Ministry Blog

A short note from the desk of the Minister. Official Exhibition Video is now up and running at YouTube. We are building and preparing every day now for the opening at Sunday kl 13 (1 p.m.) local time Eslöv Town Museum (Eslövs Stadsmuseum).

Officiell teaser för femte delen av Konstforskningsprojektet ARKIV - Eslöv By The Sea. Del 5 har nått fram till Eslöv, Filosofin och Religionen. Utställningen visas på Eslövs Stadsmuseum från 29 november till 28 februari. Underrubriken för del 5 är “Spinoza kom aldrig till Eslöv”.

Svensk videoversion.

The official teaser for the upcoming ARCHIVE-exhibition. Part 5 in the project is coming up. It will be shown at the Eslöv Town Museum starting November 29. The Art research project has now arrived at the subject of religion and philosophy with the subtitle “Spinoza Never Made it to Eslöv”.

English version video.

A short teaser for the upcoming ARCHIVE-exhibition. Part 5 in the project is coming up. It will be shown at the Eslöv Town Museum starting November 28. The Art research project has now reached the subject of religion and philosophy. The subtitle this time is “Spinoza Never Made it to Eslöv”.

Preparations and research are being done for the fifth part of the art-project ARCHIVE - Eslöv By The Sea. Part V is about Eslöv and the religion, or actually Eslöv and the philosophy. Religion and philosophy is interconnected and we can’t consider the one without considering the other. The subtitle for the fifth part is “Spinoza never made it to Eslöv”. More stunning finds from the unknown history of Eslöv will be presented, as in the previous exhibition. Part V will be exhibited in the magnificent Eslöv Town Museum and the opening night is planned for November 28. More about this later.

Todays documentation flashback is a new video from an exhibition in may this year (2009). The exhibition was made in cooperation with the Eslöv Culture School and was a theme exhibition named “Heaven & Hell”. The video takes us on a quick trip through the exhibition entering into and moving through Hell before we reach Heaven…

Todays documentation flashback is a new gallery from the ARCHIVE-project. In 2007 the fourth part of the ARCHIVE Project was presented on the Eslöv Biennale. ARCHIVE IV was a whole new exhibition in the project containing artefact’s/ objects.

After telling the story about how people during the 1700’s and 1800’s used to travel to their contemporary cultural pinnacle, to Eslöv. ARCHIVE IV concentrated on telling the story of the Eslöv globetrotters that roamed the known world and spreading the Eslöv culture to more or less every corner of the globe. Once again did the research further strengthen the thesis that Eslöv once was the Cultural Capital of the Western world; that Eslöv once was the cultural cradle for the modern Western civilization that we know today.

Todays documentation flashback is from a “button-exhibition” in Malmoe called Push Buttons. The curator for the group exhibition was possessed by the little buttons that surrounds us these days, when we live in the age of the push button. Everything can be taken care of by a simple push of a button. The Minister of Art was invited to the exhibition and showed amongst other a range of “power-buttons”. A type of buttons we perhaps might wish was never invented. Buttons for nuclear-bombs, from nuclear-plants and tanks and some more…  On the opening night that Minister also shouldered the mantle of a guard that kept an eye of the crowd. Some of the buttons were very rare and the only thing that made the owner loan them to the exhibition was the fact that they could not be left unguarded, at any time. The rest of the exhibition time they had to be represented by photos only. The opening night was the only time for the audience to experience the buttons physically (and the physical guard as well). Some of the buttons made a strong impact on the audience and they reacted very strongly. Others in the audience clearly had a problem with uniformed men… It was a sucessful exhibition in the sense that it provoked feelings and reations from the audience (which to be honest not many exhibitions do…).

Exhibition flash-back. A joint venture in Malmoe with the crack-pot Klas Eriksson. Why is that the warnings-signs around us aren’t that interesting? And the one’s that really are important seems to be missing.

The last chance to see the H2-exhibition at Eslövs Stadsmuseum. H2 is a theme exhibition with the theme “Heaven & Hell”. Come monday next week the exhibition is gone. Hurry, hurry!

Here’s a few pix from the exhibition.