MMP: Eriks Bozis

That things are often more than they appear to be is a characteristic theme in of Eriks Bozis’ art. At the Rauma Biennial in Finland in 1996 he installed a huge magnifying glass in a shopping centre.
Eriks Bozis’ contextual work is often about information and communication, about the difficulties of transferring information and of getting communication to function.

For the exhibition Monument in Riga (1995), where artists were invited to forge a relationship to places where German, Russian, Latvian or Soviet monuments once stood, Bozis used typical soviet telephone automats, manufactured in Latvia. Placed so high that they could not possibly be reached, they formed comments both on the general cultural climate and on a heroic, social-realistic monument on the same square.

Eriks Bozis was born in 1969 in Liepaja, Latvia where he now lives. Just now he is participating in Manifesta 2 – the European Biennial of Contemporary Art in Luxembourg 28/6 – 11/10 1998, where he has a photo-based installation in the Musée de la Ville de Luxembourg.

Moderna Museet Projekt is a new part of the Modern Museum in Stockholm. In 1998 nine known and less known young artists will be invited to make new work for the museum. The work in the Moderna Museet Projekt is often located outside the museum walls: in the special project room in Prästgården next to the museum on Skeppsholmen, in the city or other environments.

In conjunction with each Moderna Museet Projekt a documentary catalogue will be published and will be available shortly after the opening.

Curator: Maria Lind