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The Han Nefkens Foundation is glad to launch a new online
format: FLOW ONLINE. LIVE CONVERSATION WITH THE HAN NEFKENS
FOUNDATION.
In the first episode, Han Nefkens will be joined by Andrea Bellini, on
occasion of the new collaboration between the Han Nefkens Foundation with
the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, which will join the partners of the
Han Nefkens Foundation - LOOP Barcelona Video Art Production Award, in
collaboration with Fundació Joan Miró.
Andrea Bellini has been the Director of the Centre d'Art
Contemporain Genève since 2012. His previous positions include serving as
co-director of Castello di Rivoli, as director of the art fair Artissima,
as curatorial advisor to MoMA PS1, and as editor-in-chief of Flash Art
International. He holds a degree in philosophy (1996) and a postgraduate
diploma in archaeology and art history from the University of Siena
(2002).
He has devised and organized group shows devoted, among other things, to
the relationship between the visual arts and the theater or to contemporary
writing practices and their various modes of dialogue within the visual and
digital culture of our era. Solo exhibitions of Marina Abramović, Hannah
Black, Lisseta Carmi, Roberto Cuoghi, Ernie Gehr, Giorgio Griffa, Sonia
Kacem, John McCraken, Nicole Miller, Philippe Parreno, Thomas Schütte and
Hannah Weinberger count among Bellini's most prominent curatorial projects.
He also entirely rethought the Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement as platform
for production, which since 2014 has allowed to commission and produce
works by Sophia Al Maria, Ed Atkins, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Emilie Jouvet,
Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, James Richards, Wu Tsang, and Emily
Wardill, among others.
Bellini has
lectured internationally at academic and art institutions and has directed
various publications. He is also a member of various committees, including
CERN's Cultural Advisory Board, the Scientific Committee of ARCOLisboa,
ARCOMadrid, Emerige Prize, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina (MADRE)
in Naples, the Acquisitions Committee of NMNM Nouveau Musée National de
Monaco, the Advisory Committee of Arthub, Shanghai, and the academic
council of HEAD in Geneva.
Founded in 1974, the Centre d’Art
Contemporain Genève is the first Kunsthalle in French-speaking
Switzerland. A point of reference within the Swiss and international art
scene, the Centre distinguishes itself by its hybrid activity – at the
crossroad of an exhibition space, a platform for production, and an
academic institution.
Its dynamic programming both aims to highlight emerging talent and
rediscover established figures, through temporary exhibitions, cultural
events and inclusive activities delivered through pedagogical
formats.
As a space for
research and experimentation, the Centre welcomes artists in residence and
regularly produces reference publications. Since 2014, the Biennial of
Moving Images has become a high point of the program, with the commission
and production of new works. More recently, the Centre inaugurated a
digital platform with a radically new format: the 5th floor. As a true
polyphonic project, it brings together a radio station, a production and
distribution space for artists, and a mediation tool accessible to all.
Han Nefkens is a writer, art collector and patron of the arts
based in Barcelona. What started in 2001 with the purchase of a video
installation by Pipilotti Rist has grown into a collection of contemporary
art consisting of photographs, videos, installations and paintings by Jeff
Wall, Roni Horn, Bill Viola, Shirin Neshat, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and
others. The more than five hundred works are lent as “promised
gifts” to several museums in the Netherlands including the Boijmans
Van Beuningen Museum, Museum de Pont, Huis Marseille, and the
Rijksmuseum.
In 2006 Nefkens established the Han Nefkens Foundation that
supports emerging and mid-career video artists by financing production and
providing them with an international platform.
The foundation does this through awards, scholarships and commissions.
Because of its extensive world-wide network it is able to present the new
videos created by these artists to a diverse and global audience. While
doing this the foundation strives for a personal and long-term relationship
with the people and institutions it works with. In short, the Han Nefkens
Foundation connects people through art.
Nefkens also writes about numerous subjects including art, his struggle
with HIV and his travels around the world. These vignettes can be found on
his blog: https://www.hannefkens.com/ The thread running
through all Han Nefkens' activities is a strong desire to share.
Nefkens says, “Giving is one of the most underrated values in society. By
setting up something that I can share with others, I open myself up to the
world. I can't imagine anything more enriching
than that.”
Han Nefkens Foundation
https://www.hnfoundation.com/
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