Kaarina Kaikkonen, And It Was Empty, 2005. detail
We are delighted to share that the large scale installation And It Was Empty by Kaarina Kaikkonen is on view at the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art of Aalborg from February 9th 2024 until October 20th 2024.
The work is also mentioned as one of the new highlights in the museum collection.
The Finnish artist Kaarina Kaikkonen (b. 1952) is known for her spectacular, large-scale installations, in which shirts, men’s jackets, shoes, sweaters or other kinds of clothing are put together in new, atmospheric ways. That applies to this work: a vast pictorial landscape of men’s shirts and jackets. The main theme of Kaikkonen’s works is her memory of her parents, and the works can often be read as symbolic representations of memories from her own childhood. The artist lost her father when she was 10 years old, after which she began to put on his old shirts as a way of remembering him. It is this invisible content of clothes that fascinates the artist – clothes as a material, with which to tell stories about people, politics and systems.
Info:
Kaarina Kaikkonen. And It Was Empty
9 February > 20 October 2024
Kunsten Museum of Modern Art
Kong Christians Alle 50, 9000 Aalborg
For more information: collection.kunsten
8 February 2024
