Project 35 opens at Pratt Manhattan Gallery in New York City on Thursday, June 16. Project 35 is a program of single-channel videos selected by 35 international curators who have each chosen one work from an artist that they think is important for audiences around the world to experience today: Artists and curators include Vyacheslav Akhunov (selected by Viktor Misiano), Meris Angioletti (selected by Francesco Manacorda), Alexander Apóstol (selected by Ruth Auerbach), Vartan Avakian (selected by Jack Persekian), Azorro Group – Oskar Dawicki, Igor Krenz, Wojciech Niedzielko and Lukas Skapski (selected by Sergio Edelsztein), Sammy Baloji (selected by Bisi Silva), Yason Banal (selected by Joselina Cruz), Guy Ben-Ner (selected by Mai Abu ElDahab), Manon de Boer (selected by Lars Bang Larsen), Andrea Büttner (selected by Chus Martinez), Robert Cauble (selected by Raimundas Malasauskas), Chen Chieh-jen (selected by Amy Cheng), Chto delat – What is to be done? (selected by WHW), Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain (selected by Ana Paula Cohen), Kota Ezawa (selected by Constance Lewallen), Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys (selected by Anthony Huberman), Tamar Guimarães (selected by Julieta Gonzalez), Dan Halter (selected by Kathryn Smith), Ranbir Kaleka (selected by Deeksha Nath), Beryl Korot (selected by Susan Sollins), Nestor Kruger (selected by David Moos), Daniela Paes Leao (selected by Yane Calovski), Anja Medved (selected by Charles Esche),Tracey Moffatt with Gary Hillberg (selected by Alexie Glass-Kantor), The Propeller Group (selected by Zoe Butt), Ho Tzu Nyen (selected by Weng Choy Lee), Elodie Pong (selected by Mirjam Varadinis), Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz (selected by Franklin Sirmans), Tracey Rose (selected by Simon Njami), Edwin Sánchez (selected by José Roca), Michael Stevenson (selected by Magali Arriola), Stephen Sutcliffe (selected by Hans Ulrich Obrist), Yukihiro Taguchi (selected by Mami Kataoka), Ulla Von Brandenburg (selected by Lauri Firstenberg), Zhou Xiaohu (selected by Lu Jie). This event is free and open to the public. The exhibition will be on view until July 30, 2011. Find out more about Project 35: http://www.curatorsintl.org/index.php/exhibitions/project_35/
