As the guest of honor of the 2010 Budapest Spring Festival, Denmark will not only bring royal sounds, classical moves, Andersen tales and ground-breaking acting but an exhibition titled Power Games, which aims to raise awareness of certain social and political issues and explore the role of contemporary art as a channel of interpretation and processing.
The opening piece of the collection is the work of Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, titled When a Country Falls in Love with Itself showing Denmark’s national symbol, the little mermaid staring not at the sea, but herself in a mirror. This delicate artistic twist covers a range of pressing political and social questions of our times. Exploring issues of national identity, tolerance, nationalism, and their reflections in contemporary societies as well as history and different kinds of remembrances through striking masterpieces, the exhibition perfectly fits into the festival’s objective of encouraging people, via art, to take more social responsibility. Expect light installations, photo collections, films and a project involving more than 50 traffic boards.
Exhibiting artists and art groups: Bosch & Fjord, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Tue Greenfort, Jens Haaning, Ann Lislegaard, Tanja Nellemann Poulsen, Katya Sander, Superflex
Ann Lislegaard
Slamming the Front Door (after A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen)
Courtesy of the artist and the Galerie Paul Andriesse
Power Games Exhibition
Through May 30
Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell utca 1.
Open: Tue. – Sun. 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
Tel.: +36.1.555.3444 and +36.1.555.3458
www.ludwigmuseum.hu