"FACE IT ACT NOW" Fotogalleriet, Oslo 2008

Untitled (Global Perspective) Gold leaf on wall

CONTEMPORARY DECORATIVE POLITICAL PATTERNS
Exhibition Bergen Kunsthall, NO.5

NI ESTAS MOVADO
Video / Photo / Painting
Galleri fimbul

02.12.06 - 22.12-06

Rådhusgaten 28
0151 Oslo
(entrance from Nedre Slottsgate)

Video is not just a favourite element in the discourse of today’s young artists. It has also become an extension of the field of photography, as can be readily seen in the work of the Nordic artists at Paris Photo.

The Project Room will offer a sweeping survey of current Nordic video art from emerging artists. Entitled “The Singing, Swinging North,” the selection emphasizes music as an essential common element among young Nordic artists. Some are musicians themselves, like Iceland’s Egill Saebjörnsson and Finland’s Seppo Renvall. Others work with composers, like Bård Ask with Jan Erik Mikalsen and The Iceland Love Corporation with Olafur Björn Olafsson. Then there are those who use singing or the voice as a form of expression in association with a visual image, such as the Norwegian Ane Lan and the Dane Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen.

Curator:
Andrea Holzherr, art critic and freelance curator

Paris Photo

Fringe Programme:
"Imagine The Universe burst into Song"
Curated by Ida Kierulf and Helga Marie Nordby, ’"Imagine the Universe Burst into Song"’ presents seven young Norwegian artists who take the irrational, spiritual and metaphysical as their source of inspiration. Whilst they all approach the subject with highly differing and distinctive uses of pictorial language, the artists all shy away from everyday experience and, in stark contrast to our rationalized society, demonstrate a longing for the fictional and the romantic. Part of the exhibition was shown in London in May 2006 and met with high acclaim.
Artists: Bård Ask, Martin Skauen, Sofie Berntsen, Eline McGeorge, Christian Hoel Skjønhaug, Lars Monrad Vaage og Tone Kristin Bjordam.
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Contemporary Decorative Political Patterns
Opening Saturday 17/6 12.00 pm
Galleri Tik, Kirkegata 14 Kongsberg

IMAGINE THE UNIVERSE BURSTS INTO SONG
YOUNG ARTISTS FROM NORWAY

MAY 12 - JUNE 17, 2006
PRIVATE VIEW: Thursday May 11th, 6.30 - 8.30 pm



BAARD ASK
SOFIE BERNTSEN
DANIEL JENSEN
ELINE McGEORGE
MARTIN SKAUEN
LARS MONRAD VAAGE
HANNELINE VISNES

Curated by Helga-Marie Nordby and Ida Kierulf



Laura Bartlett Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of seven young artists from Norway. "Imagine the Universe bursts into song", a quote from the late-Romantic composer Gustav Mahler, functions as a playful entrance to this exhibition, curated by Helga-Marie Nordby and Ida Kierulf.

The artists share an imaginative approach to the irrational and the spiritual as an artistic force. In different ways, they combine their own personal mythologies with mystical, and romantic symbols and imagery from popular and media culture. Burlesque humor and deep sincerity are entwined and unconstrained, placing the spectator in an odd state of laughter and contemplation. The artists all stand out with their highly personal artistic language and their unique formal sensibility.

Baard Ask (b. 1978, lives in Oslo)
Ask works mainly with video in large-scale installations. His video work, Notio Viri Placet, is a portrait of a choir as well as of individual singers. The music is specially composed and each singer is recorded individually, after which the different voices are joined together. The work plays on the dichotomy between the still and moving image, between the group and individual, and the longing for harmony and perfection. The music is composed by Jan Erik Mikalsen. Baard Ask graduated from The Art Academy in Bergen in 2005. He recently participated in the exhibition On Time at Fotogalleriet, Høstutstillingen and will have a solo exhibition at Gallery Fimbul in October 2006.

Sofie Berntsen (b. 1968, lives in Oslo)
Berntsen works with drawings, collages and watercolours, recently combined in larger installations and wall-pieces. Her precise and detailed work, inspired by geometric figures, Japanese prints, popular imagery and design, are sensuous, refined, and dream-like. Her work explores themes of myth and passion within a structure of symbolism and visual codes. Berntsen is educated at Ecole Superieure d'Arts Graphique, Parsons School of Design in N.Y. and Paris School of Visual Arts. She has exhibited extensively in Norway, with solo exhibitions at Gallery F 15, Akershus Kunstnersenter and Munchmuseet.

Daniel Jensen (b. 1972, lives in Gothenberg)
Jensen works with sculpture, drawing and painting. Referencing popular culture, folklore and the occult, Jensen's chaotic installations have the semblance of a depraved fairytale. Daniel Jensen lives and works in Gothenburg. He is educated at the Art Academy in Oslo and Gothenburg Art Academy. He has exhibited in Stockholm, Gothenburg, London and Oslo.

Eline McGeorge (b. 1975, Oslo, lives in London)
McGeorge works with a range of materials such as plastic, wood, paper or colored tape. These are combined with low-tech animations and placed in an installation that reflects and reconstructs the physical and architectural landscape. The work expresses a domestic sensibility that, while familiar, tips into the realm of the mythic and unknown. Eline McGeorge lives and works in London. She graduated from Goldsmiths College of Art in 2001. She has exhibited in Oslo, Prague, Reykjavik and London. She is represented by Gallery Hollybush Gardens in London

Martin Skauen (b. 1975, lives in Oslo)
Skauen's large-scale drawings depict a Boschean world where grotesque, humoristic and flamboyant scenes unfold. Recently, the artist has started filming the drawings with a hand held camera and composing music to accompany the projection. The camera moves slowly over the drawings' surface directing the viewer across a base and beautiful landscape of hybrid characters. Martin Skauen lives and works in Oslo. He graduated from the Art Academy in Oslo in 2002. He has exhibited in Oslo, Malmö, Stockholm, New York, Copenhagen and London, and is represented by Laura Bartlett Gallery.

Lars Monrad Vaage (b. 1973, lives in Oslo)
Vaage's drawings and paintings depict ancient creatures and strange figurations. The work is distinguished by a humour and an almost childish enthusiasm, which nevertheless manifests a melancholic undertone. The artist was educated at The Art Academy in Oslo and Helsinki. Vaage has exhibited in several group shows in Norway, and will have his first solo exhibition at Galleri Riis next year. He is represented by Gallery Riis in Oslo.

Hanneline Visnes (b. 1972, Bergen. Lives and works in Glasgow)
Visnes's rich and intricate drawings and paintings employ repetitive and decorative imagery, appropriated from a range of historical and cultural sources such as Persian tiles or medieval manuscripts. In Visnes' work, the harmonious elements of design are punctured by the incongruous, resulting in an effect that is both charms and unsettles. Hanneline Visne! s trained at Glasgow School of Art. She has shown in numerous shows internationally, including the Venice Biennale 2003, Prague Biennale 2003, Essl Museum, Vienna, CCA Glasgow. She has a solo show at Pumphouse Gallery in London from May 20 - July 16. Visnes is represented by doggerfisher, Edinburgh.


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JB BAYLE (FR)

Trans-national Disobedient Entertainment

1000 ANS DE JAZZ er et arkiv av JB Bayles prosjekter. Det sju år gamle nettstedet har, uten særlig respekt for åndsverksloven, samlet og resirkulert kulturelt avfall hentet fra nettverk knyttet til P2P. Nettstedet har også gitt ut samleplater med automatisert noise pop, obskure coverlåter og musikk fra ytterkanten av populærkulturen.
KJ UNKNOWN_ARTIST er et  av JB Bayles aliaser som vil opptre live med et spontanoversettings-karaokesett, for første gang fremført i Norge.

CHISEL (SE)

THINGS TO THROW

Chisel er Dan Perssons soloprosjekt bestående av to elementer; elektrisk gitar og vokal.
Person har tidligere drevet med med black og death metal, men har nå gått over til å spille hard garagerock med gutteroms sound og elementer fra folk goth.
Persson har bl.a. spilt på Kling&Bang i Reykjavik og Project0047 i Berlin.
Chisel/ Dan Persson vil holde en minikonsert og lansere sin nye demo, Things to Throw.

BÅRD ASK (NO)

PHYSICAL EDUCATION DANCE

Ask vil vise en video der han har tatt utgangspunkt i en ”treningsvideo” fra Nord-Korea.
Han har brukt bilder fra Nord-Korea i tidligere verk som An Evening in the Capital, og deltok i 2002 på ”The April Spring Friendship Art Festival” i Pyongyang.
Ask har tidligere bl.a. deltatt på utstillingen «ON TIME» på Fototgalleriet, og er om kort tid også aktuell med en gruppeutstilling på Laura Bartlett Gallery i London kuratert av Helga-Marie Nordby og Ida Kierulf.

Bård Ask er nyutdannet fra Kunstakademiet i Bergen.