ARTLAND

A robotic miniature shopping trolley runs on a trail in the stand of Artillery and the invited Mnky Bizz Group. A flag is attached to it, saying “Shop til you drop” and is created by aka Tank/Lorena Monsalve from Colombia. In the shopping trolley we see a paper-coffin, produced to solemnly and humourosly take care of art that has passed its expiration date.

When coming to Supermarket the processes, the ideas and a place for experimental works creates the air you breathe. The money-market seems far away. Supermarket invites artist run-spaces and it is messy, chaotic, funny and serious at the same time.

Anika Weshinskey and Julie Upmeyer in the stand of Caravansarai from Istanbul share their thought on coming to Stockholm in snowy February. Why have a gathering in the coldest hour of the year? The question answers itself, because we need it in the darkest hour of the year.

They present “CaravansarAID Medical Tourism Bureau”, where they write prescriptions to you with recommendations to travel to Istanbul to get attacked or injured. After this you are being treated fine on a hospital and then help with grants and other benefits to get going again.

Nia Pushkarova at Gallery IME in Sofia, Bulgaria, organizes the Water tower art fest which presents art works in abandoned buildings and at the same time show the potential of deserted buildings. “(…) in a way we are evoking the communal clairvoyance for a more soulful urban way of life in conduct with different groups and ideas.”.

There is an open call for artists to suggest installations in specific buildings, open until April 15^th. Their stand at Supermarket is almost empty, with an alarming black-and yellow tape on the floor. There is a heap of papers on a table in front of the booth, where you can leave an application, for anything. It has to be written before you are allowed to enter.

The crazy violent funny sausage factory by Nationalgalleriet brings the French film “Delicatessen” to my mind. In the film there is a butcher-store in the middle of nowhere in a dark future with shortage of food. The building is full of apartments with people and this particular store does not lack meat. But where do all shop-assistants disappear?  “Nationalgalleriet got it all! Exiting fist fights, horror, politics, satire, sex (including nude scenes), magic, psychology, art, violence, slapstick and special effects.” they state.

The performer in white carries her large ticking clock around the space reminding us about time without saying a word.

The engaged artists collective "Tema”, International Experimental Art Action, from Lithuania has built a giant rectangular shape hanging freely from the ceiling. Enter if you dare, it’s worthwhile. It’s full of pictures and films inside, for instance you can watch the light-objects by Linas Kutavicius swimming swiftly in a river. Their industrial space in Klaipeda is open for all cultural experiments.

Anna Nawrot from Galeria Biala in Lublin, Poland, shows some of their impressing hundreds of realized projects since the middle of the 80-ties, many in the gallery, some outdoor like in the “Art Yard”. The documentation of her spatial installation of ties in different colours and patterns are monumental works of male customs and clothing restraints. Mariusz Tarkawian make drawings of all stands at Supermarket and put them up one by one on the walls. Danuta Kuciak take photographs of herself as a “wealthy girl”.

Yes, there is more…

The intimate and delicate, but yet powerful corner-installation by Helene Hortlund.

The slow-motion hares making love, not like rabbits though, on a round moving platform in a disco-bathroom-hidden-stage-feeling. Lars Brunström shapes the mechanical into a new nature.

Supermarket, yes.