News
Flaggfabrikken´s exhibition space KNIPSU opens on Friday!
Flaggfabrikken Presenterer start our new project space KNIPSU with a solo show by the American artist Lindsay Foster. Foster was an artist in residency at Flaggfabrikken this Spring.
( i n ) a u t o n o m y
Friday August 27th, 8 o´clock in Komediebakken 9 until September 12th.
Interested in exploring the space between—the ambiguities of interacting, connecting and communicating, Foster purchased a vintage motor home, fixed it up and headed out to experience the unknown.
That was the romantic plan — escape urbanity, leave the studio and embrace the open road. Interested in encountering wisdom within a temporary autonomous zone, questioning lifeworld and engaging in existential quandaries, she set out to confront the idea of both outsider isolation and insider community. The archetype became a way of studying relations – to strangers, the elements and the psychology of symbols. Interwoven social roles, specifically that of the father figure, involving power, respect and trust is foregrounded in this body of work.
Lindsay Foster was born in Seattle, Washington (1980) and currently lives and works in Seattle and Los Angeles.
She received a BA in Sociology and Studio Art from the University of Puget Sound in 2003, studied photography and film at the Maine Photographic Workshops and earned her MFA from CalArts in 2008.
Her work has recently been shown at The National Center for Contemporary Art in Saint Petersburg, Russia, the 700IS Film Festival, Iceland; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; PDX Film Festival, Portland OR; Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles; Open Gallery, Los Angeles; Angels Gate Cultural Center; AIR Gallery, New York; Los Angeles Center of Contemporary Art and the Torrance Art Museum. Foster is also the founder of TMHR (The Motor Home Residency), a mobile artist residency. She plans to begin residence at the HISK, Belgium in 2011.
Er du kunstner i Bergen?
Bergen Kommune kartlegger for tiden behovet av produksjonslokaler for det visuelle kunstfeltet i Bergen.
Svar gjerne på undersøkelsen du også, den kan lastes ned her
Skjemaet kommer til å ligge ute til besvarelse i en lengre periode, men kun de svarene som kommer inn innen 20. september 2010 blir tatt med i rulleringen av Kulturarenaplanen.
Latest news
- -Flaggfabrikken is about to open an art space in downtown Bergen called KNIPSU.
- -The grand opening of KNIPSU will be on August 27th 2010 with a solo show by guest artist Lindsay Foster. www.lindsayfoster.com
- -Flaggfabrikken and The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz, Poland have received funding from the eea grants to carry out a collaboration of workshops, seminar, e-Exhibition, and publication.
- -September 17th the group show Blackout will open in KNIPSU. Blackout is part of the Flaggfabrikken Presenterer Nordic Art Express and an exchange project with the artist run gallery Huuto in Helsinki. The Finnish artists exhibiting in Bergen are all members of Huuto, and in January 2011 Flaggfabrikken members will exhibit in Helsinki. Participating artists in Bergen: Inka Nieminen, Minna Suoniemi, Juhana Moisander, Heta Kuchka, Jaako Rustanius, Kimmo Kumela, Kasper Muttonen, Sari Palosaari and Aleksi Tolonen.
- -September 30th will Flaggfabrikken Presenterer celebrate 5 years at Landmark!
- -October 22nd will be the opening of the group show Return of the light and its unbearable brightness. In May 2010 Flaggfabrikken Presenterer Nordic Art Express carried out a workshop and art event in Ilulissat, Greenland. Participating artists: Doris Frohnapfel (DE), Georg Olsen (GL), Heidi Mortenson (DK), Ingrid Askeland (NO) and Maiju Salmenkivi (FIN).
Toril Johannessen at LAUTOM Contemporary
LAUTOM invites you to the opening of its new exhibition with
Chris Cornish, Kristin Nordhøy and Toril Johannessen.
Thursday 20th of May at 7 PM. The exhibition ends on the 13th of June.
LAUTOM is proud to present an exhibition with Chris Cornish, Kristin Nordhøy and Toril Johannessen, three artists who through detailed process, each in their own way insist on small elements in order to tell a larger story.
Chris Cornish often works with virtual spaces or sites that exist by virtue of its function or exclusively for the activities taking place there, and is considered to have little or no intrinsic value. Cornish has 3D scanned the walls of the gallery and from this material made photographs, which, instead of reproducing color and surface, depicts irregularities in the walls, traces of past screw holes and polyfilled and sanded areas. The images are then digitally given color and light, so that they appear to be photographs of the walls. But if you look closer you can see that the images have a digital quality over them, unlike normal photographs. In the sculpture The Zone, 2008-10, Cornish has reproduced parts of the landscape through which the characters navigate in the Andrei Tarkovsky film Stalker. Computer software is used to analyze a clip from the film resulting in a form that is an accurate but digitally simplified representation of the landscape.
Kristin Nordhøy has meticulously covered one end wall with a dense grid of fine masking tape before painting over it and removing the masking tape. The result is a wall painting that changes character depending on the distance from the work one stands. Nordhøy has made a series of wall works with masking tape, or foil on window. In this work, she removes the masking tape and lets the white shadows of the tape explain the process that is at the heart of the work.
Toril Johannessen is interested in how science, art and academia relate to the broader public and our understanding of what’s going on in these specific and somewhat inaccessible fields. In this show at Lautom she addresses the quantitative use of selected words throughout the history of various academic journals. Johannessen attempts with this study in a dry but humorous way to see how, or if, history is reflected in language and in the use of particular words like logic, love, expansion, hope and reality.
Chris Cornish (1979, UK) has an MA in fine Art from the Slade School of Fine Art in London. He works with video, photography and sculpture. In 2007, Cornish participated in the I Am Future Melancholic at Tate Modern in London and the fall of 2009 he took part in the exhibition Projection at Musée Carré d’Art in Nimes, France. Cornish lives and works in London, UK.
Kristin Nordhøy (1977, NO) has her Master from the Arts and Crafts School in Oslo. In 2009 she participated in the group shows Drawing Consequences at Akershus Kunstnersenter, Tempo Skien, curated by Jan Christensen and in Norwegian Summer at Galerie Gabriel Rolt in Amsterdam. In the upcoming year, she will have two solo exhibitions in Oslo, at Tegneforbundet and LAUTOM. Nordhøy lives and works in Oslo.
Toril Johannessen (1978, NO) holds a Masters degree from Bergen National Academy of the Arts. In January this year she had a solo exhibition at No5 in Bergen Kunsthall. Toril Johannessen recently returned from a residency in Vancouver, Canada. She lives and works in Bergen.
LAUTOM Contemporary
Collettsgate 6
0169 Oslo
Opening hours:
Wednesday-Friday: 12-17
Saturday-Sunday: 12-16
Or by appointment
Closed Mondays and Tuesdays and between exhibitions
Flaggfabrikken Presenterer in Greenland!!
Flaggfabrikken Presenterer is currently arranging a study trip in Ilulissat, Greenland that will result in an one-night art event in the Kulturhuset Sermermiut on Saturday May 15th, 20:00. Participating artists are: Heidi Mortenson (DK), Maiju Salmenkivi (FIN), Ingrid Askeland (NO), Georg Olsen (GL), and Doris Frohnapfel (DE).
The event is part of the series Nordic Art Express with support from Kulturkontakt Nord, Norsk Kulturråd and Bergen Kommune.
Flaggfabrikken´s Artist in Residency May – June 2010: Lindsay Foster (Seattle/US)
We are happy to welcome Lindsay Foster for the next two months!
Lindsay Foster was born in Seattle, Washington in 1980 and is currently based in Seattle and Los Angeles.
Learn more at www.lindsayfoster.com
A Downward Ascension (Ode to the Flâneur) _ from lindsay foster on Vimeo.
Common Lands – Allmannaretten
30 April
Speculation
Bik Van der Pol
Location: on the bridge from Oslo Central Station to the Opera house.
When: Opening at April 30th at 17hrs,
Duration: Speculation will be on view from April 30th – May 12th
Contact: info@commonlands.net
We should have asylum seekers; poor people should have flats in the area. This is reclaimed land, where the gypsies, the sailors, the addicts, the whores, the truck-drivers have been. All operate on the outskirts of society. The Opera is taking back this area and is giving it to the bourgeoisie.
We can imagine the uproar. How can we destroy the purity of planning? Can we conceive of another kind of future? Other perspectives? (from the script for ‘Speculation’)
In November 2009, Bik Van der Pol gathered a group of people in Oslo to speculate with them on the future of Bjørvika. On the Common Lands web-site a blog is available to make the speculation open for influences and rewritings before and after the results of this session will be presented in downtown Oslo.
‘Can we think of a reflection of the future? What might be the reflection on cultural, artistic events when Bjørvika will be an active cultural area, the ‘place to be’? The opera will function as opera, but performances are mainly are taking place in the open air, on the big public square, the roof of the building. The Munch museum will have sold all its famous paintings to generate finances to invest in the climate. What has the Oslo citizen experienced on the evening of, lets say, June 21, 2021? What play or show has he seen? Will there still be a newspaper where a review will be published? What will be written?’ (excerpt from the invitation to the people that took part in the Speculation session, November 2009)
Common Lands – Allmannaretten is curated by Åse Løvgren and Karolin Tampere
Common Lands – Allmannaretten
23 April
One fine day, all this will be yours
Dellbrügge & de Moll
When: One evening only, April 23 from 18:00 – 20:00
Location: At the first balcony, Den Norske Opera og Ballet, Bjørvika
Contact: info(at)commonlands.net
As a second stage of their project One fine day, all this will be yours. Dellbrügge & de Moll publish a libretto, staging agonistic encounters on common lands. Far from constructing a consistent whole Dellbrügge & de Moll keep adding layers: The west onto the north, the concept of private property onto the idea of common land, and the medium of film onto the medium of opera. By employing the Situationist technique of superimposing a map of one context onto another, the libretto borrows dialogs from Western movies to address issues at stake in Bjørvika. The libretto, which will be handed over as a present, challenges the visitors to become agents and enact the scenarios of conflicts over land use and participation.
Dellbrügge & de Moll: One fine day, all this will be yours. Libretto. 64 pages, 21 illustrations in color, texts in English. Berlin/Oslo 2010
Common Lands – Allmannaretten is curated by Åse Løvgren and Karolin Tampere
Common Lands – Allmannaretten
Living in Bjørvika – Vi bor i Bjørvika
Geir Tore Holm and Søssa Jørgensen
Opening Thursday, April 8th from 18 – 20
Location: Look for a container behind The Opera House, by Akerselva river, Bjørvika
When: Opening hours from April 9 to April 18th, 12 – 17 pm
Contact: info(a)commonlands.net
The notion of art as dialogue-in-practice has been central to the collaborative work of Holm and Jørgensen. In the project Living in Bjørvika, they investigate Richard Florida’s theories of the ’creative class’ and the goals of a culturally and socially diverse population for this new urban area of Oslo.
Living in Bjørvika will present models and ideas for possible alternatives to the current plans for the area, with a view to addressing gaps in the projected framework.
Will there be many artists living and working in Bjørvika?
Common Lands – Allmannaretten is curated by Åse Løvgren and Karolin Tampere
Santiago Mostyn presentation at KHiB March 23rd
Flaggfabrikken’s guest artist, Santiago Mostyn is having a presentation/talk at Röda Rummet, KhiB, Wednesday March 23rd, at 13:00
He will be focusing on working with ideas of place (cultural and geographical)
from a position of non-place, and what’s brought him to this part of the
world.
