Work Eternal Sleep
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Creator: Roman Ondák
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Description
Installation at the Natural History Museum
Ondák preserves everyday objects - such as books - in formalin and exhibits them in glass showcases like those used by museums of natural history. The glass aquariums begin to act as reservoirs of knowledge, surrounded by the nostalgia of past times. Isolation, alienation and dehumanisation are the terms the artist uses to denote human culture at the end of the twentieth century. He copies the methods of classification from the exact sciences to research knowledge- and value systems in culture. More of Ondák's work was exhibited in the MK Expositieriumte.
(Text: Manifesta)
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Exhibitions
- Manifesta 1. European Biennial of Contemporary Art, 09.06.1996 – 19.08.1996, Foundation European Art Manifestation, International Foundation Manifesta, Natural History Museum, Nederland, Rotterdam, Nederland, Amsterdam, Martin Beck (gemeinsam mit Mathias Poledna), Mila Bredhikina, Carsten Höller & Rosemarie Trockel, Mat Collishaw, Maria Eichhorn, Róza El-Hassan, Olafur Eliasson, Entertainment & Co., Ayse Erkmen, Vadim Fiškin, Bernhard Fuchs, Douglas Gordon (gemeinsam mit Rirkrit Tiravanija), Tamara Grcic, Joseph Grigely, Tommi Grönlund (gemeinsam mit Petteri Nisunen), Marie Ange Guilleminot (gemeinsam mit Fabrice Hybert), Dimitrij Gutov, Jitka Hanzlová, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Christine Hill, Huang Yongping, Fabrice Hybert (gemeinsam mit Marie Ange Guilleminot), IRWIN, Alexey N. Isaev, Siraj Izhar, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Robert Jankuloski, Piotr Jaros, Koo Jeong-A, Ivana Keser, Soo-Ja Kim, Suchan Kinoshita, Renée Kool, Pavel Kopriva, Oleg Kulik, Yuri Leiderman, Rogelio López Cuenca, Tracey Mackenna, Eva Marisaldi, Jenny Marketou, Rosa Martínez (Kurator/in), Roger Meintjes, Viktor Misiano (Kurator/in), Esko Männikkö, Regina Möller, NEsTWORK, Petteri Nisunen (gemeinsam mit Tommi Grönlund), Katalin Néray (Kurator/in), Maurice O'Connell, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (Kurator/in), Roman Ondák, Valeri Podoroga, Tadej Pogacar, Mathias Poledna (gemeinsam mit Martin Beck), Liza May Post, Luca Quartana, Tobias Rehberger, Andrew Renton (Kurator/in), Pipilotti Rist, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Arsen Savadov (gemeinsam mit Georgij Sencheko), Pit Schulz, Georgij Senchenko (gemeinsam mit Arsen Savadov), Nedko Solakov, János Sugár, Sam Taylor-Wood, Kathy Temin, Hale Tenger, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rirkrit Tiravanija (gemeinsam mit Douglas Gordon), Jaan Toomik, Didier Trenet, Mette Tronvoll, Uri Tzaig, Paco Vacas, Eulalia Valldosera, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Lydia Venieri, Susann Walder, Catherine Yass, subREAL
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