We are opening the doors to three new exhibitions. In addition, there will be live music, DJs, an open workshop and Gotthards Krog, serves food and drinks during the evening. Free entrance!
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ART FRIDAY
OPENING: DOWN NORTH / CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE ARCTIC
OPENING: I CUT ACROSS THE STREAM / UMEÅ ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS
OPENING: SWEDISH PICTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR / THE WOUND
LIVE: DREAMING WILD
DJ: ANNIKA NORLIN
OPEN WORKSHOP
FOOD AND DRINKS BY GOTTHARDS
FREE ENTRANCE
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12.00 Bildmuseet opens.
17.00-00.00 - Floor 0
Art Friday from 5 p.m. Art mingle on all floors. DJ's, after work, bar. Gotthard’s opens the serving at 16.00.
17.00-22.00 - Floor 0
Open workshop. Draw with charcoal and oil crayons, inspired by works from I Cut across the Stream / Umeå Academy of fine Arts.
17.00-17.30 - Floor 2
Inauguration of the Swedish Picture Book of the Year / The Wound.
Brita Täljedal talks to the artist Emma AdBåge. The talk will be followed by a book signing.
18.00-18.30 - Floor 3
Inauguration of I Cut across the Stream. Inauguration speeches and presentations. Participating are museum director Katarina Pierre, Per Nilsson, Associate professor at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, and Kristina Buch, professor, Principal supervisor of the 2023 MFA graduating cohort.
19.00-19.30 - Floor 6
Inauguration of Down North. Inauguration speeches and presentations. Participating are museum director Katarina Pierre, Anders Jansson museum curator Bildmuseet, Jamie DeSimone, Portland Museum of Art, Markús Þór Andrésson, Reykjavik Art Museum.
20.00-20.45 - Floor 6
Artist presentations in Down North. Some of the artists present their artwork. Participants include Arngunnur Ýr, Johan Martin Christiansen, Anders Sunna, Katarina Pirak Sikku, D'Arcy Wilson, Mattias Olofsson, Gideonsson/Londré, Peter Soriano, Hans Rosenström.
The presentations are led by the exhibition's curators Jamie DeSimone, Markús Þór Andrésson, and Anders Jansson.
21.00-21.45 - Floor 3
Performance in the exhibition I Cut across the Stream / Umeå Academy of Arts.
22.00 – 23.00 - Floor 0
Concert with Dreaming Wild.
23.00 – 00.00 - Floor 0
DJ Bottenvikens Silverkyrka.
00.00 Thanks for tonight
The evening's menu is served by Gotthards Krog from 16.00:
DONBURI SEK 185
Sweet and hot salmon
Brown rice, Gotland lentils, funky Korean carrot, sour red cabbage, and Gotthard's chili mayo.
DONBURI (veg) SEK 165
Smokey tofu
Brown rice, Gotland lentils, funky Korean carrot, sour red cabbage, and Gotthard's chili mayo.
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DOWN NORTH / CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE ARCTIC
Our northern region is emerging as more important than ever before. Areas previously seen as peripheral are leading a societal transformation that will shape our common future. The exhibition Down North presents works by thirty contemporary artists from Canada, Denmark, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and the United States, as well as from Sápmi and other indigenous nations in the Arctic regions. They explore the critical issues of our time and use art as a catalyst for change.
I CUT ACROSS THE STREAM / UMEÅ ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS
The degree show at Bildmuseet is the culmination of five years of study in fine art and a time of intensive work, research, and discussion. Participating artists: Oliver Bugge, Linn Byrkjeland, Noa Costas Martín, Gideon Eillert, Emie // Eva-Marie Elg, Therése Hurtig, Kiril Prikazcik, Eric Seppas, Rebecca Sharp, Fredrik Zanichelli, Anna Zingmark, Jo Öqvist.
SWEDISH PICTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR / THE WOUND
The Wound by Emma AdBåge is a book about getting hurt, sustaining a wound and suddenly finding yourself the centre of attention. The blood is scary, but at the same time, the attention is a bit wonderful. The exhibition at Bildmuseet presents original drawings and sketches for the book, and you can hear Emma AdBåge talk about how t it came about.
DREAMING WILD
Common to almost all good music is the ability to build a world within the world. A self-sufficient cosmos where even the most private is transformed into something universal – a place where everything is connected. The debuting Umeå duo Dreaming Wild has been granted an enviable amount of this special power. In their warm melancholic sound world, old lovers, friends, and lost plans are portrayed with a rare honesty. Dreaming Wild consists of Kajsa Bergsten (Masshysteri, INVSN, Honungsvägen) and Daniel Berglund (Säkert!, Isolation Years, Honungsvägen)
