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Office for Contemporary Art Norway opens large-scale group exhibition at Kunstnernes Hus
'Actions of Art and Solidarity', installation view. Photo: Vegard Kleven. Courtesy of Kunstnernes Hus/OCA.
OSLO
.- Solidarity has re-entered the global zeitgeist with resounding force in the last decade. It has driven new thinking focused on countering systemic failures and outright abuses related to climate, economy, surveillance, health, gender and race amongst other issues. Actions of Art and Solidarity considers the central role that artists play within this historical shift in the new millennium, drawing parallels to synergic cases of the twentieth century.
Office for Contemporary Art Norways large-scale group exhibition Actions of Art and Solidarity presents 76 works by artists, activists, collectives and thinkers from around the world, including Norway, catalysing cultural, socio-political and environmental solidarity across different geographies and contexts from the 1950s to the present day. Looking back in time and forward into the future, the exhibition displays artists extraordinary ability to narrate and build empathy around fundamental global conflicts and injustices, and provide the radical imaginaries of care and solidarity that can stimulate their resolution. The venue, Kunstnernes Hus (The Artists House, Oslo) has a symbolic value, since the institution has played a recurrent part in Norways own contribution to artistic solidaritiesfrom presenting Pablo Picassos Guernica in 1938 during its international solidarity tour, to organising exhibitions of solidarity with other parts of the world. It also presents central instances of Norwegian solidarity artistic practices, as well as new works especially commissioned for the exhibition.