What is contemporary art? Art works and archival material from the museum collection
12/03/2011 - 05/06/2011
The Museum of Contemporary Art presents the exhibition What is contemporary art?
With the exhibition What is contemporary art? the Museum of Contemporary Art stages the ephimeral and performative art. In the exhibition the museum presents works from its collection, along with some of the archival and documentation material, which the museum has collected since it was founded in 1991.
The museum is collecting the ephimeral and innovative contemporary art. That means art inspired by the many new artistic directions, which were developed in 1960's experimental art scene. Art forms characterized by the meeting between visual and non-visual arts (fusion art), such as performance art, sound art, intervention art, digital art, social art and video art.
With the exhibition What is contemporary art? we focus on the new art forms and their communication. What is performance art? What is sound art? what is a score? are some of the questions which are answered through the works, the art experience and the interactive educational grip.
In the exhibition we will also place the art experience at the very centre. With the question what is contemporary? we will strengthen an expanded view of what art is. The museum is working with art which is placed not only between but also historically speaking after the traditional art forms, such as painting, sculpture, theatre and dance. Art forms, which the innovative art at the same time is based on, but also breaks with.
In the show:
Ann Lislegaard, Henning Christiansen, Larissa Sansour, William Anastasi, Eric Andersen, Su-Mei Tse, Yoko Ono, the Festival of Fantastic, Henry Garden, Joe Jones, Nam June Paik, Nanna Debois Buhl, among others.
With the exhibition What is contemporary art? the Museum of Contemporary Art stages the ephimeral and performative art. In the exhibition the museum presents works from its collection, along with some of the archival and documentation material, which the museum has collected since it was founded in 1991.
The museum is collecting the ephimeral and innovative contemporary art. That means art inspired by the many new artistic directions, which were developed in 1960's experimental art scene. Art forms characterized by the meeting between visual and non-visual arts (fusion art), such as performance art, sound art, intervention art, digital art, social art and video art.
With the exhibition What is contemporary art? we focus on the new art forms and their communication. What is performance art? What is sound art? what is a score? are some of the questions which are answered through the works, the art experience and the interactive educational grip.
In the exhibition we will also place the art experience at the very centre. With the question what is contemporary? we will strengthen an expanded view of what art is. The museum is working with art which is placed not only between but also historically speaking after the traditional art forms, such as painting, sculpture, theatre and dance. Art forms, which the innovative art at the same time is based on, but also breaks with.
In the show:
Ann Lislegaard, Henning Christiansen, Larissa Sansour, William Anastasi, Eric Andersen, Su-Mei Tse, Yoko Ono, the Festival of Fantastic, Henry Garden, Joe Jones, Nam June Paik, Nanna Debois Buhl, among others.
