Closed Circuit ( In the middle of Sweden) will be part of the 5th Jakarta International Video Festival, titled "OK Video FLESH". The festival will be held at The National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta 6 - 17 October and is organized by ruangrupa. Opening on October 6th at 19:30. More at the festival web page.
Closed Circuit (In the middle of Sweden) will be screened as part of the New Screen - New Castle Video art festival in Newcastle from 9th - 11th Sep. The event focuses on Norwegian video art and is organized by Audhild Dahlstrøm of NABROAD.
Closed Circuit will be screened in a curated program on Sun 11th Sep at 14:00 at the Side Cinema. More at NewScreen webpage.
Closed Circuit (in the middle of Sweden) is included in a program, part of the CologneOFF VII curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne. The program is titled Art & the city - A velvet underground and will be shown at Shams - The Sunflower Art Centre in Beirut, Lebanon 31 Aug - 3 September 2011 and in Riga, Latvia as part of Baltic Sea V, a collaboration with the cultural organisation NOASS and Waterpieces Contemporary and Video Art Festival 8-10 September 2011.
More at Cologne OFF webpage.
Portrait of a smiling man has been selected for the touring video program "Flaggfabriken presenterer Nordic Art Express", curated by Maya Økland and Hilde Jørgensen. The video program will tour the Nordic countries and the Baltic States through 2011.
The screening program has so far been shown at Fotogalleriet, Oslo, the Film School in Lodz, Poland, SUPERMARKET Art Fair in Stockholm, Landmark Bergen Kunsthall, the Trajector Art Fair in Brussels, Temnikova & Kasela Gallery in Tallinn and at the Fishfabrique in St. Petersburg. More to follow.
Closed Circuit (in the middle of Sweden) is included in the 2011 Videoholica Festival 5 - 12 August in Varna, Bulgaria. For more see festival webpage.
Portrait of a smiling man will be shown in a screening of new Norwegian performance video, titled That's Entertainment! curated by Susanne Ø Sæther for Atelier Nord at the Norwegian Short Filmfestival in Grimstad. The screening will take place on Thu 16th June at Cinema Pan at 17:00. For more info see their webpage.
Portrait of a smiling man will be screened as part of the 21. International Videofestival in Bochum 26th - 28th of May. For more see their webpage.
Mattias will do a presentation of his work and practise at Åpent Forum, the National Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo on May 2nd at 17:00.
The lecture will be a double feature together with a presentation of St.Peterburg - based art platform Chto delat/What is to be done?
Free of charge and open for everyone.
Mattias Härenstam will do a solo project at the artist-run gallery Tidens Krav, Skippergata 18 in Oslo. Opening on Thursday April 28th at 19:00. Opening hours Fri 29th April - Sun 1st May 13:00 - 17:00 and Fri 6th May - Sun 8th May 13:00 - 17:00
It features a brand new 4-channel video installation, titled Drawing Circles (...the distance is always the same).
Issue Three of online art magazine Måg contains a feature on Mattias Härenstams exhibition at Akershus Art Centre.
