EXHIBITIONS PALINCA PASTORALE
SVEINUNG RUDJORD UNNELAND
There is a promise in Sveinung Rudjord Unneland’s title to his first solo exhibition: Palinca Pastorale promises a landscape of transgression.
TEXTS DOUBT, LIGHTNESS AND MULTIPLICITY
THOMAS HESTVOLD
Doubt, lightness and multiplicity by Thomas Hestvold accompanies the exhibition Palinca Pastorale by Sveinung Rudjord Unnelan.
RESIDENCY APPLICATION
Applications to Hordaland Art Centre's residency are accepted via e-mail between October 15th and November 15th every year.
TEXTS RETROSPECTIVE CATALOGUE 2009
Retrospective catalogue 2009 is the collection of commissioned texts accompanying our exhibitions, as well as documentation of all the exhibitions with the witness report on the 2009 programme written by artist Are Hauffen.
RESIDENCY HYUNJIN KIM (KOR)
Hyunjin Kim (1975, South Korea) is Hordaland Art Centre's March resident 2010.
PREVIOUS
Paul Otto Brunstad
Talk by Paul Otto Brunstad on the occasion of the exhibition Palinca Pastorale by Sveinung Rudjord Unneland.
BEK-night: Ron Sluik
BEK invites former contemporary artist Ron Sluik for a public lecture Thursday 4th March at Hordaland Art Centre.
Master Night: Tove Kårstad Haugsbø
Master Night is a series of lectures where both MA students and recently graduated art historians present their MA dissertations to a public.DIG IT 2, Verkligheten, Umeå, Sweden
The curartorial project DIG IT by Linus Elmes (UKS, Oslo) and Anne Szefer Karlsen (Hordaland Art Centre, Bergen) was initially shown at Hordaland Art Centre May and June 2009. The second edition of this project will be on show at the artist run gallery Verkligheten in Umeå, Sweden for two weeks.
That Was Then... This Is Now
That was then... This is now is a group exhibition made to discuss the position of craft today. Curated by Heidi Bjørgan with works by Pia Aleborg, Bjørn Båsen, Erik Hellsten, Maria Johansson, Åsa Jungnelius, Göran Kling, Håkan Lindgren, AnnaSofia Mååg, Marianne Pedersen and Anders Ruhwald.
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe...
Seminar curated by Heidi Bjørgan dealing with issues relating to contemporary crafts. Organised in relation to the opening of the exhibition That was then... This is now.
Marking Time by Glenn Adamson
Marking Time is a commissioned text by Glenn Adamson who is Head of Graduate Studies at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England. This text accompanies the exhibition That was then... This is now.
Line Halvorsen
In "Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear" Line Halvorsen will address the myth of the artist.
B-open 2009: Object + Verbal
B-open welcomes everyone to a seminar about conversation, verbalisation, mediation and knowledge production. We have invited Bosko Blagojevic, Will Holder, Falke Pisano and Mick Wilson to reflect on language and verbalisation in contemporary art through various formats for this year's seminar titled Object + Verbal. An online reader will be published prior to the seminar.
B-open 2009 Workshop
To speak- The Practice of Conversation in Contemporary Art.
Guðrún Benónýsdóttir (IS)
Guðrún Benónýsdóttir graduated from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts spring 2000 and spent altogether 7 years in Oslo, studying and working (1995-2003). At the moment she lives in Berlin.
HC Gilje
Accompanying his solo exhibition blink, HC Gilje will give a presentation of his work.
Right Here, Right Now by Mitchell Whitelaw
Right Here, Right Now - HC Gilje's Networks of Specificity by Mitchell Whitelaw is a specially commissioned text to accompany HC Gilje's solo show blink.
BEK-night: Bjørnar Habbestad
Artist talk by Bjørnar Habbestad. He will present his work from the twilight between musical performance, conseptual sound projects and technological development. Starting with specific sound experiences he tries to draw on different traditions and perspectives to develop musical tangents between acoustic techniques and digital transformation.
MA-weekend: On the Marionette Theatre - Elida Brenna Linge
Elida Brenna Linge shows her new work On the Marionette Theatre made for Hordaland Art Centre.
Presentation by Erlend Hammer
In relation to Curated by Erlend Hammer curator Erlend Hammer will hold a presentation.
Maaike Gouwenberg (NL)
Maaike Gouwenberg (NL) is a freelance curator for several projects in the Netherlands and abroad. Next to that she is head of production and think tank curator for the rolling platform If I Can't Dance I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, where she works on long term productions with small groups of artists. In the current project she produces the works of Keren Cytter, Jon Mikel Euba, Olivier Foulon, Suchan Kinoshita, Joachim Koester and Sarah Pierce.BEK-night: Terry Flaxton
Presentation by Terry Flaxton. Since the late 70s Flaxton has been active as film maker, educator and artist. As part of England's art video- and underground film environment he has worked with different filmic expressions, documentary, video installations and tv-productions. Today Flaxton is seniour researcher in HD Video Production ath the University of Bristol, England.
Localised / Ctrl + Z Publishing - Culture Night 2009
Ctrl+Z Publishing was approached by the Bergen Kunsthall winter 2008 with a request to edit a publication on the occasion of the Bergen Biennial Conference in September 2009 which would in some way mirror the local art scene’s response to the City of Bergen’s proposal to create a Bergen biennial. The anthology Localised is rooted in, but edited independently from, this conference.
CURATED BY ERLEND HAMMER
The Parliamentary elections are more important than art.
from In Defence of Eye Candy, Erlend Hammer, 2009
In Defence of Eye Candy by Erlend Hammer
This text accompanies the exhibition Curated by Erlend Hammer.
whatsthebigmistry (Priya Mistry)
Artist talk with whatsthebigmistry (Priya Mistry), who is currently artist in residence at USF Verftet. In this artist talk she will focus on audience/viewer interaction, engagement and cultivating experiences working with site and transformations of spaces.Ylva Ogland and Linus Elmes
Dialogue between curator Linus Elmes and artist Ylva Ogland about her contribution to the exhibition situation DIG IT and how the works in DIG IT affect contemporary art.
DIG IT
With DIG IT we have created an exhibition situation, more than an exhibition, which for the first time shows a number of little recognized works by artists with different social, political and ideological attitudes to and reasons for their artistic practices.
DIG IT by Linus Elmes & Anne Szefer Karlsen
DIG IT is a conversation text written on the occasion of the exhibition situation with the same title.
BEK-night: Marieke Verbiesen
Marieke Verbiesen works with animation, live performance and installations in electronic arts, where she uses old and new media. In addition she makes music videos and short animation films.
Canopy, parasol, awning – or how to work together as artist and curator
Canopy, parasol, awning – or how to work together as artist and curator by Andreas Siqueland (visual artist) and Anne Szefer Karlsen (curator and director of Hordaland Art Centre)
was originally published in Billedkunst 03/09.Toril Johannessen & Sidsel Meineche Hansen
The two artists Toril Johannessen and Sidsel Meineche Hansen will expand on issues relationg to an object's status in the lecture The Generic Stone, which is a part of their exhibition at Hordaland Art Centre with the same title. Here they will talk about the process of manufacturing The Generic Stone.
Toril Johannessen & Sidsel Meineche Hansen - The Generic Stone
The ultimate consequence of conceptually based art is a total absence of objects. With this exhibition we will take a closer look at the status of the art object and its’ value by mapping the process of production and the materiality of the one object on display in the exhibiton - a stone produced in a laboratory.
Sidsel Meineche Hansen (DK)
Sidsel Meineche Hansen is HKS' guest in the period April 12th to 26th 2009. During her stay she will create the exhibition and lecture The Generic Stone in collaboration with Toril Johannessen.
Abdellah Karroum & Pedro Gómez-Egaña
We continue to host presentations related to the exhibitions at Hordaland Art Centre. This time we want to highlight thoughts on art's relation to site in the presentation On articulating Works and Places by Abdellah Karroum, and a dialogue between him and Pedro Gómez-Egaña.
Participants are recomended to arrive a bit before the presentation to have the opportunity to see the last day of Might arrives by Pedro Gómez-Egaña; a performance which looks like an installation.
BEK-night: Brandon LaBelle
Working with sound, music, urban environments and people, Brandon LaBelle explores the intersections of the private and the public.
Pedro Gómez- Egaña - Might arrives
The best part of space travel is the moment when you leave the earth’s atmosphere and realise that there is no longer a danger of falling. You are taken by a fantastic machine to the rolling, black softness of space.
Orbiting is a combination of strengths that result in a circle.
But then, when you re-enter, you get reminded that mortality means that you are trapped. You are inside a pull that makes down out of any place. A magnetic field is a roundness that makes you look up and take cover.
Mechanics of the soul by Bojana Bauer
Mechanics of the soul is an extensive excerpt of a coming essay on Pedro Gómez-Egaña's work, written by the dramaturg Bojana Bauer.
Felice Hapetzeder
Hordaland Art Centre (HKS) hosts three guests from the Nordic countries in 2009, and the first is Felice Hapetzeder from Sweden. Felice works with video, using documentary strategies to discuss issues relating to identity. Tuesday March 10th at 7 P.M. we will host the first guest artist talk where Felice will present his artistic practice and talk about his collaborative projects ak28 and solo-show. The videos Onkel Kurti and Capital of the world will be screened. The floor will be opened for discussion.
MA-weekend: Chloe Lewis & Andrew Taggart - An Elaborated System of Human Longing
The MA-weekend we present this spring is the exhibition An Elaborated System of Human Longing by Chloe Lewis and Andrew Taggart. This ongoing project is, so far, a series of objects and two videos.
Lisa Torell
Hordaland Art Center (HKS) will from now on invite an artist/writer/researcher/curator to present ideas directly or indirectly relevant to the current exhibition. The first in this series of presentations is the Swedish artist Lisa Torell who will have an artist talk on the last day of the exhibition posisjoner by Aud Marit Skarrebo Holmen.
Reflective positions by Mari Aarre
The text Reflective positions was written in the event of Aud Marit Skarrebo Holmen's exhibition posisjoner (positions).
Aud Marit Skarrebo Holmen - posisjoner
For the first time Aud Marit Skarrebo Holmen enters the white cube on her own.
Victoria Brännström
Victoria Brännströmis currently Hordaland Art Centre’s artist in residence.
Victoria says: - In my presentation at HKS I will talk about a few of my projects, describe their background and process, thoughts about documentation and the pitfalls and highlights of collaborative work.
Victoria Brännström (S)
Victoria Brännström's work is often the result of social interaction where the audience or an invited group interacts inside of the work itself.
B-open 2008: Hot House - Art and Human Ecology
This year's B-open seminar is called Hot House - Art and Human Ecologycurated and moderated by Samir M'kadmi at landmark, with Tine Mareen Buddeberg, Karen O'Brien, Susanne Jaschko, Samir M'kadmi, Peter Fend, Heather Ackroyd.
Øystein Dahlstrøm & Unn Fahlstrøm
By re-using materials they create their worlds. Dahlstrøm through image manipulation and Fahlstrøm through looking at sections of the already unreal world of film. Rythm and space absorbs both artists, but in different ways. Dahlstrøm creates the spaces in his meticulous photographs through manipulation, while Fahlstrøm uses time, space and sound to create her video works.
B-open 2008
Hordaland Art Centre collaborates with BKFH and NKVN on the annual event B-open. This year there are open studios, a seminar, exhibition openings, magazine and book launches and a bit more.
Bjørn Erik Haugen & André Larsen Avelin
How is the Norwegian portrayed by the American entertainment industry? This is the answer!
The Artist as Producer
What is the social role of art, and what status does art hold in today's knowledge society? What characterises the artist role as a producer today?
Le Monde Autour de Vous -1st Brussels Biennial
Hordaland Art Centre (HKS) contributes to the project Le Monde Autours de Vous by Abdellah Karroum/L'appartement 22. The project is also part of the first Brussels Biennale, artistic director Barbara Vanderlinden.
Le Monde Autours de Vous was co-curated by L’appartement 22, Hordaland kunstsenter and Stacion Center for Contemporay Art Prishtina, with participating artists Hamdi Attia, Elodie Carré, Ninar Esber, Seamus Farrell, HC Gilje, Pedro Gómez-Egaña, Flaka Haliti, Agon Hamza, Fatmir Mustafa, Pascal Sémur, Batoul S’Himi.
