Klas Eriksson in Stockholm

KLAS ERIKSSON: "UP THE PUBLIC SPIRIT"

Christian Larsen presents the exhibition "Up the Public Spirit" by OuUnPonian Klas Eriksson.

Eriksson, born in 1976 and educated at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, has received both public and critical acclaim for his spectacular performances with flares and colored smoke bombs in public spaces.



For this exhibition, the artist has produced a series of abstract paintings that bear deliberate references to the Swedish national romanticism and landscape painting. Instead of paint, Eriksson uses colored smoke bombs and various medium applied directly on the canvas. The colored smoke is also found in the accompanying photographic series, in which various performances in urban and rural environments in Sweden are documented. The idea of a Nation snapping, or disappearing into thin air, runs through the entire exhibition, whose centerpiece is a large sculptural work that is strongly symbolic and straightforward in it’s perceived simplicity.

Vision Forum @ BLVVD in Stockholm

This Friday - May 23:rd - it's exactly one year since the video for Kriget - Sleeping With Buddha - directed by Marko Bandobranski - was published online. This was the starting point of BLVVD, a Stockholm based project and platform in the grey zone between music and art.


On Friday - May 23:rd, 2014 - BLVVD hosts an extravagant night with dj's, live acts and video art to celebrate the first year and to welcome the second - and you are invited.


DJ's

Arnaud Rebotini (Black Strobe/ZONE), Gustav Bendt (Kriget), 
Tomas Nordmark (BLVVD)
, Nadja Edman, 
Richard Rossa (Tom Tom Disco)



LIVE

Dungeon Acid (Ideal/ISL)

No Science (BLVVD)



PERFORMANCE

Günther & Günther (Per Hüttner & Jean-Louis Huhta)



CONTRIBUTING VIDEO ARTISTS

Gustav Londré

Klas Eriksson

Li Xiaofei

Marko Bandobranski 
Per Hüttner
Markus Åström

Where: FABRIKEN - Strandbergsgatan 51 (T: Stadshagen)

When: MAY 23:rd - 22:00-05:00

Tickets

Klas Eriksson at Kalmar konstmuseum

Vision Forum and OuUnPo member, Klas Eriksson has his first solo exhibition at a major art institution. The installation  includes sculpture, video works and performances. Eriksson investigates different subcultures, especially expressions that surround supporter and fan culture. He does so, in order to understand notions about the individual's relationship to the collective. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog, designed as a fanzine in collaboration with Lars-Erik Hjertström Lappalainen, philosopher and co-worker in tsnoK & Lacuna.

Opening: Saturday, June 1. For further information please click here:

No Community without Passion: Copenhagen Art Festival

Vision Forum contributors Klas Eriksson and Wooloo participate in this year's Copenhagen Art Festival.

The festival brings together the works of more than 50 contemporary artists from around the world in an exploration of the notion of communities in contemporary art and in society. Present conditions and developments such as globalization, new communication technologies and production practices, political upheaval, and environmental and economic challenges all affect our sense of belonging and contribute to the formation of new communities.

Opening programme
The festival launches on August 24 with a ten-day opening programme of events, including performances, artists' talks, film screenings, and much more. As part of a major outdoor commission, Jeppe Hein will, in collaboration with a number of other artists, explore the common, public space through a transformation of one of Copenhagen's main squares into a dynamic space of social interaction, drawing inspiration from traditional markets and fairs. Elsewhere in the city, Jeanne van Heeswijk will offer a series of workshops on behaviour in times of financial crisis, while Yuan Gong's fog installation will change the perception of space when passing through the city.

In a collaborative venture across disciplines, Copenhagen Art Festival has developed new projects with The Danish Film Institute, Danish Architecture Centre, Loppen, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, SNYK, ALT_CPH, and Arken Museum of Modern Art.

Public space
Klas Eriksson (SE), Yuan Gong (CN), Jeanne Van Heeswijk (NL), Jeppe Hein (DK), Invisible Playground (DE), J&K (DK/DE), Magnús Logi Kristinsson (IS), les gens d'Uterpan (FR), Marcello Maloberti (IT), Heike Mutter & Ulrich Genth (DE), Joanna Rajkowska (PL), Raqs Media Collective (IN), Georg Weckwerth (DE), Wooloo (DK), and more


Exhibitions

Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art
Beyond Good and Evil
24 August–30 September 2012
Jananne Al-Ani (IR), Rejane Cantoni & Leonardo Crescenti (BR), Latifa Echakhch (FR/MA), Søren Thilo Funder (DK), Ann Lislegaard (DK), Carsten Nicolai (DE), Lea Porsager (DK), Arturas Raila (LT)

Kunstforeningen GL STRAND
Unfinished Journeys
24 August–11 November 2012
Yto Barrada (MA/FR), Song Dong (CN), Sofie Hesselholdt & Vibeke Mejlvang (DK), Isaac Julien (UK), Damián Ortega (MX), Kimsooja (KR), Pascale Marthine Tayou (CM), Vladimir Tomić (BA/DK)

Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Joachim Koester (DK)
Ruth Ewan (GB)
24 August–30 December 2012

Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center
Conversations
24 August–21 October 2012
Kutlug Ataman (TR), Mohamed Bourouissa (FR), Dias & Riedweg (BR/CH), Lise Harlev (DK), Otto Karvonen (FI), Katarzyna Kozyra (PL), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (MX/CA), Manifest.AR (var. nationalities), Superflex (DK)

Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art
Yorgos Sapountzis: DEUS EX MACHINA
Hito Steyerl: THE KISS
24 August–21 October 2012

ARKEN Museum of Modern Art
All together now.... Works from ARKEN's collection
24 August 2012–mid-April 2013


Copenhagen Art Festival is an international festival for contemporary art organised and curated by Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Kunstforeningen GL STRAND, Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, and Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, together with the festival office.

More info here.