Kunsthaus Bregenz Two publications were presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Lothar Baumgarten: Seven Sounds / Seven Circles." One is a CD set featuring seven audio pieces, phonic compositions with a sculptural character.

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Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia 9 September 2009 - January 2010 A museum's collection intrinsically traces notions of history and time. But what history or histories do we tell? We are aware that, traditionally, museums have been trapped within a canonical view of history that seeks to establish sequential order between time periods.

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Kunstverein Hamburg The works of Kostis Velonis having so far occupied the upper floor of the Kunstverein alone, the sculptures of the Scottish artist Karla Black (*1972, lives in Glasgow) are now the focus of attention. Whereas Velonis' sculptures were from the outset developed to provide a platform for the further activities of the Kunstverein, they now perform this function in particular measure.In keeping with the additive exhibition format, Karla Black rearranges some of Velonis' works, removes others, and installs her own sculptures in this framework.

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MUSEUM LUDWIG 04.07. - 27.09.2009 Our exhibition covers the entire history of the editions, right back to over forty years ago. Rare prints and reworkings are as much a part of this as the inserts he put into newspapers in runs of many thousands. Since 1963 and above all after 1967, Polke has produced numbered editions. Back then was the heyday of prints and graphic art, but Polke adopted a highly unusual technique: offset printing. Offset printing, which has only ever interested a handful of artists, is also the medium in which many of Polke's images first originated. Because offset is the medium of the yellow press, whose illustrations Polke has used for his own purposes. So printing the editions took the artist's preoccupation with mass communications back to its very origins.

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Jeu de Paume 30 June - 27 September 2009 Among the themes evoked by these diverse objects, we find the age of the Soviet Sputniks, the reign of Maggie Thatcher, the pop group The Spice Girls and 9/11 – all events or phenomena that have entered the collective memory, largely because of their prominence in the media and association with strong visual imagery. Parr always chooses his everyday objects and curiosities for their ability to symbolise and crystallise the Zeitgeist. Their thematic organisation affords a new perspective on these items of very diverse origin. "I am also very attracted to objects which are ephemeral. Their significance and cultural context changes as the world moves on. Many of these objects are associated with people or events that are bound up with the glories of a certain time and place.

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Ludwig Museum 3 July - 11 October 2009 "The precocious Budapest teenager who would eventually become known to the world as Robert Capa did not aspire to be a photographer. He wanted to be a writer – a reporter and a novelist." (Richard Whelan) Capa's evolution into a press photographer and war reporter (all the while entertaining the idea of filmmaking) was fundamentally determined by history, as well as by factors like the accelerated technical developments in photography, the changes in the printed picture press in the 1920s as a result of the influence of motion pictures, as well as the increasingly refined techniques and strategies of photographers.

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spike Art Guide East What makes up a city's art scene? The places where art takes place, the cafés and restaurants where people meet, the bars and clubs. The spike Art Guide East examines the art scenes, past and present, of ten Central and Eastern European cities: Belgrade, Bratislava, Bucharest, Budapest, Ljubljana, Prague, Sarajevo, Sofia, Vienna and Zagreb.

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FRANKFURTER KUNSTVEREIN July 10 - October 4, 2009 In the context of several local and state elections, when political programmes are focussing on empty campaign slogans and election phrases, the gap between state reasoning and tangible problems in the everyday life of the individual becomes clearly perceptible.

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Bonner Kunstverein 21th July - 4th October 2009 This international project forms a joint effort of curators based in Egypt, Germany, Lebanon and Morocco presented in a series of exhibitions of newly commissioned and existing work, presentations, workshops, residencies and a publication collectively born out of heated discussions of a loaded topic.

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Afterall The issue brings together a number of histories of the archive. Michèle Faguet writes on the ethics of documentation of social misery by looking at pornomiseria, a movement in Colombian film of the 1970s that specularised images of the poor and downtrodden. Chon A. Noriega considers the merits of the destruction of the archive, through a study of the found-footage film practice of Raphael Montañez Ortiz, a US Latino artist and founder of El Museo del Barrio.

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PAVILION Social medicine means the rationalization of the problems arising to the governmental practice by "...the particular phenomena regarding a group of living beings, organized in the form of a population: healthcare, hygiene, birthrate, life expectancy, race... These problems have been raising a growing interest from the 19th century up to now, and they represented a permanent political and economical stake. They could not be dissociated from the frame of political rationality within which they appeared and gained accuracy. In a system that shows its interest towards the observance of the subjects' rights and free initiative, how can we approach the «population» phenomenon, with its specific problems and results? In the name of what and according to what regulations should it be managed?" (Michel Foucault)

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Hamburger Kunsthalle 5 June - 27 September 2009 This presentation of video and film projections by Roman Signer addresses a central theme of the Swiss artist's work: the exploration of materials and time in relation to the moving image. Signer works with time as with any other artistic material to create what he calls "events" – temporary sculptures that undergo a process of transformation. Many of his works are documented using a camera or are conceived as filmed pieces.

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"Presumed Innocents", the trial: 10 years later For the first time in France, two museum directors and a curator are to be tried in a criminal court for exhibiting works of art that have already been shown throughout the world or put on view since the Bordeaux exhibition in art shows that have not elicited the least unfavorable reaction from the public.

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Institut d'art contemporain 19 June - 16 August 2009 For presentday scientific research is renewing our approach to space and its articulation with the brain. From advances in neurophysiology to physical discoveries (quantum physics, string theory, nanoscience…), our apprehension of the world has tipped over from Euclidian space into an as yet indeterminate space, undergoing mutation.

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Portuguese Pavilion 7 June - 22 November 2009 To begin with, and in anticipation of the artworks we shall see shortly, we would just like to say that the main theme of this exhibition is meteorology. It is not the first time we've explored this theme in our work. In earlier projects, there's a certain air-related phenomenological atmosphere evident. Nevertheless, it seems appropriate to clarify how this concept has grown in complexity in our work in order to propose an exhibition that sets itself apart from earlier projects without being entirely unrelated.

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X INITIATIVE July 10 through September For its summer phase opening on July 9th, X is pleased to present solo shows by Tris Vonna-Michell, Luke Fowler, and Keren Cytter. Each artist has attracted the attention of several European institutions and has participated in prestigious exhibitions worldwide, including the Berlin Biennale, the Yokohama Triennial, and the Venice Biennale. This is the first large-scale American presentation for each artist. Vonna-Michell, Cytter, and Fowler all share an interest in personal narratives and storytelling, exploring the secret workings of memory and resuscitating obsolete genres to open up new creative possibilities.

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Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) June 19 - July 19, 2009 UCCA presents Isabelle Huppert: Woman of Many Faces, an ambitious photo show initiated by the Museum of Modern Art / P.S.1, New York, for the first time in China. The exhibition gathers 120 photo and video portraits of French actress Isabelle Huppert created by a multi-generational and international group of leading photographers. For this unique Chinese issue, organized as part of the 'Croisements Festival', the project includes new works by the upcoming generation of Chinese artists such as Yang Fudong, Wen Fang and Shi Xiaofan.

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Project Arts Centre and Belfast Exposed Project Arts Centre and Belfast Exposed have invited four artists with a common interest in the complexities of multi-cultural living to make new work for The Prehistory of the Crisis (2). This exhibition commissions and brings together Susanne Bosch, Anthony Haughey, Daniel Jewesbury and Sinéad McCann at a time in history when economic recession underscores every cultural and artistic event taking place in Ireland, North and South. This situation is not just symptomatic of the recession that has hit many globalised economies since 2008. Ireland's recession brings with it one of the most pronounced changes in fortune, and significantly, Ireland's first major drop in productivity since the boom days - the swan-song of the Celtic Tiger.

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B.P.S.22 space for contemporary creation 27th June - 30th August 2009 As part of the 7th ARTour Biennial, the contemporary creation space B.P.S.22 is presenting a Hell'O Monsters installation at the Winter Garden in the Domaine de Mariemont, from 27th June to 30th August. For this project, the group of artists have created a series of hybrid characters in vinyl form and attached them to the windows of the immense glasshouse, built ca. 1850 but now no longer used.

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Modern Art Oxford 4 July - 13 September 2009 Silke Otto-Knapp works with watercolour and gouache on canvas, repeatedly building up and dissolving the surface to create paintings of subtle effect. Drawing on a photographic archive of visual sources that refer to the spatial staging of the formal garden and the choreography of modern dance, Otto-Knapp's tautly constructed yet mutable compositions are rendered in layers of diluted pigment and metallic silver monotones.

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SCHUNCK* June 20 - September 6, 2009 Rites de Passage is the name and catchphrase for the cultural happening that is about to mark the metamorphosis from Glaspaleis to SCHUNCK new-style. A distinguishable and pioneering institution of culture and education, SCHUNCK* is the dynamo that drives critical, artistic and cultural encounters between the community and the world. SCHUNCK* is gearing up to celebrate this landmark event with Rites de Passage

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Artpace May 14 - September 06, 2009 Artpace San Antonio presents Rew-Shay Hood Project Part II, on view through September 6, 2009, in the Hudson (Show)Room. Curated by Artpace Executive Director Matthew Drutt, the exhibition debuts a new body of work by Berlin-based artist Jonathan Monk. Fittingly located in the space named for Artpace's former function as a Hudson automobile dealership, the exhibition features a series of paintings after American artist Ed Ruscha's iconic photographic series and book, Twentysix Gasoline Stations.

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Kunstverein Munchen 4 July - 13 September 2009 This exhibition especially produced for Kunstverein München focuses partly on Bacher`s humorous picking away at the American Dream, respectively its representation and construction within the media; Video works, fanzine-like books or installations - in her exhibition "Do you love me?" mermaids cross the path of alligators, Gozilla bites the "Wizard of Oz" while penetrating "Gap" advertising campaigns. Lutz Bacher contaminates assumed visual worlds with traces of idiosyncrasy and sexual ambiguity, creating fractures that reveal the material as well as the psychological contradictions of a dream cum nightmare constantly driven by the question "Do you love me?"

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3rd Gwangju Design Biennale September 18 - November 4, 2009 Under the theme "The Clue", the Gwangju Design Biennale will open its 3rd edition on September 18th 2009 in the metropolitan city of Gwangju, South Korea. It is one of only a few design biennials in the world trying to create a tradition of thinking about design systematically.

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Danish Architecture Centre 19 June - 30 August 2009 Although Foster + Partners is often associated with new buildings, much of its work has involved the treatment of historic environments. The exhibition "Foster+Partners – Working with History" explores a number of works, which demonstrate a clear philosophy about the sensitive treatment of historical structures and contexts.

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Museum Folkwang 1 July - 18 September 2009 Irina Korina (*1977 in Moscow) is one of Russia's leading young artists. For the foyer of the company headquarters in the RWE Tower, Korina has developed various spatial installations, including an architecturally related work developed for the Tower. Furthermore, the artist is presenting a selection of objects from the last three years in her first individual exhibition in Germany. Irina Korina was selected as one of the artists for the Russian pavilion at this year's Venice Biennale. The exhibition Installations, from July 1st to September 18th 2009, is a continuation of the cooperation between the Museum Folkwang and the RWE AG in the field of contemporary art. The focus of 2009 is on Russia.

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Kunsthaus Graz Kunsthaus Graz and the Museum Jean Tinguely, Basel are organising a symposium on the subject of robotics in the context of art. The event will explore the cultural history of the phenomenon, robots in everyday use and the importance of artificial intelligence for the development and self-image of society. Robot Dreams is a platform for diverse scientists, artists and cultural historians to pursue the social, cultural historical and artistic implications of the subject.

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BOZAR – The Centre for Fine Arts 27.05 - 13.09.2009 Sophie Calle is at once a writer, a narrative artist, a photographer, a filmmaker and sometimes even a detective. She inhabits these roles interchangeably and switches personas in order to play different characters, invent rituals and tell autobiographical stories. Her work usually consists of a combination of photographs and text and often adopts the format of an investigation. Staging herself as the focus of her art, she seamlessly mixes personal life and artistic fiction. She invents the rules of the game as she goes along so as to "improve life" and give it structure and meaning

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Stroom Den Haag June 27 - August 23, 2009 The Foodprint exhibition shows crucial moments relating to food, food production and the city through the work of artists and designers. Starting in the late 1960s artists have used food as a theme for tackling wider social topics. Gordon Matta Clark organized a restaurant as a meeting place.

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Centre of Contemporary Art 'Znaki Czasu' in Torun 27 June - 13 September 2009 Works selected for the exhibition deal with magical rituals, so-called ordinary life, meeting of diverse traditions, search for identity and social problems – creating a picture of a most variegated and complex culture. It is indeed the picture that is the starting point for an analysis of the question of identity in a postcolonial, globalized world where collective cultural memory is being replaced by technical memory of archives and the media and no longer signifies what it always did.

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