Galleri K

"BEND IT is a celebration of queer art in the form of exhibition and concerts that encompass visual art, performance and music. By queer art we mean art that challenges norms related to gender, sexuality and identity. Often this art can include perspectives that have been overlooked and marginalized.

By contrasting recent queer art with queer art from the past, BEND IT shows how artists of different backgrounds have contributed towards placing diversity and representation on the current agenda. Queer art and culture is a global phenomenon, and BEND IT includes contributions from artists from Norway and Europe as well as artists with connections to the global south. National and international perspectives collide in a dialogue that emphasises spontaneity, contradiction and coincidence. BEND IT is both a pop-up exhibition and a celebration, focused on openness, diversity and elastic expressions of gender and humor.

BEND IT is produced by Atelier Nord in collaboration with Grünerløkka Lufthavn / MIR and is curated by artist Kjetil Berge and Atelier Nord’s director Ida Lykken Ghosh.

The exhibition is part of Queer Culture Year and is supported by Fritt Ord and the Municipality of Oslo. Queer Culture Year commemorates the 50th anniversary of the decriminalization of homosexuality in Norway."

Artists:

Sara Korshøj Christensen, A K Dolven, Sunil Gupta, Ann-Elise Pettersen Hyndøy, Louisa Minkin, ALBUM (Elise Storsveen & Eline Mugaas), SASUSU Radio, Marin Håskjold, Niels Munk Plum, Anette Gellein, Herman Breda Enkerud and Una Mathiesen Gjerde.

"Kjell Bjørgeengens kunstnerskap er preget av minimalistisk analog støy og en utpreget teknisk forståelse og bearbeidelse av videosignalet ofte i samarbeid med musikere. Som den eneste innenfor sitt fagfelt utforsker Bjørgeengens videomediets grenser til hva som er mulig rent teknisk. Valget av Bjørgeengen er motivert av prosjekts forbindelse med video. Fahlstrøms tekstilprosjekt tok opprinnelig utgangspunkt i forbindelsene mellom video og tekstil, og undersøkte tekstiltråden som en måte å jobbe med de horisontale linjene som videobildet er bygget opp av. Bruken av rette parallelle linjer og teksturen i håndspunnet tråd som referer til hvit støy er en viktig del av formspråket. De to kunstnerskapene er del av en abstrakt minimalistisk kanon som i hovedsak forholder seg akromatisk."

Utstillingen står til 30. august 2022.

Besøk byens kunstnere på atelieret og se kunsten der den skapes!

Lørdag 23. april kan du besøke følgende kunstneres atelierer: 

Sara Korshøj Christensen, Hovinveien 1, 0576 Oslo 

Silje Linge Haaland, Vollaveien 19, 0668 Oslo

Anna Sofie Mathiasen, Østre Aker vei 90, bygning 6, 2. etg., 0596 Oslo

Eirik Senje, Hovinveien 1, 0576 Oslo 

Stian Ådlandsvik, Ole Deviks vei 30, 0666 Oslo

Are Blytt stiller ut verket Anti Krakk på Pyton (Vollsveien 13D, Lysaker) fredag 21. januar 19-21 Verket er i italiensk marmor og aluminium, og er produsert i Oslo og Roma. 

Press release:

"Opens December 3rd: What have we bought up in the last two years? See the new acquisitions to KODE’s collection!

In 2020 and 2021 the Ministry of culture allocated extra funding for acquisitions to Norwegian art museums. For KODE this has meant a quadrupling of our procurement budget, and for the first time given us an opportunity to effectuate extensive acquisitions on the contemporary art scene, primarily from Bergen’s exhibiting venues and from artists with associations to Western Norway.

KODE is Norway’s second largest art museum, and has a magnificent collection that covers several centuries of art history. Our aim is to document the best of our contemporary art for posterity.
Each year the collection is augmented through acquisitions, donations and long-term loans. These additions increase our ability to convey essential stories related to art history. The quality and representative characteristics are some of the criteria that determine what works are chosen.

In recent years KODE has undertaken a critical investigation into what is lacking or inequitably represented in our collections. A major number of the new acquisitions are thus works by women artists. We have also finally included several contemporary works by Sami artists in our collection.

In the exhibition, the public will find a broad range of diverse artistic genres, techniques and perspectives, from the 19th century to the present. Come in to view a selection of what we have chosen to preserve for posterity, and why.

Practical information

The exhibition is located in the main gallery in KODE 2. 

Exhibition period: December 3rd, 2021 – March 13th, 2022"