May 28 to 30, 2009
The LOOP Fair is the 1st Fair exclusively dedicated to videoart, and an unmissable meeting point for professionals and videoart lovers.
The Fair will take place on May 28, 29 and 30. Once again, the Hotel Catalonia Ramblas will host the Fair, and, in the privacy of its rooms, over 40 prestigious galleries will exhibit video art works by acclaimed and up-and-coming artists from around the world.
Location and schedules
Hotel Catalonia Ramblas Pelayo, 28
08001 Barcelona
VERNISSAGE
Thursday, May 28 19:30h
OPENING DAYS
Thursday, May 28
noon to 9 pm
Professional and Press Preview
(by special invitation only)
Friday, May 29
4 to 9 pm
General admission
Saturday, May 30
4 to 9 pm
General admission
Media Lounge
28, 29 & 30th of May 2009
From noon to 9pm
Invited galleries
Among others:- ángels barcelona (Barcelona) - Mabel Palacín
- Galerie Anita Beckers (Frankfurt) - Kota Ezawa
- Art Claims Impulse (Berlin) - Mihai Grecu
- bitforms (New York) - Michael Joaquin Grey
- BK Galerie Bernhard Bischoff (Berna) - Katia Bourdarel
- Braverman Gallery (Tel Aviv) - Gilad Ratman
- Cànem Galeria (Castelló) - Irina Novarese
- Chi-Wen Gallery (Taipei)
- Christopher Grimes Gallery (Santa Monica)
- DNA (Berlin) - Fabien Giraud
- Espaivisor-Galeria Visor (Valencia) - Cecilia Lundqvist
- Galería Carles Taché (Barcelona) - Cornelia Parker
- Galeria Filomena Soares (Lisbon) - Vasco Araújo
- Galería Llucià Homs (Barcelona) - Arturo Fuentes
- Galeria Joan Prats (Barcelona) - Carla Zaccagnini
- Galeria Senda (Barcelona) - Michael Nyman
- Galería Valle Orti (Valencia) - Txuspo Poyo
- Galerie Grand Siecle (Taipei) - Cheng Yung Hsien
- Galerie Reinhard Hauff (Stuttgart) - Josephine Meckseper
- Galerie Stanislas Bourgain (Paris) - Vladimir Logutov
- Galerie Guy Bärtschi (Ginebra) - Samuel Rousseau
- Horrach Moyà (Palma de Mallorca) - Joana Vasconcelos
- Kunstagenten (Berlin) - Romeo Grünfelder
- La Fábrica Galería (Madrid) - Annika Larsson
- Galerie Martine Aboucaya (Paris) - Maider Fortuné
- Max Estrella Galería de Arte (Madrid) - Daniel Canogar
- Mirta Demare Internacional Visual Art (Rotterdam) - Aleksander Komarov
- Mirta Demare Projects (Rotterdam) - Katarina Zdjelar
- Moisés Pérez de Albéniz (Pamplona) - Iñaki Garmendia
- Galería N2 (Barcelona) - Amparo Sard
- Gimpel Fils (London) - Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
- Galerie Olaf Stüber (Berlin) - Knut Klassen
- Galerie Oliver Houg (Lyón) - Tim White Sobieski
- Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain (Montreal) - Isabelle Hayeur
- Polígrafa (Barcelona) - Gary Hill
- Tomas March (Valencia) - Kaoru Katayama
- Virgil de Voldere Gallery (New York)
International Guest Program
LOOP offers collectors and different professional guests from the modern art market the opportunity to meet and discus the dynamics and latest trends in video art. The International Guest Program is a programme of activities that offers a selection of the best events at the LOOP Fair and the LOOP Festival. These include visits to museums, foundations, trips around galleries and exclusive dinners and parties.
The VIP Pass gives our guests free access to the Fair, free entrance to festival activities and the chance to mix with video art artists and professionals. LOOP thus provides guests with the opportunity to enjoy Barcelona from an artistic perspective, guided by the city’s experts.
For further information, contact: fair@loop-barcelona.com
Medialounge
Housed in the Hotel Catalonia Ramblas, the Media Lounge is a meeting point for all the fans, artists, galleries, curators and press professionals who visit the LOOP'09 Fair, conceived as a dynamic space ideal for networking. Media Lounge Hall brings together specialist contemporary art media, magazines and libraries, together with leading international video distributors. Also it hosts a series of screenings and presentations in close collaboration with other videoart festivals, fairs and platforms.
Arte Contexto (Spain)
Quarterly published bilingual Spanish / English culture and new media magazine.
www.artecontexto.com
Bon Art (Spain)
Art, visual culture and cultural heritage magazine, written by art world specialists. It includes a calendar of cultural activities in Catalonia.
www.bonart.cat
VideoArtWorld (Spain)
Online platform dedicated to art that uses the audio-visual and meeting point for galleries, scholars, curators and artists.
www.videoartworld.com
Souvenirs from Earth (Germany)
First television channel which broadcasts 24 hours a day programming based solely on video art.
www.souvenirsfromearth.tv
Video Data Bank (United States)
Pioneer American directory of video material from contemporary artists.
www.vdb.org
V Tape (Canada)
International center of distribution and exhibition of interactive art and a directory with more than 5,000 titles.
www.vtape.org
Film Bank (Holland)
The main activity of Bank Film is the promotion and distribution of independent and unconventional Dutch films.
www.filmbank.nl
Laie (Spain)
A reference bookshop in Barcelona, in some of the cultural centers of the city, whose stores offer are adapted to the content of the centers.
www.laie.es
MADRIDFOTO (Spain)
Spanish first photography fair orientated to show the diversity of expressions and tendencies of the discipline.
www.madridfoto.es
Medialounge - Sala Screening
Thursday, May 28th
at 8 pmVideonale
Curated by Tasja Langenbach / George Elben
Collaboration with Goethe Institut
A selection of pieces by this festival that takes place at Kunstmuseum Bonn. Videonale is one of the most long-standing event (it was founded in 1984) dedicated exclusively to video art.
Presented by the curators.
Saturday, May 30th
at 6 pm
ARGOS
Curated by Marlene Rigler, Argos.
A selection of recent artists’ videos by Argos Centre for Art and Media (Brussels, Belgium), a centre that produces, shows and distributes films, videos and videoinstallations.
Presented by the curator.
at 7.15 pm
Borderline Story – Jerusalem Center for the Visual Arts.
Curated by Nirith Nelson.
Borderline story señala por igual las diversas fronteras físicas que se representan en las obras de vídeo escogidas y nuestro “caso dudoso”, una situación mental confusa relativa a nuestra conexión con la realidad y el estado irrazonable de situaciones.
Presented by the curator.
at 8 pm
Videoformes - International Video Art and Digital Culture.
Curated by Gabriel Soucheyre.
Since 12986, Videoformes is been organizing a video festival (in Clermont-Ferrand, France) it also runs an independent gallery since 1993 and launches Turbulences Vidéo, a quarterly publication about art and new media. Videoformes is been developing for more than 20 years Digital Video Archives, a video art collection.
