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13/4/2010

Runaway Train

Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm

Curated by Camilla Larsson

Emanuel Almborg, Nina Canell, Karin Hasselberg, Carl Johan Högberg, Malin Lennström-Örtwall, Jenny Lindblom, Magnus Monfeldt, Jonas Ohlsson, Emily Sundblad, Niklas Tafra, Charlotte Wandt

Bonniers Konsthall continues to take the pulse of the Swedish emerging art scene. This year's show, Runaway Train, focuses on young Swedish artists who study and work abroad. This selection criterion prompts questions about the places that Swedish artists choose to live, and how that choice affects their art.

In the Runaway Train exhibition, curator Camilla Larsson has enlisted the assistance of Tone Hansen, Josefine Wikström, Ana-Maria Hadji-Culea and Krist Gruijthuijsen – all young curators working in Europe. Together, they have seeked out eleven young Swedish artists who had vanished from the Swedish artworld. Artists who have elected to move away and work abroad, and because of that choice are invisible in Swedish konsthalls, museums and galleries.

The Runaway Train exhibition combines unconstrained collage, image archeology, Dadaist performance and western film. The common link between the artists in the exhibition is a belief in the mutability of identity. In their works they conjure up unexpected notions, and longings for other ways of being.

Camilla Larsson, the exhibition curator: "The artists show us that an identity can be created by several individuals, speak with several voices, that it can take on various physical guises, and have multiple origins and shifting visual expressions. What fascinates me about the artists in the exhibition is their almost reckless play with phenomena, images, objects and temporary modes of expression, which they combine to make new claims about the age we live in."

The works in the exhibition are not rooted in any one space or time, but are open-ended and refer to something outside of themselves – to politics, history, culture and materiality. The French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy's concept of "being singular plural" hits the nail on the head. He propounds the thesis that being is always a matter of "being-with". I does not precede we, existence is always co-existence.

Bonniers Konsthall opened in autumn 2006 in the centre of Stockholm and is a venue for Swedish and international contemporary art. The exhibition Runaway Train is part of Bonniers Konsthall's commitment to young Swedish contemporary art, which springs from the Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation's tradition of supporting young visual artists and artistic work. The Foundation, which is the basis of Bonniers Konsthall, has awarded grants to young Swedish artists every year since 1985. Since the year 2007 Bonniers Konsthall presents a group exhibition, which provides an insight into what preoccupies the young artists of today. The first year Bonniers Konsthall scanned the Swedish art academies and discovered the return of romanticism. In 2008, Bonniers Konsthall invited its friends to present their favourites on the young Swedish art scene as a way of exploring contemporary networking. And in 2009, the connection between emerging contemporary artists and the Swedish artworld of the early 1980s was revealed.

Image: Jenny LindblomUntitled (Limited Ambition), 2010

For further information, please contact:
Metta Flensburg, Press Officer Bonniers Konsthall +46-8-7364266, +46-70-2800413 metta.flensburg@bonnierskonsthall.se

Bonniers Konsthall
Torsgatan 19, SE-113 90 Stockholm
Opening hours during exhibition dates
Wednesday - Friday 12 pm - 7 pm
Saturday - Sunday: 12 pm - 5 pm

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