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Past Climate Art Exhibitions
| WHEN: 30th September - 4th November 2010 WHERE: Brussels Bourse building– Brussels WHAT: "Histogram": the Brussels Bourse building, usually dedicated to negotiation of securities, bear a representation of the the emission of carbon dioxide. At the initiative of this « site-specific » installation called “Histogram” stands the artist Anna Scalfi Eghenter, delivering us an alarming report of the climate change that defines our daily fate. The installation, initially designed for the columns of the historic Paris Bourse in Palais Brongniart in 2007, takes place on the columns of the Brussels Bourse, used as a support for the sculptural histograms of the artist >> more |
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| WHEN: October, 2010 through the end of November, 2010
Submissions being excepted now until September 1st, 2010 WHERE: at the ECHO Center in Burlington, Vermont WHAT: Beauty of Windart Wind Art Exhibit at the ECHO - Call for wind energy themed art for the 2010 ECHO Wind Power Art Exhibit >> more |
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| WHEN: 15 - 16 - 17 October 2010 WHERE: Laboratorio Sociale Morion, Casa dei Beni Comuni, S. Francesco della Vigna, Castello 2951, Venice, Italy WHAT: Climate Change Poster'n'Postercards Meeting Poster and Postcard Contest Deadline for submissions: October 5th, 2010 |
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| WHEN: 29 September – 8 October 2010 WHERE: Ravenna, Italy - Different Locations WHAT: Creative emergencies 2010 - 3rd Edition Waste, water and energy in international contemporary art, by Maria Livia Brunelli, Anna Cirelli, Silvia Cirelli |
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| WHEN: 11 - 29 September 2010 WHERE: Salone Gardini, Magazzini del Sale, Dorsoduro n. 263, Venice, Italy WHAT: Junk Collection by Marillina Fortuna Venezia un pesce fuor d'acqua? Frammenti di un viaggio attraverso il Mediterraneo |
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| WHEN: 14 - 16 September 2010 WHERE: Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy WHAT: Meetings: I Dialoghi di San Giorgio Protecting nature or saving creation? Ecological conflicts and religious passions |
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| WHEN: August 2007 - July 2010 WHERE: Southbank Centre, London, UK WHAT: In August 2007, Cape Farewell organisation began its three year artists residency at Southbank Centre. Cape Farewell will operate as a cultural eco-hub at the heart of the centre's creative climate change initiatives >> more |
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| WHEN: 27 May - 27 June 2010 WHERE: Padua, ITALY, different places WHAT: the third edition of Reciclarte: environment through the different languages of Contemporary Art >> more |
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| WHEN: 17 March - 27 June 2010 WHERE: Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain WHAT: The Antartic art exhibition of Mireya Masó: «Antarctica is the visible presence of change. Measured time is embodied in a never-ending sequence of sun and fog, of calm, of snowfall and stone fields exposed by wind, of tides, of the advances and retreats of ice floes and pack ice on the bay. It's a landscape in motion, nothing lasts beyond this moment. Here in Antarctica every second has the value of the present. It appears and disappears before it can be remembered.» Mireya Masó >> more |
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| WHEN: 31 January - 13 June, 2010 WHERE: Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA WHAT: "Cape Farewell – Art & Climate Change" — the second exhibition in the series Artology: the Fusion of Art and Science at Cranbrook –explores the most challenging environmental issue of this century and is making its North American début at Cranbrook Institute of Science on January 31, 2010 >> more |
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| WHEN: 11 February - 13 March 2010 WHERE: Fondazione Stelline, Corso Magenta, 61 - 20123 Milan, Italy WHAT: Alan Rankle "Selected Works" (paintings from 1992 - 2009) and Kirsten Reynolds and Alan Rankle "On The Edge of Wrong" (new collaborative works). The exhibition Selected Works 1992-2009 brings together a group of paintings from public and private collections and provides an insight into the evolution of Alan Rankle's ideas and works leading to his collaborations with Kirsten Reynolds. Alan Rankle takes as his main subject the development of landscape art as a concept related to changes in attitude to the environment. On the edge of wrong is a new set of collaborative pieces by Rankle and Reynolds created especially for Fondazione Stelline. It comprises paintings, photographs, texts, and light-box pieces and will be shown alongside a video work WARP FACTOR, first presented at Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen >> more |
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| WHEN: 9 December 2009 - 28 February 2010 WHERE: Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy WHAT: Alliance Française de Venise and the Fondazione Querini Stampalia present Salva/guardala! "La terra è sotto i tuoi occhi e nelle tue mani" (Save / look! ... The earth is under your eyes and your hands). The exhibition presents 60 pictures made by Yann Arthus Bertrand and other French photographers which deal with three issues related to the environment: sustainable development, energy and biodiversity. The goal is to awaken public opinion to the ongoing climate change problems and their menaces to the word >> more |
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| WHEN: 15 February 2010, hh. 20.00 - 21.30 - 23.00 WHERE: Teatro dei Frari, Venice, Italy WHAT: Legambiente Venezia in collaboration with Cineforum Cinit Frari and Nonsolocinema presents GREEN CARPET - Cinema per l'Ambiente (Proiezioni Supine di Carnevale), a night screening of selected movies about environment and climate change. At 20.00, THE AGE OF STUPID, by Franny Armstrong (2008); at 21.30, PONYO SULLA SCOGLIERA di Hayao Miyazaki (2008) and at 23.00, APNEA by Roberto Dordit (2004) >> more |
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| WHEN: 3 December 2009 - 31 January 2010 WHERE: 6 Burlington Gardens, London, UK WHAT: The Royal Academy of Arts opens Earth: Art of a changing world, an exhibition with new and recent work from more than 30 leading international contemporary artists and part of the GSK Contemporary season. Recent debates have centred less on the possibility and more on the certainty and speed with which climate change will take place. As the debate has developed, so too has our approach to the future. this exhibition will reflect the impact of the climate change debate on the practice of a broad range of contemporary artists across a wide variety of media >> more |
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| WHEN: 22 October 2009 - 31 January 2010 WHERE: Museum Sheffield, Millenium Gallery, UK WHAT: Can Art Save Us? is the first in a series of three exhibitions at Museums Sheffield: Millennium Gallery which draw on the ideas and insights of critic, author, artist and scholar, John Ruskin (1819-1900). At first glance an unlikely eco-warrior, Ruskin was ahead of his time in his recognition of the environment as a finite resource. Featuring paintings, sculpture, installations and mixed media work from Tate, the V&A, the National Gallery and the Natural History Museum, Can Art Save Us? sees Ruskin's legacy illustrated through a diverse selection of historic and contemporary art including Turner, Hogarth, Hepworth and Tom Hunter >> more |
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| WHEN: January 2010 WHERE: Southbank Centre, London, UK WHAT: SHIFT is a festival with a climate focus inspired by Cape Farewell's expeditions to the High Arctic and the rainforests in Peru. Leading up to two special concerts - Marcus Brigstocke with special guests (29 January) and Robyn Hitchcock presents a Maritime Evening with special guests (30 January) - Southbank Centre hosts free events engaging artists, architects and scientists in discussion about climate change and showcasing creative work in response to questions of sustainability >> more |
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| WHAT: Chat by Anna Scalfi WHEN: from 5 June to 30 November 2009 WHERE: Faculty of Economics - Ca'Foscari University of Venice Cannaregio, 873 (Fond.ta San Giobbe, ex Macello) >> more |
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| WHAT: Le ciel regarde la terre WHEN: from 7 June to 22 November 2009 WHERE: Pavilion of the Principality of Monaco - 53rd International Art Exhibition - Presidio Militare, Caserma Cornoldi - Riva degli Schiavoni St.re Castello 4140, Venice >> more |
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| WHAT: Natura Snaturans WHEN: from 27 June to 20 October 2009 WHERE: Casello delle Polveri, Certosa Island, Venice Lagoon, Venice >> more ( Italian language) |
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| WHAT: APHRODITE Water Art WHEN: from 7 June to 31 August 2009 WHERE: Island of S. Erasmo, Venice Lagoon, Venice >> more |
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