ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Project Europa: Imagining the (Im)Possible considers the relationship of art to democracy in Europe. In 1989, the expansion and unification of Europe was conceived as a vital and urgent social project to promote democracy. Now in the 20th anniversary year of the fall of the Berlin Wall, artists in the exhibition question the promise and potential of Europe’s democratic dream. The works featured in the exhibition, which include large-scale wall paintings, photography and video by 20 artists from Turkey to the British Isles, explore the complex and subtle relationship between art and politics. At the same time, the reflection on Europe provides an opportunity for American audiences to reconsider and reinvigorate our understanding of democracy at home. For the first time at the Harn Museum of Art, visitors will have the opportunity to learn more about the works of art through a cell phone tour provided by a generous donor. To listen to audio from the tour, click here.

Project Europa is organized by Kerry Oliver-Smith, curator of contemporary art at the Harn Museum. The exhibition is made possible by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; the C. Frederick and Aase B. Thompson Foundation; Étant donnés, the French-American Fund for Contemporary Art, a program of the French-American Cultural Exchange; University of Florida Student Government; the John Early Publication Endowment; the Sidney Knight Endowment; and the Harn Program Endowment. Additional support is provided by the following University of Florida entities: School of Art + Art History Harn Eminent Scholar Chair in Art History; Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere; Center for European Studies; France Florida Research Institute; International Center; and Paris Research Institute. Additional funding provided by the Exhibition Circle of the Harn Museum.

THE ARTISTS
Francis Alÿs, Fikret Atay, Kader Attia, Maja Bajevic, Yto Barrada,Tacita Dean, Beate Gütschow, Jens Haaning, Susan Hefuna, Eva Leitolf, Aernout Mik, Marcel Odenbach, Dan Perjovschi, Marjetica Potrč, Andrea Robbins and Max Becher, Bruno Serralongue, Superflex - Jakob Fenger, Bjørnstjerne Reuter Christiansen, and Rasmus Nielsen
Lidwien Van de Ven

THE CATALOGUE

The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue written by Kerry Oliver-Smith with contributions by Marius Babias and Dr. Boris Groys. Marius Babias, a Romanian scholar and curator, was commissioner of the Romanian Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale. He also curated the exhibitions The New Europe, Generali Foundation, Vienna; Formats for Action, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin and co-curated Periferic 7 in Iaşi (Romania). Dr. Boris Groys is professor of Aesthetics, Art History and Media Theory at the Center for Art and Media Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany. He has published numerous books including Vanishing Point Moscow; Under Suspicion: A Phenomenology of the Media Politics of Immortality; Topology of Art and Dream Factory Communism.

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