code flow - curatorial projects and related materials
Public Theoretical Symposium: Reality Manifestos - Can Dialectics Break Bricks? / A study of détournement as Art Forms
2012-01-19 - 2012-01-20: A two-day theoretical symposium organized in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name to contextualize the exhibition and the artists' works and raise a public critical discussion among scholars, the artists and a broad audience. With lectures by Mareike Bernien & Kerstin Schroedinger, The Centre of Attention, Brice Dellsperger, Eva Egermann, Maren Grimm, Esther Kempf, Lucie Kolb, Elke Krasny, Boyan Manchev, Işın Önol, Bernd Oppl, Małgorzata Radkiewicz, Dorothee Richter, Nicola Ruffo, Simone Schardt & Wolf Schmelter, Dimitrina Sevova. Curated by Dimitrina Sevova. Organized by Kunsthalle Exnergasse at Museum Halls, WUK, Währinger Straße 59, 1090 Wien.
Exhibition: Reality Manifestos - Can Dialectics Break Bricks? / A study of détournement as Art Forms
2012-01-19 - 2012-03-03: A group exhibition with Marc Bauer, Sabina Baumann, Mareike Bernien & Kerstin Schroedinger, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Bogna Burska, Brice Dellsperger, Konstantinos Manolakis, Michele O’Marah, Cora Piantoni, Elodie Pong, “Schmale, Scheirl, Knebl Werke” (Toni Schmale, Hans Scheirl & Jakob Lena Knebl), Rebecca Ann Tess. Curated by Dimitrina Sevova. At Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Währinger Straße 59, 2nd Staircase, 1st Floor, 1090 Wien.
Opening: Wednesday, 2012-01-18, 19h00, with a performance by The Centre of Attention, and a sound performance and DJ set by DJ Sweatproducer (Anne Käthi Wehrli).
Finissage: Saturday, 2012-03-03, 19h00, with a public interview by Hans Scheirl.
|>> Curatorial Input
Invisible City - Technologies of the Body
2012-01-08 - 2012-02-05: An exhibition project as a result of a long-term research and collaboration between the artists Amélie Brisson-Darveau, Gisèle Schindler, Riikka Tauriainen, and the curators Işın Önol and Dimitrina Sevova. At Wäscherei Kunstverein Zürich, Dienerstrasse 70, 8004 Zürich.
Opening: Sunday, 2012-01-07, 19h00, with a reading of Antonin Artaud and Italo Calvino.
One Thousand Endless Tales – Dancing the Line of Flight (Story Telling)
2010-10-01 - 2010-11-21: A group thematic show in two chapters curated by Dimitrina Sevova, which takes a look at various forms of reflection on aesthetic possibilities and political implications of individual stories of ordinary people in relation to society at large. At White Space | Raum für aktuelle Kunst, Militärstrasse 76 (backyard, entrance via Kanonengasse), 8004 Zürich.
Opening of First Chapter: Friday, 2010-10-01, 19h00.
Opening of Second Chapter: Friday, 2010-10-29, 19h00.
2010-04-09 - 2010-04-25: A group show investigating the ethical-aesthetic-political aspects of human-animal relations, curated by Dimitrina Sevova at Perla-Mode, in conjunction with a mirror exhibition at Dienstgebäude, Ich Mensch! (Du Tier), curated by Isabel Reiss and Cathérine Hug, and a common series of special events.
Opening: Friday, 2010-04-09, 19h00.
Queerscapes – The Flow of Dunes and the Green Shimmer of the Oasis on the Horizon
2009-06-05 - 2009-06-07: The exhibition and art event of the Offpride – the alternative queer festival, Zurich, organized by Dimitrina Sevova, will take place at Cabaret Voltaire and Perla Mode on Fri / Sat / Sun, 5 / 6 / 7 June.
A three-day group show with screenings, lectures, performances, kindly hosted by Cabaret Voltaire/Dadahaus (Spiegelgasse 1) and Perla Mode (Langstrasse 84 /Brauerstrasse 37). Do-it-yourself from archives to everyday life art practices, providing a dense web of insights, approaches, positions, views, perspectives. And a movie program, live performances, talks, discussions, streamings.
Idea and co-ordination: Dimitrina Sevova, with the active support and inspiration of Anna Frei, Anne Käthi Wehrli and Lucie Kolb and the entire offpride queer festival organizing working group and queer scene
Documents in English: Invitation card, program, statement, portfolio
Dokumente auf Deutsch: Einladungskarte, Programm, Statement, Portfolio
Kunsthalle Winterthur: "Aggression"
2007-10-20 - 2007-12-04: Dimitrina Sevova is co-curating with Oliver Kielmayer the international group show "Aggression" at Kunsthalle Winterthur.
Dimitrina Sevova is also curating an exclusive program of lectures, screenings and discussions around the topic of "Aggression".
See also the Aggression newspaper (PDF, 449 KB).
Shedhalle, Zürich: "Lost & Found"
2007-05-11 - 2007-07-15: Dimitrina Sevova's newest project, "Unbeschreiblich weiblich", premieres at the "Lost & Found" show at Shedhalle, Zürich, curated by Alice Cantaluppi, Isabel Reiss, Anna Voswinckel. "Unbeschreiblich weiblich" consists of a documentary film with interviews, photographs from the artist's personal archive, objects and text, and is dedicated to the reflection on how women and other characters in the alternative local scene in Sofia, Bulgaria, deal with pop culture.
"Fake" Curatorial Presentation
11 January 2006, 18h: Curatorial presentation by Dimitrina Sevova of the project "Critique of Pure Image - Between Fake and Quotation" at Les Complices, Zurich. The documentation of the project will be exhibited on 11-14 January.
"Fake", aka "Critique of Pure Image
- Between Fake and Quotation"
7 October 2005: Opening of the project "Critique of Pure Image - Between Fake and Quotation" at the Center of Contemporary Art "Ancient Baths", Plovdiv. International exhibition (until 2005-11-08), three-day theoretical symposium with strong international participation (2005-10-08 till 2005-10-10).
"Collaborative Practices" @ Shedhalle
Our collaboration with the Art
Today Association (from Communication
Front to "Critique of Pure Image
- Between Fake and Quotation") is at the center of code flow's contribution
to the project and exhibition Polyphony
- Collaborative Practices, Part 2
22 April-15 May 2005 at Shedhalle,
Zurich
Communication Front et al.
1999-2002: You'll find some of our older projects, including the three editions of the international project for media art and theory Communication Front, and the Communication Front - Crossing Points East West book, on the CFront site.
Related Materials
Curatorship, Culture and the Public: Curatorial Practice in the Post-Soviet Age (Part I & Part II)
by Allan Siegel
2007-05-08: In an e-mail interview by Allan Siegel, Dimitrina Sevova and other curators give their view on the conditions of curating in an East European context in the post-Soviet age.
The Figure of the Successful Media Curator
2006-06-09: Here's code flow's contribution of 2006-04-01 to the symposium Art - Place - Technology. International Symposium on Curating New Media Art at Liverpool School of Art & Design and FACT:
Symposium on Curating New Media
2006-03-30 - 2006-04-01: code flow participate in the symposium Art - Place - Technology. International Symposium on Curating New Media Art at Liverpool School of Art & Design and FACT. Lecture "Identifications of curatorial practices in media space. The figure of the successful media curator in the first decade of the 21st century".