Opening: 8th April 2017, 7 pm, programme starts at 8 pm

Greeting: Dr. Werner Dohmen, chairman NAK

Introduction: Ben Kaufmann

Talk: Dr. Noemi Smolik (Art critic, Bonn) and Plamen Dejanoff (Artist, Vienna)

 

 

Plamen Dejanoff (born in 1970 in Sofia, Bulgaria) balances on the edges between the systems art and economy. Methods of branding, image transfer and the recourse to foreign and one’s own subject matters mark his multiple artistic practice.

Between 1960 and 1968 the intellectual magazine Plamen concerned with literature, art and life was published in Prague. Plamen was more than a journal. Plamen was a new position that challenged the politic repressive system. After the Prague Spring the publication was banned. In the course of the NAK exhibition plamen. literatur kunst leben artist Plamen Dejanoff will continue the magazine series with a new Plamen issue, which will be released in June 2017. A central motive of the exhibition as well as the publication is the eccentric footballer Trifon Ivanov (1965-2016), who hails from the same city as Plamen Dejanoff, Weliko Tarnowo. The genesis of the new edition of the Plamen magazine will be presented by means of texts, pictures and drafts within the exhibition.

At the same time by thematically reshuffling the pristine magazine a confrontation between a strategy of appropriation and the historic context of repressive cultural production conditions in the former Eastern Bloc occurs.

With the publication of Plamen 01/17 a presentation at selected venues is intended: the Kunsthaus Graz, the Salzburger Kunstverein, the mumok in Vienna, the MAMCO in Geneva and the NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein. Hence the Vienna based artist Plamen Dejanoff, the exhibition in Aachen and the emerging publication are put up for discussion in a transnational manner.

NAK programme during the exhibition

12.04.17, 7 pm: Lecture Fußball als Debattenforum für Politik und Zivilgesellschaft by Ronny Blaschke (Journalist, Berlin)
20.04.17, 7 pm: Discussion Legendenbildung und Merchandising. Dieter Bott (Fan-Sociologist, Düsseldorf) and Stephan Kochs (Creative Director REBELKO, Aachen) moderated by Christoph Löhr (Editor In der Pratsch, Bonn)
11.05.17, 7 pm: Lecture Kategorie E – Ultra -Ästhetik und -Praxis im künstlerischen Prozess by Jody Korbach (Artist, Düsseldorf)

ART COLOGNE

25. until 29.04.17: NAK presents selected editions at the ART COLOGNE as well as Billy Childish’s poster series ART HATE
29.04.17, 3 pm: Kunstmarkt, Künstler, Karrieren. Wie alles begann – am Beispiel der ART COLOGNE. Corinne Wasmuht (Artist, Berlin) in conversation with Ben Kaufmann (NAK)

Parallel opening at Ludwig Forum Aachen

08.04.17, 7 pm:  Optische Schreie – Der Aachener Wandmaler Klaus Paier

 

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