Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions

Art Museum of the Americas, Washington DC (USA)
Artists: Jean-Ulrick Désert, Ewan Atkinson, Nicole Awai, LaVaughn Belle Lillian Blades, Terry Boddie, Holly Bynoe, Santiago Cal, Charles Campbell, Keisha Castello John Cox, Blue Curry, Richard Fung Joscelyn, Gardner Marlon, Griffith Abigail Hadeed, Nadia Huggins, Sri Irodikromo, Marlon James, Patricia Kaersenhout, Roshini Kempadoo, Jaime Lee Loy Hew Locke, Pauline Marcelle Kishan Munroe Nikolai Noel Ebony G. Patterson Marcel Pinas, Dhiradj Ramsamoedj Sheena Rose Oneika Russell Heino Schmid, Philip Thomas, Rodell Warner, Tonya Wiles, Natalie Wood.
Supported by the World Bank Art Program in partnership with the Organization of American States, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Caribbean Community Secretariat, part of the ABOUT CHANGE emerging artists’ program. Curated by Christopher Cozier and Tatiana Flores. * Catalogue (pdf)
"TROPHIES / Paint-by-Number Series" (on Secretary General of the U.N. Kofi Annan)

FIRST SERVICE / Positionen zeitgenössischer Kunst

Schwules-Museum, Berlin (Germany)
Artists: Jean-Ulrick Désert, D-L Alvarez, Jon Campbell, Amir Fattal, Grit Hachmeister, Dennis Kuhlow,
Sophie von Stillfried, Sascha Weidner. Curators Jörg Leidig and Ulrich Dörrier(Galerie Dörrie Priest, Hamburg-Berlin)
Art-works surveyed: "Codex Testomiorum Amoris", "Guten Morgen Preußen", "Negerhosen2000"

Save Berlin

Stadtbad-Wedding Berlin (Germany), in Partnership with Ex-Berliner Magazine
Coordinated by Daniel Borden
"The Invisible(Berlin)Wall"

10th HAVANA BIENNIAL: Integration & Resistence in the Global Age

Los Cabañas K., Havana (Cuba)
Curatorial team: José Manuel Noceda, Margarita González, Nelson Herrera Ysla, Ibis Hernández Abascal, Margarita Sánchez Prieto, José Fernández Portal, Dannys Montes de Oca Moreda.
"The Goddess Project / Shrine of the Divine Negress No.1"
Representing Germany/Haiti with underwriting from IFA/Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V. Stuttgart, TA Projects Berlin, Culture France Paris

KREYOL FACTORY – des artistes interrogent les identités créoles

La Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris (France)
(Kreyol Factory– Artists Interrogate Creole Identities)
Artists: Jean-Ulrick Désert, Allora Jennifer & Calzadilla Guillermo, Alet Thierry, Lyle Ashton Harris, Jean-François Boclé, Alex Burke, Renee Cox, Thierry Fontaine, Pepón Osorio, Marcel Pinas, Patrick Vilaire, Kara Walker, Fred Wilson, Tony Capellan, Bruno Peinado. Supervising curator Yolande Bacot
"Negerhosen2000"

Glück gehabt / Kunst im Untergrund

Artists: Jean-Ulrick Désert, Julia Baier, Martina Becker, BEWEGUNG NURR und Florian Göpfert, Roland Boden, Heike Bollig, Susanne Britz, Dante Busquets, Martin Conrads/Anna Mándoki, Ilse Deberle, Manfred Eichhorn, Moritz Frei, Rolf Giegold, Alexandra Gneissl, Adrian Göllner, Sebastian Gräfe, Massoud Graf-Hachempour, Caroline von Grone, Irène Hug, Karen Irmer, Karl Heinz Jeron, Lilo Cornelia Karsten, Katja Klein, Kirsten Klöckner, Carsten Kummer, Victor López, Eva-Christina Meier, Connie Mendoza, Claudia Mucha, Barbara Müller, Leo de Munk, Piotr Nathan, Hester Oerlemans, Felix Pestemer, Heiko Pfreundt, Nik Pitton, Ingrid Schütz, Christian Sievers , Hein Spellmann, Bernd Trasberger, Urban Plant Research, Sylvia Winkler/Stephan Köperl, Gloria Zein

A Project by NGBK, financed by Senatskanzlei – Kulturelle Angelegenheiten Kunst im Stadtraum, Berlin, and supported by Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) and Wall AG.

INFINITE ISLAND / Contemporary Caribbean Art

The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York (USA)
Artists include: Jean-Ulrick Désert, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Hew Locke, Christopher Cozier, Anna-lee Davis, Marcel Pinos, Satch Hoyt, Nicole Awai
First major survey-exhibition of Caribbean-diaspora art, Curated by Tumelo Mosaka, Associate Curator of Exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum.
The Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Exhibition Fund and the Barbara and Richard Debs Exhibition Fund. Generous support is contributed by the Peter Norton Family Foundation, the American Center Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional funding is contributed by the Friends of Brooklyn Museum, the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, and the Consulate General of the Netherlands. The accompanying catalogue is supported by a Brooklyn Museum publications endowment established by the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
"Negerhosen2000 / The Travel Albums"
"The Burqa Project: On the Borders of My Dreams I Encountered My Double's Ghost"

SEXWORK: ART MYTH REALITY

[Three exhibition venues] NGBK (Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst), Berlin (Germany)
Haus am Kleispark, Berlin (Germany)
Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin (Germany)
Artists include: Jean-Ulrick Désert (US/DE), Patrick Angus (US), Amos Badertscher (US), J. Jackie Baier (DE), Cristiano Berti (IT), Bianca Bodau (DE), Ursula Biemann (CH), Viviana Bravo Botta (CL/DE), Jose Luis Cuevas (MX), Antje Engelmann (DE), Stefanie Gaus (DE), Ditte Haarløv-Johnsen (DK), Birgit Hein (DE), Gabriele Horndasch (DE), Karin Jurschick (DE), diekönigin (AT), Natalie Kriwy (F/DE), Ane Lan (NO), BuBu de la Madeleine (JP), Anna Nizio (PL/DE), Eva Maria Ocherbauer (AT/DE), Beate Passow (DE), Anja Planišček (SL), Tadej Pogačar (SL), Clara S. Rueprich (DE), Tejal Shah, Dr.Floy, Natasha Mendonca and Sumathi (F, IN), Judith Siegmund (DE), Alberto Simon (BR/DE), Ulrike Solbrig (DE), Itziar Bilbao Urrutia (ES/GB), Social Impact (AT), Borjana Ventzislavova (BG/AT), Rommelo Yu (PH/DE), Yoshiko Shimada (JP), Gloria Zein (DE). Curator team: Stéphane Bauer, Boris von Brauchitsch, Katharina Kaiser, Maika Leffers, Jörg Leidig, Judith Siegmund, Ulrike Solbrig. Catalogue
"Codex Testimoniorum Amoris / The Book of the Witnesses of Love -or- The collected Accounts of the Emptoris and their Scortæ"
"Les Toiles de Jouy / Thailand and Mail-order-brides" (catalogue cover)

XENOPOLIS / Of The Fascination and Marginalization of The Other

Rathausgalerie München, Munich (Germany)
Original German title: XENOPOLIS/ Von der Faszination und Ausgrenzung des Fremden
Artists include: Jean-Ulrick Désert, Henrik Oelson, Pia Lanzinger, Tamiko Thiel, Oliver Ressler, esra Ersen, martin Krenn,Tanja Ostojic, Schleuser.net (Farida Heuk, Ralf Hofman, Manuela Unverdoben), Ina Wudtke, Nika Spalinger, Szuper Gallery (Susanne Clausen & Pawlo Kerestey)
Intiated and curated by Pia Lanzinger, Andrea Naica-Loebell and (author/historian) Angela Koch. Catalogue-brochure and Book(Angela Koch)
Generously funded by the Landeshauptstadt München Kulturreferat & The Villa Waldberta am Starnberg See
"Codex Testimoniorum Amoris / The Book of the Witnesses of Love -or- The collected Accounts of the Emptoris and their Scortæ"

ZEICHNUNG

The Schwules Museum, Berlin (Germany)
Artists:
Intitated by museum curators Jörg Leidig and Wolgang Thiese,
"Les Toiles de Jouy" (Thailand Gay Tourism series)

ANATOMICALLY CORRECT

473 Broadway Gallery, New York (USA)
Initiated and curated by Kóan Jeff Baysa
"Die Hosen r'unter lassen "

SUBVERSIV / Sieben fotografische Positionen aus Berlin

Kunst(B)handlung Ausstellungsraum, Munich (Germany)
Artists include: Jean-Ulrick Désert, Ingo Taubhorn, Andeas Fux, Henning von Berg
Organized by artist Rinaldo Hopf
"Die Hosen r'unter lassen"

BLONINCHEN UND BRÄUNCHEN, Weiss Weiss bin auch ich

Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich (Germany)
Initiated by Curator Rafael von Uslar
With the generous underwriting of Landeshauptstadt München Kulturreferat. Book-catalogue (Blondies & Brownies, weiß weiß bin auch ich / Multiculturalism and Racism in the Old and the New World, edited by Irmtrud Wojak & Rafael von Uslar)
"Negerhosen2000" Bierdeckel/Beer-coaster mocksups/studies and Bar/Kneipe pop-ups
"Negerhosen2000" Kantine/restaurant site specific solo-installation

BLONDIES AND BROWNIES / Aspects of Multiculturalism and Racism at the End of the Century

Torch Gallery, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Artists include: Jean-Ulrick Désert, Bas Meerman, Lorraine O'Grady...
Curator Rafael von Uslar