26 June 2011

Big heart, strong hands

Anne Helene Gjelstad
portraits of women from Kihnu and Manija islands, Estonia
Photo exhibition at Kihnu museum
24.4.-30.9.11

Touching portraits of the strong women on the small islands with the unique culture, Manija and Kihnu in south-west Estonia.

Anne Helene Gjelstad - Big heart, strong hands

Anne Helene Gjelstad - Big heart, strong hands

Anne Helene Gjelstad - Big heart, strong hands

Anne Helene Gjelstad - Big heart, strong hands

Anne Helene Gjelstad - Big heart, strong hands

16 June 2011

Xplosif exhibition

Ølhallene, Tou Scene
16.-18.6.11
Kegr, Marr & Leon, Ridder, Morten Jensen Vågen, Thomas Stavnes, Casper Jackson, Espen Henningsen, Atle Østrem

A great exhibition balancing on the border of graffiti, ranging from a bombed truck and graffiti on canvas to framed pictures and installations.

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Kegr

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Atle Østrem

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Morten Vågen Jensen

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Exhibition overview

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Marr & Leon

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Espen Henningsen

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Atle Østrem

Tou Works 3

exhibition
Tou Scene
20.-26.6.11

The third edition of Tou Works is soon opening. Here is a teaser from the beer hall where Frido Evers will make a large installation.

Work in progress - Frido Evers

Portable lawn

Public art
Frode Jakobsen and Morten Engebretsen
Tou Scene

Very interesting project: a portable lawn large enough to relax on with a beer in the sun, small enough to be transported around. On display at Tou scene during Tou Camp.

Grass installation by Frode Jakobsen and Morten Engebretsen

Xplosif graffiti exhibition

Ølhallene, Tou Scene
opening Thursday 16.6.11 20:00

Kegr
Marr & Leon
Ridder
Morten Jensen Vågen
Thomas Stavnes
Casper Jackson
Espen Henningsen
Atle Østrem

A sneak preview about what to expect at the graffiti exhibition at Tou Scene during the Xplosif hiphop festival.

Xplosif exhibition

Xplosif exhibition

Xplosif exhibition

Xplosif exhibition

15 June 2011

RISO / PFcrew in Kristiansand

sticker streetart
Kristiansand, Norway
june 2011

This group is very active with their naivistic rough style stickers all over the main pedestrian street "Markens" in Kristiansand.

They say I have a cool hairstyle, I say it is ok
They say I have a cool hairstyle, I say it is ok

You can dance & impress Riso
You can dance & impress Riso

Riso
Riso

Stand clear PF crew up in here
Stand clear PF crew up in here

Kåre Johnny is happy, he has paid his drug debt
Kåre Johnny is happy, he has paid his drug debt

More about Riso / PF crew here

12 June 2011

Tou Camp exhibition opening

Tou Camp
26.5.-26.6.11
48 local artists at art festival
Tou Scene, Stavanger

Tou Scene open all rooms at the large former brewery complex for a month's festival of Tou Camp. In addition to loads of concerts, happenings, dance performances, 48 artists take the rooms in use. This has several purposes: This shows the potential of the buildings if there will be sufficient funding for rehabilitation. This shows the difficult conditions of the present rooms. This shows the variety of the artists of Stavanger at the moment. And this is all in all a grand party of culture.

Since the opening of Tou Camp 25.6.11 the artists have prepared their part of the exhibition until the exhibition opening the 9.6.11. Some have chosen to show what they have done before, some show present work, and some have made installations specific for this location and occation.

Here are some highlights:

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Opening speech
Opening speech

Christopher Jonassen
Christopher Jonassen
-very accurate and impressive photos of a hand squeezing a stress ball

Agnes Btffn
Agnes Btffn
- recycling the old curtains of the building as draperies, clothing etc

Susanne Christensen & Kenneth Varpe
Susanne Christensen & Kenneth Varpe
- a video of waves breaking its way into the room, furniture slowly sinking into the floor. Enter at your own risk, maybe you start sinking too?

Snøfrid Hunsbedt Eiene
Snøfrid Hunsbedt Eiene
pages with drawings from her catalogue are swirled around in the room, covering the walls, floor and roof. Entering the room you enter her world.

Anita Tjemsland
Anita Tjemsland
- examples of her accurate documentation of the architecture of downtown Stavanger, to be used on plexiglass or etching

Kristin Velle-George
Kristin Velle-George
- in the old archive she has hidden her magic potions, her glowing mixtures. Visitors can borrow a lamp to look around on their own.

Elizabeth Croft
Elizabeth Croft
- analyzing and exploring the visual and physical properties of the room, documenting it in a model placed in an archive drawer. In a future renovated artist studio building this will be an archive of how the room looked like before.

Tove Kommedal
Tove Kommedal
This is a box. The art you want is inside it. - message of worries from the future

Line Anda Dalmar
Line Anda Dalmar
- placing face features from the most gorgeous faces of Hollywood on her own face

Marisa Ferreira
Marisa Ferreira
- an installation where the visitors can replace the color digits according to their own wishes

Elin Melberg
Elin Melberg
- disco shoes, part of the large "I wish I wish I wish in vain" installation

Marit Victoria Wulff Andreassen
Marit Victoria Wulff Andreassen
- surprising the public by not presenting drawings, but an installation

Evy Horpestad Tjåland & Yvonne Buske
Evy Horpestad Tjåland & Yvonne Buske
- knitting installation with references to Charles Dickens, pointing to a hidden aggressiveness in the handicraft

Eirik Lyster
Eirik Lyster
- always a pleasure to see his glamorous, twinkling artwork

10 June 2011

Gorm Liland

Paintings
Annes Galleri & Ramme, Sandnes
7.-30.6.11

Some impressions of my favourites from the exhibition:

Gorm Liland - Chairs With Wheels
Chairs With Wheels

Gorm Liland - Sitting Nude & Gate Guards
Sitting Nude & Gate Guards

Gorm Liland - Protectors
Protectors

Gorm Liland - Two Women
Two Women

09 June 2011

M-city in Gdansk

Two impressive murals by m-city in Gdansk:

In a school yard, partly painted by school children:
M-city

In a back yard, collaboration with Ozmo:
m-city and ozmo

m-city and ozmo

m-city and ozmo
Detail

Krik

Meet Krik, a very productive artist in the streets of Gdansk, Poland:

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