

Pieces including original artwork, handwritten lyrics, literature, photography, videos, set designs, and collected personal artefacts are shown in a shifting, immersive narrative across eight rooms.

It presents more than 50 years of Cave’s life, work and inspiration in a spatial, multi-sensory exploration of his many real and imagined universes. 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. The autobiography will be released on March 23, 2020, and the exhibition opens the same day, running through October 3 at the Black Diamond in Copenhagen.įrom Cave’s website, here’s a statement about the exhibition: “ Stranger Than Kindness is a journey into the creative world of musician, storyteller and cultural icon Nick Cave. Nick Cave has announced a new illustrated autobiography and exhibition, both of which are titled Stranger Than Kindness.
