Exhibition PAN-BARENTZ

27 February 2009, Oslo

Friday
18:00
at 0047 (Schweigaarsgt, 34d, Oslo)

15 years after the Barents Region was launched as a new spatial entity in the High North, the exhibition PAN-BARENTZ invites you to explore the Barents identity at the crossroad of art, architecture, urbanism and politics.
PAN-BARENTZ present a series of statements, investigations, readings and interpretations made by artists and architects on and of identity in the Barents region.

We cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition PAN-BARENTZ!
Opening by Minister of Culture Trond Giske.

Architect teams:
0047 (Oslo), BuroMoscow (Moscow), NORD (Copenhagen), Dept. of Urban Design and Planning NTNU (Trondheim), Testbedstudio (Stockholm).
Artists:
Blue Noses (Viacheslav Mizin, Alexander Shaburov) (Moscow), Contemporary Santa Claus Artist Association (Eemil Karila & Kalle Lampela) (Rovaniemi – Berlin), Olga & Alexander Florensky (St Petersburg), Håkon Jensen (Tromsø), Svein Flygari Johansen (Oslo), Eemil Karila & Julija Goyd (Berlin), Los Torreznos (Rafael Lamata & Jaime Vallaure) (Madrid), Joar Nango (Trondheim), Andreas Nilsson & Mikel Cee Karlsson (Malmö), The Painting & Drawing Society (Olga and Alexander Florensky, Alexander Dashevsky, Irina Zatulovskaya), Amund Sjølie Sveen (Oslo), Antti Tenetz (Rovaniemi), Stian Ådlandsvik (Oslo).

Curated by Luba Kuzovnikova (Pikene på Broen), Øystein Rø
and Espen Røyseland (0047).

Live on stage 20:00:
«Sailors´ Songs» by Alexander Skliar and Rushan Ayupov,
performance USB by Amund S. Sveen.

Have you ever played basketball with Thorvald Stoltenberg, Vegard Ulvang, Yury Gagarin or Santa Claus? You have a chance to do it at the exhibition Pan-Barentz. Have you traveled to and between Kirkenes and Nikel, Kiruna and Narvik, Tornio and Haparanda? Come here to see how these towns cooperate across the borders. Would you like to test yourself as a strategy-maker for the oil and mining industries in the High North? Barents-challenges are waiting for you at the game-table. What takes to create a balance between petroleum and fishery industries? What is a Barents town? What do we have in common up here in the Barents Region that became a playground for geopolitical and economic stakeholders? Together with artists and architects we invite you to discuss these and other issues. The exhibition is meant to be a traveling discussion forum that builds up the image of our future – the regional identity of our future represented by artistic and urbanistic statements.

The exhibition is opened from Feb 27 to March 15.
Exhibition tour (2009 – 2010): Oslo – Tromsø – Murmansk – Rovaniemi – Helsinki – Moskva.

Book Release:
Northern Experiments – The Barents Urban Survey 2009 is a collaborative effort to discuss selected key cities and urban phenomena in the Barents Region. The project is directed by 0047 in co-operation with The Barents Art Triennale and Pikene på Broen.
Northern Experiments – The Barents Urban Survey 2009 includes projects by BuroMoscow, NORD, Testbedstudio, Department of Urban Design and Planning, NTNU and 0047. Texts by Alexander Sverdlov, Morten Strøksnes, Aileen Espíritu, Joar Nango, Magnus Jørgensen, Gert Gundersen, Dennis Zalamans and Gisle Løkken.

Exhibition PAN-BARENTZ is part of the III Barents Art Triennale produced by Pikene på Broen (Kirkenes) in cooperation with 0047 (Oslo), the University of Lapland (Rovaniemi), Koncentrat (Kiruna) and Anadolu Kultur (Istanbul). The III Barents Art Triennale also includes Barents Urban Survey, site-specific artworks in Kirkenes, Murmansk, Petrozavodsk, Kiruna and Kars i Turkey, workshops, and an international conference in Kirkenes.
www.panbarentz.com

The project is supported by EU Culture program 2007-2013, Norwegian Ministry of Culture, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norwegian Arts Council, KORO, Kulturkontakt Nord, Barents Secretariat, BarentsKult, Fritt Ord, Husbanken.

For more info, please, contact:
Luba Kuzovnikova (Pikene på Broen)
91 68 17 41
luba@pikene.no

Øystein Rø (0047)
41 16 16 23
oystein@projekt0047.com
www.0047.org