Pia Arke Arctic Hysteria
In the organizer's words:
KW, in collaboration with John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (UK), presents the first solo exhibition of the artist Pia Arke (1958-2007) outside of Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) and the Nordic countries.
From the late 1980s to the early 2000s, Pia Arke mapped the complicated relationships between time, memory, space, identity and myth in images of and from Greenland. As the daughter of a Greenlandic mother and a Danish father, she incorporated biographical components of her own complex history. In Arke's own words, her paintings are about the silence that surrounds the connections between Greenland and Denmark and how she herself was born into this silence. Arke consciously moves back and forth between the roles of artist, ethnographer and researcher, drawing on various historical, folkloric and archival sources. She is considered a pioneer of decolonialist discourse in the Nordic countries and the Arctic and continues to influence it today.
The title Arctic Hysteria is taken from an influential series of works by Pia Arke. The exhibition brings together photographic, sculptural, performative and literary works as well as works on paper by the artist. It explores the narratives in Arke's works, which revolve around the colonial relationship between Greenland and Denmark, also to initiate a discussion about persisting colonial structures in general. Although Arke's artistic practice emerged from the connection between the two countries, it unfolds as a structural feminist critique. Arctic Hysteria is dedicated to Arke's methods mediated through the body, in particular her use of performative strategies such as montage, staging and restaging, with which she attempted to create a sense of belonging and critical self-reflection.
The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive publication with new texts that discuss various aspects of Arke's practice in an international discourse, focusing on voices from contemporary feminist research.
Price information:
Tickets can only be purchased on site and by card payment. The following cards are accepted: Girocard, Mastercard, VISA, Maestro, VISA Electron and ApplePay. Regular €10 / Reduced €6 Berlin Welcome Card holders €6 / Reduced €4.50 Reduction applies to school pupils, students, those doing federal voluntary service, BBK members, ALG 1 recipients, trainees, holders of the volunteer card and severely disabled persons (at least 50 % MdE) on presentation of proof. Free admission up to and including 18 years, for friends of KW and Berlin Biennale and KW Lover* every Thursday evening from 6-9 pm for all visitors every 1st Sunday of the month as part of Museum Sunday Berlin. Please book a ticket in advance via the booking system. Some tickets are available on site. Proof of eligibility holders (formerly berlinpass), recipients of ALG II matriculated students of the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin and Berlin University of the Arts ICOM members Museumsbund members
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