Supermarket Stockholm presents this year’s exhibitors with the theme Difference ( s ) . How does the artist-run art scene operate from Brazil to the Republic of Ireland ? What engages artists in today’s Cairo and what are the conditions surrounding a newly opened gallery in Tbilisi? Meet gallery AllArtNow from Damascus as the last two years housed two families who lost their homes in the war and gallery Bhotsun Art from Tibet which is a really underground gallery in Lhasa.
Difference ( s ) makes room for diversity , differences and disparities – both geographic and economic, art as meaning . The theme includes SUPERMARKET Art Magazine as well as seminar program SUPERMARKET TALKS . During Talks will include KRO to lead a panel discussions with party leaders and cultural spokespersons from seven parliamentary parties ahead of elections in September. The call will be broadcast by SVT Forums .
The goal of SUPERMARKET, the international artist-run art fair, is to provide a showcase for artists’ initiatives from all over the world and to create opportunities for new networks in the Swedish as well as the international art scene The exhibitors are generally not-for-profit exhibition spaces. In addition to the exhibition, the event includes a seminar programme, a performance art stage and a meeting programme for networking.
SUPERMARKET 2014 – Stockholm Independent Art Fair will be held 14–16 February 2014 on the 3rd and 5th floor of Kulturhuset in central Stockholm.