Groupshows
A Postcard from Afar: North Korea from a Distance, apexart New York
curated by Mark Feary
January 11 - March 10, 2012
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 11: 6-8 pm
Featuring works by: Magnus Bärtås, Alain Declercq, Jim Finn, Tony Garifalakis, Soni Kum, Jung Lee, and Karl Tuikkanen.

Turku Biennial 2011 – Patterns of the Mind
10.6.-9.10.2011,
Turku Biennal 2011

”Stand Opposite of the Chours”,
Galleri Rotor, Göteborg, 9/9 2011–20/11 2011

The title of the exhibition, Stand Opposite of the Chorus, is the stage direction given to the protagonist in Greek tragedies for their position in relation to the chorus (their narrator) and the audience. In these works, the artists have changed the protagonist¿s narrative through an alteration to the set, storyteller or audience. A new narrative takes shape along with sentiments¿such as humor, tragedy, resolution, etc.¿that were not a part of the original story and creates new audience within the art context. ?Works by Magnus Bärtås (Stockholm, in collaboration with Petra Bauer, Kajsa Dahlberg, Sara Lundén, Matti Kallioinen and Karolina Pahlén), Marcelline Delbecq (Paris), Christian Jankowski (Berlin), Sara Jorenö (New York), Tova Mozard (Stockholm), Lisa Tan (New York/Stockholm), Richard T. Walker (San Francisco), and found sculptural busts. ?curated by Laura Mott.

About the work in ”Stand Opposite of the Chours”,
Berättelser om Danielle Tjajkovskij/Stories about Danielle Tjajkovskij
2006 (together with Petra Bauer, Kajsa Dahlberg, Sara Lundén, Matti Kallioinen and Karolina Pahlén)

In 1997 I found six notes from Konsum on my bicycle. They where all signed by someone called “Danielle Tjajkovskij”. This person offered a wide range of services, from cleaning, to private tutorials in piano, violin, chemistry, mathematics, among other subjects. Furthermore she offered massage, physiotherapy and different forms of assistance. Her name and even her phone number (720 40 40) had a fictional tone to it. I never called her number but copied the notes and gave them to four artists within a framework of a collaboration with curator Karolina Pahlén. In 2006 this process resulted in a TV-program for the local TV-station Öppna kanalen (“Open channel”) in Stockholm, as a part of the art program Good TV. Each artist made their own research and interpretation of the life and deed of Danielle Tjajkovskij. A life story is an orbit that passes and touches so many tropes, “disciplines” and discourses, and this process came to open up many of these in an most unexpected way.
Galleri Rotor

SpotCity Text art, Gothenburg
SpotCity Text art 2011 is held September 4 to September 25 2011 at Brunnsparken, Fredsgatan, Södra Hamngatan, King Gustav Adolfs torg, and Nordstan shopping mall. SpotCity Text art investigates text as an artistic expression and as a possibility to communicate in the urban space.



Participating artists: Magnus Bärtås, Zhang Dali, Tomas Ferm/Ann-Charlotte Rugfelt Ferm, Johan Heldén, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Stefan Karlsson, Fia-Stina Sandlund, Dana Sederowsky.
SpotCity Text art


”Do You Know How to Whitebalance”, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
4 – 14/10 2011
Curated by Katarina Frank [UK/SWE]
Videos by twelve Swedish artists exploring social, political, cultural and psychological aspects of living in contemporary society through narratives and storytelling.
RMIT Scool of Art Gallery
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