Announcements for friends and colleagues,
KEY OPENING DATES
o June 10: “Voice Theatre” large-scale interactive public art piece in Basel’s historic "Augusta Raurica" Roman Theatre, curated by HEK’s Sabine Himmelsbach. The piece will be presented during Art Basel and free shuttle service will be available.
o June 14: “Sobaco Feroz” cumbia dance party featuring DJ Tacostán, HeK basement, entrance free.
o June 15: Official opening of “Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Decision Forest" solo show curated by KyoungRan Kim in the new Chipperfield-designed AmorePacific Museum of Art in Seoul, featuring 29 immersive artworks in over 3,000 m2 of space.
o June 22: “Sesiones con el Nigromante” a permanent commission for the 200 anniversary of the birth of Mexican poet Ignacio Ramírez el Nigromante, done in collaboration with Jesusa Rodríguez and actor Damián Alcázar, in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
o September 29: "Solar Equation” major installation at the Koolhaas-designed atrium of the Musée National de Beaux Arts in Québec, curated by Bernard Lamarche.
o October 23: "Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pulse" solo exhibition covering the entire 2nd floor of the Hirshhorn Museum in DC, curated by Stéphane Aquin.
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ONGOING EXHIBITIONS
o “Level of Confidence” at “Global Positioning System Not Working” group show at Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne, until Jun 9.
o “First Surface” at “L'Invention de Morel” group show, Maison Amérique Latine, Paris, until Jul 21.
oo “Bifurcation, 1984x1984 and TYM” at “You are Here” group show (curator: Linda Dougherty), NCMA, Raleigh, until Jul 22.
o “The Year’s Midnight” at “Twilight” group show (curator: Necmi Sönmez), until Aug 19.
ooo “Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Decision Forest” solo show (curator: KyoungRan Kim), until Aug 23.
o “Flatsun” at “Unsettled” group show (curator: Joanne Northrup) at Anchorage Museum, until Sep 9.
ooo “Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Unstable Presence” solo show (curators: Rudolf Frieling and Lesley Johnstone), MAC, Montréal, until Sep 10.
o “Redundant Assembly” at “Relations” at Kunstkraftwerk, Leipzig, until Feb 24.
ooo “Colorimeter” at Maison Manuvie, 900 de Maisonneuve, Montréal, ongoing.
o “Please Empty Your Pockets” at “Mouse in the Machine”, Thoma Foundation, Santa Fe, ongoing.
o “Surface Tension” at “From Ferron to BGL”, Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, ongoing.
o “Bifurcation” at PHI Centre, Montreal, ongoing.
o "Zero Noon" installation for Fidelity HQ, Boston, ongoing.
o “1984x1984” Currier Museum of Art, Manchester NH, ongoing.
o “1984x1984" Fidelity HQ, London, ongoing.
o "Fiducial Voice Beacons" installation, Information Age Gallery, Science Museum, London, ongoing.
o “Bilateral Time Slicer Intermix” and “Redundant Assembly” 21C Hotel Museum, Nashville, ongoing.
o “Pulse Room” at Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, ongoing.
UPCOMING
ooo “Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Voice Theatre” installation at the Augusta Raurica Roman Theatre, Basel, Jun 10 - Jul 1.
o “Sobaco Feroz” DJ Tacostán set at HeK, Basel, Jun 14.
ooo Official launch “Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Decision Forest” solo show (curator: KyoungRan Kim), Seoul, Jun 15.
o “Sesión con El Nigromante” collab. with Jesusa Rodriguez, permanent installation, San Miguel de Allende, Jun 22.
o “Please Empty Your Pockets” at MCA, Chicago, Jun 23 - Oct 14.
oo “Solar Equation” (curator: Bernard Lamarche) at MNBAQ, Quebec City, Sep 27 - Jan 2019.
ooo “Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pulse” solo show (curator: Stéphane Aquin) at Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, Oct 24 - Spring 2019.
IN PREP
oo Permanent installation for Museo de la Memoria y Tolerancia, Mexico City
oo Performance platform for Rahzel
ooo Project for ACNUR / UNHCR
oo Outdoor sculpture project for Indianapolis
ooo Outdoor sculpture project for Tazlar
ooo New piece for MIF
oo Project for Shanghai
ooo Solo shows in USA, Mexico and Brazil.
ooo "Border Tuner" interactive installation connecting El Paso and Ciudad Juárez
LINKS
On “Unstable Presence” solo exhibition in Montreal:
Leah Sandals, Canadian Art Magazine
https://is.gd/f3aMtz
Jaime Porras Ferreyra, El País
https://is.gd/z9G856
Éric Clément, La Presse
https://is.gd/WVo1Wy
Éric Clément, La Presse
https://is.gd/hiHO9r
Éric Clément, La Presse
https://is.gd/Nnqt2E
Marie-Ève Charron, Le Devoir
https://is.gd/ruUPzZ
Newswire
https://is.gd/oHbzwn
E-flux
https://is.gd/QJU5BP
Artdaily
https://is.gd/3yuzQd
Jose Luis Rico, Señales Para Cruzar un Laberinto
https://is.gd/Ai7Oam
Rats de Ville
https://is.gd/d5Vuxb
El Sol de Tulancingo
https://is.gd/3ecIQU
El Porvenir
https://is.gd/E4XNYE
El Universal
https://is.gd/8IAFED
Public Now
https://is.gd/rT2ieD
Montreal Gazette
https://is.gd/PojzU1
La Tempestad
https://is.gd/4kNvW9
Portail Québec
https://is.gd/f7Rn6h
Masdearte
https://is.gd/PeJi5V
On “Decision Forest” solo exhibition in Korea:
The Korea Times
https://is.gd/45Dvp9
Art News Blog
https://is.gd/dmIWYE
Shim Woo-hyun, The Korean Herald
https://is.gd/QBii6s
Newsworld
https://is.gd/6IRnuN
Creators Play
https://is.gd/Ma99st
Ohmynews
https://is.gd/dmIWYE
Shim Woo-hyun, The Korean Herald
https://is.gd/uMUlFN
On “Voice Theatre” public art in Basel:
Art Rabbit on “Voice Theatre”
https://is.gd/b3lhST
Art Basel on Hek
https://is.gd/8jZuNS
Barfi.ch
https://is.gd/RCIaR9
Artland
https://is.gd/lNW3G3
Bâle en Français
https://is.gd/YOD6uG
Digital Brainstorming
https://is.gd/EuxZRH
Other links:
Alida Piñón, Confabulario
https://is.gd/asKw0s
Emma Kraner, Big Read and Shiny on “Art in the Age of the Internet”
https://is.gd/YO05UY