COLLABORATIONS
COLLABORATIONS
Through the various projects that the artists with whom we work have been able to realise, we have collaborated with a wide range of galleries, museums, institutions and partners all over the world. One of the ways in which we support these artists is by providing strategic advice on collaborations, as well as assisting with the planning and implementation of projects. The depth of our involvement varies according to the individual circumstances of each project, ranging from basic advice to managing the organisation of the project.
Piet Baumgartner — Solo Show
Solo show at Mad Arts Museum, Diana Beach, Miami, USA
May 15, 2024 — August 18, 2024
Jakup Ferri — Harewood Biennal — Create/Elevate
Group exhibition
June 28, 2024 — October 20, 2024
Create/Elevate is the third Harewood Biennial, now established as the major craft Biennial of its kind outside London. Presented within Harewood House and across our gardens and landscapes, it showcases the work of international artists, designers and craft collectives, including new commissions. The exhibition explores the power of craft to surprise, inspire and bring people together and will be accompanied by a dynamic and accessible programme of learning and active public engagement.
The historic and fine art interiors within Harewood House were created by many of the most revered craft-artists and designers in history. Create/Elevate responds to this craft heritage. Its overarching theme explores craft as a tool to connect with and learn from others, across generations and continents. The exhibition offers a playful and multi-sensory experience, featuring ceramics, textiles, jewellery, furniture, and sculptural installations.
As well as the exhibition, we’ll be hosting Make it Harewood, a programme of craft activities and events in partnership with the Crafts Council.
Exhibiting artists and makers: Arabeschi di Latte, BEIT Collective, Botanique Studios, Britto Arts Trust, Rebecca Chesney, Emefa Cole, Common Threads (Alice Kettle), Jakup Ferri, Rosa Harradine, Jan Hendzel, Mani Kambo, Hew Locke, Modular by Mensah, Temitayo Ogunbiyi, Lucia Pizzani. and Xanthe Somers.
The exhibition is curated by Ligaya Salazar and Darren Pih. Ligaya Salazar is an independent curator focused on contemporary interdisciplinary practice at the intersection of design, craft and art. She has previously curated large-scale exhibitions and festivals including for Crafts Council, Wellcome Trust, V&A, Design Museum, and the British Textile Biennial.
Darren Pih is Chief Curator & Artistic Director at Harewood House and brings over 20 years curatorial experience including initiating and delivering major touring exhibitions exploring environmental, sociological and cultural themes at Tate Liverpool.
Create/Elevate is generously supported by Arts Council England, British Council, and the Henry Moore Foundation.
Text by: Harewood Biennal
Harewood House, Photo credits: Harewood.org
Jakup Ferri, Solo Exhibition at the Pavilion of the Republic of Kosovo, Biennale di Venezia, 2022
Emanuel Heim — Flower Power — Heilende Pflanzen
Group exhibition at the Kantonsspital Graubünden
May 2, 2024 — March 2025
Art and health belong together. The latest exhibition at the Graubünden Cantonal Hospital in Chur shows that professional art can create a pleasurable interplay with different areas of a hospital. "Flower Power - Healing Plants" showcases all four KSGR sites with works of art relating to the world of plants and links the exhibition with various hospital areas: Kitchen, Nutrition, Garden, Nursing and Medicine. Patients, staff and visitors are warmly welcome.
Translated by NOA contemporary.
Simon Berger — Glasstress 8 1/2
Group exhibition by Berengo Studio and Fondazione Berengo
April 19, 2024 — November 2024
Fondazione Berengo Art Space, Murano, and Tesa 99, Venice, Italy
Curated by Umberto Croppi
An extra edition
There is a place where the great artists of the world have passed through in recent decades to measure their creativity with a material steeped in history and seduction:glass. This place is Murano, the island in the Venetian lagoon that has made glassmaking its identity. It is on this remnant of land that their art has taken shape in a workshop that has dedicated its furnaces and the work of its masters to a single purpose, contemporary art. We are of course talking aboutBerengo Studio.
A vocation that has characterised 35 years of activity, without yielding to the market, and that has characterised the studio from the outset as a partner, culturally and technically equipped to understand and realise the creations conceived by artists.
Artists who enter into a symbiotic relationship with glass masters, creating an exchange of knowledge, ideas, and manual skills, indispensable ingredients to perform the magic of transforming an inert material into the form conceived by the author.
From experience to research, through a foundation that makes its work an accumulation of knowledge available for experimentation and a tool for dissemination, the Fondazione Berengo is in fact also the organiser of events and exhibitions in important museum institutions around the world, together with their own space that houses, on site in Murano, the most significant elements of a constantly evolving production.
Moreover, for the past 16 years, this path has been accompanied by a biennial exhibition in Venice, which constitutes a moment of dynamic synthesis of the achievements of the community of artists who gather around the figure of Adriano Berengo.
To celebrate the thirty-fifth year of activity, an “extra” edition has been set up: eight and a half in fact, because it is a large exhibition that is being held in Murano, allowing visitors to understand where the works are born, to enter into direct contact with the ancient but always new experience of the transfiguration of glass into pure art. Yet in addition, a dedicated space in Venice within one of the Arsenale's 'tese', to offer visitors to the Biennale a mirror of the Murano exhibition.
Exhibition views
Simon Berger — Group exhibition
Group exhibition by Art Fiaci
May 2, 2024 — June 18, 2024
Museo di Arte Moderni, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Live performance by Simon Berger
Patric Sandri — Reflektionen
Solo exhibition at the Mobiliar Art Collection, Switzerland
February 22, 2024 — July 31, 2024
Berne, Switzerland
One of the focal points of our collection is the promotion of young artists. We are therefore launching a pilot project: embedded in the exhibition accompanying our art purchases, we are making the room within the room available to an artist in temporary exhibitions. Here, art acts as a platform to address socially relevant topics. Like innovation, for example. Innovation is important for the future viability of our society. Upheavals, crises and changing living conditions always offer opportunities. Innovation is needed to take advantage of these opportunities and remain resilient.
In this context, we present the Swiss artist Patric Sandri (*1979). In his work, the artist focuses on abstract painting. In doing so, he explores the ambivalence between tradition and innovation by rethinking traditional panel painting. Paint, canvas and stretcher frame remain the same, but instead of applying the colors directly to the surfaces, he applies neon pigments to the hidden edges behind the canvas. The colors reflect through the translucent voile fabric, creating further spatial images. The creation of colors through reflections is an innovative feature of Sandri's art as well as the systematic play with infinite color combinations in his artistic process.
The boundaries between painting and sculpture blur in Patric Sandri's artistic work in an enchanting way, with not only the front of the canvas but also the back becoming an integral part of the artwork. Sandri stages the canvas as an architectural space in which he creates a relationship between image and space, between art and its surroundings. His works emphasize the contingency of perception and show that an image always depends on its medium, context and viewer.
At the same time, we are pleased to open the collection exhibition "Acquisitions 2022/2023 - the Mobiliar Cooperative Collection" in the foyer. You will have the opportunity to discover a selection of the 2022/2023 acquisitions. This exhibition will be on display until February 2025.
Text by Mobiliar Art Collection
Mobiliar Art Collection, Bern, Switzerland
Reflektionen, Patric Sandri, Mobiliar Art Collection, Bern, Switzerland, ©OliverKümmerli
Reflektionen, Patric Sandri, Mobiliar Art Collection, Bern, Switzerland, ©OliverKümmerli
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