Eight Degrees: Contemporary Art on the Forest

Featuring photography, film, sculpture, drawing, textiles, sound, and installations, including new commissions, the group show Eight Degrees opens on March 15, 2024 at Bildmuseet, Sweden. 

The exhibition brings together contemporary art exploring our complex relationships with the forest, ranging from ideas of an inviolable intrinsic value to the conception of something to be utilised, such as an economic asset or a space for recreation. What is a forest? And what pressing questions about it are relevant here and now? 

Artists, artist groups, an architect, and a storyteller invite us to reflect on the forest, observed and depicted from various perspectives and with diverse experiences. Their works provoke questions about tradition and future, forestry practices, land conflicts, biological diversity, and the forest as a sacred space.  

Participating are Matti Aikio, Malin Arnell & Åsa Elzén, Gerd Aurell & Micael Norberg, Toms Kokins, Norrakollektivet, Elia Nurvista, Uriel Orlow, Edith Marie Pasquier, Jörgen Stenberg, and Lena Ylipää.   

Eight Degrees / Contemporary Art on the Forest is curated and produced by Bildmuseet. The exhibition title references Jörgen Stenberg’s eponymous poem.

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With support from The Swedish-Finnish Cultural Foundation.