EXHIBITIONS

Buildering : Misbehaving the City
...Cincinnati (US), 2014 - Houston (US), 2014
Subject Nijmegen (NL), 2014
NY-LUX Luxembourg (LU), 2014
Shots Nancy (FR), 2013
Eldadoro Maximum Strasbourg (FR), 2013
Horsd'oeuvre collection
...Annemasse (FR), 2011 - Dijon (FR), 2012
...Lyon (FR), 2013 - La Motte-Servolex (FR), 2014
Rubbing Glances #3 Nancy (FR), 2011
infra muros Grenoble (FR), 2011
Celebration Berlin (DE), 2010
Géométrie Inversée Marseille (FR), 2010

PUBLICATIONS

Paysages Variations 2014
Alum 2014
NY-LUX 2014
Art & architecture 2013
Une décennie Octave Cowbell 2012
Edward Steichen Award 2011
The German Wall 2011
Maisons en kit 2011
Rubbing Glances #2 2011
Issue : Land 2010
5 ans de la Galerie HO 2010
Skulpturenpark 2010
Urban Interventions 2010
Space thinks 2009
Spacecraft 2 2009
Interventions en territoires flottants 2008

EVENTS

Subject - Gesprek Nijmegen (NL), 2014
L'envers de la ville Dijon (FR), 2014
A l'intérieur de la ville Nancy (FR), 2013
Manèges : Paysage urbain Versailles (FR), 2012
Good Game Aix-en-Provence (FR), 2010

March 1, 2014

Buildering : Misbehaving the City

Curated by Steven Matijcio

Touring exhibition

> from February 28, to August 18, 2014
> Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati

> from September 21, to December 6, 2014
> Blaffer art Museum, Houston

Artists : Ivan Argote (Colombia/France), Bestue-Vives (Spain), Etienne Boulanger (France), Egle Budvytyte (Lithuania), Michel de Broin (Canada), Didier Faustino (France/Portugal), Shaun Gladwell (Australia), Wiebke Grösch & Frank Metzger (Germany), Alex Hartley (United-Kingdom), Iman Issa (Egypt), Antal Lakner (Hungary), Los Carpinteros (Cuba), Alison Moffett (USA/United Kingdom), Adam Putnam (USA), Pia Rönicke (Denmark), Monika Sosnowska (Poland), Sebastian Stumpf (Germany), Kamila Szejnoch (Poland), Lee Walton (USA), Carey Young (United-Kingdom) et Hector Zamora (Mexico/Brazil).

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Contemporary Arts Center
Lois & Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art
44 East 6th Street
Cincinnati, Ohio - 45202 - USA

Blaffer Art Museum - University of Houston
4800 Calhoun Road
Houston, Texas - 77004 - USA

Buildering is a term coined for the unsanctioned use of architecture – fusing the words “building” and “bouldering” to describe a rapidly growing movement that reformulates how we live the city. Beyond acrobatics, vandalism and occupation, this practice becomes a metaphor for the creative misuse of built structure – denying the assigned/intended function of urban structures to re-open the possibility of alternatives. If we believe the premise that ideologies are implanted through the public's navigation of the city plan, then actions associated with buildering break the hypnosis of ritual and cultivate new freedoms - both physical and psychological.

Buildering will explore this phenomenon from a global perspective, gathering both established and emerging artists from around the world.
The city is seen as a given, fading from view through sheer familiarity, but the artists in this exhibition approach this subject with genuine curiosity, endearment and enthusiasm – imagining new possibilities in something we navigate every day.

More information > contemporaryartscenter.org