Tino Sehgal
dal 5/3/2008 al 3/5/2008
Segnalato da
5/3/2008
Tino Sehgal
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm
In his work he challenges the notion of production, both artistically and economically, by creating immaterial ways of generating meaning. His artwork exists only in the moment in which it is experienced, and as a verbal narrative when recounted to others. Three works that involv around 30 individuals as interpreters: staff members, academics and professional dancers.
Curatored by Richard Julin
"It is with great pleasure that we present Tino Sehgal’s first solo exhibition in Scandinavia. His thinking, creative process and the resultant artworks of constructed situations offer an extraordinary experience and positive challenge to our visitors as well as to us as an institution." says Richard Julin, the curator of the exhibition.
Sehgal’s point of departure as an artist is the fact that we are using up more of the planet’s resources than what is necessary for survival. In his work he challenges the notion of production, both artistically and economically, by creating immaterial ways of generating meaning. His artwork exists only in the moment in which it is experienced, and as a verbal narrative when recounted to others. It is not documented by any audiovisual means. His practice revolves around people who are instructed by Sehgal to use their bodies, voices and personalities to interpret a specific set of rules. The reaction or even participation of the spectator gives the possibility for the work to actually happen. He makes a point of the fact that his art is not a performance, a medium which historically has been a reaction to the art market. Sehgal’s pieces exist as exhibitable, sellable and collectable, yet immaterial work.
Three works will be shown at Magasin 3, involving around 30 individuals as interpreters: staff members, academics from various fields and professional dancers. The works are ”This is new”(2003), ”Instead of allowing some things to rise up to your face, dancing bruce and dan and other things” (2000) and ”This objective of that object” (2004).
Tino Sehgal was born in London in 1976. He lives and works in Berlin.
Sehgal has had solo exhibitions at the Walker Art Center (2008); Marian Goodman Gallery (2007); Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2007); Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2007, 2006, 2005); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2006); Kunsthaus Bregenz (2006); Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2006); Hamburger Kunstverein, Germany (2006); Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal (2004); Musée des Beaux-arts de Nantes, France (2004); and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands (2004). He has also participated in the Lyon Bienniale, France (2007); the Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London (2006); the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2005); the Venice Bienniale / Utopia Station (2003); as well as Manifesta, Frankfurt, Germany (2002). He represented Germany at the 2005 Venice Bienniale. In 2007 he was nominated for the Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst, Berlin and in 2006 for the Hugo Boss Prize at the Guggenheim Museum, New York. He received the Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel, Schweiz in 2004 as well as the 2003 Kunstpreis der Böttcherstrasse in Bremen, Germany.
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Annika von Hausswolff
Ich bin die ecke aller raume
Until 8 June
Curated by David Neuman och Tessa Praun
This spring Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall has the great pleasure of showing a wide selection of work by Annika von Hausswolff, an artist whom Magasin 3 has supported for many years.
Contradictory feelings of unease and curiosity evoked by her macabre stories and glimpses of the unexpected in the everyday have been characteristic of von Hausswolff’s work since the 1990’s. In her carefully composed photographs the human body is often physically present or tangible in the traces left behind: naked, abandoned bodies in picturesque landscapes, covered, lifeless bodies, children with chainsaws, or the reminders of human presence in the form of dust bunnies, empty chairs and discarded shirts. Using well-known motifs and art historical references Annika von Hausswolff’s work exists on the border between the documentary and the staged. In the last few years her world of images has increasingly taken physical shape in the exhibition space through the use of objects and props.
Image: Annika von Hausswolff
Press images and information
For log-in access, please contact Tove Schalin, exhibition coordinator/press contact Tel: +46 8 545 680 40 schalin@magasin3.com
Thursday March 6 at 12-7pm, opening of Tino Sehgal exhibition
7pm – Artist talk, Tino Sehgal talks to chief curator Richard Julin
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall
Frihamnen, SE -115 56 Stockholm
The exhibitions and the café are open on Thursdays from 12 to 7 pm, and Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 12 to 5 pm.