ARCO
International Contemporary Art Fair
Thursday 9th – Monday 13th February 2006
Halls 7 & 9
Juan Carlos I Exhibition Centre
www.arco.ifema.es/
EXHIBITED WORK
250 galleries of Avant-garde, Modern, Contemporary, Emerging and Experimental Art (paintings, sculpture, installations, photography, video and new media art, editions, drawings and multiples).
INVITATIONALS (Curated Programmes)
GUEST COUNTRY: AUSTRIA
A selection of around 22 Austrian galleries.
EXPERTS FORUM: Cycle of specific Conferences and Panel Debates where Artists, Curators, Art Critics, Collectors and Museum Directors and Curators discuss the current situation of art in Austria.
SOLO SHOWS 17×17: A metaphor of Spanish cultural diversity. Seventeen artists/galleries selected by María de Corral. theblackbox@arco: Works of artists using video and new technological supports. Curatorial team: Michael Connor, Christiane Paul,Yukiko Shikata and Mark Tribe. THE PROJECT ROOMS: A curated programme of Individual Projects selected by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Agustín Pérez Rubio and Octavio Zaya.
NEW TERRITORIES
Galleries showing experimental and emerging art from young artists (under 40). The selection will be made by a group of international curators.
ON YOUTH CULTURE. Curated by Peter Doroshenko and Pedro Alonzo. CITYSCAPES: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Beijing.
Curated by Isolde Brielmaier, Nelson Brissac, Kenichi Kondo, Christopher Miles and Simon Njami.
THEORETICAL PROGRAMME
4th International Contemporary Art Experts Forum. Forum ARCO´06
A programme devised by 200 leading Artists, Critics, Collectors, Gallerists, Museum and Art Centre Directors and Curators from around 25 countries around the world, discussing issues affecting art at this moment in time:
Subject Matter
1. Critical Theory
2. Facing the Challenge. 21st Century Museums
3. Art Practice
4. The Art of Collecting Art
5. On the Media, Latest developments: Painting Now, Sculpture, Installation Work and Interventions, Media and New Media Art Now; Photography Now; Cinema as Art
6. On Art Education and Training
7. Art and Feminism
8. 2nd International Visual Arts Conference
Grants
The Amigos de ARCO Association continues to provide grants to Art School and University students to enable them to take part in the ARCO Forum.
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Art Cycle: The Great Movements in the 21st Century. Círculo de Bellas Artes. Madrid
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL PROGRAMME
MADRID Contemporáneo, Art in February
With many openings in Madrids museums and art centres, this programme brings together the participants at the Fair and at the ARCO Forum.
Madrid Abierto
Public art interventions in the city of Madrid.
The ARCO Collectors Programme
A cultural and social programme created to entertain the major contemporary art collectors invited by the Fair following suggestions put forward by participating galleries.
PRESS
Around 3.000 journalists are annually registered at our Press Office in order to gather their testimony on this unavoidable Contemporary Art event.
