Sims for Context / ev+a selectors (Thursday 2 October 2008)
New Context Director
Theo Sims, once a well-known member of the Belfast art scene, has returned to Northern Ireland after a lengthy stint in Canada. He is the new Director of the Context Galleries in Derry. Excerpting from the press release (of two weeks ago; our news is usually a bit fresher):
Theo Sims has moved back to Northern Ireland from Canada where he was the Programming Coordinator at a contemporary artist-run centre called aceartinc. located in Winnipeg, Manitoba... Prior to working at aceartinc., Sims was the Managing Editor for BlackFlash Magazine, a contemporary arts magazine focussing of photography and lens based art and he has also enjoyed success as an independent artist; his work being featured in the exhibition, Crack the Sky, curated by Wayne Baerwaldt, for La Biennale de Montréal 2007. He has also had several solo shows across Canada with forthcoming exhibitions in Vancouver and Ontario.... Sims is an alumnus of the University of Ulster (receiving his MA in 1994), and previous member of Orchid Studios in Belfast from 1991-1998.
There is a review by Slavka Sveakova of a show he had at the Golden Thread Gallery in 2005 here.
Two selectors for next ev+a
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| Angelika Nollert; image held here |
Yilmaz Dziewlor; image held here |
Angelika Nollert and Yilmaz Dziewior will jointly curate OPEN ev+a 2009, which runs in Limerick this coming March. Nollert is currently Director of the Neues Museum in Nürnberg, Germany; Dziewior is also based in Germany, as Director of the Kunstverein in Hamburg.
For more on ev+a 2009, click here.
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