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IN/VISIBLE – BRENDAN FERNANDES PERFORMANCE AT MUNCH

Munchmuseet — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 11:40:33 +0000

Time: Nov 10, 19:00 – 21:00 UTC
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Experience a new performance by internationally acclaimed artist Brendan Fernandes, celebrating queer identity, community and solidarity. For three days, the museum’s circular glass Amphitheatre will be activated by bodies in movement, pulsating lights and a newly composed sound score.

in/visible is a performance with five dancers created specifically for the museum’s Amphitheatre. The audience is invited to participate and explore within and around the piece, becoming part of the work and experiencing the performance both inside and outside the Amphitheatre.

The performance will make use of the Amphitheatre’s glass walls – specifically examining the relationship between visibility and invisibility, as a common experience of marginalised groups. In Fernandes’s work, dance becomes a social-political vehicle and a form of protest. in/visible addresses the need to build communities and safe spaces for queer people and other minorities and is a celebration of club culture in the aftermath of the mass shooting at London Pub during Oslo Pride in the summer of 2022.

“This event is a further reminder that hate still exists and that we are still fighting for our safety and our rights as Queers,” says Brendan Fernandes. Each performance will be preceded by a 15-minute introduction by the artist in the Lobby, including a social breathing exercise that aims to foster solidarity”.

in/visible is a commission for MUNCH Live and is a part of the museum’s new focus on performance. The work is supported by the Embassy of Canada in Oslo.

The performance will start on 10 November and ends on 12 November.

7 pm: Introduction by Brendan Fernandes in the museum Lobby followed by a breathing exercise
7.15 pm: Performance in Amfi
9 pm: End

Tickets here. The event is free of charge

About the Artist:

Brendan Fernandes (b. 1979 in Kenya) is a Canadian artist based in Chicago, working at the intersection of dance and visual arts. Fernandes’ projects address issues of race, queer culture, migration, protest and collective movement. His projects have been shown at the Whitney Biennial (New York); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York); Museum of Modern Art (New York); Getty Museum (Los Angeles); National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa) and MAC (Montreal). He is currently Assistant Professor at Northwestern University in the department of Art Theory and Practice.

Note to editors:

in/visible is created by Brendan Fernandes in collaboration with dramaturg Katlin Bourgeois and dancers Judith Arupa, Ornilia Percia Ubisse, Jonathan Ibsen and Putli Jasmine Hellesen. The soundtrack is created by Alex Inglizian, and costumes are designed by T-Michael (Norwegian Rain).

PRESS PREVIEW FOR THE EXHIBITIONS: THE MACHINE IS US, CAMILLE HENROT, APICHAYA WANTHIANG: SOLO OSLO.

Munchmuseet — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 12:15:33 +0000

Time: Sep 28, 08:00 – 12:00 UTC
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Autumn at MUNCH will gather the full range of present day modern art under one roof.

THE MACHINE IS US, 3rd floor

APICHAYA WANTHIANG, SOLO OSLO, 10th floor

CAMILLE HENROT, MOUTH TO MOUTH, 9th floor

Place: MUNCH, Edvard Munchs plass 1. Meet in the lobby

Welcomed by MUNCH´s Director, Stein Olav Henrichsen. Curator Tominga O'Donnell gives a short introduction about the exhibitions. The artists will be available in the respective exhibitions

For RSVP or interview request, please contact: maren.lindeberg@munchmuseet.no

About the exhibitions:

CAMILLE HENROT

MOUTH TO MOUTH :

The first Edvard Munch Art Award exhibition at MUNCH features the acclaimed French artist Camille Henrot. In this large-scale solo show, Henrot explores the ways in which people relate to their surroundings and each other.

THE MACHINE IS US:

This ambitious group exhibition of contemporary art, displays works by 25 artists who, in different ways, reflect on how new technology affects us, both as individuals and as communities.

APICHAYA WANTHIANG: SOLO OSLO:

In the second edition of SOLO OSLO, artist Apichaya (Piya) Wanthiang invites visitors to move through a total installation entitled Some Body Else, where the main elements are sound, light and sculpture

PRESS PREVIEW Satyricon & Munch

Munchmuseet — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 12:23:41 +0000

Time: Apr 27, 09:00 – 12:00 UTC
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Experience an atmospheric and powerful meeting between music and visual art in one of MUNCH’s largest exhibition halls. The black metal band Satyricon has created a musical work specifically to be experienced in relation to selected paintings and graphics by Edvard Munch.

Date and time: 27.04.2022, at 10 am

Place: MUNCH, Edvard Munchs plass 1. Sky Room 12^th floor

Doors opens at 9.30 am. Press conference starts at 10 am

RSVP to: maren.lindeberg@munchmuseet.no

For interview request please contact: maren.lindeberg@munchmuseet.no

Read about the exhibition here