Delighted to have my work selected to show as part of Photoville Festival’s, The Curated Fridge, special installation, ‘On a Road Trip’ curated by Aline Smithson. The Brooklyn Waterfront will be New York City’s main destination 21-25th Sep with more than 80 curatorial partners including Instagram, The New York Times,TIME Magazine, National Geographic, The Pulitzer Cente, the Magnum Foundation and Getty Images alongside The Curated Fridge. Photoville will be exhibiting work by 400+ visual artists. Produced by United Photo Industries, Photoville Festival is a modular venue built from re-purposed shipping containers.
The Curated Fridge by Yorgos Efthymiadis.
‘On the way to the Enchanted or Gloomy Place?’ © Vanja Karas. These settings are part of Ashdown Forest parts of which were used as the backdrop for A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh stories… and the subsequent book illustrations by E.H. Shepard.
Vanja Karas, as part of the special edition of The Curated Fridge, Photoville, Brooklyn, New York. Curated by Aline Smithson
Delighted to have my work HM 90, Queen B Vanitas as part of the special English Garden Room installation, ‘In England We Dream of Garden’ room curated by Alice Shirley, as part of 29th Art for Youth annual art event in aid of charity UK Youth, creative director Caitlin Mavroleon. 12-15th September, with VIP Preview Night on Monday the 12th September.
Delighted that my work ‘Queen B Vanitas’ has been selected as one of the finalists for the 26th National Open Art 2016 exhibition. Some amazing venues to look forward to Mercer’s Hall, City of London, Arundel Castle and Pallant House Gallery Chichester.
Little Paper Slipper sculpture installation by Vanja Karas
Little Paper Slipper invited nine exceptional artists – Gavin Turk, Molly Parkin, Vanja Karas, Julia Maddison, John Claridge, Jess De Wahl, Fiona Dealey, Lauren Baker and Marie-Louise Jones – to create specially commissioned little paper shoe artworks to be sold at their charity fundraiser auction at Vout-O-Reenees on 9th June 2016. Really thrilled and honoured to be one of the commissioned artists for this unique charity that ‘Gives a creative voice to women affected by domestic abuse, and makes that voice heard’.
Delighted to be showing my work ‘HM 90 Queen B Vanitas’ in the upcoming exhibition HM90 presented by Art Society Soho and Creative Debuts, in conjunction with Whitechapel Gallery First Thursdays at the Black and White Building in Shoredich. Private View Opening May 5th. Exhibition continues until June 4th. #art #exhibitions #eastlondon #firstthursdays and #firstthurs, #Firstthurs, #ArtSocietySoho, #WhitechapelGallery #electronicsuperhighway … ‘HM 90 Queen B Vanitas’ Artwork © Vanja Karas
Very happy to have my work exhibited at Hutch Interior a very stylish Notting Hil interior design shop / gallery, curated by Caitlin Mavroleon.
So thrilled that my installation ‘An experimental journey, undertaken involuntarily’ will be showing at this year’s 56th Venice Biennale as part of the international contemporary art exhibition ‘The Fall of the Rebel Angels’, curated by Vanya Balogh. Other mixed media installations include sculpture, print, fine art, photography, performance, projections, video and sound. Don’t miss the opportunity to come and see this outstanding exhibition and party with us in Venice.
Vernissage on 6th, 7th, 8th May 6-10pm
Exhibition runs 9th May – 23rd June 2015
Castello 1610/A, Riva Delle Sette Martiri, Venice 30122
ALL THE WORLDS FUTURES 56th Venice Biennale
‘An experimental journey, undertaken involuntarily’ © Vanja Karas
(Sculpture installation and archival print )
Other exhibiting artists include: Gavin Turk, Franko Black, Darren Coffield, Lorenzo Belenguer, Cedric Christie, Alice Herrick, Ot Lylie, Thomas J Ridley, Martin Sexton, Julia Maddison, Joanna McCormick, Pascal Rousson, Jim Racine, Steve Perfect, Jude Cowan Montague, Glenn Fitzy Fitzpatrick…
