Wall text
Quiet
Instruments
1971 – 2026
Eleven works assembled around a single stubborn question: what does a tool look like once it has stopped being useful?
The objects gathered here were all made to do something — to measure, to sound, to hold a line steady. Each has since been relieved of its duty. Freed from function, they behave like drawings: they mark intervals, they insist on edges, they wait.
The hang follows a single centre line at 145 cm. Nothing is grouped, nothing is stacked. The distance between works is part of the work.
- Curator
- Ines Halberg
- Works
- 11
- Room
- 4 · 240 m²
- Lux
- 50 (paper) / 180 (metal)
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Checklist of the exhibition
| No. | Work | Year | Medium |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Reim, Instrument for a Flat Horizon | 1971 | Gouache, graphite |
| 02 | Reim, Metronome (Stopped) | 1974 | Ink on tracing paper |
| 03 | Danto, Plumb, Resting | 1989 | Bronze, lead, oak |
| 04 | Unattributed, Field Notation No. 7 | c.1978 | Silver gelatin print |
| 05 | Oyelaran, Dial for an Unmeasured Room | 2014 | Enamel, steel |
| 06 | Oyelaran, Four Intervals | 2016 | Acrylic on linen |
| 07 | Vrba, Weight of a Held Note | 2019 | Charcoal, canvas |
| 08 | Vrba, Rule (Broken) | 2021 | Screenprint |
| 09 | Pell, Nocturne for a Closed Gallery | 2026 | Oil, pigment stick |
| 10 | Danto, Two Levels — Room 5 | 1993 | Glass, mercury |
| 11 | Pell, Rehearsal — Room 5 | 2024 | Sound, 18 min loop |
Verso Kunsthalle · Skeppargatan 11 · Open Tue–Sun 11–18, Thu until 21
Free entry on the last Thursday of each month.
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