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Vanessa Baird at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo

16/01/2018

Kunstnernes Hus

Kunstnernes Hus is an artist-run organisation in Oslo, that presents Norwegian and international contemporary art.

Kunstnernes Hus (KH) have been widely regarded as one of the most architectural expressions of classical modernism, the building was built in 1930.  It’s close to the Royal Castle in Oslo, so it’s in the central part of town.

The building includes a new cinema, lecture halls, Torpedo Art Bookstore , The Felix Education and also hosts several other tenants, such as the Nordic art journal kunstkritikk.no and the Academy of Fine Art in Oslo.

Let’s not forget the Lofthus Samvirkelag Restaurant (I’ve heard there pizzaes are amazing).

KH is a therefor a atural gathering point for fellow artist and artlovers in the Oslo area.

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The Exhibitions

The Vanessa Baird exhibition –”You are something else” was truly amazing. This is a site-spesific installation of her monumental chalk drawings.

You see how she uses characters from pop culture and fairy tales to tell a unsentimental and direct view of the political issues of the day.

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The drawing are colour and beautiful, and as you get closer you see how shocking it can be (but in a good way). It’s a beautiful landscape with grotesque details.

Norwegian authorities rejected her work “Everything There is a Season” (2013) intended for the terror-struck Government Quarter in Oslo. This because it triggered reactions of anxiety and sorrow among the employees.

To learn more about Vanessa Baird, please visit her website here.

Photos from “You are something else” exhibition:

At KH they also had two other exhibitions, one by Constance Tenvik called “Soft Armour” and “Subjektiv”.

Soft Armour

Soft Armour

Subjektiv explores the relations that may occour between art, politics and subjectivity. Either explore the subjectivity in it’s political potential –or powerlessness.

One film that really blew our minds was “The Thought Leader” by Liz Magic Laser. A 10 year old (extremely talented kid) takes the TED approach and talks about the subjective –inspired by Dostojevskij. Watch the teaser on the video below.

 

Filed Under: Culture & Art, Museums & Galleries Tagged With: art, gallery, modern, oslo

Charlottenborg Gallery

18/01/2015

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Charlottenborg Gallery is one of the largest and most beautiful spaces for contemporary art in Europe. It’s right next to Nyhavn (the harbour) and King’s Square in Copenhagen.

The gallery shows everything from world class exhibitions, concerts and screening. The bookstore in the gallery also function as a platform for discussions and has many events, like “show and tell” and book talks around modern art.

The two exhibitions that were shown when I visited were by Keren Cytter and Rose English.

Charlottenborg palace was built in 1672 for the Norwegian governor Ulrik Fredrik Gyldenløve, the illegimate son of the Danish King Fredrik III. In 1754 The Royal Danish Art Academy took over the buidling. The pre-historic art gallery opened in 1883. And in the 1970s Charlottenborg underwent significant restoration and was renamed “Kunsthal Charlottenborg” in 2007.

If’s a beautiful building and the perfect place to show of beautiful art.

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Keren Cytter

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Colourful art, also by Keren Cytter

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Keren Cytter

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Rose English

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Horse shoes from the Quadrille in 1975

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My Mathematics, 1992

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Also from My Mathematics in 1992

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These wings are truly spectacular

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The entrance to Charlottenborg Gallery

 

 

Filed Under: Culture & Art, Museums & Galleries Tagged With: art, gallery, museum

Galleri F 15

29/08/2014

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Punkt Ø- Galleri F 15 is one of Norway’s oldest art institutions contveying contemporary art. This amazing gallery  you’ll find in Moss, a small city South of Oslo.

“The institution was created in 1966 as the first gallery of its kind; the name derives from the address, number 15 Fossen in Moss, the gallery’s first locale. A year later the roof blew off the old mill building and the gallery was allowed to rent the Main Building of the Alby Estate in the county of Moss. Galleri F 15 is still in a class by itself in as much as it is not-for-profit gallery receiving public funds, but not consisting of a permanent collection.”

From 21st June – 21st September it’s the exhibition “Mind the Map“, with works from 10 well-known international contemporary artist, that are shown. It includes selected maps dated back to the signing of the Convention of Moss in 1814. A historical time in Norway, when the de facto peace treaty secured the Norwegian constitution and led to the adoption of the personal union between Sweden and Norway.

“The historical maps will be complemented by a more comprehensive presentation of contemporary art featuring work by artists who work with cartography and maps either directly or in a more subtle manner, resulting in an exhibition that is political, poetic, conceptual and highly visual, revealing issues related to power and power structures and geopolitics seen from the perspective of a world in constant change.”

Galleri F 15 is surrounded by beautiful nature, the sea and a peaceful park. There is also a gift shop and café, so why not make a day out of it? You have to walk quite a bit to get to the gallery from your car, but with all this amazing nature and forest, it’s not a problem. You can also walk in the footsteps of Edvard Munch in this area.

The works in this exhibition are by Mona Hatoum (Lebanon), Bouchra Khalili (Morocco/France), Joyce Kozloff (USA), Miler Lagos (Colombia), Kevin Simón Mancera (Colombia), Julie Mehretu (USA), Fabio Morais (Brasil), Vik Muniz (Brasil), Rosana Ricalde (Brasil), Susan Stockwell (UK). 

VISIT THE SITE HERE>

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Filed Under: Culture & Art, Museums & Galleries Tagged With: art, gallery, museum, nature

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