“For someone who is listening to me” is an artistic proposition of virtual correspondences (videoletters) that has confinement as a starting point for exchanges and affections between people who do not know each other. The work operates as a contemporary version of “messages in the bottle”, which opens gaps for intimate contact on a one-to-one scale, through the technologies available in 2020. Directed by Anna Costa e Silva, and co-created with Ana Abbott, Luciana Novak, Maria Clara Contrucci and Nanda Félix, the experience begins with an open call, in which anyone can sign up to receive a video message directly in their email. Each of the 5 performers wrote a letter to an unknown person, talking about their feelings, pains and crossings during this period, and inviting the recipients to respond, also by video, about what they are feeling and perceiving. From then on, an exchange of videoletters begins, always in the private sphere, which can last until the end of the confinement, or even when they want to. Exploring surrealism, anguish, strangeness and dreams that this new daily life imposes on us, the project creates a suspended space-time for conversation between two people. An experience of proximity in times of distance, which operates somewhere between reality and fiction, and blurs the boundaries between art and life, public and private, performer and spectator.

To participate, write to annacostaesilva@gmail.com or +55 21 99406-9009

In the early 1970s, women began to permeate the previously male dominated terrain of art, breaking artistically with traditional rules and historical stereotypes. Together with the pioneers of feminist art history, they paved the way for a new appreciation of women’s artistic achievements. Flower Blast / Blumen Sprengung, Annette Wehrmann’s eponymous work, represents such a spirit of new beginnings.

1970 was also the year that the Neue Galerie – Sammlung Ludwig, the institution that preceded the Ludwig Forum was founded. Permanently located in Aachen, and holding one of the most important collections of Contemporay Art in the world, collectors Peter and Irene Ludwig founded in Aachen the first public Museum for Contemporary Art in the Federal Republic of Germany. Therefore it is appropriate to celebrate its 50th birthday with a selection of around 100 works by female artists from the Ludwig Forum Collection.

Anna Costa e Silva was the winner of the first open call for the Terremoto Magazine residency program with Ubisoft. The residency, which begins in April, will run for three months and will lead to an exhibition by the artist at a local art center.

In the 1960s and 70s, artist books used printed writing and graphic design as tools to convey works of art closer to theory. This exhibition, curated by Felipe Chaimovich, brings together artist books that were not products of commercial publishers, emphasizing the unique work of certain prints.