The Galleries Show at ExtraCity- Antwerp 2006

Location: Extra City - Mexicostraat, Kattendijkdok, Kaai 44, 2030 Antwerpen
organised by Wim Peeters
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The Galleries Show is an exhibition project that invites galleries to participate as curatorial agents in a 5-day fair project. The project is designed as an autonomous exhibition/fair and coincides with Art Brussels mid April 2006.
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The Galleries Show adopts a singular position on the basis of the various agendas it interconnects: It strives to merge different economies of presentation and agency with the hybrid exhibition format of the art fair. Moreover the project will be questioning the potential of art fairs and specifically of galleries as innovative agents in the field of contemporary culture. It is a test case for including the specific knowledges of galleries in exhibition projects. Extra City invited 11 galleries to participate to the project. Each of the participating galleries in the fair was invited to select a second gallery. The total number of galleries participating to The Galleries Show is limited to 22.

The galleries invited to participate in The Galleries Show are pioneering platforms that have manifested themselves in the recent past through articulating new economies for art, in singling out new relationships between art and the public realm. They have taken on the role of public negotiators that often operate beyond the walls of the gallery space, or beyond the promoting of individual artists or works.

The Galleries Show as a project stimulates galleries to develop new forms of public appearance. It is our aim to develop and promote both an exhibition and a discourse on the basis of the combined expertises that galleries contain. The participating galleries have invited guests and put together a public program for the fair that is structured around 22 lectures/contributions by the participating galleries.

Extra City has commissioned new productions from at least one artist for each participating gallery and has entrusted the gallery with the realization and presentation. These newly commissioned works will mark the role of Extra City within the exhibition project as an enabler with a critical focus/perspective.
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The second objective is to complement the presentation of works and collaborate endeavors with a theoretical framework that is inspired by the practice of the different relationships and energies that galleries connect or negotiate, with a focus on how they contribute to, or integrate in future scenarios for arts production and dissemination. The program and publication (October 2006) will not only be inspired by, moreover they will be initiated by the galleries in collaboration with Extra City.
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participating galleries:
Bidoun, New York
*Blow de la Barra, London
Counter Gallery, London (now- Counter Editions)
Dépendance, Brussels
*Dicksmith Gallery, London
*Fortescue Avenue (Jonathan Viner), London
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
*Galeria Comercial, San Juan, PR
*Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin
Greene Naftali, New York
Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
Jan Mot, Brussels
Johann Koenig, Berlin
*John Connelly Presents, New York
*OPA, Mexico City
Orchard, New York
Peres Projects, Los Angeles/Berlin
Proyectos Monclova, Guadalajara/Mexico City
Standard (Oslo), Oslo
T293, Naples
*Vilma Gold, London/Berlin

*Gallery Closed

PDF of extended programme of talks, screenings and performances link here>
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The Galleries Show 2/3/4 at Winkelcentrum Oudaan- Antwerp 2022-23

The Galleries Show is a 4-day co-op art fair project that brings 8 pioneering European galleries to the center of Antwerp. These editions will be devoted to redefining the local in post-covid times. How do galleries and art spaces find new balances between local events and reaching larger audiences? What are current needs and how can these be addressed by existing presentation and support structures? The Galleries Show as a project stimulates galleries to develop new and shared practices.

The Galleries Show is an iteration of the namesake art fair project at Extra City in Antwerp in 2006. The second edition will be running from Thursday 6 thru Sunday 9 October in a former gym on Everdijstraat in Antwerp.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to see groundbreaking presentations by some of the most exciting contemporary artists and galleries in Europe.
Organised by Kraft Studios & Office Baroque.

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Participating Galleries: 
‍Clima, Milan
‍Drei, Cologne
‍Klemm’s, Berlin
‍Office Baroque, Antwerp
‍Piktogram, Warsaw
‍Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw
‍Suprainfinit, Bucharest 
‍Nadja Vilenne, Liège
Bombon Projects (Barcelona)
Exo Exo (Paris)
Foxy Production (New York)
Valerie Traan (Antwerp)
Seventeen (London)

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