ARTISTS BAG BY TOBIAS KASPAR
A SPECIAL PROJECT FOR REFUGEES

In support of refugees affected by the war in Ukraine, ZURICH ART WEEKEND,PROVENCE and THANKS FOR NOTHING teamed up with artist TOBIAS KASPAR to create Artists Bag.

This limited artist edition of tote bags is produced in 1000 copies and each one is unique. By buying a bag, you directly support Common Ground, a social center based in Riga initiated by members of the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, providing help and services to refugees. commonground.lv

Artists Bag will be available for CHF25 during Zurich Art Weekend at the info point Löwenbraükunst, (Limmatstrasse 268, 8005 Zürich) and partnering institutions.

SUPPORT THE PROJECT
If you want to support the project, you can

1. Buy a single tote bag during Zurich Art Weekend June 10–12

2. Order 10 tote bags or more by contacting: projects@zurichartweekend.com

3. Make a free donation: 

BANK TRANSFER
Zurich Art Weekend Verein
Address: Hohlstrasse 400, 8048 Zurich, Switzerland
Bank: Zürcher Kantonalbank, Zurich, Switzerland
IBAN: CH09 0070 0114 8023 9 1976
Mention: “Artists Bag for refugees”

PAYPAL
contact@zurichartweekend.com Mention “Artists Bag for refugees”

4. Spread the word in your network

ABOUT COMMON GROUND
All benefits will be donated to Common Ground, a social center based in Riga, providing help and services to refugees. This initiative was founded by members of the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art team in consortium with like-minded partner institutions together with caring individuals, artists, professionals, numerous volunteers, all willing to aid anyone in need of support
during this humanitarian crisis. commonground.lv

ARTISTS BAG
Each bag features a shopping list with product images and price info from the online Avantgarde fashion retailer SSENSE with a focus on designer garments mimics artists’ studio wear: shoes with paint dripping or colorful splashes on a sweater picking up this aestheticization of the artist’s studio and garment Tobias Kaspar treated each bag individually exactly in that line: textile paint plashes is applied to every single tote, making all of them unique collectable items. Edition of 1000 bags, each bag being unique. Size of the bag: 38 x 42 x 10 cm. Fabric: bio fair trade cotton.

MORE ON THE PROJECT
Initiated by Zurich Art Weekend in collaboration with PROVENCE and THANKS FOR NOTHING, Artists Bag springs from the desire and hope to support and shape a better future for refugees affected by wars and conflicts across the globe. In the middle of a humanitarian crisis at the borders of Europe, the special project this year is dedicated to the people affected by the war in Ukraine. Launched in Zurich, the project will be continued after Zurich Art Weekend 2022 in different European capitals, starting with Paris in Autumn.

ABOUT TOBIAS KASPAR
Tobias Kaspar was born in 1984 in Basel, Switzerland. He is based in Riga, Latvia and Zurich, Switzerland. Tobias Kaspar’s practice is not a sceptical, detached position, but rather one that draws on unlimited resources inside the structures and stories of art. Kaspar is fascinated with mechanisms that shape the processes of value creation and taste formation. He is interested in how and when symbolic added value and desire are created. His works demonstrate an interest in cultural transfer processes of styles and fashions within a sphere or beyond it, tracing global trajectories. The mechanisms of fashion, its dazzling power of seduction, of creating a desire to be someone else, and the possibilities it offers to embody or simulate identities are one of the key frames of reference for his practice. It often operates similar to fashion whose logic ranges between the market and an elusive irrationality.

Kaspar’s work has been exhibited amongst other at the Kunsthalle Bern (2018), Kunsthaus Zurich (2017), Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2017), Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (2015), Solo Shows, São Paulo (2015), CAFAM Biennale, Beijing (2014), Kunsthalle Wien (2014), Kunsthalle St. Gallen (2014), Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (2013), Artists Space, New York (2013), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012), Kunsthalle Zürich (2011), Kunsthalle Basel (2011), Museum Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2011), Kunsthaus Bregenz (2011) and Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2010). He is represented by the Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich. www.tobiaskaspar.com

THE PROJECT IS INITIATED BY
PROVENCE
PROVENCE magazine is run as a collective with members in Berlin, Copenhagen, London, Milan, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Riga and Zurich. PROVENCE is co-published by Longtang, Zurich and Motto Distributions, Berlin. PROVENCE is an independent entity of Longtang’s registered nonprofit association in Zurich, Switzerland. www.provence.st

THANKS FOR NOTHING
Thanks for Nothing is an association founded in 2017 that brings together artists and actors of the art world to develop artistic and solidarity-driven projects with major impact on society. www.thanksfornothing.fr

ZURICH ART WEEKEND
ZURICH ART WEEKEND is an innovative, non-profit oriented organization platforming Zurich’s major public and private art institutions. Active since 2018, Zurich Art Weekend enables to discover artistic creation and its protagonists from up close whilst fostering exchanges of knowledge and seeding of ideas during its international main event ZURICH ART WEEKEND | JUNE 10-12 and other weekend events in the year.