FRONT International

FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art is seeking an exhibition production services contractor for the execution of artistic commissions for its upcoming, 2025 edition. We are looking for a dynamic, self-motivated, and experienced individual to support our roster of artists in the production of site-specific projects including, but not limited to: public sculpture, art installations, prints, multiples, as well as the production of events and exhibition displays in multiple locations in Cleveland and beyond. Active artists are encouraged to apply. Compensation: Hours are variable: up to 20 hours per week in 2024; up to 40 hours per week in 2025. Pay range is $20–$30 per hour depending on experience. How to apply: Please send a resume and a cover letter outlining your interests in working with us to [email protected] by February 2, 2024 for consideration. Selected applicants will be invited to interview in February 2024. Visit the full posting for more details at the link in bio!

Breaking News: Artist Asad Raza (@asaaddo ) is appointed Artistic Director of FRONT 2025; and scholar and curator Magdalena Moskalewicz (@madaskalewicz ) assumes the Cleveland-based role of Chief Curator. “I admire FRONT's vision of art as a catalyst for social change and its commitment to equitable investment in creative communities. I am therefore delighted to be joining FRONT’s leadership team and continuing its impactful work in the community of Northeast Ohio that nonetheless resounds on a global stage. I look forward to realizing bold new approaches to exhibition-making with each triennial’s artistic director and adding depth to the scholarly and curatorial partnerships that are FRONT's foundation to benefit a wide range of audiences.” –Magdalena Moskalewicz “Our fragile planetary existence demands we find new ways to discover our interconnectedness with other beings, cultures, natures, and worlds—exploring this has been my ambition in art. I relish the chance to continue this exploration collaboratively, at the scale and with the level of ambition of FRONT. Though a Buffalonian also from the shores of Lake Erie, FRONT International introduced me to Northeast Ohio and made me realize: I love Cleveland!” –Asad Raza Image: Left: Asad Raza. Photo credit: Alex de Brabant. | Right: Magdalena Moskalewicz. Photo credit: Stacey Rupolo. Continue reading at the link in bio! #FRONTArt2025

“Cleveland’s Art and Culture Infrastructure Already Exists at a World Class Level” Thanks for sharing, @imfromcle ・・・ Venice this supposed to happen? 🤔 New Forbes article titled, “Cleveland, The Next Venice” explores the city’s art & culture scene, while highlighting FRONT’s latest major contributions to it 🎨💰 #FRONTArt2022

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You are invited! Opening October 2 from 5:00 to 8:00 PM

Within FRONT 2022, Magali Reus’ works suggested how the aesthetic joy of art making, including an attention to craft, might help to bridge differences between beings and modes. Situated between sculpture and photography, with a high-degree of sensitivity for both materials and images, Reus’ work represented a form of communion with mushrooms – humble, powerful creatures, essential to Earth’s ecosystems. The precise sculptural framing of her photographs is inseparable from the larger meaning of the work. Her images stand as anthropomorphic assemblages of small things that are part of larger, living, expanded systems of communication. Image: Magali Reus, "Tackle and Bait (Knaves)", 2021. C-prints mounted on aluminum, laser-cut powder-coated steel, welded and powder-coated aluminum, rivets, toggle fixings. Courtesy the artist and Galeria Nuno Centeno, Porto. This program was supported as part of the Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York.© Magali Reus. Photography by Field Studio.

Dale Goode’s sculptural compositions are culled from materials scavenged from his surroundings. Describing his process, Goode states that “Once I get these substrates built and they’re sturdy enough, I start applying the fabric and different materials—pitchforks, shovels, clothes, shoes, hats, old mop heads I use for hair, sailors’ caps, ice skates, roller skates. I first lay the pieces out before I make them permanent. I position them to where they’re going to look—it’s all spontaneous—and each piece takes on a life of its own.” For FRONT 2018, Goode exhibited an untitled sculpture (pictured here) at 1474 E. 112th Street in Glenville, which was on view daily from dawn to dusk during the run of the triennial, July 14 – September 30, 2018. Image: Dale Goode, "Untitled", 2018. Installation view at 1474 E. 112th Street. Commissioned by FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. Photography by Field Studio.

"SM-2N: sldrty?" by artists Sarah Oppenheimer and Tony Cokes was an interactive, architectural-scale sculpture that invited exhibition visitors to collaboratively reconfigure the Crane Gallery at the FRONT PNC Exhibition Hub at Transformer Station during FRONT 2022: "Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows" (July 16–October 2, 2022). By pushing two hollow beams that turned with little effort—visitors activated an exposed system of relays to raise, lower, and slide overhead projectors as well as hanging panels that partially obscured their throw. The video featured words by novelist Gabriel García Márquez used by curator Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung in an essay on how to practice universal solidarity. It played in an asynchronous loop on opposing walls of the gallery. Images: Sarah Oppenheimer x Tony Cokes, "SM-2N: sldrty?" 2022. Materials, dimensions and duration: Variable. Commissioned by FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art in partnership with VIA Art Fund and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Courtesy and © the artists. Photos Brad Feinknopf.

FRONT 2025 Artistic Director and FRONT 2022 Artist Asad Raza (@asaaddo ) presents "Ge is for Gaia" at 3A Gallery in New York, opening January 26, 2024. "Raza’s "Ge" is an endless and evolving video narrative that blends fiction and documentary as it moves around the planet. The video serves as a dynamic container for Raza’s wide-ranging thinking, research, and writing around ecology. Named after the original name of the goddess of Earth, Gaia, "Ge" juxtaposes multiple thematic sections, which change with each release of the video. Audio description and subtitles form an integral part as the work plays with the distinction between "description" and "content", underscored by the repetition of specific sections with different narration and captioning." –Prem Krishnamurthy, FRONT 2022 Artistic Director Read more at the link in bio! "Asad Raza: Ge is for Gaia" January 26 –March 2, 2024 179 Canal Street, #5A, New York, NY 10013 Opening reception: Friday January 26, 6–8pm Images: Stills from "Ge", Asad Raza, 2020–ongoing.

Congratulations to FRONT Partner Curated Storefront (@curatedstorefront ) and FRONT 2022 Artist Chakaia Booker (@chakaiabooker ) on being awarded a VIA Art Fund (@viaartfund ) Artist Production Grant! This grant will go toward the commission of a sculpture by Chakaia Booker to be installed in the newly renovated Lock 3 Park in downtown Akron (@downtownakronpartnership ). Booker is known for abstract sculptures created from recycled tires and stainless steel that explore environmentalism, race, gender, and industrial decline. Read more and see all grantees at link in bio. #Repost @curatedstorefront Image 2: Chakaia Booker, Installation view at Quaker Square, Rubber tires and wood. Courtesy of the artist.© Chakaia Booker. Photography by Field Studio. Image 3: Chakaia Booker, Detail view at Quaker Square, Rubber tires and wood. Courtesy of the artist.© Chakaia Booker. Photography by Field Studio.

Beni E. Kosh, was born in 1917 in Cleveland, Ohio. Kosh was a student of Cleveland School painter Paul Travis at the Cleveland Institute of Art (@cleinstituteart ) and later was a member of the Sho Nuff Art Group, a collective of seven African American artists. Kosh’s work was stylistically diverse, experimenting with Cubism, portraiture, cityscapes, and abstractions. "Meditation on African Sculpture" from 1957, demonstrates his interest in both African sculpture and modern art, blending organic animal forms with geometric planes. This painting, on loan from WOLFS Gallery, was on view at the FRONT PNC Exhibition Hub at Transformer Station (@transformerstation ) for FRONT 2022: "Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows" from July 16–October 2, 2022. Image: Beni E. Kosh, "Meditation on African Sculpture", 1957. Oil on found wood panel. 20 × 15 in. (50.8 × 38.1 cm). © and courtesy of WOLFS Gallery, Cleveland. Photography by Field Studio.

Join us for the inaugural FRONT Talks with a public lecture by Pablo Helguera on Friday, January 26, 2024 at 12:15 pm ET at Cleveland Institute of Art in the Peter B. Lewis Theater! FRONT Talks is a series of encounters with leading artists and thinkers engaging in conversations about the practice, the experience, and the impact of contemporary art. Featuring national and international guests from across disciplines, the series is organized by FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art and presented in collaboration with partner institutions. FRONT Talks is free and open to all. Pablo Helguera's multi-disciplinary work intertwines pedagogy, theater, literature, music, and history, often in surprising ways and in unexpected formats, ranging from phonographic recordings and singing telegrams to board games and 19th-century gymnastics. For FRONT Talks, Helguera will provide an overview of his work, discussing his research process and his commitment to socially engaged art. Read more at the link in bio! FRONT Talks with Pablo Helguera is presented in partnership with Cleveland Institute of Art’s (@cleinstituteart ) Lunch on Fridays series. Image: Pablo Helguera, “The School of Panamerican Unrest.” Image courtesy of the artist. #FRONTTalks