Alien spiders' webs and expatriate Swedish artists. That is what spring 2010 has to offer when Bonniers Konsthall presents a major solo exhibition with Tomas Saraceno and a group exhibition with young Swedish artists in the international art arena. The season begins on 27 January with five films about the past.
Bonniers Konsthall kicks off the spring with the film programme Projections (27 January-4 April). The film programme focuses on the wide range of depictions in contemporary moving images. Of various duration and formats, spanning classic documentary expressions to a more poetic narrative vocabulary, the films are thematically connected by a strong belief in how art can deal with and convey the past. In our programme of Wednesday evening artists' talks, the public will have the opportunity to meet the people behind the films. Participating artists: Manon De Boer, Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler, Ursula Mayer, Guido Van der Werve and Artur Zmijewski.
In the spring Bonniers Konsthall will present a solo exhibition by the artist and architect Tomas Saraceno, the 2010 Bonniers Konsthall guest artist (17 February-20 June). Tomas Saraceno, whose work is currently displayed in the exhibition Life Forms, will, in the spring, occupy the entire gallery with his utopian installations, which combine science, art and architecture. This is the first major presentation of this internationally renowned artist in Europe.
Sara Arrhenius, exhibition curator and Director of Bonniers Konsthall:
“Tomas Saraceno’s work comprises concepts of how art may build dreams for the future. He has the courage to let art propose new utopias in harmony with architecture and science”.
In collaboration with spider researchers and astrophysicists, Tomas Saraceno has spent several years developing the more than 500 cubic metre installation that will be exhibited at Bonniers Konsthall. A large-scale model of the poisonous spider the Black Widow’s web, the point of departure for the new work is how scientists use images of spiders' webs to describe the origin and structure of the universe. Tomas Saraceno’s installation for Bonniers Konsthall is a development of the work that the artist presented at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009: Galaxy Forming along Filaments, like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider’s Web.
Tomas Saraceno was born in 1973 in Argentina and lives and works in Frankfurt. Employing techniques such as installation, sculpture and photography, the artist explores the organic conditions and structures of our world.
Bonniers Konsthall continues to check out the Swedish contemporary art scene. Every year we present a group exhibition that provides an insight into what preoccupies the young artists of today. In 2010 the focus is on Swedish artists that live and work abroad. The selection method raises questions about where Swedish artists choose to study and work. In the exhibition Runaway Train (14 April – 20 June) curator Camilla Larsson continues to explore current trends in contemporary art. She has enlisted the assistance of Tone Hansen, Josefine Wikström, Ana-Maria Hadji Culea and Krist Gruijthuijsen – all young curators working in Europe.
Spring 2010 at Bonniers Konsthall
27 January – 4 April: Projections
25 February – 20 June: Tomas Saraceno
14 April – 20 June: Runaway Train
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