Stranger Than Kindness : The Nick Cave Exhibition

NICK CAVE
CREATIVE TEAM

Stranger Than Kindness was curated and designed in close collaboration with Nick Cave. The exhibition is a hands-on, tactile experience, a merge of biography, autobiography, and fiction, in which the space and exhibition design are an extension of the many narrative forms and elements contained within Cave’s own life and writings.

The exhibition was first presented at The Black Diamond in Copenhagen, and was developed and designed by Christina Back (Royal Danish library) and Janine Barrand (Arts Centre Melbourne). It was curated and produced by the Royal Danish library in collaboration with the Australian Music Vault at Arts Centre Melbourne.

'When the Royal Danish library contacted me with the idea of a 'Nick Cave Exhibition' I was reluctant to get involved. I am not nostalgic by nature and I had no time for a trip down Memory lane. But the team at the library were clearly serious people with a wonderful infectious energy and they drew me in! we created an exhibition that is unlike anything that has gone before, its feet rooted in the past but that reaches into the uncertain future. 'In the end we were able to put together an exhibition of extraordinary detail that commented on the fragile and vulnerable nature of identity. I am so proud to be a part of this unique and unorthodox exhibition — a shattered history we called Stranger Than Kindness.' - Nick Cave.

The Montreal exhibition is presented and produced by Victor Shiffman (Workers of Art) as a co-production with Le Festival International de Jazz de Montreal and Evenko.

DEVELOPMENT
DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN
Nick Cave / Christina Back

CURATORS
Christina Back / Janine Barrand / Nick Cave

ASSISTANT CURATOR
Georgina Greer

CREATIVE ADVISER
Susie Cave

SOUNDSCAPE
Nick Cave / Warren Ellis

EXHIBITION ARCHITECTS AND PRODUCERS
Christina Back / Mette Ørnstrup

MONTREAL EXHIBITION FLOOR PLAN DESIGN
Christina Back / Alexandra Sokolovskaya / Victor Shiffman

SCENEOGRAPHY
Sidsel Becker

INSTALLATION COLLABORATORS
Iain Forsyth / Jane Pollard

PRODUCERS
PRODUCER / PROJECT DIRECTOR – WORKERS OF ART
Victor Shiffman

PRODUCER - EVENKO
Nick Farkas

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER – NICKNAME PICTURES
Joseph Battat

EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Sophie Ogilvie-Hanson

NICK CAVE MANAGEMENT
Brian Message / Rachel Willis / Suzi Goodrich / Molly Cairns / Beth Clayton / Richard Day

PROJECT COORDINATION
Rachel Willis (NCP) / Christina Back (RDL) / Juliane Hartsø Lassen (RDL) / Megan Williams (ACM) / Sophie Ogilvie-Hanson (WofA)

CONTENT
THE EXHIBITION PRESENTS MATERIAL FROM
Australian Performing Arts Collection,
Arts Centre Melbourne,
Nick and Susie Cave private collection,
Private lenders

SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL THE LENDERS WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE EXHIBITION
All lenders are credited by their respective loans

CONSERVATORS
Chantal Emond / Séverine Chevalier

ART HANDLERS & EXHIBITION TECHNICIANS
Boris Granche / Bronson Smillie / Maggy Hamel-Metsos / Violette Hannon / William Sabourin

GRAPHIC & WEB DESIGN
Lea Berger / Zoé Brunelli / Rafa Olivarría (Berger Studio)
Hingston Studio,
Rasmus Koch Studio

RIGHTS AND LICENCING
Claudiane Tremblay / Suzi Goodrich / Victor Shiffman

TRANSLATION & SUB-TITLES
Chantal Ringuet / Charlotte Bournisien / Louis Trudel / Marie Leconte

PUBLIC & EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Chantal Ringuet / Katharina Niemeyer / Lene Eklund-Jürgensen / Sophie Ogilvie- Hanson / Victor Shiffman

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS
DIRECTOR MARKETING
Ema Polifroni

PRESS & MEDIA
Christine Montreuil / Leisa Lee / Talar Adam / Alex Nitsiou / Danny Payne / Steve Martin / Laura Burrus

DIGITAL MARKETING
Cynthia Aubin / Gabriel Fleurant / Sophie Ogilvie-Hanson / Valérie Christin

COORDINATOR, MARKETING & PROMOTIONS
Charlotte Garcia

ORIFLAMME CAMPAIGN – CITY OF MONTREAL
Éric Martineau

STREET POSTERING CAMPAIGN – PUBLICITÉ SAUVAGE
Matias Moya Flores

PRINTED MATERIALS
Exponent / Graphiscan / MFBB / Photosynthese

NICK CAVE PRODUCTIONS – INTERNATIONAL MARKETING TEAM
Beth Clayton / Molly Cairns / Suzi Goodrich

PRODUCTION
PROJECT MANAGER
Jacinthe Rhéaume

SET SUPERVISOR & CHIEF RIGGER
Cyrile Vo-Quang

PRE-PRODUCTION MANAGER
Katrine Chartrand

AV & VIDEO DESIGN
Morten Just Hansen / Iain Forsyth / Jane Pollard / Lian Lunson

SOUND AND AV PRODUCTION
Kasper Stouenborg / Francis Robert / Francois Tanguay / Olivier Neault /Alexandre Perreault

SOUND ENGINEERS
Janus Jensen / Jake Jackson

LIGHTING DESIGN & PRODUCTION
Christina Back / Dominique Daydé

EXHIBITION CONSTRUCTION - SAJO
Victor Khoueiry / Aru Rangit / Peter Clarizio / Kamryn Mandel / Martin Gagnon

VENUE PRODUCTION - EVENKO
Louise Laliberté / Patrick Auger / Jacinthe Rhéaume / Guy Nadeau / Patrick Desjardins

BOX OFFICE & TICKETING
Geneviève Ménard / Catherine Caputo

EXHIBITION BOUTIQUE
Christina Back / Suzi Goodrich / Sophie Ogilvie-Hanson / Angelique Leacock (Harper Collins) / Amanda Meiffret (Michel Lafon Publishing) / Didier Dehauteur (BMG) / Paul Entwistle (Kontraband) / Pia Bindra (Cave Things) / Jennifer Kirell (AWAL) / William Carrigan (AWAL)

LEGAL, FINANCE & INSURANCE
Claudiane Tremblay / Richard Day / Sergio Silverstri / Karl Delisle-Page / Bianca Capanna

TRANSPORT
Ann Cimarosti (MTAB) / Jean-Paul Halipré (Denbigh Fine Art Services)

The exhibition was developed and designed by Christina Back (Royal Danish Library) and Janine Barrand (Arts Centre Melbourne) in collaboration with Nick Cave, originally for The Black Diamond, Copenhagen. It was curated and produced by Royal Danish Library in collaboration with the Australian Music Vault at Arts Centre Melbourne and Nick Cave Productions.

The exhibition was initially made possible with support from main sponsor Gucci and the Beckett Foundation.

THE MONTREAL EXHIBITION IS PRODUCED AND PRESENTED BY
Workers of Art
Le Festival International de Jazz de Montréal
evenko
Nickname Pictures

Curated and produced by Royal Danish Library in collaboration with the Australian Music Vault at Arts Centre Melbourne

Special thanks to:
Dawn Cave, Susie Cave, The Cave family, Rachel Willis, Suzi Goodrich, Brian Message, Molly Cairns, Beth Clayton, Kylie Minogue, all Bad Seeds past and present, Joe and Erin Battat, Francis Bickmore, Jamie Byng, Darcey Steinke, Ben Smith, Kvadrat, Canongate, and Meyer Sound

L’exposition est située dans la Galerie de la Maison du Festival. Pour obtenir plus d’information au sujet de l’endroit, veuillez vous rendre à la page suivante.

La Galerie de la Maison du Festival est située sur la Place des Festivals, au cœur du centre-ville de Montréal. On peut se rendre à Galerie par métro, par autobus, par automobile et par bicyclette.

Metro
PLACE DES ARTS

STM Autobus
15, 61, 150, 168

Oui. Les visiteurs peuvent accéder au stationnement de la Place des Arts par l’entrée sur la rue Saint-Urbain.

Le prix du billet pour un adulte est de 25 $, plus taxes et frais. Le prix du billet pour enfant âgé de 17 ans et moins est de 18 $, plus taxes et frais.

Vous pouvez vous procurer des billets en ligne en cliquant sur le lien « Achat de billets » en haut de la page.

Le nombre de visiteurs permis dans la galerie sera réduit et surveillé. À l’achat de billets, les visiteurs seront invités à choisir la plage horaire de leur visite afin d’assurer que la Galerie de la Maison du Festival se conforme aux directives gouvernementales.

Les visiteurs doivent présenter leur passeport vaccinal pour entrer dans la galerie et doivent porter un masque pour la durée de leur visite.

Afin d’assurer que le nombre de visiteurs de l’exposition est conforme aux directives provinciales en matière de santé, nous laissons entrer les visiteurs par tranche horaire de 15 minutes. Veuillez vous assurer de vérifier l’heure indiquée au moment de l’achat de votre billet et d’arriver à la galerie à l’heure.

‘YOU HAVE BECOME A WE, AND WE ARE EACH OTHER: A VAST COMMUNITY OF ASTONISHING POTENTIAL’
– NICK CAVE

Stranger Than Kindness was curated and designed in close collaboration with Nick Cave. The exhibition is a hands-on, tactile experience, a merge of biography, autobiography, and fiction, in which the space and exhibition design are an extension of the many narrative forms and elements contained within Cave’s own life and writings.

The exhibition was first presented at The Black Diamond in Copenhagen, and was developed and designed by Christina Back (Royal Danish library) and Janine Barrand (Arts Centre Melbourne). It was curated and produced by the Royal Danish library in collaboration with the Australian Music Vault at Arts Centre Melbourne.

'When the Royal Danish library contacted me with the idea of a 'Nick Cave Exhibition' I was reluctant to get involved. I am not nostalgic by nature and I had no time for a trip down Memory lane. But the team at the library were clearly serious people with a wonderful infectious energy and they drew me in! we created an exhibition that is unlike anything that has gone before, its feet rooted in the past but that reaches into the uncertain future. 'In the end we were able to put together an exhibition of extraordinary detail that commented on the fragile and vulnerable nature of identity. I am so proud to be a part of this unique and unorthodox exhibition — a shattered history we called Stranger Than Kindness.' – Nick Cave.

The Montreal exhibition is presented and produced by Victor Shiffman (Workers of Art) as a co-production with Le Festival International de Jazz de Montreal and Evenko.

DEVELOPMENT
DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN
Nick Cave / Christina Back

CURATORS
Christina Back / Janine Barrand / Nick Cave

ASSISTANT CURATOR
Georgina Greer

CREATIVE ADVISER
Susie Cave

SOUNDSCAPE
Nick Cave / Warren Ellis

EXHIBITION ARCHITECTS AND PRODUCERS
Christina Back / Mette Ørnstrup

MONTREAL EXHIBITION FLOOR PLAN DESIGN
Christina Back / Alexandra Sokolovskaya / Victor Shiffman

SCENEOGRAPHY
Sidsel Becker

INSTALLATION COLLABORATORS
Iain Forsyth / Jane Pollard

PRODUCERS
PRODUCER / PROJECT DIRECTOR – WORKERS OF ART
Victor Shiffman

PRODUCER - EVENKO
Nick Farkas

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER – NICKNAME PICTURES
Joseph Battat

EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Sophie Ogilvie-Hanson

NICK CAVE MANAGEMENT
Brian Message / Rachel Willis / Suzi Goodrich / Molly Cairns / Beth Clayton / Richard Day

PROJECT COORDINATION
Rachel Willis (NCP) / Christina Back (RDL) / Juliane Hartsø Lassen (RDL) / Megan Williams (ACM) / Sophie Ogilvie-Hanson (WofA)

CONTENT
THE EXHIBITION PRESENTS MATERIAL FROM
Australian Performing Arts Collection,
Arts Centre Melbourne,
Nick and Susie Cave private collection,
Private lenders

SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL THE LENDERS WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE EXHIBITION
All lenders are credited by their respective loans

CONSERVATORS
Chantal Emond / Séverine Chevalier

ART HANDLERS & EXHIBITION TECHNICIANS
Boris Granche / Bronson Smillie / Maggy Hamel-Metsos / Violette Hannon / William Sabourin

GRAPHIC & WEB DESIGN
Lea Berger / Zoé Brunelli / Rafa Olivarría (Berger Studio)
Hingston Studio,
Rasmus Koch Studio

RIGHTS AND LICENCING
Claudiane Tremblay / Suzi Goodrich / Victor Shiffman

TRANSLATION & SUB-TITLES
Chantal Ringuet / Charlotte Bournisien / Louis Trudel / Marie Leconte / Isabelle Cardin-Simard

PUBLIC & EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Chantal Ringuet / Katharina Niemeyer / Lene Eklund-Jürgensen / Sophie Ogilvie- Hanson / Victor Shiffman

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS
DIRECTOR MARKETING
Ema Polifroni

PRESS & MEDIA
Christine Montreuil / Leisa Lee / Talar Adam / Alex Nitsiou / Danny Payne / Steve Martin / Laura Burrus

DIGITAL MARKETING
Cynthia Aubin / Gabriel Fleurant / Sophie Ogilvie-Hanson / Valérie Christin

COORDINATOR, MARKETING & PROMOTIONS
Charlotte Garcia

ORIFLAMME CAMPAIGN – CITY OF MONTREAL
Éric Martineau

STREET POSTERING CAMPAIGN – PUBLICITÉ SAUVAGE
Matias Moya Flores

PRINTED MATERIALS
Exponent / Graphiscan / MFBB / Photosynthese

NICK CAVE PRODUCTIONS – INTERNATIONAL MARKETING TEAM
Beth Clayton / Molly Cairns / Suzi Goodrich

PRODUCTION
PROJECT MANAGER
Jacinthe Rhéaume

SET SUPERVISOR & CHIEF RIGGER
Cyrile Vo-Quang

PRE-PRODUCTION MANAGER
Karine Chartrand

AV & VIDEO DESIGN
Morten Just Hansen / Iain Forsyth / Jane Pollard / Lian Lunson

SOUND AND AV PRODUCTION
Kasper Stouenborg / Francis Robert / Francois Tanguay / Olivier Neault /Alexandre Perreault

SOUND ENGINEERS
Janus Jensen / Jake Jackson

LIGHTING DESIGN & PRODUCTION
Christina Back / Dominique Daydé

EXHIBITION CONSTRUCTION - SAJO
Victor Khoueiry / Aru Rangit / Peter Clarizio / Kamryn Mandel / Martin Gagnon

VENUE PRODUCTION - EVENKO
Louise Laliberté / Patrick Auger / Jacinthe Rhéaume / Guy Nadeau / Patrick Desjardins

BOX OFFICE & TICKETING
Geneviève Ménard / Catherine Caputo

EXHIBITION BOUTIQUE
Christina Back / Suzi Goodrich / Sophie Ogilvie-Hanson / Angelique Leacock (Harper Collins) / Amanda Meiffret (Michel Lafon Publishing) / Didier Dehauteur (BMG) / Paul Entwistle (Kontraband) / Pia Bindra (Cave Things) / Jennifer Kirell (AWAL) / William Carrigan (AWAL)

LEGAL, FINANCE & INSURANCE
Claudiane Tremblay / Richard Day / Sergio Silverstri / Karl Delisle-Page / Bianca Capanna

TRANSPORT
Ann Cimarosti (MTAB) / Jean-Paul Halipré (Denbigh Fine Art Services)

The exhibition was developed and designed by Christina Back (Royal Danish Library) and Janine Barrand (Arts Centre Melbourne) in collaboration with Nick Cave, originally for The Black Diamond, Copenhagen. It was curated and produced by Royal Danish Library in collaboration with the Australian Music Vault at Arts Centre Melbourne and Nick Cave Productions.

The exhibition was initially made possible with support from main sponsor Gucci and the Beckett Foundation.

THE MONTREAL EXHIBITION IS PRODUCED AND PRESENTED BY
Workers of Art
Le Festival International de Jazz de Montréal
evenko
Nickname Pictures

Curated and produced by Royal Danish Library in collaboration with the Australian Music Vault at Arts Centre Melbourne

Special thanks to:
Dawn Cave, Susie Cave, The Cave family, Rachel Willis, Suzi Goodrich, Brian Message, Molly Cairns, Beth Clayton, Kylie Minogue, all Bad Seeds past and present, Joe and Erin Battat, Francis Bickmore, Jamie Byng, Darcey Steinke, Ben Smith, Kvadrat, Canongate, and Meyer Sound