Between the 12th and 27th of September Void Projects collaborated with Mural Fest Kosovo to bring Change, an artistic residency and festival in the town of Ferizaj.
15 international artists, including members of the Void Projects collective, worked alongside the Mural Fest Kosovo team to present a multidisciplinary program including workshops, murals, interventions, exhibitions and open tours.
Focusing on understanding one's identity and the notion of belonging, the project aimed to provide a valuable space for cultural exchange, utilising art as a means of provoking thought, while creating a strong bridge of communication between the artists and the local communities. The socially engaged initiative focused specifically on inspiring the young people of Ferizaj, working alongside local schools and colleges to provide workshops as well as facilitating direct involvement in the festivals production and realisation.
This collaboration enabled a poignant and socially impactful exchange that positively parallels the regeneration and revitalisation of the city of Ferizaj and Kosovo by enriching the artistic culture and adding colour and dialogue to the city's walls.
Participating artists:
Retry One (Netherlands)
Helen Bur (UK)
Zane Prater (USA)
Axel Void (USA / Spain)
Ivan Floro (Spain)
Emilio Cerezo (Spain)
Doug Gillen (Scotland)
Alba Fabre (Spain)
Michael Beitz (USA)
Aruallan (France)
Maria José Gallardo (Spain)
Ampparito (Spain)
Doa oa (Spain)
Vlada Trocka (Poland)
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Big thanks to @ryzko for the poster and Betim Zeqiri for the video teaser
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photo credits Aruallan & Doug Gillen (FifthWallTV)
Based upon an idea by Jacoba Niepoort, VOID Projects is organizing several editions of the HOME MURALFEST
Between April 12th and 30th 67 artists are coming together / apart across the globe in a large collective effort to connect and create simultaneously regardless of locked location.
Working from their prospective places of isolation they are currently creating a live intervention; whether on their living room or studio wall, in the bathtub or on the kitchen floor, this project aims to explore and utilise the limits that have restricted these artists from their seasonal outdoor escapades.
This project explores the boundaries between the inside and the outside. The work that is normally produced in public spaces becomes significant in the privacy and intimacy of our own homes, having the people we live with and/or ourselves as the viewers. With the opportunity to share this intimacy with the world through the window of our screens, technology serves as an honest tool for togetherness.
Initiative by Jacoba
Curated and organized by Axel Void, Jacoba, Helen Bur, Aruallan, Nubian, Bryan Beyung, Zane Prater, David Oliveira, Stefan Krische.
Visual design by Pawel Ryzko
Video editing Doug Gillen (Fifthwall TV)
At the end of 2019 we moved into a new Space in Downtown, Miami. After getting the Space up and running we wanted to open it to the public with a massive groupshow.
Now the space is providing educational studio residencies, workshops, and cultural programming.
Open studios once a month is giving the public an insight in how the participating Artists work. A cafe, library, and exhibition space is open daily and every Saturday we offer figure drawing, open vinyl night.
The inauguration was curated by Axel Void and organized by David Olivera, David McCauley, Stefan Krische, Helen Bur, Aruallan, Zane Prater.
Artists:
Amaya Suberviola • Ampparito • Ana Barriga • Andrew Hem • Agustina Zaballa • Aruallan • Ashley Lindo • Axel Void • Beyung • Conor Harrington • David McCauley • David Olivera • Doug Gillen • Edwin • Elisa Capdevila • Elsa Guerra • Emilio Cerezo • Eva Zar • Fafa • Faith XLVII • Helen Bur • Hoxxoh • Isaac Cordal • Ivan Floro • Jaybo Monk • Joan Manel • Jofre Oliveras • L.E.O. • Lin Feifei • Manel Boxadeira • Masha Scha • Michael Beitz • Nubian • Natalia Lassalle • Pablo Merchante • Pawel Ryzko • Peter Phobia • Spy • Stefan Krische • Terence C. Price II • Thomas Bils • Wasted Rita • Wayne Horse • Zane Prater
Images copyright Aruallan
Homeless is a site-specific project space that takes place in Axel Void’s house in Miami, Florida, United States. The aim is to create quality shows outside of the conventional art scene, cutting the middlemen, galleries or institutions. Favoring the direct dialogue from the artist to the public.
For the editions of Homeless, Void Projects proposes a show and residency formed by local, national and international, artists. As well as live music, gastronomy and installations. The works are presented within a quotidian home environment. It is a old house built in the 1920’s situated in North Miami just outside of the wall that divides Miami Shores, a upper class neighborhood from a working class area of unincorporated Miami-Dade.
Homeless is curated by Axel Void and organized by David Olivera, David McCauley, Reginald O’Neil, Stefan Krische, Helen Bur, Aruallan, Zane Prater.
Artists in residence:
Aruallan • Axel Void • Beyung • David Olivera • Doug Gillen • Edwin • Elisa Capdevila • Helen Bur • Jofre Oliveras • L.E.O. • Lin Feifei • Nubian • Pablo Merchante • Pawel Ryzko • Stefan Krische • Zane Prater
additional artists featured in the show:
Amaya Suberviola • Ampparito • Andrew Hem • Agustina Zaballa • Ashley Lindo • Conor Harrington • David McCauley • Elsa Guerra • Emilio Cerezo • Eva Zar • Fafa • Faith XLVII • Hoxxoh • Isaac Cordal • Ivan Floro • Joan Manel • Manel Boxadeira • Masha Scha • Michael Beitz • Natalia Lassalle • Peter Phobia • Spy • Terence C. Price II • Thomas Bils • Wasted Rita
Images copyright Aruallan
VOID PROJECTS
60 SE 1st ST, MIAMI, FL
PUBLIC OPENING: SATURDAY, JAN 26TH, 2019. 8PM
The latest undertaking from cultural initiative VOID PROJECTS presents an artist collective in Downtown, Miami providing educational studio residencies, workshops, and cultural programming to the community.
RESIDENCY
Resident artists improve their skills in drawing and painting through training and mentorship. They receive classes twice a week and continual guidance during shared studio hours. Current mentors are AXEL VOID, REGINALD O’NEAL, and FILIO GALVEZ.
CURRENT ARTISTS: Axel Void, Reginald O’Neal, Filio Galvez, David McCauley, Victoria Rose, Santiago Herrera, Nguyen Vu, Alonso Galue, David Olivera, Reinier Gamboa, Eric Bonhomme.
WEEKLY PROGRAMS
Members of the public are invited to participate in weekly and special cultural programming. This includes, free drawing classes, figure modeling sessions, photography meetups, film screenings, and more.
According to the words of Nietzsche, ''An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris'', i truly did feel at home during my autumn residency in the city that never seems to sleep.
As much as i prefer to work in the public space, during this residency i locked myself in, in of the most beautiful apartments in Le Marais (4th arr.) to focus on drawings and paintings.
To give myself a break, i would stroll through the city and it's diverse neighbourhoods.
Words from Artist in Residence ''Retry one''
The first artist to participate in the Void Projects New York Residency is VP alumni Ivan Floró
Ivan drew inspiration from his New York experiences. Getting lost in the streets with his camera then returning to the studio with the references to create. On producing a wall in the city Ivan states,’a wall there is not an easy thing if the organizations didint know you, just have to do it by my own, but for sure I think the know me now!”
”The residency was extra good in terms of where you stay, an amazing flat in the lower east part, with good conection with uptown and brooklyn, and with a very cultural neighborhood”
All images provided by the Artist Ivan Floró
HOMELESS
Is a site-specific project space that will take place in Axel Void’s house in Miami, Florida, United States. The aim is to create quality shows outside of the conventional art scene, cutting the middlemen, galleries or institutions. Favoring the direct dialogue from the artist to the public.
For this second edition of Homeless, Void Projects proposes a show and residency formed by local, national and international, classical painters. As well as live music, gastronomy and installations.
The works will be presented with in a quotidian home environment. It is a old house built in the 1920's situated in North Miami just outside of the wall that divides Miami Shores, a upper class neighborhood from a working class area of unincorporated Miami-Dade.
The concept of this collective show is to talk about the idea of a home from a political, social or personal viewpoint. Addressing this idea based on cultural heritage, identity and patriotism.
This years edition focuses on classical painting, which serves as bridge to talk about tradition and its purpose or influence in society.
In a young country like the United States that is composed by different cultures and nationalities who have set base here, and in light of the current political situation. This project is pertinent to a brooder sense of commonality as well as a more introspective view of shelter and community.
Void Projects is also proud to collaborate this year with Juxtapoz for their annual Clubhouse event. Artists reflect on their experiences of time spent in Miami through a series of original works and on site installations.
Creença is a two-month residency hosting over 50 local, national and international, multidisciplinary artists in Catalonia, Spain. Taking place in an old Convent from the 19th Century, the space today is run as an art residency and a cultural center called “Konvent”.
Initiated by Void Projects; painters, sculptors, installation artists, performers, and filmmakers will visit throughout July and August 2018 to create site specific installations and original works in situ to culminate in a three-day even from 31st of August and 1-2nd of September featuring theatre and live music.
Creença (Belief) comprises the concept of belief from a personal, religious or epistemological standpoint; questioning the line between belief and knowledge and proposing different relative perspectives. Embracing the social conventions and rituals of religion while avoiding the dogmatic belief. Creença invites the artist to address and interpret the themes from their own relative perspective.
Creença, intends to foster a sense of community within our movement and reinforce the ideology of dialogue and cohabitation between artists during the creative process. Searching together for a commonplace between tradition and progressive thoughts
Creença is curated by Axel Void and organized by Elsa Guerra, Jofre Oliveras and Charlotte Pyatt.
Images copyright Ian Cox and Aruallan
Home, a body of work exhibited in a house in Miami set for demolition. The display and the subsequent ‘performance’ calls on the memory of community and the value of culture, as the life of the artwork becomes as transient as memory with its disappearance.
The Home project explores the life of Ana and Julio Serrano, a Puerto Rican couple who moved to Miami in 1962 with their two sons Julio and Anibal. They bought a house on 25th street, they would remain in this home until their last days. This house is the last standing on 25th Street in Wynwood, a neighborhood remembered by the Serrano family as a lively vibrant place. The area is now largely developed and gentrified as an arts district.
Home is a series of 13 works on canvas, conceptualised and created with the intention of displaying the works only inside of the Serrano family home. The images celebrate the lives of this ordinary family, embodying the spirit of a generation of people who shared a relationship with the house and community in a different time. Guests will be invited to the house to experience the Serrano family's story and by extension, honour the loss of community the area has experienced. Displaced by other forms of culture as society evolves or crumbles around us
Axel Void has been working on the Home project for the past 2 years. In the last few weeks, the artist was advised that that house was set for imminent demolition. This exhibition is an attempt to realise the artists original intention before the context is lost forever
