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OPEN CALL 2024
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MOMENTUM-LAGOS [Berlin] // LAGOS-MOMENTUM [Mexico City]
RESIDENCY PROGRAM
Since 2023, LAGOS and MOMENTUM have initiated a series of exchanges between our institutions which enable the mobility and visibility of the artistic communities of Mexico City and Berlin through our Artist-in-Residence Programs in both cities. Starting in 2024, we open the applications to international artists and curators, regardless of their nationality or where they are based. The locations of the Residencies are in Berlin at MOMENTUM-LAGOS in the Kunstquartier Bethanien Art Center, or at LAGOS in Mexico City.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
Our Residency Program is open to artists and curators, working in any medium (visual, sound, digital or performance art).
With a choice of locations between two of the most vibrant international hubs for contemporary art – Berlin and Mexico City – our Residency Program is aimed at a site-specific engagement with each city. Project proposals will be assessed on the basis of their sociopolitical relevance, and their relation between identity and community.
The Residencies are dedicated to the professional development, art production and international networking of our Artists-in-Residence in both cities.
MOMENTUM-LAGOS hosts artists and curators for a minimum period of 1 month, though other timeframes will be considered.
With the support of the curatorial teams of MOMENTUM and LAGOS, artists and curators are given individual guidance and support with the research and development of their work.
Drawing on the extensive networks of both institutions in Berlin and Mexico City, the Residency arranges studio, gallery and museum visits, and other events to connect art professionals who mutually benefit from cooperation and exchange.
The residency culminates in a public event such as an Open Studio, Presentation, Artist Talk, Workshop or Performance. The Residency is committed to documenting its activities, emphasizing the importance of process-based research, allowing participants to showcase their work during development and to maintain a legacy of their work on our online platforms.
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LAGOS is an art studio and residency space in Mexico City dedicated to the production and development of contemporary art projects and their exhibition. LAGOS is an organization that supports artists and promotes the intersection of art professionals. Lagos seeks to support artists at crucial moments in their careers in three ways: by offering workspace, facilitating collaborations with specialists in various disciplines, and promoting new audiences through a diverse program that includes open studios and exhibitions. Lagos is open to artists, curators, writers, editors and cultural agents, offering them the opportunity to insert themselves in the creative panorama of Mexico City; as well as proposals, collaborations and projects that broaden the discussion of current problems addressed via contemporary art.
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MOMENTUM AiR
Berlin Studio Residency
The MOMENTUM Residency is dedicated to artistic research into time and temporality in visual language. Open to artists, curators, filmmakers, and writers working in a variety of media and practices, from anywhere in the world. MOMENTUM AiR is a process-based residency designed to facilitate research as well as production of new work, while providing a framework for building professional networks and cooperations within Berlin’s thriving art community.
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MOMENTUM is a non-profit platform for time-based art, active worldwide since 2010, with headquarters in Berlin at the Kunstquartier Bethanien Art Center. MOMENTUM’s program is composed of local and international Exhibitions, Artist and Curator Residencies, Video Art in Public Space Initiatives, a Performance Archive, an Education Archive, and a growing Collection. Positioned as both a local and global platform, MOMENTUM serves as a bridge joining professional art communities, irrespective of institutional and national borders. MOMENTUM is dedicated to providing a platform for exceptional artists with a program focused on the growing diversity and relevance of time-based practices, continuously seeking innovative answers to the question ‘What is time-based art?’.
MOMENTUM AiR is designed to further the mission of MOMENTUM as a global platform for time-based art, focused on the growing diversity and relevance of time-based practices. Visual languages will continue to evolve in concert with the technologies which drive them, and it is the role of visual artists to push the limits of these languages. By enabling Research, Creation, Discussion, Exchange and Exhibition, MOMENTUM AiR provides a platform and a network in which artists and curators can develop their practice, further their knowledge, innovate and experiment, within a respected international professional framework.
MOMENTUM AiR hosts artists and curators for a suggested period of 1 – 3 months, though other timeframes will be considered. Each Residency is individually programmed, and therefore the duration is flexible. With weekly supervision by the Residency Coordinator, and with the support of MOMENTUM’s curatorial team, artists/curators are given individual guidance and support with the research and development of their work. Drawing on MOMENTUM’s extensive network of contacts in both the visual arts and the broader cultural field, the Residency arranges studio and gallery visits, and other events in order to connect art professionals who mutually benefit from cooperation and exchange. The Residency culminates in a public event such as an Open Studio Presentation, Artist Talk, Workshop, Performance, or Kunst Salon. The Residency is committed to documenting its activities, emphasizing the importance of process-based research, allowing AiR participants to showcase their work during development and to maintain a lasting legacy of their work on our online platform and Education Archive.
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Situated in Berlin, the ‘Art Capital of Europe’, The MOMENTUM Residency is located in the Kunstquartier Bethanien Art Center, with over 20 institutions and facilities for visual and performing arts. MOMENTUM AiR Residents have access to the facilities in the building, including a media lab, film and photography studios, sound and animation studios, a printing workshop featuring every form of print media, dance studios, theaters, a music school, and other facilities.
Access to film, media, print, and sculpture workshops, or other production facilities can be arranged, as required for our artists’s residency projects.
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STATES of EMERGENCY
ONLINE EXHIBITION ON
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11 DECEMBER 2021 – EXTENDED
Iván Buenader (AR) – Nezaket Ekici (TR/DE) – Doug Fishbone (US/UK) – Hannu Karjalainen (FI) – Shahar Marcus (IL) – Christian Niccoli (IT) – Nina E. Schönefeld (DE)
Curated by Rachel Rits-Volloch & Emilio Rapanà
When we made the title for this exhibition, we had no idea just how sadly prophetic it would prove. STATES of EMERGENCY takes place amidst the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the outbreak of war closer to home than any of us could previously imagine. Our hearts go out to our friends, families, and colleagues in Ukraine and all those in Russia hoping for peace, who never wanted this tragic war. During these turbulent times, MOMENTUM extends STATES of EMERGENCY until peace is restored in the Ukraine.
Focusing on artists of the MOMENTUM Collection, States of Emergency compiles their responses to a decade of global environmental and political crisis: particularly to the current pandemic emergency which has transformed the lives of many millions of people. States of Emergency forms the second part of our Corona Program begun with COVIDecameron, an online exhibition of video art curated during the first pandemic lockdown, recontextualising existing works in the MOMENTUM Collection. States of Emergency, however, focuses on new work and new directions in artistic practice since the start of the pandemic, reflecting directly on the far-ranging impacts of COVID-19 and its aftermath from socio-economic, environmental, political, global, and personal points of view.
In an era of seemingly endless calamities – pandemics, global warming, political upheavals – life is becoming increasingly cinematic, as the fictions of the screen blur into the realities of the daily news. Disaster scenarios of disease, natural catastrophe, rising sea levels, terrorist attacks, threats of war; is it Hollywood or CNN? Is art mirroring life or vise versa While many struggle to survive in these pandemic times, we, the fortunate, surf. We surf the web, the slipstream, the information age. We are constantly connected via smartphones iPads and apps; inundated with images, texts, and tweets; relentlessly bombarded with events, offers and updates; confronted with a barrage of news – real, fake, and somewhere in between. (Mis)information flows as virally as disease. And, confined during the recent lockdowns and travel restrictions, we are required to blur the line between real space and cyberspace, living increasingly virtual lives. COVID-19 has affected all of us, worldwide. As we learn how to navigate this new pandemic reality amidst the chaos of (mis)information and mixed messages, we turn to one another for guidance. Artists – as cultural first-responders – are at the forefront of translating the felt experience of this time of emergency into visual languages, making sense of our precarious times. States of Emergency asks: What will emerge out of this global emergency?; While doctors and scientists race to heal our bodies, what will it take to heal the cultural aftermath of COVID-19?; What is the role of the artist in a state of emergency?
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TAKING FLIGHT: Birds & Bicycles
ONLINE EXHIBITION
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5 November 2021 – EXTENDED
Featuring Video Art from TAKING FLIGHT: Birds & Bicycles Berlin:
AES+F // Shaarbek Amankul // Marina Belikova //
Zuzanna Janin // Dominik Lejman // Almagul Menlibayeva // Hajnal Nemeth // David Szauder
Curated by Rachel Rits-Volloch & Emilio Rapanà
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Birds & Bicycles on IkonoTV >>
Together Birds & Bicycles is a platform initiated in 2021 as a cooperation between a dozen partners in Germany, Poland, and Russia, designed to address ideas of freedom and open boarders – notions of which Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is making a travesty. Because there are so many in Russia who never supported this, such a platform for freedom is needed now more than ever, if there is to be hope of a peaceful resolution.
The factory of metaphors which is Birds & Bicycles Berlin, TAKING FLIGHT on IkonoTV, assembles the video work of 8 artists from Hungary, Kazakhstan, Poland, and Russia. Referring to the duality of the term flight as both an airborne means of travel and an escape from crisis, the artists in this exhibition address the metaphor of flight as a symbol for freedom in various forms. While AES+F re-imagine the airport as a modern-day Purgatory, Almagul Menlibayeva gazes out at space as the next border we are racing to cross. And while David Szauder surrealistically re-animates his grandfather’s Super 8 footage from the Eastern Bloc of the 60’s-80’s, Shaarbek Amankul captures the historic moment of Lenin in flight, suspended between a past of failed ideologies, and an uncertain future. In a world of global humanitarian, ecological, and medical disaster, we may often feel as if we are in free-fall. Dominik Lejman’s skydivers undulating in the vastness of space come to resemble at one moment the geometric shapes of gothic church architecture, and in the next the biological forms of chromosomes; continually switching between the spiritual and the scientific origins of life. The Russian exclamation “balagan” – describing, with celebratory gusto, a farce, a fine mess, the most unholy of cock-ups – is deployed by Marina Belikova to present a critical challenge to the chaos and misrule of our times. Hajnal Németh’s operatic rendition of quotations from failed leaders presents a sadly timeless portrait of an age when the irresponsibility and ignorance of leaders grows undiminished. And Zuzanna Janin’s boxing ballet is a work perpetually relevant in a time when we are all dancing around the issues.