Open Studio - Trondheim kunstmuseum

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Photo: Lili Zaneta/TKM.

This room presents the artworks in a fictive studio interior, bringing some back to the level of artistic proposal, experiment or idea. Others are used as decorations or props in this cozy setting, making them drift in and out of character, in and out of belonging together.

In his exhibition Collection at Trondheim kunstmuseum in 2015, Martin Tebus arranged the museum’s collection according to 18 different themes. Some themes mimicked a conceptual, abstract approach - Food in Context and Interiors and How to Use Them - some grouped artworks based on details or elements in them - Full Moon in Motion and The Year of the Horse - others created a kind of staged interiors using artworks - Street Life and Open Studio - and yet others showed the number and diversity of large categories in our collection such as figure painting and portraiture - Looks and Postures - and landscapes in Hiking and The River.

Characteristics of Martin Tebus’s approach are a perceptive eye for content and visual elements, and a playful irreverence in staging new uses, categories and scenarios for the artworks.

Learning from the artist

With the new presentation, the museum wants to make use of the knowledge that artists bring with when meeting our collection. Thus, new paths in art history shall be created — a multi-perspective, dynamic, and multi-voiced narrative of art histories. In other words: The museum learns from the artists.

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