Besides the highlights in the national pavillons, the Atlantis network presented photographs of the exhibition XVIII. Rohkunstbau, that can be seen from 1st July till 11th September in Potsdam, Marquardt in Germany. The Ukrainian group REP showed a video performance, that proposes ideas of a Bulgarian Pavilion in Bulgaria, the artist Archi Galentz from Armenia presented his work "Black Garden", and the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Brandenburg presented the video installation "I Remember Chernobyl" within the project "Inamillionyears.com". The video work of the Slovak artist David Možný was met with special interest. In the video prefabricated buildings compose of blocks and then fall apart again.
The diverse works of art and installations, however, represented only a part of "Atlantis 11". The evening discussions were met with broad interest. Besides well-known artists and international guests there were also curators at the podium, such as the curator of the Armenian pavilion, Ruben Arevshatyan, the curator Adrienne Goehler from Berlin and Defne Ayas, director of Arthub Asia in Shanghai.
Introduction of the HEICO-project and its partners
Presentation of “Missing Link” with Adel Idris and Denis Bartenev (Moldova)
2. June 2011, 7 p.m.: Panel discussion “Good Governance? Bad Curating!”
Panelists:
Svetlana Kuyumdhzieva, Bulgaria, curator and initiator of bulgarianpavilion.org
Ruben Arevshatyan, Armenia, cultural critic and co-curator of Armenian pavilion
Adrienne Goehler, Germany, curator (tbc.)
Bogdan Ghiu, Romania, philosopher
3. June 2011, 7 p.m.: Panel discussion “Geographies of Imagination”
Panelists:
Defne Ayas, China, curator PERFORMA and co-director ArtHub Asia, China
Davide Quadrio, Italy, founder and director of ArtHub Asia, China
Philippine Hoegen, Netherlands, artist, founder and board member of Calcite Revolt
and tutor at St. Joost Academy in Den Bosch, Netherlands
Archi Galentz, Armenia/ Germany, artist and founder of "interiorDAsein”
5. June 2011, 4 p.m.: “How to colonize a nation in 19 steps! “
Performative interaction with Karen Hakobyan and Harout Simonyan (ACSL, Armenia)
Atlantis 11, Presentation from June 1 until June 5 2011, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
KSA:K – Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
• MALLdova
Presentation of documentary by Denis Bartenev, Tatiana Fiodorova, Vadim Tiganas, Vladimir Us
and project publications by KSA:K
• Collage of texts, posters and postcards by Igor Scerbina
a public campaign organized by KSA:K Center in cooperation with Oberliht Association, Teatru SPALATORIE, “Art-Ploshadka” in Moldova in conjunction with the presentation of the Moldova Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Rohkunstbau, Germany
• “Power“, artworks based on a free interpretation of Wagners „Ring of the Nibelungs“
Photos of the current exhibition at Schloss Marquardt near Potsdam taken by Roland Horn
with masterpieces of Marc Brandenburg, Christoph Brech, Simon Faithfull, Oswaldo Maciá, Judy Millar, Mariele Neudecker, Frank Nitsche, Katinka Pilscheur, Karin Sander, Mariana Vassileva
Heinrich-Böll-Foundation Brandenburg, Germany
• “I Remember Chernobyl“
4-channel-video-installation of „Inamillionyears.com“
ACSL (Art and Cultural Studies Laboratory), Armenia
• “Black Garden” of Archi Galentz
9 litho-monotypes on paper on canvas
GeoAir, Georgia
• “Shaded projects“
Art prints of 5 submissions of art projects for the Biennale
of Levan Chogoshvili, Konstantin Mindadze, Levan Mindiashvili, Iliko Zautashvili, Natalia Amirejibi, Gia Bughadze, Oleg Tumchenko
Art Today Association Plovdiv, Bulgaria
• "A place, where we won´t be again (Shopski traditional)" a project by artist collective R.E.P. (Kiev)
• shortlist of submissions to the Open Call "A Bulgarian Pavilion in Bulgaria", mixed media
SPACE, Republic of Slovakia
• “Rahova”, video by David Možný (CZ)
• video by Matúš Lányi (SK)
documentation of his installation of Chartres cathedral’s plan
