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| Rauma Biennale Balticum 2010 Janne Koski, Chief Curator Rauma Biennale Balticum 2010 - What's up Sea? The Rauma Art Museum, 12 June - 19 September 2010. The artists of the exhibition are: A Kassen (DK), Johanna Billing (SE), Katja Bjørn (DK), BlueSoup Group (RU), Ulu Braun (DE), Sergey Bratkov (RU), Egle Budvytyte (LT), Terike Haapoja (FI), Kaspars Groševs (LV) & Ruta Kiskyte (LT) & Dara Melnikova (LV), Antti Laitinen (FI), M.A.R.I.N. / Tapio Mäkelä (FI), Miks Mitrevics (LV), Jaanus Samma (EE), Claudia Schmacke (DE), Dominika Skutnik (PL), Laura Stasiulyte (LT), Jaan Toomik (EE), Julita Wojcik (PL), Vadim Zakharov (RU), Graphics/Pasi Rauhala (FI). | ||||||||||
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| Let's dive into the blue waters! Things are flowing, making waves, floating and foaming at the Rauma Art Museum… The traditional Rauma Biennale Balticum, now being held for the thirteenth time, presents contemporary art taking the sea as its theme. What's up Sea? takes up ecological, aesthetic, economic and ethic perspectives on and for the sea. The Rauma Biennale Balticum is an art exhibition created around the sea. For over two decades, the Rauma Art Museum has invited artists of the Baltic Sea region to participate in a joint exhibition. The sea has linked artists of the region, and continues to do so. Over the years, the Biennale has taken on new dimensions, and now in 2010 its theme is the sea for the first time. The main role is given to the Baltic, our shared environment, whose ecological state is acute and a subject of wide concern. In the background, however, there is also the sea as a broader concept, myth and symbol of diversity and grandeur that is hard to match. The sea as infinite, unknown and frightening has also inspired human imagination. It is an element in which one can still feel the power of nature. Navigational skills revolutionized the world, and for the individual, the experience of the sea is still strong. The sea has always been a route to the unknown, bringing change and impulses. It links cultures and is a source and mediator of shared experience, which is necessary for life on Earth. Man, however, has a conflicting attitude to the sea and through his activities, he has become its worst enemy. The negative effects, the pollution of the waters, eutrophication and the extinction of organisms are evident on the shores of the seas, in the oceans and at the ice caps alike. While the environmental perspective is central to many of the works on display, the artists of this exhibition have also addressed the theme of the sea from many other angles. Nonetheless, the sea is important to all of them. What's up Sea? is curated by Chief Curator JanneKoski and Curator Henna Paunu of the Rauma Art Museum. The catalogue presents the artists of the exhibition and their works. It contains a selection of excerpts from the books of the Rauma-based author Tapio Koivukari on the Sea of Rauma. The graphic design of the exhibition is by Pasi Rauhala. Rauma Art Museum, Kuninkaankatu 37, 26100 Rauma. Office Hours: Tuesday-Thursday 10-18, Friday 10-16, Saturday-Sunday 11-16, closed on Mondays. During summer exhibitions open also on Mondays 10-18 Entrance fees: Adults 5 €, students and pensioners 3 €, groups (min 10 persons) 3 € / persoon. For visitors of age under 18 years free entrance. | ||||||||||
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