SHAUN GLADWELL – TRAJECTOR ART FAIR, BRUSSELS
23 Apr 2010
Trajector Art Fair
Hotel Bloom!
Brussels
23 – 25 April
April 2010 sees Brussels’ annual art fair season expand to include an exciting new art fair event…with a difference.
Trajector Art Fair is an initiative by Hotel Bloom! and Centrifugal Projects that will take place from 23 April until 25 April 2010, coinciding with Art Brussels. Trajector Art Fair is an initiative that follows on from Projector Art Fair that took place, to great critical and public approval in Rotterdam in 2008.
Building on the success of the Projector Art Fair , Trajector takes the core concept on the road for 2010. It will take place in Brussels, in April 2010 coinciding and collaborating with Art Brussels.
In Brussels – as in Rotterdam – the focus is not on the commercial gallery sector, but on the project spaces, artists’ initiatives and independent curatorial projects that provide important platforms and experimentation grounds for emerging contemporary artists in the international arena. In part a celebration and playful game with the role of non-profit organisations, project spaces and independent curators within the art commerce systems, Trajector takes the original concept and re-realises it as a hotel art fair in Brussels' most recent boutique hotel. Tongue-in-cheek, critique or hardcore commercial? That's largely up to the participants to determine.
In April, Trajector Art Fair will transform Hotel Bloom! into a vibrant ‘boutique hotel art fair’ with eighteen rooms and a wide range of conference rooms and public spaces providing a platform for a range of international art spaces and curators to present some of the best emerging contemporary art to a Brussels audience.
The range of international exhibitors – from Belgium, Ireland, Switzerland, France, Norway, Morocco and the UK, amongst other locations – range from the very young to those already established on the international art circuit. Each will present a curatorial project within a hotel room, at once referencing the tradition of the ‘hotel art fair’ (For example, the Gramercy International Art Fair in New York which grew into The Armory Show).
Participants are White Space (Zürich), Temporary Contemporary (London), Immanence (Paris), ed projects (Ostend), La Source du Lion (Casablanca), Error One (Antwerp), Kuma Galerie (Berlin), Vegas Projects (Amsterdam), Don’t Projects (Paris), Moody (Dublin/London), Rekord (Oslo), Ruimte Morguen (Antwerp), Family Viewing & BROODWORK (London/Los Angeles), Platform (Vasa) and Centrifugal Projects (London).
Two commercial gallery participants, Fred Ltd (London) and Base Alpha (Antwerp) have been invited to present solo projects.
www.trajectorartfair.org
Hotel Bloom!
Brussels
23 – 25 April
April 2010 sees Brussels’ annual art fair season expand to include an exciting new art fair event…with a difference.
Trajector Art Fair is an initiative by Hotel Bloom! and Centrifugal Projects that will take place from 23 April until 25 April 2010, coinciding with Art Brussels. Trajector Art Fair is an initiative that follows on from Projector Art Fair that took place, to great critical and public approval in Rotterdam in 2008.
Building on the success of the Projector Art Fair , Trajector takes the core concept on the road for 2010. It will take place in Brussels, in April 2010 coinciding and collaborating with Art Brussels.
In Brussels – as in Rotterdam – the focus is not on the commercial gallery sector, but on the project spaces, artists’ initiatives and independent curatorial projects that provide important platforms and experimentation grounds for emerging contemporary artists in the international arena. In part a celebration and playful game with the role of non-profit organisations, project spaces and independent curators within the art commerce systems, Trajector takes the original concept and re-realises it as a hotel art fair in Brussels' most recent boutique hotel. Tongue-in-cheek, critique or hardcore commercial? That's largely up to the participants to determine.
In April, Trajector Art Fair will transform Hotel Bloom! into a vibrant ‘boutique hotel art fair’ with eighteen rooms and a wide range of conference rooms and public spaces providing a platform for a range of international art spaces and curators to present some of the best emerging contemporary art to a Brussels audience.
The range of international exhibitors – from Belgium, Ireland, Switzerland, France, Norway, Morocco and the UK, amongst other locations – range from the very young to those already established on the international art circuit. Each will present a curatorial project within a hotel room, at once referencing the tradition of the ‘hotel art fair’ (For example, the Gramercy International Art Fair in New York which grew into The Armory Show).
Participants are White Space (Zürich), Temporary Contemporary (London), Immanence (Paris), ed projects (Ostend), La Source du Lion (Casablanca), Error One (Antwerp), Kuma Galerie (Berlin), Vegas Projects (Amsterdam), Don’t Projects (Paris), Moody (Dublin/London), Rekord (Oslo), Ruimte Morguen (Antwerp), Family Viewing & BROODWORK (London/Los Angeles), Platform (Vasa) and Centrifugal Projects (London).
Two commercial gallery participants, Fred Ltd (London) and Base Alpha (Antwerp) have been invited to present solo projects.
www.trajectorartfair.org
