Birzeit University Museum, Nablus Municipality and ArtSchool Palestine are pleased to invite you to the 3rd Cities Exhibition.

curated by Vera Tamari and Yazid Anani

artistic interventions in the old city of Nablus by Sliman Mansour, Emily Jacir, Nabil Anani, Samira Badran, Nasser Soumi, Angelika Boeck, Juan Delgado, Tom Bogaert, Bashar Hroub, Inass Yassin, Patrizio Esposito, Sahar Qawasmi, Iyad Issan and Beatrice Catanzaro.

NABLUS: Exhibition sites open daily until 17 November, 2011 - from noon to 4:00pm. Info and tour map available at the Clock Tower in the old city of Nablus.

BIRZEIT: The exhibition will open on 10 December 2011 at the Birzeit University Museum.

For more info please contact: bzumuseum@birzeit.edu - tel: 02-2982976

Tom Bogaert will have work included in a group exhibition "Great Expectations" curated by ART27 in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium.

hours: from Wednesday to Sunday, 2pm to 6pm.
closing reception: Sunday 20 November, 4pm.
contact: Gerlinde Gilissen, artikel27@pandora.be
www.artikel27.be

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AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL READING IS TO SOME EXTENT UNAVOIDABLE

2010

C-type print bonded to plexiglass, mounted on light box. Presented in an abandoned police station.

30 × 40 inches

Zico House is proud to present the 4th chapter of an Accidental Orientalist's travels through the Middle East: 'CRACKED'

hours: daily from 10am to 5pm or on appointment
contact: +961 766 781 35 | info@zicohouse.org
opening reception: Wednesday 7 September - 7pm
artist talk: Friday 9 September - 7pm

Zico House
174 Spears Street | Sanayeh
Beirut, Lebanon.

The three main works featured in the solo show are ‘pavement popsicles’, ‘cracked windshields’ and a ‘mausoleum’ which are linked together through Bogaert's larger ongoing project ‘Impression, proche orient'. Drawing on his experience as a European living and working in the East, it is the artist's intention to interpret understandings of the region - or lack thereof - from the inside out. As an outsider with the privilege of being given access to the inside, the aim is to use irony, gesture and narratives from the region by means of artistic production.

In July 2011, Tom Bogaert was
the artist-in-residence at Zico House in Beirut, Lebanon.

The residency was a personal, tropical, historical, and intellectual investigation combining art and non-art, the high and the low, and indeed the mundane with the extraordinary.

Tom Bogaert will have work included in a group exhibition "Idols & Heroes" curated by Asile at the Studio in Amman, Jordan.

Please join us for the opening this Saturday 18 June at 7pm.

http://www.facebook.com/thestudiojo

Bogaert will present 'K is for Kompressor' (KfK), a filmed Hollywood-style sign featuring the letter 'k' of the Mercedes-Benz ‘kompressor’ logo. In this piece the artist further explores intersections between enlightened absolutism and badges used by Mercedes-Benz for their supercharged engines.

KfK is new work and consists of a large welded galvanized steel letter 'k' and a short film. Documentation of the preparatory process that led to the materialization of the KfK project will form an integral part of the exhibition and act as a narrative voice-over.