatre bucharest-triennale.eu/events/schedule/barbara-holub .............................................................
Theorie im Keller #14
Planning Unplanned AFO Linz March 15, 2016, 7 pm Discussion with: Barbara Holub and Peter Arlt Concept and moderation: Tobias Hagleitner and Franz Koppelstätter .............................................................
KunstRaumGarage
Votivpark-Garage, Vienna March 16, 2016, 4-10 pm Performances and installations in a parking garage ![]() Curated by: Barbara Holub Artists/ students of the University of Applied Arts Vienna: Joanna Zabielska, Lisa Puchner, Hana Krizanova, Oliver Alunovic, Kollektiv OutSight, Matilde Igual, Feng Lei, Sarina Scheidegger, Marie Huth www.wipark.at www.angewandte.at ............................................................. "Performing Public Art"
Book Launch@urbanize 4.10.2015, 10:30-12:30 Gerald Bast, Peter Weibel, Herwig Steiner (Hg.) De Gruyter Verlag | Erscheint in der Buchreihe „Edition Angewandte“ der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien with contributions by: Erdem Gündüz, transparadiso/Barbara Holub & Paul Rajakovics, Johan Lorbeer, Barbis Ruder, Shinseungback Kimyonghun, Amy Spiers & Catherine Ryan, Artur Żmijewski and Wiener Beschwerdechor urbanize.at/2015/event/performing-public-art angewandte.at/jart/prj3/angewandte/main.jart |