PER KIRKEBY

Per Kirkeby is best known for his large painterly constructions, often based on the Scandinavian landscape, as well as for his monumental brick sculptures. Kirkeby has an existential perspective and a keen ability to capture the untamed forces of nature and life. He first studied geology at the University of Copenhagen before becoming involved in the radical Den Eksperimenterende Kunstskole in Copenhagen and in the Fluxus group. Other influences include 1960s artistic movements such as pop art, performance and minimalism. Kirkeby also worked with film and in his Masonite paintings from the period he mixes pop culture references with visuals taken from the world of advertising. His international breakthrough came in the 1980s with his large, abstract, expressively colorful paintings and sculptures in bronze and brick. Several monumental brick sculptures by Per Kirkeby are on view in Sweden, including Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Wanås sculpture park.

Per Kirkeby was born in Copenhagen in 1938. His work has been widely exhibited and is included in the collections of some of the most important institutions of modern art such as the Modern Museum of Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and Centre Pompidou, Paris. His most recent solo exhibitions have been held at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Tate Modern, London and Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf. Kirkeby has also published novels, a collection of poetry, essays on art and architecture and the work of other artists. A member of the Danish Academy since 1982 he became an honorary member of the British Royal Academy of Arts along with fellow artist Ai Weiwei in 2011. Magasin 3 presented a solo exhibition of Per Kirkeby in 1999.

TAL R

Tal R is Denmark’s currently most prominent painter, and he has won much critical acclaim internationally. After graduating from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2000 he won the prestigious Carnegie Art Award for painters in 2002. Tal R is best known for his colorful, naïve and partially abstract large-scale paintings; however, he also works in other media such as sculpture, drawing, installations, video and textiles. Most recently he has been involved in developing the experimental clothing line MoonSpoon Saloon. Tal R’s motifs are inspired by advertising, horror films, children’s drawings, newspapers and encounters with other people. In his paintings he likes to play with perspective, framing, surface and shape. He implements his own kind of cubism, as he puts it.

Tal R was born in 1967 in Israel but spent most of his childhood in Copenhagen where he still lives today. He holds a guest professorship at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, which he often “exchanges” with colleagues at other art academies. His work has been presented in numerous solo exhibitions at institutions such as Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk and Der Kunstverein in Hamburg. Tal R has previously been presented at Magasin 3 in a solo exhibition Old Confused (2009) and in Thrice upon a time (2010).

Podcast from Artist Talk with Tal R in 2009 is available here

COSIMA VON BONIN

Cosima von Bonin is one of the most influential and productive artists in Germany today. Her work encompasses sculpture, photography, textile “paintings”, installations, film, video and performance, making it difficult to place within a specific genre. Often large in scale, her installations include all of the above media, and sometimes also feature the work of fellow artists, or artists with whom she feels a certain kinship. She has an on-going collaboration with the DJ Moritz von Oswald and also runs a record company with Justus Köhnke.

Her work is free-flowing, a reaction to impressions from popular culture, folk art, fashion, hip-hop, techno and personal experiences. Von Bonin creates worlds governed by their own social order—exploring notions of free play and indoctrination, structure and improvisation, gender and identity—in pieces that are often absurd and humorous.

Cosima von Bonin was born in Mombasa, Kenya in 1962 and currently lives and works in Cologne. She has had solo exhibitions at Tate Liverpool, Documenta 12 in Kassel, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Witte de With in Rotterdam and Museum Ludwig in Cologne. Her work has previously been presented at Magasin 3 including the exhibitions Freeport (2001), for which she created the work ”Item”, To be continued… (2007) and BETWIXT (2008). The newly-acquired piece ”Hermit Crab in Fake Royère” is now shown at Magasin 3 for the first time.

Cosima von Bonin

“Item”, 2001
Fiber glass, strengthened plastic, dual-component acrylic enamel, plywood, lacquer, cotton, silk, polyester and linen, 1100 x 120 x 128 cm

“Deprionen, A Voyage to the Sea”, 2006
Wool and cotton, 319 x 357 cm

“Seasons in the Abyss”, 2006
Various materials including fabric and glass, variable dimensions

“Hermit Crab in Fake Royère”, 2010
Steel, cotton, mohair velour, felt and music by Moritz von Oswald, 185 x 115 x 95 cm

Tal R

“Fast Turtle March”, 2008
Oil on canvas, 200 x 200 cm

“Old Confused Gun”, 2009
Oil on canvas, 200 x 200 cm

“Hyacint”, 2008
Glazed ceramic, 107 x 28 x 34 cm

“Hyacint”, 2008
Glazed ceramic, 105 x 36 x 49 cm

“Hyacint”, 2008
Glazed ceramic, 105 x 49 x 38 cm

Per Kirkeby

“Herbst-Anastasis I”, 1997
Oil on canvas, 200 x 170 cm

“Herbst-Anastasis III”, 1997
Oil on canvas, 200 x 170 cm

“Herbst-Anastasis IV”, 1997
Oil on canvas, 200 x 170 cm

“Herbst-Anastasis V”, 1997
Oil on canvas, 200 x 170 cm

“Herbst-Anastasis X”, 1997
Oil on canvas, 200 x 170 cm

“Læso-Kopf II”, 1983
Bronze, 114 x 43 x 60 cm
Edition 2/6 + 0

“Læso-Kopf III”, 1983
Bronze, 91 x 43 x 40 cm
Edition 2/6 + 0

Thursday March 29

LECTURE MUSEUM MAGASIN 3:
John C. Welchman – “Mountains and the Marine: Visual Metaphor in the Work of Cosima von Bonin”

Few artists have packed such an extraordinary range of both clear and covert references to art movements and other artists or to particular locations and intermittently specific objects into the sequencing of their works. Focusing on the “marine core” of Cosima von Bonin’s art this lecture will examine how metaphorical meanings are found, produced and relayed in the work of the artist.

John C. Welchman is Professor of art history in the Visual Arts department at the University of California, San Diego and co-director of the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. His books include Modernism Relocated: Towards a Cultural Studies of Visual Modernity (Allen & Unwin, 1995), Invisible Colours: A Visual History of Titles (Yale, 1997) and Art After Appropriation: Essays on Art in the 1990s (Routledge, 2001); he is co-author of the Dada and Surrealist Word Image (MIT Press, 1987) and of Mike Kelley in the Phaidon Contemporary Artists series (1999); and editor of Rethinking Borders (Minnesota UP/Routledge, 1996). XX to XXI: Essays on European Art will be published by Akal, Madrid in Spanish, in 2012. Welchman is founder and chair of the Southern California Consortium of Art Schools and editor of its publication series for JRP|Ringier: Recent Pasts: Art in Southern California from the 90s to Now (2005); Institutional Critique and After (2006); The Aesthetics of Risk (2008); Black Sphinx: On the Comedic in Modern Art (2010); and, forthcoming, Public Culture in the Visual Sphere. He editor of the collected writings of Mike Kelley: Foul Perfection: Essays and Criticism, was published with MIT Press in 2003;, Minor Histories, also, with MIT, arrived Spring 2004; and the third Mike Kelley: Interviews, Conversations, and Chit-Chat, 1988-2004 with JRP|Ringier, Zurich in 2005. His most recent book is On the Beyond: A Conversation between Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw and John C Welchman, ed. John. Welchman, [Kunst und Architektur im Gespraech/Art and Architecture in Discussion] (Vienna and New York: SpringerWienNewYork, 2011).

Thursday March 29, 7.30pm
At Magasin 3. Free entrance. In english.

Sunday October 9 at 3pm

Museum director David Neuman shows “Museum Magasin 3 – presentations from the collection” – Cosima von Bonin, Per Kirkeby and Tal R

Museum director David Neuman shows “Museum Magasin 3 – presentations from the collection” – Cosima von Bonin, Per Kirkeby and Tal R. In Swedish.

Thursday, November 10, 6pm

Museum Magasin 3 evening program: Guided tour with special guests

Museum Director David Neuman gives a guided tour of the exhibition “Museum Magasin 3 – Presentations from the collection: Cosima von Bonin, Per Kirkeby and Tal R” with special guests; Karolina Holmlund, artist, Sigrid Sandstrom, artist and professor of fine arts/painting and the artist John Scott. Language: Swedish. Included in the admission fee. Welcome!

EXHIBITION CATALOGUE NR 46

Produced by Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, 2011.
28 pages, colour. Richly illustrated. Newspaper format.
Language: Swedish/English.
Design: Henrik Nygren Design.
ISBN: 978­91­976646­8­4.

Content:
Texts by David Neuman, Director of Magasin 3, John C. Welchman, Professor of Modern Art History at University of California, San Diego, and interviews with curators Richard Julin and Sara Källström.

Extracts from the catalogue:
"In connection with the fall and spring exhibition seasons Magasin 3 introduces a new museum section that will focus on works in our permanent collection. Two of our galleries will be dedicated to exhibitions that cast retrospective glances on our collection while also providing visions of the future. We’re not reinventing the wheel, but rather doing what an institution with a collection "should" do. During the nearly 25 years that Magasin 3 has existed as one of Sweden¹s (and perhaps Europe’s) most important exhibition spaces, we have occasionally shown works from the collection, most recently in the critically-acclaimed exhibition Thrice upon a time (2010), in which we showed over 200 works that had never before been exhibited by us. This exhibition became the official starting point for a gradual transition away from being "only" an exhibition space and towards a new identity as a contemporary art museum. We will continue with our extensive and well-established loans program to museums all over the world, but we also want the collection to be more accessible to Magasin 3′s visitors, both new and established, and to give them the possibility to revisit the visual experiences of previous exhibitions. It is an incredibly exciting and satisfying process." (from text by David Neuman)

The magazine is handed out to all museum visitors. It will also be distributed in 70 venues around Sweden together with the magazine Artlover.