The Radiant City
Lars-Andreas Tovey Kristiansen
December 3 - 18, 2010
MFA Exhibition
Malmö Art Academy
KHM Gallery
Ystadvägen 22 A, Malmö
Gallery hours:
Tue - Sun 13 - 17
Opening reception:
Fri Dec 3, 17 - 21
At 1.24 am on 26 April 1986 an accident occurs at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, causing one of the reactors to explode. 36 hours after the accident the almost 50,000 inhabitants of Pripyat, a city only 3 kilometres away, were evacuated at two hours’ notice and with a promise that they would be able to return after three days. An area of 30 square kilometres, including Pripyat, was closed off and has remained uninhabitable because of the radioactive contamination from the accident.
Pripyat was built in 1970 to house the workers of the Chernobyl power plant. Like many new cities in the Soviet Union, its plan incorporated the French–Swiss architect Le Corbusier’s concepts of the utopian city, or, as he put it, the ‘radiant city’. Le Corbusier wanted to integrate greenery with high-rise buildings, in extensive spaces between the buildings but also underneath them and on the rooftops, creating a ‘vertical garden city’. His aim was to offer workers easy access to nature and leisure time. Pripyat today is a different kind of garden city: uninhabitable by humans, but a haven for wildlife.
On 24 June 2010 Kristiansen ventured into the exclusion zone surrounding the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear reactor. He has used this visit as a starting point for his MFA graduation exhibition, which comprises photographic material, video and sound pieces.
For more information, please contact Lars-Andreas Tovey Kristiansen at mail[at]toveykristiansen.com
ESCAPE
29 January – 27 February 2011
Press preview: Friday, 28 January at noon.
Opening: Friday, 28 January at 6–8pm.
Majd Abdel Hamid, Joanna Bini Eda, Caire de Santa Coloma, Miro Dorow, Karen Gimle, Til Heinicke, Leonie Hesse, Khaled Jarrar, Nina Jensen, Ingrid Koslung, Anne-Kathrin Loth, Henning Lundkvist, Tiago Mestre, Nikolaj Nekh, Olof Nimar, Lydia Paasche, Sofia Berti Rojas, Omaya Salman, Julian Stalbohm, Sarah Steiner, Maiken Stene, Lars-Andreas Tovey Kristiansen, André Trindade, Thale Vangen, Joen P Vedel, Martin Weiser, Constanze Wicke
Lunds konsthall
Mårtenstorget 3, Lund
The Zone of Alienation
Lars-Andreas Tovey Kristiansen
February 17 - 27, 2011
Opening: Thursday February 17
Galleri Lilith Waltenberg
Bergsgatan 9, Malmö
KUNSTNERNES HUS
Wergelandsveien 17, Oslo
10 September - 9 October 2011
Björn Carnemalm /Comintegra
Emma Philipson /Tjejer i Förening
Henrik Lund Jørgensen /Fontänhuset
Jonas Liveröd & Olof Werngren /Aluma
Lars-Andreas Tovey Kristiansen /Agnezkollektivet
Åsa Maria Bengtsson /Folkbildningsteatern Svalan & Duvan
The Crux of Dwelling
a solo exhibition by Lars-Andreas Tovey Kristiansen
at Grünerløkka Kunsthall, Fossveien 19, Oslo
Opening: Friday 24 August at 6 pm
Open: Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 from 1 – 5 pm
or by request Sunday September 2 between 1 – 5 pm
Call: 0047-95782042 or email: mail@toveykristiansen.com for more information.
OUR INNER NATURE
Works from the Malmö Art Museum Collection
Ann Böttcher, Kajsa Dahlberg, Olafur Eliasson, Carl Fredrik Hill, Joakim Koester, EvaMarie Lindahl, Sivert Lindblom, Anna Ling, Gerhard Nordström, Henrik Olesen, Nina Saunders, Lars-Andreas Tovey Kristiansen.
Lyskunst i byrom 2014
Lars- Andreas Tovey Kristiansen
”Et utopisk monument”
23.01 – 16.02.2014
8 MARCH - 23 MARCH 2014 You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows