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JULY 2 - OCTOBER 31 2010
Disidentifikation is group exhibition that addresses how artists utilize popular culture, vernacular forms of expression, political satire, and the reappropriation of histories and ideologies as protest. Curator Stina Edblom selected artists “who explore modes of performative self imaging in an interrogation of gender, sexual, and racial difference.” The exhibition brings together an eclectic group of works from the late 1980s until today, by 8 internationally acclaimed artists. Charlotte Gyllenhammar will exhibit her video installation entitled Nachsagen, Ich und Meinhof (2004). Disidentifikation will take place at Göteborgs konsthall. For more information, please visit: www.konsthallen.goteborg.se Opening Reception: July 2, 2010, 5 p.m. - 10 p.m.
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OCTOBER 22 – DECEMBER 5 2010 The Intiman Theatre, located in the heart of Seattle, Washington, has selected Charlotte Gyllenhammar’s photograph Hang (2006) to represent their upcoming production of The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The play, which depicts the struggle of a woman who commits adultery in Boston, at that time a small 17th century Puritan town, is a classic of American literature. Gyllenhammar’s image of a woman hanging upside-down within the confines of her dress seems to visualize the isolation from community life felt by Hester Prynne, the play’s main character
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OCTOBER 18 - DECEMBER 12 2010 Darker than Night is group exhibition that seeks to create a discourse resulting from a comparison of cultural beliefs and artistic practices. The exhibition presents a selection of diverse artistic explorations on the emotion fear, as transmitted via cultural expressions in the form of literature, film, entertainment and music. Curators Katrin Behdjou and Gabriel Mestre selected Charlotte Gyllenhammar’s sculpture entitled Double Blind (2009) because the work “ironically illustrate(s) the psychological reality of the attraction-repulsion dichotomy.” The exhibition will be held in conjunction with the Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead, and located in the Casino Metropolitano, a neoclassical palace in Mexico City.
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UPCOMING PROJECT
The city of Malmö has commissioned Charlotte Gyllenhammar to construct a large public installation in Hyllie. Hyllie is the name of the new city centre currently being constructed in south Malmö. The expansion aims to make Hyllie a place of interest for the entire region of Öresund. Gyllenhammar’s installation is expected to be completed in 2011. Please visit this news page for future updates on this project.
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AUGUST 27 - OCTOBER 8 2009 Charlotte Gyllenhammar will exhibit a new body of work, including photography, film, and sculpture at gallery Christian Larsen in her latest exhibition entitled Deformation. The opening reception is on August 27th, from 17:00 - 20:00. For more information, please visit:
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MARCH 27 - DECEMBER 12 2009 Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland will exhibit Gyllenhammar's work Blindbock in Tracking Traces. Tracking Traces is a group exhibition that deals with questions surrounding aesthetics and politics through the themes of urban life and popular culture in the visual arts.
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LINKÖPING CATHEDRAL Linköping Cathedral - 0n October 18th, 2009 of this year a new commission by Charlotte Gyllenhammar was inaugurated. Built in 1520, Linköping Cathedral is one of Sweden's most extravagant church buildings of the Middle Ages.
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MARCH 6 - MAY 10 2009
Mythos Kindheit - an exhibition dealing with childhood at the Hus für Kunst Uri in Switzerland, will feature Gyllenhammar's work The Spectators. The term childhood brings to mind various, sometimes opposite notions such as innocence, purity, and paradise, as well as fear, helplessness, and failure. In the visual arts the motif of childhood, as a mythological and utopian place, is often used as a frame of reference for self-investigation or self-assessment. The exhibition Mythos Kindheit explores the way in which contemporary artists reflect upon and visualize the theme of childhood.
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MAY 30 - JULY 26 2009 Mythos Kindheit will travel to Patricia Aasbeck's gallery
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NOVEMBER 19 - DECEMBER 21 2008 State of Mind / Christian Larsen - Charlotte Gyllenhammar will exhibit Fall and a new sculpture entitled Beholder. The exhibition's title refers to a situation, an action, a train of thought or a state of mind that suddenly creates a sense of lucidity. The exhibition is curated by architect and art historian John Robert Nilsson.
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SEPTEMBER 26 2008 - SEPTEMBER 27 2009 Charlotte Gyllenhammar's monumental sculpture Traum will be on view at Attingham Park in Shropshire, U.K. until September 2009. The exhibition entitled Give Me Shelter explores man's changing relationship to the world's natural resources through new sculptural work and installations located on the beautiful grounds of the National Trust's grand 18th century mansion, in Attingham Park. Eleven artists have been invited by the visual arts commissioning organisation, Meadow Arts, to present work that examines our contradictory relationship with the natural world: we exploit and ruin it, yet we romanticise it and rely upon it to provide us with shelter from cataclysmic disasters linked to global warming and increasing pressures on resources. Give Me Shelter also includes works by Christina Mackie and Susan Grant among others. For more information please visit Meadow Arts website: www.meadowarts.org
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JUNE 27 - SEPTEMBER 21 2008 Gyllenhammar's work entitled Fall is included in a new exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C. Modern Love celebrates the stellar group of contemporary works of art donated to NMWA by prominent Washington-based collectors Heather and Tony Podesta. The couple's passion for cutting-edge art is highlighted in this selection of photographs, videos, sculptures, and paintings. The exhibition features more than 50 works by internationally-renowned artists such as Cathy de Monchaux, Candida Höfer, Elizabeth Turk, and Jane and Louise Wilson in addition to works by exciting emerging artists. For more information visit: www.nmwa.org
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MAY 11 – AUGUST 2008 Gyllenhammar’s Blindbock will be featured in a group exhibition entitled Swedish Self-Portraits at Mjellby Art Museum in Halmstad, Sweden.
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JANUARY 2008 Gyllenhammar completed multiples for SAK – Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening. The sculptures entitled B-Head, were unveiled at an exhibition at SAK gallery in Stockholm and inaugurated by Mårten Castenfors.
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OCTOBER 2007 At the New Art Centre at Roche Court, Wiltshire, U.K. Gyllenhammar created a monumental sculpture. The work was inaugurated in connection to the Richard Deacon exhibition and will be on view until spring 2008. Curator Sarah Unitt describes the work, entitled Traum, created for Roche Court as: ''a tower standing at 4m high, made from cast concrete. Inside the tower, visible only through narrow windows, is a small, exquisite gilded hot-air balloon. The title, Traum, is a German word, meaning dream. The work conjures up fairy tales and follies and the tower itself, set in the sweeping landscape of Wiltshire, could be taken for a 21st century folly. Traum is to do with unsettling our perceptions and creating an atmosphere of tension.''
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MAY 2007 Most notably, Gyllenhammar has completed a monument to Raoul Wallenberg, commissioned by the city of Gothenburg, Sweden. The monument was inaugurated by Kofi Annan on May 25, 2007, and was awarded the Jewish Association's Art Prize for 2007. The monument is a photo based work in bronze and concrete.
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MARCH 2007 Gyllenhammar was the first artist to be invited by Swarovski crystal to create a work of art with their crystals. The piece, entitled The Choir, was on exhibition at Swarovski Krystalwelten in Austria, and was comprised of a sculptural group of singing children. The crystals formed the children’s mouths, and provided an interesting contrast to the raw texture of the clay figures.
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FEBRUARY 2007 Gyllenhammar’s installation entitled Wonder was inaugurated at the Swedish Foreign Policy Institute and the Swedish National Defense College in Stockholm. The piece consists of several bronze sculptures and a monumental photograph of an explosion.
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JANUARY 2007 Nachsagen, Ich und Meinhof was on exhibition at the Norrköping Museum of Art in Sweden, in an exhibition entitled Rock 'n Roll Vol. I. The exhibit then traveled to Norway where it was shown at Sørlandet Art Museum. The work was also included in an exhibition at Malmö Art Museum featuring works from their collection entitled Som du ser mig – porträtt från samlingen (As You See Me – Portraits from the Collection).
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