Past exhibition at Lumiar Cité:
LARS-ANDREAS TOVEY KRISTIANSEN
you don’t need a weatherman to know
which way the wind blows
02.06-27.06.2010
The project, which will be presented in a solo exhibition at Lumiar Cité (meaning illuminated or glowing city) will, prior to the exhibition period, consist of a process in which the artist builds a four-meter high home-made wind generator with skills acquired from manuals from the internet.
The wind generator will be mobile and moved around the area where the gallery is situated, generating electricity using the wind and storing it in batteries that will be regularly transported to the gallery and in turn used to power the lights of the gallery ceiling. This process of gathering electricity will continue throughout the exhibition period. When the generator is not being used it will be on display in the gallery.
The project is a site-specific process intervening in the public space of Alta de Lisboa, an urban renewal project initiated in the 80s by converting slums into a new "city" within the capitol, consisting of housing, shops, green spaces, amenities, office spaces and social housing.
The exhibition title, 'you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,' refers to Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues, a slogan also used by the Weather Underground Organization (also called the Weathermen).
Lars-Andreas Tovey Kristiansen
Lars-Andreas Tovey Kristiansen has recently developed a series of projects that reveal an interest reminiscent of the Russian constructivists’ search for a utopian unity of the social, the political and the cultural. In shifting these questions to the present, Kristiansen reflects on the morphological, psychological and historical fractures caused by the developments of contemporary society.
Kristiansen is driven by a curiosity towards human drama, carefully observing the predicaments and inconsistencies of our being. The subject matters of his work emerge from the artist’s own reflections on his surroundings and meticulous research aiming to disclose and challenge one-sided interpretations of history.
Most of Kristiansen’s work is research-based, sewing together different elements, offering the viewer multiple gateways to the stories narrated. In other words, by resurrecting events from different times to negotiate them in a contemporary context, Kristiansen triggers a range of readings, simultaneously unmasking the inherent fragility of traditional "good versus bad" perspectives.
Kristiansen uses a multidisciplinary approach to the development of his projects, seeking solutions in different areas of knowledge production and engaging in whatever self- teaching processes become necessary for the work to succeed. However, faithful to an artistic discourse deriving from modernity, Lars-Andreas Tovey Kristiansen’s work goes beyond an explanatory function towards a utopian-like narrative, which tends to imagine solutions, even if only possible in the realm of (utopian) fiction.
Kristiansen develops artistic practice as an endless search, an act of resistance against 'the end of imagination'1. His commitment to a practice based on context-specific situations ensures his relevance as an artist in the very specific context of the Maumaus Lumiar Cité Gallery in Lisbon.
Vera Lúcia Carmo
Lars-Andreas Tovey Kristiansen (*1983, Halden, Norway) lives and works in Braunschweig, Germany and Malmö, Sweden. Currently participating in the International Artists in Residence Programme at Maumaus, Lisbon. In 2009 he was awarded a grant by OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway. His exhibitions include: The Art of Speculation, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (2010); Information Wants to Be Free, Platform One Gallery, London, UK (2009) and A Public Affair, Galleri 21, Malmö, Sweden (2008). He is one of the founders and directors of Landings, Vestfossen, Norway, an exhibition space programmed by artists.
Maumaus
Avenida António Augusto de Aguiar, 148 - 3º C
1050-021 Lisboa, Portugal
Monday to Friday, 10h00 to 13h00,
14h30 to 19h00
Tel: + 351 21 352 11 55
maumaus@maumaus.org
Current:
Upcoming:
Talk:
Dimitris Athiridis and Adam Szymczyk, moderated by Luísa Santos
CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, Estúdio, 23.10.2024 | 19h00
Film:
exergue – on documenta 14 (2024) by Dimitris Athiridis
Culturgest, Auditório Emílio Rui Vilar
21.10. | 14h15 - 18h45 | Chapters 1 - 4
22.10. | 14h00 - 20h00 | Chapters 5 - 10
23.10. | 10h30 - 15h30 | Chapters 11 - 14
Upcoming:
Problematising Reality
Programme 6
Beyond the White Screen
Film:
Les mains libres (1964) by Ennio Lorenzini
Discussion:
Émilie Goudal, Zineb Sedira
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Auditório 3, 31.10.2024 | 18h30
Current:
Seminar
Amanda Boetzkes
Realism Without Authority
01.04, 04.04.2022
10h–13h, 14h–17h
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Registration is free but limited to the number of seats available. Please send an email with a short CV to admin@maumaus.org by 24.03.2022. Confirmation of registration will be sent by email. The seminar will be in English.
Lumiar Cité
Rua Tomás del Negro, 8A
1750-105 Lisboa, Portugal
Wednesday to Sunday, 15h00 to 19h00
or by appointment.
Tel: + 351 21 755 15 70
lumiar.cite@maumaus.org
Loretta Fahrenholz
Circle Navel Nil
24.04. – 27.06.2021
24.06 | 18h00 Online conversation with Sabeth
Buchmann, Loretta Fahrenholz and Jürgen Bock
Current:
Luisa Cunha
ODD
28.09. – 22.12.2024
20.01 | 16h00 Opening of the exhibition
16.03 | 17h00 Talk between Dozie Kanu
and Simon Thompson
Current:
ONCE IN A HUNDRED YEARS
Sid Iandovka & Anya Tsyrlina with Leslie Thornton & Thomas Zummer
A combined exhibition between
Lumiar Cité and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg.
Lumiar Cité
27.04. – 28.07.2024
Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
18.05. – 28.07.2024
27.04. – 28.07.2024 | Lumiar Cité
18.05. – 28.07.2024 | Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
A co-production by Lumiar Cité
and Artium Museum
14.10 | 17h00 Book launch with talk between
Alejandro Cesarco and
Miguel Wandschneider
| 18h00 Opening of the exhibition
Current:
Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz
24.03. – 24.09.2023
Upcoming:
Lumiar Cité
14.10.2023 – 14.01.2024
Collaboration:
The Educational Web
Kunstverein in Hamburg
01.04. – 06.08.2023
Closed 24, 25, 31 December and 1 January
Arne Kaiser and Jürgen Bock
In cooperation with Lumiar Cité:
Tiffany Chung
Thu Thiêm: an archaeological
project for future remembrance
08.06. - 08.09.2019
Johann Jacobs Museum
In co-production with Lumiar Cité:
Alejandro Cesarco
Other Recent Examples
24.03. - 24.09.2023
Artium Museum
The Educational Web
31.03. - 06.08.2023
Kunstverein in Hamburg
Maumaus/Lumiar Cité is funded by República Portuguesa – Cultura/Direção-Geral das Artes. With the support of Câmara Municipal de Lisboa and Junta de Freguesia do Lumiar.