Director’s Choice
19 Jun - 22 Aug 2010
DIRECTOR’S CHOICE
19 June - 22 August 2010
As one of ten international museums of art, ARKEN has been invited to participate in an innovative exhibition project. The project spotlights contemporary art and the museums’ acquisition policy. On the occasion of their ten years anniversary Sammlung Essl in Vienna have given each museum an amount of money to purchase art for, with the singular condition that the art be young. The choices of the ten directors will be shown in a travelling exhibition whereupon the works will take their places in the museums that selected them.
For Director’s Choice ARKEN’s director Christian Gether has purchased the painting Untitled (2008) by the German artist Anselm Reyle (b. 1970), the film trilogy A Voyage in Dwelling (2008) by Dane Jesper Just (b. 1974) and the embroidered textile work Tic Tac II by the Algerian-Norwegian artist Hans Hamid Rasmussen (b. 1963).
Read more about Anselm Reyle and Jesper Just
The other participating museums are:
India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India
Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Humlebæk, Denmark
MART Museo di arte moderne e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy
MdM Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria
MOT Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz, Poland
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom
19 June - 22 August 2010
As one of ten international museums of art, ARKEN has been invited to participate in an innovative exhibition project. The project spotlights contemporary art and the museums’ acquisition policy. On the occasion of their ten years anniversary Sammlung Essl in Vienna have given each museum an amount of money to purchase art for, with the singular condition that the art be young. The choices of the ten directors will be shown in a travelling exhibition whereupon the works will take their places in the museums that selected them.
For Director’s Choice ARKEN’s director Christian Gether has purchased the painting Untitled (2008) by the German artist Anselm Reyle (b. 1970), the film trilogy A Voyage in Dwelling (2008) by Dane Jesper Just (b. 1974) and the embroidered textile work Tic Tac II by the Algerian-Norwegian artist Hans Hamid Rasmussen (b. 1963).
Read more about Anselm Reyle and Jesper Just
The other participating museums are:
India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India
Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Humlebæk, Denmark
MART Museo di arte moderne e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy
MdM Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria
MOT Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz, Poland
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom