Author Archives: Jenny

Album Cinémathèque de Tanger

Posted on March 24, 2012 by Jenny

Album is a short illustrated history of film in Tangier, and of Tangier on film, told through the stories and archives of the Cinémathèque de Tanger, North Africa’s first art house cinema. Translated into English, French, Arabic, Spanish and Catalan. … Continue reading →

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Mengele’s Skull: The Rise of Forensic Aesthetics

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Jenny

MENGELE’S SKULL The Advent of a Forensic Aesthetics Portikus, Frankfurt February 4, 2012 – May 6, 2012 Hito Steyerl Thomas Keenan & Eyal Weizman Paulo Tavares curated by Anselm Franke The exhibition Mengele’s Skull is structured around a specially commissioned … Continue reading →

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1979 A Monument to Radical Instants in ARTFORUM BEST OF 2011!

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Jenny

This December, Artforum invited preeminent artists, critics and curators from near and far to cast an expert eye on the year in art. Twelve contributors count down their top ten highlights of 2011. Manuel Borja-Villel, director of the Museo Nacional … Continue reading →

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Oh Perejaume, if only you could see the mountain of works around you, you wouldn’t do any new ones!

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Jenny

“Oh Perejaume, if only you could see the mountain of works around you, you wouldn’t do any new ones!” is no conventional retrospective, in spite of the collection bringing together around two hundred works which have all been written over … Continue reading →

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Coming Soon!! Cinémathèque de Tanger at La Virreina

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Jenny

Since it opened in 2007, the Cinémathèque de Tanger has become a pre-eminent cultural institution in the Maghreb. From July to December, La Virreina Centre de la Imatge welcomes the Cinémathèque with a film programme and a book published in … Continue reading →

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Werker 2

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Jenny

Werker 2 addresses the museum by interrogating the relation of the ordinary man with History. From our collection of worker photographer publications and other documents depicting labour compiled in second-hand bookstores and antiquaries from Holland, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Spain and … Continue reading →

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Antiphotojournalism at Foam

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Jenny

An exhibition curated by Carles Guerra and Thomas Keenan Foam, Amsterdam 01/04—08/06  2011 Photojournalism is in the midst of a remarkable, and singularly unexpected, renaissance. New practices, strategies, viewpoints, techniques, and agents have radically transformed the institutions and the fundamental … Continue reading →

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1979 A Monument to Radical Instants

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Jenny

1979 A Monument to Radical Instants at La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, from March 11th through June 12th 2011. Opening: March 10th 19h30 Margaret Thatcher and Ayatollah Khomeini, but also the Sony Walkman and Apocalypse Now… All from … Continue reading →

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Antiphotojournalism — Barcelona City Awards!

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Jenny

Carles Guerra and Thomas Keenan have been recognized with the Barcelona City Award in the category of Visual Arts for Antiphotojournalism! Check it here!

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Happy New Year — We Can Do It!

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Jenny

Geraldine Doyle (1924—2010) was the real-life model for the World War II era ‘We Can Do It’ posters, an embodiment of the iconic World War II character Rosie the Riveter.

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Bruno Serralongue — Foc Divers

Posted on November 28, 2010 by Jenny

Foc Divers — Bruno Serralongue La Virreina, Barcelona 01/12—30/01 Opening: 30th of November 19h30 Text under image: L’altercation qui a éclatée […] entre les deux jeunes occupants d’un scooter et deux hommes circulant à bord d’une 504 aurait pu s’en tenir … Continue reading →

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Red Caballo show Augustus in Before Everything

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Jenny

CURATORS Aimar Arriola and Manuela Moscoso Organized by CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Móstoles, Madrid Ignasi Aballí; Lorea Alfaro; Txomin Badiola; Antonio Ballester Moreno; Erick Beltrán; Bestué / Vives; Rafel G. Bianchi; Carles Congost; June Crespo; Discoteca Flaming … Continue reading →

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Antiphotojournalism

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Jenny

An exhibition curated by Carles Guerra and Thomas Keenan La Virreina, Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona. 5/07—10/10  2010 We are now witnessing a radical transformation in photojournalistic practices, and more generally in the way cameras record and make news. This … Continue reading →

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Music And Torture

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Jenny

An international symposium at La Virriena, Centre de la Imatge, Project directed by Thomas Keenan and Carles Guerra. Barcelona, 17—18 June 2010 Reports from journalists and human rights advocates have drawn attention to the use of musical performance as a technique … Continue reading →

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Introducing Hito Steyerl’s Videos

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Jenny

La Virreina LAB, Barcelona 
Video Program May 12—13 2010 Conference May 12 19h30 Is the Museum a Factory? Seminar May 13 10h30 Breakfast with WorkersPunkArtSchool A chance to discover the complete filmography of German artist and theorist Hito Steyerl. Her … Continue reading →

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Working on it!

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Jenny

Oh My God. This is so exciting, the new website is launched, but we’re still working on archiving all the material we want to put on this site, so it might take a while. For now, enjoy the beautiful design … Continue reading →

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