Lina Norell : The other skyline

The Other Skyline

Lina Norell 

Opening: Friday April 26th, 20:00

Open: April 27th – 28th, 2-5 PM 

The exhibition The Other Skyline displays recent paintings from an ongoing series by Lina Norell, drawing inspiration from artificial landscapes and nature adapted to the gains and pleasure of humans. Norell’s scenery projects a mixed sense of triumph and melancholia, balancing the playful color codes of theme parks and the careful symmetry of garden installations with a sense of struggle and restraint. Mundane reality crashes into an idealized hyperreality as we have yet to decide whether these landscapes are under construction or desolate testaments to a loss of control.

Lina Norell (b. 1983) lives and works in Oslo. She holds a degree in Fine Art and Art History from Goldsmiths College in London. Her work has previously been shown in Kunsthall Oslo; Trondheim Bi-annual; North-South Galleries, San Francisco; Shoreditch Town Hall, London and most recently in a solo exhibition at Konstfrämjandet Värmlands Konstnärsförbund in Karlstad.

 

Marie Thams : No, and other possibilities

No, and other possibilities

Marie Thams

Opening: Friday April 12th, 8 pm

Open: April 13-14th, 2 – 5 pm

”Dear Sir Bartleby
… You say you would prefer not to perform the tasks your employer asks you to carry out. Why? That I am not certain of, but one thing seems clear – precisely that you will not. It is this act of refusal and the questions it brings with it, which makes me write to you, Sir. Out of your negation emerges a question of potentiality to me, which is something I will attempt to unfold in this letter. …”

Excerpt from ‘Letter to Bartleby’ written by the artist.

At Holodeck Marie Thams shows the video installation No, and other possibilities. The work is an artistic investigation dealing with human potentiality in creative fields. By breaking with the expected and focusing on the possibility of Not using our potential and to Stop doing something Thams raises an urgent question in a time and field for endless possibilities and demands for productivity.

Marie Thams (b. 1982) lives in Copenhagen. She holds a MFA in Art Theory and Communication from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Art (2011/12) and a BA in Fine Art and History of Art from Goldsmiths College, London University (2009). Thams has among other places exhibited in London, Trondheim, Barcelona, Copenhagen and San Francisco. Furthermore, she is currently Chair person in the professional organisation UKK, Unge kunstnere og Kunstformidlere (Young Art Workers).

http://mariethams.com

Sverre Strandberg : Bananas on a trip

Bananas on a trip

Sverre Strandberg

(Utstillingen som tar en pause fra jakten på at det finnes noe unikt det ute)

Opening: Friday March 22nd, 20:00

Open: March 23rd – 24th, and 30th – 31st, 2-5 PM

Two bananas were out walking.
Then the green banana run off an hid behind a tree.
Just behind him came the yellow banana.
As the yellow banana past the tree,
the green banana scared the yellow banana.
Then the yellow banana said:
Ah you’re so immature.

Sverre Strandberg viser på Holodeck innrammede cut-outs i kartong og et lydverk. Lydarbeidet er klippet fra en serie samtaler/intervjuer med kunstnerne McAlinden, E. Mugaas, V.P. Lind og F. Markus og er fritt redigert til 14.30 min. loop.
Vitser er framført av A. Vinnem.

www.sverrestrandberg.com

Ingrid Eggen : FOLDE t

FOLDE t

Ingrid Eggen

Opening: Friday February 22nd, 20:00

Open: February 23rd – 24th, March 2nd – 3rd, 2-5 PM

 

HOLD t

det kommer noe

hold pusten

slit strikken, spre bunken og

fyr fingern løs!

 

hold on me, hold me on

hold me tight, tight me on

hold on me, hold me tight, tonight

come on and tie me on, tonight

 

Det var noen som raste

falt pladask ut av form

under holdningskampanjeplakaten

et kroppsvirvar på holde(på)plassen

hei vi kan hjelpe, men vi trenger hjelp

hva holder du på med?

hold ut

mot og fingern oppe!

 

Den som holder en finger til værs

et HOLD t

deg i form

omveltern, øyeblikksfrysern, frigjørern

er det hold i

denne holdninga, holder det?

hold nå opp! og hold

opp en finger

bare løft en finger på vers

 

hold on me, hold me on

hold me tight, oh please

tie me tight, tonight

 

Aina Villanger

Ingrid Eggen (b.1979) lives and works in Oslo. Eggen has her BA from Institutt for farge at KHIO in 2006. Ingrid works with photography and video. Her main area of interest is the combination of human perception, action and reaction. She investigates this by creating situations with conflicting, confusing, surreal and overwhelming stimuli and restrictions for her subjects. She has participated in group exhibitions like “Limited Matter” at Leilighet Horizont in Copenhagen, 2012, “Open Studio” at Cite des Artes i Paris, 2012, Grand Prix De La Decouverte in Paris, 2012, Vårutstillingen (The Spring Exhibition) at Fotogalleriet, 2009, “Mørkeromsbilder” at Preus museum, 2008, and ”Scramble for Survival” at Oslo Kunstforening, 2006. She has also participated at Høstutstillingen (The Autumn Exhibition) in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

www.ingrideggen.no

That said, unsaid

That said, unsaid

Christina Leithe Hansen, Kristina Kvalvik and Mathias Kristersson 

Opening: Friday December 7th, 20:00

Open: December 8th – 9th, 2-5 PM

NB! Holodeck is relocated! We are now to be found at Oslogate 2, read more about this here.

The exhibition ”That said, unsaid” presents film, photography and sound which incorporate narratives related to what is hidden and unexplanatory. The exhibition examines the structure of dreams and their absurdity, the landscape as a projection of fear and the subject’s conceptions and beliefs. Through the works we encounter three individual views, each on a different layer of one story. In the dialog between these three individual works, new traces appears that leads the viewer into unknown territories between the said and unsaid.

In the photographs ”Thigh” and ”Dark III” one can vaguely make out the silhouettes of people in a closed and surreal darkness. The images tell of psychological memories in the physical body. The film ”Distant Landscape” depicts a character´s close and sensual encounter with nature. In the sound installation “Erinran” a story of a dream is told, of which we do not know what is real and what is fiction.

The starting point of the exhibition has been to put together three separate works across different practices. The artists have initiated the project where they have first and foremost focused on how the different pieces can work together, invade each other, influence each other and step on each other’s boundaries.

Christina Leithe Hansen lives in Oslo and graduated with a MFA from Malmö Art Academy in 2006. Leithe Hansen works with photography in the intersection between documentary and ficition, where both landscape and portrait are recurrent motifs. In both the thematic and visual expression she explores ambiguous moods inspired by the unconscious.

Kristina Kvalvik (b.1980) is a Norwegian visual artist currently based in Copenhagen, Denmark. She studied film and fine art in Norway, Sweden and Canada, and completed her MFA at Malmö Art Academy (SE) in 2008. Her work deals with matters relating to surveillance, the inexplicable and the threatening. She examines the limitations of sight and our ability to interpret what we see.

Mathias Kristersson lives and works in Malmö where he graduated with a  MFA from Malmö Art Academy in 2006. Kristersson work freely with sculpture, sound, performance, installation, text and video. Human nature is central in Kristerssons art. Mans relation to language, time, himself and others is often dealt with.

Inga Sund Hofset : Ligninger for en fallende kropp/Vi roper mot hverandre

Ligninger for en fallende kropp/Vi roper mot hverandre

Inga Sund Hofset

Opening: Friday November 23rd, 20:00

Open: November 24th – 25th, and December 1st – 2nd, 14:00 – 17:00

NB! Holodeck is relocated! We are now to be found at Oslogate 2, read more about this here.

 

Snør det?

Ja.

Hvor da?

Du ser det nesten ikkje. Du ser ikkje fjellet bakover.

Å ja. Det er ikke bare tåke?

Hæ?

Det er ikke bare tåke?

Nei.

 

Inga Sund Hofset er født i 1983. Hun har sin utdannelse fra Kunstakademiet i Oslo (2011). Hun har tidligere vist arbeider på Podium, MFAPS Oslo og Kortfilmfestivalen i Grimstad. Inga Sund Hofset jobber med installasjon, ofte med en konseptuell tilnærming til materialer. Arbeidet kan ta form av skulptur, tekst, tegning, lyd og video, men felles er at verkene forholder seg til opplevelsen de ble skapt i og/eller rommet det vises i.

 

Utopia Planitia

Utopia Planitia

Lars-Andreas Tovey Kristiansen

Opening: Friday October 19th, 19:00

NB! Holodeck is relocated! We are now to be found at Oslogate 2, read more about this here.

Open: Saturday October 20th – Sunday October 21th, 14:00 – 17:00

A gallery space within a gallery space within an urban city on Earth creates the starting point for the exhibition. Holodeck, in science fiction terms, is a space where you can create anything you want, and is, in this case, situated in the middle of nowhere.

Onboard the starship Enterprise exploring the final frontiers of space in the 1960s science fiction series Star Trek, there is a “holodeck” where you can generate any place you like through computer programs using holographic technology. Here the crew could create and experience environments from Earth or any other place, separated from the otherwise sterile minimal space ship interior.

Utopia Planitia is one such “holodeck” from this science fiction series, named after an actual crater on the surface of the planet Mars, which also serves as the visual backdrop in the holodeck program. The red, entropic and desolate crater makes it a manifested no place, while at the same time holding possibilities of a future colonization and society outside of Earth.

A different kind of entropic environment is the closed off still radioactive Zone of Alienation surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the north of the Ukraine. Encompassing the concrete skeleton ruins of the city of Pripyat, this zone holds the remains of one of the biggest modernist utopian dreams of the last century halted in the midst of continuous expansion and prosperous development to remain in a suspended state of decay.

The works in the exhibition juxtaposes the artist’s exploration of two no places, and plays with the duality of the meaning of utopia as “no place” and “good place”, all of the time within the setting of an art space as a holodeck inside NoPlace.

Lars-Andreas Tovey Kristiansen (1983) holds an MFA from Malmö Art Academy, including exchange studies at Braunschweig University of Art. Past exhibitions include group shows at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; Lunds Konsthall, Lund; Hannover Kunstverein, Hannover; One Night Only, Oslo; Wolfsburg Kunstverein, Wolfsburg; Galleri 21, Malmö; Botnik Studios, Gerlesborg and others, as well as solo presentations at Grünerløkka Kunsthall, Oslo; Galleri Lilith Waltenberg, Malmö; KHM, Malmö and Lumiar Cité, Lisbon. Kristiansen is co-director of Landings project space in Vesfossen, Norway.