Síndrome. Context, modes and structure. Contemporary forms of artistic production in Stockholm.

Síndrome. Context, maneres i estructura. Formes actuals de producció artística a Estocolm. Photo: Pep Herrero

Síndrome. Context, maneres i estructura. Formes actuals de producció artística a Estocolm. Photo: Pep Herrero

Carl Palm. Repppppppppppppppppppplaced. 2013 i C'est n'est Pas Une Brioche, 2011

Carl Palm, Repppppppppppppppppppplaced, 2013 / C'est n'est Pas Une Brioche, 2011

Asa Cederquist, The Cabinet, 2010

Lina Persson. Temporary Placeholder, 2012

Lina Persson, Subatomic Particles, 2012. Photo: Pep Herrero

Petra Bauer, Sisters!, 2011

Síndrome. Context, maneres i estructura. Formes actuals de producció artística a Estocolm. Photo: Pep Herrero

Asa Cederqvist, The Cabinet, 2011

Group exhibition

From March 9 to May 5, 2013. Group exhibition

“Síndrome” (Syndrome) puts forward a variable approach to a specific context: artistic creation in Stockholm. For many decades, the Swedish capital, one of the examples of the welfare society, has had and continues to have a stable professional structure as regards contemporary art. Long-standing institutions, newly defined platforms, a major support network for creation, outward-looking universities and educational spaces with international links, coupled with a series of independent proposals that come and go. And with the artists, always the artists, playing a key role in defining the entire structure.
“Síndrome” presents the work of several artists and avoids representing a place. Artists that mark the passage of time with their work, that explore and put forward specific means of creation. “Síndrome” presents a series of works in which the artist defines the need to extend beyond the exhibition space, questioning how to physically work with the institution, adopting a political stance by means of documentaries, investigating material as a conceptual form and the link with fiction to contemplate our time.
The exhibition also presents a series of interviews with representatives of various art institutions in Stockholm and analyses the current climate of artistic creation, how it works and how it affects the framework in the means of working with art in the city.
Furthermore, within the context of the project, a series of meetings amongst the artists featured in the exhibition and artists from Barcelona and art agents has been organised, in an endeavour to foster “live” dialogue between practices and working methods. Text-based findings of these dialogues will appear in several of the platforms in favour of the artistic approaches that are considered and executed in Barcelona.
“Síndrome” puts forward different moments, voices and tones for understanding a place. A place that probably lies closer than we think.

Artists

Petra Bauer (Stockholm, 1970)

Artist and film director, whose work is based on a political idea of film and collaborative practices.
She has taken part in the exhibitions “Sisters!” (The Showroom, London, 2011), “Production 3” (Lund Konsthall, Sweden, 2010), “Atlas” (Image-Mouvement – Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Switzerland, 2010) and “Be(com)ing Dutch” (Van Abbemuseum, The Netherlands, 2008), among others.

Åsa Cederqvist (Stockholm, 1975)

Visual artist and film director who works with various materials in order to modify the meaning thereof to create new platforms for communication and to transpose power structures.
She has taken part in exhibitions such as "Excavation" (Wetterling gallery, 2013), "Sideshow" (Tanz im August, Berlin 2012) "Swedish Conceptual Art" (Kalmar Konstmuseum, Sweden, 2010), "Darker than Night" (Casino Metropolitano, Mexico City, 2010), "Tell a friend" (Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, 2008) and "Inside Out" (Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, 2007).

Goldin + Senneby

Since 2004, Simon Goldin and Jakob Senneby have worked together in exploring judicial constructs, economic systems and the limits of politics and art.
They have taken part in exhibitions such as “Manifesta 9” (Ghent, Belgium, 2012), “I dispense, divide, assign, keep, hold” (NAK, Aachen, Germany, 2012), “The End of Money” (Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2011), 28th São Paulo Biennial (Brazil, 2008) and “Headless” (The Power Plant, Toronto, 2008)

Carl Palm (1980)

Carl Palm explores the meaning of objects and psychologically charged situations, and seeks working methods in which effort leads to an unfamiliar location.
He has taken part in exhibitions such as “Cosmotopia” (BAC, Geneva, 2012), “Disclosure – Exhibition as discourse as disco” (Dogzstar – Istanbul Biennial, 2011), “New Beginnings” (IASPIS, Stockholm, 2010), "The audience is the mother of the self-invention" (Index Foundation of Contemporary Art, Stockholm, 2012) and "We Like A Hard Boiled Egg In The Morning But Don't Like To Be 6-8 Minutes Late" (Komplot, Brussels, 2012

Lina Persson (Visby, 1978)

Lina Persson explores the existing boundary between science, technology and contemporary art, without forgetting poetry and reflection.
She has taken part in exhibitions such as “Stone from Strange Mountain” (0047, Oslo, 2011), “100 years later” (The Reading Room, Bangkok, 2011) and “Another order” (Konsthall C, Stockholm, 2008).

Curator

Martí Manen

Interviews

Sara Arrhenius, director of the Bonniers Konsthall
Catrin Lundqvist, curator of the Moderna Museet
Magdalena Malm, director of the Statenskonstrad
Lisa Rosendahl, director of the IASPIS
Katarina Sjögren, director of the Crystal Gallery