VideoGUD in Gävleborg

28.04. – 18.05.2016

Translation:

In Home is Somewhere Else, Eri Kassnel explores the painful experience of being separated from the context and relationships with which we can identify; the loss of a lost existence and the longing to find home again. Through the photo album’s archive of moments, we can immerse ourselves in memories, hoping that the ordered sequence of images can give us candid answers that match the feelings and sensations we want to relive.

But the photographs in Kassnel’s work never suggest a way back. To a certain extent, they carry an actual patina and are associated with an affective value. But to an even greater extent, they are manipulated to recall something familiar, but alien or misleading in that they are instead taken at random from a moving car. The movement possibly indicates a direction away from the unconscious idealisations of nostalgia, and the title of the work opens up a further search. Perhaps the home is not a place but a social process where we have the chance to get to know others? Perhaps we can find home elsewhere?

Eri Kassnel (b. 1973 in Timisoara, Romania) studied at the University of art in Bern and works in Diedorf, Germany. In her installations, collages, photographs and moving image representations, she often returns to the importance of memory in the construction of the self and how notions of origin and homeland are affected by a life in exile. https://videogud.se/program/eri-kassnel/

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Open Art Örebro

14.Juni – 6.September 2015

In a nutshell, OpenART is Scandinavia’s biggest public art biennial, running for twelve weeks in the city of Örebro in Sweden. The project started in 2008 at the city-run art gallery, where the then Head of the gallery, Mats Nilsson and artist Lars Jonnson came up with the idea to showcase contemporary art in public locations. Contemporary art would be available for everyone – a whole new concept in the city, which would see some of the world’s most exciting artworks showcased outside the traditional norms of elitist art. The admission to the biennial, as well as the participation in collateral events is free.

The first edition in 2008 featured 71 artists, mostly from Scan­di­navia, whose works were exhib­ited anywhere from hidden corners down­town Örebro to shop windows, on rooftops or on the surface of river Svartån. In 2009, the confir­ma­tion that OpenART was becoming inter­na­tional came once the artist selec­tion process begun.

Following a new polit­ical deci­sion, OpenART became an orga­ni­za­tion of its own in 2013. It has since func­tioned as an inde­pen­dent project within the Munic­i­pality of Örebro. The event is real­ized in close coop­er­a­tion with the City Art Gallery, Örebro County Museum and Konst­främ­jandet Bergslagen.

About 80% of the artworks are exhibited outdoors, while the remaining 20% is showcased indoors. The venues vary from open spaces in the city center (parks, streets, plazas, buildings, river) to shopping malls, art galleries and museums. Therefore, artworks can be spotted in/ on /above the river that flows through the city, squeezed between buildings, hanging on rooftops, hiding around corners, in trees or on light poles. A huge focus is on large-scale artworks, that challenge the physical perception of the surrounding environment.

https://openart.se

Virtual tour

Participating Artists:

Ai Weiwei
Alicia Martin
Amanda Karlsson
Ana Jagodic
Anton Hjärtmyr
Antonio O’Connell
Axel Wolf
BiLDFOBi
Bonjour, interactive lab
Cecilia Jansson
Chen Zhiguang
Cheng Dapeng
Chi Peng
Costin Ionita
David Cerny
DIS/ORDER
Eduardo Balanza
Elina Rantasuo
Eri Kassnel
Erik Ravelo
Erwin Wurm
Franck Fleming
Fu Zhongwang
Gunilla Jähnischen
Guy Lorgeret
Helena Mutanen
Hu Weiyi
Ida Rödén
Ivo Weber
Jean-Luc Cornec
Jim Sims & Johanna Byström Sims
Jan Kaláb a.k.a POINT
Johan Suneson
Josefina Posch
KASUGA
KONSTFACK
Kristina Lindberg
Lena Flodman
Li Binyuan
Lilian Bourgeat
Magdalena Eriksson
Maja Droetto
Mary Ellen Croteau & Ayala Leyser
Melissa Henderson
Michael McGillis
Miri Nishri
Neringa Naujokaite
Peter Johansson
Peter Ojstersek
Petrus Vavami
Pixy Yijun Liao
Roger Rigorth
Royal Art Academy Stockholm &
Art Academy Helsinki
Song Dong
Susanna Arwin
Sylvain Ristori a.k.a Sambre
Tapio Haapala
Ulrika Linder
Ulrike Kessl
Wang Rui
Willy Verginer
Xu Bing
Yang Mushi
Yin Xiuzhen
Yukako Ando
Zandra Harms
Åsa Andersson

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X-Border-Art-Biennial

19.06. – 6.10.2013, Luleå / SE • Rovaniemi / FI • Severomorsk / RU

In the year of 2013 the Luleå Art Biennial expands to X-Border Art Biennial. As the only art biennial in the world the X-Border Art Biennial will be arranged in three different countries, using exhibition spaces in Lulea, Sweden, Rovaniemi, Finland and Severomorsk, Russia. The X-Border Art Biennial is a cooperation between University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland, the center of socio-cultural technologies of Municipal formation of the closed administrative territorial formation of the town of Severomorsk, Russia and Luleå Art Biennial / Kilen Art Group, Luleå, Sweden. We want to let the world’s artists explore and illuminate the issues of borders, identity, cultural diversity and knowledge in an era of globalization.

Severomorsk is now a closed town, which only allows its 50 000 inhabitants to cross the city boundary. In 1993 it was for the first time possible to see Severomorsk on the official map. We are in a time when boundaries have new meanings. How does it affect us? Where are we headed?

Under the thematic umbrella Crossing the border, X-Border Art Biennial 2013 has reseived more than 500 proposals from all over the world.

Curators: Anatoly Sergienko, Dragana Vujanovic, Ivan Voron, Pilvi Keto, Tom Engblom, Christina Sikström, Esa Meltaus, Svetlana Pavlova and Dan Lestander

Exhibition setup & Vernissage

Review

Virtual tour

https://www.luleabiennalen.se/en/2013/participants/erika-kassnel-henneberg

Participating Artists

in Luleå:

Anders Sunna, Sweden – Ann Böttcher, Sweden – Arvid Hägg, Sweden – Barthelemy Toguo, Cameroon – Cristine Candolin, Finland – Erika Kassnel-Henneberg, Germany (Romania) – J.Tobias Anderson, Sweden – Kaija Kiuro, Finland – Karin Aurora Lindell, Norway (Sweden) – Maria-Alina Staicu, Romania – Marion Denis, Germany – Minna Rainio, Mark Roberts, Finland – Nina Kurtela, Germany (Croatia) – Runo Lagomarsino, Sao Paulo (Sweden) – Steffen Köhn, Germany – Steffi Klenz, Germany – Youssef Tabti, Germany

in all three cities:

Carolina Falkholt, Sweden – Lise Bjorne Linnert, Norway

in Rovaniemi:

Brian Flynn, Canada – Carolina Falkholt, Sweden – Claudia Chaseling, Germany Erika Kassnel-Henneberg, Germany (Romania) – José Luis Torres, Canada – Jouko Alapartanen, Finnland – Lise Bjørne Linnert, Norway – Miri Nishiri, Israel – Olga Chagaotdinova, Canada – Olga Prokhorova, Finland (Russia) – Ragnhild May, Dänemark – Strijdom van der Merwe, South Africa (Netherlands) – Tokio Maruyama, Japan – Ulrica Beritsdotter, Sweden – Vera Arjoma, Finland

in Severomorsk:

Alain Martin, Canada – Kerstin Hamilton, Sweden – Mariva Zacharof, Greece – Nina Maria Keivan, Denmark – Patrik Qvist, Sweden

online:

Antti Tentez, Finland – David Molander, Sweden

more information: https://www.luleabiennalen.se/