June 18 - August 15 2010
At its Lower Gallery, Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, presents the first Danish solo exhibition by internationally renowned French-Algerian and London based artist Zineb Sedira. In her visually and technically impressive works she investigates the complex senses of belonging that arise out of people crossing borders and developing parallel national and transnational ties. Her video installations and photos raise questions concerning identity, memory, uprootedness and migration.
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Kick Off - Contemporary Art and Football
April 22 - August 8 2010
Opening reception on Wednesday April 21 2010, 5-7pm
In the year of the 2010 World Cup, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center
presents KICK OFF, an exhibition about art and football.
In critical and imaginative ways a select group of international artists will offer extraordinary perspectives on football's spectacular finals and scandals, its colourful fan culture and outrageous hooliganism, the massive mediatisation and branding, the rules of the game and the creativity of the players, and not least the long-lasting power of football to fascinate us, saturating the lives of millions of people. As Spanish author Mario Vargas Llosa famously noted, football means everything and nothing. Football both transcends and reinforces social, national and cultural borders, on and off the pitch, and thus functions equally as an escape and a mirror.
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