Dublin Contemporary 2011 was a contemporary art exhibition held in Dublin between September 6 and October 31, 2011.
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Dublin Contemporary 2011 expected to welcome over 150,000 visitors. More than 60 Irish and international artists participated through brand new commissions and mini solo exhibitions held throughout Dublin. This exhibition was co-curated by Jota Castro and Christian Viveros-Fauné.
The title and theme of Dublin Contemporary 2011 was: Terrible Beauty—Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance.
Dublin Contemporary 2011 was sited in the city’s landmark buildings, established museums and galleries, as well as other social and commercial spaces, such as tennis courts, libraries and warehouses. The exhibition occupied more than 100,000 square feet (9,300 m2) of exhibition space, and made as well use of existing walls and parks for murals and public sculpture.
Artists
Taking place from September 6 until October 31, Dublin Contemporary featured more than 90 Irish and international artists from five continents.
List of artists:
David Adamo, Alexandre Arrechea, Kader Attia, Nina Berman, Anna Bjerger, Jorge Méndez Blake, Monica Bonvicini, Alberto Borea, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Tania Bruguera, Fernando Bryce, Ella Burke, Alan Butler, Matt Calderwood, Ludovica Carbotta, Jota Castro, Chen Chieh-jen, Claire Fontaine, Mark Clare, Declan Clarke, Cleary & Connolly, James Coleman, Amanda Coogan, Mark Cullen, Dexter Dalwood, Alain Declercq, James Deutsher, Alberto Di Fabio, Braco Dimitrijević, Willie Doherty, Graham Dolphin, Wang Du, Brian Duggan, Masashi Echigo, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Omer Fast, mounir fatmi, Hans Peter Feldmann, Doug Fishbone, Fernanda Fragateiro, Nicole Franchy, Kendall Geers, David Godbold, Goldiechiari, Assaf Gruber, S Mark Gubb, Patrick Hamilton, Conor Harrington, Thomas Hirschhorn, Katie Holten, Ciprian Homorodean, Simona Homorodean, Jaki Irvine, Áine Ivers, Mark Jenkins, Kysa Johnson, Patrick Jolley, Wendy Judge, Jannis Kounellis, Nevan Lahart, Jim Lambie, Brian Maguire, Kathryn Maguire, Teresa Margolles, MASER, Stefana McClure, Siobhan McGibbon, Bjørn Melhus, Miks Mitrevics, Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor, Richard Mosse, Carola Mücke, Alice Neel, Liam O’Callaghan, Manuel Ocampo, Brian O’Doherty, Mairead O’hEocha, Eamon O’Kane, Niamh O’Malley, Claudio Parmiggiani, Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Dan Perjovschi, William Powhida, Wilfredo Prieto, Guy Richards Smit, Ciara Scanlan, Fred Robeson, Mathias Schweizer, Marinella Senatore, Will St Leger, Nedko Solakov, Superflex, Jeanne Susplugas, Jorge Tacla, Javier Téllez, Vedovamazzei, Corban Walker, Ishmael Randall Weeks, Lisa Yuskavage, David Zink Yi.
Theme
The title and theme of Dublin Contemporary 2011 was: Terrible Beauty—Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance. Taken from William Butler Yeats’ famous poem “Easter, 1916”, the exhibition’s title borrows from the Irish writer’s seminal response to turn-of-the-century political events to site art’s underused potential for commenting symbolically on the world’s societal, cultural and economic triumphs and ills. The second part of the exhibition’s title underscores Dublin Contemporary 2011’s emphasis on art that captures the spirit of the present time, while introducing the exhibition’s chief organizational engine: The Office of Non-Compliance. Headed up by Dublin Contemporary 2011 lead curators Jota Castro (artist/curator) and Christian Viveros-Fauné (critic/curator), The Office of Non-Compliance functioned as a collaborative agency within Dublin Contemporary 2011, establishing creative solutions for real or symbolic problems that stretch the bounds of conventional art experience.
Venues and Programme
The main exhibition hub at Earlsfort Terrace, former home of University College Dublin, provided a range of unusual spaces for mini solo exhibitions that range from large-scale installations to smaller intimate hangings. The Office of Non-Compliance, located within the Earlsfort Terrace exhibition site, functioned as a promoter of ideas around a laundry list of non-conformist art proposals. This element of the exhibition included ad hoc, accessible structures for discourse around art and its place in society.
Extending its reach across the city, Dublin Contemporary 2011 was partner of four important Dublin galleries: The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, The National Gallery of Ireland and The Royal Hibernian Academy.
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane presented new work by renowned Irish artist Willie Doherty. An exhibition of American painter Alice Neel’s striking, psychologically penetrating portraits took place at The Douglas Hyde Gallery. The National Gallery of Ireland hosted works by a number of international artists as well as a new commission by the distinguished Irish artist Brian O’Doherty. The Royal Hibernian Academy hosted an exhibition of works by American painter Lisa Yuskavage and a new commission by Irish artist James Coleman.
Jota Castro
Jota Castro is a Brussels-based Franco-Peruvian artist, curator, a former diplomat with the United Nations and the European Union, consulting editor Janus Magazine (Belgium) and Nolens Volens (Spain) and teacher at the European University (Madrid).
Christian Viveros-Fauné
Christian Viveros-Fauné is a New York-based writer and curator, an ex-art dealer and an ex-art fair director. As a writer, he has published in, among other venues, Art in America, artnet, Artnews, Art Papers, Art Review, The Art Newspaper, El Mercurio (Chile), Frieze, Lapiz (Spain), La Tercera (Chile), La Vanguardia (Spain), Life & Style (Mexico), Quien (Mexico), The New Yorker and The New York Press (for which he was the weekly art critic between 1998–2003).