EXHIBITIONS

10 sep - 13 nov 2011

As one of around 40 artists at GIBCA, Bryndís Snæbjornsdóttir, professor at Valand participate together with Mark Wilson with a  specially commissioned work: Vanishing Point: Where Species Meet. They invite seagulls to »break bread« with the artist at a dining table. It is an extension of hospitality and a meeting of species over food, thus exploring the contemporary relationship between humans and non-humans in an urban environment.

Read a conversation between Snaebjörnsdottir & Wilson and Andréas Hagström at GIBCA homepage.

Vanishing Point, Bryndís Snæbjornsdóttir och Mark Wilson, 2011.

As part of a course in Tbilisi, Georgia, Valand students present the exhibition "Transit" at Center of Contemporary Art in Tbilisi, please visit the website for more information >>.
Participating stundents from Valand and Steneby:
Martinka Bobrikova Oscar de Carmen, Guido Pierri, Emnuel Svedin och Siri Tolander. Curator Wato Tsereteli.

Mass Ventriloquism, by Brindalyn Webster, will be performed on May 13th, 2010 at 12pm inside of the Malm Whale at Göteborg’s Natural History Museum. This hollow taxidermied whale, which is normally kept closed, will be opened for fifteen women who will read the play inside of it, while their voices get amplified throughout the museum. A special handmade paper version of the play, made by Julia Goodman, will be on display and available to read from.

Read more about the art piece here.
 

Valand Master students at CCA in San Francisco

Jeu de Paume Paris France: Esther Shalev-Gerz
February 9th – June 6th 2010

“Over three decades Esther Shalev-Gerz has consistently performed a process of unravelling particularities in order to reflect on the ways in which the generalities of history and memory are constructed. Working with a specific place, a certain moment in history, an urgent question, or a shared experience that resonates through history, Shalev-Gerz mines the personal in order to address and interrogate the ways in which the present is understood (Lisa Le Feuvre,
"Nothing is written. We all know that. Don’t we".
Extract from the catalogue of the exhibition.)

Esther Shalev-Gerz, D’eux, 2008-2010, video extract

Esther Shalev-Gerz was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, raised in Israel and resides in Paris since 1984. She is teaching in the Art school in Gothenburg, Sweden since 2003. She is internationally recognised for her seminal investigation into the nature of democracy, citizenship, cultural memory and spatial politics.

Läs mer om utställningen på Jeu de Paumes hemsida.

FCAC in Shanghai, China: immigration humans plants animals ghosts (late afternoon confusion) Elke Marhöfer solo exhibition

Jan 19, 2010 - Feb 06, 2010

In her first major solo exhibition in China, the Berlin based artist Elke Marhöfer will introduce primarily new works specifically conceived for the exhibition. In the main room of the FCAC, she will install a number of sculptural formations, or pavilions. Within the pavilions, four filmic projects will be presented. Based on this constellation, the individual films will sensually interweave with the 'white cube', and generate an ambivalent space, which embraces a number of different impulses.Elke Marhöfer solo exhibition Shanghai, China

The filmic works in the exhibition meditate on the artistic procedures inherited from documentary and ethnographic film. They re-think how we form the world, history, ourselves and others. But the objective is not to report, for example, on matters concerning different cultures, but to explore one's own visual perception. All the works share the philosophical view that there is no "other" world, but that every identity is in conjunction with other identities, and through this will be expanded and changed. The title of the exhibition "immigration humans plants animals ghosts (late afternoon confusion)" suggests a disbelief in the concept of individual species and artificial genus.