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PENETRATION at MANIFESTA BIENNIAL / MURCIA - for Northern African Only .(2010-2011)




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SPACE GIVER :Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel
SPACE MOVINGINERS : Artists from Northern Africa
MOTIVATION  : The thematic of Manifesta Biennial was " In dialogue with Northern Africa ", but strangely the number of artists from Northern Africa was close to zero .Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel opened his  exhibition space in San Anton  to Penetration.The curator group CPS invited Colonel at manifesta . The prison of San Anton  was one of the main exhibition venue of the biennial



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The New York Times / Herald Tribune International 2/10/2010 by Raphael Minder

El Pais : Babélica Manifesta by Mara Mira 23/10/2010

"El arte social es historia en Manifesta 8 " Alberto García del Castillo / Kultur Urbana

Penetration at Manifesta 8 Arte en la Red, 2010-09-0

Penetration Room at Manifesta 8 Manifesta 8 official website, 2010-09-07

La "Penetration Room" en Manifesta 8 La Verdad, 2010-09-07

PENETRATION at the ISTANBUL BIENNIAL ( 2007 )

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SPACE GIVER :Aydan Murtezaoglu
SPACE MOVINGINERS :BIENNALIST
MOTIVATION : Biennalist came to the Istanbul Biennial to debate about the provoking  and  scary title "But Also Necessary - Optimism in the age of global war"


Åsmund alias Copyflex the 08/09/2007 conducted the  Penetration at the Istanbul Biennial


PENETRATION at the ATHENS  BIENNIAL ( 2007 )

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SPACE GIVER : Kimberly Clark
SPACE MOVINGINERS : Emergency Room artists
MOTIVATION : Emergency Room ATHENS located at gallery Tounta was closed on sunday the 9 sept 2007. Emergency Room artists were burning to make their work visible also that day . An exhibition space was then given at the Biennial  by atists Kimberly Clark.

Enrico Lunghi speak with some of the artists about their motivations


PENETRATION at the VENICE BIENNIAL ( 2009 ) /VENEZUELAN PAVILLON




SPACE GIVER : Daniel Medina
SPACE MOVINGINERS : Emergency Room artists "today-  today emergencies / today before it is too late"
MOTIVATIONS Emergency Room artist wanted to point at many dysfunctions that day . In real time  : ultrafast

in total 3 Penetrations about emergencies took places at the Venice Biennale from june 04

with the invitation and welcome from their artists and curators :

 -artist Daniel Medina for Venezuela pavillon /curator María Luz Cárdenas
-artist Jussi Kivi for the Finnish pavillon
-artist Jacques Charlier and curator Enrico Lunghi for the Belgium boat

  Essais on Biennalist by Seamus Keally in Cmagazine ( Canada)/ June 2009




PENETRATION at the Armory Show / New York 2008

    

SPACE GIVER : Galerie Erna Hecey
SPACE MOVINGINERS : Thierry Geoffroy with ART = RETARD
MOTIVATION : the contemporary is in Delay . especially at art fairs


PENETRATION at the VENICE BIENNIAL ( 2007 ) / EGYPTIAN  PAVILLON



SPACE GIVER : Sahar Dourgham
SPACE MOVINGINERS : Biennalists
MOTIVATION : to express in the Biennial about the Biennial . A critical sound installation  in amost real time about the Biennial thematic was done by Colonel and Copyflex :install in the pentrations but also broadcasted on the PS1/MOMA radio and carried around  in rucksacks by mobile Biennalist

PENETRATION at the VENICE BIENNIAL ( 2007 ) /VENEZUELAN PAVILLON



SPACE GIVER : Françoise Vincent and Elohim Feria
SPACE MOVINGINERS :BIENNALIST
MOTIVATION : to express in the Biennial about the Biennial . A critical sound installation  in amost real time about the Biennial thematic was done by Colonel and Copyflex :install in the pentrations but also broadcasted on the PS1/MOMA radio and carried around  in rucksacks by mobile Biennalist




PENETRATION at the VENICE BIENNIAL ( 2007 ) /Installation Daniel Buren

 

SPACE GIVER : Daniel Buren
SPACE MOVINGINERS :BIENNALIST
MOTIVATION : to express in the Biennial about the Biennial . A critical sound installation  in amost real time about the Biennial thematic was done by Colonel and Copyflex :install in the pentrations but also broadcasted on the PS1/MOMA radio and carried around  in rucksacks by mobile Biennalist


PENETRATION at Charlottenborg  2008 / Denmark   ( censured )

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SPACE GIVER :Jens Haaning
SPACE MOVINGINERS :Forreign artists in Denmark and Emergency Room artists
MOTIVATION : for its reopening kunsthallen  Charlottenborg curated  an exhibition "Danskjävlar - a Swedish Declaration of Love "  .
The exhibition forgot to invite forreigners living in Denmark  : The Penetration included so of them in the "backstage Denmark ".
The Penetration  got erased and censured partly by the curator

Thierry Geoffroy on penetrations Kopenhagen.dk, 2008-01-20


PENETRATION at Charlottenborg  2000

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SPACE GIVER :Nana Gro
SPACE MOVINGINERS :Aktiv Immigrant
MOTIVATION : The TV character " AKTIV IMMIGRANT " played by Thierry Geoffroy wants to expres about Denmark today
and need visible space for that

This Penetration was part of a TV program for danish channel DR 2
and was done by Colonel not as artist but as the character of an aktiv Immigrant in Denmark


PENETRATION at Charlottenborg  1988

  


SPACE GIVER :Synthese
SPACE MOVINGINERS :Thierry Geoffroy " invasion tourism and dansk hygge "
MOTIVATIONS : keep the moving exhibition alife and activate the manifest

The PENETRATION format was described in the 1989 Manifeste under the appelation Moving Exhibition  de type  semi- bourgeoise conviviale.


PENETRATION at You Turn Quadrienal / Denmrk 2008 / censured



SPACE GIVER :Tanja Nelleman Poulsen
SPACE MOVINGINERS : Fatima Ramadan
MOTIVATION : in  a quadrienal intending to look at the contemporary situation in Denmark
Fatima Ramadan was burning to present how  promotion of nazism was frequently
exposed in danish medias . She wanted to exhibited a day to day update of how nazism was promoted . Unfortunatly she got censured