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20/5/2005

Two new projects

Rooseum, Malmo

Saltuna – The Baltic Sea Experience
21 May – 17 July 2005
Main hall, downstairs

Spaces of conflict
An audio-visual, research based essay on institutional spaces by
Mike Bode & Staffan Schmidt
21 May – 5 June 2005
Panel discussion 28 May at 2pm
Micro Cinema

Opening hours on Saturday 21 May 12pm–9pm; artist talk 6pm–7pm, opening 7pm–9pm.

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Saltuna – The Baltic Sea Experience

Jeanne Faust (D), Isabell Heimerdinger (D), Jakob Kolding (DK), Korpys/Löffler (D), M+M (D), Jonathan Monk (UK), Claudia & Julia Müller (CH), Peter Piller (D), Daniel Roth (D), Cornelia Schmidt-Bleek (D), Michael Stevenson (NZ), Gitte Villesen (DK), Stefan Wieland (D), Jörn Zehe (D)

Initiated by Christoph Keller, Revolver Books

Saltuna – The Baltic Sea Experience is a group exhibition focusing on art production and the specific situations and social relations influencing artistic work processes. The starting point for the exhibition was in 2002 on the Danish island of Bornholm where the art publisher Christoph Keller initiated his ‘Holiday Grant for Artists’ project. Seventeen artists were invited to spend a week at the farmhouse Saltuna where they were offered an alternative work environment, social activities and recreation. The idea was to provide the artists with a possibility to challenge habitual ways of working with artistic production and to generate works from this specific situation. The outcome is a wide range of small-scale projects, all with a strong sense of spontaneity and playfulness matching the easy-going atmosphere of the place. At Rooseum all the works are now shown together for the first time forming an intriguing overview of these playful experiments.

Following the philosophy of the Saltuna project, Rooseum has extended the concept and created a similar framework by inviting the artists involved to spend a week in Malmö to produce a work for the exhibition. The idea is to mirror the set-up on Bornholm and at the same time offer a different context by concluding in a joint presentation of the works. Inherent in the experimental nature of the layout is an element of unpredictability aimed at fostering a dynamic situation and creating a sense of energy to be reflected in the exhibition.

Methods of art production are numerous and cannot be contained within one single model. Therefore some of the artists have been asked to contribute existing works adding a further perspective on the included projects. The exhibition hereby consists of three elements, showing works created under varied circumstances and for dissimilar ends. The intention is to show the diversity of artistic positions and draw attention to the individual approaches as well as to provide a link between work evolving out of specific situations and work produced under more everyday circumstances.

Saltuna – The Baltic Sea Experience touches upon a range of aspects concerning artistic practice and seeks to reflect upon how artistic work is organized, perceived and dealt with by artists, curators and institutions. By using a different organising principle than a particular theme it is hoped that other readings and experiences will be allowed for revealing compelling connections between the works and artists included.

Saltuna – The Baltic Sea Experience is supported by ifa Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V. and Pro Helvetia.

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Spaces of conflict
An audio-visual, research based essay on institutional spaces by
Mike Bode & Staffan Schmidt

Panel discussion 28 May at 2pm
Micro Cinema

The way people are looking at art institutions is permanently under discussion, and the curators and artists are testing out the role of the museum, or kunsthalle in society. In order to find out about the shifting importance of different types of institutions and the everyday decision making, Mike Bode & Staffan Schmidt portrayed six art institutions in different countries. From February to April 2004 they interviewed curators and art students, documenting several familiar or revealing viewpoints of the architecture and its surroundings, and commenting on their own researches. The questions raised are, predominantly, directed towards the expectations that the interviewed have in connection with the spaces. The physical spaces, but also the motives, drives and expectations linked to art and the practice of displaying art. The interviews followed three main questions:

A: In what way(s) does an art space contribute to a community, a city or the society?
B: Are there any expectations that an art institutiton has to negotiate and/or have to live up to?
C: Are there any actual spatial alterations that could improve the way that institutions work and communicate?
The presentation of the project is based around the audio, which has been edited together with the visual material into three parallel projections. The visual material represents actual institutional spaces, spaces in the process of being dismantled or as sites of possible future construction. In short: the spaces are presented with a focus on the institutional everyday as non-descript and transitive.

On Saturday 28 May at 2pm a panel dicussion about art institutions, their role and expectations on them will take place at Rooseum. Further information will follow or can be acquired through Rooseum.

The project is realized in collaboration with the following institutions:
Statens Museum for Kunst/the x-room and the Schools of Visual Arts of the Royal
Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen (DK)
Kunsthalle Helsinki and Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki (FI)
Kunst-Werke and Berlin University of the Arts in Berlin (DE)
Contemporary Art Centre and Vilnius Art Academy in Vilnius (LT)
National Museum for Contemporary Art and the National Academy of Fine Art in Oslo (NO)
Rooseum and Malmö Art Academy in Malmö (SE)

The project is curated by Nina Möntmann and produced by NIFCA.

Rooseum is supported by Malmö Kulturnämnd, the Ministry of Culture, and Kultur Skåne

Image: Stefan Wieland

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Gasverksgatan 22
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