Bjargey Ólafsdóttir:
„It's All About Happiness“

December 13, 2007 - February 15, 2008

Opening hours:
Tuesday-Friday 2-6 pm, Sunday 3-5 pm

Opening and Performance

You and your friends are cordially invited to the opening and performance on Thursday, Desember 13, 2007 at 8 pm.

Welcoming remarks: Holger Graab, chairman
Introduction: Veronika Olbrich, curator

Introduction

The œuvre of the Icelandic artist Bjargey Ólafsdóttir (born 1972, lives in Reykjavik) ranges in scope from video installations, photographs, drawings and paintings to performances. Bjargey Ólafsdóttir stages actions and tells stories. The possibilities of her protagonists seem to be just as sheerly endless in them as her own when she uncovers our prejudices, stereotypes, secret wishes and feelings with much humor and irony in them. The viewer gets directly caught up in the role of a fascinated accomplice of bizarre acts in a crazed world by naturally being able to follow and understand the things as if they were reality, even though they are in fact staged fictions.

Bjargey Ólafsdóttir's newest installation, which she conceived for the Kunstverein Langenhagen in Chile, is also effective on an emotional level: She seduces the viewer with drawings, videos, and sound into a world full of laughter. The exhibition forms the conclusion of this year's program which stood under the motto »Great Feelings.«

Fotos

Program

Friday, December 14, 2007, 7 p.m.
Gallery talk with Bjargey Ólafsdóttir

Tuesday, December 18, 2007, 4 p.m.
Guided tour for teachers with suggestions for classroom work

Saturday, January 19, 2008, 3-5 p.m.
Guided tour for children with practical work
Supervision: Tanja Wöhle, M.A. art historian
By appointment: 0511 778929

Guided tours: every Wednesday at 6 pm

Special tours by appointment: 0511 778929.

Sponsors

The exhibition and the programme are sponsored by
Land Niedersachsen and the
Kulturregion Hannover - Stiftung der Sparkasse und Region Hannover.

Concept sponsor is the Sparkasse Hannover.

Cooperation partners:
Stadt Langenhagen,
Hannover Airport, and
Benatzky Verlag und Medien