At the fair - launched by Liv Vaisberg and Pieter Vermeulen in 2012 - which prides itself as a real alternative to traditional fairs, 26 participants (including galleries, artist initiatives, project spaces, etc.) have been invited this year to exhibit around the topic of “raising social awareness, taking actions in response to dominant paradigms, acknowledging one’s privileges towards understanding the struggles of others, and giving space to social bodies that have been silenced”.
Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk, Artistic Director of the previous two editions, will take on the role again in 2019. Curator and author at the Rotterdam Office for Curating, he will be assisted in the selection process by Diana Campbell Betancourt (Artistic Director at the Samdani Art Foundation and Chief Curator of the Dhaka Art Summit), Jessica Gysel (Founder of Girls Heart Brussels and Editor of Girls Like Us), Hana Miletić (artist), and Christophe Veys (collector).
As POPPOSITIONS aims to rethink the function of commercial contemporary art events, the fair equally provides an opportunity to see initiatives which are often little-known – a real necessity.
The full list of exhibitors and artists can be found below:
1646 (The Hague, NL)
Artist-run space
Tamy Ben-Tor (b.1975, Israel)
Archiraar (Brussels, BE)
Gallery
Camille Leherpeur (b. 1990, France)
Billytown (The Hague, NL)
Artist-run initiative
Broodthaers Society of America (New York, US)
Artist-run space
Alice Sparkly Kat
Alice Sparkly Kat, Astrologer, New York. © Alice Lan Yang
Diamètre (Paris, FR)
Curatorial collective
Nefeli Papadimouli (b.1988, Greece)
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© Nefelie Papadimouli
DMW Art Space (Antwerpen, BE)
Artist-run space
Dries Segers (b.1990, Belgium)
Drop City (Newcastle, UK)
Project space
Jani Ruscica (b. 1978, Finland)
Espai Tactel (València, ES)
Gallery
Luis Úrculo (b.1978, Spain)
etHALL (Barcelona, ES)
Gallery
Sinéad Spelman (b.1978, Ireland)
Horizont (Budapest, HU)
Gallery
Julia Gryboś (PL) & Barbora Zentková (SK)
L.E.M.O.W. Editions & Multiples (Paris, Brussels)
Gallery
Solanne Bernard (b.1991, France)
Lily Robert (Paris, FR)
Gallery
Margaret Haines (b.1984, Canada)
MAMA Stichting Public Art Squad (Rotterdam, NL)
Project space
Caetano (Brazil)
Manoeuvre Kunstenplek vzw (Gent, BE)
Artist-run Space
Grace Ndiritu (Kenya/United Kingdom)
Pierre Poumet (Bordeaux, FR)
Gallery
Alice Hauret-Labarthe (b.1990, France)
Salón ACME (Mexico)
Artist-run space
Marco Esparza (b. 1986, Mexico)
SUPERDEALS (Brussels, BE)
Project room & artist residency
Ecole Mondiale (Belgium)
Syndicate (Los Angeles, US)
Gallery
Cole Lu (Taiwan)
The fridge (Sofia, BG)
Non-profit organisation
Voin de Voin (b. 1978, Bulgaria)
VITRINE (London, UK)
Gallery
Jamie Fitzpatrick (b.1985, United Kingdom)
Vleeshal (Middelburg, NL)
Contemporary Art Institution
Alexandra Phillips (b.1988, United States)
Wildpalms (Düsseldorf, DE)
Gallery
Mauricio Limon (b. 1979, Mexico)
Feeelings (Molenbeek/Brussels, BE)
Artist Run Boutique
Clara Pacotte & Richard John Jones (Belgium & United Kingdom)
The Self Luminous Society (nomadic)
Group of linguistic-metaphysic-mystic-lunatics
Bernice Nauta (NL) with David Bernstein (US) and Juan Pablo Plazas (CO)
The Self Luminous Society, ‘The-can-is-what-you-can-do’, 2018-19, Words and movements.
Onomatopee Projects (Eindhoven, NL)
Gallery and Bookshop
JOEY RAMONE (Rotterdam, NL)
Gallery
Roi Alter (b.1980, Israel)
