Summer of Peace 2025
The Summer Program is featuring between 20 July – 28 September 2025 regularly changing screening programs, demonstrating the solidarity of artists all over the world with Ukraine and the Ukrainian people suffering from the Russian annihilation war – starting on 22 February 2022, but also solidarity with all the victims of other current conflicts on earth including the escalating climate change!
10 August – 30 September 2025
Memory of the Future?
Memory of the Future?
program – curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
original duration 107 minutes
selected artists
Tova Beck-Friedman (USA) – Arrogance, 2021, 3:03
Laura & Sira Cabrera Diaz (Spain) – Between Species, 2021, 9:16
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany) – Oaktown, 2019, 17:00
Renata Padovan (Brazil) – Scale of Disaster, 2013, 9:40
Ian Gibbins (Australia) – Ferrovores, 2021, 5:30
Mikey Peterson (USA) – Gloriosa Superba, 2018, 3:51
Claude Ciccolella (France) – Under the Golden Leaves, 2021, 8;50
Ebba Jahn (Germany) – Along Thorns, 2021, 3:21
Oliver Ressler (Austria) – Everything’s coming together while everything’s falling apart: Limity jsme my, 2020, 10:26
Elena Vertikova (Poland) – Under Certain Circumstance, 2021, 3:00
Abdoul-Ganiou Dermani (Togo) – Keke, 2021, 5:00
Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – Melting Fields, 2019, 8:35
Kim Maree (New Zealand) – Masterplan, 2019, 9:58
Susanne Layla Petersen (Denmark) – The End of The World As We Know It, 2021, 4:25
Jean-Michel Rolland (France) – Vaches:Decoupage, 2021, 3:46
Ian Gibbins (Australia) – Colony Collapse, 2019, 3:54
Yossi Galanti (Israel) – Green Bag in the First Act, 2021, 4:03
Barry Whittacker (USA) – Sugar Water, 2021, 4:02
Kokou Ekouagou (Togo) – Stand Up, 2020, 1:46
Irina Paskali (Macedonia) – Two of us, 2020, 3:00
Shivkumar K V (India) – Being Back to Nature, 2020, 4:07
Marcus Keim/Beate Hecher (Austria) – Pangäa, 2020, 13:00
Pierre Ajavon (France) – Lost Garden, 2018, 4:16
Mikey Peterson (USA) – Through The Rift, 2021, 6:58
Dee Hood (USA) – The Powers That Be, 2022, 2.29
Alina Vasilchenko (Russia) – The Tree, 2020, 1:23
Aaron Oldenburg (USA) – Nightwalk, 2021, 1:00
Vanessa Cardui (Germamy) – Nature Dance, 2021, 1:00
Zlatko Cosic (Bosnia) – The Lungs, 2022, 5:00
Brit Bunkley (New Zealand) – a) Pillar of Fire, 2021, 6:59
Gioula Papadopoulou (Greece) – When I was the Moon, 2020, 6:10
@ DIVERSEartLA – Networked art by networked curating
DIVERSEartLA is back with a new ecological lens. Curated by Marisa Caichiolo, this year’s edition will examine not just how the environment is represented in art, but how humanity’s place in the world is depicted. This exhibition will open up an important dialogue about the Earth’s past, present, and future, uniting the community around discussions of the global climate crisis and potential solutions.
“One of the most powerful things about art is that it brings people together, and transforms the way we communicate. The goal of DIVERSEartLA 2022 is to view this sector of art within the show through ecological glasses.
This topic is at the heart of a growing number of art narratives, including exhibitions built with high-tech innovations, designed to inspire artistic appreciation and the desire to respond to environmental challenges – reinforcing the value of translating environmental advocacy into art.
video by Eric Minh Swenson –>
The installations, immersive experiences, and performances represent our present day and the looming impact we will all face if the planet continues to warm. DIVERSEartLA 2022 will encourage visitors to confront the complex challenges of our global climate crisis and imagine potential solutions.” – Marisa Caichiolo
Our engagement with museums and institutions this year includes projects with Dox Contemporary in Prague/Czech Center New York and The General Consulate of The Czech Republic in Los Angeles; MUSA Museum of the Arts of the University of Guadalajara and MCA Museum of Environmental Science; MUMBAT Museum of Fine Arts of Tandil & Museum of Nature and Science Antonio Serrano of Entre Rios, Argentina; Museum of Nature of Cantabria, Spain; Skid Row communities; Torrance Art Museum; Raubtier Productions & Unicus.
https://www.torranceartmuseum.com/memorial-future
Torrance Art Museum presents Memorial to the Future, a collaborative installation created by Daniela Soberman, curated and co-authored by Max Presneill of the Torrance Art Museum.
Max Presneill
is an artist and the Director / Curator of the Torrance Art Museum, a small contemporary art museum in Los Angeles, as well as the Curatorial Director for Artra Curatorial. He is the Co-Founder of Durden and Ray (2009-present), a collaborative artists group and gallery in LA as well as the Founder and former Director of Raid Projects (1999 – 2009).
video by Jason Jenn and Vojislav Radovanović –>
Daniela Soberman – photo by Genie Davis
Daniela Soberman
Serbian-American
?(b. 1976 Downey, California; lives and works in Los Angeles).
First generation American and daughter to immigrant parents from former socialist Yugoslavia, Daniela grew up making regular visits to Eastern Europe/Yugoslavia (pre and post civil-war) where brutalism and socialist avant-garde became foundational to her DNA and now regularly show up in her work. Daniela explores themes of unconventionalism, memory, and the shared human experience.
Soberman also has a small / large cult following for her published books [which are carried at the Smithsonian].
