Yara El-Sherbini performance "Pub Quiz"
Subject: "This week Hamas freed Israeli Solider Gilad Shalit in exchange for Israel freeing 1,027 Palestinian political prisoners. Using this exchange rate, if Hamas freed 8 Israeli prisoners, how many Palestinian prisoners would be freed?"

Friday 21st of October at the Cafeteria in the National Portrait Gallery, London at 19:00

Saturday 22nd of October at The Quad Gallery, Derby at 19:00

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JeongMee Yoon Finalist in the "Sovereign Asian Art Prize"

With her work "Pink & Blue Project II - Lauren & Carolyn and their Pink & Purple Things"
The work will form part of a travelling show to Singapore, Korea and Hong Kong throughout 2012

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ATSUKO NAKAMURA
In Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4's New Sensations
Date: 11th of October to 17th of October 2011
Location: Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, London WC1

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Regina José Galindo wins the Grand Prize Award at the 29th Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts
September 2011

The jury of the 29th Biennial of Graphic Arts (Dave Beech, Christian Höller, Urška Jurman, and Ulay - Frank Uwe Laysiepen) has awarded the Grand Prize to Regina José Galindo for the works: Confesión (2007) , Caparazón (2010) e Móvil (2010).

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REGINA JOSÉ GALINDO OBTAINS THE PRINCE CLAUS AWARD

The Prince Claus Awards are presented annually to individuals, groups and organisations in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean for their outstanding achievements in the field of culture and development and the positive effect of their work on their direct environment and on the wider cultural or social field.

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ATSUKO NAKAMURA
The Pulsating Earth
Nit de l'Art 2011
Date: Thursday 15th of September 2011 from 19:00h - 23:00h
Location: Various locations in the City of Palma de Mallorca

Atsuko Nakamura's first site specific solo show

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NEWSHA TAVAKOLIAN TRAVELS TO LA CAJA BLANCA
Artist Talk

Date: Thursday 28th of July 2011 from 20:00 -21:00 h
Location: Auditorium, Es Baluard Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma
Admission: Free entrance for guests of La Caja Blanca

Special thanks to: Nazila Noebashari
Collaborators: Es Baluard, El Corte Inglés, La Agencia, Hotel Melià de Mar (Guest Experience Partner and Cultural Ambassador).

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CURRENT SHOW: NEWSHA TAVAKOLIAN
Listen
Solo Show and Conference
16th of June 2011

Solo show by artist Newsha Tavakolian (Tehran, 1981), one of the most promising photographers emerging from the Middle East. The young photographer began her career working as a photojournalist at the age of 16 and is a regular collaborator for international magazines such as: Time Magazine, The New York Times, Newsweek, National Geographic and Stern.

Her artistic work has been presented in various international festivals such as: Visa pour l'image in Perpignan (France) and the Photojournalism Festival in Gijón (Spain). "Listen", focuses on women's role living under Islamic rule in the 21st Century.

Special thanks to: Nazila Noebashari
Collaborators: Art Palma Contemporani, El Corte Inglés, La Agencia

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Regina José Galindo en el ICA
A Dying Artist
Symposium
22 - 23 of April 2011

The ICA presents A Dying Artist – a two-day symposium and online archive organised by artists Ed Atkins and Siôn Parkinson.

Artist Regina José Galindo’s video, ‘Reconocimiento de un Cuerpo’ will be screened, as selected by Stewart Home. It features the artist examined, postmortem, completely anaesthetised.

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ART MONTHLY
March 2011: Issue #344

Feature
Frames of Resistance
Francis Frascina on the aesthetics of violence

On Regina José Galindo's project "Confesión", produced by La Caja Blanca in Palma de Mallorca.

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RADIO PROGRAMME "FLUIDO ROSA"
Radio 3, Radio Nacional de España
Presented by Rosa Pérez
MADRID 21.02.2011

Interview with Regina José Galindo about her audiovidual intervention "Alarma" in the Metro Station Banco de España in Madrid.

Presentation of "Earth-Moon-Earth" by Katie Paterson in the presidential suite of the Hotel Gran Melià Fénix under the full moon on the evening of the 18th of February 2011.

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I EDITION, "PREMIO DE DIBUJO MUSEO ABC"
Noa Lidor obtains first prize, awarded by the ABC Museum of Drawing in Madrid
MADRID 20.02.2011

Noa Lidor, has been awarded the first prize by the selection panel composed of members from the Museum and the Art Fair, Just Madrid for her installation "Till Human Voices Wake Us", presented by La Caja Blanca at Just Madrid Art Fair.

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press clipping abc 21.02.2011 (pdf document in spanish)
press release museo abc 21.02.2011 (pdf document in spanish)