Unfinished Journeys

“Unfinished Journeys” is built around one of the National Museum’s most recent acquisitions, the impressive nine-channel video installation "Ten Thousand Waves" by British artist Isaac Julien.

The work poetically interweaves a range of stories that link China’s past and present. The group exhibition features works that address the theme of never-ending ’journeys’ from a variety of angles. The works are about travel in the figurative sense – the ongoing quest for one’s own identity and place in the world – but also tackle the issue of migration. Artists represented in the exhibition include, among others, Knut Åsdam, Rosa Barba, Kristina Bræin, Tacita Dean, Marine Hugonnier, Isaac Julien, and Runo Lagomarsino.