Artists who stayed at Messen for 1 up to 3 months in 2017.
Main goal, desire and purpose of my work is to transfer the beauty of nature and human existence on canvas.
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Leila Marina Centioni Bottaro (Argentina) https://leilamarina.tumblr.com/
Leila works primarily with photography and collage. She has been investigating film photography technique for many years and
uses the film camera to her own personal works. Experimenting with the different possibilities that it offers.
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Daniel Chong (Singapore) http://danielchongart.com/
Daniel (b. 1995, Singapore) is a young emerging visual artist working primarily in field of affect. His works, grounded in affect, focus heavily on exploiting the inherent characteristics of a given medium. Chong harnesses the unique qualities produced through each material to uncover an affectatious quality to them.
Yulia Timofeeva (Russia) http://www.hannahfineartphotography.com
Yulia works with photography. Inspiration brought her to different countries where she photographs great works of nature or humanity that she had only seen in print.
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Alt går bra (Norway, France and England) http://www.altgarbra.org/
Alt Går Bra is a group of visual artists researching the intersections between art and politics through exhibitions, performances, discursive events, and publications.
Alt Går Bra vil være på Kabuso tirsdag 5., fredag 8. og lørdag 9. desember for å utføre en spørreundersøkelse med Øysteses innbyggere.
Kunstnergruppen vil presentere prosjektet i Kabuso tirsdag 5.desember kl. 12.00. Alt Går Bra vil deretter være tilgjengelig på Kabuso for å gjennomføre én til én spørreundersøkelser hvor du vil få anledning til å fritt uttrykke dine ideer om din personlige idealstat.
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Maja Skjøth Hegelund (Danmark) www.majahegelund.com
Maja Skjøth Hegelund is a designer and filmmaker, based in Copenhagen. Maja obtained an MA in visual culture and identity from The Royal Danish Academy of Design. Majas focus is on challenging and analyzing popular culture within the media of film, design and writing. She is interested in critical approaches to the human relationship with products and culture.
Majas films have been screened at numerous film festivals in Europe including Internationales Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg and Crodyon International Film Festival.
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Sam van Strien (the Netherlands, UK, USA) www.samvanstrien.com
Through my practice I question the hierarchy, order and relationship of ‘idea – plan – concrete object’, which is standard practice in professional architecture. I engage with this question through a research – as well as process – based-approach producing distinctly different types of work. I oscillate between the tactility of the rubbing of a building, the geometry of its architectural plan and its representation as a photograph. These distinctions explore the gap between imagination, prototype and reality. I explore different aspects of representing and accessing architecture through the contrasts between the ‘paper’ architecture of the drawing, the photograph and the actual appearance and experience of a building. Authorship of architecture becomes multiple and hard to define. Through these mediated forms of architectural experience we can attempt to piece together the whole.
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Tamar Sonia Lewinsohn (USA – Israel) https://www.tamarlewinsohn.com/
Tamar makes images with and without a camera.
She is interested in finding ways where photography meets printmaking and emphasizes the unique aspect of a singular copy within the photographic medium. The fluidity of memory and state of mind is transformed onto the fixed surface, while minor changes are manifesting the tension of a “unique copy”.
Tamar is interested in the singularity which the body brings to this aspect of photography, the human aspect; photography that is handwork.
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Kate van Harreveld http://www.katevanharreveld.com
My work is a combination of drawing, painting and collage-techniques. Materials like glitter, wood, stone or thread are sometimes added to bring a three-dimensional element to the image. Searching for the bounderies of drawing and a need to feel free in the use of materials and subject matter.
Reality, the way situations and things look, is always the starting point for drawing for me.
It occurs to me that often what one encounters is more remarkable than what the imagination can concoct. Truth is stranger than fiction. And that strangeness invites and triggers me to draw.
Born in 1988 in USSR, since 2013 lives and works as an independent artist in Sweden. A former architect, she holds an affection to places of habitation, structures and maps. Her work documents something incorporeal – spirit of places she happens to experience. A keen hiker, she is deeply moved and inspired by being in the wilderness. She seeks to hear the landscape: does it speak like a father, a friend, a sister, a lover, or all of the above and more? A human being, she has an intrinsic interest in our bodies, connections with each other, ourselves, Nature and the Universe. In her diverse practice Anastasia balances photography, collage, drawing, painting, text, video, performance and work with found objects.
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Sunniva Krogseth (Norway). www.sunnivakrogseth.com
Sunniva is an illustrator born in Bergen, Norway, in 1987. She lives and works in Oslo. She has a BA from Visual communication at National Academy of the Arts (KHIO) 2013 and MFA from Storytelling at Konstfack, Stockholm, 2015.
Sunniva works with storytelling through illustration, text and film. Mostly with the theme; connection and disconnection of humans with nature.
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Karla Caprali (Brazil – USA) http://www.caprali.com
Karla was born in a northern city in Brazil, called Belem, which is the capital of the state of Para, very known for being and exotic portal of the Amazon. She went to art school in the South, in Sao Paulo University. Karla have been living in Miami for the past 16 years teaching art and working full time as an artist. Through her ideas and works in various materials, Karla speaks with the viewers quietly and reverently about feminism, politics and war, human rights, along with polemic matters of the contemporary art world. She likes to experiment with materials and techniques and enjoys the most, paper cutting, graphite, and needlework.
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Chris André Aadland (Norway) www.chrisaadland.com
Chris Aadland is a Norwegian photographer, best known for his bold, confrontational portraiture. His striking imagery has featured in commissions for clients such as The Telegraph, The Financial Times, and D2.
Chris holds an MA in Photography from London College of Communication.
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Ross Donlon (Australia) http://www.rossdonlon.com
Ross’s poems have been widely published in Australia and Ireland. He has also had poems taken in the United States and New Zealand. His work has been broadcast on Radio National’s Poetica and community radio.
Ross has travelled to Europe many times in the past five years, enjoying residencies in Norway and Romania, and reading in several other countries, both at festivals and as a feature reader. In 2016 he read in Romania, Poland, Norway, the UK, and Ireland, running a workshop for students at Lublin, Poland, and judging the poetry competition for the Boyle Arts Festival in Ireland, where he was also the feature reader.
Sjøvegen (The Sea Road), was launched in Ålvik, Norway, then in Castlemaine in 2015 and Melbourne in 2016. The 50 tanka in Sjøvegen draw inspiration from the world around Hardangerfjord and are translated into nynorsk, the more ‘poetic’ form of Norwegian spoken in western Norway. Students from the local school translated the tanka, with the help of teacher, Kristin Holst.
Guillaume Greff (France). http://www.guillaumegreff.com/
Guillaume Greff’s photos show that the décor of neutralization, itself neutral and devoid of any source of emotion, goes beyond its simple function to become a kind of symbolic shape of our times. The plain images obtained by Guillaume Greff are almost like postcards, but they portray a place with such power to crush the imaginary that they leave us speechless.
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Asumi Hayashi (Japan) http://kamenokoblog.blogspot.no/
Asumi works with Mezzotint. For Asumi, making copper prints is like making pressed flowers. She wants to preserve what she caught by that consciousness, as it is, and keep it on paper.
The body with which Ana B. Hursh works is naked before the image of itself. The painter wishes to speak of a visual experience that is developed from a conception of the body as an erotic system. The body image that she uses is not the one that begins from a model imposed by means of mass communication; it is a body that issues forth from reality. We women are as the artist paints us, we have edges, borders and curves. And it is precisely these curves and borders wherein the work of Ana Bertina is searching for instances of outbursts and of unity. The image of bodies that find each other and lose their limits, blending into a visual idea, is an image of encounters.
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The paintings of Christian refer to urban and industrial signs that form a vision of a utopian world, in which the impossible union between civilization and nature takes place. Fragments of forests with juxtaposed textures, shapes and backgrounds are natural universes, where the rituals and symbolism of pagan mythologies intersect with the imaginary of the cultural industry.
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False and true memories, identity, formulation of thought, perception of reality and truth, the recycling of ideas and memories trought objects. In her works she considers the concepts of memory and presence. In collecting objects, photographs and documents Ivana research the sentimental value to the place where she is staying and transform them, give them a voice, a story. The story that she gives to the objects can be false or true. It occurs in the interaction with the residences of the place and research. Objects, documents, memories and story are put together in relation. Ivana graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. In the academic year 2014/2015. she got the ERASMUS + scholarship which enabled her to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. She was awarded with the Chancellor’s Award of the University of Zagreb for the independent work of art, student awards Gold index and the prestigious Austrian Red Carpet Art Prize.
Cristina Megia Fernandez (Spain) http://www.cristinamegia.com
`I propose the reunitement with the time needed to pause (and look) and allow ourselves to be permeated by beauty. I pick up the tradition of painting, with all the consequences that this slow, individual, handcraft medium implies. Nevertheless, my daily life is immersed with photography, cinema and all forms of contemporary technologies that certainly affect my way of looking, and which I feed off of. I’m interested in the more human, emotional and aesthetic side of art. Permanence of the ephemeral.`
Agnieszka Kozlowska is a Polish artist and researcher who produces most of her works in the Alps. She earned her PhD from Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. Kozlowska’s practice stems from experiments in the medium of photography and is driven by a fascination with the moment of photographic exposure, when a tangible link is formed between the light-sensitive surface and the physical world. She is interested in the potential of photographic objects – understood as physical traces rather than purely as images – to communicate embodied experience of walking through remote natural environments, especially mountains.
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Ruby Berry (Australia )www.rubyberry.com.au
Ruby Berry is a textile based artist working with three dimensional sculptural textile works and sensory engagement. Her work explores ideas of protection, comfort and containment. She uses traditional, natural materials combined with traditional process of hand spinning and basket making to create contemporary crafted objects. The objects act as a physical record of her gestures of making, communicating to the viewer the intimacy, time and energy devoted to each object.
Kathrin Rabenort (Germany) http://www.kathrinrabenort.de
Kathrin Rabenort’s work uses society with its norms and promises of happiness, the high gloss facades of consumerism and of the flow of capital, polished by graphic artists and product designers, to play her game full of parody. The artist sews textile sculptures that look like clothes, but seemingly are only suitable for monsters with many limbs and several heads. A floating ball with a skin of blue sweatshirt fabric supplements the work. Turtlenecks jut out and cover the surface like craters. The openings glow in volcanic red. The blue planet intro- duces the male principle into this little cosmos. The world outside the realms of art is always present.
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Despina Nissiriou (UK/Greece) www.despinanissiriou.com
Despina Nissiriou is a Greek artist that lives and works in Edinburgh. She studied Ceramics and Sculpture at the University of Wolverhampton in England and Painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts. She then carried on her studies with a two year postgraduate course in Sculpture at the Edinburgh College of Art. Despina has taught art in several primary schools in Greece and has participated in many group shows in Greece, Norway and the UK.
I am driven by a desire to make sense of the world-self. I see the past as a key figure of my experience and I spend a lot of time learning about it, thus making it another malleable material to work with.
My work is project-based and moves freely between different materials and techniques as well as art disciplines, following a playful and intuitive call.
Saurav Roy Chowdury (India) http://sculturesauravroychowdhury.blogspot.no/
My art, in which I use a wide range of materials, wax, plaster, clay, glass, resin, fibreglass, different kinds of metal and, occasionally, incorporating video, is about how I perceive the world today. This manifests itself in different ways. At one level, my art has an intimate connection with mortality. Whether we realize it or not, we all are drawn to the images of death because while it terrifies us, it also somehow comforts, and although it can manipulate us, it also reassures. We humans understand inevitability of our own death. Since prehistory, we have been creating images of our ancestors to reassure ourselves that death isn’t so bad after all.
Marika Kaipainen (Finland) https://marikatomukaipainen.blogspot.no/
Interaction and the need of aesthetic experiences are the basic needs of a human being in my opinion. We become alive through our experiences. Our body and brains receive treatment and cure from positive experiences and these experiences are never in excess. Memorable, multi-sensory, art-focused interaction is offering exactly this. The core of my art include interaction, different states of creating art, experiencing life in a positive light and by all this, making the surrounding world a better place. My work is portrayed by multi- sensory experience, communal and process oriented production and interaction.
Larissa Borteh (USA) http://www.larissaborteh.com/
In Larissas paintings and drawings, the focus is on fractured elements of interior settings as a dislocated sense of home or physical body.
The familiar collapses into the unfamiliar: negated and disjointed into the surrounding space.
Elisabeth Altenburg (Austria) http://elisabethaltenburg.blogspot.no/
Elisabeth has been in Messen in Winter 2013, so is here for her second residency. She works with objects and installations out of soft (mostly textile) materials. Starting from the 2. dimension and bring them with simple steps to the 3. dimension, and into a different context. In search for a new shape. She works mostly site specific and gets inspiration by her surroundings.
Also check KHMessen documentation website: http://doc.khmessen.no/projects/elisabeth-altenburg-austria/
Yuko Kinouchi (Japan) http://yukokinouchi.tumblr.com
Yuko is an video artists and works with researching the relation between people’s lives and social system by forcus on rules. People’s actions are often affected by rules like “commonsense” what are set by political. Yuko is living in Tokyo and feels the stress made by the situation of huge population, strict but poor social welfare or people’s thought inclining to totalitarianism.
Euphrosyne Andrews (UK) www.euphrosyneandrews.co.uk
My practice moves between carefully curated installations and site specific responses to a particular building or space. Through the curation of the work and the relationship of pieces within an exhibition, ideas surrounding domestic space, the role of ornamentation and the rich symbolism of textiles within the visual arts are brought into question. My interest in public spaces and creating permanent functional installations equally reflects a desire to complicate the common distinctions between the applied and fine arts.
Inne Eysermans (Belgium) www.soundcloud.com/inneeysermans
Musician Inne Eysermans studied Music Production at School of Arts in Ghent, where she discovered her focus on sound. At that time, she founded her band Amatorski, in which she is a composer, arranger and producer. In her work in which sound and music are the focus, the central idea is the relationship between man and the sound of his environment. In their latest – site specific – installations, the public sphere and space was their main focus in the process of making a fiction story and sound.
Tarelkin makes sculptures that base themselves on the physical measurements of the human body. I see these objects as components of a certain kinetic process in which human participants are to interact. The position of the participant’s body is isolated from it’s inherent environment and the pose becomes a fixated second in time, a still frame coerced by the geometrical nature and construction of the sculpture.
Daehyun Kim (Korea) http://www.moonassi.com
‘Moonaa’ is my artist name. I wanted to be ‘無 Moo(which means nothing or empty) – 나 Na(which means ego or the conscious “I”)’ as an empty ego that can contain anything without ego. Because I thought that I have to empty myself, if I want to tell a story that everyone can sympathize with. The characters in the picture act me and your story with a quiet gesture. I express various emotions that I feel in relation to many people around me. Moonassi drawing is a project that will lead a lifetime, and we are gradually expanding the outline. Moonassi drawing is gradually expanding the area. In addition to exhibiting works at a gallery, I continue to carry out various activities such as collaborations with various brands, magazine illustration, and public art.
The exhibition opens on 8th April, and stands until 13th May 2017. More info at: http://galleriguddal.no/utstilling/eit-hav-imellom
Eva works with organic forms, cycles, seasons, land, water, sky, order, rhythm, repetition, growth, life, regeneration. The thin papers, which Eva prints on, draw on, cut up, mix, are layered endlessly on the canvas. Her is about color, line, material, form, and space and about art as a process that always changes and grows.
Through drawing, printmaking, collecting, ceramics and woodwork Sandra is exploring personal narratives and memories.
Philipp Bünger (Germany) www.philippbuenger.de
Being educated as an architect Philipp tends to give things a structure; he´d rather recompose nature than depict it in its natural beauty. By doing so he turns it into an idealised, if not symbolic version of itself.
Philipp is obsessed by formalizing natural phenomenons and bringing them into a system of aesthetic or geometrical references. He works with photography and drawings.
Nai Zakharia, (NYC) is a French Illustrator living and working in NYC. She graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2015. Her main area of interest is book Illustration and she especially enjoys working with pen & ink and watercolor. http://cargocollective.com/nzakharia
Maia Nichols (Berkeley, CA) is an artist and critic currently based in Los Angeles. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Psychology from the University of British Columbia. She has also studied at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. She earned a Masters in the Department of Critical Studies at California Institute of the Arts in 2016. Her work has been exhibited in numerous venues internationally and she has written for various publications.
Her gestures involve play, memory, text and repetition to create conversations between objects, spaces and individuals. She investigates behavior, interpretation and language to untangle and flatten out ingrained methods of perceiving and moving, providing platforms for discourse surrounding ontologies of difference. She hopes to propose a paradigm shift, legitimizing previously dormant harmonies between the self and what is external to the self.
www.maianichols.com
