5th July - 7th September 2008
Opening: 4th July, 6.30 pm
Ingmar Bergman is one of the best known personalities in film history. His impressive repertoire and expressive imagery have not only shaped several generations of film directors, but also have formed likewise a starting point for the creative work of numerous contemporary artists which cover the gamut of media. The adoption of the narrative cinema by art should thereby be understood as an extremely multilayered phenomenon which changes between adoption and alienation, between transformation and advancement and between citation and reflection. In the exhibition, “In Silent Conversation with Ingmar Bergman”, the Kunstmuseum Thun makes visible and audible the variety of the complex dialogues undertaken by the contemporary artists with the œuvre of Ingmar Bergman. Positions which deal with aspects of specific films are shown, as well as positions that utilise Bergman’s work as starting points for individual treatments.
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.
Public tours:
Sunday, 20th July, 11.15 am with Helen Hirsch, Director.
Sunday, 10th August, 11.15 am with Petra Giezendanner, Scientific Assistant.
Wednesday, 20th August, 7.15 pm with Dominik Imhof, Scientific Assistant.
Sunday, 31st August, 11.15 am with Petra Giezendanner, Scientific Assistant.
Kunst à la carte:
In Silent Conversation with Ingmar Bergman: Wednesday, 4th July, 12.30 – 1 pm.
Collecting views, See Club Thun: Wednesday, 13th August, 12.30 – 1 pm. Costs: Fr. 12. – / 10. –.
Art talk with Bettina Disler and Michael Kunze:
Saturday, 5th Juli, 11.15 am.
Tour and talk with with Bettina Disler, Michael Kunze and Petra Giezendanner, Scientific Assistant. Costs: Fr. 12.– / 10. –.
Matinee Piano Concert with Iris Gerber:
Sunday, 24th August, 11.15 – 12.15 am.
The performed piano music leads into spheres that are inherent to the Bergman movies. The pianist tries to recreate in music the inner vibrations and the suggestive subliminal language of the movies of Bergman.
Program: Maria de Alvear (*1962) Uvas, Peteris Vasks (*1946) Herbstmusik, Ester Mägi (*1922) Lappische Juoigos-Melodien, Daniel Ritter (*1953) Introspektiv – nach einer Zeichnung Ludwig Wittgensteins, einer Skulptur von Franz West und einer Radierung von Daniel Ritter, John Cage (1912–1992) In a Landscape. Costs: Fr. 14. – / 12. –.
Movies by Ingmar Bergman in the Kino City, Thun:
Wild Strawberries, Thursday, 28th August, 6.30 pm
Persona, Monday, 1st September, 6.30 pm.
Waiting Women, Wednesday, 3rd September, 6.30 pm.
Workshop for Adults:
Wednesday, 27th August, 7 – 9 pm. With Myriam Aline Loepfe. Followed by drinks. On announcement, costs: Fr. 16. – (admission fee excl.).
SEH-Reise – Über die Kunstform des Panoramas und die Geschichte des Sehens:
Sunday, 7th September, 11.15 am, Speech from Stephan Oettermann in the Wocher-Panorama. Followed by a picnic, On announcement, costs: Fr. 20.– / 16.– (admission fee excl.).
Workshops for Children (5 to 9 years old): On announcement, costs: Fr. 7.–.
Saturday, 12th July, 10 – 12 am. Malen von Filmbildern. Announcement "Ferienpass" 033 3354047.
Saturday, 2nd August, 10 – 12 am. Bergpanoramen malen. Wocher-Panorama in the Schadaupark.
Saturday, 6th September, 10 – 12 am. Meinen eigenen Film zeichnen und spielen.
Saturday, 23rd August 2008
10.00 – 10.15
Introduction by Helen Hirsch, Director Kunstmuseum Thun
10.15 – 11.00
Raphael Gygax, Curator Migros Museum, Zürich
«I had a strange dream, it was absolutely real» –
Strategien des «Un»heimlichen in Bergmans Künstler-Filmtrilogie
im Vergleich mit Beispielen der Gegenwartskunst
11.00 – 11.45
Dr. Dora Imhof, Assistant at the art historic institute of the University of Zurich
«Without resolution, endlessly» – Loops in Film- und Videoinstallationen
11.45 – 12.15
Break
12.15 – 13.00
Andrea Loux, artist, Bern and Berlin
Psychische Räume – Inszenieren von Befindlichkeiten
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch
14.00 – 14.40
Movie Screening; Presentation of results of the international cinema studies "Reinterpreting Bergman" initiated by Prof. Dr. Thomas Elsaesser
14.40 – 15.15
Prof. Dr. Thomas Elsaesser, Professor at the institute of art and culture at the University of Amsterdam.
Ingmar Bergman in the museum?
15.15 – 15.45
Discussion of the project together with Prof. Dr. Thomas Elsaesser, Jonas Moberg, and Anne Bachmann, University of Stockholm
15.45 – 16.15
Break
16.15 – 17.00
Prof. Dr. Ursula von Keitz, Professor at the institute for communication science at the University of Bonn.
An-Zeichenkunst. Gesicht und Emotion bei Ingmar Bergman
