The Norwegian artists Cathrine Evelid, Matias Faldbakken, Katja Høst and Ketil Nergaard will be part of an exhibition in New York curated by Jonas Ekeberg.
Opening reception on Wednesday, March 16 at 6-8 pm
Curator talk on Saturday, March 19 at 3 pm
When: Wednesday, March 16 – Saturday, April 16
Gallery hours are Tuesday to Saturday from 11 am – 6 pm
Where: Apexart at 219 Church Street, NYC, between Walker and White Streets
Info: Call Apexart at (212) 431-5270, or send an e-mail to info@apexart.org
Social demoracy has given Scandinavian countries the world’s highest living standard. The Nordic system is nevertheless full of paradoxes, which over the last decade have offered artists a large reservoir of material for investigation: What do we do when the system turns from treating us all equally to making us all equal? And, what do we do with our longing for the metaphysical, for risk, for transgression, in a super-rational system designed to reduce the possibility for all this?
The exhibition Social Democracy Revisited proposes that the Nordic discourses on the subject may have a value in the current international political climate. At the same time, the exhibition highlights artworks that seem to contest this kind of purposefulness. Ultimately then, the exhibition intervenes into the realm between art and politics with the same ambivalence which is so prevalent in the Nordic System.