March/April 2007

ICEBOX 02 Audio/Visual Art Fes­ti­val
February/March 2007
Cape Town, South Africa
http://liquidfridge.co.za/icebox/

ICEBOX is a col­lab­o­ra­tive fes­ti­val of con­tem­po­rary cre­ativ­ity in
audio/visual art. With the focus on the elec­tronic, open and South
African, the fes­ti­val com­bines music, film, video and inter­ac­tive media through a pro­gramme of screen­ings, mul­ti­me­dia per­for­mances, club nights, work­shops and an online exhibition.

Art Expo
March 1–5, 2007
New York City, USA
www.artexpos.com

With momen­tum from major show improve­ments and addi­tions in 2006, includ­ing new 12’ white walls in the show’s Plat­inum sec­tion and the addi­tion of a Dig­i­tal Arts Pavil­ion, Art­expo New York con­tin­ues to grow, attract­ing record num­bers of buy­ers to the show and deliv­er­ing an unpar­al­leled show expe­ri­ence for every exhibitor.

Works on Paper
March 2 – March 5, 2007
New York City
www.sanfordsmith.com

Vicenza Arte
March 2 – March 5, 2007
VICENZA, Italy
www.vicenzafiera.it

The exhi­bi­tion for­mula of Vicenza ARTE, per­fected over recent years, has enabled cre­ation of an event with its own def­i­nite col­lo­ca­tion on the crowded sce­nario of art exhi­bi­tions. In this con­text for­mat presents a lim­ited num­ber of selected gal­leries to guar­an­tee a high exhi­bi­tion level to offer the vis­i­tor only the finest works and to ensure col­lec­tors a def­i­nite oppor­tu­nity for invest­ing. As from 2006 Vicenza ARTE will be show­ing simul­ta­ne­ously for a few days with Vicenza Antiquaria.

VitArte
March 3 – March 5, 2007
Viterbo, Italy
www.vitarte.it/

VitArte è il nuovo punto di rifer­i­mento per chi sa cogliere l’opportunità di unire la pas­sione per l’arte mod­erna e con­tem­po­ranea a un inves­ti­mento inter­es­sante e sicuro. Per questa ragione vis­i­ta­tors, investi­tori e oper­a­tori del set­tore non potranno rin­un­ciare all’occasione di vedere quanto di nuovo il Cen­tro Italia è in grado di offrire agli esti­ma­tori dell’arte mod­erna e con­tem­po­ranea: opere di val­ore des­ti­nate a diventare nel tempo sem­pre più preziose e ricercate.

The DIFC Gulf Art Fair
March 8 – March 10, 2007
Dubai, United Arab Emi­rates
www.gulfartfair.com

The Gulf Art Fair will appeal to expe­ri­enced col­lec­tors and first time vis­i­tors alike. There will be talks by artists and gallery own­ers about new trends in con­tem­po­rary art; tips for novice col­lec­tors and advice on all aspects of art invest­ment, insur­ance, con­ver­sa­tion and cura­tor­ship. Along­side the sem­i­nars, a team of expe­ri­enced art advi­sors will be on hand to offer spe­cific help to those form­ing art col­lec­tions for the first time.

Ade­laide Fringe Fes­ti­val
March 8 – March 31, 2007
Ade­laide, Aus­tralia
www.adelaidefringe.com.au

The Fringe Board have recently looked deep into the inner belly of the Fringe, and they saw a gut full of eclec­tic experiences—more art forms than we knew existed. In acknowl­edg­ing this, they have re-asserted that the core prin­ci­ple of the Fringe is and will always remain OPEN ACCESS. This means that every­one has the free­dom to cre­ate and the oppor­tu­nity to use the Fringe plat­form for the expres­sion of a first time dab­ble into cre­ativ­ity, or the pre­sen­ta­tion of a world wide acclaimed work. The Fringe will always be accessible—in every sense.

Auck­land Fes­ti­val, AK07
March 9 — March 25, 2007
Auk­land, New Zealnd
www.aucklandfestival.co.nz

Auck­land Fes­ti­val, AK07 will turn up the heat in March 2007, show­cas­ing a stun­ning line-up of some of the best local and inter­na­tional the­atre, dance, cabaret, music, visual arts, indoor and out­door events. With more than 60 events on offer between 9–25 March, next year’s Fes­ti­val is big­ger and bet­ter than ever before, and for the first time a ded­i­cated Fes­ti­val hub will give Auck­land a throb­bing cul­tural heart that wel­comes artists, audi­ences and any­one pass­ing by to stop-in for a drink or catch a show.

Bien­nial of the End of the World 2007
March 15 — March 31, 2007
Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego / Argentina
www.bienalfindelmundo.com

The first edi­tion of the “Bien­nial of the End of the World” (Bienal del Fin del Mundo) is an Argen­tinean con­tri­bu­tion to the Inter­na­tional Polar Year 2007/2008. The event is a joint project between Argentina and Brazil and is actu­al­ized by the Argen­tinean Fun­dación Patag­o­nia Arte y Desafío with the insti­tu­tional sup­port of the Fun­dação Memo­r­ial da América Latina from São Paulo, Brazil. Basi­cally, the Biennial’s theme can be sum­ma­rized as ” pon­der­ing at the end of the world, what other world is pos­si­ble ” (Pen­sar en el fin del mundo, qué otro mundo es posi­ble). An aes­thetic dis­course of such sorts shall be artic­u­lated by link­ing art and pol­i­tics with poetry, ecol­ogy and technology.

The Afford­able Art Fair, Spring Col­lec­tion
March 15 – March 19, 2007
Lon­don, UK
www.affordableartfair.co.uk

The Afford­able Art Fair, Spring Col­lec­tion returns to Bat­tersea Park bring­ing around 120 gal­leries from across the UK and abroad. The fair promises to be fun, relaxed and with every­thing under £3,000, it is an art-buying oppor­tu­nity that can’t be missed. Sea­soned col­lec­tors can seek out hot new artists, whilst first time buy­ers can browse amongst the thou­sands of paint­ings, draw­ings, orig­i­nal prints, pho­tog­ra­phy and sculp­ture. Look out for AAF Photo2007 at the front, a ded­i­cated fine art pho­tog­ra­phy sec­tion fea­tur­ing a num­ber of spe­cial­ist galleries.

The Seat­tle Erotic Art Fes­ti­val
March 16 – March 18, 2007
Seatlle, USA
www.seattleerotic.org

The Seat­tle Erotic Art Fes­ti­val was founded in 2002 by the Foun­da­tion for Sex Pos­i­tive Cul­ture (for­merly Seattle’s Sex Pos­i­tive Com­mu­nity Cen­ter) to pro­mote free­dom of sex­u­al­ity, speech and cre­ativ­ity through the erotic expres­sion of fine art.

Arteaméri­cas
March 16 – March 18, 2007
Miami, USA
www.arteamericasmiami.com

In less than four years, arteaméri­cas has become the pre­mier fair of art from Latin Amer­ica. In 2006, it fea­tures 50 of the best gal­leries from 17 coun­tries includ­ing the U.S., Canada, Spain, Hol­land, and of course, the nations of Latin Amer­ica. The fair show­cases works of more than 200 artists – from renowned mas­ters to con­tem­po­rary and emerg­ing artists. As evi­denced by recent auc­tions in New York and Europe, art from Latin Amer­ica has gained appre­ci­ated value and popularity.

Art KARLSRUHE 2007
March 22 – 25, 2007
Karl­sruhe, Ger­many
art-karlsruhe.de/

In 2007 roughly 160 inter­na­tional gal­leries will be assur­ing and enhanc­ing the high stan­dard of the fair. Gen­er­ous areas ded­i­cated to sculp­tural works, an unusual abun­dance of one-artist shows, and spe­cial show­cases will again be char­ac­ter­is­tic fea­tures of this unique event. The art meet­ing, the expert forum with dis­cus­sions for all fair-goers to lis­ten to and take part in, also proved very pop­u­lar and is there­fore going to be repeated in 2007.

Pavil­lion Art Fair
Paris, France
March 28 – April 1, 2007
www.pavillonartfair.com

A high qual­ity, dynamic and eclec­tic fair. An Inter­na­tional event ded­i­cated to all types of Arts…5 days, 80 French and inter­na­tional exhibitors, in a 5000 sq. m. tent. A unique exhi­bi­tion place in Paris opened to all types of spe­cial­i­ties: Fur­ni­ture, Draw­ings, Paint­ings, Sculp­ture from the Renais­sance to our days, Antiq­ui­ties, Mod­ernism, Pho­tog­ra­phy, Design, Prim­i­tive Arts, Asian Art, Con­tem­po­rary Glass, Jew­ellery, Sil­ver, Car­pets, Tapestries.

Art Paris
March 29 – April 2, 2007
Paris, France
www.artparis.fr

For its eighth sea­son, art­paris “the show for pas­sion­ate, col­lect­ing peo­ple” is mov­ing and set­tles under the glass roof of the Grand Palais from the 16th to the 20th of March. Thanks to the new and excep­tional site, art­paris will be able to wel­come 108 hgal­leriee spe­cial­iz­ing in mod­ern and con­tem­po­rary art: The strong pres­ence of for­eign par­tic­i­pants is affirmed by the fact that 30% of the gal­leries on exhi­bi­tion hail from abroad. Among the 40 new gal­leries to this year’s art­paris, almost half of them come from abroad.

MiArt
March 30-April 2nd, 2007
Milan, Italy
www.miart.it

MiArt, the 12th Inter­na­tional mod­ern and con­tem­po­rary art fair, will run from March 30 to April 2 at the fierami­lanoc­ity fair­ground in pavil­ion 15 and 16. The 2006 fair fea­tured 249 exhibitors and a net dis­play area mea­sur­ing over 11,000 square meters. The fair will be divided into four sec­tions: Anteprima, Mod­ern, Con­tem­po­rary and Art & Co.

Art Ire­land
March 31 – April 2, 2007
Dublin, Ire­land
www.irishartfair.com

Over 80 gal­leries and inde­pen­dent artists are tak­ing part in the Art Ire­land Spring Col­lec­tion, includ­ing Gormley’s Fine Art, Paul Christo­pher Flynn, Lud­mila Korol, Thelma Mans­field, Louise Mans­field, Mary Pick­er­ing, Willie Red­mond, Kevin Sharkey and Clau­dio Vis­cardi. The fair also has a strong inter­na­tional dimen­sion thanks to the par­tic­i­pa­tion of close to a dozen over­seas exhibitors includ­ing the Tal­lan­tyre Gallery (Lon­don), Num­ber Nine the Gallery (Birm­ing­ham), Villa Nueva Fine Art (Seville), ScotlandArt.com, Art Mas­ter Gallery and Le Siants Galerie (both Prague) and Thai Fine Arts, which will be show­ing a vari­ety of works by a num­ber of Thailand’s most excit­ing young artists.

Sixth Bien­nial of Engrav­ing
Liège, Bel­gium
March-April 2007
www.cabinetdesestampes.be

It pro­poses a vision of the art of etch­ing as prac­tised today. It is part of the events held dur­ing the “Fête de la gravure” which gath­ers together var­i­ous aspects of the art of engrav­ing organ­ised in muse­ums and other cul­tural cir­cles in the Liège region. Cho­sen works will be shown at the Museum of Mod­ern and Con­tem­po­rary Art de Liège (Belgium).

Shar­jah Bien­nial 8
April 4 – June 4, 2007
Shar­jah, United Arab Emi­rates
www.sharjahbiennial.org

The Shar­jah Bien­nial 8 (SB8) will present var­i­ous attempts in visual arts and film that address the grow­ing social, polit­i­cal and envi­ron­men­tal chal­lenges the world is fac­ing due to exces­sive urban devel­op­ment, pol­lu­tion, polit­i­cal ambi­tions, and the thought­less mis­use, abuse and exhaus­tion of nat­ural resources.

Fine Art Fair Frank­furt
April 4 – April 14, 2007
Frank­furt, Ger­many
www.fineartfairfrankfurt.info

The upcom­ing event in the fine art fair frank­furt cycle will have the title 
“QUALITY STREET®”. It will exclu­sively fea­ture sculp­tures from national and inter­na­tional gal­leries. As in 2006, the pres­ti­gious Berlin archi­tec­tural firm of Kühn/Malvezzi is respon­si­ble for exhi­bi­tion stand design. Based on the four mod­ules of the pre­vi­ous year, Wil­fried Kühn has cre­ated a spe­cial con­cept for pre­sen­ta­tion of sculp­tures only. A fringe pro­gramme is cur­rently being pre­pared and is expected to be pre­sented in the autumn.

Hol­land Art Fair
April 5 — 9, 2007
Ams­ter­dam, Nether­lands
http://sites.vnuexhibitions.com/sites/bezoekers_hollandartfair_nl/

At the Hol­land Art Fair you will find a spe­cial mix of styles and tech­niques. You will find the fol­low­ing shown by pro­fes­sional gal­leries: paint­ings water colours graph­ics art­books– and mag­a­zines sculp­tures ceram­ics glass sil­ver pho­tog­ra­phy A visit to the Hol­land Art Fair is reward­ing in every respect. You will find a wide col­lec­tion of mod­ern and con­tem­po­rary art which will inspire you if you wish to acquire art for your home and /or work environment.

Art Fair Tokyo
April 10 – April 12, 2007
Tokyo, Japan
www.artfairtokyo.com

Rang­ing from cutting-edge con­tem­po­rary works, mod­ern paint­ing, and uniquely-Japanese art such as nihonga and ukiyoe, to antique art and other tra­di­tional art forms, Art Fair Tokyo tran­scends gen­res to bring the most exquis­ite art to con­nois­seurs who demand true qual­ity. It is Japan’s largest art fair, with around one hun­dred rig­or­ously selected gal­leries exhibit­ing and selling.

The Bienal Inter­na­cional de Cuenca
April 11 – June 8. 2007
Cuenca, Ecuador
www.bienaldecuenca.org

2007 Port­land Museum of Art Bien­nial
April 12 — June 10, 2007
Port­land, Maine
www.portlandmuseum.org/art/biennial.shtml

After receiv­ing 920 entries for the 2007 Port­land Museum of Art Bien­nial exhi­bi­tion, the Port­land Museum of Art is pleased to announce that 98 works by 61 artists have been selected for the show. This past sum­mer, artists sub­mit­ted 3,680 images to be con­sid­ered by a panel of three jurors: Ellen Miller, founder of Miller Block Gallery in Boston; John­nie Winona Ross, nation­ally rec­og­nized artist and for­mer fac­ulty mem­ber of the Maine Col­lege of Art; and Judith Stein, free­lance cura­tor, art critic, and author. The jurors spent a week­end in Sep­tem­ber view­ing images and select­ing the work for next year’s Bien­nial. Of the 61 artists cho­sen, 17 have exhib­ited in pre­vi­ous Bien­nial exhibitions.

AIPAD The Pho­tog­ra­phy Show 2007
April 12 — April 15, 2007
New York City
www.aipad.com

Act­ing as the col­lec­tive voice of the art pho­tog­ra­phy deal­ers that make up its mem­ber­ship, AIPAD main­tains eth­i­cal stan­dards, pro­motes com­mu­ni­ca­tion within the pho­to­graphic com­mu­nity, encour­ages pub­lic appre­ci­a­tion of pho­tog­ra­phy as art, con­cerns itself with the rights of pho­tog­ra­phers and col­lec­tors, and works to enhance the con­fi­dence of the pub­lic in respon­si­ble pho­tog­ra­phy. AIPAD mem­bers pro­vide a wide range of ser­vices to the pub­lic, such as exhi­bi­tions, appraisals, expert opin­ions and consultations.

Glas­gow Art Fair
April 19 – April 22, 2007
Glas­gow, Scot­land
www.glasgowartfair.com

The Glas­gow Art Fair offers a relax­ing atmos­phere in which to browse, buy and gen­er­ally enjoy the works pre­sented by the exhibit­ing gal­leries. The event offers the oppor­tu­nity for the vis­i­tor to view over 40 indi­vid­ual exhi­bi­tion stands fea­tur­ing gal­leries and artists from across the UK. In addi­tion to over 40 exhibitor stands, there are also a range of infor­ma­tion stands which present infor­ma­tion about art-related busi­nesses and organisations.

Chelsea Art Fair
April 19 – April 22, 2007
Lon­don, UK
www.penman-fairs.com

Chelsea Art Fair enjoys a sound rep­u­ta­tion for qual­ity mod­ern / con­tem­po­rary art from Britain and across the World, cov­er­ing the period from 1930 to the present, but with the accent on con­tem­po­rary work. There are some changes afoot: A new group of gal­leries is join­ing the Fair, so those who have seen Chelsea for years MUST visit in 2007, to see a whole selec­tion of new faces and artists!

Art Mel­bourne 07
April 20 – April 22, 2007
Mel­bourne, Aus­tralia
www.artmelbourne07.com.au

The show encom­passes estab­lished and up-and-coming artists with work on dis­play including—paintings, sculp­ture, ceram­ics, pho­tog­ra­phy, indige­nous works, lim­ited edi­tion prints and mixed media. With 75% of work under $5,000, Art Mel­bourne 07 has a uniquely wel­com­ing atmos­phere whether you’re an expe­ri­enced col­lec­tor or buy­ing art for the first time.

Art Metz
April 20 – April 23, 2007
Metz, France
www.artmetz.com

Le con­cept de cette man­i­fes­ta­tion se base sur l’idée d’une présen­ta­tion d’artistes et non de galeristes comme cela se fait dans la plu­part des grandes Foires d’Art Con­tem­po­rain actuelles. Ceci donne à l’événement une tour­nure dif­férente et lui fait une place. Cette man­i­fes­ta­tion peut être vis­itée sur un site inter­net, artmetz.com, qui est réac­tu­al­isé tous les ans, ce qui per­met de don­ner à art.metz une dimen­sion très large et de dif­fuser les noms et adresses des artistes présentés.

Art­brus­sels
April 20– April 23, 2007
Brus­sels, Bel­gium
www.artbrussels.be

Art­brus­sels is an event that, year after year, man­ages to hold the atten­tion of the entire art world. A place where for­eign gal­leries and artists find an ideal plat­form to present them­selves to Bel­gian col­lec­tors, and where young Bel­gian tal­ent can intro­duce itself to the inter­na­tional market.

Mex­ico Arte Con­tem­po­ra­neo
April 25 – April 29, 2007
Mex­ico City, Mex­ico
www.macomexico.com

Mex­ico Arte Con­tem­po­ra­neo, Latinamerica’s most impor­tant con­tem­po­rary art, will take place place for the fourth year in a row in Mex­ico city from the 25th to the 29th of April. This time, the fair plans to get more than 70 national and inter­na­tional gal­leries together show­ing the best of today’s art in the world, and will be divided in two sec­tions: gallery’s and new pro­pos­als; with the final pur­pose of includ­ing pro­pos­als from new artists.

Salon d’art con­tem­po­rain de Mon­trouge
April 26 — May 16, 2007
Mon­trouge, France
www.ville-montrouge.fr

Trem­plin de la jeune créa­tion, pépinière de tal­ents, le Salon de Mon­trouge a per­mis de faire émerger des tal­ents aujourd’hui con­fir­més tels que Valérie Favre, Georges Rousse, Mar­tial Raysse, Pierre Buraglio ou encore Antoni Taulé, Jacques Bosser… Né dans une com­mune d’artistes (Léger, Picasso, De Staël, Rebey­rolle, Vasarely….), le salon de Mon­trouge fut créé en 1956 avec des rétro­spec­tives con­sacrées à des artistes de toute ten­dances. Il est désor­mais connu du monde entier.

Vienna Fair
April 26 – April 29, 2007
Vienna, Aus­tria
www.viennafair.at

With a focus on young and new art and gal­leries, the VIENNAFAIR show­cases the dynamic devel­op­ment of the inter­na­tional art scene, putting spe­cial empha­sis on cen­tral and East­ern Europe. The grow­ing pro­por­tion of CEE gal­leries is proof of the suc­cess of the con­cept, and the refresh­ing mix­ture of estab­lished and new gal­leries is greatly appre­ci­ated by the many vis­i­tors with immense spend­ing power.

dc dues­sel­dorf con­tem­po­rary
Dues­sel­dorf, Ger­many
April 27 — 29, 2007
www.dc-fair.de/

dc dues­sel­dorf con­tem­po­rary presents 100 inter­na­tion­ally active gal­leries with over 500 artists. Art, sculp­tures, instal­la­tions, draw­ings, pho­tog­ra­phy, as well as video and New Media Art, will be dis­played over 13,000 square meters of exhi­bi­tion space. Per­for­mances, par­ties, live-music, and DJs sup­ple­ment the over­all artis­tic con­cept. You will be excited to see art and enter­tain­ment of the high­est quality.

Art Chicago
April 27– April 30, 2007
Chicago, USA
www.merchandisemart.com

Art Chicago, a spring tra­di­tion, marks its 15th anniver­sary in 2007 with new own­ers, a new look and as the center-piece of a can’t miss arts week in Chicago. 2007 promises to attract one of the most sophis­ti­cated and enthu­si­as­tic buy­ing audi­ences in the world. Mer­chan­dise Mart Prop­er­ties, Inc. (MMPI) is invest­ing cap­i­tal and expert resources to build a com­pre­hen­sive and inno­v­a­tive Art Chicago in 2007.

Van­cou­ver Sculp­ture Bien­ni­ale
Octo­ber 2005 to April 2007
Van­cou­ver, Canada
www.vancouverbiennale.com/

The Van­cou­ver Sculp­ture Bien­nale is an inter­na­tional art show that takes place once every two years. It is unique in the world of Biennale’s, focus­ing on both sculp­ture and the urban land­scape. This eighteen-month fes­ti­val of events cel­e­brates the cul­tures of the world, the diver­sity of the city, its topog­ra­phy, geog­ra­phy, archi­tec­ture, arts, sports and com­mu­nity programs.