Category: Interventions

August 29, 2014
Bialystok, Poland

Nomadic Park is a mobile installation of trees that were uprooted due to a reconstruction of the street. The eradicated trees were replanted into wheeled garbage bins and moved around the city, giving them new life and symbolic meaning.

Specifically dedicated to the world’s 51 million refugees, asylum seekers or internally displaced persons, the performance and mobile installation recreated the movement of refugees forced to leave their homes and travel to a new and uncertain destination. As local residents encountered these living beings placed in mobile dumpsters, they were forced to experience the real life circumstances of refugees throughout the globe.

At the end of the travel the trees took the place of the park, cut down a few years before, during the reconstruction of the main street of the city.

Events took place in the frame of exhibition Deprivation Arsenał Gallery, curator Monika Szewczyk

September – October, 2011  
Lublin, Poland

An object migrating from the suburbs to the city center and back has become a symbolic interface, a temporary space established with the aim of connecting Lublin’s communities and social groups.

The objective of this happening was an attempt at discovering the answers to the questions. How can it be made possible to achieve a balance, a connection between the analog «off-line» culture, which is strictly bound to the nature of the places which people inhabit, and the modern, digital and virtual «on-line» culture, where it is not the place where one lives that is of any importance? How can bonds and connections between people representing those two different cultures be forged, and how can they become involved in a mutually collaborative creative process?

November 7, 2009
Conches – Geneva, Switzerland

Transforming the methods of political activism, the artists use mass media tools to invite the citizens of Geneve and the guests of the city to take part in an artistic intervention on November 7th (the anniversary of the October Revolution – an official holiday in the Soviet Union). The people were invited to join the intervention at any point of its conduction, yet in a joint effort covering the distance, or part of it, between Villa Lombard, Conche, situated in Geneve’s suburbs to Place des Nations, Genève, situated down town.

The statue of Broken Chair on Place des Nations was the final destination of the route. The purpose of the journey was a renovation of the absent part (a broken leg) of the chair with the help of new media – bags filled with newspapers for the Swiss elite real estate advertising. Appropriating the language of the «civil movement», the intervention explores the role of public space as well as the art objects’ function within it.

Athens Digital Arts Festival
Video program “On Public Space”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Diplareios School, 3 Theatre Square, 10552, Athens, Greece
May 21-24, 2015

Vetlanda Museum
Cologne Art & Moving Images Awards
Kyrkogatan 31, 574 31 Vetlanda, Sweden
August – September 2013

Detmold International Shortfilm Festival
Video program “Art & the City”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Detmold, Germany
31 May – 9 June, 2013

CCA Tbilisi / Georgia
Video program “Art & the City”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Center for Contemporary Art. Tbilisi. Georgia
16-17-18, May 2013

Aferro Gallery
Cologne Art & Moving Images Awards
73 Market St. 07102, Newark, NJ, USA
February 23, – March 30, 2013

700is Reindeerland Experimental Film Festival
Video program “Art & the City”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland
Saturday, February 9, 2013, from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Kunstvlaai: Festival of Independents
Exposure – “Local is the new global”
Curated by Yuriy Kruchak
Amsterdam, Netherlands
November 23 – December 2, 2012

Euroshorts Film Festival
Video program «The Best of “Art & the City”»
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Gdansk, Poland
November 21-25, 2012

Art;Screen Fest
Video program “Art & the City”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Orebro, Sweden
October 4-7, 2012

Ionian International Digital Film Festival
Video program «The Best of “Art & the City”»
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Lefkas, Greece
September 15-22, 2012

International University in Imagination (I.U.I)
Exhibition – “Let’s Play”
Curated by Jin Sup Yoon, Yongim Kim
“Space Radio M”, Seoul, South Korea
August 04 – August 12, 2012

Ares Film & Media Festival
Video program “Art & the City”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Siracusa, Italy
July – August, 2012

The VideoBabel Festival
Video program “Art & the City”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Cusco, Peru
July 18, 2012

META ART CENTER CAMBODIA
Video program “Freedom of Memory”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Nico Mesterharm, Director Street 264, #6, Sangkat Chaktomuk Khan Daun Penh, Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia
July 14, 2012. from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

One Shot – International Film Short Film Festival
Video program “The Best of “Art & the City”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Armenian Center For Contemporary Experimental Art, Armenia, Yerevan
May 17-24, 2012

Urban Culture and Fire Festival
Video program “Art & the City”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Stadium “Tractor”, Belarus, Minsk
May 19-20, 2012

Athens International Video Art Festival
Video program “Art & the City”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Greece, Athens
May 2012

Festival Internacional de la Imagen
Video program “Art & the City | The Best of Cologne oFF VII”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Teatro Los Fundadores, Museo de Arte de Caldas, Colombia, Manizales
April 18, 2012, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

CeC – Carnival of e-Creativity
Video program “Memory | Velvet Underground”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Sattal, India
February 24-26, 2012

BEFF06 – 6th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival
Video program “Seasons of Memory”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Goethe Institute Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
February 1, 2012, from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Cinema Perpetuum Mobile Film Festival
Video program “Arte & the City”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Belarus, Minsk
January 13, 2012, from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Modern Art Research Institute
Exhibition – “Ten Years”
Curated by Gleb Vysheslavsky
Kyiv, Ukraine
December 13, 2011 – January 16, 2012

Media Fest
Video program “Arte & the City 1”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, Mexico City, Mexico
November 14, 2011, from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

ExTeresa Arte Actual
Video program “Arte & the City 1: Mirrors”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Mexico City, Mexico
November 10, 2011, from 8 p.m. to 8.40 p.m.

WATERPIECES Contemporary Art & Videoart Festival
Video program “Mirrors”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Art Center NOASS, Riga, Latvia
Friday, September 09, 2011, from 8.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m.

Shams – Cultural Center
Video program “Mirrors”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Beirut, Lebanon
Wednesday, August 31, 2011, from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Projector 2011-4º – International Video Art Festival
Video program “Art & the City. Gesture of Generosity”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
OffLimits Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Thursday, July 14, 2011, from 8.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m.

CologneOFF 2011
Video program “Europe: Ex Soviet Union”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Rajatila Gallery, Tampere, Finland
Saturday, May 28, 2011, from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m.

NCCA – National Center for Contemporary Art
Video program “Europe: Ex Soviet Countries”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
St.Petersburg, Russia
Saturday, May 21, 2011, from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

TimiShort Film Festival
Video program “Art & the City”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
CINEMA STUDIO, Timisoara, Romania
Thursday, May 5, 2011, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Supermarket art fair 2011
Video program “Crossing the Dimensions”
Curated by Yuriy Kruchak
Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
February 18-20, 2011

Modern Art Research Institute
Video program “Contemporary Ukrainian Media Art”
Curated by Maria Kulikovskaya
Kyiv, Ukraine
Wednesday, 14 July 2010, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

October 3, 2009
Conches, Switzerland

When visitors enter the Conches garden, they see an immense carpet of flowers which seems to have been planted by the city parks and gardens department. The pattern in the garden beds is indecipherable at ground level but when viewed from the top floor of nearest house it falls into place as the head of Lenin.

Floral pictures are a long-standing tradition, and are still popular today. The people of Geneva were invited to come to the park on 3 October 2009 for the first Switzerland subbotnik to plant the flowers. Volunteer workers from all social backgrounds had time to mix and talk about art and culture while they were working the soil.

Kunstvlaai: Festival of Independents
Exposure – “Local is the new global”
Curated by Yuriy Kruchak
Amsterdam, Netherlands
November 23 – December 2, 2012

Fine Art Film Festival Szolnok
Video program “Once There Was Art”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Tisza Cinema – Room “B”, Szolnok, Hungary
Friday, October 12, 2012, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

International University in Imagination (I.U.I)
Exhibition – “Let’s Play”
Curated by Jin Sup Yoon, Yongim Kim
“Space Radio M”, Seoul, South Korea
August 04 – August 12, 2012

Now & After 12. Video Art Festival Moskow
Video program “The Best of “Art & the City”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia, Moscow
May 24 – June 10, 2012

CeC – Carnival of e-Creativity
Video program “Memory | Velvet Underground”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Sattal, India
February 24-26, 2012

Modern Art Research Institute
Exhibition – “Ten Years”
Curated by Gleb Vysheslavsky
Kyiv, Ukraine
December 13, 2011 – January 16, 2012

Visual Culture Research Center
Exhibition – «Labour Show»
Curatorial team «HUDRADA»
Kyiv, Ukraine
November 17, 2011 – December 2, 2011

WATERPIECES Contemporary Art & Videoart Festival
Video program “Freedom of Expression”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Art Center NOASS, Riga, Latvia
Friday, September 09, 2011, from 9.30 p.m. to 10.30 p.m.

CologneOFF 2011
Video program “Europe: Ex Soviet Union”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Rajatila Gallery, Tampere, Finland
Saturday, May 28, 2011, from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m.

NCCA – National Center for Contemporary Art
Video program “Europe: Ex Soviet Countries”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
St.Petersburg, Russia
Saturday, May 21, 2011, from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Supermarket art fair 2011
Video program “Crossing the Dimensions”
Сurated by Yuriy Kruchak
Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
February 18-20, 2011

Modern Art Research Institute
Video program “Contemporary Ukrainian Media Art”
Сurated by Maria Kulikovskaya
Kyiv, Ukraine
Wednesday, 14 July 2010, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

May 1, 2009
Vienna, Austria

An intervention May Day shows how a space in the city park can be transformed after a pop concert. Taking a concept of invisible mental theater as a starting point, the intervention establishes connections between popular culture and mass consumption, and analyses the nature of contemporary society.

Using past events and objects – plastic glasses, packages, plates, bottles, left behind after a concert in Prater Park, Vienna, the artists initiate a game aimed to transform the viewers of the concert from the users of mass culture into creators of authentic culture based on personal mentality. Reorganizing the events in this particular way, the intervention gives us an example of how an artistic intrusion can help individuals find release from their common routines and patterns.

October 24 – 26 , 2008
Kyiv, Ukraine

The narrative of a Post-soviet park, its eclectic structure, became a starting point of the series of interventions Start Time on the territory of Kyiv Hydropark. An idea developing the park together was a leitmotif of the events. The challenge was to find a balance – a system of human interaction with the exterior of the park, with its past, present and future culture, in the self-organization of leisure activities by different social groups. We invited people with visual impairments and young Ukrainian artists to cooperate, as well as residents and visitors to Kiev who we reached through the mass media. Those who wished to take part built on the territory of the “Hydropark ” an artistic platform with both physical and intellectual manifestations. About fifty people – representatives of different social strata – cooperated on a program of artistic and social activity. We presented a number of artefacts, and identified several places that epitomized past and present culture of the park. Participants were invited on the basis of these objects and places, having created or transformed them as necessary, to reveal other, hidden meanings, or to determine new meanings. The result of this experiment was a series of interrelated, interpenetrating time-based events – consisting of objects, performances, happenings and sporting competitions, the course of development, and evaluation of which were determined by participants themselves. Work became the medium, uncovering the hidden meanings of the park.