4WARD is a gallery on wheels, a transient extension of 4bid Gallery which will travel nomadically around the city taking to the streets experimental project and ideas.

It is a new space that allows the gallery to take curated projects through the city, being experimental, creating new contexts reachable by a wide and varied audience, working on the relationship between Contemporary Art and the City. In this way the gallery is able to pass through places, parts of town where it might be uncommon to come across Art, and make stops to reflect on the relationship between the citizen, the architecture and the specificity of the local artistic scene. By changing both settings and audiences 4ward aims to build new contexts to propose the public an Art that is free and accessible for all. In this way the gallery becomes a means to open new possibilities for connection and communication within and throughout the city of Amsterdam.

Using the gallery on wheels as a social instrument, we will be able to collect impressions, stories, feedback, needs, wishes and material in order to “developing temporary cultures”.

in May the OPEN CALL for 4WARD…

4theEye’s Education?

GUIDED VISUAL READING

by Paolo Paggi and Giacomo Cardoni

During the session the participants will be guided through a reading of a number of art-works. Each appointment deals with different themes: “human emotions”: anger, sadness, happiness, excitement, affection and fear to prevent the overload and assault of the visual capitalism from compromising the potential of our future which lays in our very imagination.

The course has a duration of seven appointments, each approximately 3 hours long. During the session the participants will be guided through a reading of a number of visual-works.

Each appointment (apart from the last one which will intend to summarise the course) will deal with different themes: “human emotions”: anger, sadness, happiness, excitement, affection and fear.

*This activity will be covered again for the new program in May

Life Drawing?

by 4bid

usually Every Sunday

from 13:00 hrs to 17:00 hrs

5 € per hour – 15€ all four hours

One or more models, male and female, alternate poses of different durations. . You will find A3 boards but no easels, a few working tables should you need them, and we can provide with standard white paper from A4 to A2 sizes and pencils. You are free to bring paint or any other medium you wish to work in.

*Possibility to enter for free using a "pending hour"

Shuffle project?

A long-term project by 4bid

Shuffle project **provides a ground for the development of ideas from various fields (Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Literature, Music, Photography, Film or Hybrid) during a week long project based in the Gallery c/o the OT301. Each participant is invited to run one day of the week’s workshop and take part in the sessions hosted by the others during the week.

You can propose a problem, a question or a thought that you would like to look at from different perspectives. 4bid gives you the space to experiment and use the group dynamic, develop collaborations, offers to assist you with the delivery of the workshop (or other format of sharing) helping to lead each session. During the week the timing and length of each session can be dictated by the leader of that day. We encourage a discussion and feedback sessions at end of each workshop. A catalogue will be produced at the end of each Shuffle, documenting the individual sessions and the outcomes of the week.

To apply Shuffle Project Open Call

For more information contact us: [email protected]

4bidday?

The 4th of each month is our4bidday, an experimental day for exhibitions and discussions. We invite you to participate with your work, to watch, to listen and talk.

The gallery becomes a space in which you present a research, a work and the process of creation or a question.

It becomes a home for discussions and a place for sharing thoughts, allowing Viewer and Viewed to find meeting points.The site functions as a means to help developing creative processes. By allowing an encounter between audience and the work we hope to facilitate a conversation between the two within a space where “it is possible to go wrong”.

4bidday is a chance for the visitor to discover contemporary art in a non-formal environment, with no prejudices, giving both sides (Viewer and Viewed) the chance to discuss face to face and open up sights.

Viewer will meet the artist, get to know about his work, and engage with others.

Viewed will benefit from feedback and have a possibility compare their views.

WHAT TO DO AND HOW:

The artist brings the work/investigation/question and present it in the gallery space*.

The artist needs to send an email the day before, at the latest 3rd of the month, in order to reserve a space pointing out duration and technical needs (depending on gallery availability). Earlier notices are welcome, first come first served.

The viewer decides whether to get involved in what is happening or simply to receive the information as a spectator, depending on what’s being shown in the day.

4bid gallery hosts the artist free of charge. Each participant will be published on 4bidday and 4bid monthly catalog, distributed across a varied network and the web.

For further information email us at [email protected]

-donation welcome

*why not space as a virtual one where a work con be site specific, i.e. somewhere in Adam or a traveling work