10.9.2020 Pandemi-sikret afgangsudstilling åbner / Pandemic-proof degree show opens Subscribe Past Issues Translate Pressemeddelelse Press Release Pandemi-sikret Pandemic-proof afgangsudstilling: degree show: 2020 er et mood 2020 is a mood 2020 er et mood og et meme. En 2020 is a mood. A state of mind sindstemning skabt af created by worldwide forest fires, verdensomspændende skovbrande, conspiracies about a third world war konspirationer om en tredje and now a pandemic unlike anything verdenskrig og nu altså en pandemi most of us have ever seen. få af os har oplevet magen til. Sammen med Kunsthal Aarhus For this year’s MFA degree show, trodser de afgangsstuderende fra the graduating artists from the Det Jyske Kunstakademi den globale Jutland Art Academy join Kunsthal pandemi og lader udstillingen 2020 Aarhus in defying the global https://mailchi.mp/kunsthal/pandemi-sikret-afgangsudstilling-bner-pandemic-proof-degree-show-opens 1/5 10.9.2020 Pandemi-sikret afgangsudstilling åbner / Pandemic-proof degree show opens Subscribeudfolde sig i Pastsyv Issues dele. Værkerne kan pandemic by having the exhibitionTranslate opleves i vinduespartier, kuben og 2020 unfold in seven separate parts. ydermuren fra gårdspladsen foran Their works can be safely Kunsthal Aarhus, på experienced from the exterior of kunsthalaarhus.dk og i et tillæg i Kunsthal Aarhus, where it is Århus Stiftstidende med presented in windows, the cube and fantomtegninger af værkerne, skabt on the outer wall in the courtyard. ud fra kunstneres beskrivelser. Nu er Their art can also be found at værkerne i sidste øjeblik blevet kunsthalaarhus.dk and in a genskabt til det nye udstillingsformat. supplement published in Aarhus Hver afgangsstuderende råder over Stiftstidende featuring identikit vinduer, parken og hjemmesiden en sketches of the works, drawn on the uge ad gangen – og sidst men ikke basis of the artists’ descriptions. mindst læserne af Århus Now, at the very last minute, their Stiftstidende. På den måde opfører works have been reimagined to udstillingen sig, som det slogan vi match the new exhibition format. alle har lært at kende: Sammen – Each graduating artist will have the hver for sig. windows and website to themselves for one week at a time. In this way, the exhibition acts in accordance 08.–13.05.: Luna Lund Jensen with the Danish social distancing 15.–20.05.: Frederik Rønde slogan we have all come to know: 22.–27.05.: Eliyah Mesayer Sammen – hver for sig, meaning 29.05.–03.06.: Max Gam Iversen Together – separately. 5.06.–10.06.: Martin Kogi 12.–17.06.: Villiam Miklos Andersen 19.–24.06.: M. B. Pedersen 08.–13.05.: Luna Lund Jensen 15.–20.05.: Frederik Rønde 22.–27.05.: Eliyah Mesayer Pressekontakt 29.05.–03.06.: Max Gam Iversen [email protected] 5.06.–10.06.: Martin Kogi 12.–17.06.: Villiam Miklos Andersen 19.–24.06.: M. B. Pedersen Press contact [email protected] Det Jyske The Jutland Art Kunstakademi Academy 2020 2020 https://mailchi.mp/kunsthal/pandemi-sikret-afgangsudstilling-bner-pandemic-proof-degree-show-opens 2/5 10.9.2020 Pandemi-sikret afgangsudstilling åbner / Pandemic-proof degree show opens Subscribe Past Issues Translate Da COVID-19 lukkede landet ned to When COVID-19 shut down the måneder inden den officielle åbning i nation two months prior to the official Kunsthal Aarhus, måtte udstillingens opening at Kunsthal Aarhus, it was format ændres radikalt. Traditionen clear that this year’s degree show tro skulle afgangsudstillingen have format needed to change radically. udfoldet sig i vores store Traditionally, the degree show takes underjordiske galleri, men som følge place in the large underground af krisen er udstillingen rykket op i gallery, but in response to the crisis galleriet lysskakter. På skift indtager this year’s exhibition has been kunstnerne Kunsthal Aarhus moved up into the gallery skylights karakteristiske glaspartier. instead. Taking turns, the graduating Gruppeudstillingen er eksploderet og artists will take over the distinctive breder sig nu over tid, i stedet for i et windows and light apertures at samlet lokale. Kunsthal Aarhus, showing their art there. Essentially, the group Den mest toneangivende fælles exhibition has ‘exploded’ – blown to ramme for de studerendes pieces, it now takes place afgangsværker er de aktuelle successively over time, rather than in udefrakommende omstændigheder. a single room. Med kort varsel måtte de gentænke deres værker fra et format til et The most important common andet. Det er det, der binder de syv framework for the artists’ graduation udstillingsdele sammen, selvom de pieces is, of course, the current er spredt i tid. Allerede lang tid før at external circumstances. At short COVID-19-krisen ramte Danmark og notice, they had to rethink their resten af verden, besluttede de works, transitioning them from one afgangsstuderende, at deres værker format to another. This is what ties skulle illustreres af en fantomtegner, the seven parts of the exhibition https://mailchi.mp/kunsthal/pandemi-sikret-afgangsudstilling-bner-pandemic-proof-degree-show-opens 3/5 10.9.2020 Pandemi-sikret afgangsudstilling åbner / Pandemic-proof degree show opens Subscribesom ud fra kunstnernesPast Issues beskrivelser, together, even though they areTranslate skulle formidle det værk, som endnu spread over time. Long before the ikke eksisterede. COVID-19 crisis hit Denmark and the rest of the world, the graduating ”I deres nuttede tegneserie-format er students had already decided that fantomtegningerne et rammende their works should be illustrated by symbol i al almindelighed for an identikit/composite sketch artist kontrasten mellem det tænkte værk who, based on the artists’ og det værk som skal fødes ind i descriptions, would depict and virkeligheden på de præmisser den present a work of art that did not yet givne verden tillader os. Den exist. perfekte oversættelse mellem det tænkte værk og det realiserede ‘In their adorable cartoon format, the findes aldrig,” fortæller udstillingens composite sketches are an apt kurator Anna Weile Kjær. symbol of the contrast between the work as it was originally intended Udstillingskataloget, som indeholder and the work that is born into reality fantomtegninger samt en redigeret on the terms given by the world fælles samtale med de studerende around us. There is no such thing as fra Det Jyske Kunstakademis a perfect translation between the afgangsklasse og debattør og work as it is imagined and as it is radiovært Ayşe Dudu Tepe, kan realised,’ explains exhibition curator findes som tillæg til Århus Anna Weile Kjær. Stiftstidende 07.05.2020, på stiften.dk eller rekvireres i Kunsthal The exhibition catalogue, which Aarhus efter aftale på contains composite sketches of the [email protected]. works as well as an edited joint conversation with the artists graduating from the Jutland Art Academy, conducted by public debater and radio host Ayşe Dudu Tepe, will be published as a supplement to Aarhus Stiftstidende 07.05.2020, at stiften.dk or in Kunsthal Aarhus by appointment at [email protected]. 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