January 16, 2015 at Union Station (Toronto) in Toronto, ON.
Villa Toronto, presented by Warsaw’s Raster Gallery in association with Toronto’s Art Metropole, brings over nineteen local and international art galleries and their artists to Union Station’s Great Hall from January 16th to 23rd, 2015.
Art Metropole (Toronto) – Shane Krepakevich and Elif Saydam
Jessica Bradley (Toronto) — Derek Sullivan, John Sasaki
COOPER COLE (Toronto) — JD Walsh
Diaz Contemporary (Toronto) — Zeke Moores
Daniel Faria (Toronto) — Iris Häussler
Hollybush Gardens (London) — Reto Pulfer
i8 (Reykjavik) — Ragnar Kjartansson
ibid Projects (London/LA) — Michael Portnoy
Johann König (Berlin) — Jeremy Shaw
LABOR (Mexico City) — Eric Beltran
Misako & Rosen (Tokyo) — Yuki Okumura
MKG 127 (Toronto) — Dean Drever
Plan B (Berlin/Cluj) — Navid Nuur, Rudolf Bone
ProjecteSD (Barcelona) — Jochen Lempert, Patricia Dauder
RaebervonStenglin (Zurich) — Dane Mitchell
Raster (Warsaw) — Michał Budny, Aneta Grzeszykowska
Clint Roenisch (Toronto) — Tony Romano
Jocelyn Wolff (Paris) — Guillaume Leblon, Elodie Seguin
ZERO… (Milan) — Hans Schabus, Gavin Kenyon
Accompanying this presentation, in cooperation with local art organizations, is a series of special events throughout the city, featuring among others a performance by Ragnar Kjartansson and a talk with Michael Snow. The one-week program is free and open to the public.
Villa Toronto is the most recent in a series of international gallery meetings initiated by Raster. Previous editions took place in Warsaw (2006), Reykjavik (2010) and Tokyo (2011). The event is not an art fair. Rather, Villa aims to use the curatorial experience of private galleries to create encounters with the general public and local art communities that are innovative, stimulating, and not merely market driven. Villa recognizes the decisive role private galleries play in determining the field of contemporary art and the type of explorations that take place within it. Villa encourages the cross-cultural circulation of art, artists and cultural workers, and dedicates its resources and focus to facilitate such an exchange, throughout the project and in the years to come.
more info:
www.villaraster.com/toronto
www.facebook.com/VILLARASTER
Partners:
8 eleven, Art Gallery of Ontario, Justina M Barnicke, Kunstverein Toronto, Mercer Union, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, No Reading After The Internet, Power Plant, Scrap Metal, Vtape.
Villa Toronto warmly thanks its supporters: Toronto Arts Council, The Polish Ministry of Culture and Heritage, Osmington Inc., City of Warsaw, Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Toronto, Goethe-Institut, British Council, Gallery Express, The Drake Hotel, Wondereur, The Consulate General of France, socan Foundation, Canadian Art and C Magazine.