kim? Contemporary Art Centre invites you to the opening of the exhibition Society Acts – Version 2. After Moderna Exhibition 2014 in collaboration with Moderna Museet Malmö on March 6, 7pm at kim? Contemporary Art Centre. The exhibition in Riga is a version of Moderna Exhibition 2014 and represents twenty seven artists from Scandinavia and the Baltic sea region. Opening night will be accompanied by a performance by Henning Lundkvist.
Just as interactions in society are based on a mix of historical experiences and current demands, the artists in the exhibition Society Acts move between perceived experiences and dreamed aspirations. The exhibition’s title –Society Acts – is to be understood as a comprehensive and transparent concept, where acts refers to a visible and invisible movement, social action and to performative gesture. Questions of private and collective identities, political expressions, and personal reflections take shape in the exhibition. The artists question and challenge the public realm, the institutional spaces, and the boundary between fiction and documentary.
Curator: Andreas Nilsson
Co-curator: Maija Rudovska
Assistant curator: Julia Björnberg
March 7 – April 19, 2015
Henning Lundkvist. SPQR(M)(Roam Sweet Rome) (2013), photographic print, 10 x 15 cm
An extended version of the exhibition Society Acts was first presented last year at Moderna Museet Malmö in the exhibition series The Moderna Exhibition, which historically has been Moderna Museet’s inventory of Swedish contemporary art, taking place every fourth year. Unlike the two previous exhibitions, the selection for Society Acts was widened geographically beyond Sweden, to include artists from a large part of the Baltic region, and also included historical elements, some of which were from the collection of Moderna Museet. The exhibition in Malmö presented 38 artists and artist collectives from seven countries.
Moderna Museet has one of the world’s finest collections of 20th and 21st century art. The photography collection goes back as far as 1840. Moderna Museet is commissioned to collect, preserve, exhibit and organize learning activities relating to all forms of 20th and 21st century art. Moderna Museet Malmö was inaugurated in 2009, as a branch of Moderna Museetin Stockholm.
Society Acts – Version 2. After Moderna Exhibition 2014 participants: AaBbPp, Cezary Bodzianowski, Eglė Budvytytė & Bart Groenendaal, Zenta Dzividzinska, Johanna Gustafsson Fürst, Joachim Hamou, Laura Kaminskaitė, Essi Kausalainen, Anna Lundh, Henning Lundkvist, Maija Luutonen, Miks Mitrēvics & Kristīne Kursiša, Michala Paludan, Lea Porsager, Emily Roysdon, Imri Sandström, Janek Simon, Ola Ståhl & Terje Östling.
Screening program: Emanuel Almborg, Maja Borg, Maj Hasager, Jonas Mekas, Kristina Norman.
Decembers – a round table conversation © 2012 Maj Hasager
Program for the exhibition:
March 7, 2pm
kim? Contemporary Art Centre
Guided tour by the curators
The curators Andreas Nilsson and Maija Rudovska will discuss the exhibition, and elaborate on some of the topics together with participating artists.
Performance
Performance by Finnish artist Essi Kausalainen.
Lecture
Assistant curator of the exhibition Julia Björnberg will give a lecture on the feminist and queer topics, which are presented in the exhibition at Moderna Museet Malmö, focusing on artists such as Mette Winckelmann, Maj Hasager, Emily Roysdon, and Anna-Stina Treumund.
March 8, 11am-5pm
Cinema screening
Movie theatre K Suns
Elizabetes street 83/85
Maja Borg
Future my Love (2012)
93 min.
Maj Hasager
Decembers – a round table conversation (2012)
65 min.
Emanuel Almborg
The Majority Never Has Right On Its Side (2013)
40 min.
Jonas Mekas
A Walk (1990)
58 min.
Kristina Norman
Common Ground (2013)
37 min.
All events will be held in English. Free entrance.
