Opening Reception: Friday, April 29, 2016, 6–9pm
Open Hours: Saturday, April 30, 1–8pm
The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Spring Open Studios is a two-day exhibition of international contemporary art. The 38 artists and three curators from 19 countries currently in residence will present work in their studios. Open Studios invites the public to experience art in its place of origin and to share conversations with artists and curators from all over the world.
Guest speaker Tom Finkelpearl, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, will make opening remarks during the Opening Reception on Friday, April 29, at 6pm.
In addition, ISCP has invited Lugar a Dudas, a non-profit artist-run organization based in Cali, Colombia as the 2016 annual institution-in-residence. A Room for Doubt: Lugar a Dudas at ISCP is an exhibition and series of experiments in relocating and translating their local practices, on view during Open Studios.
The sixth of the series of seven Staging micro-exhibitions organized by a group of seven curators from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS), will also be open in the Project Space. Stage #6: Lourdes Correa-Carlo: Down-Below presents ISCP Ground Floor resident Lourdes Correa-Carlo’s work, curated by Christian Camacho-Light. ISCP’s offsite exhibition Vieno Motors: How to Prepare 2.0, curated by Satu Oksanen will also be on view at El Museo de Los Sures, located at 120 South 1 Street, Brooklyn, on Friday and Saturday from 4-6pm.
Solber Pupusas Food Truck will be at ISCP Open Studios on Friday, April 29 from 6-9pm.
Participating artist and curators: Kiichiro Adachi (Japan), Judy Anderson (Canada), Pat Foster and Jen Berean (Australia), Carl Boutard (Sweden), Joseph Buckley (United States), Elaine Byrne (United States, Ireland), Naomi Campbell (United States), Lourdes Correa-Carlo (United States), Donald Hải Phú Daedalus (United States), Kevin Ei-ichi deForest (Canada), Andrés Durán (Chile), Sara Eliassen (Norway), Nicole Franchy (United States, Peru), Ghost of a Dream (United States), Jude Griebel (Canada), Francesca Grilli (Italy), Berenice Güttler (Germany), Mark Hilton (United States, Australia), Hsiang-Ning Huang (Taiwan), Franz Jyrch (Germany), Marja Kanervo (Finland), Dokyun Kim – KDK (South Korea), Maartje Korstanje (Netherlands), Cheon Pyo Lee (United States), Richard Igbhy and Marilou Lemmens (Canada), Yi-Kuan Lin (Taiwan), Calori & Maillard (Italy), Ragnhild May (Denmark), Satu Oksanen (Finland), Liutauras Psibilskis (United States), Anushka Rajendran (India), Belit Sağ (Turkey, Netherlands), Maximiliano Siñani (United States, Bolivia), Tove Storch (Denmark), Misha Stroj (Austria), Aarti Sunder (India), and Maki Toshima (Japan).
ISCP thanks the following Open Studios sponsors: Alberta Foundation for the Arts; Alfred Kordelin Foundation; Australia Council for the Arts; Australian Cultural Fund; Beca Arte, CCU – Corporación Cultural La Araucana; BKA – Bundeskanzleramt Österreich Kunst und Kultur / Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria; Bunkacho – Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan; Canada Council for the Arts; Creative Saskatchewan; Danish Arts Foundation; Farnesina Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale – Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation; Fulbright Center, Finland; GAi – Giovani Artisti Italiani; IASPIS – The Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual Artists; Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation; The Italian Academy at Columbia University; Italian Cultural Institute of New York; Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen; Lawrence and Alice Weiner; LIG Art Space; Mackenzie Art Gallery; Manitoba Arts Council; Ministry of Culture, Taiwan; Mondriaan Fund; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnernship with the City Council; The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund; Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur; OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway; The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.; SAHA Association; and Yoko Ono.
This program is supported, in part, by Brooklyn Brewery, Austrian Cultural Forum, Consulate General of Finland in New York, Consulate General in New York, Norway, Consulate General of Sweden in New York, Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Our Wicked Lady, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Greenwich Collection, Ltd., The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, Antonio Reynoso, New York City Council Member, 34th District, New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, Bard College and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
