STAVANGER
SECESSION
2025
ACCIDENTS
SECESSION
2025
ACCIDENTS
OPENING WEEKEND
13.06-14.06.25
EXHIBITION UNTIL
13.07.25
13.06-14.06.25
EXHIBITION UNTIL
13.07.25
At the dawn of the 2000s, French philosopher Paul Virilio imagined a Museum of Accidents. He defined it as follows: "To exhibit the accident. All accidents, from the most banal to the most tragic, from natural disasters to industrial and scientific catastrophes, but also the happy accident—from a stroke of luck to love at first sight. Exposing accidents so that we are no longer simply exposed to accidents." Stavanger Secession 2025 expands on this notion of the accident and its revelatory dimension, which encompass both the tragic and the marvelous, the brutality of a collision and the mind changing nature of random encounters. Accidents are epiphanic in nature. They expose human hubris, the accursed share of speed, capitalism’s theological obsession for frantic rhythm. To speak through Hannah Arendt’s words "Progress and catastrophe are the obverse and reverse sides of the same coin". If every progress or invention is a symbolic monument devoted to the hegemonic order, every accident is its failure.
Andreas Angelidakis Cory Arcangel Michel Auder Knut Åsdam Orian Barki Meriem Bennani Richie Culver Per Dybvig Gardar Eide Einarsson Ida Ekblad Matias Faldbakken Johan Grimonprez Wade Guyton Florence Jung Matias Kiil Annea Lockwood Naeem Mohaiemen Kjell Pahr-Iversen Steven Parrino Artavazd Pelechian Steve Reinke Lili Reynaud-Dewar James Richards Torbjørn Rødland Jeff Wall Production
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Exhibition opening. Photo Jonas Kroken.
Exhibition opening. Photo Jonas Kroken.
Exhibition opening. Photo Jonas Kroken.
Exhibition opening. Photo Jonas Kroken.
Exhibition opening. Photo Jonas Kroken.
Exhibition opening. Photo Jonas Kroken.
Exhibition opening. Photo Jonas Kroken.
Exhibition opening. Photo Jonas Kroken.
Stavanger Secession 2025 wishes to thank all its supporters, sponsors, and cooperation partners, without whom the festival would not be possible.
Stavanger Secession 2025 wishes to thank all its supporters, sponsors, and cooperation partners, without whom the festival would not be possible.
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