Protocinema at Proyecto AMIL
18 – 31 January, 2018
Proyecto AMIL
Centro Comercial Camino Real
Lima
Proyecto AMIL is pleased to announce its first international institutional collaboration: Protocinema at Proyecto AMIL, a public programme composed by a series of events and professional dialogues which aim is to introduce Protocinema’s work to the audience in Lima.
Protocinema at Proyecto AMIL is an inter-institutional collaboration organized as an experiment in public knowledge-sharing, reflecting on current political scenarios and showcasing new contemporary art works.
Wednesday 31 January
7:30pm – Protocinema Video Art Programme
A screening of five video works of artists from Europe and the Middle East
Gülsün Karamustafa (Turkey)
Anti Hamam Confessions (2010), 7:38 min.
Volkan Aslan (Turkey)
Home Sweet Home (2017), 7:90 min.
Rossella Biscotti (Italy)
The City, in-progress preview (forthoming 2018), 9:00 min.
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme (Palestine)
And Yet My Mask Is Powerful (2017), 7:30 min.
Adrian Paci (Albania)
Interregrum (2017), 17:00 min.
8:30pm – Talk with Mari Spirito
About the artists
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme (Palestine and US, 1983) founded the sound and image performance group Tashweesh. Solo exhibitions include: The Gallery at Tyneside Cinema (Newcastle, 2016); ICA (Philadelphia, 2015), Akademie Der Kuenste Der Welt (Cologne, 2014). Selected group exhibitions include: the 12th Sharjah Biennale (2015); the 31st São Paulo Biennial (2014); 10th Gwangju Biennale (2014). They received the Abraaj Group Art Prize 2016 and the Sharjah Biennial Prize in 2015. They were fellows at Akademie der Kunste der Welt in Cologne in 2013, and artists in residence at the Delfina Foundation, London in 2009.
Volkan Aslan (Turkey, 1982) studied painting at Mersin University Faculty of Fine Arts. Selected solo exhibitions include: Pi Artworks Istanbul, (2015); Arter, Space for Art, Istanbul, (2013); Macka Art Gallery, Istanbul (2011). Selected group shows include: The 15th Istanbul Biennial, IKSV, (2017); İstanbul Modern (2017); Maxxi Museum, Rome. Aslan is also co-founder of 5533, a non-profit independent art space in Istanbul, since 2007.
Rossella Biscotti (Italy, 1978) lives and works in Brussels. Selected solo exhibitions include: Secession, Vienna (2013); the CAC Vilnius (2012); Fondazione Galleria Civica di Trento (2010); and the Nomas Foundation, Rome (2009); Wiels, Brussels (2014) and Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany, as recipient of the Mies van der Rohe Award 2010 (2015). Selected group exhibitions include: 55th Venice Biennale (2013); dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel (2012); Manifesta 9, Genk (2012); MAXXI National Museum for 21st Century Art, Rome (2010-11); Witte de With, Rotterdam (2010); and Museu Serralves, Porto (2010). Biscotti received the Premio Italia Arte Contemporanea in 2010.
Gülsün Karamustafa (Turkey, 1946) lives in Istanbul, she graduated from the Istanbul State Fine Arts Academy in 1969. Selected solo exhibitions include: Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2016-2017); SALT Beyoğlu, SALT Galata, Istanbul (2013); The Apartment Building, EMST – The National Contemporary Museum of Athens (2012). Public collections include: MCA Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien/Vienna, AT; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Modern, London; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Wien Museum, AT. Gülsün Karamustafa has received 2014 Prince Claus Award. Courtesy BüroSarıgedik, Istanbul.
Adrian Paci (Albania, 1969). Selected solo shows include: Protocinema, Istanbul (2017); MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Roma (2015); Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Noruega (2014); Röda Sten Konsthall, Gotemburgo (2014); MAC, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal (2014); Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea (PAC), Milan (2014); Jeu de Paume, Paris (2013). Selected groups shows include: 14th International Architecture Exhibition-La Biennale di Venezia (2014); 48th and the 51st edition of the International Art Exhibition-La Biennale di Venezia (respectively in 1999 and in 2005); 15th Biennale of Sydney (2006); 15th Quadriennale di Roma, where he won first prize (2008); the Biennale de Lyon (2009); and in the 4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art (2013). He has recently received the Art for Peace Award (2016).
About Protocinema
Protocinema is an itinerant art organization realizing site-aware exhibitions in different places in the world. Free of ‘brick and mortar’, sites vary to respond both to global concerns and changing conditions on the ground.
www.protocinema.org
