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Artists in Quarantine

Introduction

The museum confederation L'Internationale has invited a broad range of artists to share from their present working and living spaces, from their current conditions of confinement, their readings, reflections and proposals on the current situation, with many suggesting new perspectives on public/private space, solidarity and critique that are intrinsically connected with the present time.

Sanja Iveković

Sanja Iveković, Trokut (Triangle), 1979. Polyptych consisting of four photographs and a text. Edition/serial number: 4/5. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

In 1979, on the day of Yugoslav President Tito’s visit to Zagreb, the artist Sanja Iveković carried out an 18-minute performance titled Trokut (Triangle, 1979) on her balcony: she went out and started to read a book, drink a whisky, and made gestures as if she was masturbating until a security official arrived and ordered her inside. Do such domestic spaces still have the potential to be subversive and make a public statement, as Ivekovic's balcony did in the late 1970s?

During this time of global isolation, virtual space, as well as the windows, balconies or façades of our homes, has taken on the role and importance of town squares for collective expression, while also blurring the boundaries between public and private spheres. The project Artists in Quarantine, devised to be shared on social media, is a modest way to contribute to the conversation about the effects of the current pandemic, using these channels of digital communication to also rethink the potential of existing spaces.

From 21 April, every Tuesday and Thursday an artist’s proposal will be disseminated on the social media accounts of L'Internationale and the museums belonging to the confederation, with each work hosted on their respective websites.


The project Our Many Europes is organised by the L’Internationale museum confederation and co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme. L'Internationale comprises seven major European art institutions: Moderna galerija (MG+MSUM, Ljubljana, Slovenia); Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain); MACBA, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Spain); Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium); Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie (Warsaw, Poland), SALT (Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey) and Van Abbemuseum (VAM, Eindhoven, Netherlands), and collaborates in the project with the HDK-Valand Academy (Gothenburg, Sweden) and the National College of Art and Design (NCAD, Dublin, Ireland). Together, these institutions will present a programme with over 40 public activities (lectures, exhibitions, workshops) until May 2022.

Organised by:

Museo Reina Sofía y L’Internationale

Inside the framework of:

Our Many Europes

Posts:

Tuesdays and Thursdays from 21 April

Social media: 

Instagram
Facebook

Artists:

Babi Badalov, Osman Bozkurt, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Ola Hassanain, Sanja Iveković, Siniša Labrović, Rogelio López Cuenca y Elo Vega, Kate Newby, Daniela Ortiz, Zeyno Pekünlü, Maja Smrekar, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, Guy Woueté, Akram Zaatari and Paweł Żukowski