


Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition invites visitors to follow Cave’s development as an artist – and to gain insight into the overarching themes of his work, his working methods and the many sources of inspiration underpinning it all. Nick Cave’s body of work encompasses a wide range of media and modes of expression, with narrative forms at its heart. Created for The Black Diamond of The Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen, and with Cave as a co-curator and co-designer, the exhibition is an unorthodox fusion of biography, autobiography and fiction, asking what shapes our lives and makes us who we are.

With more than 300 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. Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition is an unprecedented look into the creative world of musician, storyteller and cultural icon Nick Cave. Watch the trailer of the exhibition HERE. The exhibition was met with acclaim from press and visitors alike when it opened in Copenhagen in March 2020. There are currently no plans for the exhibition to travel to the USA. This is the North American premiere of the exhibition, which was previously presented at The Black Diamond, Copenhagen, Denmark. Tickets will go on sale this Friday, March 4 at 10 am via evenko.ca Working closely with Nick and the Royal Danish Library team, Hingston designed the visual identity, campaign, exhibition graphics and the accompanying publication, including the art direction of Ben Smith’s dual portrait of Cave.Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition opens Friday, April 8 at the Galerie de la Maison du Festival. Behind each work is an equally fascinating artistic process not originally intended for public view the exhibition opens up the innermost parts of Cave’s creative universe and offers a story of its own. The exhibition invites visitors to follow Cave’s development as an artist – and to gain insight into the overarching themes of his work, his working methods and the many sources of inspiration underpinning it all. The show is currently touring the US.Ĭave’s body of work encompasses a wide range of media and modes of expression, with narrative forms at its heart. Originally presented by the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen, the exhibition brings together large scale installations and original atmospheric soundscapes with more than 300 objects from Cave’s own collection, the Nick Cave archive at Arts Centre Melbourne, the collections of Royal Danish Library and a number of private lenders.
