AWARDS 

Lea Porsager - nominated for Swedish Architects Best Landscape Architecture 2019

Lea Porsager's ‘Gravitational Ripples’ (2018) was nominated for Swedish Architects Best Landscape Architecture 2019
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Gravitational Ripples is the Swedish Memorial for the victims of the tsunami in southeast Asia in 2004.⁠

For further information and motivation of the jury - www.arkitekt.se/nominerade-till-basta-landskapsarkitektur-2019⁠

GROUP SHOWS 

Torbjørn Rødland is a part of the exhibition 'Amuse-bouche. The Taste of Art' at Museum Tinguely, Basel. ⁠

The exhibition will run until 17 May 2020. ⁠

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AWARDS 

BEST BOOTH in ZONA MACO by GRUPO HABITA

We are extremely proud to announce that our booth received the prize BEST BOOTH in ZONA MACO by GRUPO HABITA • Thank you OLAF BREUNING for presenting the amazing sculptures Sad and Worried Animals and thanks to the community and the team behind Zona Maco - This is our 15th anniversary at Zona Maco and we already look forward to next year!

News 

Michael Kvium interview by TV2 Lorry

Michael Kvium, Pale Male Tales

Until March 7, 2020.

GROUP SHOWS 

Superflex 'One Two Three Swing!' in Desert X AlUla

One Two Three Swing! is a part of the Desert X AlUla from 31st January until 7th March 2020.

Desert X AlUla is organised collaboratively by Desert X and the Royal Commission of AlUla (RCU), the exhibition takes place in the desert of AlUla, an ancient oasis in Saudi Arabia. It is the first site-reponsive exhibition of its kind in Saudi Arabia. The exhibition is a cross-cultural dialogue between artists from Saudi Arabia and its surrounding region and artists from previous iterations of Desert X in California, taking its cues from the extraordinary landscape and historical significance of AlUla.
 
One Two Three Swing!
To exist in a global economy is to be in constant swing; periods of intense flux are interrupted by moments of sudden paralysis. These movements are causal, and capital connects us all, for better or worse. But perhaps we can harness this movement ourselves. Comprised of several sets of three-seated swings conjoined by a zig-zagging orange support, One Two Three Swing! invites its users to activate the socially transformative potential of collective movement, challenging society’s apathy towards the political, environmental and economic crises of our age. The multi-user swing acts as a human- powered pendulum, converting energy into movement that is almost flight: rocking, moving, propelling backward and forward with increasing momentum in a process of ever shifting equilibrium and play.

The swing’s users must utilize the forces of gravity through coordinated pushings and pullings, until everyone moves into full swing together. In this playful moment, the potential energy of group movement is released. Perhaps it is possible, then, to shift the impact of our collective action to achieve a different kind of global momentum, and utilize the act of swinging together as a means of social and political transformation. First installed at the Tate Modern Turbine Hall in 2017, various site-specific installations of the swing-set continue to be created on a great diversity of contexts, such as AlUla in Saudi Arabia, the DMZ area in South Korea and Vordingborg in Denmark. The color-scheme of the swings themselves represents the specific colors of the national currency of the country in which the swings are installed. Over time, the work will evolve as the orange support continues to grow and new swings are added into the wider world.

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News 

Superflex at BBC Sounds 'Design or humans and marine life'

'What do you get when you put a Danish artist group together with oceanographers, material scientists, and marine biologists? The answer is an idea which might just change the way we imagine and design our environments in response to rising sea levels.

As warnings about the effects of global warming escalate, Superflex - an art group founded by Jakob Fenger, Bjørnstjerne Christiansen and Rasmus Nielsen in 1993 – have been working on a long term project to imagine a world where the original function and aesthetics of our carefully designed world may be lost to the tide.

Commissioned by TBA21-Academy, the project is called Deep Sea Minding and it considers whether it’s possible to design and create structures that could serve the needs and desires of both humans and marine life.

So in their headquarters in Copenhagen, the team at Superflex are mixing concrete and amino acids together to see whether they can create bricks to make houses and schools which can be occupied by humans first and then fish. They’re also preparing a prototype structure to be placed on the seabed to test the responses of fish to this new material.

Over the course of nine months Laura Hubber joins Rasmus Nielsen from Superflex for one leg of their epic journey –taking in California, Copenhagen and Jamaica - and meeting a Mermaid along the way. Presented by Laura Hubber and produced by Emma Kingsley and Ella-mai Robey for BBC World Service.

Original music from Dive-In composed by Dark Morph (Jón Þór Birgisson and Carl Michael von Hausswolff)' - BBC Sounds

To listen to the podcast please click here

PUBLICATIONS 

Jone Kvie new book 'Here, here'

The book is published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Jone Kvie, Here, here' at Stavanger Art Museum, 1 November 2019 – 1 March 2020.⁠

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