Month: June 2024

Sky Gazing, ARoS, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2024-2025

Sky Gazing, ARoS, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2024-2025

Sky Gazing explores the ways artists have considered and been inspired by the vast spaces and events of the universe and its impacts on art and nature here on Earth. Including works by celebrated contemporary artists Katie Paterson (b.1981), Douglas Gordon (b.1966), Angelica Mesiti (b.1976), Roni Horn (b.1955), Søren Thilo Funder (b.1979) and more, Sky Gazing also presents Danish and European masters, whose works broaden our understanding of man’s eternal fascination with sky gazing from the observational to the abstract. The sky is hidden, symbolic and sacred in works from Dutch still life, Danish Romanticism, and Italian journey paintings, reminding us that the sky holds significance in many cultures. Sky Gazing also includes important modernist works by Wassily Kandinsky (b.1866-1944), Alexander Calder (b.1898-1976), and Ib Geertsen (b.1919-2009) who each explore the sky through symbols and distillations, and it introduces Danish audiences to the beautiful spirit works of Australian indigenous artist Naminapu Maymuru-White (b.1952) whose larrakitj (memorial poles, ed.) tell the story of the Milky Way, The River and the ‘everytime’ place of souls who travel between the sky and earth. Visitors will also experience the immersive cosmos created by renowned Scottish artist, Katie Paterson (b.1981), who invents a galaxy from a dazzling disco ball of photographed eclipses. This is brought together with her prepared piano piece Earth-Moon-Earth (Moonlight Sonata Reflected from the Surface of the Moon) 2007 in which the moon ‘plays’ Beethoven’s composition via satellite bounce.

Turner: Sublime Legacy exhibition at the Grimaldi Forum

Turner: Sublime Legacy exhibition at the Grimaldi Forum, 2024

This exhibition, featuring an ensemble of first-rate works in a new scenography of over 2,000 square meters, is an invitation to a journey through Joseph Mallord William Turner’s representations of the world in a sublime mode, from his landscapes to the elementary explorations of light and atmosphere of which he was a pioneer and master. Turner’s decisive influence on painting, and by extension his legacy, will be highlighted in the exhibition through some interpretations of the sublime by leading contemporary artists such as, among others, Richard Long, Olafur Eliasson, Cornelia Parker, Jessica Warboys, John Akomfrah, Katie Paterson, and Mark Rothko.

The Museum of the World, by Emanuele Coccia

The Museum of the World, by Emanuele Coccia

“…From this perspective Future Library is the perfect answer to what we have called the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene has often been described as the movement by which we have invaded all space, made the entire planet our home, expanded to the point where we directly or indirectly occupy so much of the world and so much of the Earth that there is no space left. But the opposite could also be said: the planet has invaded our homes to such an extent that in our living rooms, bathrooms, kitchens and bedrooms live not only partners, children, and perhaps a dog, cat or forsythia, but every other living species. All species, even those least like us, have become pets, houseplants, bacteria, or companion fungi. We are called to share a one-bedroom apartment with them and learn to love them as we love dogs and cats. We cannot move; there is nowhere else to go. Other species cannot leave their homes either. This library is the museum of the dream, and of all species, and the beginning of a city that is home to all of them. It is their and our collective daydream.” Read Future Library 2024 essay by Emanuele Coccia.

Future Library at 10 & Writer Announcement

Future Library at Edinburgh International Book Festival, 2024

Norway’s Future Library is a powerful gesture of hope for a world beyond our lifetime. Every year, for 100 years, an author writes a new book to be placed inside the library. Every book remains unread until 2114. Created by Scottish artist Katie Paterson in 2014, the project already contains works by writers including Margaret Atwood and Ocean Vuong. Celebrate Future Library’s 10th anniversary as we announce the writer for 2025.

Future Library at 10 & Writer Announcement. Mon 12 Aug 18:30 – 19:30. Book tickets here.

Requiem, publication

Katie Paterson: Requiem, new book

Co-published by Ingleby Gallery and the National Glass Centre following Paterson’s solo show at Ingleby of the same title in 2022, Requiem explores the artist’s enagagement with deep time and the history of the planet. Featuring text by Jan Zalasiewicz (member of the Anthropocene Working Group and author of The Earth After Us), as well as essays by David Farrier and Jay Griffiths. Designed by Jo Deans.

(Post), The Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2024-25

(Post), The Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2024-25

The multimedia art exhibition (Post) presents artwork between 2005 and 2021 from mainly Nordic artists who question and reflect our time and our future. An underlying theme is the anthropocene. Most of the works depict post-industrial structures that raise questions in how to think about a future. Artists: Nana-Francisca Schottländer (DK), Katie Paterson (UK), Marte Aas (NO), Rita Marhaug (NO), Anna Líndal (IS) og Rúrí (IS).

BLOOM Copenhagen

Katie Paterson talks on the main stage at BLOOM Copenhagen, The Art of Deep Time

Bloom is the biggest science and nature festival in Denmark. Bloom brings science and ideas out of the laboratories and auditoriums and helps us reflect on the world, the universe, and ourselves. Under the swaying treetops of the historical park Søndermarken, Bloom presents some of today’s most recognized scientists, researchers, philosophers, and artists. Explore talks, walks, music and art while casting a curious gaze at the mysteries and wonders of nature.

Bloom took place in Søndermarken in Copenhagen on 24–26 May 2024.

The Future Library: An untold anthology growing in Oslo, Vogue Scandinavia

The Future Library: An untold anthology growing in Oslo, Vogue Scandinavia, by Billie Breskin, 2024

The 100-year durational artwork celebrates a decade this year. This weekend, in Oslo’s Nordmarka wilderness, something of a pilgrimage will take place. Amongst the lush woodlands that surround the Norwegian capital, a special glade of one thousand trees, the Future Library Forest, will reach the 10th year of its growth. A decade ago, the trees of this forest were planted and, 90 years from now, they will be cut down. For each year of this century span, an author writes a manuscript. Kept safe in a chamber within Deichman Bjørvika, Oslo’s main library, nobody will read the texts until 2114, when they will be printed on paper made from the trees of the Future Library Forest. Read more.

STARSPHERE

STARSPHERE

Katie Paterson has become part of an exciting, ambitious new project, STARSPHERE, alongside artists and creators Hiroshi Sugimoto, Vik Muniz, Yukimasa Ida, and Mago Nagazaka. STARSPHERE is described as ‘a project to bring space closer to everyone and join together to acquire ”Space perspectives”. The “space perspectives” that are so integral to the STARSPHERE project mean not just the physical perspectives of viewing things from space, but also the intellectual and emotional perspectives of perceiving and contemplating thigs through space. Individuals and various communities will be connected to space through a satellite that anyone can freely operate and use to take pictures. Enjoying and updating the things, ideas , and culture that surround us from “space perspectives” will enrich both our daily lives and the future of the Earth. This is a group project where the class consists of all approximately 8 billion people on Earth.