VOLTA NY delivers its exclusively solo artist showcase for the fifth consecutive year, a rigorously curated selection of exceptional talent from 80 galleries, representing 25 countries and 45 cities, in its midtown Manhattan location opposite the iconic Empire State Building.

Solo projects from notable and emerging international artists advance VOLTA's original mandate for a tightly-focused program that fosters a dynamic gaze into the current art climate and salient contemporary positions — regardless of the artist or gallery's age. VOLTA NY complements the exciting program of art presented by its sister fair, The Armory Show, with shared VIP access and the Open Forum Talks. Program, plus direct shuttles connecting both fairs.

VOLTA NY echoes the spotlight on Nordic Countries this year with six galleries from northern Europe, including Liisa Lounila (represented by Gallery Kalhama & Piippo Contemporary in Helsinki), who has an upcoming residency at ISCP, NY with an Alfred Kordelin foundation scholarship; and Andreas Johansson (represented by Copenhagen galleri flach), revealing his sculptural photocollages for the first time stateside.

Over 30 new institutions join the fold this year, including Highlight Gallery in San Francisco, showing works on paper by Belgian artist Manor Grunewald (concurrent with his 2012 solo gallery show); Melbourne's Sutton Gallery, featuring paintings by Stephen Bush (the only Australian featured in Phaidon's current publication Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting); Galerie Robert Morat from Hamburg, showing American photographer Christian Patterson (2010 Light Work Artist-in-Residence); and London's EB&Flow, with photography by Alinka Echeverría (2011 Winner of the HSBC Prix pour la Photographie and participant in the 52nd Venice Biennale).

Forty European dealers are in attendance, with especially strong showings from Germany (12 galleries across seven cities), once again creating a broad vista onto particularly intriguing emerging art scenes.Artists include Stefan Krauth (based in Dresden), who bears a 2008 Erasmus-scholarship fromUniversidad do Porto, Portugal; vivid painter Jens Schubert (Leipzig), in the master studies of Prof. Annette Schröter and recipient of the 2011 Marion Ermer-Preis grant; Jana Gunstheimer (Jena), who combined a ethnology background with refined figurative drawing practices in her debut solo museum exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago in 2007; and Christa Joo Hyun D'Angelo, the Busan-born,Berlin-based young cross-media artist featured in the 2012 Singapore Design Festival.

The United States' 30 attendees span the East and West Coasts, with galleries in Boston, East Hampton,Philadelphia, Washington DC, Portland and San Francisco, among others. Artists include painterAndrew Masullo (showing with Boston's Steven Zevitas Gallery), who will be featured in the 2012. Whitney Biennial; Aakash Nihalani, the dynamic young New York-based installation artist, showing vivid fluorescent tape works with Culver City's Carmichael Gallery; Wilmer Wilson IV, 2012 BFA candidate in photography at Howard University College of Arts and Sciences in Washington DC and member of Conner Contemporary's *gogo emerging art projects; Julianne Swartz, subject of 2011 public project Digital Empathy on New York's High Line; and multimedia artist Zackary Drucker, who participated in the 2011 San Francisco International Film Festival and The Living Museum at Lu.C.C.A. Museum of Contemporary Art in Lucca, Italy.

VOLTA NY extends its spectrum throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, Latin America and Africa. Artists include Croatian cross-media pioneer Sanja Ivekovi!, subject of her first-ever stateside career survey Sweet Violence at the Museum of Modern Art; young Samoan/Rarotongan/Tahitian printmaker and artist Michel Tuffery M.N.Z.M. (Member of the New Zealand Merit of Order), who contributed a major multimedia projection at the 2011 Sydney Festival First Night; Cape Town's technologist-sculptor Rowan Smith, who is completing his Master's at the California Institute of the Arts; San Juan, Puerto Rico sculptor Jorge Díaz-Torres, winner of the Miami 2010 PULSE Prize; and Tokyo-based artist Ken Matsubara, who featured his nostalgia-inducing oeuvre at Spazio Lightbox in Venice earlier this year.

Please find attached the full list of exhibiting artists and galleries at VOLTA NY, sorted alphabetically byartist with the Nordic Spotlight on top.

Aside from convenient public access by subway or taxi, visitors can reach VOLTA NY 's prime location just off 5th Avenue with shared shuttles directly between The Armory Show on Pier 94 and the VOLTA NY site opposite The Empire State Building on 34th Street.

In addition, visitors can purchase a combination ticket for both VOLTA NY (regular $15) and our partner fair The Armory Show (regular $30) online for a discounted price of only $40.

Online press accreditation: http://ny.voltashow.com/Online-Press-Accreditation.6458.0.html.

VOLTA was founded in Basel in 2005 by dealers Kavi Gupta (Chicago), Ulrich Voges (Frankfurt) and Friedrich Loock (Berlin). The eighth edition in Basel, VOLTA8, will coincide with Basel Art Week in June2012.

Essential Information

Dates and Time: VOLTA NY takes place in 2012 to coincide with our partner fair The Armory Show,
from Thursday, March 8th – Sunday, March 11th.

Location: 7W, 7 West 34th Street (Between 5th / 6th Avenue; Opposite Empire State Building) New York, NY 10001 USA
11th Floor Fair Location
10th Floor Show / Press Office
7th Floor “Open Forum” Talks Lounge

Preview: Thursday, March 8th
Guest of Honor 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
VIP / Press 12 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Access with personal invitation from VOLTA NY (for Armory VIPs) or VOLTA NY credentials

Public Hours Daily:
Thursday, March 8th 2 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Friday, March 9th – 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Sunday, March 11th

Admission and Catalogue Prices:
General Admission US $15
Student / Seniors US $10
The Armory Show / VOLTA NY Combo Pass US $40
The Combination Pass can be purchased in advance online by going to The Armory Show website > Attending the Show > Tickets
VOLTA NY Catalogue US $40

Getting There:
Shuttle: A regular complimentary bus shuttle service will run every 20 mins to and from The Armory
Show and VOLTA NY, from Thursday March 8th through Sunday March 11th, from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Subway: The yellow N/Q/R/W line and orange B/D/F/V line stop directly at 34th Street and 6th Avenue/
Broadway. Walk a half block east.
The green 6 line stops at 33rd and Park Avenue (do not take 4/5, they are express!). Walk 2 1/2 blocks west.

VOLTA NY
7W, 7 West 34th Street
(Between 5th / 6th Avenue; Opposite Empire State Building)
New York, NY 10001 USA
www.voltashow.com
info@voltashow.com