Lecture with Magnus Bärtås

This spring's program series is based on the work of the currently exhibiting artist Lena Bergendahl. Together with ABF Österlen, Ystad Art Museum invites artists and researchers to in-depth discussions.

LECTURE WITH MAGNUS BÄRTÅS
Welcome to a lecture on the video essay with the artist Magnus Bärtås. Based on his own work, Bärtås will talk about what distinguishes the video essay as a form. The lecture provides an introduction to a storytelling tradition with a great influence on contemporary art.

🗓 Sunday, March 16 at 1:00 PM

📍 Auditorium, Ystad Art Museum

🎟 Free admission, no pre-registration

About Magnus Bärtås

Magnus Bärtås was born in 1962 in Jönköping and is based in Stockholm. He is an artist, writer and head of research at Konstfack and works primarily with text and video. Bärtås's dissertation in artistic research, "You Told Me – Work stories and video essays", was presented in 2010 at the University of Gothenburg. The focus of the dissertation is the stories behind a work of art and the relationships between the narrator, the viewer, the images and the artist within the practice of the video essay.

Bärtås's work has been presented at film festivals and art institutions in Sweden and internationally. In 2016, Göteborgs Konsthall made a major presentation of Bärtås's artistry and in 2017 his film "The Strangest Stranger" was nominated for best Nordic documentary film at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen. He has also published several books, including "Alla monster måste dö" which he wrote together with Fredrik Ekman and which was nominated for the August Prize in 2011.