EXHIBITIONS 2011
OPEN FOR PROPOSALS
Curators of all nationalities are invited to propose an exhibition for Hordaland Art Centre, Bergen, Norway for the 2011-programme. The deadline for submission is Friday September 10th 2010. One proposal will be chosen.
RESIDENCY MAIJA RUDOVSKA (LAT)
Maija Rudovska (1982, Latvia) is Hordaland Art Centre's resident September 2010.
EXHIBITIONS
LUTZ-RAINER MÜLLER AND STIAN ÅDLANDSVIK
YOU ONLY TELL ME YOU LOVE ME WHEN YOU'RE DRUNK
Between September 3rd and October 3rd the two artists Lutz-Rainer Müller and Stian Ådlandsvik transform the house on Holmedalshammaren 67 at the island of Askøy outside of Bergen to a sculpture. This is one part of the two part exhibition titled You only tell me you love me when you're drunk. The other part can be seen at Hordaland Art Centre at Nordnes in Bergen. On the opening night there will be a free shuttle bus beween Hordaland Art Centre and Holmedalshammaren 67.
TEXTS DISPATCHES FROM THE HINTERLAND
PETRA REICHENSPERGER
Dispatches from the Hinterland by Petra Reichensperger accompanies the exhibition You only tell me you love me when you're drunk by Lutz-Rainer Müller and Stian Ådlandsvik.
FORUM LAUNCH OF NORWEGIAN ART YEARBOOK 2010 WITH SEMINAR ON ARTIST RESIDENCY
Seminar on Artist Residency in conjunction with the launch of The Norwegian Art Yearbook 2010. plan b, Toril Johannessen and Dieter Lesageare invited to discuss aspects surrounding the increasing numbers of Artis Residencies.
RESIDENCY CÉCILE BELMONT (FRA/GER)
Cécile Belmont (1975, France/Germany)is Hordaland Art Centre's resident October 2010.
RESIDENCY APPLICATION
Applications to Hordaland Art Centre's residency are accepted via e-mail between October 15th and November 15th every year.
RESIDENCY JOHAN LUNDH (SWE)
Johan Lundh (1980, Sweden) is Hordaland Art Centre's resident November 2010.
RESIDENCY LEROY STEVENS (USA)
LeRoy Stevens (1984, USA) is Hordaland Art Centre's resident December 2010.
RESIDENCY EINAR GARIBALDI EIRIKSSON (IS)
Einar Garibaldi Eiriksson (1964, Iceland) is Hordaland Art Centre's resident January 2011.
RESIDENCY FREDRIK STRID (SWE)
Fredrik Strid (1973, Sweden) is Hordaland Art Centre'sresident February 2011.
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.
OUTSIDE VICTORIA BRÄNNSTRÖM
KNITTING CONCERT AT THE GRIEG HALL
As part of Hordaland Art Centre’s Outside-programme 2010, Vicotria Brännström’s new work Strikkekonsert (Knitting Concert) will be performed September 11th at 11:30 at the Grieg Hall.
PREVIOUS
Juan A. Gaitan
Each month our residency guests will present their own work, a chosen theme, a current interest or present their residency project. Our August resident guest is curator Juan A. Gaitan.
Master night: Mathias Danbolt
In his MA-thesis, titeled Sankt Felix Kunstnerens død og oppstandelse i postmodernistisk kunstteori med utgangspunkt i Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ ”Untitled” (Lover Boys) (in Norwegian), Mathias Danbolt is investigating the relationship between artist, artwork and audience in contemporary art. While emphasizing sexuality, sex and politics in postmodern art theory, he is studying the literature on Cuban-Mexican artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-1996), finding that the artist is written about in two distinct, and almost opposite ways.Juan A. Gaitan (CAN/NL)
Juan A. Gaitan (1973, Canada/Netherlands) is Hordaland Art Centre's resident August 2010.
Gaitan will give a talk on August 31st at 19:00.
Collaborative Research Residency
BAC, Baltic Art Center in Visby, Sweden; The Factory of Art and Design (FFKD) in Copenhagen, Denmark and Hordaland Art Centre in Bergen, Norway jointly invite professionals within the field of visual art to apply to our new Collaborative Research Residency. Deadline for applications is August 1st 2010.Bertram Haude (GER)
Bertram Haude (1971, Germany) is Hordaland Art Centre's resident July 2010.
Marco Bruzzone
Each month our residency guests will present their own work, a chosen theme, a current interest or present their residency project. Our June resident guest is artist Marco Bruzzone, from Italy, but based in Berlin, Germany.James Webb
James Webb will discuss his recent exhibition, One day, all of this will be yours, which was presented at Blank Projects in Cape Town earlier this year, through a restaging of the documented works accompanied by the story of the show.
Marco Bruzzone (ITA/GER)
Marco Bruzzone (1974, ITA/GER) is Hordaland Art Centre's resident June 2010
In & Out: Everything you do is a Balloon
Hordaland Art Centre becomes a picnic site, with a screening, sound works, exchange, food and drinks hosted by resident Daniela Castro.
Vanna Bowles - Wild Tree
Vanna Bowles' exhibition Wild Tree makes drawings and photographs come alive through sculptures and specially commissioned texts by authour and artist Linn Cecilie Ulvin.
The unforgivable, the remorse and histories about the silent forest by Linn Cecilie Ulvin
The unforgivable, the remorse and histories about the silent forest by Linn Cecilie Ulvin accompanies the exhibition Wild Tree by Vanna Bowles.
Master night: Benedikte Holen
On the last Master night this spring, Benedikte Holen will present her ongoing MA-project about the Scottish artist duo Dalziel +Scullion and their use of nature and technology.Daniela Castro
Each month our residency guests will present their own work, a chosen theme, a current interest or present their residency project. Our May resident guest is writer and curator Daniela Castro from São Paulo, Brazil.
Matthew Flintham
THIS EVENT WILL HAPPEN MONDAY MAY 3RD AT 7 P.M. (ORIGINALLY PLANNED FOR APRIL 22ND)
Accompanying the exhibition Archipelago, a World Map by Hamdi Attia we have invited artist and reseacher Matthew Flintham to address issues related to mapping, power and territories. With this presentation we'd like to focus on more general themes in the exhibition.
Margret Holz
Margret Holz is Hordaland Art Centre’s resident this April. In this artist talk she will present some of her latest works: Choreographie Lichtlabor, Experiment Krolloper and Simultan.
BEK-night: Adriana Alves
Adriana Alves' projects are based in reflections on the contemporary, where doubdt and distrust patches up the fragments. The role, or roles, of mass media is visible in her work through references to fil, popular culture and theatre.
Hamdi Attia - Archipelago, a World Map
The exhibition Archipelago, a World Map by Hamdi Attia is the so far last manifestation of a long term project titled World Map developed by the artist since 2004, and his first solo exhibition in Norway. Curated by Abdellah Karroum.
On Archipelago, a World Map: Interview with Hamdi Attia by Abdellah Karroum
This interview with Hamdi Attia by Abdellah Karroum accompanies the exhibition Archipelago, a World Map.
Margret Holz (GER)
Margret Holz (1942, Germany) is Hordaland Art Centre's resident April 2010.
MA-Weekend: Sol Hallset
MA-student Sol Hallset tackles the large, and often pathos-laden question “what is it to be human?” without fear. Hallset’s approach is factual and direct, her means are simple, but powerful – this also shines through in the format of her work.
Hyunjin Kim
Each month our residency guests will present their own work, a chosen theme, a current interest or present their residency project. Our March resident guest is curator Hyunjin Kim from Seoul, South Korea.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.
Hyunjin Kim (KOR)
Hyunjin Kim (1975, South Korea) is Hordaland Art Centre's resident March 2010.
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.Sveinung Rudjord Unneland - Palinca Pastorale
There is a promise in Sveinung Rudjord Unneland’s title to his first solo exhibition: Palinca Pastorale promises a landscape of transgression.
Doubt, lightness and multiplicity by Thomas Hestvold
Doubt, lightness and multiplicity by Thomas Hestvold accompanies the exhibition Palinca Pastorale by Sveinung Rudjord Unnelan.
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.
