Michael Kvium

27.03.2012

We are pleased to announce that Michael Kvium’s solo exhibition Freestyle Tales is now on display at Horsens Art Museum, DK.
The exhibition that holds focus on works on paper has previously been shown at Kastrupgaard, DK, and The Faroe Islands Art Museum, FO. This summer the exhibition will travel to the Horst Janssen museum in Oldenburg, DE

 

Tove Storch

27.03.2012

Tove Storch has created a site specific work for the group exhibition SPATIUM currently on display at Kumu Art Museum in Estonia.

The exhibition will be on display until May 13th 2012.

 

RUNO LAGOMARSINO

11.04.2012

We are pleased to announce that Runo Lagomarsino is participating at the group exhibition Unfinished Journeys at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo.

Other participating artists are Bas Jan Ader, Francis Alÿs, Chantal Akerman, Rosa Barba, Rui Calçada Bastos, Stanley Brouwn, Kristina Bræin, Tacita Dean, Marine Hugonnier, Isaac Julien, Helen Mirra, Adrian Paci, Robert Smithson, Fiona Tan og Knut Åsdam.

The exhibition features works that address the theme of never-ending journeys from a variety of angles. The works are about travel in the figurative sense – the ongoing quest for one’s own identity and place in the world – but also tackle the issue of migration.

It has been argued that in the 21st century we are all chimeras, hybrids, “illegitimate bastards” who can no longer draw upon an original comprehensive history. We are marked by different languages and incompatible patterns of socialization. Thus the idea of a rooted identity, of an essentialist concept of identity as essence and origin of the subject, has to be substituted with an image of the subject as constituted by the routes it has traveled. So the question “Where are you from?” should be replaced by “Where have you traveled?” or even “Where are you traveling?” Identity is a journey that is unfinished. The title of the exhibition “Unfinished Journeys” can be seen as an extended metaphor for the problem of identity formation. Many artists in the exhibition deal with the questions of identity as explicitly geographical spatial expeditions. Their journeys to real and imagined places show us life as a restless voyage of discovery, both literally and metaphorically.

“Unfinished Journeys” shows us that Heimweh (homesickness) and Fernweh (the longing for distant places) are not in fact two diametrically opposed emotions but two sides of the same problem. Their main common denominator is the notion of longing to find oneself. Robert Smithson’s return to his home town Passaic is a voyage of discovery no less restless than Isaac Julien’s journey to China, Marine Hugonnier’s traveling on the unfinished road of the Trans-Amazonian Highway, Åsdam’s abysmal odyssey around East London’s construction site for the new Olympic Arena, or Rosa Barba’s expedition to a “real-and-imagined” moving island in the Baltic Sea – to name just a few. It is the quest to know ourselves in the world that drives us out to foreign countries and back home again.

The exhibition will be on display until May 20th 2012

 

 

TOVE STORCH

25.05.2012

We are very pleased to announce that Tove Storch is part of the exhibition Pink Caviar at Louisiana, Humlebæk, DK. The exhibition presents the museum’s recent acquisitions, which includes four sculptures by Tove Storch. The works were acquired at Storch’s debut exhibition at the gallery in March 2011.
Tove Storch will also be part of the festival TWO DAYS ART taking place at Louisiana on Friday and Saturday May 25-26th.

On Friday Storch will be giving a talk with Torben Ribe at the Panorama Stage from 17:00 – 17:30.

On Saturday Storch has staged a performance in the auditorium. The performance titled Oplæsning af blå (Reading of Blue) will take place at 15:00.

 

 

SUPERFLEX

25.05.2012

For the exhibition project TRACK in Ghent, Belgium the S.M.A.K. has invited 41 international artists to create new works situated around the city. The works will be on display until September 16th 2012

For this project Superflex is presenting a new edition of the Power Toilet:Power Toilets / Council of the European Union, 2012

A copy of the Ministers’ restroom in the Justus Lipsius Building, Council of the European Union in Brussels, installed for public use inside the Turkish Restaurant Alaturka in Ghent.Power Toilets/ Council of the European Union is designed in close collaboration with NEZU AYMO architects for the exhibition TRACK, commissioned by the S.M.A.K and completed 2012. With thanks to gentbouw+.

Address: Restaurant Alaturka, 59 Nederkouter, Ghent, Belgium

 

MICHAEL KVIUM

01.06.2012

Michael Kvium’s solo exhibition Freestyle Tales is now on display at Horst Janssen Museum in Oldenburg, DE.

The exhibition that holds focus on works on paper has previously been shown at Kastrupgaard and Horsens Art Museum.