Julian Rosefeldt, Hanne Nielsen & Birgit Johnsen
Julian Rosefeldt – Asylum /// Hanne Nielsen and Birgit Johnsen – Protect / Release
Opening the 2017 exhibition season, Röda Sten Konsthall is pleased to present two separate solo-exhibitions: Asylum by Julian Rosefeldt and Protect/ Release by Hanne Nielsen & Birgit Johnsen. The two exhibitions reflect upon the connections between migration and identity, and ask how prejudice and social stereotypes continue to prevail.
Addressing overall questions of migration, displacement, labor conditions, social stereotyping, news media and self-empowerment, the two exhibitions aim to spark conversations and nuance understandings of people and their different backgrounds.
The internationally renowned German artist and filmmaker Julian Rosefeldt will exhibit his first solo-presentation in Sweden to date. In the Cathedral of Röda Sten Konsthall, Rosefeldt will show one of his most celebrated and comprehensive film works: Asylum – an immersive and visually poignant 9-channel video installation. Through a series of films, Asylum sets out to examine and deconstruct the stereotypes associated with immigrant citizens, identity and labor.
The artist duo Hanne Nielsen & Birgit Johnsen are considered amongst the leading feminist pioneers of Danish video art. In their exhibition Protect / Release they are presenting two of their newest video installations – Drifting and Camp Kitchen, juxtaposing moments of fiction, documentary, media-discourse and feminist empowerment. Drifting reworks an incident from 2006, where a man was found cast away, alone on a wooden raft, and in the middle of the Skagerrak waters. The Swedish authorities and media were forced to speculate over the man’s identity. In Camp Kitchen, unexpected kitchen scenes pop up, mixing potent elements of war, with cuisine and television.
