A guided tour at The Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities especially for members of III Art Club. Museum educator Fredrik Helander will show us selected highlights from the exhibitions at The Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities. In the vast collections of the Swedish Cyprus expedition’s excavations in the 1920s are hundreds of terracotta figurines from the cult place Ajia Irini. As well as the Etruscan votive offerings which now can be seen at Magasin III in the exhibition Like A Prayer, they can be interpreted as gifts to a god or goddess. We will also see the world famous limestone head from the Vouni Palace. In the recently refashioned Egypt exhibition we meet, among other things, the mummy of the Egyptian priest Neswaiu, and a unique 4400 years old sculpture of the pharaoh Sahure, temporarily borrowed from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Please note that the program will be held in Swedish.
Invitation and more information about the evening’s program will be communicated via the III Art Club newsletter that is sent to members once a month.
Elvira Dyangani Ose is Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths University of London and appointed curator of the eighth edition of Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art 2015. Previously she held a position as Curator International Art at Tate Modern. She joined Tate in 2011, taking a leading role in developing Tate’s holdings of art from Africa and its Diaspora and working closely with the Africa Acquisitions Committee. She is responsible for Across the Board (2012–2014), a two-year interdisciplinary project that took place in London, Accra, Douala and Lagos. She was also guest curator of the triennial SUD-Salon Urbain de Douala (2010), and the Artistic Director of the third edition of the Rencontres Picha. Lubumbashi Biennial (2013) and curator of Arte Invisible (2009–2010).
Annie Fletcher is currently Curator of Exhibitions at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and tutor at De Appel, Amsterdam. She recently curated After the Future at eva International Biennial of Visual Art in 2012. Other projects include solo exhibitions or presentations with Sheela Gowda, David Maljkovic, Jo Baer, Jutta Koether, Cerith Wynn Evans, Deimantas Narkevicius, Minerva Cuevas, and the long term projects, Be(com)ing Dutch (2006-09) and Cork Caucus (2005) with Charles Esche. She was co-founder and co-director of the rolling curatorial platform If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution with Frederique Bergholtz (2005-10). As a writer she has contributed to various magazines including Afterall and Metropolis M.
Anders Jansson is director and curator at MAN – Museum Anna Nordlander in Skellefteå since 2009. At MAN the collection consists mainly of contemporary Nordic artists with a focus on critical perspectives on identity and gender. Since his appointment there, Jansson has continued the museum’s method development and helped to develop cross-cultural collaborations between artists, institutions and the general public.
David Neuman is one of the founders and the director of Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art. After nearly 30 years the institution has evolved into one of Europe’s leading venues for contemporary art and with it’s collection created a major art museum. During his years at Magasin III David Neuman has created a number of important exhibitions with artists like Bruce Nauman, Agnes Martin, Fred Sandback, and also the Swedish artists Annika von Hausswolff and Lars Nilsson. David Neuman is affiliated professor in Art History at Stockholm University’s education for aspiring curators. In 2011 he was awarded an honorary doctorate degree at Stockholm University.
Nina Beckmann, director of Grafikens Hus since 2012, will moderate the series of talks From Chaos to Insight.
