Symposium
Art Social, Change and the Urban Sphere, CCNY, March 26, 2015
Symposium
VISIBLE/INVISIBLE, New Museum, March 7, 2015
This daylong symposium questions how the legacy of identity politics might be reconsidered in light of our present culture, where making oneself visible is de rigueur and yet can also carry threatening connotations: being captured, tracked, or dangerously overexposed. Through a series of discussions with artists and curators who are renegotiating the identity politics of earlier generations, “VISIBLE/INVISIBLE” examines how the underlying goals of movements that demanded representation (both in art and in culture at large) remain urgent and yet require significant rethinking amid a transformed social and existential landscape. Invited speakers will provocatively consider how power is mapped and at the same time hijacked in society today—not just between centers and margins, but also between subcultures and across shifting alliances. In addition, they will reflect on and present arguments for and against identity politics, attempting to consider its accomplishments while simultaneously restating, refuting, or reconfiguring its terms in the present.Two person exhibition
Ornament, Simon Preston Gallery, New York, 22 February -22 March
Simon Preston Gallery is delighted to present Ornament, an exhibition of works by Amie Siegel and Carlos Motta, which will open to the public on Sunday, 22 February and run until 22 March, 2015.
Assembling two distinct projects, the exhibition creates anthropological divisions that evoke historical uncertainties and question the westernizing institutional lens and the cameras that document them. Unfolding through the witness of objects, each of the works chronicle alternative historical lineages, exploring both gender and sexuality. Drawing upon André Malraux’s proposition in ‘Musée Imaginaire’ – ‘The Imaginary Museum of World Sculpture’ that displaces the physical art object and the museum through the photographic image, alternative interpretations emerge.
Group Exhibition
Canibalia, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, February 6 -26
Canibalia is a research around the notion and figure of the cannibal. The exhibition will entail a visual exploration on the anthropophagic subject, from where to (un)think cannibalism and the cannibal as spaces of dissidence, desire, community, ecology and exchange. With Theodor de Bry, Jeleton, Runo Lagomarsino, Candice Lin, Pablo Marte, Carlos Motta, Pedro Neves Marques, Manuel Segade, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané. Curated by Julia Morandeira ArrizabalagaOpening on February 6th, 2015 from 6 to 9pm. From February 6 to April, 26 2015
Solo Exhibition
Carlos Motta: For Democracy There Must Be Love, Röda Sten Konsthall, January 24- March 22, 2015
Röda Sten Konsthall is proud to open the 2015 season with a large survey exhibition of artist Carlos Motta. 2015.01.24 - 2015.03.22
Award
Carlos Motta wins the Main Prize of the 3rd edition of the Future Generation Art Prize, 2014
Carlos Motta (Colombia) and Nástio Mosquito (Angola) shared the Main Prize of the 3rd edition of the Future Generation Art Prize that was announced by the international jury at the award ceremony in the PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine on Dec 6, 2014. Artists will share the award of $100,000 ($60,000 in cash and $40,000 to be invested in the production of new works). Future Generation Art Prize is the first global art prize for artists up to 35 founded by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in 2009 with the aim of acknowledging and giving long-term support to a future generation of artists wherever they live and work. The winners were chosen by the respected international jury consisting of Francesco Bonami – Curator, Director of the 50th Biennale di Venezia (Italy); Jan Fabre – Artist (Belgium); Doris Salcedo – Artist (Colombia);Eckhard Schneider – General Director of the PinchukArtCentre (Ukraine); Bisi Silva – Independent curator, Director for the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (Nigeria); Adam Szymczyk – Artistic director of documenta 14 (Poland) and Philip Tinari – Director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing (China). Carlos Motta and Nástio Mosquito, as the Winners of the Main Prize, both will present their solo shows in the PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv in autumn 2015.
Screening
“Nefandus” at Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, La Habana, Cuba
Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, La Habana 4-14 diciembre, 2014
