Exhibition : Amsterdam, Mediamatic
Chair Missing
original design by Vito Acconci & theft by Bogomir Doringer (Bigger 4)
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23 June 2006 20:002 July 2006 23:59
Mediamatic Vijzelstraat 72, 3rd floor, suite 3.10 1017 HL Amsterdam (view on map) T +31206389901 www.mediamatic.net
What happens when Serbian artist Bogomir Doringer exploits stereotypical Eastern European identity and becomes a thief?
Opening June 23rd, 20:00
DJ Vitamin K
with:
Documentation of the Illegal Chair Project, a work by Bogomir Doringer. Doringer's work touches on the issues of copyright, public/private, heritage, legality and consumer society. For the Illegal Chair Project, Doringer climbed into a museum dumpster and travelled to Serbia.
Illegal Chair Project by Bogomir Doringer
Illegal Chair, Bogomir Doringer
Illegal Chair Project by Bogomir Doringerl
Throughout June, five young artists will play in and with Mediamatic's project space. The project will start with one artist, with another joining every week.
Bogomir Doringer is the fourth artist to join Bigger. He is a student at the audiovisual department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and originally from Serbia.
Participants of Bigger:
27.05 Tunc Topcuoglu (Turkey)
11.06 Stefan Tiron, Bogdan Marcu en Linda Barkasz (Romania)
17.06 Rafaël Rozendaal (Netherlands)
23.06 Bogomir Doringer (Serbia)
30.06 Irina Birger (Israël) en Katja Sokolova (Russia)
The exhibition is open Thursday through Sunday, 13.00 - 18.00 hrs
Location: Mediamatic, Post CS building, ground floor, Amsterdam




