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Daniel Gontz: Puzzle. 2007, DV-PAL 1:30 min, edition 1/3

Public space as a multilayered and shared space is the main issue of the group exhibition FOR A HAPPIER TOMORROW. Invited by Galleri Tom Christoffersen artist Alexandra Croitoru presents a well-researched selection of photography and video from Central-Eastern Europe.

It sounds activistic - and maybe it is. The works shown reflect the relations set up by artists between themselves and the public sphere especially by performing interventions (be it real or virtual ones) in the public space. The presented artists use their skills and knowledge to challenge reality or to create an alternative one as they show a non-defeatist, critical but at the same time ironical and playful attitude in relation to their social surroundings.

Although concerned with the public sphere either discussed through or performed in urbanity as context, FOR A HAPPIER TOMORROW is not an attempt to address a geo-political East-West duality. Neither is it an attempt to reflect whether there is a common denominator for the Central-Eastern European lens based media apart from the geographical one. As the diverse selection of works show, it is the particular artists approach, which intrigues.

Anca Benera and Kamen Stoyanov refer to the changes and the political antagonisms, that have affected the identity of public monuments, Adela Demetja reverses a given political situation by imagining an Albanian Embassy in Germany where people would queue for a visa, Daniel Gontz criticises social regimentation by using the prefabs of a socialist block of flats to make a puzzle with infinite solutions while Kristina Lenard and Petar Mirković play with the border between reality and fiction, between illusion and actuality, in his images of modern atomic shelters Ivan Petrović discuss questions of safety, phobias and fear, Marek Kvetan points at different social dysfunctions by creating fictional spaces with the means of digital manipulation and Erik Sikora is ironically commenting on the strategies of the «social artist».



Works

 
FOR A HAPPIER TOMORROW
 
Anca Benera (RO)
Adela Demetja (AL)
Daniel Gontz (RO)
Marek Kvetan (SK)
Kristina Lenard (HR)
Petar Mirković (SRB)
Ivan Petrović (SRB)
Erik Sikora (CZ)
Kamen Stoyanov (BG/A)
 
Selected by Alexandra Croitoru (RO)
 
Press information in Danish (PDF)
 
Duration
15.02.-15.03.2008
 
Opening
15.02.2008 5-8pm
 
Cube
Johan Rosenmunthe, The Isle Of Human
  Kamen Stoyanov
(from series) Hello Lenin
2003
C-print
40 x 30 cm
edition 3/3 (+ 2 A.P.)



  Petar Mirković
(from series) Movie Board
2004
C-print
20 x 30 cm
edition 1/3 (+ 2 A.P.)




  Kristina Lenard in collaboration with Michael Johansson
BERLIN-ZAGREB
2005
C-print
35 x 107 cm (two elements)
edition 4/8 (+ 2 A.P.)



  Kristina Lenard
METRO
2007
C-print
82 x 123 cm
edition 2/5 (+ 2 A.P.)



  Anca Benera
Ecvestra leninista (Leninist Equestrian)
2007
C-print
40 x 60 cm
edition 1/5
(part of a mixed media installation, variable dimenstions)



  Marek Kvetan
Prefab
2003
C-print
70 x 100 cm
edition 2/5



  Marek Kvetan
Vidoc 07
2000
C-print
70 x 100 cm
edition 2/5



  Adela Demetja
Untitled (Karlsruhe Germany)
2007
C-print
50 x 70 cm
edition 1/5 (+ 2 A.P.)



 

Ivan Petrović
Underground Shelters Wien
2004
C-type photograph
51 x 69 cm
edition: 2/10
Atomic shelter in Vienna, Austria, 2004





 

For A Happier Tomorrow
Galleri Tom Christoffersen (In situ)




  For A Happier Tomorrow
Galleri Tom Christoffersen (In situ)



  For A Happier Tomorrow
Galleri Tom Christoffersen (In situ)



  For A Happier Tomorrow
Galleri Tom Christoffersen (In situ)



  For A Happier Tomorrow
Galleri Tom Christoffersen (In situ)



  For A Happier Tomorrow
Galleri Tom Christoffersen (In situ)



  For A Happier Tomorrow
Galleri Tom Christoffersen (In situ)







Cube

Johan Rosenmunthe: The Isle Of Human


  Johan Rosenmunthe
THE ISLE OF HUMAN #3
2007
digital C-print
70 X 100 cm
edition 1/3 (+ 1 A.P.)



  Johan Rosenmunthe
THE ISLE OF HUMAN #7
2007
digital C-print
80 X 120 cm
edition 2/3 (+ 1 A.P.)



  Johan Rosenmunthe
THE ISLE OF HUMAN #12
2007
digital C-print
80 X 120 cm
edition 2/3 (+ 1 A.P.)



  The Isle Of Human
Cube
Galleri Tom Christoffersen (In situ)



  The Isle Of Human
Cube
Galleri Tom Christoffersen (In situ)
 

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