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6/9/2003

Images of Society

Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun

The exhibition Images of Society will present images and ideas dealing with contemporary society by almost a dozen international artists. These works will mirror, comment or reflect on structures, organisations or systems of human community. Such observations of social life can also be the starting point for a more open engagement which can extend into the realm of the symbolic, or even the utopian.

Images of Society is only confined thematically to a degree, as the aim is not to treat a clearly defined field. Instead of laying down a thematic framework, the exhibition indicates a direction. The concrete topics dealt with by the artists within this large construct of contemporary society are many and varied. Some of the important current social, political and cultural themes are touched on, though without the works aspiring to be conclusive. The simulation and media society, migration or the impact of military conflicts, interaction between the private and the public, the risk society and issues related to the interpersonal and the intimate are addressed and can be related one to the other.

The exhibition will bring together artists of different generations and from different cultural and social backgrounds. Often the point of departure for a work of art is something personal, biographical. In addition, the social realities, and even more so the experiences of the individual, are more pluralistic today than ever before. The questions touched on always point beyond the narrow personal reality of the artists.
At a point in time when art and artists are often regarded as being self-centred, preoccupied with their own environment, their own scene, when issues to do with art and the art system are highly topical, works will be shown here in Thun which are striving to come to terms with the everyday real lifeworld.

Participating Artists: Pierre Bismuth (1963 Paris); Davide Cantoni (1965 Milan); Hans-Peter Feldmann (1941 Düsseldorf); Mona Hatoum (1952 Beirut); Thomas Hirschhorn (1957 Bern); William Kentridge (1955 Johannesburg); Ulrike Kuschel (1972 Berlin); Guillermo Kuitca (1961 Buenos Aires); Graham Little (1972 London); Juan Muñoz (1953 Madrid x{2020}2001Ibiza); Olaf Nicolai (1962 Halle/Saale); Joao Onofre (1976 Lisbon); Anri Sala (1974 Tirana); Rosemarie Trockel (1952 Schwerte); Carey Young (1970 Lusaka)

Image: a work by Joao Onofre

Catalogue: An exhibition catalogue will be published containing numerous reproductions and essays by Felicity Lunn, Peter Gross and Madeleine Schuppli (G/E).

Vernissage: The exhibition Images of Society will mark the re-opening of the completely refurbished Kunstmuseum Thun. After almost two years of reconstruction work, during which the different rooms in the museum were renovated in stages, the whole museum can now be utilised once again. Reason enough to celebrate the exhibition opening and the completion of the renovation work on the museum with appropriate festivities on Saturday, 6 September 2003.

Program of events: A variety of accompanying events, guided tours and activities for children are planned.

Kunstmuseum Thun
Thunerhof
Hofstettenstrasse 14
3602 Thun, Switzerland
+41 (0)33 225 84 20
+41 (0)33 225 89 06

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