Old Habits Die Hard

50 videos selected by international artist-run spaces and collectives: 16 Beaver (New York) AIT (Tokyo) AV-ARKKI (Helsinki) Blue Oyster Gallery (Dunedin, New Zealand) bordercartograph (France) Capri (Berlin) CUBITT Gallery and Studios (London) Cuckoo (Aotearoa, New Zealand) Enjoy (Welllington, New Zealand) FAMEFAME (Toronto) Floating ip (Manchester) Fournos - Center for the Art (Athens, Greece) Galleri Hlemmur (Iceland) Generator (Dundee, Scotland) Glowlab (New York) G.U.N, Galleri Uten Navn (Oslo) le forum itnérant (Strasbourg) Instant Coffee (Toronto) Kings (Melbourne) Mercer Union (Toronto, Canada) Message Salon (Zürich) Norwich Gallery (Norwich) O2 (Akureyri, Iceland) offspace (Vienna) P74 (Ljubljana) PAS (Prague) Planet 22 (Genf) Platform (Vaasa, Finland) Program Angels / lothringer13 (Muenchen) Monochrom (J. Grenzfurthner/ L. Sauermann), projektgruppe (Hamburg) Raid Projects (Los Angeles) RAIN (Los Angeles) rum46 (Aarhus, Denmark) S1 Artspace (Sheffield, UK) Sauna (Stockholm) Signal (Malmö, Sweden) s-m-p (Marseille, France) Sparwasser HQ (Berlin) Switchspace (Glasgow) The Danger Museum (Oslo / Tokyo / Singapore) The Deste Foundation (Athens) The Dirt Palace (Provience, USA); THE SWOLLEN PLATFORM (Berlin) The Western Front (Vancouver) Transmission (Glasgow) United Net-Works (Stockholm) Unwetter (Berlin) VIDEOART CENTER (Tokyo) Videotage (Hongkong) West Space (Melbourne)

The exhibition Old Habits Die Hard feature 50 videos selected by international artist-run spaces and collectives. The videos are grouped into 9 screening programs according to the character of the work. Kunstnernes Hus will show all programs simultaneous on monitors placed trough out the exhibition room.

By utilising existing networks, the organizer, Sparwasser HQ in Berlin, invited 50 artist run spaces and collectives to each select and submit one favourite video . There were no limitations to topics or issues relating to the selection process.

Apart from being a global video screening, Old Habits Die Hard, focuses on artists curating, and can be seen as a necessary trigger for updating audiences about the presence and work of the artist run spaces and collectives. People and platforms are connected together for exhibition opportunities and collegial support.

Pressetext Sparwasser

Old Habits Die Hard
50 videos selected by international artist-run spaces and collectives
presents a project produced for Sparwasser HQ
Kuratoren: Lise Nellemann, Heman Chong, Louise Witthoeft

KünstlerInnen: Jesper Alvaer, Teresa Andrew, Finnur Arnar, Art Orient Objet, Daniel Borins, Duncan Campbell, George Cazenove, Nathalie Djurberg, Tim Etchells / Hugo Glendinning, Nikos Giavropoulos, Hanna Hasslahti, Robin Hely, HORTEN , alias Alexandra Hopf, Amy Howden-Chapman / James Findlater, Ivan Iegoroff / Tim Braden, Masayuki Kawai, Meiro Koizumi, Tessa Laird, Francis Lamb, Morten Larsen, Marcus Lerviks, Deborah Ligorio, Cecilia Lundqvist, Markmid , Xander Marro, Rachel Mayeri, T C McCormack, Rebecca Milling, Avi Mograbi, Ingrid Molnar, Monochrom , Craig Mulholland, Ann Elise Pettersen / Anne Berit Nedland, Ellen Pau, Henriette Pedersen, Ola Pehrson, Alexander Podoprigorov, Nicole Raufeisen / Ryan Witt, Tere Recarens, Dominic Redfern, Reinigungsgesellschaft , Kevin Schmidt, Morgan Showalter, Kristen Smith, Vassiliea Stylianidou, Kika Thorne, Selina Trepp, Saso Vrabic, Lee Walton, Klaus Weber, Gernot Wieland, Ivan Yegoroff / Alexander Podoprigorov ...

Stationen:
30.09.03 - 29.11.03 Sparwasser HQ, Berlin
15.01.04 - 14.02.04 Norwich Gallery
15.01.04 - 19.11.04 Signal, Malmö
31.01.04 - 12.04.04 Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
06.02.04 - 12.03.04 Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
11.03.04 - 17.04.04 Platform Garanti, Istanbul
09.09.04 - 09.10.04 Motorenhalle Dresden
29.10.04 - 07.11.04 Yeans Göteborg