THE AFRICAN DESPERATE

Palace is not going to the graduation party! She hates the woods. If this were a reality show, she would be the person who was not here to make friends. Palace needs to get home, no place like it.

Set against the lush backdrop of late summer, Palace navigates the pitfalls of self-actualization and the fallacies of the art world. Shot through with American artist Martine Syms’s celebrated conceptual grit, humor, social commentary, and vivid visual language, The African Desperate leads us on an intimate and riotously funny journey through picturesque landscapes and artists’ studios, from academic critiques to backseat hookups, and from the night of a wild graduation party to the morning of a lonely trip back home.

Posten Moderne presents …

For 2024, Posten Moderne has collaborated with Kosmorama Trondheim International Film Festival on a specially curated film program. Taking inspiration from the festival's program series New Directors, Posten Moderne presents... is a selection of debut feature films by internationally renowned visual artists. The selected artists represent different generations, and each shows how visual artists can help to push the boundaries of the feature film medium. Experience these masterful and distinctive films on the big screen in central Norway for the very first time!

Posten Moderne is Trondheim's new museum for modern and contemporary art. The museum is currently being established in the city's former main post office at Dronningens gate 10, an iconic Art Nouveau building from 1911 by the native architect Karl Norum. The museum plans to open in the first quarter of 2025 and will present a changing exhibition program of renowned historical and contemporary artists in addition to the museum's permanent collection. Until the museum building is complete, Posten Moderne will present various artistic projects in public arenas in Trondheim. The collaboration with Kosmorama is the first of this year's projects.