Artist-run gallery cooperative Kling & Bang is now taking part in the Alternative Art Fair in Copenhagen, Alt_Cph. According to the organisers, "Alt_Cph wishes to introduce its national and international audience to this alternative art environment and to each other. The participants are galleries, exhibition spaces and printed matter publishers which have non-commercial interests." Kling & Bang certainly fit this description and have remained a strong presence on the Icelandic art scene despite the current recession. For the Copenhagen fair they have brought video art and sculptures by gallery members and friends.

Only last month, in August, Kling & Bang was in Hamburg for the Subvision Festival in the new Hafencity area now being redeveloped. This was a major event, curated by Martin Koettering and Brigitte Kölle, and produced in cooperation with the major art institutions of the city. Kling & Bang sent four artist: Eirún Sigurðardóttir, Bjarni Massi, Unnar Örn and Huginn Arason.

The Hamburg event came hard on the heals of Kling & Bang's participation in NO SOUL FOR SALE – A FESTIVAL OF INDEPENDENTS, held in June in the old Dia Center in New York City. This was an event designed to bring together some of the most interesting not-for-profit art spaces from around the world. In the words of the organisers: "NO SOUL FOR SALE will be a gathering of the most exciting, innovative and respected not-for-profit centers, alternative institutions, artists’ collectives and independent enterprises that are contributing to the international art scene by inventing new strategies of distribution and aggregation."

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