Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Per Olof Ultvedt, Sketch of She – A cathedral, Moderna Museet, 1966 © Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Per Olof Ultvedt / Bildupphovsrätt 2017
ABOUT EXHIBITIONS: Dylaby, and She – A Cathedral
Book release and talk
10.2 2017
Stockholm
Date: Friday 10 February, 2017
Time: At 18
Place: The Pontus Hultén Study Gallery, floor 2
Price: Free Admission
Language: Swedish
The talk with the director of the Museum, Daniel Birnbaum, researcher Kim West, and author Andreas Gedin will be moderated by Moderna Museet’s co-director Ann-Sofi Noring. The new book Life on Sirius: The Situationist International and the Exhibition After Art, will be on sale during the event. The book is part three in the series All the King’s Horses, published by Sternberg Press.
The book series All the King’s Horses about Situationism
On three different occasions between 2010 and 2012, All the King’s Horses explored the last and most influential European post-war avant-garde movement, Situationism, through events, seminars and exhibitions at Moderna Museet.
Life on Sirius: The Situationist International and the Exhibition After Art addresses Situationism’s relationship to institutions, more specifically to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the exhibition Dylaby.
Audience participation in the Dylaby exhibition
The exhibition took place in 1962, during Willem Sandberg’s last year as the museum’s director. He wanted to produce an exhibition where museum visitors would literally be part of the show. The name, Dylaby, was short for Dynamic labyrinth, and the exhibition consisted of a collaboration between the artists Jean Tinguely, Daniel Spoerri, Niki de Saint Phalle, Martial Raysse, Per Olov Ultvedt and Robert Rauschenberg.
She – A Cathedral was inspired by Dylaby
Pontus Hultén, director of Moderna Museet at the time, was inspired by Dylaby to create She – A Cathedral, which was shown at the museum in 1966 and was a collaboration between Niki de Saint-Phalle, Jean Tinguely and Per Olov Ultvedt. The two exhibitions were similar in that the audience participated actively in both.
ABOUT EXHIBITIONS continues at Moderna Museet on 11 April, when Jens Hoffmann, a New York-based freelance curator, introduces his magazine The Exhibitionist: A Journal on Exhibition Making, and talks to invited guests.
LOSE YOURSELF! On 3 and 4 February, Moderna Museet co-organises LOSE YOURSELF! Symposium on Labyrinth Exhibitions as Curatorial Model, a symposium at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam which focuses mainly on the two exhibitions mentioned above.