Masters Exhibition 22nd March– 2nd April
Galleri Mejan, Exercisplan 3, Skeppsholmen

Christina Tivemark’s Masters Exhibition is announced even before you enter the gallery. A white line leads the visitor to the building and on, into an empty room. Empty except for the outlines of a small house, that doesn’t emerge until after a couple of minutes when smoke develops and appears as a projection on a cloud of smoke. The house disappears with the descending smoke, and the spectator is left with a trace of having experienced a dream.
Tivemark has named her exhibition Heimat Utopia, as her own utopia is a refuge. It’s about the dream of simple living, and finding your own sheltered place in life .In the installation Tivemark demonstrates the fact that a person’s utopian refuge doesn’t necessarily have to be real. The projected house symbolising the dream, and the white drawn line as a symbol of domains, encourage the spectator to project it with his or her own dreams .In earlier paintings and installations, Tivemark has been working with stretching our comprehension of given perspectives on room and space. Leaving us as both spectators and participants in a world without distinct boundaries.
Christina Tivemark deals with subjects as fundamental human needs to questions about her own existence.
To visit her Heimat Utopia , is to be reminded about our own dreams. Dreams that if we want, can be anything we desire.

Heimat Utopia

Utopia - derives from the Greek “ou topos” - a no-place and “eu topos”- a good place.
It means a fictional dream or a wish that is presumably not viable. However in the world of Utopia, realizing this is possible, since it is a non-geographical place, and only exists as an idea.
Heimat - a German word, which refers to the relationship between man and space, could be an area, a city or a country. Or in other words, an identification of a home. Nowadays heimat has become a concept with many different meanings. The poetic meaning arose after the German industrialization, where one was searching a heimat- a place like in the past, where humankind lived in a primitive and simple state and where harmony between man and nature ruled-.
In an essay depicts Bernhard Schlink a heimat not bound to a specific geographical place, but a place as a state of mind where one can experience a feeling, an expectation and longing, especially when living in exile. Voluntary exile can sometimes be the only refuge or a place, for the search of an identity.
We all have our utopias or utopia.
In my personal utopia there is an existing “eu topos” – my very own island called “Hemön”1) situated in the lake Tisaren.
This is my “Heimat Utopia”. My refuge.