Listen to the review of the exhibition Oppvåkning by Mona Pahle Bjerke.
REVIEW by Mona Pahle Bjerke
March 21st: BOOK RELEASE OPPVÅKNING in Oslo
I welcome you all to the Oslo release of the book Oppvåkning/Awakening at Tronsmo Bookstore at 16.30. The book is a collaboration between Josefine Klougart, Arne Vinnem, Charlotte Thiis-Evensen, Eivind Buene and me, made in connection with our exhibitions at Kristiansand Kunsthall and Kunsthall Grenland.
All the artists will be present to talk about the book and the prosess of the collaboration.
The book is made with support from Fritt Ord, Norske Fagfotografers Fond, Kristiansand Kunsthall and Kunsthall Grenland.
DAGBLADET by Nina Strand
Thanks to Nina Strand for writing about our book Oppvåkning in Dagbladet.
ARTICLE about "De krøp inn i sin fars søvn".
Thanks to Sonia Anita Jensen for writing about my grandfathers story from second world war. This is the story that started the project "De krøp inn i sin fars søvn", which is exhibited at Kunsthall Grenland until the 12th of March 2017.
Documentation photo: Tor Simen Ulstein
February 9th: BOOK LAUNCH of the publication GR-02092017 at Fotogalleriet, Oslo.
Come to the book launch of the publication GR-02092017 Thursday the 9th of February at Fotogalleriet, Oslo.
In this attempt to do a re-make of the image archive of The Golden Records the curator Silja Leifsdottir has invited 12 co-curators, each nominating a list of artists for the publication. The publication aims to create an anthology that can tell a story about who we are / were and what we want to leave behind us from an contemporary photographic perspective, with the material in The Voyager Golden Records as backdrop.
List of participating artists:
Adam Fuss / Adam Golfer / Adam Jeppesen / Alec Soth / Alejandra Laviada / Alejandro Cartagena / Aleksander Rodchenko / Ana-Maria Preduț / Andrew Hammerand / Anne Collier / Annika von Hausswolff / Anouk Kruithof / Arseny Zhilyaev / Awoiska van der Molen / Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme / Beatrix Pang / Bjarne Bare / Bogdan Bordeianu / Brud / Carolyn Drake / Chen Kun Hui / Ching Chin Wai / Christina Leithe Hansen / Daisuke Yokota / Daniel Stier / David Fathi / Denes Miklosi / Doug Dubois / Eliza Hutchison / Emil Salto / Espen Gleditsch / Espen Tveit / Eva Stenram / Federico Ciamei / Francesca Catastini / Giulia Mangione / Godwin Koay / Guadalupe Ruiz / Guy Tillim / Hajime Kimura / Ingrid Eggen / Jaap Scheeren / Jetmir Idrizi / Judith Joy Ross / Ka-Man Tse / Katrin Koenning / Kiluanji Kia Henda / Lau Wai / Lina Selander / Lisa Oppenheim / Lorena Guillen Vaschetti / Lorenzo Vitturi / Lucas Blalock / Mame-Diarra Niang / Marianna Dellekamp / Marie Sjøvold / Mariela Sancari / Marwa Arsanios / Matt Lipps / Mihai Șovăială / Mikhael Subotzky / Ming Wong / Morten Andenæs / Mårten Lange / Nadia Mounier / Nico Krebs & Taiyo Onorato / Nicu Ilfoveanu / Ola Rindal / Oleg Samoilov / Patricia Piccinini / Peter Puklus / Pieter Hugo / Pipilotti Rist / Preben Holst / Sabelo Mlangeni / Sandrine Lopez / Setareh Shahbazi / Shimpei Takeda / Shirana Shahbazi / Sonja Thomsen / Susan Derges / Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson / Tereza Zelenkova / Torbjørn Rødland / Tracey Moffatt / Trevor Paglen / Veronica Gerber Bicecci / Vik Lai / Vittorio Mortarotti / Viviane Sassen / Vlad Albu / Vojtech Veskrna / Wawi Navarroza / Wendy Ewald / Wolfgang Tillmans / Yafei Qi / Yakov Chernikhov / Yamamoto Masao / Yvonne Todd
List of participating co-curators:
Charlotte Cotton, Pippa Milne, Edson Chagas, Nina Strand, Mariela Sancari, Mahmoud Khaled, Shimpei Takeda, Tim Clark, Ivan Galuzin, Alina Șerban, Beatrix Pang, Anouk Kruithof
For more information about the exhibition WHAT REMAINS:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1655205784773758/
In this attempt to do a re-make of the image archive of The Golden Records the curator Silja Leifsdottir has invited 12 co-curators, each nominating a list of artists for the publication. The publication aims to create an anthology that can tell a story about who we are / were and what we want to leave behind us from an contemporary photographic perspective, with the material in The Voyager Golden Records as backdrop.
The publication GR-02092017 accompanies the exhibition WHAT REMAINS and includes work by over 100 photographers and artists, amongst them Adam Jeppesen, Alec Soth, Annika von Hausswolff, Anouk Kruithof, Daisuke Yokota, Emil Salto, Espen Tveit, Lina Selander, Lorenzo Vitturi, Lucas Blalock, Pieter Hugo, Pipilotti Rist, Torbjørn Rødland, Tracey Moffatt and Wolfgang Tillmans.
The exhibition and publication is inspired by the Voyager Golden Records, an archive established in 1977 and sent out into space as a coded record, intended as a greeting to extraterrestrial life and/or our future descendants. The record was placed on board the Voyager spacecraft and is currently orbiting in space, not heading toward any particular star, but estimated to pass within 1.6 light-years of the star Gliese 445, currently in the constellation Camelopardalis, in about 40,000 years. The project was directed by NASA in collaboration with the astronomer and writer Carl Sagan and his team. This archive contains a choice of sounds, music, images and greetings in 54 different languages and a speech from the president of USA at that time, Jimmy Carter. All intended to represent the diversity of life and culture on Earth. In addition to this, 118 photographs where selected to fill in the gaps of unique information about our civilization and who we are that the other aspects could not.
The first picture in the Golden Records archive is of a calibration circle. The idea behind it was to start the story with a simple geometrical form, something easy. The diagram on the cover of the record, which is supposed to show how the audio signal is to be reconverted back to video, also ends with a picture of a circle. Thus, if the recipients follow the instruction correctly, the first image they reproduce will be the circle shown on the cover of the record. This will supposedly tell them they are proceeding correctly in addition to confirming the ration of height to width.
Even though there has been put a lot of thought into simplifying things, everything becomes abstract when it is taken out of its own time and context. There are several ways to read the calibration circle, one being that there is only one correct way to see things. But it could also be read as a reminder that it is important to calibrate our own perception when looking at something or someone. Ideally, like a device that made all things universal and timeless, like a pair of special sunglasses.
Grappling with history whilst attempting to map the current also involves forecasting about—and in some respects producing —the future. The responsibility is daunting, because for every story you choose to tell, there is a story that is not told. Not knowing who your audience is, makes it an even bigger challenge, but it is important to continue to do so, because no ones sends a message on a long journey without a positive hope for the future, for it being a future, and an audience.
To the questions of who the Earth’s habitants are, there are of course as many answers as there are people. The power lies with the storyteller, in this case Carl Sagan and NASA, thus the archive becomes, among other things, a view on the world from the eyes of America.
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January 15th, 15.00: ARTIST TALK at Hå gamle Prestegard
Sunday the 15th of January, I will travle to Hå Gamle Prestegard to talk about “While we were sleeping” in the exhibition THEY TAKE YOUR PHOTOGRAPH. YOU COME INTO EXISTENCE. Hope to see you there. There will be a presentation of the group exhibition before I talk about the work “While we were sleeping” .
February 11th: New exhibition at Kunsthall Grenland
The exhibition Oppvåkning will open at Kunsthall Grenland on the 11th of February, 2017.
In this exhibition with the title Oppvåkning/Awaikening you will find work by Arne Vinnem, Charlotte Thiis-Evensen and me.
The exhibition will be open until the 12th of March and you are all welcome!
For more info read here:
Read about the book Oppvåkning/Awakening in Objektiv Magazine
Here is an interview with Charlotte Thiis-Evensen and Josefine Klougart about our collaborative book project Oppvåking/Awakening by Lisa Andrine Bernhoft-Sjødin.
Documentation photos by Arne Vinnem.
Read here:
Interview about my newest work at OFKS
Here you can read an interview about my work "De krøp inn i sin fars søvn" and "In person" done for OFKSFOTO. It is only in Norwegian language.
Boken Oppvåkning av Charlotte Thiis-Evensen, Marie Sjøvold, Josefine Klougart, Arne Vinnem, Eivind Buene
I forbindelse med utstillingen Oppvåkning i Kristiansand Kunsthall og Kunsthall Grenland lanseres også en bok med samme tittel. Utgivelsen er laget av Charlotte Thiis-Evensen, Marie Sjøvold, Arne Vinnem, Eivind Buene og Josefine Klougart. Istedenfor å samle utstillingens verk i en felles katalog, ville kunstnerne undersøke hva som skjer når boken, og prosessen av å lage bok, former utstillingen. Bokens transmediale innhold undersøker hvordan de forskjellige kunstneriske språkene og tilnærmingene (prosa, fotografi, noter, brev) påvirker hverandre og hvordan det tillegger hvert bidrag nye nivåer av innhold og mening. Boken tar metodisk utgangspunkt i måten en brettetegning er laget på. Hver kunstner ga et bidrag og limte/tegnet/noterte det inn i en bok som så gikk på rundgang. Boken har blitt omdesignet med fokus på å bevare originalbokens taktile og fysiske prosess. Den er bundet inn for hånd med japansk innbinding av kunstnerne selv og gis ut i et opplag på 500 nummererte bøker. Boken kan kjøpes på Kristiansand Kunsthall eller her.
Utgivelsen av boken Oppvåkning er støttet Fritt Ord, Norske Fagfotografers Fond, Kristiansand Kunsthall og Kunsthall Grenland.
Hå Gamle Prestegard/Velkommen til åpening av utstillingen THEY TAKE YOUR PHOTOGRAPH. YOU COME INTO EXISTENCE
VELKOMNE TIL OPNING AV NYE UTSTILLING PÅ
HÅ GAMLE PRESTEGARD
LØRDAG 26. NOVEMBER KL. 14.00r
Signe Marie Andersen, Kristoffer Eliassen, Katinka Goldberg, Helle Grøndahl, Hilde Krohn Huse, Tine Isachsen Og Sara Tanderø, Marie Sjøvold,
Vigdis Storsveen
THEY TAKE YOUR PHOTOGRAPH. YOU COME INTO EXISTENCE.
fotografi, video, installasjon
Opning ved Christine Hansen
Etter opninga blir det performance av Helle Grøndahl med tittelen Explaining Trans* to a Dead Wig (They take your photograph and you come into existence).
http://www.hagamleprestegard.no/
«Subjektet rommer et ukjent antall identiteter og mulige narrativer – betrakteren lar seg lede, og har et begrenset utvalg korrektiver. Den selviscenesettende kunstneren går inn i bildet og blir til noe annet – både virkelig og fiktiv, bekreftende og normoppløsende.»
(Line Ulekleiv i utstillingskatalogen)
Utstillinga They take your photograph. You come into existence syner korleis somme kunstarar vel å nytte seg sjølv i eigen kamerabaserte kunst. Det kan vera i sjølvanalyse av eigen kropp, om identitet, om sosiale eller samfunnsaktuelle tema.
Kvifor er det slik at somme kunstnarar nyttar sin eigen kropp i eigen kunst? Sjølv om dette er noko enkelte kunstnarar alltid har gjort, var det først med postmodernismen at dette vart vanleg meir utbredt.
Kva samanhengar finnes det mellom identitetsdanning og iscenesetjing av sjølvet? Er identitet noko som blir konstruert eller er det noko me har?
Ein av grunnane til å fokusera på kroppen i kunsten er at samfunnet generelt er oppteken
av kropp og individ. Fjernsyn, aviser og ikkje minst Internett er ein arena for dyrking av individet og eksponering av kropp og det menneskelege sjølvet.
Før var identitetsdanninga noko som skjedde meir eller mindre automatisk gjennom generasjonane. I eit globaliset samfunn med større økonomisk-, og for mange, sosial fridom, er desse mønstra oppheva og det er meir opp til kvar enkelt å bestemma kva ein vil med livet sitt. Med dette følgjer større individuell fridom, og større press. I tillegg handlar det om å definera seg sjølv.
Dei inviterte kunstnarane arbeider med ulike uttrykk og representerer eit utval av det mangfaldet av kunstnarar som nyttar seg sjølv i eigen kunst i dag. Kunstnarane i utstillinga er representert med videoverk, fotografi, lydinstallasjon og collage.
I samband med utstillinga er det laga ein utstillingskatalog med tekst frå alle kunstnarane der dei har skrive om korleis dei sjølv arbeider med eigen kropp i kunsten sin. Skribent, kritikar og redaktør Line Ulekleiv har skrive hovudteksten til katalogen.
Exhibition at Kristiansand Kunsthall 05.11-30.12.2016
On Saturday 5th of November I opened the exhibition "Oppvåkning/Awakening" at Kristiansand Kunsthall together with Charlotte Thiis-Evensen and Arne Vinnem. For over a year each one of us have been working on separate exhibitions with a common theme: Sleep and awakening. You can see the work in Kristiansands three art halls.
For this exhibition I am showing the new series of work "De krøp inn i sin fars søvn" and "In Person". I am exhibiting video, photography and sound installations. The experience of the exhibition changes with the light, or lack of light, from the beautiful windows of the space. So if you have the possibility, please see the exhibition both when the sun is up and after the dark has fallen.
The work is supported by Fritt Ord and Kulturrådet/Diversestipendet.
From the opening at Kristiansand Kunsthall. "De krøp inn i sin fars søvn". Photography and video installation.
From the opening at Kristiansand Kunsthall. "De krøp inn i sin fars søvn". Photography and video installation.
From the opening at Kristiansand Kunsthall. "In Person".
From the opening at Kristiansand Kunsthall. "In Person".
From the opening at Kristiansand Kunsthall. "De krøp inn i sin fars søvn". Sound installation.
aff Galerie Berlin/Keep Your Eyes Peeled II
Friday the 29th of April one of my images from "Dust Catches Light" will be exhibited at the group exhibition "Keep Your Eyes Peeled II" at aff Galerie in Berlin.
https://www.facebook.com/events/837205093050924/
Unfortunately I will not be present at the opening myself, but please stop by from 19.00 to view works by Michael Ackerman, Arnau Blanch, Stéphanie Bonn, Verena Brüning, Olga Bubich, Jaane Christensen, Pierre Defaix, Anna Eckold, Sibylle Fendt, Kathrin Ganser, Joachim Gern, Mika Gröber, Ulrich Hagel, Samuel Henne, Fred Hüning, Lioba Keuck, Constantin Köster, Tobias Kruse, Alexander Labrentz, Sebastian Lange, Inga Alice Lauenroth, Kolja Linowitzki, Tatsiana Lisovskaja, Jonas Maron, Kevin Mertens, Marielle Viola Morawitz, Patricia Morosan, Lene Münch, Juli Nazarova, Jana Ritchie, Ulrich Rüger, Thomas Sandberg, Laura Yawira Scheffer, Julia Schiller, Anna Charlotte Schmid, Valerie Schmidt, Ina Schröder, Tanya Shcherbinina, Marie Sjøvold, Julia Smirnova, Kate Smuraga, Christoph Soeder, Sarah Straßmann, Katrin Streicher, Ingo Taubhorn, Roselyne Titaud, Andreas Trogisch, Kathrin Tschirner, Alexa Vachon, Alexander Veledzimovich, Kahro Vrij, Franca Wohlt & Ulrich Wüst.
A big thanks to Mika Gröber and the team at aff Galerie.
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien | WELCOME TO MY DARK
I just came back from the best days in Berlin, being part of the exhbition Welcome to my dark at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien. The exhibition is curated by Patricia Morosan and these are her words on the exhibition.
“The exhibition “WELCOME TO MY DARK” shows works by internationally renowned photographers, which establish a link between the personal and the intimate. The subjective-emotional view in the works of Michael Ackerman (USA), Stéphane Charpentier (FR), Damien Daufresne (FR/DE), Alisa Resnik (DE/RUS) and Marie Sjøvold (NOR) represents an inner strength, emerging from an intense examination of their reality. “WELCOME TO MY DARK ” reflects these inner worlds and invites to welcome them.”
Opening: Thursday, November 26, 2015, 19h
Exhibition: November 27, 2015 – January 17, 2016
Curated by Patricia Morosan
Finissage: Sunday, January 17, 2016, 19h
Opening hours
Daily 10-19h
Venue: Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien > “Raum der Komplizen”
Free admission
Photos by Mirjam Siefert.
MIDNIGHT MILK IS THE BESTSELLING PHOTOBOOK AT TRONSMO IN 2015
Midnight Milk is the most sold photobook in 2015 by Tronsmo book store. My publisher Journal Forlag is well represented with Norwegian Journal of Photography#1 and #2, Nina Strand/Dr. Strand and Terje Abusdal/ Radius 500 metres. My work At night Everyone is alone can be seen in Norwegian Journal of Photography#1.
1) Midnight Milk, Marie Sjøvold
2)Norwegian Journal of Photography #2, Red: Flemming, Rasmussen, Eraker & Matsen
3)Dr. Strand, Nina Strand
4)Wilse: mitt Norge, Red: Bjorli et al.
5)Hold Still - a Memoir with Photographs, Sally Mann
6)The Decisive Moment, Henri Cartier-Bresson
7)Radius 500 metres, Terje Abusdal
8)Genesis, Sebastiao Salgado
9)Norwegian Journal of Photography nr 1, Red:Flemming, Rasmussen, Eraker & Matsen
10) A Moveable Beast, Helge Skodvin
EXHIBITION VIEW OF STØVKRYSTALLER AT GALLERI F15
November 28th 2015 - January 24th 2016, Galleri F15, Jeløya
I want to thank the team at Galleri F15 for being so positive, knowledgeable and professional down to every detail throughout the whole process of STØVKRYSTALLER. And I want to thank Damian Heinisch for his beautiful documentation of our exhibition.
"Crystals of Dust presents the camera based projects of Bente Geving, Viktor Micka, Laila Kongevold, Marie Sjøvold and Christine Hansen. Using their own family experiences as points of departure, these artists all explore subjects related to dementia and Alzheimer. This is one of the first art-exhibitions in Norway that deals with such an important issue. Dementia often remains a taboo in our society. The disease is characterized by loss of memory and troubles in executing daily routines. Gradually a patient loses their relational bonds to friends and family.
The exhibition contains visual and sensual approaches to this issue and uses the photographic medium's interplay of memory and the past. As individuals we only remember fragments of our life. When we start forgetting, our memory becomes even more fragmentary. It is as if the memory crystalizes and a distance develops between each and every memory. Photography is also a fragment of reality, this exhibition uses a variety of methods to explore this topic in both a documentary and poetic manner.
Crystals of Dust explores the span between the sufferer's changed relation to his/her environment and the relatives’ reconciliation with this. The exhibition also investigates how we can communicate with family members that are still alive, but have their conditions of life entirely changed."
The exhibition is curated by Christine Hansen
INTERVIEW IN SALONGEN NRK P2 RADIO
I spent an hour with Ragnhild Laukvik Sandvik, Jørgen Strickert and his dog Patti.
Your can listen to the interview here in Norwegian: https://radio.nrk.no/serie/salongen/
My view on Patti...
...and Patti´s view on me.
REVIEW OF THE EXHIBITION STØVKRYSTALLER BY MONA PAHLE BJERKE
Listen to Mona Pahle Bjerkes review of Støvkrystaller at Kulturhuset NRK Radio P2.
INTERVIEW IN AFTENPOSTEN
Thanks to Heidi Borud for the interview about the exhibition Støvkrystaller in Aftenposten.
www.aftenposten.no
NR.1 ON TRONSMO TOPP 10
Midnight Milk is nr. 1 on Tronsmo bookstore Top Ten bestseller list together with amazing books like M Train by Patti Smith and the two Journal books 240 Landscapes by Helge Skodvin and Radius 500 metres by Terje Abusdal.
And this is how it looked with Dust Catches Light 3 years ago...
