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Art Sheffield 08
Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum has announced a list of thirty-six artists selected to participate in next year’s Art Sheffield 08: Yes / No / Other Options*. In a change from previous events, there has been no open submission process, and the programme has been developed around a piece of specially commissioned text by art critic and co-curator Jan Verwoert. The exhibition promises to address “the post-industrial condition, one particularly pertinent to Sheffield, where we have entered a perpetual ‘I Can’ service culture” and artists were selected on the basis of the relationship of their practice to the contextual text.
Participating artists include Tomma Abts, Michal Budny, Andrew Cook, Kan Xuan, Kerstin Kartscher, Silke Otto Knapp, Július Koller. Jiri Kovanda, Ruth Legg, Deimantas Narkevicius, Ines Schaber, Sean Snyder, Frances Stark, Mladen Stilinovic, Esther Stocker, Nasrin Tabatabai, Wolfgang Tillmans, Tsui Kuang-Yu, Gitte Villesen, Eveline Van Den Berg, Ryszard Wasko, Nicole Wermers, and Xu Tan.
There will also be new commissions from Stuart Bailey, Katie Davies, Annika Eriksson, Tim Etchells, Host Artists’ Group, Janice Kerbel, George Henry Longley, Roman Ondak, Kirsten Pieroth, Paul Rooney, Esther Stocker, Neil Webb (work pictured) and Katy Woods.
This is the fourth city-wide event organised by Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum (SCAF), a not-for-profit company working to further the presence and awareness of contemporary art in Sheffield through joint programming, audience development and profile raising activities. They also presented The Sheffield Pavilion, an artists’ book and DVD, launched and distributed at The Venice Biennale and Documenta in Kassel, Germany.
Art Sheffield 08 will take place from 16 February – 30 March in venues across the city including Bloc, End Gallery, Millennium Galleries, S1 Artspace, Site Gallery, Yorkshire ArtSpace, temporary venues and the public realm.
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