First North Coast Art Triennale
Unknown Landscape
June 1st to November 1st, 2016
Curator: Anja Franke
The North Coast Art Triennale is based on the history surrounding self-organization, artistic process and open systems. Through these traditions, Anja Franke, will establish an exhibition platform that provides space for a wide range of artistic approaches to highlight the idea of “Unknown Landscape” and thereby seek, through the Triennale format, a new kind of diplomacy and experience of both art and our self-awareness in the Nordic region.
Triennale Artists
Stig L. Andersson (DK), Katja Bjørn (DK), Yvette Brackman (DK/US), Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen (DK), Ulla Von Brandenburg (DE), Jesper Dalgaard (DK), Giacomo Castagnola (PE/MX), Dor Guez (IL), Jens Haaning (DK), Charlotte Haslund-Christensen (DK), Jytte Rex (DK), Jeanette Sætre (NO), Mirjam Thomann (DE), Sigalit Landau (IL), Karoline H. Larsen (DK), Antti Laitinen (FI), Søren Martinsen (DK), Camilo Ontiveros (MX/US), Marc Yankus (US), Mette Winckelmann (DK), Ingrid Book & Carina Hedén (NO), Vinyl -Terror & -Horror [Camilla Sørensen and Greta Christensen] (DK)
The complete and final list of all participating artists will be made available in the spring of 2016.
Concept
The Triennale project is is a new project initiated by the exhibition platform called ArthouseWithoutWalls / KunsthusUdenMure of Gribskov Kommune in Denmark. It is a cross-institutional and collaborative event that is involving the cooperation of five institutes in North Zealand. The artworks and performances produced for the Triennale will be exhibited in Esrum Kloster & Møllegaard, Rudolph Tegners Museum & Statuepark, Munkeruphus, Museum Nordsjælland, Gribskov Kulturskole and other sites. The Triennale is about exploring, challenging, exchanging, involving and occupying the idea of the “unknown” in the landscape of North Zealand.
For this reason, the organizers are inviting international artists from Mexico, Peru, Israel, USA, Finland, Germany, Sweden, Norway and Denmark to develop the event; through their own cultural starting points and to explore new readings of site-specificity in the landscape of North Zealand. The challenge and the exchange is to create the best possible framework for the meeting between artists, institutions, other invited partners, and the Triennale’s audience.
The ambition is that the various works of art created for and during the Triennale will create a unique opportunity for the artists involved to meet on new explorations of the Unknown Landscape. Paving the way to create space for many different kinds of conversations, collaborations, and debate intervals in the host institutions and with local history, focusing at times on issues of cultural identity, memory and belonging.