Nordic Art Today: Conceptual Debts, Broken Dreams, New Horizons

Nordic Art Today: Conceptual Debts, Broken Dreams, New Horizons

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Nordic Art Today is a large-scale international exhibition where the team of 6 curators and 35 artists present their visions of cultural, social, historical and geopolitical transformations, the consequences of global economic crisis in the changing world as well as other issues raised by modernity.
Artists from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Denmark and Russia analyze in their art works the contemporary society and suggest various scenarios for its further development. The range of works is extremely wide and includes videos, images, site-specific and sound installations, documentation, drawings, photographs, etc.
Nordic Art Today: conceptual debts, broken dreams, new horizons is the first large exhibition within the framework of the 5-years project Nordic Art Today which began in 2010. This exhibition gathers together the most relevant art of the Nordic region andt akes place in St. Petersburg for the first time. This show is intended to contribute greatly toward the strengthening of partnerships and even better cooperation between Nordic countries and Russia within the sphere of contemporary art.
The concept of the exhibition was developed by the international curatorial team consisting of Kari J. Brandtzaeg, (Norway), Birta Guðjónsdóttir (Iceland), Anna Bitkina (Russia), Power Ekroth (Sweden), Aura Seikkula (Finland) and Simon Sheikh (Denmark).
Artists: Tatiana Akhmetgalieva, Kasper Akhøj, Lene Berg, Eva la Cour, Nanna Debois Buhl, Leander Djønne, Silas Emmery, Steingrim ur Eyfjörd, Gunndis Yr Finnbogadottir, Bodil Furu, Ivan Galuzin, Goksøyr & Martens, Allen Grubesic Tamar Guimarães, Bjørn-Kowalski Hansen, Goran Hassanpour, Siri Hermansen, IC-98, Unnar Örn Jonasson & Olivia Plender, Vlad Kulkov, Anna Lindal, Bjarki Bragason, Dorinel Marc, Hans Rosenström, Soap Group, Stas Bugs, Johan Thurfjell, Grigory Yushchenko, Jani Ruscica, Johan Zetterquist.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a parallel program that will take place on November 5 and 6. This parallel program will be represented by a series of artist’s talks and a general discussion with all exhibition participants about social responsibility of contemporary art. Each curator will also conduct a short guided tour for their part of the exhibition, which will be filmed and screened during the entire exhibition period.

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