REPAIR / Miami New Media Festival, Amsterdam 2023-2024

 

My video work “ the HEALING" will presented at:

REPAIR / Miami New Media Festival, Amsterdam 2023-2024

26.04.24 – 28.04.24 - Opening 26.04.24, 17.00 h

WGKunst

Marius van Bouwdijk Bastiaan Straat 28, (WG Terrein), 1054 SP Amsterdam, Netherlands

From April 26 to 28, the WGKunst headquarters (WG Terrein) will present the 2nd edition of the Miami New Media Festival Amsterdam with 18 video art proposals: five works selected through the recent call, five works by invited artists, and nine works from the international selection of the "Global Healing" edition (2023)..

From the international selection, the following artist will be present: María Korporal (DE), Johannes Christopher Gerard (NL), Fran Orallo (SP), Sara Bonaventura & Gianmarco Leprozo (IT), Alydia Wever & Ryan Oduber (AW/NL), Pedro Morales (USA/VZL), Laura Cabrera & Sira Cabrera (SP), Matteo Campulla (IT), and Steven Baboun (HAT) with RANTRE.

The Miami New Media Festival is a public art platform that has been promoting artistic creation through technology and new media for 20 years. MNMF Amsterdam's coordinator: Hugo Palmar

WHAT NOW?

 A photographic work of mine entitled “Welcome Emptiness, Welcome Loneliness” from one of my Berlin portfolios is published in the book WHAT NOW?

WHAT NOW? ,

Author Kat Mahale.

First published in the UK in 2024 by CMF – Feel More Creative, Esher, Surrey, UK

A collection of photographic works and interviews about and from the pandemic, highlighting how our creativity serves as a vital and powerful force, guiding us through challenging times. In the broadest sense, the series of interviews and photographic works is about how creativity helped survive the lockdown, redefining it as a time from which we can learn and a catalyst to change the way how we respond to difficult times in our lives.

https://www.feelmorecreative.org/whatnow

NUDO, Barcelonas annual poetry festival

The Spanish version of my video poem Night, Street, Lantern, Pharmacy - La Noche, La Calle, El Farol, La Farmacia – Poet: Aleksander Blok / Voice: Alena Antonowa / Performance: theater groep STAGE DFT / Music: Podington Bear will be presentedat Proyección Mostra de Videopoesia V2 VERSOS&VISUALS. The projection is part of

NUDO, Barcelonas annual unleashed poetry festival (07.04-14.04.24)

Screening 13 April 2024, starting 16:00 h

Centre civic Pati Llimona (Gòtic)

Salón de actos

Carrer del Regomir, 3, Ciutat Vella, 08002 Barcelona, Spain

Annual poetic meeting in Barcelona that celebrates the unexpected links between beings and things, between ideas and forms. 1/3 NUDO Barcelona: April 7-14, 2024

About the work:

2017, 4:50 min

Link English Version: https://vimeo.com/224809432

Interpretation and reflection of the poem Night, Street, Lantern, Pharmacy by the Russian poet Aleksandr Blok . It was written in October 1912 and it is one of my favourite poems by Blok. The video is as well an experiment for to combine two different ways and styles of interpretation into one film. With urban scenery of St.Petersburg at night and the metaphoric and abstract interpretation of poem by the theatre group STAGE DFT (St.Petersburg, Russia). At the same time it´s a homage to St.Petersburg. The idea for a visual interpretation I got during a streetcar ride through St. Petersburg late a night. Aleksandr Blok (Александр Блок) (1880-1921) was the foremost of the Russian Symbolists, who changed the face of Russian letters from the late 1890s through until the Russian Revolution, leading Russian literature into a ‘Silver Age’ after the great works of the previous century. Even the poem is very short it is not easy to translate into another language. There are various English translation which differ quite a lot from each other . So I tried to make a visual interpretation of it.

Night, street, lantern, pharmacy,

a meaningless and dull light

Even if you live another quarter of a century

All will remain the same. There is no exit.

You´ll die - then you´ll begin all over again

Night, the canal´s rippled icy surface

pharmacy, street, lantern 

obsceno 1st edition - World Premiere

 My video work “all the sadness to be / Toda la tristeza por ser” with Alex Mars and Anna Grabowska is celebrating its world premiere in Puebla, Mexico at 1st Edition of

“obsceno”

dark arts meet

29 & 30 March 2024

Opening 29 March at 19:00 h

3 sur#508, Centro Historico, La Casona de los Santos, Puebla, Mexico

obsceno is an international meeting of graphic, plastic, visual arts, poetry, art in movement and music. Which seeks to give space and make counter cultural expressions visible that take place from the viscera of the contemporary city.

We know that we contain a universe of emotions, and that, within this eclipse of sensations coexist those that are condemned as shameful, indecent, impure, unspeakable, those that shake our innermost being, which weigh, worry, which are exposed as negative due to to a series of inherited irrational beliefs, cultural thoughts rooted and a manipulated context, but that, even if we try to ignore it, live inherently in us and are part of the spectrum of the human experience.

https://vimeo.com/johannesgerard/allthesadness?share=copy

UNITY - Felt Sense gallery - THE PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEO SHOW

 

My work photographic “Together” is presented at

UNITY - a 'Felt Sense' gallery

THE PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEO SHOW

Sat 16.03.2024 to Tue 19.03.2024 Open daily 10;00 am to 5:00 pm

The NEC, Birmingham, UK

Experience a new and exciting perspective to photography that challenges and redefines how we experience images.What makes curator Kat Mahale's exhibitions UNITY, different is that images are selected based on the strength of their emotional responses.

"PHOTOSYNTHESIS:2023Faliro" on tour

 "PHOTOSYNTHESIS:2023Faliro" on tour

The cycle that opened in August 2023 concludes in March 2024 with a
presentation of the exhibition at the CULTURAL CENTER OF
DIONYSOS COMMUNITY, Nikolaou Plastira 50, 14576 Athens, Greece.
The exhibition will be open from 13:00 to 17:00 on Saturday, March 2^nd and Sunday, March 3rd., 2024

My image “a crossing ferry” part in the exhibition

Brushing Up My Etsy Shops

 After a few months it was time to brush my two Etsy shops. I have added new articles. Photography works featuring predominantly colorful and vibrant floral motifs and a range of conceptual and contemporary prints. However, most works can now be purchased by directly downloading the motif. The advantage is that you can decide for yourself which paper you want to print on and in which size. Another benefit is saving on postage, which has become ridiculously expensive. This way it is also a little more environmentally friendly 

Please feel free to take a look around my shops

Shop with photography and graphic works 

https://www.etsy.com/nl/shop/jgvisualprojects

Shop with nude and erotic photography

https://www.etsy.com/nl/shop/eroserotic

Body Positive

 The Edinburgh (Scotland) Coin-Operated Press publish every month a zine which focus on a certain issue. The zine volume for February has the subject of Body Positive in all its facets. The zine contains graphic arts, photography, poems and short statements about the topic. One of my photographic work was chosen for the zine. The zine can be purchase either in form of a download PDF edition of as printed hard copy

https://coinoperatedpress.bigcartel.com/product/body-positive-zine

KAFKA MON AMOUR -Heart Attack film festival

 

One of my most recent video works “You Get...teG uoY” will be screened at:

KAFKA MON AMOUR - Heart Attack film festival

17^th February 2024 Opening 18.30 Screening 20.00 h

Sauna Gallery

Pultittite 17,

Helsinki,Finland

The annual film festival curated by Josef Ka - HEART ATTACK. This year, the main theme is "KAFKA MON AMOUR," commemorating 100 years since the passing of the beloved writer.

With the support of the City of Helsinki

new country on the list-Almaty Underground Screening Series

Adding a new country to my exhibition list . My video work "The Plant" is present in Almaty Kazakhstan at the

Almaty Underground Screening Series

14 February 2024 , 20:00 h

101 dump gallery

101 Panfilov Street Almaty, Almaty 050000, Kazakhstan.

(101 улица Панфилова,Алматы)

Almaty Underground Screening Series is a dynamic and vibrant regular film event that showcases independent and underground films in the city of Almaty, Kazakhstan. This series provides a platform for local and international artists to present their unique and unconventional works to a diverse audience. With a focus on alternative storytelling, experimental techniques, and thought-provoking themes, the Almaty Underground Screening

Curator Diana Galimzyanova

Creativity of Slowness - GIESELA – Freier Kunstraum Lichtenberg

 My video work The Plant will be shown on February 14, 2024 at

Creativity of Slowness - Kreativität der Langsamkeit

Contemplation – silence – deceleration

73 videos

GIESELA – Freier Kunstraum Lichtenberg - Lichtenberg Free Art Space

09.02. -14.02. - 16.02. - February 21, 2024 from 6 p.m

Gieselastrasse 12 10317 Berlin, Germany

Video screenings

09.02. -14.02. - 16.02. - 21.02.2024 from 6 p.m

Exhibition 09.02-10.03.2024

Gieselastrasse 12

10317 Berlin, Germany

The video screenings a part of an exhibition which reflect the subject about Slowness

revamped both of my websites

 I've just revamped both of my websites by redesigning them and adding new elements

www.johannesgerard.com

www.johannesgerard-artprojects.com

A Touch Of Eros at Larissa Timeless Museum

 

Last days for to see my video work “A Touch Of Eros” at Larissa Timeless Museum, Larissa Greece. 

Until Sunday, February 4, the "Timeless readings of love" at the Larissa Timeless Museum.

The exhibition "Timeless readings of love", inside the permanent exhibition at the Larissa Timeless Museum, reaches the end of its presentation on Sunday, February 4.

Until Sunday, selected finds related to love are presented for the first time, highlighted through an interactive (marked) connection, related pieces of his permanent collection. At the same time, works by the contemporary Larissa artists Theodore Rantos and Konstantinos Papargyris and the Dutch/German artist Johannes Christopher Gérard are presented.

The exhibition-media at the exhibition "Timeless Readings of Love" was created by the OPEN NIGHTS festival for its 8th LOVE-themed event, in May 2023 in cooperation with the Museum, aiming to connect cultural fields, arts and sciences as well as the past with modern reality.

It was a production of OFF ART dancetheater- για το Χορό, το Θέατρο και τις Τέχνες and the Αντιδημαρχία Πολιτισμού Δήμου Λαρισαίων team, with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Sports and the Region of Thessaly.

Concept - Implementation - Artistic direction: OFF ART-Roula Karaferi.

www.opennightsfestival.com

http://offart.gr/

Wrong Biennale 06 at Fotografisk Center.

Another work of mine “The Dream Plant” takes part in the Wrong Biennale. This time at the pavilion of 60Seconds Embassy for the Wrong Biennale 06. Screens 171 Films Outside Fotografisk Center. The screening is physically and an in-person event in public space, but also online

13.01 – 31.01.2o24

Fotografisk Center.

Staldgade 16, 1699 Copenhagen V.

Denmark.

“Dream Plant” goes about to provide nutrients to a plant that produces colorful dreams.

The video and filmworks with their format of one minute without sound, opens up a dialogue with the viewer and gives artists the opportunity to show films in public spaces where both the locals and the city’s visitors get busy with the business of living and exploring.

City Art Gallery "Peter Persengiev"

 Three bookplate prints of mine are traveling within Bulgaria.

5^th International Exlibris Competition Varna (traveling exhibition)

18.01.2024 – 13.02.2024

City Art Gallery "Peter Persengiev",

4 Tsar Osvoboditel Str. Novi Pazar, Bulgaria

International Exlibris Competition Varna is a biennial held in Varna since 2014 and has five editions

In the first days of the new year 2024, the exhibition of the International Exlibris Competition Varna renews its journey, and the first stop is the City Art Gallery "Peter Persengiev" in the city of Novi Pazar. The start of the fifth edition of the traveling exhibition was given in September 2023 with a visit of the National Academy of Arts Branch to the Center for Contemporary Art and Library in Burgas. In October, the exhibition was shown at the National School of Arts "Dobri Hristov" in Varna.

Soro - soro #3 Pavilion of 6th The Wrong Biennale.

 Still ongoing event :

My performance video "The Plant" is part of the Soro - soro #3 Pavilion of 6^th The Wrong Biennale. (01.11.23-01.03.24). Soro-sorO is a place for indefinite ideas

This mainly digital and virtual biennale can be watched until 1st of March 2024

Curator of Soro-soro#3 is Mariko Hori

Links to the Soro-sorO#3 Pavillion

https://www.instagram.com/s_o_r_o__s_o_r_o/

https://marikohori.space/sorosoro-3

Postcards From the Edge – Benefice for Visual AIDS

Postcards From the Edge – Benefice for Visual AIDS

19.01.- 21.01.2024

Berry Campbell Gallery 524 West 26th Street New York, NY 10001, USA

& online http://postcards.visualaids.org./

Since 1998, Visual AIDS has produced the annual Postcards From the Edge exhibition and benefit sale of original, postcard-sized works on paper by established and emerging artists.Known within the art world as the most exciting and affordable way to add to a collection, Postcards From the Edge offers a unique opportunity for buyers to acquire original, postcard-sized artwork for only $100 each. Either in person in the gallery or through online purchase .(link follow after text) Offered on a first-come, first-served basis, each piece is exhibited anonymously, and the identity of the artist is revealed only after the work is purchased. With the playing field leveled, all participants can take home a piece by a famous artist, or one who's just making their debut in the art world. Nonetheless, collectors walk away with something beautiful, a piece of art they love! By participating in Postcards From the Edge artists and collectors support the activities of Visual AIDS, enabling the organization to produce contemporary art programs and provide supplies and assistance to artists living with HIV/AIDS, many who are unable to continue producing work without such support. All Postcards From the Edge proceeds support the programs of Visual AIDS.