ISSUES

ISSUES presents Eating a banana, a new performance piece by Marie Karlberg. The performance took place in the gallery surrounded by works on copper.

Performers: BamBam Frost, Keira Fox, Niels Engström and Freddy Houndekindo.

Clothes: Love is Shouty

Video: Vladyslav Kamensky

Find the video documentation in links below.

Marie Karlberg (b. 1985, lives and works in Stockholm) began making art as a reaction against predetermined forms of social life. Since 2024, she runs the celebrated gallery Beau Travail. Marie has previously performed at Art Basel Miami, hosted by MoMA PS1 as well as presenting video in the acclaimed exhibition Greater New York at MoMA PS1, New York. She has done solo shows at Tramps, New York; Bonny Poon, Paris; Plymouth Rock, Zurich; Tramps, London and Reena Spaulings Fine Arts, New York. She has staged performances at Elevation1049, Gstaad; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz and Artists Space, New York. Marie has participated in group shows and ensemble performances at various galleries and institutions such as The Goethe Institute, New York; Whitney Museum of Art, New York; MoMA, New York; The 9th Berlin Biennale, Berlin and Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin. Her work is included in public collections such as The Schaulager Foundation, Münchenstein; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris and Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

ISSUES presented the performance Watching Paint Dry in January 2024 and in 2016, a solo exhibition with Marie at Grand Hôtel in Stockholm. She was also in the group shows Downtown Issues I, 2021, and Downtown Issues II in 2023 and in 2015, Marie did a solo show with ISSUES at Grand Hotel in Stockholm.