Ronneby 2011: Kitchen Events and Chinese Ink Painting

Ronneby 2011: Kitchen Events and Chinese Ink Painting

The kitchen as a political arena. The kitchen as the heart of the home. Ronneby Kulturcentrum displays Chinese/Swedish art project “Händelser i Kök” this January.

The second time the five Chinese and five Swedish artist from the Logbook project meet, it is to explore and compare the world, the life, the idea that is “kitchen”. The art project and art by modern Chinese artists using the classical Chinese art form Ink Painting will be shown in Ronneby Jan-Feb 2011.

In the exhibition Kitchen Events the artists work from an everyday, personal basis, but at the same time with the possibility to extend to political and moral reflections on food, environment, about how food is produced, etc.

Arrangers are Ronneby Municipality and ArtsNordica.
Read more about: Kitchen Events in Mariannelund 2010

Exhibition Information
Kulturcentrum (Culture Centre) in Ronneby. 29 Jan – 27 March 2011.

Exhibition opening: 29 January 2011. (Further details later.)

Artists / Project Participants
Annika D Almén
Fu Li Ya (甫立亚)
Eva Källander
Jiang Jing(姜静)
Gudrun Westerlund
Lei Yan(雷燕)
Kristina Jansson
Shen Qin(沈沁)
Ragnhild Brodow
Tao Yini(陶宜妮)

and

Luo Jianhua(罗建华) – ink painting
Liu Lifen(刘丽芬) – ink painting

A Red Track in Småland

Photo suites Frozen Red and Frozen Youth. Installation How Should I Protect You. Textile sculptures. Ice/snow installation.

A Red Track in Småland

Kunming Artist Lei Yan’s art exhibition “The Red Track” will be displayed in Eksjö Museum, Sweden in early 2011, as well as in Mariannelund with outdoor snow/ice installation “Frozen Youth”.

Exhibition Opening in Eksjö at January 15. Outdoor installation grand inauguration February 5 in Mariannelund. Further details, see below.
Exhibition details
Exhibition: “The Red Track”
Venue: Eksjö Museum
Time: 15.1 – 17.2 2011, Tues-Fri 13-17, Sat-Sun 11-15.
Opening: Saturday 15.1 at 13:00.

Exhibition: “The Red Track” – Frozen Youth Installation
Venue: Mariannelund Konsthall
Time: 5.2 – 5.3 2011. Outdoor installation.
Opening event with program: Saturday 5.2
Welcome!

This event is co-sponsored by Eksjö Municipality and Jönköping County Council and arranged by Eksjö Museum, Mariannelunds Konsthall and TCG Nordica/ArtsNordica.
Lei Yan first visited Sweden in 2005 through the ArtsNordica project Logbook. Since then, art by this former soldier and artist in the Chinese Red Army has been exhibited in Sweden at a number of occations. She is also one of the central artists in ArtsNordica/ TCG Nordica’s Chinese network and the Västra Götaland grantee 2007.
Lei Yan is also one of the artists who participate in the larger art dialogue project “Bridges”, between a group of Swedish and Chinese Artists 2010-2011.

Read more in the BRIDGES project description

photos from the exhibition:

Woodcut delegation to Sweden

Woodcut delegation to Sweden

Representatives from Simao Teacher’s College, China, visit Sweden for a week in Sep-Oct 2010 to develop further cooperation with Hyllie Park Folkhögskola and relief printing group Xylon.

The delegation from Simao Teacher’s college, famous for it´s art/woodcut departement, consists of Mrs Xue Jingmei, professor and vice president, Mr Ma Li, ass. professor and director of the Research Center of Reduction Woodcut Print, Mr Zhang Xiaochun, ass. professor and director of the Collage Art Museum and Mr Chen Yong, ass. professor and director of International Affairs Department. Mrs Du Wei, professor and president of the College, was unfortunately forced to cancel her visit due to health issues.

The delegation arrived in Copenhagen September 25, and leaves October 1 from Stockholm.

In Skåne, meetings were held at Hyllie Park Folkhögskola. The delegation also visited art school Östra Grevie Folkhögskola and the artist´s culture workshop at Malmö Teacher College, together with Hyllie Park/ArtsNordica representatives. In Stockholm, the delegation’s program is arranged by Xylon society chairman Chun Lee Wang Gurt.
Simao district in South Yunnan is famous for it’s unique traditional woodcut printing technique and Simao Teacher’s College is one of the few places in the world where the technique is being passed on to a new generation of students. Some of the teachers at the college are well-known national artists in China.

Xylon is an international relief printing artist’s society started in the 1940′s in Belgium. The Swedish branch consists of over 40 artists who work with relief printing as their artistic medium.

Background story

Simao Teacher College´s relationship with TCG Nordica, Kunming, and ArtsNordica, Scandinavia, was initiated in 2005 in Simao and in 2007, TCG Nordica presented a woodcut print exhibition with works by students and teachers from the school.

In 2007 TCG Nordica also hosted one of the exhibitions in an exhibition series in different countries by relief printing artist society Xylon, and facilitated a relationship between the Xylon group and Simao Teacher College.

The following year, 2008, Swedish artist Janeric Johansson held an exhibition at the college, arranged through TCG Nordica. The same year, the XYLON group took part in ArtsNordica’s FOLK-08 art festival in Mariannelund, Sweden, with a large exhibition at one of the eight exhibition venues.

Now in 2010, a delegation from Simao Teacher’s College is visiting Sweden to develop further cooperation possibilities with Hyllie Park Folkhögskola and Xylon.

via: http://www.artsnordica.com/?page=4ca069bc23e27

Kitchen Events

Lei Yan’s sketch for the project

Kitchen Events

Five Chinese and five Swedish artists meet again after five years.

Last time they worked over a three-year period on a project called Logbook. They exchanged hand-made “logbooks” during one year, which they filled with images and texts about themselves, their different countries and cultures, everyday things and world events. Then they made an exhibitions in both TCG Nordica China, and at Uppsala Museum in Sweden.

In the exhibition Kitchen Events the artists proceed to work from an everyday, personal basis, but at the same time with the possibility to extend to political and moral reflections on food, environment, about how food is produced, etc. The Kitchen as a political arena.
The kitchen as the heart of the home. What can not happen in a kitchen? Stories from childhood and upbringing, from families, stories of controversy and joy. Did the kitchen have a different function in the artists two different cultures?

The outer frame and the main installation will be a long, set table with ten sections. Every artist is responsible for her part, with her own tablecloth and with secrets under serving cups, which the audience can lift in order to see what lies underneath.

The artists thought it was so rewarding, thought-provoking and not at least fun to work with artists from another culture. Getting to know them despite language difficulties, to discover many similarities, and to be able to meet in this way, through work, is a fantastic experience. The arts unite! Their contact did not end when the Logbook project ended, but the artists have kept in touch, though sporadically, by e-mail since then. With the exhibition Kitchen Events these ten artists want to reconnect and consolidate their friendship.

Participating artists:
Swedish: Annica Danielsson Almén, Eva Källander, Gudrun Westerlund, Kristina Jansson, Ragnhild Brodow
Chinese: Fu Liya(甫立亚), Jiang Jing(姜静), Lei Yan(雷燕), Shen Qin(沈沁), Tao Yini(陶宜妮)

Webste of Kitchen Events: http://konstomat.tumblr.com/handelserikok (Swedish only, and you need proxy for visiting in mainland China)