Anu Pennanen - A Day in the Office -until 23.06.2007, Berlin
(2007 06 01 14:12)
Opening: Saturday, June 2, 2007, 7 p.m.
Duration: June 2-23, 2007
Artist talk: Monday, June 11, 2007, 8 p.m.
From June until October 2007 uqbar, in cooperation with the 4th Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art Don’t Worry – Be Curious!, is presenting 4 artists from the countries bordering the Baltic Sea whose work addresses problems and fears resulting from upheavals in present-day society.
The exhibition series starts with the Finnish artist Anu Pennanen (*1975, lives in Helsinki). In her first Berlin show, Pennanen presents the video installation A Day in the Office, which was produced for the Liverpool Biennale International 06 and deals with Liverpool’s urban and social development of the last few years. The work focuses on the new office buildings, icons of economic prosperity in Western cities, and the people working in these offices. In Liverpool’s rush to build offices to attract new business and stimulate the economy, office buildings have sprung up like mushrooms. Such urban developments increasingly affect the daily lives and work habits of the city’s inhabitants. Taking Liverpool as an example, A Day in the Office examines global phenomena common to the development of modern third-sector service cities like Berlin.
On Monday, June 11, 2007, artists Anu Pennanen and Eléonore de Montesquiou (*1970, lives in Berlin) will present their respective projects developed in Estonia, which both deal with the situation of the Russian minority at the outer borders of the European Union.
Further information on the artist’s work can be found on this website
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