The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Presents a New Exhibition in the Front Room

ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis presents a new exhibition to the Front Room: Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta‐Kalleinen’s The St. Louis Complaint Choir. Running parallel to the exhibitions in CAM’s Main Galleries, this series of smaller presentations operates at a different speed, lasting only a few weeks. The programming for the Front Room places a particular emphasis on the work of artists at an emergent stage of their career, or on more experimental curatorial ideas and practices. The Complaint Choir is a project initiated by the Finnish artists Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta‐Kalleinen based on a phenomenon in Finland of a “Valituskuoro”—literally, “complaints choir”— in which people vent their frustrations about their city through song. The artists created the first choir in 2005 at an artists’ residency in Birmingham, England, and since the

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