182 Art In America November 2011
BARCELONA
“YOU ARE NOT ALONE”
MIRÓ FOUNDATION
“You Are Not Alone” is a group exhibition organized by ArtAids, a private foundation that invites leading international artists to produce work dealing with AIDS. In Barcelona, the show consisted of work by 15 artists (almost all based in Europe) and included nine new commissions, with [...]

Faro de Vigo 22/10/2011
MARCO, Vigo, Speaks Out Against the Stigma of AIDS with You Are Not Alone
The ArtAids Foundation presents an exhibition on this illness seen through the eyes of 18 international artists
ÁGATHA DE SANTOS – VIGO
Yesterday, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo (MARCO) embarked on its particular battle against the stigma of AIDS [...]

ATLÁNTICO 24/10/2011
“I don’t believe in conspiracies; there is interest in an AIDS vaccine, but it is difficult”
Han Nefkens, who has been HIV positive for 24 years, opened an exhibition that deals with the illness.
Ana Baena – Vigo – 22-10-2011
Han Nefkens (Rotterdam, 1954) opened the group exhibition You Are Not Alone at MARCO yesterday. As president [...]

Art with Prophylaxis
MARCO presents an exhibition that offers of 18 perspectives on AIDS.
By: b.r.sotelino 22/10/2011
Following the successful exhibition by Martin Creed that flooded the ground floor of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo with blue balloons, MARCO has cleared away the latex and filled the space with a new exhibition that also has prophylactic [...]

Art in America 06/07/2011

ARTECONTEXTO 07/07/2011

ARA 29/06/2011
The exhibition You Are Not Alone combats the stigmatisation of those living with HIV
Fourteen contemporary artists from all over the world join forces at the exhibition You Are Not Alone at the Fundació Miró to use art to combat the rejection faced by people with HIV
Antoni Ribas Tur, Barcelona
David Goldblatt’s Victoria Cobokana, housekeeper, in [...]

Han Nefkens, founder of ArtAids, produces the exhibition You Are Not Alone
Roberta Bosco, Barcelona
The reproduction of the Barberini Faun, the masterpiece of Greek art restored by Bellini, which revels in its brazen pose and homoerotic air, emerges majestically from the shadows. A huge music-hall-style neon sign reading AIDS is good business for some casts a glow [...]

La vanguardia 29/06/2011
ArtAids presents the exhibition You Are Not Alone
Teresa Sesé, Barcelona
“There are thousands of pills on the market, but there’s not a single one that can open our minds. Only art has the almost magical power of making us think, letting us see the world from a different perspective and basically venturing a bit further”, [...]

(Sorry, this entry is only available in Spanish) Lo+Positivo 48 Primavera 2011

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LA NUEVA ESPAÑA
30 de octubre

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LA VOZ DE ASTURIAS
29 de Octubre de 2010

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LA VANGUARDIA 25
15 March 2010
The writer and collector Han Nefkens recounts his experience living with HIV
“It awakened in me the desire to share”
The writer and art collector Han Nefkens (Rotterdam, 1854), has been fighting HIV for his own life since he found out he was HIV positive in 1987. He was 33 years old, [...]

Interview with Han Nefkens starts at 23′08”,
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The feature starts at 16′20”,
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Interview with Han Nefkens in the program Anima in TV3 talking about the ArtAids foundation and its participation in FIB 2009.
http://www.tv3.cat/videos/1373799/Veiem-lAnima-de-Han-Nefkens

LA VANGUARDIA, LA CONTRO, THURSDAY 21 MAY 2009
Han Nefkens, arts activist, president of the ArtAids Foundation

I am 55 years old: I never dreamt I’d make it this far twenty years ago, when I found out I was HIV-positive! I was born in Rotterdam and I live in Barcelona. I’m a writer. I [...]