White Space

General

Address: MilitŠrstrasse 76, CH – 8004 Zurich

Website: www.whitespace.ch

Opening hours: Thursday, Friday, Saturday 2 Ð 7 pm, by appointment

History

Year opened to the public: 2004

Brief history: The project room White Space, was founded in 2004, as a non-profit organization by Mia Holz and Urs KŸenzi and is currently headed by Dorothee Richter and Siri Peyer. White Space organizes projects in the fields of contemporary curating, art and theory. These different interweaving and overlapping fields of curating, art and theory, comment, create and motivate each another.

Programming

Aims and objectives: The project room White Space is a platform for experimental formats, new forms of re-productions, as well as a place for the production of knowledge. This platform supports art projects, archives, actions in the public sphere, and/or interventions of any kind.

Distinct areas of
programming: The practice of making exhibitions is questioned and combined with relevant social and political themes. White Space acts on the assumption that the politics of the visible are reflected in everyday culture and media. These processes can be executed in art and in exhibitions, as well as through new visual and theoretical proposals.

White Space understands the cultures of everyday life as an ensemble of processes (educational and social) existing in the social space of society. Ideally, cultural analysis is understood as a theory of practice and as a practice of theory. Representation that reaches into urban and architectonical practices, media and design affect the formation of space and identity. White Space becomes a place of questioning visual culture und aesthetics, taking a position concerning visibility and the possibilities of access.

Number of projects exhibited yearly: Three – five

Most outstanding projects of the last 3-5 years: Leftover, April Ð June 2009
Artists: San Keller, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Thomas Galler, Zeljka Marusic, Stefan Burger, Kerim Seiler, Stefan Burger, Kerim Seiler; curators: value: Christoph Lang, Stephan Meylan. Curating Plattform: Renata Burckhardt, Martha Cerny, Daniela Geering-Fuentes, Tomas German, Angela Kšhler, Jšrg Kohnen-May, Sonia May, Valentine Meyer, Zo‘ Meyer, Andrea Roca, Fredi Schelb, Anca Raluca Sinpalean, Monika Winkler-Steinmetz, Thomas Zacharias.

Re-Interpretation of The Aesthetics of Terror- a Slide Show in Two Projections, October 2009
Artists: Josh Azzarella; Daniel Bejar; William Betts; Blue Noses; Jake and Dinos Chapman; Zoya Cherkassky; Jeanette Doyle; Harun Farocki; Johan Grimonprez; Kent Henricksen; Jenny Holzer; Jon Kessler; Fransje Killars; Yitzik Livneh; Bj¿rn Melhus; Claude Moller; Richard Mosse; Yves Netzhammer; Miguel Palma; Cristi Pogacean; David Reeb; Roee Rosen; Martha Rosler; Stephen Shanabrook; Ivana Spinelli; Avdey Ter-Oganian; Jan Tichy; Sharif Waked; Catherine Yass; Curators Zurich: Siri Peyer, Dorothee Richter, Joshua Simon; Curators of the project Aesthetics of Terror: Joshua Simon and Manon Slome.

Archive of Shared Interests Ð Transfer Zone Ð Temporary Life Ð Temporary Communities
30 Theoretical approaches, architectural and artistic dossiers for communities in the Transfer Zone, December 2009 Ð April 2010
Artists: Marina Belobrovaja, Ursula Biemann, Corner College, Jeremy Deller, eggerschlatter, Finger (evolutionŠre zellen), forschungsgruppe f, Fritz Haeg, Christina Hemauer/Roman Keller, Michael Hieslmair/Michael Zinganel, interpixel, Martin Kaltwasser/Folke Kšbbeling, San Keller, Pia Lanzinger, Michaela Meli‡n, metroZones, Peles Empire, FrŽdŽric Post, Public Works, Alain Rappaport, raumlaborberlin, RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co), Oliver Ressler , Shedhalle, Erik Steinbrecher, support structure (Celine Condorelli and Gavin Wade), Szuper Gallery, tat ort ,Jeanne van Heeswijk, Markus Weiss; Curators: Karin Frei Bernasconi, Siri Peyer, Dorothee Richter,; Exhibition-design: Jesko Fezer with Postgraduate Program in Curating, ICS ZHdK; Graphic-design: Megan Hall.

An Atlas of Radical Cartography, presented by Civic City, January 2010
Artists: An Architektur with a42.org, the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), Ashley Hunt, Institute for Applied Autonomy with Site-R, hackitektura.net, Indymedia Estrecho & others, Pedro Lasch, Lize Mogel, Trevor Paglen & John Emerson, Tim Rieniets with Philippe Rekacewics, Pulska Gruppa, Rote Fabrik in collaboration with Anke Hagemann, Brooke Singer, Jane Tsong, Unnayan.

Public programming

Aims and objectives: New forms of mediation, for example, a basic openness to the audience, are central concerns of White Space. The mediation of each project is an immanent part of the work. We initiate projects whose base is the White Space but have the ability to travel into physical urban space and into other institutions, activating new audiences.

Distinct areas of programming: White Space presents weekly talks on Curatorial Practice (and Theory) with practictioners such as; Ursula Biemann, Jesko Fezer and Beatrix Ruf.