CHRIS BURDEN

September 22 – December 9, 2012

Curator: Tessa Praun

The long-awaited return of key works by Chris Burden, last seen together during his solo exhibition at Magasin 3 in 1999. Each work explores technological solutions for moving the human body through space. The remarkable B-Car, designed and hand-built by Burden himself in 1975, will be on display alongside two of his bridges constructed out of metal components from toy building kits. All works are part of Magasin 3’s permanent collection.

Publication:

This autumn we will begin work on a publication about B-Car, compiling all the unique material—sketches, texts, photos, and articles—that documents the evolution of the work. This material will also be included as part of this season’s exhibition.

Program:

Chris Burden will visit Stockholm and Magasin 3 during the exhibition and give an artist talk on April 15, 2013 at Bio Rio.

About the artist:

Chris Burden (born Boston, USA, 1946) is a legendary artist, who first garnered attention with controversial, self-endangering performances in the early 1970s. These works were often executed over several days for private audiences, which added to their mythical status. In Trans-Fixed, Burden had himself crucified on the back of a Volkswagen Beetle, while for Shoot he asked a friend to shoot him in the arm. After several intense years as a performance artist, Burden started to devote his time to creating sculptures and installations, for which he often delves irreverently into technology. Chris Burden lives and works in Los Angeles.

 

SOMETHING TURNED INTO A THING

Janine Antoni, John Chamberlain, Wim Delvoye, Tom Friedman, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Denise Grünstein, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, James Turrell, Lawrence Weiner, Rémy Zaugg

September 22 – December 9, 2012 & February 8 – June 2, 2013

Curator: Tessa Praun

Since the fall of 2011, Magasin 3 has dedicated two galleries to annual exhibitions featuring works from the permanent collection. These presentations provide the opportunity for recollections and reflections upon artists that Magasin 3 has followed over the years.

Something Turned Into a Thing is an exhibition based on the basic properties of the chosen materials and how they are perceived by our senses and our minds.

Some participating artists take fragments of the urban environment or familiar everyday objects and discover new ways of seeing them, both visually and intellectually. Other artists rely solely on an idea as the principal expressive agent of the work. With an often playful, unrestrained and uncompromising approach to the materials, artists extract objects, phenomena or words from their customary areas of use and expose them to a broader range of interpretations. John Chamberlain’s intricate sculptures made of crushed car parts, Agnes Martin’s geometric grids in muted colours on canvas, Wim Delvoye’s sewage pipes on porcelain pedestals and Tom Friedman’s toothpaste painting all stand side-by-side in this exhibition. The title, “Something Turned Into a Thing,” is borrowed from a work by Lawrence Weiner, who has spent decades exploring language in his art so that he can more comprehensively dedicate himself to—and spark a debate about—objects and our relationship to them.

The works span Magasin 3’s entire history, from the opening exhibition in 1988 to later installations created specifically for our space and even some of the most recent additions to our collection.

On Saturday, September 22, 2 – 3 pm, Tessa Praun will present the exhibition in dialogue with museum director David Neuman. She will discuss the works and shares anecdotes about how they found their way into the Magasin 3 collection.

For press inquiries please contact:

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

AI WEIWEI

February 3 – June 10, 2012

Curator: Tessa Praun

Magasin 3 presents the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in his first solo exhibition in Sweden.

The exhibition will focus on a number of Ai Weiwei’s monumental installations and his political work. A reading room which will also include documentary films will give visitors a chance to learn about his multifaceted efforts to foster social change in China—an activism that puts him on a collision course with the regime.

Ai Weiwei often refers to pre-revolutionary China and its cultural and craft traditions in his work. He seeks out iconic objects with great cultural and symbolic value for the Chinese, and then deliberately treats them with complete disregard for its worth or intended function. Much of his work is a commentary on the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) during which countless cultural treasures were destroyed in order to pave the way for contemporary China, so marked by both communism and capitalism. The works chosen for the exhibition all address Chinese socialism, mass production and global trade.

Tessa Praun, curator at Magasin 3, met Ai Weiwei in the fall of 2010 at his Beijing studio to begin work on the exhibition. She says:

Ai Weiwei has remarkable sensibility and strength in his visual expression, which is effective in conveying a rather complex and significant content. When I met Ai Weiwei in his studio he had just been held under house arrest for a few days. He was calm but keenly aware that he was already in a very uncertain and tenuous situation. After the events of the past year I think that it is ever more important for elements of his political work to be present in the exhibition.

About the artist:

Ai Weiwei was born in 1957 in Beijing. He co-founded the avant-garde artists’ group Stars at the end of the 1970s before moving to New York in 1981. There he was a leading figure in the community of exiled Chinese artists, writers and musicians and became an active member of the American intellectual and artistic scene. In 1993 Ai Weiwei returned to China where he has worked not only as an artist, but also as a curator, architect and blogger. In recent years his activism for social change in China has increased, making him one of the most outspoken critics of the regime.

Program:

In conjunction with the exhibition Magasin 3 is inviting international participants to take part in a series of lectures, panel discussions and film screenings. Events will address Ai Weiwei’s art, democracy and human rights in relation to creativity and how digital media is used to in the struggle for freedom of expression. The program series is organized together with ABF, Bio Rio, Goethe-Institut, Moderna Museet and Swedish PEN.

For press inquiries please contact:

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

MARIKE VAN WARMERDAM

September 24, 2011 – December 11, 2011

Curator: Tessa Praun

During the fall of 2011, Magasin 3 presents a selection of film works by the Dutch artist Marijke van Warmerdam. In absence of any clear beginning or end, seemingly insignificant events are expanded into poetic abstractions. Leaves carried by the wind, milk dripping into a glass of water, a bunch of flowers vibrating in a bicycle basket or white jet trails across the sky–the meditative simplicity of the films bestows upon the viewer a moment of stillness and titillating wonder based in the everyday.

In the exhibition at Magasin 3 swirling air is what connects three films that are otherwise totally independent works. Blondine (1995) is a close study of a woman drying her long hair. The hair drier blows her locks in circular motions. Wave (2006) documents a mule standing in a field of grain that sways rhythmically in the wind while the mule swings its tail. In Wind (2010) leaves and litter are blown through an industrial zone. The movement of the camera as it follows bits of plastic, feathers and dry leaves emphasizes the passage of the wind through an otherwise deserted area.

Curator Tessa Praun explains: “The absence of any real action gives a sense of timelessness that is a welcome contrast to the hectic pace of everyday life. In the exhibition at Magasin 3 the chosen films, which are all silent, are shown on digital projectors for the first time. The mechanical hum of the film projector is absent making the visual experience in the room even more intense.”

The exhibition was realized with the financial support of the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam.

About the artist:

Marijke van Warmerdam was born in 1959 in Nieuwer Amstel in the Netherlands. She has worked with photography, sculpture and mostly 16mm and 35mm film since the early 1990s. Marijke van Warmerdam has had numerous solo exhibitions, for example at the Venice Biennale and at institutions such as Wiener Secession, Museum Ludwig in Cologne, ICA in Boston, CCA in Kitakyushu, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, and Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. Her collected works can be seen at a large touring retrospective beginning at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam this fall. Later on the exhibition will travel to Serravles Museum in Porto and Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. Van Warmerdam lives and works in Amsterdam and has a professorship in Karlsruhe at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste.

For more information:

Please contact coordinator Tove Schalin: schalin@magasin3.com, +46 (0)8-545 680 44, 070-270 86 35

MUSEUM MAGASIN 3 – PRESENTATIONS FROM THE COLLECTION

Cosima von Bonin, Per Kirkeby, Tal R

September 24, 2011 – June 10, 2012

Curator: David Neuman

Starting in fall 2011, Magasin 3 will dedicate two galleries to annual exhibitions featuring works from the permanent collection. These presentations will provide the opportunity for recollections and reflections upon artists that Magasin 3 has followed over the years.

The first gallery presents a group of works by Cosima von Bonin, a Cologne-based artist. In her imagery, we encounter creatures and objects that seem to have escaped from a kindergarten. Larger than life they sit perfectly poised as if at the beach or on the ocean floor upending all preconceptions. Although Cosima von Bonin has been included in group shows at Magasin 3, this is the first solo presentation of her works, and includes an exciting new acquisition.

The second gallery is a meeting between two celebrated Danish artists: Per Kirkeby and Tal R. Both have previously been featured in solo exhibitions at Magasin 3, yet this new context places their paintings and sculptures side-by-side—an encounter that lends itself to visual rapture and existential analysis.

Museum Magasin 3 exhibitions are created by the curators at Magasin 3. These first presentations are curated by museum director David Neuman assisted by Bronwyn Griffith, Assistant Curator of Collection Research.

The exhibition is open during fall season 2011 and spring season 2012 as follows: September 24 until December 11, January 12 until June 10.

Catalogue:

In conjunction with the exhibition Magasin 3 publishes a katalog in newspaper format. Content: 
Texts by Museum Director David Neuman; John C. Welchman, Professor of Modern Art History at University of California, San Diego; and interviews with curators Richard Julin and Sara Källström. The magazine is handed out free of charge to all museum visitors. It will also be distributed in 70 venues around Sweden together with the magazine Artlover.

About the artists:

Cosima von Bonin is one of the most influential and productive artists in Germany today. Her work encompasses sculpture, photography, textile “paintings”, installations, film, video and performance, making it difficult to place within a specific genre. Often large in scale, her installations include all of the above media, and sometimes also feature the work of fellow artists, or artists with whom she feels a certain kinship. She has an on-going collaboration with the DJ Moritz von Oswald and also runs a record company with Justus Köhnke.

Her work is free-flowing, a reaction to impressions from popular culture, folk art, fashion, hip-hop, techno and personal experiences. Von Bonin creates worlds governed by their own social order—exploring notions of free play and indoctrination, structure and improvisation, gender and identity—in pieces that are often absurd and humorous.

Cosima von Bonin was born in Mombasa, Kenya in 1962 and currently lives and works in Cologne. She has had solo exhibitions at Tate Liverpool, Documenta 12 in Kassel, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Witte de With in Rotterdam and Museum Ludwig in Cologne. Her work has previously been presented at Magasin 3 including the exhibitions Freeport (2001), for which she created the work Item, To be continued… (2007) and BETWIXT (2008). The newly-acquired piece Hermit Crab in Fake Royère is now shown at Magasin 3 for the first time.

Tal R is Denmark’s currently most prominent painter, and he has won much critical acclaim internationally. After graduating from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2000 he won the prestigious Carnegie Art Award for painters in 2002. Tal R is best known for his colorful, naïve and partially abstract large-scale paintings; however, he also works in other media such as sculpture, drawing, installations, video and textiles. Most recently he has been involved in developing the experimental clothing line MoonSpoon Saloon. Tal R’s motifs are inspired by advertising, horror films, children’s drawings, newspapers and encounters with other people. In his paintings he likes to play with perspective, framing, surface and shape. He implements his own kind of cubism, as he puts it.

Tal R was born in 1967 in Israel but spent most of his childhood in Copenhagen where he still lives today. He holds a guest professorship at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, which he often “exchanges” with colleagues at other art academies. His work has been presented in numerous solo exhibitions at institutions such as Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk and Der Kunstverein in Hamburg. Tal R has previously been presented at Magasin 3 in a solo exhibition Old Confused (2009) and in Thrice upon a time (2010).

Per Kirkeby is best known for his large painterly constructions, often based on the Scandinavian landscape, as well as for his monumental brick sculptures. Kirkeby has an existential perspective and a keen ability to capture the untamed forces of nature and life. He first studied geology at the University of Copenhagen before becoming involved in the radical Den Eksperimenterende Kunstskole in Copenhagen and in the Fluxus group. Other influences include 1960s artistic movements such as pop art, performance and minimalism. Kirkeby also worked with film and in his Masonite paintings from the period he mixes pop culture references with visuals taken from the world of advertising. His international breakthrough came in the 1980s with his large, abstract, expressively colorful paintings and sculptures in bronze and brick. Several monumental brick sculptures by Per Kirkeby are on view in Sweden, including Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Wanås sculpture park.

Per Kirkeby was born in Copenhagen in 1938. His work has been widely exhibited and is included in the collections of some of the most important institutions of modern art such as the Modern Museum of Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and Centre Pompidou, Paris. His most recent solo exhibitions have been held at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Tate Modern, London and Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf. Kirkeby has also published novels, a collection of poetry, essays on art and architecture and the work of other artists. A member of the Danish Academy since 1982 he became an honorary member of the British Royal Academy of Arts along with fellow artist Ai Weiwei in 2011. Magasin 3 presented a solo exhibition of Per Kirkeby in 1999.

For press inquiries please contact:

Tove Schalin, koordinator, schalin@magasin3.com, 08-545 680 44, 070-270 86 35

LAY OF MY LAND

Andrea Zittel

September 24 – December 11, 2011

Curator: Richard Julin

The American artist Andrea Zittel was born in California in 1965. She is most closely associated with the remarkable utopian structures she calls living systems, which, in different ways, explore what we humans need for our survival. Andrea Zittel’s projects are deeply rooted in her own everyday life and her work delves into many different fields such as architecture, painting, photography, design, textiles, needlework and cooking. For over two decades her experiments have included dressing in the same home-sewn uniform for months on end, exploring restrictions in living space by living on an artificial island or living without measured time.

At the beginning of the last decade she moved from New York back to California where she founded A–Z West, a space where she has created minimal households in which the everyday activities such as sleeping, eating, cooking and socializing become artistic actions. The fall exhibition at Magasin 3 will focus on ideas related to A–Z West.

“We are very pleased that Andrea Zittel will be producing a completely new and large-scale piece for the exhibition at Magasin 3. The work Lay of My Land is a sculptural installation – a dramatic topographical figuration of the landscape that surrounds her site A–Z West in the Mojave desert,” says Richard Julin, curator of the exhibition.

About the Artist:

Zittel has been included in group exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale and Documenta X. She has had solo exhibitions at institutions such as San Francisco MoMA, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Louisiana in Denmark and Schaulager in Basel.

New Publication:

An extensive new monograph on the artist accompanies the exhibition. It includes exclusive new photography taken in spring 2011. The text is based on conversations between Andrea Zittel and curator Richard Julin at the artist’s home and studio, A–Z West. The book is published by Prestel, one of the leading international publishers of art, architecture, photography and design books. The book will be available in September.

Exhibition to travel to BALTIC:

On February 10 the exhibition Andrea Zittel Lay of My Land will open at the renowned art institution BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, UK.
“Both Andrea and Magasin 3 are thrilled that the exhibition will travel and be able to reach another public. BALTIC is an exciting institution for contemporary art with extensive programs and the exhibition will be open throughout spring 2012,” says Richard Julin, Chief Curator at Magasin 3 and curator of the exhibition.

THE INFINITE CONVERSATION

Lundahl & Seitl

(A part of Performancexhibition)

May 5 – 8, 2011

Curator: Richard Julin

In the spring of 2011, Magasin 3 has invited a number of artists to produce work that lands somewhere between performance and exhibition.

The acclaimed artist duo Lundahl & Seitl have created a performance that invites visitors to immerse themselves in total darkness at Magasin 3. After the much talked about performance at National Museum in Stockholm last year, there is now another opportunity to experience an entirely new work for four days only in May.

For The Infinite Conversation, Lundahl & Seitl completely darken one of the galleries at Magasin 3. Visitors are led by the hand into a pitch-black room where they then drift in and out of conversations held between disembodied voices. Each new voice is projected out into the space, where it forms a dialogue with others. The gallery, like the dark caves of Lascaux, absorbs and stores this information in its own inherent memory–every visitor leaves a trace behind for the next person.

Richard Julin, curator of the exhibition:

“Lundahl & Seitl create experiences that linger in the consciousness of the visitor long after they leave. In Symphony of a Missing Room at the National Museum, for example, I was fascinated by how visitors trusted the artwork and gave themselves over to it. After following Lundahl & Seitl’s work at Weld and other European museums I am thrilled that they have now created a new work especially for Magasin 3.”

About the artists:

Lundahl & Seitl is a London-based artist duo, composed of curator and artist Christer Lundahl (b. 1979) and the choreographer and artist Martina Seitl (b. 1978). They have received considerable attention in the past few years for their large-scale site- and situation-specific artworks that explore history, time, space and human perception through the participation and total immersion of visitors.

In 2010 Lundahl & Seitl were awarded the Birgit Cullberg Stipendium with the following motivation: “With a great degree of certainty, Lundahl & Seitl lead the spectator into a magical world where dance, philosophy, technology and art merge into a complete work of art.”

Opening hours:
Thursday, May 5, 12-7 pm
Friday, May 6, 12-5 pm
Saturday, May 7, 5 pm
Sunday, May 8, 5 pm.

The Infinite Conversation has an age limit of 15 years old and is in English only. Magasin 3 entrance ticket gives access with no advanced booking required.

Lundahl & Seitl recently performed the work Observatory at MDT (April 26–May 3). Observatory and The Infinite Conversation at Magasin 3 exist as two separate units, in two different places, yet the works are also interconnected, reflecting and extending into one another. Read more about Observatory on MDT’s website.

Performancexhibition:

The Infinite Conversation is part three of three in PERFORMANCEXHIBITION:

February 10 – March 6: Antidote, Erik Aalto
April 14 – 17: Corduroy de-constructed, Björn Säfsten
May 5 – 8: The Infinite Conversation, Lundahl & Seitl

COURDUROY DE-CONSTRUCTED

Björn Säfsten

(A part of Performancexhibition)

April 14 – 17, 2011

Curator: Richard Julin

In the spring of 2011, Magasin 3 has invited a number of artists to produce work that lands somewhere between performance and exhibition.

Björn Säfsten has worked as a choreographer in Sweden and internationally since 2003, working with his own constellations of dancers and artists while also completing commissions for other ensembles. With a razor-sharp eye for the full spectrum of movement, he creates pieces that focus on both physical limitations and possibilities.

For Magasin 3, Björn Säfsten has created Corduroy de-constructed, a conceptual performance that allows the choreographer to present movements for observation, inspection and inspiration. It is the deconstruction of the performance Corduroy, created for a large stage in 2010, restaged in three separate yet corresponding choreographic parts performed in a loop. The stage is replaced by the more intimate setting of an art gallery. Performed by some of Sweden’s best young dancers in close proximity to the audience, the movements are recontextualized establishing new approaches to the work.

Richard Julin, curator of the exhibition:

“Björn Säfsten is absolutely one of Sweden’s most interesting choreographers right now. I have followed his dance productions closely and been fascinated by the precise and sharply defined choreographic language. It is with great pleasure that Magasin 3 presents the new work “Corduroy de-constructed” in one of our exhibition galleries for a visual arts public in April.”

Dancers: Anja Arnquist, Sophie Augot, Allison Ahl, Linda Blomqvist,  Madeleine Lindh.

Performed during the following hours at Magasin 3:
Thursday, April 14, 11.30 am – 6.00 pm
Friday, April 15, 11.30 am – 5.00 pm
Saturday, April 16, 11.30 am – 5.00 pm
Sunday, April 17, 11.30 am – 5.00 pm

The work is a 1 1/2 hr loop. There is a pause between 1-2 pm each day.

Co-produced by NorrlandsOperan and Magasin 3 with the support of the Swedish Arts Council.

Artist Talk:

On Thursday, April 14 at 6pm, Richard Julin will hold a conversation with Björn Säfsten and the dancers performing in Corduroy de-constructed; Anja Arnquist, Sophie Augot, Allison Ahl, Linda Blomqvist, and Madeleine Lind.

Location: Magasin 3
Language: Swedish

PERFORMANCEEXHIBITION:

Corduroy de-constructed is part two of three in PERFORMANCEXHIBITION:

February 10 – March 6: Antidote, Erik Aalto
April 14 – 17: Corduroy de-constructed, Björn Säfsten
May 5 – 8: The Infinite Conversation, Lundahl & Seitl

ANTIDOTE

Erik Aalto

(A part of Performancexhibition)

February 10 – March 6, 2011

Curator: Richard Julin

In the spring of 2011, Magasin 3 has invited a number of artists to produce work that lands somewhere between performance and exhibition.

First in line is Erik Aalto, perhaps best known as his alter ego Sir Eric Beyond, nominated for best pop album by Swedish Radio’s P3 for “Sir Eric Beyond and the Avant-garde” (2006). Beyond’s tragic passing in Autumn 2010 was honored by the performance “Sir Eric Beyond is Dead!” at Kägelbanan in Stockholm.

On February 10, Erik Aalto takes over Magasin 3 with Antidote, a performance and concert that segues into an exhibition on February 17.

Exhibition curator Richard Julin:

“Erik Aalto, a.k.a. Sir Eric Beyond, is the Swedish art scene’s best kept secret. As Sir Eric Beyond, he has been treading the boundaries between performance and music for many years while maintaining his own artistry as Erik Aalto. Now he is merging his alter ego with his artistic identity creating a fusion that will be very exciting to see!”

App: Call and Response

In conjunction with the exhibition, the art-app Call and Response was produced. It is an interactive video-adaptation of Aalto’s work The object is performance. Available for download on iPhone and iPad.

PERFORMANCEEXHIBITION:

Antidote is part one of three in PERFORMANCEXHIBITION:

February 10 – March 6: Antidote, Erik Aalto
April 14 – 17: Corduroy de-constructed, Björn Säfsten
May 5 – 8: The Infinite Conversation, Lundahl & Seitl

INVESTIGATIONS OF A DOG

Vasco Araújo, Virginie Barré, Philippe Bazin, Mircea Cantor, Maurizio Cattelan, Roberto Cuoghi, Mark Dion, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Urs Fischer, Fischli & Weiss, Claire Fontaine, David Hammons, Annika von Hausswolff, Thomas Hirschhorn, William Kentridge, Kimsooja, Jeff Koons, Sigalit Landau, Sherrie Levine, DeAnna Maganias, Mark Manders, Marepe, Paul McCarthy, Boris Mikhailov, Esko Männikkö, Bruce Nauman, Cady Noland, Martin Parr, Navin Rawanchaikul, Aurel Schmidt, Gregor Schneider, Lara Schnitger, Santiago Sierra, Lorna Simpson, Stéphane Thidet, Kara Walker

February 17 – May 29, 2011

Curator: Tessa Praun

This spring Magasin 3’s exhibition spaces will be filled with works by internationally acclaimed artists including Maurizio Cattelan, Fischli & Weiss, Claire Fontaine, Jeff Koons, Sigalit Landau and Sherrie Levine – many of them being shown in Sweden for the first time.

The exhibition Investigations of a Dog has borrowed its title from a short story by Franz Kafka (1922) and presents works from the collections of all five members of FACE – Foundation of Arts for a Contemporary Europe. Tessa Praun, curator of the exhibition in Stockholm, describes the exhibition’s theme:

Kafka’s short story is written from the perspective of a dog suffering an identity crisis. The dog is more introverted and reflective than his fellow dogs. This more critical approach to society, complete with existential thoughts, is reflected in the artistic process of the works selected for the exhibition.

About FACE:

The FACE network was formed in 2008 and consists of five private art institutions: DESTE Foundation (Greece), Ellipse Foundation (Portugal), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Italy), La maison rouge (France) and Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall. Over the course of two years, the exhibition will travel to each of the five foundations – Stockholm being the fourth venue.

Publication:

Five writers have been invited to each write an original short story inspired by the exhibition or its connection to Franz Kafka. Magasin 3 has invited the Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri, who with his subtle play with language draws us into a narrative balancing on the threshold between reality and fiction, dream and nightmare. The other authors are: Aristide Antonas, Rui Cardoso Martins, Emmanuelle Pagano, and Tiziano Scarpa.

For press inquiries, please contact:

Tove Schalin, exhibition coordinator: schalin@magasin3.com, 08-545 680 44, 070-270 86 35.

THRICE UPON A TIME

Absalon, Karin Mamma Andersson, Janine Antoni, Maya Attoun, Uta Barth, Lynda Benglis, Christian Boltanski, Ann Böttcher, Anna Camner, Walter De Maria, Cecilia Edefalk, Marcel van Eeden, Jens Fänge, Robert Guillot, Rune Hagberg, Lova Hamilton, Carl Hammoud, Siobhán Hapaska, Annika von Hausswolff, Maria Hedlund, Anton Henning, Carl Fredrik Hill, Bror Hjorth, Rebecca Horn, Olav Christopher Jenssen, Ernst Josephson, Matti Kallioinen, Kimsooja, R.B. Kitaj, John Kleckner, Sigalit Landau, Matts Leiderstam, Maria Lindberg, Mark Manders, Truls Melin, Ohad Meromi, Jan van Munster, Jockum Nordström, Gabriel Orozco, Cecilia E. Parsberg, Tal R, Håkan Rehnberg, Gerhard Richter, Boo Ritson, Ulf Rollof, Glen Rubsamen, Fred Sandback, Tom Sandberg, Johan Scott, Miri Segal, Jonathan Seliger, Cindy Sherman, Ann-Sofi Sidén, Santiago Sierra, Lena Svedberg, Fredrik Söderberg, Johan Thurfjell, Richard Tuttle, Uglycute, Charlie White, Gunnel Wåhlstrand, Rémy Zaugg, Johan Zetterquist, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Christine Ödlund

September 11 – December 12, 2010

Curators: Richard Julin, Elisabeth Millqvist, Tessa Praun

The fall of 2010 marks the opening of the unprecedented exhibition Thrice upon a time. This is the largest exhibition to date with artworks taken exclusively from the Magasin 3 collection. It is presented in three parallel chapters featuring a total of 202 works, all of which have not previously been shown at Magasin 3. 66 artists ranging from Absalon to Zetterquist fill the exhibition spaces with photography, drawing, painting, film and sculpture. Key works by established artists are shown alongside pieces by artists who have not previously exhibited in Sweden. Together these works give an unsurpassable insight into the Magasin 3 collection.

In the three different parts curators Elisabeth Millqvist, Tessa Praun and Richard Julin each present their own perspective on the collection. Art history, the artist, and collecting are their respective focal points.

Elisabeth Millqvist investigates art history and the two classic genres of portraiture and landscape – motifs that never lose their fascination for artists. What do we search for in portraits, what do self-portraits reveal and can landscape also be read as a form of portraiture? This presentation is a fresh look at how artists work with portraiture and landscape today.

Architecture as well as physical and mental interiors are central to Tessa Praun’s selection of artworks. She explores the artist’s work process and gives it a presence in the form of relayed imaginings, views from the studio and borrowed source material.

Richard Julin takes a look at collecting with his exhibition design creating a spatial journey of exploration. The works are gathered associatively and evoke an atmosphere where the collector’s enthusiasm and the history of the objects are in focus.

Magasin 3 Director David Neuman, comments:

We would like to make the importance we place on collecting more evident to the public. In the near future parts of the collection will always be accessible through permanent exhibitions. ‘Thrice upon a time’ is the start of a new direction for us at Magasin 3. With the contributing artists born between 1849 and 1978 the exhibition not only stages the meeting of for example Karin Mamma Andersson and Ernst Josephson but above all reflects contemporary art history.

For press inquiries, please contact:

Tove Schalin, exhibition coordinator: schalin@magasin3.com, 08-545 680 44, 070-270 86 35.