Bukowskis presents Klara Lidén at Contemporary Art & Design
Klara Lidén
”Untitled (Trashcans)”
Klara Lidén (b. 1979) is an artist who has truly broken through, and is now regularly exhibited internationally. Galleries in Berlin, London and New York represent her and she has already had several important museum exhibitions, including a solo show at the New Museum in New York, curated by Massimiliano Gioni of the Venice Biennale. Furthermore her work has been shown at the Serpentine Gallery in London, at MoMa in New York, at Jeu de Paume and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and at the Venice Biennale.
› Mixed media. Height 74 cm, diameter 54,5 cm. Estimate 150 000 – 200 000 SEK.
In November 2013, Klara Lidén was awarded the prestigious Friends of Moderna Museet Sculpture Prize. The jury’s statement read as follows:
”Klara Lidén is an artist who explores with precision the poetic and political possibilities of a space. Her sculptural works involve the body, architecture and the city in their examinations of the limits of the public and the private. In several worldwide exhibitions, she has successfully extracted surprising artistic energies from everyday materials and spaces.”
Both in her films and her installations, we encounter an artist who refuses to exist in a mundane system and who refuses to be engulfed by societal and cultural structures. She de-constructs and re-constructs. She removes something from its context and gives it a new dwelling in another place.
Klara Lidén’s work was shown at Moderna Museet for the first time in 2007. She called her exhibition “Unheimlich Manöver”. What she did was empty her flat of its entire contents. Everything was packed and pressed into a gigantic mass, which was then displayed at the museum.
After her big international breakthrough, including a special mention at the 2011 Venice Biennale, where she exhibited the auction's “(Untitled) Trashcan”, Lidén had her second exhibition at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. This time she blocked the entrance to the exhibition space, forcing the visitors to go back through the main entrance instead. In order to access the rooms where a comprehensive retrospective exhibition was laid out, enter by a side door. Through seemingly simple methods she guides the viewer down new tracks, often making us realise, with humour and a sense of blushing shame, what creatures of habit we are and how easy it is to upset what we expect of the world around us.
There is a strong sense of vulnerability and honesty in Lidén’s work; without playing games, she displaces perspectives and ingrained ideas. It is about the private sphere versus the public, the normative versus the provocative – both in art and society.
To be sold at Contemporary Art & Design.
Viewing October 21 – 25, Berzelii Park 1, Stockholm
Auction Live October 26, Arsenalsgatan 2, Stockholm
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