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Several different factors have meant that cities around the world have experienced an accelerating development. Information technologies and the rapid development of the global market have made previously isolated parts of the world part of the global development. This new global situation can best be described as massive demographic change with immigration and a global circulation of capital and culture that has not previously been possible to imagine.
1 / 4 Ackroyd And Harvey, Vester Allé 7, 2017. Foto: Anders Sune Berg.
The works in The Present have in common that they investigate how we relate to this situation and, in consequence, to nature today, and how nature can transform itself directly into art. The exhibition will include works by Cyprien Gaillard, Ismar Cirkinagic, Elmgreen and Dragset, as well as Fujiko Nakaya.
The curatorial team from ARoS consists of Erlend G. Høyersten (Chief Executive Officer of the Triennial), Lise Pennington (Chief Inspector), Jakob Vengberg Sevel (curator), Marie Nipper (external curator), Anne Mette Thomsen (Exhibition Coordinator) and Ellen Drude Skeel Langvold Exhibition coordinator).
THE GARDEN – End of Times; Beginning of Times er støttet af Aarhus 2017.