WHAT IS THE ROLE OF ART IN TRANSITION, have we had enough of nature art?
September 19, 2023
19:00 – 20:00
Hanna Ljungh and Martina Hoogland Ivanow, along with their colleagues, invite you to a conversation / tree-stump study circle, regarding their current exhibitions and questions that are closely related to their respective practices. Moderator: Jonathan Habib Engqvist.
Hanna Ljungh has devoted her artistic practice to subjects we describe as land, soil, stone, and mountains. Her work reflects upon and questions the thin boundary between human and non-human existence, as well as the complex relationships between them. Her nearly six-hour-long film I am mountain, to measure impermanence (2016) depicts the melting of Sweden's highest mountain's ice cap. Ljungh primarily works with film, photography, sculpture, and installation, and she currently has her ongoing exhibition Rosettadagboken at Anna Bohman Gallery.
Jonathan Habib Engqvist is an author and curator, with an education in philosophy, art science, and art theory, mainly active internationally. Engqvist has curated art biennials in various places around the world, contributed to several books on art, and teaches at institutions like the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, KABK in The Hague, Netherlands, and the art academy in Riga, as well as the curatorial program at Stockholm University. Since 2021, he is also the editor of Ord&Bild along with Ann Ighe.
Martina Hoogland Ivanow is an artist working with photography, film, light montage, and sound. An interest in what is complex and contradictory runs as a common thread through her works, where the photographic process becomes an exploration of our often dualistic nature and a documentation of how the self relates to the outside world. Her latest work and exhibition, With Eyes Sensitive to Green, is showing at Galleri Duerr until 23/9.