Tell a Friend is this year’s main presentation of emerging Swedish contemporary art at Bonniers Konsthall. The group exhibition introduces 28 Swedish artists. The governing principle for the selection of artists participating in Tell a Friend has been linking and networking.
With Tell a Friend Bonniers Konsthall seizes upon our time’s most striking characteristic: the net’s opportunities for exchanging information, networking and sharing. The governing principle for the selection of artists participating in Tell a Friend has been linking and networking. Bonniers Konsthall invited people from its network to suggest artists from the emerging Swedish art scene. Artists, curators, designers, choreographers, writers – who in various ways have been involved in the activities at Bonniers Konsthall since the beginning in 2006 – submitted their choices.
The ambition for the exhibition has been to open up the principle of selection for a temporary, non-hierarchical network where the co-actors set the agenda. The method emphasises an activity in change and motion, where the linking and connecting elements open up contact areas between individuals, practices and traditions.
The participating artist in Tell a Friend give an inkling about current tendencies of the Swedish art scene today. The artists all work within different areas such as visual art, architecture, set design, music and design. They combine different artistic expressions in an impressive way – a natural part of the expanded artist’s role – and that the exhibition is presenting. A typical characteristic is a great interest in theatrical and performative expressions in the form of dialogue, decor, costumes and lighting effects. Simultaneously as much as large-scale gestures, the magnificent and enhanced are recognised, so are they also happy to crush an illusion. Another striking tendency is the interest for existential issues where art is a possibility of catching and embracing the impossible. Language and science are examined. Fantasy and the power of imagination are recognised.
Every Wednesday evening in May and at the beginning of June, the exhibition will expand and present a program of film, music and performance.
Participating artists:
Patrik Aarnivaara, Mats Adelman, Daniel Andersson, Maria Andersson, Malin Belfrage & Erik Törnkvist, Patrik Bengtsson, Bravehat, Åsa Cederqvist, Katarina Elvén, Love Enqvist, Fredric Gunve, Erik Jeor, Emma Kihl, Patrick Kretschek, Mathias Kristersson, Dorota Lukianska, Katarina Lundgren, Anna Lundh, Katarina Nitsch, Jeff Olsson, Christoffer Paues, Katrine Persson, Pia Sandström, Johan Strandahl, Ylva Westerlund, Stina Wirfelt, Anna Ådahl, Stina Östberg.
Tell a Friend
April 30 – June 8, 2008