Curators for Sale was FinnFemFel's contribution to ARTmART November´08 in Künstlerhaus in Vienna. ARTmART is an exhibition, art market for both new buyers and collectors, meeting place for artists and international network.
In the project "Curators for Sale" finnfemfel switches the roles in the delicate relationship between artists and curators, in a very practical and undramatic way. The participating curators become producers of art while finnfemfel acting as the curator, initiator and broker. The curators taking part in the project are Marketta Seppälä, FRAME, Helsinki, Mika Hannula, Berlin, Zsuzsa Laszlo & Dora Hegyi, Budapest, Dan Holm, Vaasa, Finland, Tomas Ivan Träskman, Helsinki and Valentin Rothmaler, Plön, Germany. Curators for Sale! is the start of future projects that enhance and look at the phenomenon from different perspectives.
finnfemfel
Berlin / Finland
To the rignt finnfemfel's contribution for ARTmART, portraits of the curators.
Descending, left to right:
(Occupation at the time for the project.)
Marketta Seppälä
Director FRAME - Finnish Fund for Art Exchange, Helsinki, Finland
Dan Holm
Curator of art in the Museum of Ostrobothnia,
Vaasa, Finland
Mika Hannula
Curator, art critic, guest professor at
Valand University of Gothenburg, Berlin
László Zsuzsa & Dora Hegyi
Curators, art critics, art historians...
Budapest, Hungary
Tomas Ivan Träskman
Art historian, curator, art critic...
Helsinki, Finland
Valentin Rothmaler
Professor of Art at Wismar University, Curator
Plön, Germany
Inkjet-print, 24x32 cm, 2008
| Marketta Seppälä | Dan Holm | Mika Hannula |
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| Laszlo Zsuzsa & Dora Hegyi | Tomas Ivan Träskman | Valentin Rothmaler |
What is ARTmART?
ARTmART is an exhibition with an experimental market character. Each exhibited art piece is sold for the flat-rate price of € 70,- .„ Much too cheap“– but: only for a week…Within the frame of the viennaartweek ARTmART offers an entry-level marketplace— as well as an experimental field for artists and new collectors. Selections are made by a curatorial jury to ensure the quality and diversity of the contemporary works. ARTmART transfers the successful concept of Greek CHEAPART Gallery to Vienna. ARTmART will, in this vein, exhibit 66 Greek artists in a move that marks the beginning of a European-wide cooperation.View, Exchange, Meet – and Buy!
ARTmART