“I didn’t realize it until this time walking through it, but this is representative of an artistic self-absorption, without paying much attention to anything else.

“It’s strange for me to walk through this exhibition because it shows very clearly the life of a very self-absorbed creative person who’s had a series of violent ruptures in my life and this particular room is like the end of something,” Cave said. The comment reflected Cave’s dry sense of humour.Ĭave spoke about how fans love to be in this room, but said he has mixed feelings about the re-creation of the office, which has hundreds of his books, old manual typewriters, a turntable (with a Leonard Cohen record on it), posters and two pianos. In other words, we didn’t really get the answer to that central question. “Mostly this is just piles and piles of rubbish that (curator) Christina (Back) and her team have sifted through and radically edited and found good stuff,” Cave said.

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The exhibition reveals how Nick Cave’s life, music, archives and fictions continue to intertwine, inform and inspire each other. Central is the ever-evolving collaboration in Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, from the band’s inception in Cave’s most obsessive period in Berlin, up to their latest release Ghosteen (2019), widely acknowledged as their best work ever. The chaotic years with his first bands, The Boys Next Door and The Birthday Party, and his relocation to Berlin and then London. It covers the journey from Cave’s childhood in 1960s Wangaratta, Australia, through With more thanģ00 objects collected or created by Nick Cave through six decades of his creative and private life brought together in large-scale installations, the exhibition is an artwork in itself.Ĭreated for The Black Diamond of The Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen, and withĬave as a co-curator and co-designer, the exhibition is an unorthodox fusion ofīiography, autobiography, and fiction, asking what shapes our lives and makes us The creative world of musician, storyteller, and cultural icon Nick Cave. Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition is an unprecedented look into

Stranger than kindness exhibition 2022