Nation

The concept of nation has always played a central role in the domain of political representation. But also included in the structuring of a national identity is the use of the fine arts through commissions and state selected collections. Contemporary art, in turn, has taken up the theme of nation and national identity in order to develop other models of representational structures and to put hegemonic models into question.This catalog, documents works which productively and critically engage with the theme of national identity and nationalism, political populism, and also the phenomena of transit and domestic exoticism. Artists included are Nathan Carter, Jason Dodge, Michael Elmgreen/ Ingar Dragset, Keith Farquhar, Jonathan Horowitz, Brian Jungen, Josephine Meckseper, Sarah Morris, and Jeroen de Rijke/Willem de Rooij, among others.