Banner Project - The Front Room, Brooklyn, NY
Deadline for the Fall 2009 banner is March 31, 2009

The Front Room Banner Project offers artists the opportunity to create a banner or installation for outside this Williamsburg, Brooklyn gallery. Two banner submissions are selected for each year (more…)

The Bergen Biennial Conference 2009, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
Deadline : 5th of April 2009

17th - 20th September 2009
Curated by: Elena Filipovic, Marieke Van Hal, Solveig Øvstebø

THE BERGEN BIENNIAL CONFERENCE
As scholars and curators have recently acknowledged, the history of exhibitions is both one of the most vital and, paradoxically, ignored narratives of our cultural history. And given the increasing role of biennials and other perennial exhibitions of contemporary art in contemporary culture, it seems all the more necessary to critically examine them today. The impetus to do so now comes in response to the City of Bergen’s plans to establish a biennial for contemporary art in Bergen, Norway, for which the Bergen Kunsthall has taken up the task of organizing an international conference and think tank to study and discuss the status of the biennial as an exhibition model, and also to launch a debate concerning the plans for a biennial in Bergen. (more…)

Summer Exhibition 2009, Royal Academy, London
Deadline for entry forms : International - 03 March / UK - 13 March 2009

The Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition is the largest open contemporary art exhibition in the world, drawing together a wide range of new work by both established and unknown living artists. Now in its 240th year, the exhibition includes around 1,200 works and the majority of works are for sale (more…)

Frère Independent is proud to present “Me Me Me,” the sixth New York edition of PooL, its annual independent art fair. The PooL Art Fair will be held for the first time at the Wyndham Garden Hotel in Chelsea after two successful years at the historical Hotel Chelsea. The change of venue—owing to Hotel Chelsea’s new management’s refusal to host the show: “We don’t care about legacy, image or any of this… All we want is money.” – allow a few good improvements for the viewers and new media artists. Each room offers a 32inch plasma screen and the Lobby’s three plasma displays promise quite a solid presence of new media art at this year show. This brand new hotel has reserved 2 to 3 consecutive floors just for the PooL Artists allowing visitors to have a condensed view of the artists’ works. (more…)