19 February – 15 October, 2022
Curator: Olga Krzeszowiec Malmsten

During the spring of 2022, Mona Hatoum’s work will simultaneously be exhibited at two locations in Stockholm: Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art in Frihamnen and the Accelerator exhibition space on the Stockholm University campus. Since the early 1990s, Mona Hatoum’s has been regarded as one of the most important artists of our time. Through installation, sculpture, performance, photography, and video, she consistently explores issues of the familiar and foreign, home and exile, memory and loss.

For this extensive solo exhibition Mona Hatoum – Revisit at Magasin III, Hatoum is creating a new work entitled Electrified (variable IV) (2022). The presentation also includes other existing work and a series of prints and videos documenting her performance work from the 1980s.

This substantial solo exhibition Mona Hatoum – Revisit at Magasin III, reflects on a circularity in the artist’s ability to regularly revisit certain themes, forms and methods in a wide variety of materials and different scales. The new work Electrified (variable IV) reconnects with the theme, and partly the materials, of the earlier work Undercurrent, which Hatoum created especially for her solo exhibition at Magasin III in 2004. Both installations involve the use of household objects with a fluctuating electric current running through them to illuminate lightbulbs – a recurring theme in Hatoum’s work that dates as far back as her early student experimentations of the late 1970s. Electrified (variable IV) is shown alongside a number of Hatoum’s works, some drawn from the Magasin III collection and others loaned by the artist. The exhibition provides insight into a practice in which old and new work engage in an interesting dialogue.

“By constantly shifting positions, Hatoum seems to question any fixed truths and perceptions of the world. It is often presented from the perspective of the individual in relation to structural and institutional violence and the exercise of power. These questions can be traced back to Hatoum’s own experience of displacement and disorientation, which are nonetheless universal and topical issues of rootlessness, alienation and loss.”
– Olga Krzeszowiec Malmsten, exhibition curator.

In parallel with Mona Hatoum – Revisit at Magasin III, Accelerator is presenting three works by the artist at Stockholm University, in which Undercurrent (2004) takes center stage. The exhibition is curated by Richard Julin, Accelerator’s Artistic Director. Presenting Mona Hatoum’s oeuvre at two different locations in Stockholm is a way to offer more perspectives and greater immersion for the visitors. The different contexts and focal points of Magasin III and Accelerator also provide different ways to approach Mona Hatoum’s multifaceted body of work, which often touches on political and social themes.

About Mona Hatoum
Mona Hatoum was born in 1952 to a Palestinian family in Beirut, Lebanon. While she was on a short visit to London in 1975, the Lebanese civil war broke out and prevented her from returning home. She has lived in London ever since.

Hatoum has participated in numerous prestigious international group exhibitions including the Venice Biennales (1995 and 2005), Documenta, Kassel (2002 and 2017), Bienniale of Sydney (2006), Istanbul Biennial (1995 and 2011) and Moscow Bienniale of Contemporary Art (2013).

Recent solo exhibitions include a major survey organised by Centre Pompidou, Paris (2015) that toured to Tate Modern, London and KIASMA, Helsinki (2016), and a US tour initiated by the Menil Collection, Houston (2017) that travelled to the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St Louis (2018).

She has a long list of international distinctions which include being awarded the Rolf Schock Prize given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts (2008), the Joan Miró Prize (2011),  the 10th Hiroshima Art Prize (2017) and the Praemium Imperiale (2019). More recently she received the Julio González Prize 2020 from IVAM – Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain, where she had a large solo exhibition in 2021.

Exhibition folder
Magasin III and Accelerator are producing a joint exhibition folder. It will be given to visitors at no charge and will be available to download from the website after the opening of the exhibition.

Accelerator & Magasin III – two institutions in dialogue
Accelerator and Magasin III share a long history. The idea of building an exhibition space at Stockholm University emerged from the MA program in Curating Art and discussions between the university and Magasin III. The project was founded in 2015 by the university’s principal, and the space was created in a former underground laboratory for research in accelerator physics. The driving force behind Accelerator is to contribute to an open and democratic society by enabling art to stimulate discussion and interdisciplinary dialogue. Accelerator opened in September 2019 and is part of Stockholm University, with a mission to engage actively with society. Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art and the Robert Weil Family Foundation are Founding Patrons of Accelerator.
 
About Magasin III
Since its inception in 1987, Magasin III has focused on supporting artistic creation and experimentation. In addition to enjoying current exhibitions, nowadays visitors can also learn about the processes involved in preparing future exhibitions, the creation of new works, and the care of the collection when it is not on display. The focus is on encountering the art, the artists, the museum staff, and other specialists. Visitors can access rooms and work processes that are seldom open to the public. The aim is to enable a deeper understanding of artistic practice and of how creative ideas and visions take shape, as well as what is involved when an institution has the resulting artworks in its care and custody.

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TAL R
: Men Who Can’t Sit on Horses
October 24, 2019 – March 27, 2020
Curator: David  Neuman

Magasin III Jaffa, is pleased to announce its upcoming fall schedule, : Men Who Can’t Sit on Horses, a solo exhibition by artist Tal R, featuring one singular painting, Natten (The Night), commissioned especially for Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art. An artist of international renown, Tal R (Rosenzweig) was born in 1967 in Tel Aviv, Israel and at an early age moved to Copenhagen, Denmark where he currently lives and works.

The exhibition will open on October 24, 2019 and will run through March 27, 2020.

Tal R is known for his daring use of color and vivacious imagery. Throughout his works, references to historical art movements such as Expressionism, Fauvism and Symbolism can be found alongside influences from Outsider Art and children’s paintings. He works across a diverse range of media including painting, collage, sculpture, installation, drawing, print and furniture. His unique vision, self-identification as an outsider and ability to sample the two worlds of his different heritages, has produced an artistic language that constantly questions our surrounding realities.

The curator of the exhibition, David Neuman, explains his thoughts behind the presentation of Magasin III’s unique commission:

“For many years I have nurtured the idea of asking a contemporary artist to create a single painting with the same dimensions as the iconic work by Pablo Picasso, ‘Guernica.’ A canvas that is 3.49 meters in height and has the astonishing width of 7.77 meters. Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ is very likely one of the most important paintings of the 20th Century, executed with an artistic and furious rage depicting historical events of 1937’s Europe.”
Neuman continues, “Magasin III has a long relationship with the artist Tal R. Subsequently, it was not a difficult decision to ask him to attempt this adventure, and to my utter delight he didn’t hesitate to take on such a complicated task. The commission was not about making a commentary about ‘Guernica.’ Tal is too great of an artist to even contemplate such a challenge. No, this is about facilitating Tal’s expanded possibilities of a narrative. The artist has also been engulfed in deeply complicated issues of how to ‘paint’ something so massive, which I know he has enjoyed tremendously.”

“The political turmoil in the world has not decreased since the atrocities in the city of Guernica. I can’t imagine a better place than Magasin III Jaffa to view and reflect on the state of humanity in front of a most impressive painting by Tal R. It is with a high level of achievement that ‘Natten’ has its premiere in Israel.”

ABOUT MAGASIN III

The museum is one of Europe’s leading institutions for contemporary art. Magasin III believes in the ability of art to challenge and inspire people and society. Since 1987, Magasin III has presented world-class exhibitions and continues to fortify its collection, which holds works by leading artists. Recent highlight exhibitions in Stockholm include Tom Friedman, Katarina Grosse, Tony Oursler, Mika Rottenberg, Ai Weiwei, Andrea Zittel and Gunnel Wåhlstrand.
In January 2018 Magasin III opened a permanent satellite space in Jaffa, with an inaugural exhibition by Haim Steinbach. It was followed by a solo exhibition by Sheila Hicks, and afterwards a solo exhibition by Cosima von Bonin. The space is located at 34 Olei Zion Street, in a residential neighborhood rich with history and cultural diversity that borders Jaffa’s famous flea market. Magasin III Jaffa’s diverse program features both local and international artists.

ABOUT TAL R

Tal R was born in 1967 in Tel Aviv, Israel. At the age of one, he moved with his family to Copenhagen, Denmark where he grew up and currently lives and works. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Between 2005-2014 Tal R held a Professorship at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany.

Tal R has exhibited internationally, in both solo and group exhibitions. Institutional one-person exhibitions were held at: Hastings Contemporary, Hastings, UK (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, USA (2018); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Netherlands (2017); Museum of Modern Art, Denmark (2017);  Pinakothek der Moderne, Germany (2013); Museum Kunstpalast, Germany (2012); Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art, Sweden (2009); Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany (2009); Kunsthalle Tübingen, Germany (2009); Holstebro Kunstmuseum, Denmark (2009); Essl Museum, Austria (2008); Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca, Mexico (2008); Centro Cultural dos Correios, Brazil (2008); Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany (2007); Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark (2005); Horsens Kunstmuseum, Denmark (2002); Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark (2000), among many others. In addition, Tal R has participated in group exhibitions at the EMMA Museum, Finland; Stade Museum, Germany; Holstebro Kunstmuseum, Denmark; Royal Academy of Arts, UK; Museo Pecci, Italy; Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Mexico; Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art, Sweden; Museum of Art Ein Harod, Israel and more.
Tal R’s work is included in many notable collections worldwide, including Museum Kunstpalast, Germany; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Essl Museum, Austria; Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art, Sweden; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; Bonnefanten Museum, Holland; Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Finland, and many private collections.

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Ocean and Caffeine
Cosima von Bonin, Magasin III Jaffa
April 11, 2019 – August 30, 2019
Curator: Karmit Galili

Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art in Stockholm is pleased to announce Ocean and Caffeine by Cosima von Bonin, the third exhibition in its permanent satellite space in Jaffa, greater Tel Aviv, since it opened in January 2018. The solo exhibition will feature seven works by von Bonin created between 2001–2018, allowing a profound overview of the artist’s long-term fascination with the ocean, the different life forms that inhabit it and their relationship to human beings.

An artist of international renown, Cosima von Bonin was born in 1962 in Mombasa, Kenya, grew up in Austria, and for the past decades has been living in Cologne, Germany. Von Bonin is known for large-scale, mixed-media installations that incorporate sculptural pieces, textile “paintings” and sound, as well as film, video and performance. She is inspired by popular and vernacular culture, folk art, fashion, hip-hop, techno and personal experiences. Although in first glance it might look like an amusement park, von Bonin works oscillate between humor and darkness, playfulness and urgency, fantasy and terrifying reality.

Ocean and Caffeine, curated by Karmit Galili from Magasin III Jaffa, features seven works by von Bonin, four of which are part of Magasin III’s collection. Item (2001) is 11-meter long boat dressed in an impressive, tailor-made fabric cover. The work was produced especially for Magasin III’s 2001 exhibition Free Port. Seasons in the Abyss (2006) featuresan octopus, a recurring marine species in von Bonin’s work, made of fabric and glass. Deprionen: A Voyage to the Sea (2006) is a large-scale “textile painting” measuring 3.19 meters long and 3.57 meters wide.

HERMIT CRAB IN FAKE ROYÈRE & MVO’S HERMIT CRAB [FAKE ROYÈRE] (2010), a work accompanied by music form contemporary composer Moritz von Oswald, features another marine species, a hermit crab leisurely lounging on a chair originally designed by noted interior designer Jean Royère, part of a set of whimsical garden furniture commissioned from him in 1958 by Princess Shahnaz, daughter of the Shah of Iran. The show’s concluding group of works includes WHAT IF IT BARKS 5 (PETITE VERSION WITH BLUE UKULELE), WHAT IF IT BARKS 6 (PETITE VERSION WITH BLACK UKULELE), and WHAT IF IT BARKS 7 (COFFEE POT VERSION)(all 2018), continued the artist’s exploration of marine motifs, with dressed up mackerels and surfing boards from the 70^th.

“Ocean and Caffeine is a wonderful and unusual opportunity for local and international audiences alike to view an important selection of works spanning some 20 years in the career of this fascinating artist. In addition to being von Bonin’s first ever exhibition in Israel, it is also the first time that Magasin III Jaffa is showing works from the museum’s comprehensive collection, housed in Stockholm,” says the show’s curator, Karmit Galili.

About Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art

The museum is one of Europe’s leading institutions for contemporary art. Magasin III believes in the ability of art to challenge and inspire people and society. Since 1987, Magasin III has presented world-class exhibitions and continues to fortify its collection, which holds works by leading artists. Recent highlight exhibitions in Stockholm include Tom Friedman, Katarina Grosse, Tony Oursler, Mika Rottenberg, Ai Weiwei, Andrea Zittel and Gunnel Wåhlstrand.

In January 2018 Magasin III opened a permanent satellite space in Jaffa, with an inaugural exhibition by Haim Steinbach. It was followed by a solo show by Sheila Hicks, which opened in October 2018. The space is located at 34 Olei Zion Street, in a residential neighborhood rich with history and cultural diversity that borders Jaffa’s famous flea market. Magasin III Jaffa’s diverse program features both local and international artists.

About Cosima von Bonin
Cosima von Bonin was born in 1962 in Mombasa, Kenya, grew up in Austria, and has been based in Cologne, Germany, for many years now. She studied at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg, Germany. Von Bonin has exhibited internationally, in both solo and group exhibitions. Her first major U.S. survey, Roger and Out, opened in 2007 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Other institutional one-person exhibitions were held at the Museum of Modern Art (MUMOK), Vienna (2014); Artipelag, Gustavsberg, Sweden (2013); the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis (2011); Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2011); Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva (2011); the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2004); Kunstverein Hamburg (2001); Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany (2000); and Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Switzerland (1999). In addition, von Bonin has participated in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Les Abbatoirs, Toulouse, France; and documenta 12, Kassel, Germany, among many others.

Von Bonin’s work is included in many notable collections worldwide, including the Tate Britain; the Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany; Magasin III, Stockholm; and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; as well as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

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Migdalor
Sheila Hicks, Magasin III Jaffa
October 11, 2018 – February 15, 2019
Curator: Karmit Galili

Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art in Stockholm is pleased to announce Migdalor by Sheila Hicks, the second exhibition in its permanent satellite space in Jaffa, greater Tel Aviv since it opened in January 2018. The solo exhibition will feature a series of Hicks’ distinctive and vibrantly-colored sculptures, created from materials ranging from the traditional and natural – such as linen and cotton – to newly researched industrial materials based on new technologies.

Sheila Hicks is an internationally-renowned American artist, based in Paris since the mid-1960s with a career spanning six decades. She is known for her ground-breaking use of materials and color, and has redefined boundaries through her practice. Inspired early in her career by pre-Columbian textiles, Hicks is constantly innovating, and her brightly colored works transform and adapt to each new environment.

Migdalor, curated by Karmit Galili from Magasin III Jaffa, features three significant recent installations by Hicks. The monumental Saffron Sentinel (2017) is the principal work that will occupy a large section of the exhibition space and be visible from both windowed façades day and night. Hicks originally produced this massive presence for her retrospective exhibition at the Centre Pompidou this past winter.  More than 200 bundles of pure pigment, transformed into loose fiber, are stacked and piled floor to ceiling inviting the visitor to become immersed in color fantasies.

Also on view will be Hicks’ Comets Sculpture (2016-2018), a bas-relief sculpture composed of circular sculptures in a range of vibrant colors, textures and shapes extended along one of the major walls. An earlier version of this dramatic ensemble was presented in the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris this year.

The third work in the exhibition, titled Menhir (2016), is a soft column made of linen strands.

Hicks chose the exhibition title Migdalor (the Hebrew translation for “Lighthouse”) as a symbolic reference to forms that can be path finders.

“This is a wonderful opportunity for the Israeli and international audience to experience the work of an artist whose fascination with new and unusual materials, together with her deep interest in traditional production of materials in various cultures, contributes to our cultural understanding”, says Karmit Galili.

About Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art
The museum is one of Europe’s leading institutions for contemporary art. Magasin III believes in the ability of art to challenge and inspire people and society. Since 1987, Magasin III has presented world-class exhibitions and continues to fortify its collection, which holds works by leading artists. Recent highlight exhibitions in Stockholm include Tom Friedman, Katarina Grosse, Tony Oursler, Mika Rottenberg, Ai Weiwei, Andrea Zittel and Gunnel Wåhlstrand.

In January 2018 Magasin III opened a permanent satellite space in Jaffa, with an inaugural exhibition by Haim Steinbach. The space is located at 34 Olei Zion Street, in a residential neighborhood rich with history and cultural diversity that borders Jaffa’s famous flea market. Magasin III Jaffa’s diverse program features both local and international artists.

About Sheila Hicks
Sheila Hicks was born in Hastings, Nebraska and received her BFA and MFA degrees from Yale University. She received a Fulbright scholarship in 1957-58 to paint in Chile. While in South America she developed her interest in working with fibers. After founding workshops in Mexico, Chile, and South Africa, and working in Morocco and India, she now divides her time between her Paris studio and New York. ​

Hicks has exhibited internationally in both solo and group exhibitions. She was included in the 2017 Venice Biennale, 2014 Whitney Biennial in New York and the 2012  São Paulo Biennial in Brazil. Recent solo presentations include “Lignes de Vie” at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2018, “Free Threads” 1954-2017 Museo Amparo, Mexico, “Pêcher dans La Rivière” at the Alison Jacques Gallery, London (2013); “A major retrospective Sheila Hicks: 50 Years” debuted at the Addison Gallery of American Art and traveled to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia and the Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC.

Hicks’ work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Museum of Fine Arts Boston; The Art Institute of Chicago; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago; solo exhibitions at the Seoul Art Center, Korea; Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

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zerubbabel
Haim Steinbach, Magasin III Jaffa
January 20 – July 13 2018
Curator: David Neuman

Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art in Stockholm, is pleased to present zerubbabel by Haim Steinbach, the inaugural exhibition in its new satellite space in Jaffa, greater Tel Aviv. zerubbabel is the Israeli-born American artist’s first solo show in his home country, and it marks the launch of a diverse program at Magasin III Jaffa that will feature both international and local artists.

Since the late 1970s, Steinbach’s practice has focused on selecting and arranging everyday objects from a spectrum of social and cultural contexts. Engaging them in the play of ‘display’, the objects are staged in their own right, emphasizing their identities, inherent meanings and associations.

zerubbabel, curated by David Neuman, includes ten works by Steinbach from the last 5 years, ranging from recent wall paintings, which focus on the essence of text, imagery and color, to objects presented in his architecturally defined boxes.

On entering the gallery from Olei Zion, visitors will be greeted by Steinbach’s large-scale pantonecoolgray10 (2016) and smaller tuttifrutti (2016), both wall paintings designed in vinyl decal and acrylic paint. Pantone is a company best known for its innovative system for identifying, matching and communicating colors, while “Tutti Frutti” may refer to the Israeli popsicle or the Little Richard song. The context of a work is important to Steinbach, and in his wall paintings he uses the architecture to duplicate the space, heightening our perception of it spatially.

Beside pantonecoolgray10, four handcrafted wood and glass boxes are shown alongside one other, each displaying a different tin container produced by Pantone. In these works, Steinbach explores our understanding of colors, through structures and framing devices for their presentation. His Untitled (bocce ball), (2013), a wooden bocce ball presented within a box on an adjacent wall, is an object of a game.

On another wall of the gallery is thelionking (2016), an extensive vinyl decal superimposed on an expanse of yellow ochre acrylic paint that depicts the silhouette of a lion’s head from the popular musical of the same name.

Steinbach’s work with language proposes that reading is an act of seeing, and even if this is not always, strictly speaking the case, the graphic codes which proliferate in our current media culture accustom us to word, object and image arriving in the same package. Steinbach is interested in the vernacular “saying,” the sort of speech that strikes us as both direct and shared, both common and readily understood. The promise of vernacular—in color, catch phrases, ad copy, figures of speech—makes communication seem effortless. Words, objects and images become memorable, easy to repeat. If language here hits its target, it is because the vernacular “saying” is an expression of readerly consensus or fluency on matters of social relations as well as about particular cultural meanings. By turning vernacular coloration into wall texts, wall paintings or objects, Steinbach subverts the original context of the language he has found and moves the objects toward new identifications and associations.

“Haim Steinbach belongs to the most quintessential group of Contemporary artists—those that so importantly have pushed the boundaries of visual expression. The upcoming exhibition will clearly establish a benchmark for future presentations at Magasin III Jaffa. It is our utmost pleasure to present Haim Steinbach’s art to local and international audiences”, says David Neuman.

Magasin III Jaffa spans 180 square meters (2000 square feet). The space has been carefully planned so that exhibitions can be viewed at any time of the day or night, curated with a special emphasis on also being viewed from the outside. The site for Magasin III Jaffa was chosen for its location as well as architectural qualities, and is located on 34 Olei Zion, a residential neighborhood that borders with Jaffa’s famous flea market at the epicenter of the Christian, Jewish and Muslim populations of Jaffa.

The General Manager of Magasin III Jaffa, Karmit Galili, says: “This is a truly exciting addition to our city. The satellite defines Magasin III’s longstanding involvement with the cultural scene here. The area where Magasin III Jaffa is located has a rich and mixed history and we are very much looking forward to contributing to it and engaging with new audiences.”

About Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art
The museum is one of Europe’s leading institutions for contemporary art. Magasin III believes in the ability of art to challenge and inspire people and society. Since 1987, Magasin III has presented world-class exhibitions and continues to fortify its collection, which holds works by leading artists. Recent highlight exhibitions in Stockholm include Tom Friedman, Katarina Grosse, Tony Oursler, Mika Rottenberg, Ai Weiwei, Andrea Zittel and Gunnel Wåhlstrand.

The Director of Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tessa Praun, says: “The public program at Magasin III in Stockholm is currently closed. Over the next two years, the Museum will examine alternative ways to engage with visitors and take the opportunity to fully evaluate how it can best continue to support art and artists both nationally and internationally. Further details of future programing in Stockholm will be announced in 2018. The Stockholm team is of course also engaged in supporting the satellite space.”

About Haim Steinbach
Born in Rehovot, Israel in 1944, Haim Steinbach has lived in the United States since 1957. Steinbach received a BFA from Pratt Institute in 1968, followed by an MFA from Yale University in 1973.

Throughout his career, Steinbach has exhibited his work at major museums worldwide. In 2013, the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College in New York presented a solo exhibition of the artist’s work since the early 1970’s, entitled once again the world is flat, which traveled to Kunsthalle Zurich and Serpentine Gallery, London. Other notable solo presentations include The Menil Collection, Houston (2014); Statens Museum fur Kunst, Copenhagen (2013-14); Berkeley Art Museum, UC Berkeley (2005); Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna (1997); Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin (1995); Guggenheim Museum, New York (with Ettore Spalletti) (1995); Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (1992); and CAPC musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux (1988). His work has been included in group exhibitions in La Triennale, Paris (2012); the Biennale de Lyon (2000); the Venice Biennale (1997); Documenta IX and the Sydney Biennial (1992).

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Haim Steinbach, Magasin III Jaffa
Opening January 20, 2018
Curator: David Neuman

Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art in Stockholm, will open a satellite space in Jaffa, greater Tel Aviv, with a solo exhibition by Israeli-born American artist Haim Steinbach on January 20, 2018. The exhibition zerubbabel is Steinbach’s first solo show in Israel, and it marks the launch of a diverse program at Magasin III Jaffa that will feature both international and local artists.

In his artistic practice, Steinbach selects and arranges everyday objects from a spectrum of social and cultural contexts. Engaging them in the concept of ‘display’, the objects are staged in new ways, emphasizing their identities, inherent meanings and associations. The inaugural exhibition at Magasin III Jaffa, curated by David Neuman, includes work by Steinbach ranging from recent wall paintings, which create the essence of text, imagery and color, to his refined objects presented in architectural defined boxes.

“Haim Steinbach belongs to the most quintessential group of Contemporary artists—those that so importantly have pushed the boundaries of visual expression. The upcoming exhibition will clearly establish a benchmark for future presentations at Magasin III Jaffa. It is our utmost pleasure to present Haim Steinbach’s art to local and international audiences”, says David Neuman.

Magasin III Jaffa spans 180 square meters (2000 square feet). The space has been carefully planned so that exhibitions can be viewed at any time of the day or night, curated with a special emphasis on also being viewed from the outside. The site for Magasin III Jaffa was chosen for its location as well as architectural qualities, and is located on 34 Olei Zion, a residential neighborhood that borders with Jaffa’s famous flea market at the epicenter of the Christian, Jewish and Muslim populations of Jaffa.

The General Manager of Magasin III Jaffa, Karmit Galili, says: “This is a truly exciting addition to our city. The satellite defines Magasin III’s longstanding involvement with the cultural scene in Israel. The area where Magasin III Jaffa is located has a rich and mixed history and we are very much looking forward to contributing to it and engaging with new audiences.”

About Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art
The museum is one of Europe’s leading institutions for contemporary art. Magasin III believes in the ability of art to challenge and inspire people and society. Since 1987, Magasin III has presented world-class exhibitions and continues to fortify its collection, which holds works by leading artists. Recent highlight exhibitions in Stockholm include Tom Friedman, Katarina Grosse, Tony Oursler, Mika Rottenberg, Ai Weiwei, Andrea Zittel and Gunnel Wåhlstrand.

The Director of Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tessa Praun, says: “The public program at Magasin III in Stockholm is currently closed. Over the next two years, the Museum will examine alternative ways to engage with visitors and take the opportunity to fully evaluate how it can best continue to support art and artists both nationally and internationally. Further details of future programing in Stockholm will be announced in 2018. The Stockholm team is of course also engaged in supporting the satellite space.”

About Haim Steinbach
Born in Rehovot, Israel in 1944, Haim Steinbach has lived in the United States since 1957. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he received a BFA from Pratt Institute in 1968, followed by an MFA from Yale University in Connecticut in 1973.

For more than four decades, Haim Steinbach has explored the psychological, aesthetic, cultural and ritualistic aspects of collecting and arranging already existing objects. His work engages the concept of “display” as a form that foregrounds objects, raising consciousness of the play of presentation. An important influence in the growth of post-modern artistic dialogue, Steinbach’s work has radically redefined the status of the object in art.

Throughout his career, Steinbach has exhibited his work at major museums worldwide. In 2013, the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College in New York presented a solo exhibition of the artist’s work since the early 1970’s, entitled once again the world is flat, which traveled to Kunsthalle Zurich and Serpentine Gallery, London. Other notable solo presentations include The Menil Collection, Houston (2014); Statens Museum fur Kunst, Copenhagen (2013-14); Berkeley Art Museum, UC Berkeley (2005); Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna (1997); Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin (1995); Guggenheim Museum, New York (with Ettore Spalletti) (1995); Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (1992); and CAPC musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux (1988). His work has been included in group exhibitions in La Triennale, Paris (2012); the Biennale de Lyon (2000); the Venice Biennale (1997); Documenta IX and the Sydney Biennial (1992).

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Magasin III is closed. Over the next two years, we will examine alternative ways for our institution to engage with our visitors and take the opportunity to revise and recast our role nationally and internationally:

The chairman of the museum’s board, Robert Weil, and I feel that we have the unique possibility to fully evaluate how we can best continue to support art and artists. What is interesting is finding a way to do something differently. We have the possibility to be more eccentric. – Museum Director David Neuman.

During this pause, Magasin III’s communication will continue via our newsletters and on social media, and if you want to follow us even more closely, we suggest that you join our III Art Club.

We are delighted and proud of the many art experiences we have shared with our visitors over the years. In fact, work has already begun on a publication about Magasin III’s 30-year history and we will continue to lend works from our collection to museums around the world.

Magasin III believes in the ability of art to challenge and inspire people and society. This is why we have always given exhibiting artists the opportunity to produce new works that impact, engage, and question. Our collaborations with artists in relation to these new works are compiled here on our webpage, for those of you who would like to take part in the processes that go on behind the scenes. When artists have the opportunity to experiment, they blaze new trails, which perhaps explains why it happens so often that a work produced at Magasin III marks a new phase in an artist’s career. These works comprise the core of our growing collection.

And now, we will be taking a break from our public programs in order to shape the future Magasin III. We look forward to seeing you again soon!

For press inquiries please contact:
Lisa Boström, Communications Manager
bostrom@magasin3.com / T + 46 8 545 680 58 C

Curators: Bronwyn Griffith & David Neuman

For nearly 15 years, Swedish artist Gunnel Wåhlstrand has created extraordinary large-scale ink wash paintings that feature monumental landscapes, compelling portraits and serene interiors. This is the largest solo presentation of her work to date, giving visitors a chance to see the majority of her very limited production of only around 30 works in total.

The director of Magasin III, David Neuman, describes his first encounter with Wåhlstrand’s work in 2003 as “…one of those incredible experiences that you don’t have that many times in life. A student thesis exhibition that surpassed most of what I’ve seen over the past 20 years.” Magasin III has followed her closely ever since.

In order to understand her practice one needs to describe how she developed this exceptional technique of painting with ink. The only connection that Wåhlstrand had to her father while growing up was a box of family photographs. He took his own life when she was just one year old, and to fill the silence surrounding his life and disappearance, Wåhlstrand began to use these photographs as a point of departure for her paintings. Translating the photographic images by hand into a much larger scale bestows upon both artist and viewer a heightened sense of presence—almost as if one could step into the image. The exacting technique and the oversized scale are a nearly impossible combination that tests the limits of what is technically possible, a challenge that Wåhlstrand embraces because of the focus it demands. A drive to investigate her past is what has enabled her to develop a singular technique. Now she is leaving the family albums behind and applying her methods to images of personal significance.

“Although her works are very precise they have none of the rigidity often found in photo-realism. Instead, the transparent washes emanate a shifting fluidity and seem to dissolve when viewed closely.” 
–Bronwyn Griffith

The exhibition Gunnel Wåhlstrand will travel to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen,Rotterdam, June 24–September 24, 2017.

Publication
A richly illustrated book has been published in connection to the exhibtion produced by Magasin III in collaboration with Art & Theory. The book includes texts by David Neuman, an original essay by Lars Norén, one of Sweden’s most celebrated playwrights and authors and a conversation between Gunnel Wåhlstrand & Bronwyn Griffith. The book presents Gunnel Wåhlstrand’s complete oeuvre and is richly illustrated with reproductions of all of her works. Graphic design by Stefania Malmsten and in collaboration with Art & Theory Publishing.

About the artist
Gunnel Wåhlstrand (b. 1974) lives and works in Stockholm. In 2003 she graduated from the Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm. She has been honoured with a number of grants including The Swedish Arts Grant and the Maria Bonnier Dahlins Stiftelese. Her work is included in several prestigious museum collections. In 2006 she had a solo exhibition at Magasin III and in 2008 she completed a permanent commission for the entrance of the Scania and Blekinge Court of Appeal, in Malmö, Sweden. Wåhlstrand has had solo exhibitions in numerous institutions such as The Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhamn, Sweden (2013); Uppsala Art Museum, Uppsala, Sweden (2013); Parasol Unit for Contemporary Art (with Cecilia Edefalk), London (2011). Her recent group exhibitions include Tendencies 2013. Tenderness, Galleri F15, Moss, Norway (2013); Nordic-by-New York, ASF Scandinavia House, New York, USA (2011); 17th Biennale of Sydney, Australia (2010); Samtidigt: Svenskt måleri på 2000-talet, Borås konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden and Passagen Linköpings konsthall (2009).

For press inquiries please contact:
Lisa Boström, Communications Manager
bostrom@magasin3.com / T + 46 8 545 680 58

Here you will find high resolution images of Magasin III: the building, the exhibition space, and the curators. Please note that this page is under construction so if you do not find an image you are looking for, or need help downloading the images please contact Communications Manager Lisa Boström at +46 8 545 680 or bostrom@magasin3.com.

About Magasin III:
Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art is one of Europe’s leading institutions for contemporary art. Located since 1987 in a former warehouse in Stockholm’s Free Port, Magasin III exhibitits its multifaceted collection as well as ambitious presentations of internationally established artists.