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Contemporary Positions from Norway, July 2. to October 3, 2020
Felleshus of the Nordic Embassies, Berlin
Following the exhibition House of Norway, which was shown at the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt am Main on the occasion of Norway's guest country appearance at the Frankfurt Book Fair (October 2019 to January 2020), the Royal Norwegian Embassy now presents 19 selected works from ten contemporary artists of this show in the Felleshus.
Works by Frank Ekeberg (* 1970), Inger Blix Kvammen (*1954), Torbjørn Kvasbø (*1953), Jonas K. Mailand, Britta Marakatt-Labba (*1951), Synnøve Persen (*1950), Máret Ánne Sara (*1983), Jan Eric Wold Skevik (*1979), Kari Steihaug (*1962), Ingrid Torvund (*1985)
Curator: Sabine Schirdewahn
Southern and western regions of Norway, with their coastal areas, lake landscapes, and forests, are very different from the snowy tundra of the Finnmark in the northern regions or the arctic area in the northeast. The realities of life are correspondingly different for the people who inhabit in each place. Life in Oslo and a handful of other large cities is different from life in rural areas. The existence of an indigenous ethnic group, whose cultural area Sápmi extends across Norway, Sweden, Finland, and parts of Russia, provides different themes for artists than the landscapes in Telemark, which are dominated by deep valleys and dark forests.
The film and sound installations, as well as sculptures, textiles, and objects shown in »The White, the Green, and the Dark« offer visitors insights into the reflections on these different experiences. Many of the works focus on the artist’s personal notion of identity and homeland, a reflection on these issues, or climatic and social changes. A further emphasis of the contemporary works on display are contributions by artists who belong to the indigenous ethnic group of the Sámi. These works tend examine individual and collective experiences in relation to tradition, belief, discrimination, and foreign influence verses self-determination.