Umeå Academy of Fine Arts' MFA exhibition
Opening Friday 3 May at 19.00
The doors to the exhibition open at 17:00. Take your time to
experience works by the fifteen young artists. Bar and DJ on floor
0.
At 18:00 Laura Cemin will perform her piece O (white cube, bouncy
ball) in her installation on floor 6.
Inauguration talk at 19:00 by Katrin Holmqvist-Sten, head of Umeå
Academy of Fine Arts and a presentation by Ariane Müller, guest
professor and main tutor at the master's programme. The artists
will be present.
Following this, more mingling in the exhibition and by the bar on
floor 0.
In stories, the word
meanwhile transfers us to an event taking place at the
same time but in a place offset from the main event. We are
transported to this other place and we know that this is so,
because what is about to happen there will soon have an impact on
the development of the story. Meanwhile is a signal to
raise our attention. What is told now will matter in the story as
it develops.
The Academy of Fine Arts Master
exhibition is the final exhibition of a two-year long process of
intensive discussions, research and work. For the young artists it
is an opportunity to see, and show their work in the context of a
museum. For the visitor it gives the chance of an insight into
discourse within the field of contemporary art, the questioning of
new materials and the evaluation of traditional ones. It poses
questions, triggered by changes in the way we see and touch the
world, both its tangible and its virtual realities. It is also a
survey of the tension between a globalised discussion of how our
world is visually represented and the experiences of a local
reality meanwhile.
Participating artists
Martin Arvidsson, Johannes Blomgren, Jonas Börjesson, Laura Cemin,
Siri Elfhag, Adrián Espinós Ferrero, Moa Gustafsson Söndergaard,
Jonne Hansson, Agatha Lewandowski, Ingvild Melberg Eikeland,
Ingeborg Paulsrud, Alex Rosa, Sally von Rosen, Linda Samuelsson and
Peter Stridsberg.
3 - 19 May at Bildmuseet