Stir Heart: Women Who Move Art I
Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, Oslo, 01/23/2010 - 04/18/2010
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This exhibition is the first part of a presentation of contemporary women artists in the National Museum’s collection. The title is taken from Pipilotti Rist’s video Stir Heart, Rinse Heart (2004), a central work in the exhibition that suggestively draws the viewer into the fascinating inner realms of the body.
Other artists include Vanessa Baird, Nathalie Djurberg, Unn Fahlstrøm, Lotte Konow Lund, Josefine Lyche, Vibeke Tandberg and Gerd Tinglum. The works touch us in a variety of ways; some of them show a devil-may-care feminist attitude, while others appeal on a purely sensual level.
Emotionally Stirring
The exhibition pays tribute to 8 strong current positions by female artists mostly acquired for the National Museum’s collection over the last 5 years. Although quite divergent in form and content, the artists share approaches that we might call emotionally stirring. The emotional as a genre or style has been described as a fundamental female way of expression. But the new perspective on our collection is not supposed to be feminist per se, with the danger of putting the presented artists into a narrow definition. Thus the exhibition goes beyond conventional associations of female art with emotions and the body. Concept, abstraction, and negation - characteristics usually attributed to male artists - are equally presented here.
Curators: Andrea Kroksnes og Randi Godø
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This exhibition is the first part of a presentation of contemporary women artists in the National Museum’s collection. The title is taken from Pipilotti Rist’s video Stir Heart, Rinse Heart (2004), a central work in the exhibition that suggestively draws the viewer into the fascinating inner realms of the body.
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Emotionally Stirring
The exhibition pays tribute to 8 strong current positions by female artists mostly acquired for the National Museum’s collection over the last 5 years. Although quite divergent in form and content, the artists share approaches that we might call emotionally stirring. The emotional as a genre or style has been described as a fundamental female way of expression. But the new perspective on our collection is not supposed to be feminist per se, with the danger of putting the presented artists into a narrow definition. Thus the exhibition goes beyond conventional associations of female art with emotions and the body. Concept, abstraction, and negation - characteristics usually attributed to male artists - are equally presented here.
Curators: Andrea Kroksnes og Randi Godø