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c/o - Atle Gerhardsen: Annika Str�m - the fifth show - 26 Sept 2008 to 24 Oct 2008 Current Exhibition |
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Annika Str�m, The After Film Trailer, 2008
DVD, 3:20 min Image � the artist. Courtesy c/o - Atle Gerhardsen |
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Annika Str�m the fifth show Opening reception: September 26, 6 � 9 PM Exhibition duration: September 26 � October 24, 2008 We are very pleased to announce our fifth exhibition with the Swedish artist Annika Str�m. Annika Str�m will present her current film project during this new show with c/o � Atle Gerhardsen. To date, the artist is especially known for her video art, songs, music clips and text pieces. In the exhibition the announcement of a full-scale film to be produced in 2009 takes on the form of a five-minute film "After Film � trailer" (2008), hereby becoming an artistic event in its own right. In her art, Annika Str�m always entertains the option to disrupt and derail the course of events, often in an amusing manner, serving to trigger thought processes and question things with a sense of humour. Failure is a recurring theme in the artist's work, and similarly to in the video "The missed concert" (2005) she alludes to this human quality in "After Film �trailer": "Failing as an artist and failing as a human being are recurrent themes in Annika Str�m's work. Her songs, text pieces and films all touch on the question of inadequacy � if not miserable failure. The content and aesthetics repeatedly play with the notion of imperfection. Str�m's text pieces are clearly hand painted, the videos include shaky, blurred images, and her rhythm-box compositions flirt with an amateurish Eurovision aesthetic. (�) After film (�) documents Str�m's incompetence even before the failure has become a fact. The video predicts the artist's first feature will be a total flop. Upon the film's release in 2009, friends from Str�m's neighbourhood in South England are questioned about the sudden disappearance of the film maker and her son. Some speculate that she has quit her career as an artist to join an aid program for children in Argentina � or was it Indonesia? All in all, After film is not only about failing. It plays with the romantic notion of secretly leaving your old life behind to begin a new." (Lotte M�ller) Parallel to this show onestar press will be launching Annika Str�m's third artist book.[1] The book poses as a link between the artistic and actual reality: it finally seems to provide the visitor with a sign of life from the vanished artist. In 2008, Annika Str�m's work is included in the following group exhibitions: Divas. Les interpr�tes de Berlioz, Mus�e Hector Berlioz, La Cote Saint Andr� (June 27 � December 2008); No more reality. Step 3: SHARED FOLDER, curated Claire Staebler & Jelena Vesic�, De Appel, Amsterdam (July 5 - September 7, 2008); Sonic voices, Rocking hard, Montevideo, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam (August 29 - November 2, 2008); Spaport, curated by Ana Nikitovic, Protok, Banja Luka (September 2008); Intimacy, Curated by Anna MacDonald, ACCA, Melbourne (October 2008). In autumn two solo exhibitions in the Bohusl�n Museum, Uddevalla and Ystad Konstmuseum will be showing the artist's work. Furthermore there will be a solo exhibition in the Lautom Contemporary gallery in Oslo. For further information or visuals please contact Maike Fries, c/o � Atle Gerhardsen: Tel.: +49-30-69 51 83 41, Fax: +49-30-69 51 83 42, E-mail: [email protected] or visit our website at http://www.atlegerhardsen.com. c/o � Atle Gerhardsen Holzmarktstra�e 15-18 S-Bahnbogen 46 10179 Berlin [1] onestar press is specialized in the publication of artist books. MoMA in New York recently purchased the entire onestar press collection in a bookcase designed by Lawrence Weiner. The publication "Live!" by Annika Str�m provides an overview of her videographic work and painting from the years 1995-2008, and also refers to the forthcoming film project through the multifarious analyses of her work (including contributions by: Jennifer Allen, Ina Blom, Staffan Boije af Genn�s, Christophe Boutin, Jacob Fabricius, Dominic Eichler, J�rg Heiser, Jennifer Higgie, Mark Kremer, Thomas Millroth, Lotte M�ller, Tom Morton, Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, Monica Ross and Cecilia Wendt). The publication is a collaborative effort with the Swedish publishing house F�lth & H�ssler. Annika Str�m the fifth show Er�ffnung: 26. September 2008, 18 � 21 Uhr Ausstellungsdauer: 26. September � 24. Oktober 2008 Wir freuen uns sehr, unsere f�nfte Einzelausstellung mit der schwedischen K�nstlerin Annika Str�m ank�ndigen zu k�nnen. Annika Str�m wird in ihrer neuen Ausstellung mit c/o � Atle Gerhardsen ihr aktuelles Filmprojekt pr�sentieren. Bislang ist die K�nstlerin vor allem durch ihre Videos, artist songs, music clips sowie text pieces bekannt, in der Ausstellung wird die Ank�ndigung des gro�en Films, der 2009 fertiggestellt wird, mit dem f�nfmin�tigen Film �After Film � trailer� (2008) selbst zum eigenst�ndigen k�nstlerischen Ereignis. Annika Str�m h�lt sich in ihren videographischen Arbeiten immer die M�glichkeit offen, auf witzige Weise Geschehen zu st�ren und zu konterkarieren, um so Denkprozesse anzuregen und die Dinge mit Humor zu hinterfragen. Oft durchkreuzt das Thema des Scheiterns das Werk der K�nstlerin, und �hnlich wie das Video �The missed concert� von 2005 bezieht sie sich �After Film � trailer� auf diesen menschlichen Zustand: �Failing as an artist and failing as a human being are recurrent themes in Annika Str�m�s work. Her songs, text pieces and films all touch on the question of inadequacy � if not miserable failure. The content and aesthetics repeatedly play with the notion of imperfection. Str�m�s text pieces are clearly hand painted, the videos include shaky, blurred images, and her rhythm-box compositions flirt with an amateurish Eurovision aesthetic. (�) After film (�) documents Str�m�s incompetence even before the failure has become a fact. The video predicts the artist�s first feature will be a total flop. Upon the film�s release in 2009, friends from Str�m�s neighborhood in South England are questioned about the sudden disappearance of the film maker and her son. Some speculate that she has quit her career as an artist to join an aid program for children in Argentina � or was it Indonesia? All in all, After film is not only about failing. It plays with the romantic notion of secretly leaving your old life behind to begin a new." (Lotte M�ller) Parallel hierzu publiziert onestar press das dritte K�nstlerbuch von Annika Str�m.[1] Das Buch funktioniert als Verbindungsglied zwischen k�nstlerischer und tats�chlicher Wirklichkeit: es scheint dem Besucher endlich ein Lebenszeichen der verschwundenen K�nstlerin zu geben. Annika Str�m ist zur Zeit mit Arbeiten in den folgenden Gruppenausstellungen vertreten: Divas. Les interpr�tes de Berlioz, Mus�e Hector Berlioz, La Cote Saint Andr� (June 27 � December 2008); No more reality. Step 3: SHARED FOLDER, curated Claire Staebler & Jelena Vesic�, De Appel, Amsterdam (July 5 - September 7, 2008); Sonic voices, Rocking hard, Montevideo, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam (August 29 - November 2, 2008); Spaport, curated by Ana Nikitovic, Protok, Banja Luka (September 2008); Intimacy, Curated by Anna MacDonald, ACCA, Melbourne (October 2008). Im Herbst widmen sich zwei Einzelausstellungen im Bohusl�n Museum, Uddevalla und Ystad Konstmuseum dem Werk der K�nstlerin. Desweiteren folgt im Herbst eine Einzelausstellung in der Galerie Lautom Contemporary in Oslo. F�r weitere Informationen oder Abbildungsmaterialien kontaktieren sie bitte Maike Fries, c/o � Atle Gerhardsen: Tel.: +49-30-69 51 83 41, Fax: +49-30-69 51 83 42, E-mail: [email protected] oder besuchen Sie unsere Website unter http://www.atlegerhardsen.com. [1] onestar press hat sich auf die Publikation von K�nstlerb�chern spezialisiert. Die gesamten onestar press Publikationen sind k�rzlich vom New Yorker MoMA in einem von Lawrence Weiner entworfenen B�cherregal angekauft worden. Die Publikation �Live!� von Annika Str�m leistet einen �berblick �ber ihr videographisches Werk und Malerei aus den Jahren 1995 bis 2008, und weist gleichzeitig durch die vielf�ltige Analyse des Werkes (u.a. schreiben: Jennifer Allen, Ina Blom, Staffan Boije af Genn�s, Christophe Boutin, Jacob Fabricius, Dominic Eichler, J�rg Heiser, Jennifer Higgie, Mark Kremer, Thomas Millroth, Lotte M�ller, Tom Morton, Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, Monica Ross und Cecilia Wendt) auf das kommende Filmprojekt hin. Die Publikation entsteht in Zusammenarbeit mit dem schwedischen Druckhaus F�lth & H�ssler |
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