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From 18th to 20th April 2012 Prowinter will be opening the new exhibition area dedicated to companies, specialists, champions and ski touring lovers. On Friday 20th April a rich program of side events has been scheduled both to train and inform visitors about this discipline. 
 
Thanks to the abundant snowfall of the past few days, everyone who loves ski touring will be looking forward to skiing on the fresh snow, and they will also be looking forward to attending Prowinter 2012, the international trade show devoted to ski rental and services connected with winter sports, that in Bolzano will present the novelties and the protagonists of this ever growing discipline. 
With the new platform dedicated to Prowinter Skitouring, Fiera Bolzano has further enriched the offer of Prowinter’s 12th edition with an additional exhibition area and side events.  Over the years, this trade show has earned a leading role in the field of ski rental and services. From 18th April the exhibitors of Prowinter Skitouring will present previews of the materials and equipment they plan to market for 2012-2013 winter season. Rentals, sport associations, ski clubs and sport shops will be asked to analyze the offer and to order their new equipment, while visitors will have the opportunity to discover new trends, to meet ski mountaineering champions, and to attend in-depth meetings with technical experts and producers.   
Next to the exhibition area, Prowinter Skitouring will also be proposing a rich calendar of events which are the result of the close collaboration that Fiera Bolzano has been promoting with the most important associations and organizations for many years. On Friday 20th April, many special guests will appear on the Prowinter Forum stage, from the latest ski mountaineering World champions to the best athletes that have dominated the Prowinter Cup, the race circuit promoted in collaboration with ‘Dolomiti sotto le stelle’. During the day the Italian ski mountaineering team will also take part in the exhibition.
The exhibiting companies will arrange side events related to ski touring. La Sportiva, for example, will set up an exhibition gallery to show the best snapshots taken by their supporters who will be  participating in this original photo contest. Friday 20th April the authors of the three best images will be awarded on the Prowinter Forum stage. 
Representatives of the specialized media certainly won’t want to miss the appointment either. The German Alpine magazine – “Das Bergwelt Magazine” has taken the initiative of organizing an exhibiting area where the quality of the materials and  retail prices of the best ski mountaineering equipment on the market will be compared. The magazine, one of the most successful in Germany with about 50.000 copies sold and 100.000 readers, has commissioned professional experts to analyze the best materials employed, and to select all the top range for ski touring.
Furthermore, thanks to a new partnership agreement between Fiera Bolzano and Trento Filmfestival, Prowinter will host the presentation of the 60th edition of the film festival dedicated to the mountains and mountaineering that will involve Bolzano for the first time. From 6th to 9th May 2012 the capital city of the Alto Adige region will be the seat of an international alpine forum with projections of the mountain film review, while during the trade show a selection of documentaries from the archive of the Trento Filmfestival will be shown.    
For all operators and ski mountaineering lovers the appointment with Prowinter Skitouring is fixed in Bolzano from 18th to 20th April 2012, with a rich program of dedicated the side events scheduled on Friday 20th; stands will be open from 10.00 am to 18.00 pm (17.00pm on Friday).

Spring begins in Alto Adige with contemporary art: kunStart 12, Biennial Art Fair for Emerging Contemporary Art, takes place in Bolzano 16th – 18thMarch, 2012. Alongside the 70 galleries from 10 countries present at the fair venue, a rich programme of meetings and seminars spread all over the town is announced.
 

kunStart 12, Biennial Art Fair for Emerging Contemporary Art, takes place 16th – 18th March, 2012 in the Bolzano Fair district, opening with a vernissage on Friday, 17th at 7 pm, followed by _START OPENING PARTY, dedicated to meeting "vs. South Tyrol. South Korea."
Now in its eighth edition, kunStart presents some important news: starting from this year is organized directly by Fiera Bolzano Spa, it also becomes biennial and chooses to specialize in emerging contemporary art market.
After the success of 2010, also this year kunStart is combined with the interior design fair 'Arredo' in order to welcome a wider audience and promote interest in the sector of "affordable", or the art at affordable prices.
Developed around the idea of ‘emerging contemporary’, kunStart 12 is aimed at galleries and exhibition spaces that are active at an international level in researching new artistic proposals and producing young artists, focusing in particular on geographical emerging contexts. The next edition sees the presence of more than 70 galleries from 10 different countries, and in addition to the exhibition hall, a rich programme of events, meetings and conferences inhabit various parts of the city of Bolzano, in collaboration with other institutions and cultural associations.
kunStart is part of a region with a renewed artistic sensibility that has already hosted the Biennial of Contemporary Art Manifesta 7 and today has become an authentic district for the arts thanks to its prestigious exhibition spaces: the Museion in Bolzano, the Mart in Rovereto, the Galleria Civica di Trento and the Kunst Merano Arte in Meran. In addition to establishing strong local roots, through the creation of a network of collaborations with the present institutions, the event also maintains an international dimension, by building dialogue with distant geographical areas that are less known from the artistic point of view. It is at the intersection of the international and local development that many of the projects are aimed, at the ‘glocal’ spaces of contemporary art.
The award "The Glocal Rookie of the Year" in its third edition, is dedicated to artists under 35, with the aim of supporting the career of young talents who show promise in the intepretation and conceputalisation of the 'glocal'. Organised by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Bolzano and kunStart, the event has a jury co-ordinated by the art critic and curator Valerio Dehò, who presents the award March 17th, 2012 in kunStart 12. Among the other emergent artists, the young Valentina Miorandi, presented by Trento-based Boccanera Contemporanea art gallery: some of her works will be transformed into posters going to occupy urban spaces. With the intention of starting international project, the "Korea Focus," presents an overview of emerging production in South Korea with a group of participating galleries coordinated by Chris H. Cheon (President of the Franco-Korean cultural exchange Association Nez-a-Nez), alongside European galleries exhibiting Korean artists. A large supporting programme of lectures, presentations and artist talks sponsored by the General Consulate of the Republic of Korea in Milan and personal exhibitions of Jeong Min Suh by the A & B Gallery and Hyon Soo Kim by Valerio Dehò, as well as an exhibition with works by Nam June Paik's from the archive collection “Pari e Dispari” of Rosanna Chiessi Chiessi and the dialogue between the couple of artists MinJi Kim e Alessandro Dal Pont (from South Korea and from Belluno in Italy, respectively) curated by dolomiti contemporanee. kunStart also suggests uncommon ways aiming at drawing parallels between different sectors and disciplines: Special Bike Project combines contemporary art and sustainable mobility. The famous international artist Rainer Ganahl, will give artist talk taking place at the Museion on the eve of the fair, March 15, and of a personal entitled “I WANNA BE…”, realized in collaboration with kooio art gallery staged in the fair’s spaces from March 16 to 18, where he plays with Dinghi bicycles on the theme of green technology. In the Museion spaces, the installation “La Scorta” (Ecology and Power), 2012 by Gianfranco Baruchello will be exhibited, ralized in collaboration with RAM radioartemobile, Roma. On March, 16th at 4,30 pm in Latemar Hall at Bolzano Exhibition Centre RAM radioartemobile promotes and organizes the second DAC meeting: a round table PRODUCERS vs ARTISTS. The artists Gianfranco Baruchello, Rainer Ganahl and Daniele Puppi will discuss with the South-Tyrolean enterpreneurs in the bike sector Maurizio De Concini e Ingrid Dellago, CEO of TC Mobility SRL, Franz Viehweider owner of PimpGarage by Vasc. Ital. SAS, Gianfranco Pizzuto (Fisker Italia) and Hugo Götsch President of the Association Südtirol Rad – Bici Alto Adige. During the fair a free bike-rental point will be in use for visitors to Bolzano. 
Many other projects and special events are part of the program of KunStart 12, Biennial Art Fair for Emerging Contemporary Art. Among others, the Countdown Design Show 2012, an auction dedicated to the new trend of ‘upcycling’ or regeneration of used materials to create new products; and also KunSt_off GALLERIES nIGHT - opening night of fifteen spaces for contemporary art in Bolzano is scheduled for Saturday, March 17 from 6 pm until midnight.

Institutional partners of kunStart 12 are: the Autonomous Region Trentino-AltoAdige, Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano, Comune di Bolzano, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Südtirol Marketing, Italian Consolate of the Republic of Korea in Italy.
Partners of the fair: http://www.fierabolzano.it/kunstart/en/sistema.htm
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