The Map: Navigating the Present

The Map: Navigating the Present
12.10 - 8.2 2009

The exhibition The Map: Navigating the Present is a multi-faceted project of global contemporary culture. It takes a broad approach to maps and cartography of today; allowing for artistic, cultural, political and scientific practices to combine, meet and collide.

Contemporary art and visual culture will be engaged parallel with practices in cartography, cultural geography, political science, philosophy and linguistics. Altogether 36 projects address a wide variety of topics with a cartographic practice or an idea of mapping as the common denominator.
The public will encounter both maps and the work of making maps as sophisticated tools for knowing the world, of accessing the real, but also maps as producers/generators of alternative realities.

The Map: Navigating the Present is open at Bildmuseet from the 12th of October, 2008 to the 8th of February, 2009.