For the 15th edition of Propos d'Europe, an annual contemporary art exhibition promoting the meeting and creation of emerging and established European artists, the Hippocrene Foundation is inviting the KaviarFactory in Norway this year, thus putting the contemporary scene in the spotlight. Nordic.

  • Rolf and Venke Hoff - © Dagmara Wojtanowicz - KaviarFactory
The former agency of the modernist architect Robert Mallet-Stevens will host, from September 29 to December 3, 2016, part of the collection of Rolf and Venke Hoff - major Norwegian collectors for thirty years, founders of the art center located in the Lofoten Islands - which will also be revealed in full for the very first time abroad. Entitled Expanding Frontiers, the exhibition, curated by Rolf Hoff, will show around thirty works mainly conceptual and in all mediums by 25 international contemporary artists, mostly Norwegian and Scandinavian, mostly little known in Europe and sometimes exhibiting for the first time in France. This exhibition will also mark the fourth collaboration of the Hippocrene Foundation with a private and European foundation or structure for contemporary art.With Gediminas Akstinas (Lithuania), Knut Âsdam (Norway), Bjørn Bjarre (Norway), Mikael Brkic (Norway), Gardar Eide Einarsson (Norway), Dag Erik Elgin (Norway), Hreinn Fridfinnson (Iceland), Yngve Holen (Germany-Norway), Adam Jeppesen (Denmark), Henrik Olai Kaarstein (Norway), Saman Kamyab (Norway), Keller & Kosmas ( Aids-3D) (United States), Giorgi Khaniashvili (Georgia), Milja Laurila (Finland), Erik Lindman (United States), Bjarne Melgaard (Norway), Ole Jørgen Ness (Norway), Rolf Nowotny (Denmark), Børre Sæthre (Norway), Kristian Skylstad (Norway), Kjartan Slettemark (Sweden-Norway), Anders Smebye (Norway), Matthew Stone (England), Ryszard Warsinski (Poland-Norway), and Ebbe Stub Wittrup (Denmark).

This exhibition is part of the Private Route of the Fiac 2016.

Pratical information

Hippocrene Foundation
12, rue Mallet-Stevens
75016 Paris
Subways: Ranelagh - Jasmin
Bus: 22
01 45 20 95 94
www.fondationhippocrene.eu

Exhibition from September 29 to December 3, 2016
From Tuesday to Saturday 14AM - 19PM
Exceptional opening on Sundays October 16 and 23
Free admission

Curator of the exhibition: Rolf hoff