Invitation to Clustering Art Exhibitions/Festivals beyond borders?


	Date: 06/12/2011 This event will take place on Tuesday December 6 at 8pm at Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium. If you wish to attend, please rsvp to charline.adriaens@bamart.be

Flanders House presents Chris Dercon in conversation …. Phillip Van den Bossche, Mirjam Varadinis, Philippe Van Cauteren, Paul Robbrecht, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Dawn Ades and Katerina Gregos ©Elena Ramon Clustering Art Exhibitions/Festivals beyond borders? Tuesday December 6, 2011 - 8pm - Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium, London Visual Arts Flanders 2012 the curators of 5 large contemporary art events happening in Belgium next year. 2012 will bring the coinciding of important exhibitions of visual art taking place in Flanders, Belgium. and Flanders House are happy to host an inspiring evening with Chris Dercon and Visual Arts Flanders 2012 (Antwerp), Manifesta9 (Genk) and Newtopia (Mechelen). The convenient geographic location and the shared focus on contemporary art of these five events have triggered the creation of an international communication platform that comprehends all of these appealing events into one coherent cluster. In 2012 Belgium 13) (Kassel, Germany), London 2012 - the Cultural Olympiad (UK), lille3000: Fantastic (France) and Mono 2012 (Centre Pompidou, Metz, France together with Mudam, Luxembourg). is proud to present Beaufort04 (Belgian coast), TRACK (Ghent), Middelheim Museum’s neighboring countries also offer major happenings of contemporary art such as dOCUMENTA( Visual Arts Flanders 2012 will persuade the professional and touristically inclined art visitor to also stop over in Flanders when traveling to art events in Belgium The curators of the 5 events from the Dercon to present their projects for the first time in the UK and to discuss the possibilities of a collaboration between art happenings and exhibitions beyond borders. Can communication and cooperation between contemporary art exhibitions from different countries contain added value for the individual events? How can each event help each other communication wise? is convinced that the high quality character of each of its five exhibitions represented’s neighboring countries.Visual Arts Flanders 2012 cluster will sit down in London with Chris If you wish to attend, please rsvp to charline.adriaens@bamart.be Chris Dercon in Conversation is a series organised by the Flemish Representation in the UK and Visit Flanders (www.visitflanders.com)