From left right: 1. Dea Trier Mørch, “Winter’s Child” (1976). Linocut print, 50 x 34,6 cm (without frame). Courtesy Dea Trier Mørch and BONO. 2. Photo: André Percey Katombe (Sonrise Picture) / The Oslo Desk
Welcome to the opening of this year’s last exhibitions Dea Trier Mørch – Into the World and LIFT EVERY VOICE, at Kunsthall Trondheim, 26 November.
The opening is organized into two timeslots which the audience can choose between.
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Program
Timeslot 1
5pm–6.30pm
Focus on Dea Trier Mørch’s exhibition
5.30pm Opening speech
6pm Consert with Trondheim Sinfonietta
”Workers Union” by Louis Andriessen
Timeslot 2
7pm–8.30pm
Focus on the exhibition LIFT EVERY VOICE
7.30pm Opening speech
8pm Consert with Trondheim Sinfonietta
”Buddha” by Julius Eastman
Trondheim Sinfonietta:
Ane Fiskum Sunde flute, Stig Førde Aarskog clarinet, Bergmund Skaslien viola, Bendik Lund Haanshus guitar, Else Bø piano and Espen Aalberg percussion
Read more about the concerts below.
The event is free and open to all, but requires prior registration. See links to the right.
Kunsthall Trondheim follows FHI's guidelines for infection control. Keep at least one meter away from other visitors, remember good hand and cough hygiene, and please stay home if you are feeling ill.
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Dea Trier Mørch – Into the World
The exhibition Into the World is dedicated to the work of Dea Trier Mørch (1941–2001) was conceived at Louisiana in Denmark in 2019. It is an atypical museum exhibition because the artist was not part of the art establishment, and her works are not unique masterpieces. On the contrary, Trier Mørch printed her works in vast editions. She was a people’s artist who used poster art, almost as a mass media. In Norway, she is mostly known for her 1976 novel, Winter’s Child, and as a member of the artists’ collective Røde Mor (Red Mother), which toured all of Scandinavia in the 70s with their provoking theatre circus. It was important to Trier Mørch that her art was accessible to ordinary people, and she used motifs that were of an everyday nature and easy to understand. She wished for her art to make a tangible difference in the world, and she had a burning passion for international solidarity, both as a feminist and a socialist.
The exhibition has previously been curated by Marie Laurberg, and shown at Louisiana, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Holstebro Kunstmuseum and Kunstmuseum Brandts. The exhibition is produced by Louisiana in close collaboration with Kunsten Museum of Modern Art and Dea Trier Mørch’s family. The curator for the exhibition at Kunsthall Trondheim is Carl Martin Faurby. Thanks to Michelle Tisdel from Lift Every Voice (LEV), Marie Laurberg, Lærke Rydal Jørgensen and Marie Mose Hyllested from Louisiana, Helle Sangild and Lars Lundsgaard from Kunstmuseum Brandts, Sissel Fjærem Giæver and Sara Trier.
LIFT EVERY VOICE
The exhibition LIFT EVERY VOICE shows posters and social documentation from the demonstration “We Can’t Breathe. Justice for George Floyd,” attended by more than 15.000 protesters on 5 June 2020. The exhibition discusses the protest posters as examples of free speech and narratives of experience. The posters express outrage, vulnerability and solidarity, as well as concerns about racism, belonging and social justice. By exhibiting them, LIFT EVERY VOICE explores how the demonstrations in Oslo, Trondheim and several other Norwegian cities, constitute a new critical event for antiracism in Norway. The posters, photographs and video material highlight the public engagement, while the exhibition performs the preservation of community narratives.
The exhibition is curated by Michelle A. Tisdel (lev-no.org) together with Carl Martin Faurby (Kunsthall Trondheim) in collaboration with Ka Man Mak, founder of the Oslo Desk (oslodesk.com).
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Trondheim Sinfonietta is a chamber ensemble with contemporary music as special field, and serves as a creative meeting place for Trondheim's professional music environment. Through the collaboration, the ensemble and the Kunsthall explore new concert formats and artistic dialogues.
”Workers Union” by Louis Andriessen
“Workers Union” has a political symbolism where everyone plays together: a united voice delivers the same emphatic message. Andriessen himself says that the work: “is a combination of individual freedom and strict discipline: its rhythm is accurate; the pitch, on the other hand, is only indicated approximately on a common 2note line. Only when each musician performs with such an intention that their role is important, will the work stand out, just as in political work”.
”Buddha” by Julius Eastman
Julius Eastman (1940-1990) was a radical and brash composer who has been compared to John Cage and Philip Glass. With his experiences as an openly gay black man, Eastman made music that directly commented on his political contemporaries. Two of his most famous works, “Evil nigger” and “Gay Guerrilla”, created strong reactions on both sides of the civil rights movement in the United States.