Bonniers Konsthall

The autumn’s Wednesday evenings at Bonnier's Konsthall continues! With the point of departure in the exhibition and publication Life Forms, artists, writers, researchers and curators get together for three nights to elaborate on different themes. The second night gathers architectural historian Christina Pech, artists Tue Greenfort and Tomas Saraceno and curator Camilla Larsson to discuss art as a site for visionary utopias or critical dystopias.

The architectural exhibition Ararat – a question of survival presented at Moderna Museet, Stockholm back in 1976 wanted to employ art as a place for imagining and testing future human life for ecological survival. Has contemporary art the courage to entertain similar utopian ambitions? Or is it still marked by the experience of the totalitarian downsides of modern utopias? Is it rather in dystopias that contemporary art finds a space for critical reflections on our time and the future?

After the discussion, COUNTER-COMMUNITIES will be shown – a documentary film on five alternative and Utopian architecture projects in the USA. By Oliver Croy and Oliver Elser. Duration: 40 mins.

Wednesday Evening: Possible impossible worlds
4 Nov at 6 pm
In English. Included in the entrance fee.