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Runo Lagomarsino · Silence Answers All · Marabouparken konsthall

When Picasso painted his monumental work Guernica, a Nazi officer allegedly asked him: “Did you do this?” To which Picasso replied, “No, you did."

Runo Lagomarsino’s exhibition Silence Answers All at Marabouparken konsthall takes Guernica as a starting point: not only the painting itself, but also its circulation and the importance it has had, and the symbol it has become. In a larger sense, the exhibition sets in motion questions of the potential of images, or rather of the image as a site for memory, as a site for struggle. Can images continue to live, to affect, and to transform each time they are exhibited, replicated, documented, and reproduced.

Central to the exhibition is a newly produced film. In the film, we see a replica of Guernica and the artist sweeping and mopping the floor of the pavilion in front of the painting. The rhythmic movements of the clean­ ing points toward the deep scars that history has etched into our collec­ tive memory. If Guernica condemns the horrors of war, the cleaning – the act of washing away dirt and dust – is a reminder of the impossibility of erasing the past. The image haunts us and should haunt us. 

RUNO LAGOMARSINO is one of Sweden’s most renowned artists. He has exhibited at institutions such as Reina Sofía, Madrid, LACMA, Los Angeles and Moderna Museet, Stockholm. He has also been rep­ resented at the São Paulo Biennial, The Istanbul Biennial, The Venice Biennial and The Gwangju Biennial.

- Marabouparken konsthall 

Installationview, Runo Lagomasino, Silence Answers All (2024), Marabouparken Konsthall Photo: Johan Österholm

 

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Michael Kvium · WETLAND · The Nivaagaard Collection

 

Kvium’s trademark humour mingles with menacing undertones of danger in his latest renditions of nature, people, faith and gender. Created especially for the Nivaagaard Collection, the new exhibition constitutes a total, immersive installation that presents all-new works and revisits a previous installation, all set in a poignant and disturbing WETLAND. Michael Kvium pulls no punches when he observes and paints the world. There is no flattery, no retouching here. And he firmly maintains that reality is far worse than any image. Perhaps his pictures are not as caricatured as one might think?

In WETLAND, he invites us to enter a simultaneously touching and disturbing world that engages closely with major issues of our time. Rich in sensory stimulation, the exhibition addresses people, nature, faith, reality and gender. In WETLAND, the welcome return of an installation last shown in Norway in 1998 joins all-new sculptures and paintings done on canvases small and large – even directly on the museum’s walls. A technically phenomenal painter, Michael Kvium is also a finely tuned seismograph, picking up the signs of the times and observing human folly. He continues to surprise and shock, all while new observations of nature, menacing undertones of danger and a sense of humour both crude and affectionate evoke emotional responses in those who view his pictures.

For WETLAND, Kvium has nurtured his creative urge by gazing upon wet land, encroaching bodies of water at our coastlines and mountains of waste. Upon everyday people closing their eyes to all threats. Unattainable women and lonely lads. Flowing tears and scattered flights of birds. All as responses to our current times.Taking the form of an immersive installation created especially for the Nivaagaard Collection, the exhibition is set in the original part of the museum building, in founder Johannes Hage’s small temple to art. Kvium has closely studied the museum’s collection of Renaissance and Baroque art, not least the religious scenes, as well as the Danish Golden Age landscapes which constitute a historical precursor and sounding board for his WETLAND. The Nivaagaard Collection always likes to bring nature inside. With this exhibition, the museum welcomes nature in a Kviumesque world as the artist sees it in the year 2024. 

The exhibition is open from the 5th of October 2024 until the 16th of February 2025 

COMMISSIONS 

FOS · Permission to fall · Frieze Sculpture

Permission to fall is a performance that triggers an event evocative of sculpture that occurs through unexpected encounters. For the first time in the history of Frieze Sculpture, an artist has been commissioned to create a performance work. Connected to the conception and experience of sculpture, Permission to fall will take place at the weekend, in the afternoons at unspecified times. The non-descriptive nature of this announcement is intended to blur the boundaries between routine, everyday acts, events and art encounters. 

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Eduardo Terrazas · When the World Is Watching · San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

 

Eduardo Terrazas design for the 1968 Olympics in Mexico, is included in the exhibition When the World Is Watching at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 

“ Major international competitions where athletes compete as members of a national team are highly anticipated and widely watched media events. Such tournaments find participants facing their fiercest competitors, and often befriending them. Host cities invest in building state-of-the-art arenas, transportation, and hospitality to increase tourism. Nations finance research and development of performance sports gear, like the racing wheelchair and hydrofoil sailboat on view here, which in turn influence the sporting goods made available to the public. Given the global attention, many athletes take the opportunity to surface inequities they have encountered for broader perspectives and debate. In addition to showcasing the highest level of performance, international games spur innovations in design and urban planning, and significant discussions that influence broader social progress. "
– SFMoMA

The exhibitions is on view from the 17th of August 2024  to the 4th of May 2025

 

When the World Is Watching, Installation view, SFMOMA, photo: Don Ross
When the World Is Watching, Installation view, SFMOMA, photo: Don Ross

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FOS · ABOGADO · Museo Anahuacalli

A site-specific intervention by FOS at the Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City.   

The project combines sculpture, architecture, design, and music to create a space that fosters reflection and discussion on the concept of Justice and the creation of laws as manifestations of social cooperation.    

Architecturally, ABOGADO is conceived as a 10 x 10 meter plan volume that symbolizes the structure within which we organize ourselves as a society. Inside, it houses enough space to carry out activations through the public program and the presence of visitors. The pavilion is oriented in the space in relation to the Anahuacalli museum building. The entrance of the pavilion welcomes the public entering the esplanade, and the exit coincides with the main entrance of the museum, connecting both buildings.    

For this intervention, artist FOS was inspired by one of the multiple facets that the Anahuacalli and the City of the Arts project conceived by Diego Rivera had in their origins: to provide space for reflection on relevant topics and artistic and cultural expressions of the contemporary world, as well as to provide a space where different crafts and disciplines could coincide. Taking this as a starting point, FOS sought to create a space to think about our coexistence in freedom under the law, as well as our ability to re-imagine and redesign a future based on our past and present, maintaining ourselves as a free society.   

The roof of the pavilion is composed of magnified fragments of Mesoamerican pieces belonging to the Anahuacalli museum collection, thus integrating the history of the place and the original vocation of housing Diego Rivera’s collection.    

As in most of FOS’ previous works, this space conveys the history of the place through signs and references. When entering the pavilion, the public will be covered by fragments of artifacts from their own history.

The exhibition is open from July 20 to August 11, 2024

    

GROUP SHOWS 

Tove Storch · SAMMENBRUD

Tove Storch’s work “Untitled” (2024) is part of the exhibition “SAMMENBRUD” at Ved Skoven, on view until September 1, 2024.⁠ ⁠

A long row of rusted iron rods rests like heavy wet ropes over two transverse bars. The hard individual parts fuse together like threads in a huge piece of textile that is hung to dry. The threads resemble a drawing, a transparent sculpture, simply made up of lines.⁠ ⁠

Photo: Malle Madsen⁠

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Tove Storch · Hearland Festival

For Heartland Festival 2024, Tove Storch created a site-specific installation for people to interact with while washing their hands at the festival site.⁠ ⁠

With this work, Storch set the stage for a grand communal ritual performance, where the audience could rub their wet hands up and down soft, smooth sculptural forms. Storch emphasized the sensory experience, highlighting the intense interaction between the body, hands, and imagination with the object.⁠ ⁠

Photo: Anne Mie Bak 

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Lea Porsager · After the Sun — Forecasts from the North

Lea Porsager’s work “OFFSHORE G.O.D. [Generator. Organizer. Destroyer.], Remains.” (2024⁠) is part of the exhibition ”After the Sun — Forecasts from the North” at the Buffalo AKG.⁠ ⁠

The exhibition is curated by Helga Christoffersen, and is on view through August 19, 202⁠4.⁠ ⁠

Photo: Brenda Bieger⁠ ⁠