"Cleaning rags"

"Cleaning rags"

- an international Mail Art exhibition

September 6th - October 11th, 2020

Mail Art exhibition with international and regional participation in the gallery ART FACTORY FLOX of the art initiative "Im Friese" e.V. Friesestraße 31 in 02681 Schirgiswalde-Kirschau.

The opening will take place on September 6th at 4:00 p.m. with a sound video performance by Balog & Schweiger (SARDH) Dresden.

The exhibition is open from September 6th to October 11th on Sundays from 2pm to 6pm.

194 artists from 40 countries and 20 student works from the Wilhten Pumphut Primary School participate with works on, by and with cleaning rags.

My cleaning rags Tricolore

“Curated” by Social Networks

An project by Beam Collective, Tel Aviv, Israel in protest of censorship of Human Body in Social Networks,

29^th of August 2020 – 03th of October 2020

Five works of mine which were censored "curated" on social media platforms such as Facebook and You Tube are include in the project/exhibition 

For the last decade, different Social Networks became the main platforms for artists to promote and sell their works, yet, a huge group of the artists is ostracized and denied access to those platforms. 

The policies are absurd and reflect views that are better suited to the XIX than XXI century. The artworks removed by the Social Networks are the images that hang freely in the museums and galleries and presented in numerous exhibitions and shows without any controversy. “Neo Victorianism” conservative movements attempt to redefine the line between pornography and art with desire to define any image of human body as pornographic.

https://www.beamcollective.net/johannes-christopher-gerard-about 

www.beamcollective.net.

Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2020

Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2020

29^th of August 2020 – 30^th November 2020

Yeonmisan Nature Art Park, Geumgang International Nature Art Center

98 Yeonmisan Gogae-gil, Wooseong-myeon, Gongju-si, Chungcheongnam-do, Korea

A one minute version of my performance video COCOON was selected for the section video art

The Biennial focus on themes and projects related exclusively about nature.

Geumgang Nature Art Biennale is an important event of the YATOO nature art movement

with the history of 40 years. The biennale is a global project from Korean and foreign nature artists, and the forms and contents of the biennale have become increasingly meaningful over time.

Through various forms of nature art, the Geumgang Nature Art Biennale aims to look for the aesthetics of human and nature's harmonizing coexistence call for work pieces for the Nature Art Video Exhibition. This Nature Art Video Exhibition as a special exhibition of the biennale will take place along with the main exhibition, ‘Neomixed Era’.

Link Biennale 

http://www.natureartbiennale.org/en

Link Video

https://vimeo.com/406225922

SHIFT_IBPCPA : 26/08/2020_21:00-22:00 (UK time) 22:00-23:00 (Central European Time)

SHIFT_IBPCPA :

26/08/2020_21:00-22:00 (UK time) 22:00-23:00 (Central European Time)

JOHANNES C. GERARD [GERMANY/NETHERLANDS]

PARTICIPATORY Video PERFORMANCE | ‘CONECTA NO CONECTA’

LIVE PERFORMANCE ‘I CANNOT SEE’

INTERVIEW

https://www.pscp.tv/SHIFT_ibpcpa

“Return” Video Art Exhibition | معرض عودة للفيديو آرت

”Return” Video Art Exhibition | معرض عودة للفيديو آرت

Thursday, 20 Aug 2020 - Friday, 21 Aug 2020

Video Art Forum, Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Subject of the video exhibition is a return and back... to life in a wide sense.

One of my most recent video’s return...back...return with Hung Yu-Li, 3:04 min, 2020 is part of the video exhibition

The work goes about return and to be back to a point or situation and how it can affect us in our lonely inner strife . Did we come voluntary or we were forced to be back .It's the same or did things changed and nothing is as before. Or just trying to pick up life and restart again, maybe even better. . Will memories overwhelming us. We become all isolated in our thoughts and memories. We leaving a situation or place and maybe we never return physical but our thoughts and mental state will return and bring us back.

Also online screening on youtube will be happen between Thursday 20 August 2020, (Start Local time 2020) until 21 Friday 21 August (ends 22.30 h local time).

SASCA YouTube | The Culture and Arts Association channel in Dammam

جمعية الثقافة والفنون بالدمام SASCA_DMM

https://www.videoartforum.com/

3rd INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF ARTWORKS ON PAPER

3^rd INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF ARTWORKS ON PAPER

20 August 2020 – 26 September 2020

Muzej Kozare, (Museum of Kozara)

Nikole Pašića bb, 79101 Prijedor, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

My work ZEN XV Linocut on Japanese paper was selected for the biennial.

About the work:

This print belongs to a small linocut series called Black Zen Matter. The motif shows strong Far Eastern influences and thoughts which are a direct result of my life and work periods in Taiwan and China During my times in the Far Eastern region my prints and works under went a metamorphosis from colorful figurative works to abstract, minimal art works with the limited use of colors.

DA ! Art-Award and exhibition

DA ! Art-Award and exhibition - Düsseldorf's secular art award

16.09.2020 – 23.08.20 / Tue-Sun 11-18 h / 
Opening 15.08.2020 , 18 h. / Awards ceremony 23.08.2020, 15 h

Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf,  Berger Allee 2, 40213 Düsseldorf, Germany

The DA ! Art Award is presented every two years by the Düsseldorf Reconnaissance Service under a changing theme. The wants to inspire artists to take a critical look at religion and irrationalism. The nominated works will be presented to the public in a one-week exhibition in the Düsseldorf City Museum. Topic in 2020: ... does not work beyond the placebo effect!

2020 is about deceptive beliefs. Whether homeopathy and Bach flower therapy, religion or esoteric promises of salvation: pseudo medicine and religious belief can work. Thus, a prayer can convey strength and confidence that a medically ineffective drug can promote recovery. But these effects have nothing to do with the intervention of God / Yahweh / Allah, nor do they - in the case of homeopathy - result from the fictitious memory of the water. Rather, psycho social and cultural factors are responsible for these effects. And what also applies to globules always applies: no effect beyond the placebo effect.

My work  Enthüllungen