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ABOUT ALL THE SPACES
Enterprise Projects
Enterprise Projects is an Athens based project by Danai Giannoglou and Vasilis Papageorgiou. Created out of our need to express and share our point of view concerning the contemporary artistic creation, this venture aims at experimenting and conversing; experimenting with the curatorial proposal, artistic creation, self-organized function, and conversing with the artistic scene, the Athenian audience and the place itself, which houses the project.
As a structure Enterprise Projects has been functioning independently and periodically since September 2015 in Ampelokipoi, Athens.
Établissement d'en face
Etablissement d’en face is an art space in central Brussels. It aims to present artistic practices to an international audience by offering conditions of professional production to a wide spectrum of contemporary artists. Founded in 1991 by the artists Alec De Busschère, Delphine Bedel, Christophe Draeger and Patrick Everaert, it was originally located in the Rue d’Artois and moved to the Rue Antoine Dansaert in 2002. Over the years it has been programmed by various individuals. Currently, Olivier Foulon, Steinar Haga Kristensen, Jean-Paul Jacquet, Zin Taylor, Margaux Schwarz, Harald Thys, Michael Van den Abeele, Margot Vanheusden, Peter Wächtler and Etienne Wynants operate Etablissement d’en face.
All of these public activities taking place on this spot on planet Earth are fueled by an engagement and commitment by individuals, informed by the interplanetary interferences of Jupiter, Mars, Mercurius, Neptunus, Pluto, Saturnus, Uranus and Venus.
www.etablissementdenface.com
Marwan
Marwan is an artist-run project space in the center of Amsterdam, NL, initiated and programmed by Tirza Kater and Tim Mathijsen, who started this practice in their studio. Currently, Marwan is operating autonomously under the generous wings of AKINCI at Fokke Simonszstraat, 12, Amsterdam.
www.marwan.hotglue.me
Rib
Rib is a space for art, where the interplay between different forms and formats informs its layered and extradisciplinary programme. Rib is driven by both the vision of the artists and the will to challenge the institutionalising conditions for the production and presentation of contemporary art.
Since its inception, Rib has employed an evolutionary logic instead of a thematic succession; exhibitions, collaborations, recurring (online) residencies, long-term projects and off-site interventions all interlock to animate this living organism.
Founded by Maziar Afrassiabi in 2015, Rib is housed in a former butcher shop in Rotterdam-Charlois.
Significant Other
SO is/was mediating between art and architecture, former west and former east (currently centre), same as between laura and jen. it offers/ed a multifunctional projecting screen for inter-disciplinary, trans-geographic as well as critical inter-institutional dialog from it’s tiny and genuinely weird space on burggasse 24 (a space which josef daberning, our first exhibiting artist, pointedly described as “ugly as fuck”).
Switch Hook
Switch-Hook projects is a collaborative curatorial effort between Luca Klauba and Zola Rollins. Artists may become friends of switch hook through submission, curation, incident, accident and via phone call. Luca Klauba and Zola Rollins may act as curators, gallerists, exhibiting artists, friends, writers, and collectors.
Winona
For one very intense year we ran a project-space in a small, tiled room in Brussels’ Quartier Maritime. The contract was only ever precarious. Now that we’ve gone the building will be gutted and made into apartments. These rubbings are a 1:1 render of the room which me made the day we were moving out.
Laurenz
Laurenz is a project aiming to offer an infrastructure for spatial and artistic experiments and discourse. With Laurenz we aim to establish a steady rhythm of exhibitions, giving local and international contemporary artists and cultural practitioners a platform for expression and exploration.
(Photos: fig1-20 Aaron Amar Bhamra / Laurenz)