15 June – 10 November 2024

CHRISTIAN ANDERSSON – No Vestige of a Beginning

Christian Andersson invites us to reflect on questions about time, history and our perception of reality. Science fiction and magical realism are frequent ingredients in his work, and Andersson cites them as recurring sources of inspiration. He adds that he also feels driven to make the familiar foreign, and notes that often what we perceive as reality today has been created or edited in order to lead us in various pre-determined or desired directions.

The exhibition is a co-production between Hallands Konstmuseum (Halland Art Museum) and Borås konstmuseum (Borås Art Museum). This fall, it will travel on to Borås konstmuseum in a somewhat altered form under the title No Prospect of an End.

In different ways, each of the two exhibitions explores Andersson’s art and its relationship to central themes such as time and space, his masterful way of challenging dominant, ingrained concepts, his way of upending prevailing opinions, and his ability to rock our perception of existence and our entire world view.

The exhibition at Hallands Konstmuseum (Halland Art Museum) focuses in part on the museum as a preserver of memories, like an organism with a nervous system it shares with other museums, and in part on the inspiration from surrealism we often find in Andersson’s work. His interest in surrealism is linked here to the tradition of Halmstadgruppen (the Halmstad Group) and the museum’s long-standing collaboration with the group’s members dating back to its opening in 1933.