Project Europa: Exhibition to Celebrate the Fall of the Berlin Wall
January 17, 2010 | Levent OZLER
Project Europa, opening at the Harn Museum of Art in Florida on February 7, will bring together essential European paintings, sculpture, photos, and video - all created since 1989 - that reflect on how the dream of reunified Europe gave way to the slow creep of xenophobia, intolerance, and hardening nationalism.
The exhibition features works by 19 artists from across Europe, including Francis Alÿs, Aernout Mik, Yto Barrada, and Jens Haaning.
Algerian-French artist Kader Attia and Dan Perjovschi will take up residencies at the Harn to create new murals directly on the museum's walls.
Other highlights include a 1989 video installation by German artist Marcel Odenbach, and recent works by Egyptian-German sculptor Susan Hefuna.
Organized by the Harn, the art museum of the University of Florida, the exhibition is accompanied by a new scholarly catalogue, film screening series, and symposium led by Catherine David of the Direction des Musees de France.
more: harn.ufl.edu/ (29)
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