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Medinat Weimar in Stockholm, Sweden and Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Medinat Weimar is opening a two temporary bureaus in Stockholm, Sweden and Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
If you are in the area you are very welcome to visit (I will be in Stockholm until Sunday, October 25th). Please, notify and forward announcement friends and people that you think will find interest and that live in the area.

Medinat Weimar
The Movement for a Jewish State in Thuringia

Stockholm, Sweden: Medinat Weimar is opening a bureau at the Tegen2 gallery in Stockholm, and will establish a temporary Swedish headquarters. The purpose of the office is to educate the Swedish public about the movement and to encourage them to support the idea. We believe that the Kingdom of Sweden – The current president of the European Union, with its highly developed economy and great tradition of democracy can play a role in forwarding the vision of the movement and can help persuade the European community as well as their German neighbors in the vitality of the idea. In edition in Sweden and in the city of Stockholm live large Palestine and Lebanon communities that we believe can connect and find hope in the ideas of Medinat Weimar.

Tegen 2. Bjurholmsg. 9b, T-bana Skanstull, 070-7161923, 070-2855777, [email protected], www.tegen2.se
23.10.09-8.11.09,  opening: 23 October -  17 – 20, 19.00 press conference and dicussion.

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Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Medinat Weimar is opening a bureau at the ‘Can You Speak Of  This? Yes, I Can.’ Exhibition that opens in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and will establish a temporary headquarters. The purpose of the office is to educate the local public about the movement and to encourage them to support the idea. We believe that the Bosnia and Herzegovina – with its history of nationalism and ethnic violence, and its complicated relationship to the European Union, with its complex multi religious traditions can play a role in forwarding the vision of the movement and can help persuade the European people in the vitality of the idea. We believe that the people of the region can connect to our vision and find hope in the ideas of Medinat Weimar.

Where Everything Is Yet to Happen. 1st chapter: “Can you speak of this? -Yes, I can”. SPAPORT BIENNIAL 2009/2010Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Locations: Terzic Gallery | Salon of the Museum of Contemporary art | Banja Luka Fortress | Public space http://www.delve.hr, http://www.protok.org
October 20 – November 15, 2009. Opening: Banja Luka Fortress, October 20, 2009, 8 pm

www.medinatweimar.org

Medinat Weimar in Vienna, Austria

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OneState Embassy invited me to Vienna for two events as secretary Medinat Weimar!

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091015_PCAP_eidelmanPost Conceptual Art Practices [Class], Prof. Dr. Marina Gržinić, Semperdepot, 1st floor, M1, Lehárgasse 8, 1060 Vienna

Thursday, 15. 10. 2009 – M1, Semperdepot lecture in English – open to general public
18:30 Ronen Eidelman (Tel Aviv-Jaffa): Medinat Weimar

Medinat Weimar is an art project that created a movement to promote the idea of the Jewish state in Thuringia, Germany, with the city of Weimar as its capital. The movements goal is to convince the German people to call the Jews (and anyone else who wants to be one) to gather in Thuringia, a post-industrial area emptying more every year, and found there another Jewish state. One that would not only satisfy the need for  a secure Jewish home, appease the Palestinian  Israeli conflict, help the German with coming to terms with the past, but would also save Thuringia from its own bleak future. In the lecture Eidelman, the Movements’ secretary, will present the Movement, explain the political and artistic context it was born in, as well as show other art projects he has created in the past that are related to the movement.

Ronen Eidelman is an artist, writer and activist engaged with linking art, culture and grassroots politics. Participated in many exhibitions and festivals, as well as creating independent projects in the public sphere. Born in New York City, grew up in Jerusalem and based in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel, Co-founder and editor of “Ma’arav” (www.maarav.org.il) leading online art and culture magazine from Israel. Graduate of the MFA program for “Public Art and New Artistic Strategies’ at Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany, and for more than ten years active in anti-occupation and anti-capitalist activists groups. Ronen likes hats and enjoys wearing many kinds. http://medinatweimar.org/,http://ronen.dvarim.com/

The lecture is organized by Eduard Freudmann and OneState Embassy in Vienna (Ambassadors Tal Adler & Osama Zatar will be present at the lecture – www.onestate-embassy.net).

The lecture is part of the seminar “Platform History Politics” (http://tinyurl.com/ydptw3p)

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Come and have denKarium-breakfast with the Israeli artist Ronen Eidelman in the “OneState Embassy” in Vienna:

“How to use art as a safe place for utopian ideas”? Saturday, 17. Oct. 10.30, at the “OneState Embassy”, Sieveringerstr. 167, 1190 Vienna.

We will offer a nice oriental brunch, children are also wellcome, the embassy has a wide garden and toys! Ronen will present his project “Medinat Weimar” and discuss the possibilities of political art actions.

A rites-event in cooperation with OneState embassy (Tal Adler & Osama Zatar)

Medinat Weimar at the 53rd Venice Biennale

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Ma’achaz (outpost ; handhold, foothold ; stronghold) marks the first participation of Medinat Weimar at the Venice Biennale. Rather than adopt to the reality that the Jewish state in Thuringia does not exist and the movement for the state has no financial ability to rent a space and hold a decent exhibition (like the Palestinian and gypsy participations), Medinat Weimar decided in the spirit of Zionism to defer reality and settle with a symbolic Pavilion at Giardini.

Medinat Weimar at the 53rd Venice Biennale

Medinat Weimar at the 53rd Venice Biennale


DISSIDENT ART

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i will be showing Medinat Weimar at the Dissident Art exhibition in Montreal.
I won’t be there but check it out!

SEPTEMBER 5 – 28, 2008

VERNISSAGE: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 5 – 9 PM
55 NOTRE-DAME WEST (METRO PLACE D’ARMES)

Diana Arce, Mathieu Beauséjour, Caro Caron, Howard Chackowicz, Kathryn Delaney, Ronen Eidelman, Freda Guttman, Gord Hill, Dayna McLeod, Jesse Purcell, Michael Rakowitz, The Shining Mantis, Jackie Sumell / Herman Wallace, Rick Trembles, Tania Willard

The Art + Anarchy Montreal 2008 collective is pleased to invite you to the opening of a new exhibition in Montreal, Dissident Art, on September 5th from 5 pm – 9 pm at 55 Notre-Dame West (in Old Montreal, metro Place d’Armes). The vernissage will feature performances by Diana Arce (Berlin), showcasing her political speech karaoke Politaoke in Montreal for this first time, and The Shining Mantis (New York), engaging in a spontanteous chalk-on-black-wall drawing war between the collective’s two members.

Returning after the success of the Art + Anarchy exhibition in 2007, which saw 230 local and international artists exhibit their work, this year’s exhibition represents a more curated turn with fifteen artists. From Caro Caron’s (Montreal) excellent artistic musings on the gentrification of Montreal’s artist neighbourhoods to the pairing up of artist Jackie Sumell (Brooklyn) and Herman Wallace, a Black Panther member whose life sentence is currently up for review, the exhibition offers variety in concept, style and contribution to the meaning of dissidence in art. In addition to the fifteen chosen artists, the exhibition will be offering a room in which unsolicited artists are invited to come hang their own political work.

For more information,please visit and list of events: www.artdissidentart.com.