Udstillingen fortæller. En analyse af Kunsthal Charlottenborgs udstilling Til vægs

The exhibition is often perceived as a narrative medium. The progression through time and space, in addition to the fact that there is both a sender and a recipient of the messages involved, is indicative of the fundamental narrative potential within the exhibition as such. In an era in which the experience economy reigns, there are the beginnings of a recognition of the advantages of letting the exhibition unfold as a meaningful and enthralling narrative. However, in addition to serving as a tool for presentation, this narrative perspective can also serve as a tool for analysis. Using the exhibition Til vægs, held at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen, Denmark, as source, an analysis of the complex narrative structure of the exhibition is carried out. On the basis of theories about the exhibition as a nar- rative medium and of Roland Barthes’ structuralistic narratology, the narrative aspects of the exhibition are considered as a complex network of actors and formations of meaning, distributed over several different planes