Scene Shifts
29 Sep 2010 - 09 Jan 2011
SCENE SHIFTS
29 September 2010 - 09 January 2011
Bonniers Konsthall’s main autumn exhibition is the group show Scene Shifts – a meeting of art and theatre
This exhibition is a unique collaboration with Dramaten& (Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre), bringing together leading international artists with Sweden’s best known actors. Over three intense months, the exhibition will continuously provide a space for new works and performances, both at Bonniers Konsthall’s galleries on Torsgatan and on the Royal Dramatic Theatre stages at Nybroplan.
Scene Shifts will discuss the interest for theatre displayed by contemporary artists. The exhibition presents works by 14 artists who work in the interface of performance, theatre, film, sculpture, painting and drawing. The participants come from different parts of the world and all belong to a new generation of internationally renowned artists. In collaboration with Royal Dramatic Theatre actors such as Björn Granath and Johan Rabaeus, the artists will create works especially for the exhibition at Bonniers Konsthall and the Royal Dramatic Theatre.
In Scene Shifts, mechanical theatre meets musical film, and cutting-edge contemporary art waltzes hand in hand with Shakespeare. Artist Pablo Bronstein, in collaboration with three Royal Dramatic Theatre actors, will produce a performance with a tragic ending borrowed from world drama, while artist Kirstine Roepstorff will use well-known voices in her installation Stille teater (Silent Theatre). As part of the exhibition, artist Ylva Ogland’s version of Ingmar Bergman’s model of the Royal Dramatic Theatre’s main stage will be displayed. For the exhibition, the artist will also produce a giant puppet that will dance on the Royal Dramatic Theatre’s stage. In addition, we will be treated to Ragnar Kjartansson’s vocal pieces à la Frank Sinatra and Gabriela Fridriksdottir’s dreamy dance performance.
Contemporary art’s interest in the theatre may be seen as a reflection of our time, where the guiding principles of culture are visibility and spectacle. However, the participating artists’ experimentation with theatre pertains to opening a door to the possibilities of fiction, where stage art can allow space to play around with identities and roles, exploring the unique presence of physical bodies, words, gestures and movements.
The collaboration between Bonniers Konsthall and Dramaten& began in autumn 2009 with the artist Aurélien Froment’s well-received performance Le chiffre à la lettre (Code Countdown), in which the actor Johan Holmberg played the performance’s only role.
Scene Shifts Throughout History, 19 October
Art and theatre share a long connected history, full of a border-crossing desire for experimentation. In the seminar Scene Shifts Throughout History, we move from Wagner’s thoughts on the total work of art to early Modernism’s form experimentation and on to the Fluxus movement’s concept of art, with happenings and performances. Seminar participants touch upon various interesting cross-fertilizations which took place in the 20th century and discuss differing conditions and obstacles to creative collaboration between art and theatre.
29 September 2010 - 09 January 2011
Bonniers Konsthall’s main autumn exhibition is the group show Scene Shifts – a meeting of art and theatre
This exhibition is a unique collaboration with Dramaten& (Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre), bringing together leading international artists with Sweden’s best known actors. Over three intense months, the exhibition will continuously provide a space for new works and performances, both at Bonniers Konsthall’s galleries on Torsgatan and on the Royal Dramatic Theatre stages at Nybroplan.
Scene Shifts will discuss the interest for theatre displayed by contemporary artists. The exhibition presents works by 14 artists who work in the interface of performance, theatre, film, sculpture, painting and drawing. The participants come from different parts of the world and all belong to a new generation of internationally renowned artists. In collaboration with Royal Dramatic Theatre actors such as Björn Granath and Johan Rabaeus, the artists will create works especially for the exhibition at Bonniers Konsthall and the Royal Dramatic Theatre.
In Scene Shifts, mechanical theatre meets musical film, and cutting-edge contemporary art waltzes hand in hand with Shakespeare. Artist Pablo Bronstein, in collaboration with three Royal Dramatic Theatre actors, will produce a performance with a tragic ending borrowed from world drama, while artist Kirstine Roepstorff will use well-known voices in her installation Stille teater (Silent Theatre). As part of the exhibition, artist Ylva Ogland’s version of Ingmar Bergman’s model of the Royal Dramatic Theatre’s main stage will be displayed. For the exhibition, the artist will also produce a giant puppet that will dance on the Royal Dramatic Theatre’s stage. In addition, we will be treated to Ragnar Kjartansson’s vocal pieces à la Frank Sinatra and Gabriela Fridriksdottir’s dreamy dance performance.
Contemporary art’s interest in the theatre may be seen as a reflection of our time, where the guiding principles of culture are visibility and spectacle. However, the participating artists’ experimentation with theatre pertains to opening a door to the possibilities of fiction, where stage art can allow space to play around with identities and roles, exploring the unique presence of physical bodies, words, gestures and movements.
The collaboration between Bonniers Konsthall and Dramaten& began in autumn 2009 with the artist Aurélien Froment’s well-received performance Le chiffre à la lettre (Code Countdown), in which the actor Johan Holmberg played the performance’s only role.
Scene Shifts Throughout History, 19 October
Art and theatre share a long connected history, full of a border-crossing desire for experimentation. In the seminar Scene Shifts Throughout History, we move from Wagner’s thoughts on the total work of art to early Modernism’s form experimentation and on to the Fluxus movement’s concept of art, with happenings and performances. Seminar participants touch upon various interesting cross-fertilizations which took place in the 20th century and discuss differing conditions and obstacles to creative collaboration between art and theatre.