MARKUS SCHINWALD

February 14 – June 7 & September 11 – December 13, 2015

Curator: Tessa Praun

In 2015, Magasin III has the pleasure of presenting the first major solo exhibition of the Austrian artist Markus Schinwald in Sweden. Through a wide range of interests that includes psychology, literature, dance and the history of fashion, he explores the idea of the human body as a cultural construct.

In the exhibition visitors encounter sculptures of curved table legs, distorted 19th century portraits, mannequins, and site-specific installations containing films without beginning or end.

By making small shifts in the familiar, Markus Schinwald has a unique ability to pinpoint certain aspects of our inner lives—desires, motivations, fears and inhibitions. For me, his art is a place where bodily memories are triggered, and where even the unpleasant or absurd can seduce and entertain. In our fast-paced world, where tensions only seem to mount, this exhibition provides an opportunity to reflect and to look at ourselves and others with greater openness and humility.

– Tessa Praun, exhibition curator

New Productions

In particular focus are the major new productions Stage Complex (2015), created especially for the exhibition at Magasin III, and Actuator 1–6 (2015), a series of niches in which sculptures and turning gears create an idiosyncratic dance. Installed across from the red theater drapes of Curtain (2006), Actuator 1–6 acts as a lifesize cabinet of curiosities.

Stage Complex, which fills the entire lower floor of Magasin III, consists of six new films recorded in the artist’s studio in Vienna in January 2015. In the installation, the films are projected on custom-built walls that reconstruct certain details from the films. Solitary characters perform a series of movements: they climb, hide and open and close doors, cabinets, and drawers. These actions evolve into a kind of choreography that explores the possibilities and limitations of the human body. The installation also functions as a framework to display a selection of other individual works by the artist. In May, Stage Complex will expand with the help of a group of dancers from the Royal Swedish Ballet.

Schinwald’s Gesamtkunstwerk treads a fine line between dysfunction and elegance, the terrifying and the seductive, where it is often unclear whether actions are driven by play or manipulation. The artist describes his work as a sort of introspective experience that tries to give form to our complex relationship with ourselves.

A Unique Collaboration with the Royal Swedish Ballet

In May 2015, a unique collaboration between Magasin III and the Royal Swedish Ballet will be presented. The work Stage Complex (2015) will be activated by a choreography related to the installation’s physical possibilities. The choreography will be created by Markus Schinwald for and with modern dancers from the Royal Swedish Ballet. Schinwald’s practice includes a strong interest in dance and in the physical exploration of our constructed environment, and this has provided a key access point for this collaboration. Here, two art forms step outside of their familiar bounds and meet in a new context based on unique premises.

The Royal Swedish Ballet was established in 1773 and is one of the world’s oldest dance companies. Under the leadership of ballet director Johannes Öhman, the company has expanded to include some of the foremost modern dancers of today.

More information about this collaboration will be provided in a later press release.

About the Artist

Markus Schinwald was born in 1973 in Salzburg, Austria, and lives and works in Vienna and New York. Schinwald represented Austria in the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011. Recent major solo exhibitions include the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, jointly organized with SFMOMA; the M – Museum Leuven in Belgium (2014); CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (2013); Lentos Museum, Linz (2011); Kunsthaus Bregenz (2009); and Migros Museum, Zürich (2008). The exhibition is the artist’s first large-scale solo presentation in Sweden.

Exhibition Catalogue

Read the exhibition catalogue here.

For more information, please contact:

Jennifer Lindblad, Communications Manager
lindblad@magasin3.com, +46 8 545 680 58

wizz eyelashes

Katharina Grosse, Sol LeWitt and Walter de Maria

September 19 – December 14, 2014
& February 14 – June 7, 2015

Curators: Richard Julin och Tessa Praun

Our fall season opens at Nybroplan in central Stockholm with a new, monumental outdoor installation by Katharina Grosse. The work will be shown at Nybroplan September 18–21, and later moved to Frihamnen (the Free Port), where the Magasin III fall exhibition brings together works by Katharina Grosse, Sol LeWitt and Walter De Maria. All three artists have had major exhibitions at the museum since its beginning in 1987.

The exhibition wizz eyelashes is a play on both the history of art and Magasin III’s own exhibition history. Works by the conceptual minimalists Sol LeWitt and Walter De Maria have been installed alongside with Katharina Grosse’s expressive and abstract painting. All three artists have previously had solo exhibitions at Magasin III, where their work is now being brought together for the first time.

Sol LeWitt exhibited his first wall drawing in 1968, introducing an approach that would change the way we understand art today. At Magasin III in 2009 seven of his wall drawings were installed in the same room in which wizz eyelashes appears today. For the first time we are showing a wall drawing by LeWitt from our collection — a work drawn by five people full-time over a five week period this summer. The exhibition also includes two sculptures by LeWitt from the Magasin III collection.

In 1988 Walter De Maria was the first artist ever to be featured in a solo exhibition at Magasin III. Now, twenty-six years later, we are once again showing Large Rod Series: Circle/Rectangle 13 in the same place in the same room as it first appeared in 1988.

Ten years ago Katharina Grosse painted directly onto the walls, ceilings and floors of Magasin III, transforming the exhibition space into a painting that visitors could enter and within which they could move. In wizz eyelashes we are showing two of the paintings on canvas that were part of Grosse’s 2004 exhibition. Based on images of part of the large site-specific painting created directly on our walls and floor, she has created a completely new installation of printed fabric that hangs where the original used to be, now hidden under many years of layers of wall paint. In collaboration with Grosse we have chosen to let her new work act like a kind of backdrop for De Maria’s work.

Katharina Grosse –
in Nybroplan and Magasin 6

Katharina Grosse has created a new and monumental  installation for Magasin III – an expressive and abstract painting in the form of six enormous spheres.  The installation is first on view at Nybroplan (Sept 18–21, 2014) and then in Magasin 6 (Sept 25-Dec 14, 2014), an industrial storage space in the Free Port (Frihamnen), a 7 minute walk from the museum.

New name and website

We are now Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art. The time has come for our name to better reflect what we do. As the collection has continued to grow in scope and significance, it has become clear that a key part of our focus should be creating exhibitions that allow us to look back over our history and use it as a reference point for understanding where the visual arts are today. Nothing better illustrates this than our fall exhibition ’wizz eyelashes’, that presents artists that have fascinated our institution since the beginning. 

– David Neuman, Museum Director

For press inquiries please contact:

Lisa Boström, Communications Manager
bostrom@magasin3.com, + 46 8 545 680 58

This fall, we are changing our visual identity and our name to Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art. The ‘3’ becomes ‘III’ in a typeface with a venerable lineage but designed today. It is a tribute to the original signage on the former warehouse we have called home since opening in 1987.

We have kept our name, but amended it to better describe what we do. Our core mission and role remain the same; it is the content that constantly changes. We were founded to fill a gap. The public gained an exciting, private art platform that has offered Stockholm the very best of contemporary art.

We believe in art’s ability to challenge and inspire people and society. That is why we have supported the arts since our inception, providing exhibiting artists with the opportunity to produce new, unique works. Then, as now, we invite you to experience the commitment, ambition and creativity of internationally established artists from around the world.

Today, Magasin III is one of Europe’s leading institutions for contemporary art and our exhibitions are at the core of our ever-growing collection—artwork that we have been loaning to museums around the world for more than 20 years. Our new look better fits who we are — our role and our commitment.

– David Neuman, Museum Director

The new graphic identity is a collaboration with Acne Advertising.

I’M STILL HERE

February 15 – June 8, 2014

Curators: Richard Julin and Tessa Praun

Erik Aalto, John Bock, Christian Boltanski, Tom Friedman, Oscar Guermouche, David Hammons, Sofia Hultén, Aernout Mik, MoonspoonSaloon, Lars Nilsson, Pipilotti Rist, Lara Schnitger, Santiago Sierra, Laurie Simmons & Allan McCollum, Geraldine Swayne, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Andrea Zittel

The spring’s main exhibition, I’m Still Here, features artworks that draw out different aspects of what it means to be human. Mirroring the complexity of the human experience, the exhibition is a fragmentary compilation of character traits, behavioral patterns and impulses.

“The title of the exhibition is like a poetic depiction of the human state. It marks a pause in the constant search for identity, and acts as a reassuring confirmation of one’s own existence.”
–Richard Julin and Tessa Praun

I’m Still Here presents sculpture, painting, photography, installations and film works by twenty Swedish and international artists from the Magasin 3 collection. Some of the works are being shown at Magasin 3 for the first time. The exhibition also sees the return of a number of artworks produced specifically for us, such as Pipilotti Rist’s monumental Tyngdkraft, var min vän, (Gravity, Be My Friend), and major works by Christian Boltanski, John Bock, Sofia Hultén and Lars Nilsson.

THE DRAWING ROOM

February 15 – June 8, 2014

Curator: David Neuman

Maya Attoun, Ann Böttcher, Mark Dion, Marcel van Eeden, Carl August Ehrensvärd, Kendell Geers, Jan Groth, Robert Guillot, Carl Hammoud, Carl Fredrik Hill, Bror Hjorth, Ernst Josephson, R.B. Kitaj, Alfred Leslie, Elias Martin, Bjarne Melgaard, Jockum Nordström, Tal R, Julie Roberts, Gil Shani, Johan Tobias Sergel, Amy Simon, Olle Skagerfors, Jacob Stangerup, Fredrik Söderberg, Keith Tyson, Alexandra Zuckerman, Christine Ödlund

Magasin 3 presents some seventy drawings from its unique collection. Works on paper are often uncensored and seldom reworked—capturing the spontaneous and direct expression of the artist. The exhibition features a wide range of work dating from the mid-1800s to drawings completed just a few weeks ago. Visitors will have the opportunity to sit down in the exhibition space and contemplate the visual reality, just like in old-fashioned “drawing rooms.”

For more than twenty-five years, Magasin 3 has created exhibitions that present large-scale work by international artists for the first time. One could even venture to say that it has become something of our hallmark. The collection includes hundreds of works by some of the most interesting artists of our time. Parallel to the acquisition of large-scale works for which we are best known, the museum director David Neuman has also pursued a long-standing interest by systematically collecting works on paper.

“The drawings collection at Magasin 3 has considerable breadth, not only because it spans almost 300 years, but also because it shows creation at its best. In my experience, the creative act exists beyond time and space. The questions, the observations, and the intensity of these works show with brutal clarity how mankind has forever been occupied with similar issues, which I find so liberating.”
–David Neuman

Each year, Magasin 3 dedicates two galleries to annual exhibitions featuring works from the permanent collection, seen through the eyes of varying curators. For the 2013–14 season, chief curator Richard Julin has focused on Irish artist Siobhán Hapaska and Bronwyn Griffith, collections curator, has selected five artists for inclusion in her exhibition Otherworldly. Both exhibitions provide excellent opportunities to juxtapose recent acquisitions with long-held works in the collection of Magasin 3.

OTHERWORDLY

Annika von Hausswolff, Anish Kapoor, Charles Long, Pipilotti Rist, Per B Sundberg

September 28, 2013 – June 8, 2014

Curator: Bronwyn Griffith

The works presented in Otherworldly explore perception not as a passive process, but as a creative one. Our life experiences inform how we read and interpret what we see, and by encountering the unexpected we are incited to see anew. Through scale, spatiality and process, the works included explore the act of aesthetic perception and experience.

SIOBHÁN HAPASKA

September 28, 2013 – June 8, 2014

Curator: Richard Julin

Siobhán Hapaska creates multisensory works that continually extend the definition of sculpture. Magasin 3 first exhibited Siobhán’s work in 2000 and now owns one of the most extensive collections of her work in the world. Hapaska was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1963. She lives and works in London. Her recent solo exhibitions include the Barbican Centre, London (2010); Glasgow Sculpture Studios (2009); and Camden Arts Centre, London (2007). She is a recipient of the Paul Hamlyn Award (2003), represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale (2001) and participated in Documenta X (1997).

For press inquiries please contact:

Lisa Boström, Communications Manager
bostrom@magasin3.com, + 46 8 545 680 58

ON THE TIP OF MY TONGUE

July 1, Aug 8, Sep 13 – Dec 8, 2013

Pierre Bismuth, Tamara Henderson, Miranda July, Stina Nordenstam, Tino Sehgal, Dahn Vo

Curators: Richard Julin and Tessa Praun

On the Tip of My Tongue is a series of events and unique projects as well as an exhibition in the traditional sense. It includes artworks that point away from the site of the exhibition itself, towards other virtual or parallel existences and experiences.

”With this project we aim to trigger situations and experiences that linger as if “just out of reach,” to generate encounters that keep growing – in thought and through conversation – long after each initial encounter.”
– Richard Julin and Tessa Praun, curators of the exhibition.

On the Tip of My Tongue occurs gradually with three opening dates. Through its own unique choreography, the exhibition extends temporally with events taking place in different locations, both virtually and sonically, indoors and outdoors.

July 1st Miranda July’s project We Think Alone began. The project consists of emails that are sent out every Monday through the 11th of November. More than 95 000 people have signed up to the project so far. Subscribe at wethinkalone.com.

August 8–10 Magasin 3 presented Stina Nordenstam’s sound installation Tänk dig en människa at the music festival Way Out West in Gothenburg.

September 13th Unveiling of the part of the exhibition at Magasin 3, with work by Pierre Bismuth, Tamara Henderson, Stina Nordenstam, Tino Sehgal and Danh Vo.

Sound Catalog

The sound catalog is a unique format designed especially for On the Tip of My Tongue. Neither audio guide nor podcast, it contains recorded material about the participating artists and the ideas informing the exhibition as a whole.

The final chapter is a conversation between the curators and the artist Pierre Huyghe, whose work Untilled inspired the exhibition. Download at magasin3.com.

For press inquiries please contact:

Lisa Boström, Communications Manager
bostrom@magasin3.com
+ 46 8 545 680 58, mob + 46 0707728722

WE THINK ALONE

Miranda July

July 1 – November 11, 2013

Curators: Richard Julin, Tessa Praun

WE THINK ALONE is a project by Miranda July, commisioned by Magasin 3 for the exhibition On the Tip of My Tongue, curated by Richard Julin and Tessa Praun, Magasin 3. It only exists in your inbox where a themed compendium of ten emails will arrive each Monday, from July 1 – November 11, 2013. Sign up at wethinkalone.com from June 1.

Collaborators: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lena Dunham, Kirsten Dunst, Sheila Heti, Etgar Keret, Kate and Laura Mulleavy, Catherine Opie, Lee Smolin and Danh Vo.

”WE THINK ALONE has given me the excuse to read my friends’ emails and the emails of some people I wish I was friends with…. None of these emails were originally intended to be read by me (much less you.) …Privacy, the art of it, is evolving.” (For full quote http://wethinkalone.com/about/

– Miranda July

Miranda July (USA) is a filmmaker, artist, and writer. Her work has been presented at sites such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and in two Whitney Biennials. July’s art includes the participatory website, Learning to Love You More (with Harrell Fletcher), now in collection of The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Eleven Heavy Things, an interactive sculpture garden designed for the 2009 Venice Biennale. July wrote, directed and starred in Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), which won the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and The Future (2011). Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s, and The New Yorker; her collection of stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You (Scribner, 2007), won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her latest book is It Chooses You (McSweeney’s, 2011). She is currently writing a novel and lives in Los Angeles.

ON THE TIP OF MY TONGUE

July 1, August 8 & September 13 – December 8, 2013

Curators: Richard Julin, Tessa Praun

On the Tip of My Tongue is a series of events and unique projects just as much as it is an exhibition in the usual sense. It includes artworks that point away from the site of the exhibition itself, towards other virtual or parallel existences and experiences. Its intention is to actively expand the structures that surround the usual exhibition situation, and deliberately work with the artworks included, so as to unfix or destabilize the categories of time and space. It aims to trigger situations and experiences that linger as if “just outside of reach”, to generate encounters that keeps growing – in thought and through conversation – long after each actual event has ended.

Collaborators in We Think Alone:

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is an American writer, filmmaker, and the NBA’s all-time leading scorer.

Lena Dunham is an American filmmaker, writer and actress. Her HBO series, Girls, begins its third season next year.

Kirsten Dunst is an American actress. She won the Best Actress Award at Cannes Film Festival for her role in Melancholia in 2011.

Sheila Heti is a Canadian writer. Her most recent book, How Should a Person Be?, was called by Time “among the most-talked-about books of 2012”.

Etgar Keret is an Israeli writer and filmmaker and a recipient of the Chevalier Medallion of France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His most recent book is Suddenly, a Knock on the Door.

Kate and Laura Mulleavy, sisters, are American fashion and costume designers. They founded Rodarte in 2005.

Catherine Opie is an American photographer and a professor of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the 2013 recipient of the Julius Shulman Institute’s Excellence in Photography Award.

Lee Smolin is a Canadian/American theoretical physicist. His book, Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to The Future of the Universe, was published earlier this year.

Danh Vo is a Danish-Vietnamese contemporary artist and the latest recipient of the Hugo Boss Prize. He currently has a solo exhibition at Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and participates in this year’s Venice Biennale.

About Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall:

Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall is a privately funded exhibition venue situated in a 1930s warehouse-building in Stockholm’s Freeport area. With over 1500 square meters of exhibition space, Magasin 3 has, since its opening in 1987, been bringing the work of internationally renowned artists to Stockholm, and introduced these to a Scandinavian audience. The venue places strong emphasis on production by offering invited artists the space, facilities and time to produce new work for the exhibitions in which they participate here. Examples of such production based support include  Felix Gonzales-Torres’ Untitled (for Stockholm) (1992), Pipilotti Rist’s Gravity Be My Friend (2007) and Anton Henning’s spatial installationToo Much Taste, Skin & Turpentine (2012). Other recent exhibitions at Magasin 3 include Mika Rottenberg, Sneeze to Squeeze (2013), Ai Weiwei (2012), Andrea Zittel, Lay of My Land (2011) and Tom Friedman, Up in the Air (2010).

Magasin 3 also has a collection that includes over seven hundred artworks, many of which are regularly on loan to other museums and institutions all over the world.  Magasin 3 produces several yearly exhibitions drawing from the collection. With each new exhibition produced Magasin 3 offers an extensive program of lectures and talks, as well as new publications

For press inquiries please contact:

Lisa Boström, Communications Manager
bostrom@magasin3.com, + 46 8 545 680 58

From spring 2013 onwards, a series of eight key film-works from Magasin 3’s collection will be on show at Handelshögskolan’s premises in central Stockholm. At the heart of this joint effort, lies a wish to embrace and convey the particular spirit of experimentation and the newness of vision that these films represent.

The invention of the camera holds a special significance within the history of art, especially so for women artists. Women have from the outset made use of the camera in order to achieve something new. The series showcases a selection of video artworks made by women from the mid-nineties to the present. These films, each in their own way, represent a subtle but notable shift in perspective – a rearrangement of vision that questions established forms and conventions. With this project Magasin 3 – together with Handelshögskolan – wants to communicate a shared belief that art is a form of expression that continues to grow and enrich, as it is seen and challenged by new audiences and new situations.

In the film series at Stockholm School of Economics:

Janine Antoni, Touch, 2002. May 21 – June 14, 2013.

Sigalit Landau, Standing on a Watermelon in the Dead Sea, 2005. Aug 19 – Sep 20, 2013.

Smadar Dreyfus, 360 degrees, 2007. Sep 23 – Oct 11, 2013.

Jumana Emil Abboud, Al Awda/The Return, 2002. Oct 14 – Nov 1, 2013.

Marijke van Warmerdam, Wind, 2010. Nov 4 – Dec 4, 2013.

Kimsooja, Bottari – Zocalo, 2000. Dec 4, 2013 – Jan 11, 2014.

Kimsooja, Bottari Alfa Beach, 2001. Jan 13 – Feb 2, 2014.

Sam Taylor-Johnson (formerly Sam Taylor-Wood), Brontosaurus, 1995. Feb 4 – Feb 14, 2014.

SNEEZE TO SQUEEZE

Mika Rottenberg

February 8 – June 2, 2013

Curator: Tessa Praun

TOO MUCH SKIN, TASTE & TURPENTINE

Anton Henning

September 7 – December 9, 2012

Curator: Richard Julin

Magasin 3 has the pleasure of introducing German artist Anton Henning in his first solo exhibition in Scandinavia. Too Much Skin, Taste & Turpentine is the largest exhibition that Magasin 3 has arranged by a single artist.

About the Artist:

For press enquiries please contact:

Tove Schalin: schalin@magasin3.com, tel 08-545 640 44, mob 070-270 86 35