Pia Ronicke
dal 17/2/2006 al 29/4/2006
Segnalato da
17/2/2006
Pia Ronicke
Lunds Konsthall, Lund
The artist investigates how we as 'users' can influence what urban planners, architects and designers do. The exhibition traces the development of her practice through various modes of narration. She has worked with visual formats like computer-aided animation, and she has staged situations and documented them in images and text.
Solo show
Lund Konsthall is pleased to present Danish artist Pia Ronicke's first
substantial solo exhibition. It makes full use of the kunsthalle and
contains work produced between 1998 and 2006. A catalogue is published for
the exhibition, with picture documentation and an essay by the kunsthalle's
new Acting Director Anders Kreuger.
Pia Ronicke is concerned with urban realities and fantasies. She
continuously investigates how we as 'users' can influence (and are
influenced by) what urban planners, architects and designers do. She has
studied 20th century utopianism, how it looks 'on paper' and 'in reality'.
The exhibition traces the development of Pia Ronicke's practice through
various modes of narration. She has worked with purely visual formats like
computer-aided animation, and she has staged situations and documented them
in images and text. Increasingly, she also scripts, directs and produces
films.
Pia Ronicke's new film Zonen ('The Zone', 2005) is premiered at Lund
Konsthall. It shows three young Danish architects (Tue Hasselberg-Foged,
Kristoffer Lindhardt Weiss and Sinus Lynge) on a visit to a site they have
proposed to transform into a town for 20,000 people. The film is based on
their theoretical jargon, and becomes a commentary on the relation between
ideas and their realisation. Some infrastructure is already in place in the
Zone, but it is strangely suspended between the real and the fictional, the
past and the future.
In her practice, Pia Ronicke interprets what is going on in contemporary
society from her specific point of view. Who benefits from the grand utopian
visions of societal development? Can we influence the changes our
surroundings are undergoing? How will the future look? Can we see glimpses
of it in an artist's vision? Welcome to Lund Konsthall to see how Pia
Ronicke tackles these issues.
Pia Ronicke (b 1974) lives and works in Copenhagen. After graduating from
the Royal Danish Art Academy in Copenhagen and California Institute of the
Arts in Los Angeles she has worked in the Nordic region and internationally.
She has exhibited at Moderna Museet in Stockholm (2001), Tate Modern (2005),
the Nordic biennial Momentum 2 in Moss, Norway (2000) and the European
biennial Manifesta 4 in Frankfurt (2002).
Lund Konsthall gratefully acknowledges the support of Calamus Danmark A/S
and the Danish Arts Agency for realising Pia Ronicke's exhibition.
Opening Friday 17 February at 5-8 pm
Lunds konsthall
Martenstorget 3 - Lund