PROJECTS
Thailand Upcoming- You Are Not Alone Bangkok Art Culture Centre, (BACC)
29 December, 2011
08 March 2012 – 18 April 2012
In You Are Not Alone 16 contemporary artists from around the world will give their individual visions on the causes, consequences and current context of Aids, as well as ways of fighting it. The pieces presented offer a vision of Aids from the perspective of different [… read more]
Spain You are not alone. Museo de Arte Contemporánea, Vigo (MARCO)
3 August, 2011
21 October 2011 – 22 January 2012
“When you share, you are not alone”. Han Nefkens Founder and President of the ArtAids Foundation.
The Fundació Joan Miró, the Museo de Arte Contemporánea, Vigo (MARCO) and the ArtAids Foundation presented You Are Not Alone, an exhibition curated by Hilde [… read more]
Spain You are not alone – Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
28 April, 2011
1 July – 18 September 2011 Opening: on Thursday, June 30 at 7.30 PM
“When you share, you are not alone”. Han Nefkens Founder and President of the ArtAids Foundation.
The Fundació Joan Miró, the Museo de Arte Contemporánea, Vigo (MARCO) and the ArtAids Foundation presented You Are Not [… read more]
Spain Exhibition ‘Intimate Spaces. Talking about AIDS’
30 November, 2010
An Experimentem amb l’Art project organised by the ArtAids Foundation
From December 1 to 19, 2010
Tecla Sala Art Centre (L’Hospitalet)
The ArtAids Foundation presents the exhibition Intimate Spaces. Talking about AIDS, which is the fruit of an artistic and educational project in which a ser [… read more]
Spain ASTURIAS – ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN
20 October, 2010
The project, organised by ArtAids, is driven by a desire to increase awareness of the need for prevention and to reflect on the feelings of people living with HIV. The curator of the exhibition, Miquel Bardagil, sees it as the culmination of a project that began in 2008 and encompasses a very wide [… read more]
Senegal Dak’Art 2010: Tous Ensemble
9 April, 2010
Curator: Stef Van Bellingen
Dates: May 8 – 9, 2010
Venues:
City of Dakar: (performances from May 5th on)
Ferry to the Island of Gorée
Island of Gorée: (opening festivities May 8th at 4.30 p.m.)
Tous ensemble is an exhibition by ArtAids for Dak’art Off, part of the Dakar Biennale. African [… read more]
France Pilot Light
29 January, 2010
Pilot Light
February 4-March 21, 2010
Opening
Thursday February 4, 2010
Espace Le Carré, Lille > 6:30 pm
Maison Folie de Moulins, Lille > 8pm
With a performance by Rirkrit Tiravanija
After Thailand in 2008, and then Spain in 2009, the ARTAIDS Foundation worked in close collaboration wit [… read more]
france Pilot Light: essay by curator Lumi Tan
28 January, 2010
Lumi Tan
Pilot Light
Although this exhibition brings together a number of public figures, most of whom are no longer with us, it cannot be separated from the personal dimension. Allow me to introduce myself as a straight woman who was born in an American suburb the same year that AIDS was first r [… read more]
Spain ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN
23 November, 2009
A project organised by ArtAids with the participation of twenty artists from Barcelona or with a special link to the city. The project is driven by a desire to increase awareness of the need for prevention and to reflect on the feelings of people living with HIV. The curator of the exhibition, Miqu [… read more]
Spain CASA ASIA: More To Love
23 November, 2009
CASA ÀSIA: More To Love
‘More to Love’ was an exhibition presented at Bangkok and Chiang-Mai (Thailand) in the summer of 2008. ArtAids brought together twenty
European and Thai artist and a curator with people living with AIDS and others who are involved in the fight against the disease, with t [… read more]
The Netherlands Viviane Sassen & Martine Stig: Cover
23 November, 2009
In September 2005 the photographers Viviane Sassen and Martine Stig travelled to Moscow with five ‘condom dresses’ by the Brazilian designer Adriana Bertini in their luggage. Stig and Sassen scouted around five locations in Moscow in search of young women – contemporary Cinderellas – to mod [… read more]
the netherlands Cover
23 November, 2009
2008 – The Netherlands
In September 2005 the photographers Viviane Sassen and Martine Stig travelled to Moscow with five ‘condom dresses’ by the Brazilian designer Adriana Bertini in their luggage. Stig and Sassen scouted around five locations in Moscow in search of young women – contem [… read more]
the netherlands Access for All
23 November, 2009
2004/2006 – Bangkok/The Netherlands
ABOUT THE PROJECT
‘Access for All’ was the theme of the biennial International Aids Conference held in Bangkok in 2004. In conjunction with the conference, Han Nefkens and Hilde Teerlinck, then director of the CRAC Alsace in Altkirch (FR), asked each of [… read more]
thailand MORE TO LOVE: THE ART OF LIVING TOGETHER
23 November, 2009
ABOUT THE PROJECT
This ArtAids project brings together twenty visual artists from Thailand and Europe, a curator, people living with HIV and those involved in the fight against Aids. The project More to Love: The Art of Living Together, which takes the Thai expression ‘Putting their heart into yo [… read more]
Switzerland LEO COPERS AT UNAIDS
9 July, 2009
ABOUT THE PROJECT
UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, moved into its new headquarters in Geneva in November 2006. The new building houses the UNAIDS ART for AIDS collection, which was assembled through the support of artists, collectors and donors. The ArtAids foundation contri [… read more]
senegal COMING UP 2010: ARTAIDS DAK’ART
9 July, 2009
2010 – Dakar
ABOUT THE PROJECT
ArtAids is currently developing an art project in conjunction with DAK’ART, the Biennale of Contemporary African Art in Dakar.
The curator of this project is Stef Van Bellingen.
[… read more]
the netherlands ARTAIDS NORD-PAS DE CALAIS
9 July, 2009
2009 – Nord-Pas de Calais
ABOUT THE PROJECT
In the French region of Nord-Pas de Calais, ArtAids will present a collaboration between the FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, other regional cultural institutions and ArtAids Thailand.
It is envisaged that ten artists from Thailand and ten artists from Franc [… read more]
‘COVER’ – THE NETHERLANDS 2008
9 July, 2009
In September 2005 the photographers Viviane Sassen and Martine Stig travelled to Moscow with five ‘condom dresses’ by the Brazilian designer Adriana Bertini in their luggage. Stig and Sassen scouted around five locations in Moscow in search of young women – contemporary Cinderellas – to mod [… read more]
‘STIGMA’, COMMISSIONED BY ARTAIDS
6 July, 2009
ABOUT THE PROJECT
In 2007, ArtAids commissioned the Dutch photographer Juul Hondius to create a work on the theme ‘Stigma’. The artist travelled to Johannesburg and produced three photographs for ArtAids, which he entitled Hillbrow, Newtown and Noordergesig.
The prints of the Stigma series are [… read more]
the netherlands Cover: Photos for sale
2 July, 2009
2008 – The Netherlands
The Cover-project yielded five series of photographs:
Dasha – Bolshoi Ballet Academy (7 photos)
Irina – Galereja (7 photos)
Natalia – Varvaka Street (7 photos)
Monica – B2 (8 photos)
Nastya – Hotel Rossija (7 photos)
Each series has been p [… read more]
Cover: Presentations
2 July, 2009
2008-2009 The Netherlands
The AMC Brummelkamp Gallery will show Cover from 24 March until 5 May 2009. Cover was first shown at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht in 2008.
[… read more]
the netherlands Cover: Book with introduction
2 July, 2009
A book entitled Cover – Viviane Sassen and Martine Stig – is being published by Veenman Publishers in November 2008. It contains all the Cover photographs and an introductory text by Catherine Somzé (see below). The graphic design is by Thomas Buxó.
Part of the proceeds from the sale [… read more]
‘ACCESS FOR ALL’ – THAILAND – FRANCE – THE NETHERLANDS 2004 -2006
23 July, 2004
ABOUT THE PROJECT
‘Access for All’ was the theme of the biennial International Aids Conference held in Bangkok in 2004. In conjunction with the conference, Han Nefkens and Hilde Teerlinck, then director of the CRAC Alsace in Altkirch (FR), asked each of ten artists from different countries to d [… read more]
