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.

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.


Kegr


Atle Østrem


Morten Vågen Jensen


Exhibition overview


Marr & Leon


Espen Henningsen


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.

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.

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.

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


You can dance & impress Riso


Riso


Stand clear PF crew up in here


Kåre Johnny is happy, he has paid his drug debt

More about Riso / PF crew here

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:

Exhibition view


Opening speech


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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

Gorm Liland

Paintings
Annes Galleri & Ramme, Sandnes
7.-30.6.11

Some impressions of my favourites from the exhibition:


Chairs With Wheels


Sitting Nude & Gate Guards


Protectors


Two Women

M-city in Gdansk

Two impressive murals by m-city in Gdansk:

In a school yard, partly painted by school children:


In a back yard, collaboration with Ozmo:





Detail

Krik

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