BAC- EXHIBITIONS

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Moderna Museet c/o BAC 2003.02.01–02.23 Baltic Art Center will from the first of February show a selection from the Moderna Museet collection of film and video. Historical film classics combined with current new acquisitions will give a unique opportunity to scan the 20th century right up to the latest currents in present-day video art. A second exhibition opens March 8. Baltic Art Center has asked the artist Annica Karlsson Rixon to choose a selection of Moderna Museet works with an emphasis on feminism and gender issues. More information

Warte Mal! by Ann-Sofi Sidén 2003.03.09–05.04 During 2003 parts of the collection from Moderna Museet (Modern Museum of Art, Stockholm) is touring Sweden. And now the exhibition has come to BAC and here Ann-Sofi Sidén’s much acclaimed video installation Warte Mal! is shown. The installation documents the prostitution and the trafficking of young women across the German-Czech border. In a manner close to journalism Sidén reveals and shows the connection between prostitution and the disintegration of Eastern Europe. Today, three years later, Warte Mal! is no less important. Quite the contrary. Apart from Warte Mal! a selection of photographs from Moderna Museet’s collection of photos by Christer Strömholm, Anders Petersen, Tore Johnson, Walter Hirsch and Hans Malmberg are shown. The selections are made by the artist Annica Karlsson Rixon. More information

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE JOURNEY TO THE MOON and SEVEN FRAGMENTS FOR GEORGES MÉLIÈS (plus DAY FOR NIGHT) 6 june– 31 august This body of new work is the result of an ongoing dialogue between William Kentridge and curator Lynne Cooke about using the exhibition space as a laboratory, or even a surrogate studio, in which to experiment with sketches/studies that collectively create a composite work made of parts and fragments. More information

JAN HÅFSTRÖM The perpetual return 20 september – 9 november With this exhibition at the Baltic Art Center, Jan Håfström closes a circle. The exhibition includes a large number of his earliest works, children’s drawings in comic book format. The Phantom is the obvious centerpiece. This good hero is deputy to the Sunday School Jesus or to the father figure who is continuously en route to new adventures. But when the Phantom returns now he is more complicated and multifaceted. A good person can conceal an evil person, which is the case with Walker. He conceals Joseph Conrad’s Kurtz, colonialism and our western attitude. More information

ADRIAN PACI A Toll on Rituals 22 November - 8 February Albanian artist Adrian Paci showed new works at Baltic Art Center, including one work produced especially for the exhibition. Films that from a personal point of view looks at issues as belonging, life and death, but also engages in a discussion about migration, the role of the artist and artistic values. The end of the dictatorship brought in Albania a situation where freedom and anarchy were mixed together. Paci points out that in a situation where planned economy became replaced with an unrestrained market economy everything is for sale, also the rituals. More information