We haven't opened yet, but we are working on it and we are doing our best to meet your expectations…
BANK, Nina Beier, Jack Goldstein, Louise Lawler, Cameron Rowland, Sung Tieu, and Danh Vo.
Opening February 1st
4pm - 7pm
Curated By Jacob Fabricius
We haven't opened yet, but we are working on it and we are doing our best to meet your expectations… is an exhibition about Public Relations also known as the art of announcing and describing an event that hasn’t yet happened.
The invention of PR is often attributed to the American fortune teller and behavior puppeteer Edward Bernays. As a slight bonus to the apparent complexities involved, Bernays also happened to be the nephew of the Austrian progenitor of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freund.
As applicable as this investigation may be to many paths of this world, the exhibition We haven't opened yet, but we are working on it and we are doing our best to meet your expectations… zones in on the expectations that may or may not have been built up around an exhibition's opening reception.
How can press releases, invitation cards, photographs, documentation or social media build up the expectation and narrative before an exhibition has opened? Will the opening influence the success of the show? The dynamics of the anticipation surrounding the act of an opening are hinted at and examined here at Institut Funder Bakke.
We haven't opened yet, but we are working on it and we are doing our best to meet your expectations… addresses the complexities surrounding the shaping of an exhibition, focusing on where it truly begins—is there a pre-opening moment? And if so, where is that moment?—not just with the opening, but in the curatorial decisions made beforehand. Through titles, graphic design, social media, locations and spatial details artists and curators build up narratives about works or exhibitions.
We haven't opened yet, but we are working on it and we are doing our best to meet your expectations… relates to the exhibition Setting the Tone of the Exhibition – The Anatomy of Exhibition Openings at Malmö Konstmuseum and examines how small curatorial gestures shape the initial experience.
(keywords):
Expectations, feedback, waiting, contracts, playfulness, pre opening, incomplete, finished, unfinished, and invitation.
The greatest joy is the joy of anticipation
The show is kindly supported by:
The Danish Arts Foundation - The Augustinus Foundation - June 15 Foundation - Aarhus University - Silkeborg Municipality - Novo Nordisk Foundation.
Jack GoldsteinMetro Goldwyn-Mayer, 1975
Single channel video, 7 seconds
Nina BeierUntitled, 2009-2025
Danh Võ
Brooms 2015
3 hand made Thai brooms, two large and one small. The thread binding of each large broom can vary in col
Istallation view
Left - right
Nina Beier
Untitled, 2009-2025
Danh Võ
Brooms 2015
3 hand made Thai brooms, one large and one small. The thread binding of each large broom can vary in color
Sung Tieu
Untitled, the benchmark - steel chair, 2024
Steel, 47 x Ø 36 cm
Bread, 2024
various breads, dimensions variable
Loaves of bread injected with 7 cl Alcohol
Cameron Rowland
U20E, 2013
Steel with standard finish
18.5 x 1.875 x 2.5 inches (46.99 x 4.76 x 6.35 cm)
Danh Võ
Birthday Cake Invitation, Danish Pavillion Venice, 2015
Paper, fabric, candle
Sung TieuUntitled, the benchmark - steel chair, 2024
Steel, 47 x Ø 36 cm
Bread, 2024
various breads, dimensions variable
Loaves of bread injected with 7 cl Alcohol
Installation View
Left - Right
Louise Lawler
Alizarin (Terrorists are made, not born), Postcard, 2024
Installed in any direction
Sung Tieu
Bread, 2024
various breads, dimensions variable
Loaves of bread injected with 7 cl Alcohol
Danh Võ
Birthday Cake Invitation,
Danish Pavillion Venice, 2015
BANK
Excerpts from
THE BANK FAX-BAK SERVICE (Helping You Help Yourself) 1998 - 1999
Danh Võ
Birthday Cake Invitation, Danish Pavillion Venice, 2015
Paper, fabric, candle
21,51 x 15 x 2,3 cm [HxWxD] (8 15⁄32" x 5 29⁄32" x 29⁄32")
BANK
Excerpts from
THE BANK FAX-BAK SERVICE (Helping You Help Yourself) 1998 - 1999
Between 1998 and 1999, the London-based art collective BANK operated The BANK Fax-Bak Service. For the project, the group’s members, Simon Bedwell, John Russell and Milly Thompson proof-read and copy-edited more than 300 press releases published by galleries in London and New York. The procedure was simple: after adding their mocking corrections, the artists faxed the promotional texts back to the respective galleries. The BANK Fax-Bak Service exposes the art market’s (ongoing) sisyphean effort to legitimize itself through boasting, self-important and nonsensical language.
Installation view
Danh Võ
Various invitation cards and advertisments in vitrine
Louise Lawler
Alizarin (Terrorists are made, not born), Postcard, 2024
Installed in any direction
Sung Tieu
Bread, 2024
various breads, dimensions variable
Loaves of bread injected with 7 cl Alcohol
Untitled, the benchmark - steel chair, 2024
Steel, 47 x Ø 36 cm
BANK
Excerpts from
THE BANK FAX-BAK SERVICE (Helping You Help Yourself) 1998 - 1999
Danh Võ
Various invitation cards and advertisments in vitrine
Cameron RowlandU20E, 2013
Steel with standard finish
18.5 x 1.875 x 2.5 inches (46.99 x 4.76 x 6.35 cm)
Corporate franchised stores have shelving equipment manufactured for their needs. When this franchise moves or upgrades, their equipment is then sold to a resale warehouse which in turn resells the equipment to a smaller store, selling and buying back from them many times over different components of that shelving system. U20E is an extension device, meant to modify an already existing shelving unit. It had been painted black by a previous owner, to have proxy matched the rest of its components.
Danh Võ
Various invitation cards and advertisments in vitrine
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