Residency for Oslo, Norway on Costa Blanca, Spain

Workshop in Galeria rosa.santos with artists Rafa Tormao and Lorenzo Sandoval

Wednesday 16 is the first day of the workshop which is part of the exhibition "Office Party: Multidimensional Spectrum of Voices", with Lorenzo Sandoval, John Holten and Rafael Tormo. On collective writing and narrative strategies, it is totally free and will be held in the sala 1 Gallery. More information at:http://rosasantos.net/pages/expo_actual.htm

The Congo with Richard Mosse

 In October and November I went to the Congo with Richard Mosse, to help in the making of The Enclave, "an immersive multimedia installation specially produced for Ireland’s national pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale" and accompanying book.

All Photographs Copyright Richard Mosse 

The LGB Group in Milan at Otto ZOO gallery for Milano START

Sunday newspaper on Irish Berliners

Joana Bértholo - Havia

"The Readymades / Holten Art / Dragicevic Bluff"

Matias Faldbakken, SEARCH in The Book of Books, Documenta calalog 1, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Cologne, 2012. Page 259 

The LGB Group discussed by Aengus Woods at David Zwirner, New York

1. 'The Appearance of a Conversation about the LGB Group in the David Zwirner Gallery Inventory'
   Aengus Woods with John Holten
   Video, 36:34, 2012
   

   
   

   
   

   PEOPLE WHO WORK HERE

   Curated by Rawson Projects

   David Zwirner 525 West 19th Street New York, NY  10011

   July 11 – August 10, 2012

   Opening reception: Wednesday, July 11, 6 – 8 PM

   Cy Amundson, Justin Davis Anderson, Ben Berlow, Josh Brown, Aidan Sofia Earle, Joel Fennell, Brent Harada, Sam Martineau, Chris Medina, Dave Miko, Clive Murphy, Liz Nielsen, David Ording, Justin Phillipson, Ramon Silva, and Aengus Woods with John Holten.

   
   |Press release|

   
   

Coming soon

Lives and Works in Berlin | John Holten Broken Dimanche Press The Readymades

Lives and Works in Berlin | John Holten Broken Dimanche Press The Readymades
Review by Ali Fitzgerald in Art21.
Extract:

I could write multiple portraits of John Holten, Berlin-based _________.  One as the publisher ofBroken Dimanche Press, a three year-old project committed to publishing the adventurous works of various authors, artists, and designers.  Another could be: John Holten, ambitious novelist, who, with The Readymades, forged into being an entire Serbian art collective.  About this, Holten says, ”The LGB Group is a group of artists I assisted in bringing back into the public realm and helped re-align within the history of art. The Readymades goes a way to telling how this process started, and indeed contains the definitive account of the group.”

John Holten could also be the charismatic Irish gallerist managing the burgeoning careers of his Eastern-Bloc progeny through his own Galerie Gojkovic, working alongside Serbian filmmaker Darko Dragicević on the realisation and exhibition display of the LGB group’s body of work.

Holten could also be an archivist, culling information from Balkan war crime tribunals as well as the work of pioneering collectives like the Neue Slowenische Kunst (New Slovenian Art) in order to construct and contextualize his artists’ careers.

Finally, John Holten could be John Holten, the main character of The Readymades who both taps into and shares our artforum-diary obsession with cultural backstory, engineered persona and group sex.  This John is slated to make an appearance at David Zwirner’s gallery forPeople Who Work Here, in a video discussing the aims of the LGB group with Aengus Woods...
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Review in Art in America of The Readymades / The LGB Group

Group Exhibition in FREIEN MUSEUM BERLIN June 1

Danny Aldred (GB) / Enrico Bertelli (IT) / Alexine Chanel (FR) / Jean-Ulrick Desert (US) / Maurice Doherty (IE) / Frank Eickhoff (DE) / Laura Gorski (BR) / Pierre Granoux (FR) / Julien Grenier (FR) / Joao Gridfonte (PT) / Eveline van de Griend (NL) / Kate Hers (US) / John Holten (Broken Dimanche Press) (IE) / Ce Jian (DE) / Nicholas Kashian (US) / Elana Katz (US) / Max Kersting (DE) / Rosemary Lee (US) / Marta Leite (PT) / Sara-Lena Maierhofer (DE) / Nicolas Manenti (FR) / Arturo Martinez Steele (PT) / Fanny Maugey (FR) / Damir Radovic (BA) / Inken Reinert (DE) / Melissa Steckbauer (US) / Madeline Stillwell (US) / Henrik Strömberg (SE) / Tian Tian Wang (CN) / Latefa Wiersch (DE)


I will also have writing in a publication that will appear alongside a show in FREIEN MUSEUM in September 2012