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KIVIK ART ‘09
13 JUNI – 27 SEPTEMBER 2009

JULIAN OPIE DANCING IN KIVIK 
MATTI SUURONEN VENTURO HOUSE
DAVID CHIPPERFIELD & ANTONY GORMLEY
ARCHITECTURE FOR SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE
SNØHETTA& TOM SANDBERG KIVIK START PROJECTS

WELCOME

Welcome back to Kivik.
What was expected as a year ”in between” of economic reasons, turned out to be another exciting year of artistic reasons and Kivik Art Centre moves on

DANCING IN KRISTIANSTAD AND DANCING IN KIVIK
Kristianstads konsthall & Kivik Art Centre in collaboration summer 2009

Through this exciting collaboration internationally acclaimed British artist Julian Opie will be presented on both sites: outdoors and indoors. The works are chosen around a theme of movement and dance. In Kivik three sculptures of black stone (diabas) will be placed on the hill side. Each sculpture consists of five blocks where a dancer's body has been engraved in different balancing positions.
In Kristianstad sculptures of steel and glass will be displayed, alongside paintings, video animations and large vinyl wall drawings. For Julian Opie, there are no limits to the material or discipline. A flat image is all of a sudden unfolded to its three dimensions, another you can see right through as part of the room. Curator for both exhibitions is Sune Nordgren, project manager for Kivik Art Centre.
 
Julian Opie was born in 1958 in London, where he now lives and works. Already in his twenties he participated in exhibitions internationally. He is since his debut in 1983 linked to Lisson Gallery in London. See also his website - www.julianopie.com.

 

VENTURO at KIVIK ART CENTRE

Montage © Christian Johnsson / BN-Konsult

 

The Finnish architect Matti Suuronen (born 1933) became famous for his spaceship-like plastic house Futuro. But he also wanted to design a popular "weekend cottage" using the new fantastic materials and created the Venturo, a dismountable and easily transported house in fiberglass. Unfortunately the first global oil crisis hit the western world in 1972 and only nineteen houses were produced. Three ended up in Sweden, as petrol stations to Swedish BP - one is left intact. It has now been renovated, restored to its former glory and displayed during Kivik Art'09 as this year's architectural contributions.

Left from previous years on site are the Snøhetta Kivik Start projects (2007) and Chipperfield & Gormley's concrete pavilion called Architecture for Subjective Experience (2008).

Sune Nordgren
Project manager    

 

 

KIVIK ART CENTRE ÖSTERLEN SWEDEN

The site is Bergdala and Lilla Stenshuvud, just south of Kivik, a small town in the south east of Scania. This is one of the most beautiful places in Sweden, famous for its light and creative atmosphere, attractive to artists as well as tourists from all over Europe. But it is also a very sensitive place, close to a National Park, a destination for people who enjoy fantastic sea views, rare trees and plants, exciting wildlife and the wide open landscape.
The ambition is to develop this site from a concept based on a place for producing as well as showing art, architecture and design. Regional commitment and local pride are values to build on. The first year’s events will be the start of the developments, providing the necessary anchor for the region as well as international acclaim. The physical presence of the constructions on site will create interest and inspiration for the future as well as awakening the anticipation of everyone that makes the effort to experience it.  

 

KIVIK ART CENTRE 13 JUNE  – 27 SEPTEMBER 2009
www.kivikart.se

 

 

 

KIVIK ART ´08

THE NEW SCULPTURE MUST BE ENTERED AT ONE’S OWN RISK
Only one person is admitted at the time. Children under 16 with adult guidance
NO ENTRY OUTSIDE OPENING HOURS

The 2008 pavilion for Kivik Art Centre in southeast Sweden has been designed by David Chipperfield and Antony Gormley. The pavilion, which was constructed in only two months, is a sculpture entirely in concrete. Formed of three interlocked 100 m3 volumes – ‘The Cave’, ‘The Stage’ and ‘The Tower’ – the pavilion offers three different ways of experiencing the nature and landscapes around Kivik.

‘The Cave’ – a solid, dormant space in the base of the sculpture where one can rest on a wall-fixed bench, offers the enclosed feeling of being in the dark forest. Stairs then take the visitor up to the first floor – ‘The Stage’ – a horizontal volume open to the landscape, where one looks out but is also exposed. The third volume – ‘The Tower’ – takes the visitor up spiral stairs to a platform almost 18 metres above the ground, where one is rewarded with a spectacular view over the trees towards the Baltic Sea.

Kivik Pavilions is a project that combines architecture with art and design. Fundamental are issues of environmental solutions, a symbiosis of the landscape and the pavilion, local materials, and corporate partnership with industries in the region. The 2007 pavilion, called ‘Mother Ship’, was designed by Norwegian architects Snohetta, in conjunction with the photographer Tom Sandberg.

The pavilion will be open to the public from 19 July – 28 September 2008.

 

Foto: Gerry Johansson

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