Ingmar Bergman is one of the most famous figures in film history. His impressive body of work and his expressive visual language have not only influenced several generations of film directors, but also serve as a starting point for the work of numerous contemporary artists working across a wide variety of media. This engagement with the medium of film by the arts must be understood as an extremely multifaceted phenomenon, oscillating between appropriation and distancing, between transformation and further development, between quotation and reflection. With the exhibition In Silent Conversation with Ingmar Bergman, the Kunstmuseum Thun makes visible and audible the diversity of the complex dialogues that contemporary artists engage in with Ingmar Bergman’s oeuvre. On display are works that explore aspects of specific films, as well as works that use Bergman’s oeuvre as a starting point for individual reflections.
Artists in the exhibition:
Karin Mamma Andersson, Lotta Antonsson, Joseph Beuys, Bettina Disler, Maria Finn, Runa Islam, Michael Kunze, Hanna Liden, Andrea Loux, Magdalena von Rudy, Evanthia Tsantila.
A catalogue accompanying the exhibition, featuring texts (German/English) by Dora Imhof, Thomas Elsaesser and Helen Hirsch, is published by Christoph Merian Verlag.
