DZR @ Supermarket Art Fair 2011

The goal of SUPERMARKET, the international artist-run art fair, is to provide a showcase for artist initiatives from all over the world and to create opportunities for new networks in the Swedish as well as the international art scene.

SUPERMARKET has been arranged since 2007 by a small group most of whom are artists themselves. Supermarket is a development of Minimarket, which was held at Konstnärshuset in February 2006 in reaction to the new commercial art fair Market.

Initiated and organised by artists, this project has rapidly evolved from a modest group of local initiatives to a full-fledged international art exposition that has made its mark and helped firmly establish Stockholm on the art world map.

SUPERMARKET started in small scale as MINIMARKET in 2006 in an art nouveau palace, the following year it became SUPERMARKET, with international presence in the same site, 2008 it moved to a run-down industrial space, then to a newly built designer first-class hotel (Clarion Hotel Stockholm) and 2010 to the very heart of Stockholm – Kulturhuset (House of Culture).

For SUPERMARKET 2011 we will build up De Zwarte Ruyter – Souvenir Shop. Here you will find an unlimited edition of all kinds of souvenirs.

In our DZR Souvenir Shop we will have a so called ‘kodak moment’ with a collection of different drop backgrounds, who men can choose out of to be photographed on. The backgrounds are made by and will represent the artists we worked with so far in a more serious and ironic way. Within the different backdrops we will invite the public to choose one for their picture, some attributes to hold and take their picture. They are free to take one picture as a memory, the whole collection of the portraits of the visitors we will print and publish during SUPERMARKET 2011 in a Zine.

By building up a souvenir shop we want to outline and question the borders of an artist initiative like we are; using the fact that most people have a prejudice on how those are working and should be presented. The same as tourists have a restricted view of the countries they are visiting.

To play with a commercial joke and disrupt the visitors by confusing impressions is our aim. At the same time it can be seen as a metaphor for the upset balance within the (underground) art scene, their commercial non-value and artistic value and between those artist -initiative -‘galleries‘ in opposite to the commercial ones. At least it is to be seen in the Netherlands even more with the raising of a strongly right wing government.

We want to enlist in the supermarket art fair 2011 by creating a similar space, an atmosphere, of what we are doing in Rotterdam: obtaining the facilities, people and dialogue required and start working.

BookCase @ RAiR #3 Guest House @ ART Rotterdam

RAiR#3 Guest House
An exciting selection out of a decade of work from international guest artists.
Curator: Leo Delfgaauw

RAiR (Rotterdam Artists in Residence – Duende, foundation B.a.d., Het Wilde Weten, Kaus Australis and Kunst & Complex) will present a special show close to the main location of Art Rotterdam. Over the past years hundreds of artists stayed for a longer or shorter period in Rotterdam. They joined the local art scene and with their presence enriched cultural life in the city. RAiR#3 hosts a surprising selection of the many talented guests. Invited are;

Brandon Jan Blommaert, Roxane Borujerdi, Diego Bruno, Amy Cheung, Erin Dunn, Hadassah Emmerich, Friederike Feldmann, Olivier Gourvil, Annika Hauke Michiel Huijben, Aleksander Komarov, Susanne Kriemann, Maider Lopez, Tiina Mielonen Ekaterina Mitichkina, Noriko Mitsuhashi, Shaun O’Connor, Nathan Redwood, Christine Rusche, Marco Schuler, Marit Shalem, Iwan van ʻt Spijker, Andrew Sroka, Soizic Stokvis, Nicola Unger.

RAiR#3 looks back with a historical overview, but also anticipates on all that lies ahead. During RAiR#3 an open forum with invitees will discuss the topic of the Rotterdam international residency policy.

Be welcome to the Instructables Restaurant!
Hospitality, connection and interaction play an important role for RAiR. To make your stay in our ‘Guest House’ as pleasant as possible, Arne Hendriks and Waag Society will install an Instructables Restaurant in our exhibition space. Instructables Restaurant is the first open source restaurant in the world. Everything you see, use and eat is downloaded from instructables.com. An experiment in ‘digesting free internet culture’!
BookCase (part of De Zwarte Ruyter) will present a selection of Artists’ Books and zines and on Saturday 11th Tosti Treffer presents a special evening with food & music. A side event of Artist initiative ADA; Area for Debate and Art, will be anounced on the website of RAiR. Special thanks go to gemeente Rotterdam, dienst Kunst en Cultuur and Vestia Rotterdam Feijenoord.