Group exhibition: Beyond the skin, folds
What is a body? Where does the body end? Can it stretch, expand beyond its own limits, like rings in water activated by one center? Shape, volume, color, mass, softness, hardness, elasticity. Inhale, exhale. Inhale, exhale. The physical body carries its life, its own history. It makes impressions on the environment and the relationships it touches, and is itself marked by touch. Inhale, exhale. Inhale, exhale. The body leaves something behind, and takes something else with it. How to exist in a body that is in constant transformation and development? What exactly is a body in this time where we cannot physically meet or touch each other, when our shared experiences arise through screens? What is the digital weight of a human being?
Beyond the skin, folds is an exhibition that challenges the body's boundaries and what it means to be (in) a body. Studio K invites you to a dynamic exhibition, consisting of works by six selected artists who approach the question Where does the body end? in different ways. Through the works' diversity in expressions and mediums, the exhibition testifies to the organic human body and its various possibilities and functions. One question carries with it many new ones, one work introduces new suggestions for definitions of what a body is and can be. The exhibiting artists are: Evy Horpestad Tjåland (NO), Katinka Halland (NO), Eirik Melstrøm (NO), Franzisca Siegrist (Switzerland / Spain / NO), Astrid Hjortdal (DK) and Paulius Sliaupa (Lithuania). The exhibition is curated by Kari Ann Lending Kleiveland.
Opening hours:
Saturday 20th of March: 13.00-16.00 opening day
Thursday 25th of March: 17.00-19.00 (closed because of covid)
Saturday 27th of March: 13.00-16.00 (closed because of covid)
Saturday 3rd of April: 13.00 online reading by Astrid Hjortdal (https://fb.me/e/1lJ4M9i87)
Thursday 8th of April: 17.00-19.00
Saturday 10th of April: 13.00-16.00
Thursday 15th of April: online performance by Franzisca Siegrist 17.00 (https://fb.me/e/2AslEwg0k, available for 24 hours
Due to infection control we will not have an event for the exhibition opening as we normally would (with a speech, flowers etc.). We thus hope for a more dynamic flow of visitors through all the opening hours.
Free entrance and coffee!
The event is supported by Rogaland Fylkeskommune and Time Kommune.
Evy Horpestad Tjåland
Evy Horpestad Tjåland (1963) lives in Randaberg and works in Stavanger. She graduated from Bergen school of art and Wimbledon School of Art in London, UK. She has had solo exhibitions and participated in group shows nationally and international and participated in Caspian Art Biennale in Azerbaijan 2010. She is a member of the visual artists association Rogaland, BKFR.
Eirik Melstrøm
Eirik Melstrøm (b.1987) is a visual artist, musician and composer. He will graduate his MFA from Oslo National Academy of Fine Arts in 2021, and has also studied at Bergen Academy of Fine Art (KMD) and University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria. Melstrøm runs an interdisplinary artistic practice with a focus in recent years on sound, installation and text.
Paulius Šliaupa (w/ Elia Claessen)
Paulius Šliaupa‘s (1990, Vilnius, Lithuania) works explore the relationship(s) between culture and nature, the interaction of ambience and light that affect our daily lives.
Elia Claessen (1997, Leuven, Belgium). She is a visual artist. Elia holds a BA of interior design in KASK, Ghent, Belgium and is currently studying BA of mixed media at LUCA School of Arts, Ghent, Belgium.
Katinka Halland
Katinka Halland is an artist studying at Bergen Academy of Fine Art (KMD). In her artistic practice she mainly works with three-dimensional sculptural pieces in textile. The work process through craft itself is important, it guides and directs her practice. She asks questions about constructed truths and is curious about what today’s society categories as beautiful or ugly. She is intrigued by the body, especially the female body. Hair, for instance, is viewed differently depending on where it grows.
Franzisca Siegrist
Franzisca Siegrist is a visual artist, born in Switzerland, raised in Spain and living in Oslo. She is educated in Visual Art, in Product Design and in addition has a master degree in Art Production. She is co-founder and chair of PAO-Performance Art Oslo and has shown her work in many countries in Europe, Asia and the USA. She works mainly with performance art, but also with installation, objects and photography, often as part of a live performance or with a performative approach.
Astrid Hjortdal
Astrid Hjortdal (1994, Denmark) focuses on language, cultural identity and history writing through various materials and textural gests in her art. She reflects on her role as the creator and sender. Through text, sculpture and installation, she adresses topics such as the construction of a narrative, high- and low culture and feminism. Astrid is interested in the fragility of written history and the many ways a voice or a narrative can manifest itself in our time.
