Trans/Mission is an attempt to take a closer look at the transformations taking place in contemporary art at a time when fear has arisen that culture is becoming increasingly homogenized. There is a widespread belief that the ever growing flow of information, which showers the same images over the surface of the earth, has already leveled indigenous cultural expressions.

At the present time, when this fear of homogenization is rising rapidly, the "international art scene" is, in fact, exhibiting the opposite tendency - a movement towards heterogenization. It seems that the process of homogenization flattens out distinctions, causing the gradual loss of central cultural influences. As this occurs and the dispersion of ideas becomes complete, every cultural expression becomes, paradoxically, equally central. Cultures on the periphery of world society are no longer peripheral. The heterogeneous blooms in the field flattened by the homogenous. In turn, this creates a new space, a new fluency, for artists who easily shift between their own indigenous cultural language and the "international" language of dominant mainstream culture. These are artists who work in a cultural limbo between the regional and the cosmopolitan, the local and the global scene.

Eleven artists are participating in the Trans/Mission exhibition:

Francesco Clemente, born in Italy, living in USA and India, will show one large and 18 small gouache on silk paintings.

Julio Galán, born and living in Mexico, will show five large paintings.

Kristjan Gudmundsson, born and living in Iceland, will show a series of new grafite works made for the Rooseum.

Fariba Hajamadi, born in Iran, living in USA, will show four large works two of them made for the Rooseum.

Ilya Kabakov, born in Russia, living in France, will create a new large 14 room installation - The Insane Asylum is open once a week. That once happens to be today - for the Rooseum

Anish Kapoor, born in India, living in England,will show a large new work made for the Rooseum.

Jac Leirner, born and living in Brazil, will show works from the Os Cem series and a new 55 meter long Ghost and Shadow of the same series, made especially for the Rooseum.

Yasumasa Morimura, born and living in Japan, will show six large works.

Juan Muñoz, born and living in Spain, will create a new installation for the Rooseum.

Chéri Samba, born and living in Zaire, will show eight new paintings.

Ulrik Samuelson, born and living in Sweden, will create a new large installation for the Rooseum.