NordArt 2012
Official Opening Ceremony at 5pm on Saturday 02 June
We warmly invite you and your friends to the official opening ceremony of the NordArt 2012. We are delighted to be able to present you the artworks from 240 artists from 49 countries at the NordArt 2012.
at 5 pm on Saturday 2 June,
at the ACO Wagenremise, Vorwerksallee, Büdelsdorf, Germany.
Programm:
Opening speech: Hans-Julius AhlmannACO Group Chairman
Welcome: Yang Huiqun
Consul General of People‘s Republic of China in Hamburg
Welcome: Jürgen Hein
Mayor of the city of Büdelsdorf
NordArt-Prize 2011 ceremony:: Hans-Julius Ahlmann & Johanna Ahlmann
Awardee: Peter Lundberg – USA
Greetings: Participating artists from different countries
Music in the park: Jesse Grell Trio, Germany
Catering in the sculpture park and in the exhibition cafe Alte Meierei
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Opening times until 30. September 2012
Wed–Sun 11 am - 7 pm
Call for Artists
Kunstwerk Carlshütte, a non-profit initiative of the ACO Group, and the towns of Büdelsdorf and Rendsburg, organises the NordArt, an annual international exhibition of visual arts from June to the beginning of October. The art exhibited at NordArt is selected by a jury and features all visual art media. The exhibition in summer 2011 displayed the work of 250 artists from 55 countries, selected from 1200 applications from 72 countries. Curator of NordArt: Wolfgang Gramm.
Application deadline is the 31. of January 2012
Flyer – NordArt 2011 (7,7 MB)
NordArt-Prize 2011: Peter Lundberg (USA)
Hans-Julius Ahlmann and Johanna Ahlmann (ACO Group) have donated for the first time in 2010 the NordArt-Prize worth 10 000 Euro.
The NordArt-Prize 2010 was awarded to the chinese sculptor Zen Chenggang.
The name of this years awardee, Peter Lundberg, was announced at the 'Long Night of the Lights' on the 17th of September. The price giving ceremony will take place during the opening of the NordArt 2012.
NordArt-Prize 2011: Peter Lundbergs work Katla, 2010, concrete, iron reinforcement, height: 13 meter
NordArt - Public Choice Award 2011
The visitors of the NordArt had three months to cast a vote for their favourite piece of art or their favorite artist. The first prize comes with a prize money of 1000 Euro and the second and third each 500 Euro. More importantly all three artists are invited to participated in the NordArt 2012. We already look forward to see their works next year.
The award ceremony took place during the 'Long Night of the Lights' on the 17th of September 2011.
1. Prize – Dan Hudson (Canada)
2. Prize – Gerhard Mantz (Germany)
3. Prize – Zdeněk Šmíd (Czech Republic)
From the left: Hans-Julius Ahlmann (ACO Group), Dan Hudson, Gerhard Mantz, Zdeněk Šmíd, Johanna Ahlmann (ACO Group)
1. Prize: Dan Hudson with the Installation: News, Weather, Sports, 2010, DVD-Video 4:3. Loop, Sound, Installation 172x115x15cm.
2. Prize: Gerhard Mantz, here one of his works: The Left Hand of Darkness, 2008, pigmented ink on canvas, 140x270
3. Prize: Zdeněk Šmíd with his kinetic sculpture: Rider, 1995/2010, copper, tin solder, spherulitic iron, steel, soldering, 260x80x360
NordArt 2011 opening ceremony 4 June
Opening times until 2 October Wed–Sun 11 am – 7 pmWe warmly invite you and your friends to the official opening ceremony
at 5 pm on Saturday 4 June,
at the ACO Wagenremise, Vorwerksallee, Büdelsdorf, Germany.
We are delighted to be able to present you the artworks from 250 artists from 55 countries at the NordArt 2011. The first NordArt took place in 1999, since then it has established itself as Northern Europe’s largest annual art exhibition. The NordArt is a work of art in its own right and is designed as such each year. More than 200 international artists, selected by a jury, present a comprehensive panorama of contemporary art. Each individual work not only speaks for itself but also creates new perspectives when seen juxtaposed against the unique backdrop offered by the Carlshütte and the adjacent historical sculpture park. NordArt is accompanied by concerts, readings, film presentations and other cultural events. Exhibition area: 22,000 square metres in the former Carlshütte foundry; 400 sqm in the ACO coach house; 80,000 sqm historical park and links with public places in the town of Büdelsdorf. NordArt curator: Wolfgang Gramm. Organizer: Kunst in der Carlshütte, a non-profit initiative of the ACO Group and the towns of Büdelsdorf and Rendsburg, since 2011 under the new brand “Kunstwerk Carlshütte”.
NordArt 2010
Flyer – NordArt 2010 (913 KB)NordArt-Prize 2010 for Chinese sculptor Zeng Chenggang
The NordArt-Prize, awarded for the first time this year, was won by the Chinese sculptor Zeng Chenggang. As officially announced last Saturday, Hans-Julius and Johanna Ahlmann (ACO Group), the sponsors of the 10,000 Euro prize, chose Zeng Chenggang as a representative of the dawn of the Asian era and the enormous changes affecting Chinese art. The award presentation ceremony will take place at the opening of NordArt 2011, on 4 June 2011
Professor Zeng Chenggang, Director of the Academy for Art and Design at Tsinghua University in Beijing, is represented at this year’s NordArt with his work of a lotus blossom – a symbol for a continuously changing world.
The first NordArt-Prize is also expressly seen as a call to look much more closely at a country which is increasingly influencing the cultural sphere around the world. The two sponsors intend to redefine the criteria used to select the winner each year taking into account the changing circumstances. Zeng was one of seven artists shortlisted for the prize by the jury – which included the state museum director Dr. Jürgen Fitschen, and Dr. Jan Drees, Head of the Sculpture Department at Schloss Gottorf. In addition to Chenggang, the candidates included the Czech painter Ivan Bukowski, the Russian photographer Julia Borovaya, the German sculptor Juliana Jüttner, the German painter Karl Oppermann, the Syrian painter Sara Shamma, and the Swedish sculptor Richard Brixel.
The Public Choice Award worth 1000 Euro was won by a large margin by the Finnish artistic duo Teja and Pekka Isorättyä for their marionettes stitched together from pig skin (“Chicharrona”). The second prize awarded by the NordArt visitors, who had three months to hand in their votes, went to Wolfgang Stillers work “Match Stick Men” – huge burned-down matchsticks with human faces. The third prize went to Hiroko from Japan for her performance “Prayer for 1000 souls and 1000 works of art”. The NordArt-Prize winner and the three Public Choice Award winners will all be invited to take part in NordArt 2011. The prize winners were announced at the “Long Night of the Lights”, an event arranged by the Kunstwerk Carlshütte two weeks before the end of the exhibition. More than 2000 visitors attended this event in the Carlshütte on Saturday.
1. Public Choice Award: Teija & Pekka Isorättyä, Finnland, Installation "Chicharrona"
2. Public Choice Award: Wolfgang Stiller, Berlin, Installation "Matchtick Men"
3. Public Choice Award: Hiroko, Japan, Performance „Prayer for 100 Souls“ _ Video
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