A roving art event that moves from city to city every couple of years, the villa project works with international art galleries to create a temporary, ongoing art communit. This January VILLA touches down in Toronto to present an exhibition of contemporary art at Union Station. Villa Toronto, presented by Warsaw’s Raster Gallery in association with Toronto’s Art Metropole, brings over nineteen lo
cal and international art galleries and their artists to Union Station’s Great Hall from January 16th to 23rd, 2015. Accompanying this presentation, in cooperation with local art organizations, will be a series of special events throughout the city. Participants:
Art Metropole (Toronto) – Shane Krepakevich and Elif Saydam
Jessica Bradley (Toronto) — Derek Sullivan, John Sasaki
COOPER COLE (Toronto) — JD Walsh
Diaz Contemporary (Toronto) — Zeke Moores
Daniel Faria (Toronto) — Iris Häussler
Hollybush Gardens (London) — Reto Pulfer
i8 (Reykjavik) — Ragnar Kjartansson
IBID Projects (London/LA) — Michael Portnoy
Johann König (Berlin) — Jeremy Shaw
LABOR (Mexico City) — Eric Beltran
Misako & Rosen (Tokyo) — Yuki Okumura
MKG127 (Toronto) — Dean Drever
Plan B (Berlin/Cluj) — Navid Nuur , Rudolf Bone
Projecte SD (Barcelona) — Jochen Lempert
RaebervonStenglin (Zurich) — Dane Mitchell
Raster (Warsaw) — Michał Budny
Clint Roenisch (Toronto) — Tony Romano
Jocelyn Wolff (Paris) — Guillaume Leblon, Elodie Seguin
ZERO… (Milan) — Hans Schabus, Gavin Kenyon
Partners:
8 eleven, Art Gallery of Ontario, Justina M Barnicke, Kunstverein Toronto, Mercer Union, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, No Reading After The Internet, Power Plant, Scrap Metal and Vtape.