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11/8/2011

Sven Augustijnen

Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen

The heart of the exhibition of the Belgian artist Sven Augustijnen (1970, lives and works in Brussels) is Spectres, an unusual filmic essay which does not take a concordant position but mixes journalism and politics, history, documentation and art. The conceptual starting point is Karl Marx’s stay in Brussels while writing The Communist Manifesto and its effects on the crown prince (later Leopold II) who annexed the Congo one year after Marx’s death. Through the figure of an eighty year-old man who was in Congo as a member of the Belgian government in 1960 – the year in which Patrice Lumumba, first prime minister of the independent state was executed – the film analyses the subject of history and the writing of history and shows how it is always influenced by subjective perception.

Augustijnen’s exhibition at the Kunst Halle continues the artist’s interest in the subject of colonialism and its consequences and makes an important contribution to the critical analysis of Europe’s economic system. Photographic works and documentary material providing deeper acquaintance with these themes will be on show.

The film «Spectres» has been produced in cooperation with the Wiels Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels (May to July 2011) and de Appel in Amsterdam (November 2011 to January 2012) and will also be on show at Kunsthalle Bern (autumn 2011). A substantial publication comprising reference documents, photos and explanatory texts accompanies the exhibitions.

Sven Augustijnen studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, at Hoger Sint-Lukas Instituut in Brussels and at Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. Solo exhibitions of the artist took place (amongst others) at Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels (2011), at Gallery Jan Mot, Brussels (2008) and at Argos, Brussels (2004). Further, he participated in various group exhibitions, amongst them at the following institutions and galleries: MUHKA, Antwerp; Kunsthalle Bern (2010); De Hallen, Haarlem (NL); Kunsthalle Basel; Shanghai Art Museum; National Museum, Singapore; Tate Modern, London; Ernst Museum, Budapest; Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (US) (2009); Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart; Museion, Bolzano (IT)(2008); Old Embassy, Tokyo; MuHKA, Antwerp; Vakgroep Architectuur en Stedebouw, Ghent (BE); CC Strombeek (BE); Ruimte voor actuele Kunst, Antwerp (BE); Deuxièmes Rencontres Internationales du Film Documentaire, Doc à Tunis (TN); Kunst op de Wei / Rock Werchter, Werchter (BE); Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen; CAAC, Sevilla; Documenta Magazines, Kassel (2007); Centre d’Art Contemporain, Fribourg (CH); Université de Luxembourg; CGAC Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela; Freestate 2006, Ostend (BE); CAC TV, Vilnius (2006).

Screenings Spectres at Kinok
(Lokremise, Grünbergstrasse 7, St. Gallen)
Wedn, 17 August, 8.30 p.m.
Sun, 28 August, 8 p.m.
Thurs, 8 September, 5.30 p.m. / Afterwards: Talk with Sven Augustijnen and Giovanni Carmine, direktor Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen

Image: During the shooting of the film Spectres, Congo, 2009

Opening: Fr, 12 August, 6 p.m.
Guided tours: Tue, 16 August, 6 p.m. and Sun, 25 September, 3 p.m.
Guided tour with the artist: Fr, 9 September, 12 noon
Art Lunch: Thurs, 18 August, 12 noon

Kunsthalle St. Gallen
Davidstrasse 40 - St. Gallen
Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday from 12 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Closed every Monday, New Year’s Day, Good Friday, August 1st, New Year’s Eve.
Easter Monday and Whitmonday open.
Admission
Regular: CHF 7.00
Students with ID: CHF 2.00

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