Memories and Encounters

• September - November 2010
  Sharon Houkema / Igor muroni / Jo Robertson
  
  

VIR Viafarini-in-residence is a residence program, that gives selected artists and curators the opportunity to spend a period of research in Milan. The residence venue consists of four fully-equipped apartments and a large working space, located in Viafarini’s original premises in via Carlo Farini 35 in Milan.

The program is also open to self-applications, without deadlines, by sending the filled application form and a printed and/or digital portfolio documentation.

From 1996 to 2010 Viafarini set up an agreement with the Australia Council for the Arts.

Memories and Encounters is a new project started in May 2009 at VIR Viafarini-in-residence. The project plans to invite groups of artists with the aim to show, document and compare different artistic experiences and promote them to the Italian public. The invited artists come from diverse areas (from a geographical and cultural point of view) and live and work together for about three months in the large VIR studio space, in order to experiment a possible dialogue and produce a joint project to be presented to the public during the conclusive Open Studio.

The artists are selected under the suggestion of international prestigious residency programs as well as by international artists and critics with whom Viafarini collaborated during its 20 years long story:
_ International residency programs: CCA Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej (Varsavia), Futura (Praga), HIAP (Helsinki), Gasworks (Londra), Jerusalem Center for Visual Art (Gerusalemme), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlino), Platform Garantì (Istanbul), Rijksakademie (Amsterdam), Townhouse (El Cairo).
_ Artists: Marina Abramovic, Maurizio Cattelan, Jimmy Durham, Katharina Fritsch, Hans Op de Beeck, Tobias Rehberger, Runa Islam, Katharina Grosse.
_ Critics: Dennis Cooper, Chuz Martinez, Nirith Nelson, Rita Pinto, Marina Wallace

To reserve a studio visit: viafarini@viafarini.org - +39 02 66804473

The program has the precious contribution of Fondazione Cariplo, of PARC part of the Ministry for Culture Heritage and Activities, the Assessorato per le Culture, Identità e Autonomie of the Lumbardy Region, Gemmo spa, Viafarini’s institutional partner, and the contribution of individuals who decided to support the artists: ACACIA - Associazione Amici Arte Contemporanea and Fondazione Nicoletta Fiorucci.