14. – 31.5.2020
PLATFORMS PROJECT NET
Platforms Project – Independent Art Fair Athens
featuring 63 platforms from 23 countries and over 800 artists
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represented artists: Martin Gut (CH), Rut Himmelsbach (CH), Alex Silber (CH)
curated by Jasmin Glaab / curatorial assistant Melanie Kuratli
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www.platformsproject.com
PLATFORMS PROJECT NET
Platforms Project – Independent Art Fair Athens
featuring 63 platforms from 23 countries and over 800 artists
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represented artists: Martin Gut (CH), Rut Himmelsbach (CH), Alex Silber (CH)
curated by Jasmin Glaab / curatorial assistant Melanie Kuratli
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www.platformsproject.com
ABOUT THE SHOW 2020
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Unfortunately the physical show could not take place according to the global COVID pandemic. Instead a brilliant online edition was realized by Platforms Project artistic director Artemis Potamianou and her team. The physical show is postponed, the team of kunsthallekleinbasel and participant artists are looking forward to travel to Athens in May 2021.
ABOUT PLATFORMS PROJECT NET
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The objective of Platforms Project is to map artistic action as it is produced in the context of collective initiatives by artists who decide to join forces in seeking answers to artistic questions by creating the so-called platforms. This year we will not get together; but creativity and art does not stop, so we shall meet on the internet. Platforms Project establishes a new approach to art viewing via Platforms Project NET which is a web-based art fair. Platforms Project NET will feature 63 platforms from 23 countries and over 800 artists.
PRESS ARTICLES 2020
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Dream Idea Machine (GR). Mai 2020. article: Efi Michalarou & Dimitris Lempesis. "FAQ NET: Part VIII"
Dream Idea Machine (GR). Mai 2020. article: Efi Michalarou. "ART FAIRS: Platforms Project Net 2020 – Parallel Program"
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Unfortunately the physical show could not take place according to the global COVID pandemic. Instead a brilliant online edition was realized by Platforms Project artistic director Artemis Potamianou and her team. The physical show is postponed, the team of kunsthallekleinbasel and participant artists are looking forward to travel to Athens in May 2021.
ABOUT PLATFORMS PROJECT NET
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The objective of Platforms Project is to map artistic action as it is produced in the context of collective initiatives by artists who decide to join forces in seeking answers to artistic questions by creating the so-called platforms. This year we will not get together; but creativity and art does not stop, so we shall meet on the internet. Platforms Project establishes a new approach to art viewing via Platforms Project NET which is a web-based art fair. Platforms Project NET will feature 63 platforms from 23 countries and over 800 artists.
PRESS ARTICLES 2020
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Dream Idea Machine (GR). Mai 2020. article: Efi Michalarou & Dimitris Lempesis. "FAQ NET: Part VIII"
Dream Idea Machine (GR). Mai 2020. article: Efi Michalarou. "ART FAIRS: Platforms Project Net 2020 – Parallel Program"
Screen shot of Platforms Project NET edition 2020 | Athens, 2020
ABOUT THE (PLANNED) SHOW 2020
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In 2020 kunsthallekleinbasel artist run initiative from Basel participates for the second time at Platforms Project Athens. Works by the Swiss artists Martin Gut, Rut Himmelsbach and Alex Silber will be displayed. The show is curated by the founding director of kunsthallekleinbasel Jasmin Glaab and curatorial assistant Melanie Kuratli. This year’s show aims to present contemporary Swiss fine art and performance to a wide audience of Greek professionals and deepen the established cooperations whithin the independent Greek and Swiss art scene.
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In 2020 kunsthallekleinbasel artist run initiative from Basel participates for the second time at Platforms Project Athens. Works by the Swiss artists Martin Gut, Rut Himmelsbach and Alex Silber will be displayed. The show is curated by the founding director of kunsthallekleinbasel Jasmin Glaab and curatorial assistant Melanie Kuratli. This year’s show aims to present contemporary Swiss fine art and performance to a wide audience of Greek professionals and deepen the established cooperations whithin the independent Greek and Swiss art scene.
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PRESS RELEASE 2020
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Martin Gut (CH)
Martin Gut (*1976) lives and works as freelance artist in Lucerne, Switzerland. Martin Gut is a Swiss swiss mixed media artist. With every announcement from his studio the audience wonders: “What is he up to this time?”. The consistent personal development trajectory over the 20 years of his artistic work is scarcely marked with some substantive and technical diversions. Among his artworks there are sculptures, threedimensional collages and inventions resorting to technical and intellectual products. In 2019 his works have been exhibited in Hungary at Art Marked Budapest, in Switzerland at Tart Gallery Zurich or in Cuba at Fabrica de Arte Cubano and Revolution Art Space in Havanna.
Martin Gut, STILLMAN, Lucerne, 2019. Assemblage with lacquered wooden base, converted Batman doll, modeling clay, assembly foam, sewn fabric, acrylic, glue and screw. Dimentions: 118 cm x 46 cm x 50 cm. Photo: Martin Gut. Lucerne, 2019.
Rut Himmelsbach (CH)
Rut Himmelsbach (*1950) lives and works in Basel, Switzerland. Her art includes photography, painting, video, installation and objects in installation contexts. In her photographic work she juxtaposes pictures, or she expands them into series in the form of blocks or friezes. In the early eighties Himmelsbach composed associative photo series of television shows, photographic gear, landscape and architecture. Her main work is observation and translation into her pieces of art. Himmelsbachs „wall pieces“ are compositions of different materials - like foam rubber, stone, cloth, glass - including photography and painting. With her works she aims to a kind of universality - even though the content may be of „everyday material“. Her works are in the collections of Bank Bär Zürich, Kunstverein Basel, Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt, Kupferstichkabinett of the Kunstmuseum Basel (28 juxtapositions of drawings by Alex Silber and photographs by Rut Himmelsbach), Kunsthaus Zürich, Embassy of Switzerland in Den Haag, Ricola Collection Switzerland and private collections.
Rut Himmelsbach, OPEN SOURCE ALIAS FLUGWETTER, Basel, 2019. Open-air installation with aluminium TV antennas, iron rod and plants. Dimensions: 4 m x 2 m x 2 m. Foto: Hansjürg Wyss. Basel, 2019.
Alex Silber (CH)
Alex Silber (*1950) lives and works in Basel, Switzerland. Silber is an author and performer who has presented installations, pictorial work and publications since 1971. As varied as his activities are drawing, selfportrait-photography and video shaped his work. Long periods spent in Brazil and the USA (1983-92) influenced his working method. Focussing language as it is shared and transformed through different media define his concern (body language / language bodies). Frequently other artists participate in the overall work within the Alex Silber Company.
Alex Silber, OUR HOLY MOTHER EARTH / ENTSORGUNG. Basel, 2020. Signed serial unique piece with trimmed trash bag and polyethylene, mounted on glass. Dimensions: 59 x 56 cm. Foto: Daniel Häni. Basel, 2020.
CONTACTS
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Jasmin Glaab
Founding Curator ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– phone / whatsapp: +41 79 502 01 53 gallery: Steinenbachgässlein 13, CH-4051 Basel email: kontakt@kunsthallekleinbasel.com web: www.kunsthallekleinbasel.com |
Melanie Kuratli
Curatorial Assistant ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– phone / whatsapp: +41 79 502 01 53 gallery: Steinenbachgässlein 13, CH-4051 Basel email: team@kunsthallekleinbasel.com web: www.kunsthallekleinbasel.com |
