Utopia research

UTOPIA research

2009-11 

ARKEN’s international three-year exhibition project UTOPIA launched 6 February 2009 with the exhibition UTOPIA: Qiu Anxiong. The project is anchored in a strong and dynamic research practice that can further research in contemporary art and museology at an international level.

World-class large-scale work
Once a year an international contemporary artist or artist group creates a spectacular world-class large-scale work for ARKEN’s unique exhibition space, The Art Axis. A work that raises questions of the good life and the good society, and reaches out to anybody who wants to join the debate. What do we want with each other? What do you expect from the society of the future? What do you dream of?
Read more about UTOPIA: Qiu Anxiong

Research
The research in Utopia is to contribute to the exhibitions, to the accompanying research-based articles, as well as to the realisation of an international conference at ARKEN in 2011. The research is to analyse the connections between the project’s different fields of experience – art theory, communication, involvement of the public and museology. It is to contribute continuously to the realisation of the exhibition projects and analyse the knowledge brought forth by our activities in communication and outreach.

ARKEN has attached postdoc Camilla Jalving to the project to define the theoretical, museological, sociological or cultural historical bases of the research, in close collaboration with the project group, actively participate in the project’s inclusion of media and local communities, and unfold these experiences within the general framework of the project; the utopia from collective utopia to individual dream.


UTOPIA is supported by