Bonniers Konsthall presents Against Time
Bonniers Konsthall
Against Time
September 12 - November 25
Bonniers Konsthall
Torsgatan 19, S-113 90 Stockholm
Tel: 46 87 36 42 42 Fax: 46 83 02 387
http://www.bonnierskonsthall.se
On September 12 this autumn’s main group exhibition Against Time opens at Bonniers Konsthall. The exhibition gathers 20 artists and authors who, from different perspectives and using different methods, work with time, history and storytelling. Common to them all is a fascination to recreate the past; a past that is reinterpreted, re-used and given new meanings through creative rewritings and new writings. The exhibition questions the methods of storytelling: how is continuity created, how is it broken down, are there other ways of telling? But it is also concerned with the way we create history through our narratives and with the function that the image and the reconstruction of the past performs in the present.
A main theme in the exhibition is an interest for literature’s forms of narration and its function in contemporary visual art. The exhibition is devised as a crossover between visual art and literature in which several of those contributing to the exhibition also work as fictional authors. An important element in the exhibition is the comprehensive anthology Anachronisms in which the artists and authors participate. Their respective roles overlap in some cases in the same way that their contributions shift between text and image.
Against Time is an exhibition where time is an expressed dimension. The architecture devised for the exhibition by the Swedish architectural firm SPRIDD emphasises this by leaving a space for reading to occupy the heart of a labyrinthine series of rooms. It underscores the artists’ play with time and history, and counteracts the Konsthalle’s transparency and clarity by using textiles to create darkness. A wide-ranging programme of readings, performances, discussions and lectures will be given during the course of the exhibition. Several of the contributing artists have produced new work especially for the exhibition.
Contributors:
Ulla von Brandenburg (Germany), Gerard Byrne (Ireland), Marcel van Eeden (The Netherlands), Annika von Hausswolff (Sweden), Johannes Heldén (Sweden), Leif Holmstrand (Sweden), Martin Karlsson (Sweden), Fabian Kastner (Sweden), Joachim Koester (Denmark), Robert Kusmirowski (Poland), Lotta Lotass (Sweden), Ján Mancuska (Czech Republic), Melvin Moti (The Netherlands), Gerald Murnane (Australia), Lina Selander (Sweden), Marie Silkeberg (Sweden), Johan Thurfjell (Sweden), Dubravka Ugresic (Croatia), Per Wizén (Sweden) and Ulrika Minami Wärmling (Sweden).
Curator for the exhibition is director of Bonniers Konsthall, Sara Arrhenius.
For more information and high-resolution images please visit http://www.bonnierskonsthall.se
Wednesday Evenings at Bonniers Konsthall
Five Wednesday evenings during Against Time.
Upcoming evenings in September and October:
Wed Sep 19
Matter Out of Time
Something is happening with literature. No longer contained by the covers of a book, it takes its place in space and becomes a part of visual art. Some of the writers and artists from the exhibition will read and perform. An expanded literature makes its voice heard.
Participants: Leif Holmstrand, Johannes Heldén, and Marie Silkeberg.
Introduced and concluded by Director Sara Arrhenius.
Wed Oct 3
Copying Correctly
There is an ongoing discussion on authenticity and plagiarism. The writer Fabian Kastner has published the novel Oneirine which consists of quotations without references. The artist Martin Karlsson draws our attention to anachronistic details in a series of photographs with motifs from the open-air museum Skansen. We will discuss recycling and copyright in art and literature.
Participants: Sara Arrhenius, Magnus Bergh, Martin Karlsson, and Fabian Kastner. Moderator: Gabriella Håkansson.
For more information go to: http://www.bonnierskonsthall.se