{"id":588,"date":"2012-06-19T22:57:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T22:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bonnierskonsthall.se\/scenvaxlingar\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T17:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:09:06","slug":"scenvaxlingar","status":"publish","type":"bonnier_exhibition","link":"https:\/\/bonnierskonsthall.se\/en\/utstallning\/scenvaxlingar\/","title":{"rendered":"Scene Shifts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Scene Shifts<\/h2>\n\n\n

29 sep 2010 \u2192 9 jan 2011<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Participating artists: <\/b>Medverkande konstn\u00e4rer: Pablo Bronstein, Miriam B\u00e4ckstr\u00f6m, Keren Cytter, Inci Eviner, Gabriela Fridriksdottir, Ragnar Kjartansson, Ylva Ogland, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Pietro Roccasalva, Kirstine Roepstorff, Markus Schinwald, Sriwhana Spong, Catherine Sullivan<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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This exhibition is a unique collaboration with Dramaten& (Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre), bringing together leading international artists with Sweden\u2019s best known actors. Over three intense months, the exhibition will continuously provide a space for new works and performances, both at Bonniers Konsthall\u2019s galleries on Torsgatan and on the Royal Dramatic Theatre stages at Nybroplan.<\/p>\n

Scene Shifts<\/em> will discuss the interest for theatre displayed by contemporary artists. The exhibition presents works by 14 artists who work in the interface of performance, theatre, film, sculpture, painting and drawing. The participants come from different parts of the world and all belong to a new generation of internationally renowned artists. In collaboration with Royal Dramatic Theatre actors such as Bj\u00f6rn Granath and Johan Rabaeus, the artists will create works especially for the exhibition at Bonniers Konsthall and the Royal Dramatic Theatre.<\/p>\n

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Ragnar Kjartansson, God<\/em>, 2007. Photo: Rafael Pinho<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In Scene Shifts, mechanical theatre meets musical film, and cutting-edge contemporary art waltzes hand in hand with Shakespeare. Artist Pablo Bronstein, in collaboration with three Royal Dramatic Theatre actors, will produce a performance with a tragic ending borrowed from world drama, while artist Kirstine Roepstorff will use well-known voices in her installation Stille teater (Silent Theatre). As part of the exhibition, artist Ylva Ogland\u2019s version of Ingmar Bergman\u2019s model of the Royal Dramatic Theatre\u2019s main stage will be displayed. For the exhibition, the artist will also produce a giant puppet that will dance on the Royal Dramatic Theatre\u2019s stage. In addition, we will be treated to Ragnar Kjartansson\u2019s vocal pieces \u00e0 la Frank Sinatra and Gabriela Fridriksdottir\u2019s dreamy dance performance.<\/p>\n

Contemporary art\u2019s interest in the theatre may be seen as a reflection of our time, where the guiding principles of culture are visibility and spectacle. However, the participating artists\u2019 experimentation with theatre pertains to opening a door to the possibilities of fiction, where stage art can allow space to play around with identities and roles, exploring the unique presence of physical bodies, words, gestures and movements.<\/p>\n

The collaboration between Bonniers Konsthall and Dramaten& began in autumn 2009 with the artist Aur\u00e9lien Froment\u2019s well-received performance Le chiffre \u00e0 la lettre (Code Countdown)<\/em>, in which the actor Johan Holmberg played the performance\u2019s only role.<\/p>\n

Scene Shifts Throughout History, 19 October<\/h2>\n

Art and theatre share a long connected history, full of a border-crossing desire for experimentation. In the seminar Scene Shifts Throughout History, we move from Wagner\u2019s thoughts on the total work of art to early Modernism\u2019s form experimentation and on to the Fluxus movement\u2019s concept of art, with happenings and performances. Seminar participants touch upon various interesting cross-fertilizations which took place in the 20th century and discuss differing conditions and obstacles to creative collaboration between art and theatre.<\/p>\n

The evening continues with a performance of \u00c5ke Hodell\u2019s\u00a0Igev\u00e4r. Magnus Haglund, who wrote a book on \u00c5ke Hodell, has gathered poets and artists from a younger generation who have created their own live version of this sound art classic, which was first performed on 18 November 1963.<\/p>\n

Participants:
\nCamilla Eeg-Tverbakk (moderator) is an artist, curator, theoretician and writer, and works in the fields of visual arts and theatre.
\nMagnus Florin is a writer, director and Head of Dramaturgy at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm.
\nMagdalena Holdar is an art historian who works at Stockholm University, S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn University and University College of Arts, Crafts & Design.
\nBengt af Klintberg is an ethnologist, author and artist, and was active within the avant-garde Swedish Fluxus scene in the 1960s.
\nMagnus Haglund is a critic and author, having written extensively on art music and sound art.<\/p>\n

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Pablo Bronsteins performance, Ber\u00f6mda d\u00f6dsfall ur den Europeiska litteraturen, 2010. |Dramaten<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Seminar: Contemporary Scene Shifts, 27 November<\/h2>\n

Why do contemporary dramatists wish to inhabit the art space? What experiences do artists gain from the theatre? The seminar\u2019s invited participants all move between visual art and theatre. They reflect on how the institutions of the two fields function today and discuss obstacles and possibilities for collaborations across boundaries.<\/p>\n

During the evening Keren Cytter and Andrew Kerton\u2019s performance\u00a0Pokerface<\/em>, named after Lady Gaga\u2019s mega-hit, will be performed. The work depicts the story of an entertainer who is killed by her alter ego.<\/p>\n

Participants:
\nCamilla Eeg-Tverbakk (moderator) is an artist, curator, theoretician and writer.
\nSara Arrhenius is Director of Bonniers Konsthall.
\nHeiner Goebbels is a composer, artist and director, living in Frankfurt, Germany.
\nSofi Lerstr\u00f6m is a producer at Dramaten&, the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre\u2019s new venue for experimental theatre and music.
\nMellika Melani is a Swedish film director who has received much acclaim for her productions, including Rigoletto – djurisk \u00e5tr\u00e5<\/em> (Uppsala City Theatre, 2008) and Ulrike Maria Stuart<\/em> by Elfriede Jelinek (Teater Tribunalen, Spring 2009).
\nHelena Seth is responsible for side programming at Dramaten&.
\nMarkus Schinwald is an artist living in Vienna, Austria, and Los Angeles, USA, and is one of the artists in the group exhibition Scene Shifts at Bonniers Konsthall.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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