New York. The BMW Group is pleased to announce that
Saim Demircan has been awarded the 2017 curatorial residency within
its MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38 program.
Demircan has been living and working as a curator and writer in
Germany since 2012.
The curatorial residency, which includes a grant and the mandate to
program the residency’s Lower East Side art space for a year, was
awarded by an international jury composed by Larissa Harris (Queens
Museum of Art), Christian Rattemeyer (Museum of Modern Art), and
Nicolaus Schafhausen (Kunsthalle Wien). Demircan’s enthusiasm for the
annals of 20th century art in combination with an exquisite
sensibility for emerging artistic positions across media and
disciplines encouraged the jury to a decidedly European choice.
Demircan will begin his program in February with the first US
exhibition of collaborative duo New Noveta, which will extend their
performative practice into the art space through photographic images,
sound, and costumes, and also feature the debut of a new performance.
Together with German artist Veit Laurent Kurz, Demircan will co-curate
a group exhibition of New York-based and European artists within a new
installational setting devised by Kurz especially for Ludlow 38,
opening in the spring. London-based artist Sidsel Meineche Hansen will
use the art space during the summer to prepare her first US solo
exhibition there in the fall, including a new production and series of
related events.
Saim Demircan (born 1980, Derby, UK) is a curator and
writer based in Berlin. Between 2012 and 2015 he was a curator at
Kunstverein München. Previously, he curated a two-year program of
offsite projects, as well as an exhibition of works by German artist
Kai Althoff, at Focal Point Gallery in Southend-on-Sea. Most recently,
he was curator-in-residence at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
Ludlow 38 is the Goethe‑Institut New York’s space for
contemporary art. Located on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, it has been
a site for curatorial experiments in the tradition of the German
“Kunstverein” since 2008. With the launch of MINI/Goethe-Institut
Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38 in 2011, exhibitions are now
presented in collaboration with annually rotating curatorial residents
from Germany. This project is supported by MINI and as such part of
BMW Group Cultural Commitment. With hundreds of projects worldwide,
BMW Cultural Commitment has been an integral part of corporate
communications for almost 50 years. In its cultural commitment, BMW
Group focuses on modern and contemporary art, classical music and jazz
as well as architecture and design. In all projects supported by BMW
Group, absolute artistic freedom is paramount as it is key for
unlocking creative potential – in pioneering works of art as much as
in major innovations of a successful corporation. MINI is partner for
numerous cultural institutions, art and design fairs and festivals
worldwide. As such, MINI cooperates with Salone del Mobile in Milan
and the London Design Festival.
For further details regarding the programme, please visit: http://www.ludlow38.org/