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Summer of Production at Visningsrommet USF
26.06 – 01.08.2009
Vernissage 26.06.2009 // 19.00
Finissage 01.08.2009 // 19.00
c/o Visningsrommet
c/o Visningsrommet USF er Anna Christina Lorenzen, Malin Lennström-Örtwall, Stefan Törner og Vilde Salhus Røed. De fire kunstnerne starter i sommer atelierfellesskapet Bergen Ateliergruppe på Dokken hvor sytten kunstnere vil ha sitt daglige virke. Fellesnevner for kunstprosjektene som skjer under navnet c/o er prosess, samarbeid og det å aktivt innta steder. På bakgrunn av dette har Visningsrommet i sommer utfordret de fire til å videreføre deres samarbeidsbaserte arbeid i form av en utstilling i Visningsrommet.
Participating artists:Ragnhild Ohma, Randi Grov Berger, Lisa Him-Jensen, Christian Hjelle, Kirsti van Hoegee, Susanna Kajermo, Malin Lennström-Örtwall, Anna Christina Lorenzen, Cato Løland, Hector Piña-Barrios, Petra Rahm, Linda Rogn, Vilde Salhus Røed, Alette Schei Rørvik, Karen Skog, Stefan Törner and Knud Young Lunde.
New Nordic Photography 2009
Flaggfabrikken member Toril Johannessen will exhibit in the group show New Nordic Photography 2009 at Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg, Sweden. This years edition is named From now on and opens 6pm, June 4th.
From the pressrelease:
New Nordic Photography 2009 June 5 - August 23
New Nordic Photography is the annual summer exhibition presented by the Hasselblad Foundation, exhibiting new works by emerging Nordic photography artists.
New Nordic Photography has been one of the annual exhibitions since 2004 for the Hasselblad Foundation. Each year, the work of 8 to 10 young photographers is displayed. The Victor Fellowships for that year are awarded to two of these young photographers. One recipient is granted a one year postgraduate training in United Kingdom and another recipient receives a five month artist-in-residency program at Location One in New York City.
The following applicants for the 2009 Victor Fellowships have been selected to contribute to the exhibition and consequently to compete for this year’s Victor Fellowships:
The Bachelor-group
Thomas Bergh, Emanuel Cederqvist, Carolin Harrysson, Klara Källström, Mårten Lange, Wakaba Noda, Gustavo Perillo
The Master-group
Mattias Ericsson, Lina Jaros, Toril Johannessen, Maria Sahlander
The upcoming Director of UKS co-curates show at Hordaland Kunstsenter
Linus Elmes is an artist and a curator from Stockholm who has been appointed the new Director of UKS in Oslo. In 2008 Elmes was the guest of Flaggfabrikken presenterer with his project Ersta Konsthall. Elmes has also worked with the galleries Ak28 and AEREA.
In Hordaland Kunstsenter Linus Elmes, Anne Szefer Karlsen and Petra Rahm will present the exhibition situation DIG IT. From the press release “DIG IT describes how artistic methods and strategies are influenced by art, both a as phenomena within the social space, and through its presence in the studio practice. DIG IT is a set of particular key- works we have identified as an important intellectual heritage.”
Participating artists are:
Po Hagström, Ellen Karolina Jakobsson Strømsø, Mikael Lundberg, Tova Mozard, Ylva Ogland, Sveinung Rudjord Unneland and Anders Widoff.
Find out more at www.kunstsenter.no
Opening at Gallery USF, Bergen: 7pm May 22nd
CAM
The title CAM refers to the practice of illegally copying movies by filming the screen in movie theatres. The exhibition actively refers to this practice by including a series of cammed contemporary art exhibitions currently showing in galleries and museums in more than ten countries on three continents.
The exhibition is curated by Arne Skaug Olsen together with Erlend Hammer, Jan Christensen, Synnøve G Wetten, Andre Gali, James Webb and Lerato Bereng, Jooyoung Lee, Jimmi Limit, Wang Baoju, Joris Lindhout, Jan Freuchen, Runa Johannessen and Dan Levenson.
Read more at www.visningsrommet-usf.no
Flaggfabrikken guest artist Susanna Majuri at the Turku Biennial 2009
Surface is the theme of the Turku Biennial in 2009. The thirteen artists selected to take part will reveal surfaces and depths of life with their new works.
Click here to read more..
Flaggfabrikken presenterer FADED LOVE SONGS @ Landmark 21:00, May 7th
In the last event of the series Fatal Nordic Attractions we have invited Norwegian artist Aurora Sandlilje. Sandlilje works mainly with performance and video and will combine the two in Landmark. Read more…
Toril Johannessen at Hordaland Kunstsenter 17.04-26.04
TORIL JOHANNESSEN & SIDSEL MEINECHE HANSEN -
THE GENERIC STONE
OPENING APRIL 17th AT 7pm
LECTURE SATURDAY APRIL 25th AT 1pm
The ultimate consequence of conceptually based art is a total absence of objects. With this exhibition we will take a closer look at the status of the art object and its’ value by mapping the process of production and the materiality of the one object on display in the exhibiton – a stone produced in a laboratory.
Hordaland Art Centre (HKS) has invited the two artists Toril Johannessen and Sidsel Meineche Hansen to show their recent project The Generic Stone to discuss issues related to knowledge production based on an object.
The Generic Stone is a type of granite, which is one of the most common rocks to be found. The stone on display at Hordaland Art Centre is a synthesis in the sense that it is composed of pure chemicals. The stone is consequently synthetic, while its chemical composition is identical to that of granite, and in that sense also natural. In a lecture to be held in the exhibition the artists will tell how the stone came about, its material specifics and the process that produced it.
The artists write: In physics there is no such thing as synergy, or increased power through interactions. In comparison, one can say that the process of creating the stone in principle is, scientifically speaking, without synergy: A certain set of known factors, pure chemicals, are put together in one machine to form a prescribed result: synthetic granite. What is put in is equal to what comes out, producing no new scientific insights. However, unlike physics, the synthetic stone’s transition from one knowledge system to another – from science to design and to art – enables a position where we can talk about knowledge-related synergies, namely that it generates a discourse. In our lecture we will analyze the process and the production of the stone to examine the value and knowledge production in which the project will result.
The artists would like to thank Rune Selbekk, curator of mineralogy at the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo.
The project is supported by Nordic Culture Point.
(This text is from www.kunstsenter.no)
Flaggfabrikken presenterer HOLY WATER @ Landmark 21:00
This spring´s artist in residence Susanna Majuri from Finland will present her works at Landmark tonight 21:00. Please join us and her invited friends Lau Nau and Cyber Puppy 007 for an evening rich of impressions, and maybe even some dancing. Click here for more info…
Kjetil Kausland winner of Bergensprisen!
Flaggfabrikken member Kjetil Kausland won the category for performative arts with his performance No Más. Bergensprisen is arranged by the cityguide Natt&Dag and sums up the top cultural events of 2008 in Bergen. Read the nomination here (in Norwegian).
Flaggfabrikken presenterer Fatal Nordic Attractions. Identity in the Making.
Flaggafbrikken presenterer is back with this years first event on March 5th @ Landmark 21:00. Click to read more.
