Stilleben at Projekt 0047, Berlin
26.11. – 04.12 2005
PROJEKT 0047
Tieckstraße 10 
10115 Berlin 
U6 Oranienburger Tor
www.projekt0047.com

23 different artists have been invited to contribute with a story of a bouquet once received or given away and also the description of the composition of flowers. This is the basis upon which Rakett has reconstructed the bouquets, presenting them with their respective stories.

The contributions range from highly personal experiences of loss of a close person to conceptual or more formal approaches to the given task.

The project is our interpretation of the classical Stilleben known from the different periods of art history where flowers were and still are, often used as a motive. Often carrying a symbolic value and being a reminder of the vanity of life and beauty. The exhibition will last for ten days, leaving time for the flowers to blossom and wither. In the reconstruction we have tried to be as true to the descriptions as possible, but seasonal variations makes the originals impossible to reconstruct, leaving us with the limitations of the current flower-market of the time of year.

We have invited artists working in different media from painting, installation, video, photo, sound or text, but for this occasion with the given format: flowers.

Rakett / Åse Løvgren & Karolin Tampere

The artists:
Lars Vilks(se), Jeremy Welsh(uk), Josefine Lyche(no), Michael Baers(us), Annette Kjærulf(no), Tony Huang(us), Laura Anderson Barbata(mex), Andres Lôo(est), Christel Sverre(no), Marina Ivaschenko(ru), Sixten Therkildsen(dk), Johanna Gustavsson Fürst(se), Gunnhildur Hauksdottir(is), Terje Øverås(no), Vilde Von Krogh(no), Bo Krister Wallström(se), Anne Szefer Karlsen(no), Terje Nicholaisen(no), Charlotte Pedersen(dk), Lars Morell(no), Mai H Gunnes(no), Geir Tore Holm & Søssa Jørgensen(no) and Anu Vahtra(est)
www.projekt0047.com 

This exhibition is kindly supported by Sparebanken Vest