Exhibition: Exploding/imploding the white cube

RAM gallery has since its inception in 1989 shown 170 artistic projects and had more than 4,000 exhibition days. The reason for starting the gallery was a need for a different type of exhibition space for public art, installations, applied art and textile. With this open exhibition profile, the gallery has intended to highlight the artistic intentions and to give the public a rich art experience in a unique gallery space.

To celebrate this complex and varied history RAM gallery has invited the architect and professor at AHO Rolf Gerstlauer to create the anniversary exhibition.

Gerstlauer’s curatorial strtingpoint, and recurrent theme is the white cube. The white cube represents a desire for an objective and neutral exhibition space where the meeting between art and beholder may take place without interference. This is of course an impossible ideal, as everything is always part of a context.

For the exhibition opening on 19 November, James Carpenter and Davidson Norris have re-opened RAM gallery, and blasted the white cube. Light from New York is projected from the outside of the gallery, through a previously hidden window and into the exhibition space. The room appears to be empty, but a context is added from the outside.

The mixing of New York-light and the gallery space forms the basis for other artistic contributions. Throughout the exhibition period artists / architects / designers have been invited to help continue the implosion / explosion of the white cube.

The contributions’ expressions will vary, but all must relate to the gallery space already having been infected by previous activities. Thus, the deconstruction of the white cube will be multilayered. The different contributions will be announced approximately one week in advance. The anniversary exhibition and all the contributions will be documented and collected in a book.

The exhibition will last from 19.11.2009 - 14.02.2010. Official opening on Thursday 19 November at 19.00.

For more information, see www.ramgalleri.no