RAM Gallery
20th anniversary-exhibition
November 19th 2009 - February 14th 2010
An attempt to implode/explode The White Cube
- a layered time, space and place construction
by Rolf Gerstlauer (curator)
Prolog (previous to November 19th – active or passive until February 14th 2010):
Judging RAM Gallery - the declaration of the white cube.
By Eli Malene Haugen Dragesæt (N).
Link to curator statement >>
Exhibition start:
Thursday November 19th 2009 at 19:00 hours
– active/(de)constructive until February 14th 2010:
The Re-opening of RAM Gallery
- a light construction breaking the security of the white cube.
By James Carpenter & Davidson Norris (NY/USA).
Link to artist statement and biography >>
Link to curator statement >>
Further (de)constructive acts
(to be announced short ahead of the event):
Thursday November 26th 2009 at 19:00 hours
– smiling until February 14th 2010
(a constructive act depending on the white cube):
– an automatic smile constructed by mother earth and gravity.
Link to artist statement and biography >>
Link to curator statement >>
Thursday December 3rd 2009 at 19:00 hours postponed
– warming until February 14th 2010
(the hanging of what is lost):
A Treasure Chamber for the Cold and Needing
– objets trouvé`s providing all the warmth a homesick artist can construct in the white cube.
Thursday December 10th 2009 at 19:00 hours
– active/(de)constructive until February 14th 2010
(a sales-exhibition with failures):
A Tribute to Rémy Zaugg’s hope, mental images and emotions
– the sell out of the white cube.
Link to curator statement>>
Thursday December 17th 2009 at 19:00 hours
– audible until February 14th 2010 (sound installation):
A Cube Contained In – the white cube remixed by a tremendous free global force.
Link to curator statement >>
Link to artist statement and biography >>
Link til ccmixter.org / The White Cube Remix >>
Thursday January 7th
gallery opens again for the public
Thursday January 14th 2010 between 19:00 and 21:00 hours
(symposium with invited guests):
Contained In: The continuous production of the ultimate White Cube?
A Streamlined Symposium About Gutenberg2.0,
Copyright/Copyleft and The Sharing Culture
– to be connected... to participate... to perceive.... to reflect... to become local again.
Link to curator statement >>
Thursday January 21th 2010 at 19:00 hours
– active/(de)constructive until February 14th 2010 (release of a-one-of-a-kind book):
Eine Versuchte Geschlechtsbestimmung des Waisen Kubus – ein animierter wissenschaftlicher Auszug von, zu und aus Kontiguität.
By Angeliki Dimaki-Adolfsen and Jonas Adolfsen (N)
Link to curator statement >>
Link to artist statement and biography >>
Thursday January 28th 2010 between 19:00 and 21:00 hours
(live-installation, constantly prolonged until February 14th):
Reminiscence of a Black Box in the White Cube – an off and on construction featuring the spectator and the witnessed:
The destructive desire of the object and subject for and against the frame
...or just yet another body and space morphology.
Link to curator statement>>
Thursday February 4th 2010 at 19:00 hours
– active/inactive until February 14th 2010
(the impurest of all constructive acts):
An Architectural Ruin – the ultimate white cube.
Link to curator statement 1 >>
Link to curator statement 2 >>
Epilog: (made public after February 14th 2010 - publication):
20 Years of RAM Gallery – the white cube of which I felt exists and the people and the works I’ll keep on dreaming of.
Contained In are all the visible & invisible, audible & mute and local & global providers and participants (including the white cube).
Preliminary program
– changes may occur and are very much appreciated!
Please do visit this website often.
November 2009 – on behalf of the RAM Gallery, Oslo:
Rolf Gerstlauer, curator |
