About Me
Funded by Sandrine Albert, Valentina Floris and Gillina McIver, Luna Nera has been working as an artist-curator group since 1997 in London. Luna Nera aims to stimulate interest in the environmental and architectural heritage of localities. By asking the audience to re-look at sites in a new way, we address a series of issues around ideas of society, community, history, memory and public space. Our mission is to reclaim disused or abandoned "forgotten" spaces through art.
Luna Nera is concerned with exploring the conjunction of theory and practice in site-specific/site-responsive work, through a series of projects that also include text, talks and workshops.
The collective operates as a kind of mobile gallery or institute of urban projects, as a network of projects and persons. We make onsite residencies and researches, and have created a number of large-scale live and visual art events in disused premises, including a Victorian theatre, 17thC underground prison, synagogue, church, and factories in the East London area. We have commissioned various local and international artists to produce live and visual site-responsive works.
Since 2000 Luna Nera has been collaborating and working internationally. In 2000 the group was invited to Russia to work with Dirigible to create POEMA VREMENYI/FLOODPLAIN OF TIME, a large-scale site-responsive project, which was subsequently shown at Moscow Art Fair 2001. In 2002 Julian Ronnefeldt and Hilary Powell joined the group. In the same year we worked in Berlin with Gruppe TRO and others at "Helden der Arbeit? Festival of Art in Old Factories" and created projects in a former battery-factory in the historic Obershoeneweide area. Later in 2002 we were invited to Weimar for the BackUp Media Art in Film festival, to present installation in the e-Werk strassenbahn depot.
In 2003 Luna Nera went to Zurich to take part in the DAdA Festival, where we created live art installations with performance in an old paper factory. In summer 2003 in St Petersburg, we created a site-responsive project in Kronstadt, a historic naval base. In November 2003 Luna Nera made "THE DERELICT SENSATION" site-specific exhibition in the Gothic splendour of the former Midland Grand Hotel in London. In 2004 we returned to Kronstadt to create INTERCONNECTION, an international radio and audio art project with site specific art actions and installations. In 2005 we made "in the Urban Playground" a site-responsive event in the derelict former designing offices of Harland & Wolff - once the largest shipyard in the world, where the Titanic was designed and built.
Luna Nera's video work documenting their projects has been shown a number of festivals and venues including the Institute of Contemporary Art and Gallery 291 in London; the 6e Bienniale Champ Libre Manifestation Internationale Vidéo Et Art Électronique, Montréal; the Paradise Bunker Berlin, the Atelier des Artistes de cité d'Alexandrie, the Manege Central Exhibition Hall St Petersburg, the VidiFestival Valencia and more.
Currently Luna Nera works as a network of artists and practices, co-operating with artists in Barcelona, Berlin, Moscow and Paris.
Sandrine Albert moved to Barcellona in 2003 where she set up Luna Nera BCN.
Julian Ronnefeldt is currently living between London and Berlin.In Berlin where he runs an artist space under the name of K:ita.
Gillian Mc Iver and Valentina Floris still live and work in London, collaborating with various artists in video art and media related projects.
Associated artists include:
Agnes Domke - live art with installation (based in Berlin).
Ben Foot - Installations, video projections, kinetic event objects.
Natasha Mayran - Performance including vocal, trapeze and dance ( based in Paris).
Hilary Powell - Installation artist, working with site related objects and materials.
Nazir Tanbouli - Drawing, painting, video, Drawing-based installation (based Nottingham & London).
In addition, Luna Nera usually invite other artists to exhibit/participate/perform. Artists are chosen by submission of idea or work. Guest artists are responsible for presenting their work and Luna Nera does not take commission from work sold by any artist.
Artists who have been part of Luna Nera projects include:
Dirizhable / Marissa Carnesky / Milo Taylor / Chris Singer / Evil Moisture / The Tiger Lillies / Claudine Schaeffer-Legrand / The Jesus Underground / Bingo / Caia / Nicola Green and Jairo Zaldua / Liliana Klimova / Michael Park / Mark Squire / Mark Video /Stephanie Crouail / Derek Hart / Charro Ramirez / Peter Findlay / Stelios Styllianou / Kos Ahmet / Elfie Brandther / Stephanie Mas / Jo Vox / Juana Serrat / David Remondo / Eran Tsafrir / Agnes Domke / Oleg Ikona / Gruppe TRO / Jenny Brockmann / Dmitry Alexeyev / Derek Szteliga / Rey Akdogan / Anna Fras- Jones / Lennie Lee / Derek Szteliga / Gil Bensmana ... and many more...I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4
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