FOR A HAPPIER TOMORROW

Anca Benera (RO)
Adela Demetja (AL)
Daniel Gontz (RO)
Marek Kvetan (SK)
Kristina Lenard (HR)
Petar Mirković (SRB)
Ivan Petrović (SRB)
Erik Sikora (CZ)
Kamen Stoyanov (BG/A)

Selected by Alexandra Croitoru (RO)

Press information in Danish (PDF)

Duration
15.02.-15.03.2008

Opening
15.02.2008 5-8pm

Cube
Johan Rosenmunthe, The Isle Of Human

Public space as a multilayered and shared space is the main issue of the group exhibition FOR A HAPPIER TOMORROW. Invited by Galleri Tom Christoffersen artist Alexandra Croitoru presents a well-researched selection of photography and video from Central-Eastern Europe.

It sounds activistic – and maybe it is. The works shown reflect the relations set up by artists between themselves and the public sphere especially by performing interventions (be it real or virtual ones) in the public space. The presented artists use their skills and knowledge to challenge reality or to create an alternative one as they show a non-defeatist, critical but at the same time ironical and playful attitude in relation to their social surroundings.

Although concerned with the public sphere either discussed through or performed in urbanity as context, FOR A HAPPIER TOMORROW is not an attempt to address a geo-political East-West duality. Neither is it an attempt to reflect whether there is a common denominator for the Central-Eastern European lens based media apart from the geographical one. As the diverse selection of works show, it is the particular artists approach, which intrigues.

Anca Benera and Kamen Stoyanov refer to the changes and the political antagonisms, that have affected the identity of public monuments, Adela Demetja reverses a given political situation by imagining an Albanian Embassy in Germany where people would queue for a visa, Daniel Gontz criticises social regimentation by using the prefabs of a socialist block of flats to make a puzzle with infinite solutions while Kristina Lenard and Petar Mirković play with the border between reality and fiction, between illusion and actuality, in his images of modern atomic shelters Ivan Petrović discuss questions of safety, phobias and fear, Marek Kvetan points at different social dysfunctions by creating fictional spaces with the means of digital manipulation and Erik Sikora is ironically commenting on the strategies of the «social artist».

The Isle Of Human Cube Galleri Tom Christoffersen (In situ)
The Isle Of Human Cube Galleri Tom Christoffersen (In situ)
The Isle Of Human Cube Galleri Tom Christoffersen (In situ)
The Isle Of Human Cube Galleri Tom Christoffersen (In situ)
Johan Rosenmunthe THE ISLE OF HUMAN #3 2007 digital C-print 70 X 100 cm edition 1/3 (+ 1 A.P.)
Johan Rosenmunthe THE ISLE OF HUMAN #3 2007 digital C-print 70 X 100 cm edition 1/3 (+ 1 A.P.)
Johan Rosenmunthe THE ISLE OF HUMAN #7 2007 digital C-print 80 X 120 cm edition 2/3 (+ 1 A.P.)
Johan Rosenmunthe THE ISLE OF HUMAN #7 2007 digital C-print 80 X 120 cm edition 2/3 (+ 1 A.P.)
Johan Rosenmunthe THE ISLE OF HUMAN #12 2007 digital C-print 80 X 120 cm edition 2/3 (+ 1 A.P.)
Johan Rosenmunthe THE ISLE OF HUMAN #12 2007 digital C-print 80 X 120 cm edition 2/3 (+ 1 A.P.)
Daniel Gontz: Puzzle. 2007, DV-PAL 1:30 min, edition 1/3
Daniel Gontz: Puzzle. 2007, DV-PAL 1:30 min, edition 1/3
Kamen Stoyanov (from series) Hello Lenin 2003 C-print 40 x 30 cm edition 3/3 (+ 2 A.P.)
Kamen Stoyanov (from series) Hello Lenin 2003 C-print 40 x 30 cm edition 3/3 (+ 2 A.P.)
Petar Mirković (from series) Movie Board 2004 C-print 20 x 30 cm edition 1/3 (+ 2 A.P.)
Petar Mirković (from series) Movie Board 2004 C-print 20 x 30 cm edition 1/3 (+ 2 A.P.)
Kristina Lenard in collaboration with Michael Johansson BERLIN-ZAGREB 2005 C-print 35 x 107 cm (two elements) edition 4/8 (+ 2 A.P.)
Kristina Lenard in collaboration with Michael Johansson BERLIN-ZAGREB 2005 C-print 35 x 107 cm (two elements) edition 4/8 (+ 2 A.P.)
Kristina Lenard METRO 2007 C-print 82 x 123 cm edition 2/5 (+ 2 A.P.)
Kristina Lenard METRO 2007 C-print 82 x 123 cm edition 2/5 (+ 2 A.P.)
Anca Benera Ecvestra leninista (Leninist Equestrian) 2007 C-print 40 x 60 cm edition 1/5 (part of a mixed media installation, variable dimenstions)
Anca Benera Ecvestra leninista (Leninist Equestrian) 2007 C-print 40 x 60 cm edition 1/5 (part of a mixed media installation, variable dimenstions)
Marek Kvetan Prefab 2003 C-print 70 x 100 cm edition 2/5
Marek Kvetan Prefab 2003 C-print 70 x 100 cm edition 2/5
Marek Kvetan Vidoc 07 2000 C-print 70 x 100 cm edition 2/5
Marek Kvetan Vidoc 07 2000 C-print 70 x 100 cm edition 2/5
Adela Demetja Untitled (Karlsruhe Germany) 2007 C-print 50 x 70 cm edition 1/5 (+ 2 A.P.)
Adela Demetja Untitled (Karlsruhe Germany) 2007 C-print 50 x 70 cm edition 1/5 (+ 2 A.P.)
Ivan Petrović Underground Shelters Wien 2004 C-type photograph 51 x 69 cm edition: 2/10 Atomic shelter in Vienna, Austria, 2004
Ivan Petrović Underground Shelters Wien 2004 C-type photograph 51 x 69 cm edition: 2/10 Atomic shelter in Vienna, Austria, 2004
For A Happier Tomorrow Galleri Tom Christoffersen (In situ)
For A Happier Tomorrow Galleri Tom Christoffersen (In situ)
For A Happier Tomorrow Galleri Tom Christoffersen (In situ)
For A Happier Tomorrow Galleri Tom Christoffersen (In situ)
For A Happier Tomorrow Galleri Tom Christoffersen (In situ)
For A Happier Tomorrow Galleri Tom Christoffersen (In situ)
For A Happier Tomorrow Galleri Tom Christoffersen (In situ)
For A Happier Tomorrow Galleri Tom Christoffersen (In situ)
For A Happier Tomorrow Galleri Tom Christoffersen (In situ)
For A Happier Tomorrow Galleri Tom Christoffersen (In situ)
For A Happier Tomorrow Galleri Tom Christoffersen (In situ)
For A Happier Tomorrow Galleri Tom Christoffersen (In situ)
For A Happier Tomorrow Galleri Tom Christoffersen (In situ)
For A Happier Tomorrow Galleri Tom Christoffersen (In situ)