GK—1:1 Pt 2 Slot #1—Lux Passerine
Lux Passerine is a music duo consisting of Craig T. Wells and Omar E. Johnsen. For 1:1 they are preparing a site specific soundpiece, collecting sounds in and around Gyldenpris Kunsthall. They are exploring the more or less empty industrial building and its vast space and ambiance through exciting objects and mangling found sounds manipulated through modular synthesizers. They are working towards reemerging the material through spatialization and diffusion. Wells is a sound artist and composer based in Bergen Norway. His practice focuses on synthesis, sound diffusion, electroacoustic composition and field recording. He works under various monikers such as Refrains, Klunks, John Feathergail and Vonrik Haug and has released multiple albums internationally. Wells is currently a research associate at the Grieg Academy. Johnsen is a musician and composer most notably from the Bergen based indie/electronic/experimental pop act Casiokids, releasing several albums and touring internationally. He is currently more active in the experimental music scene, and now working on his new project by the name Neo Borneo.
GK—1:1 Pt 2 Slot #2 — Ingrid Bjørnseth
Ingrid Bjørnseth is a visual artist, living in Bergen. She graduated with an MFA from the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (KMD), University of Bergen, in 2017. Ingrid's work is inspired by the passage in the Gyldenpris Kunsthall and poetic name giving of industrial paint colours. The work is an installation-based sculpture. It is modified, replicated and abstracted.
GK—1:1 Pt 2 Slot #3 — Maria Pasenau
Maria Pasenau (Mjøndalen, 1994) is a contemporary artist who works in Oslo. She studied at the Norwegian School of Photography in Trondheim. Some of her recent solo exhibitions include «Whit Kind Regrets Pasenau» (2018, Makeriet, Malmø, Sweden), «My Name is End, Bitter End» (2018, K4 Gallery, Oslo) and «Pasenau and the Devil» (2019, Fotogalleriet, Oslo). She has been part of numerous group exhibitions such as «Early Works» (2017, curated by Elise By Olsen, New Galerie, Paris, France), «The Hoodies» (2017, curated by Charlie Roberts, Kristiansand Kunsthall, Kristiansand), «Faithless Pictures» (2018, curated by Andrea Kroksnes, Norwegian National Museum, Oslo), «Pinkcube» (2018, curated by Anja Carr, Tenthaus, Oslo) and «Sub» (2018, curated by Bjørn Hatterud, Akerhus Kunstsenter, Lillestrøm). Additionally, Maria Pasenau has appeared in Bjarne Melgaard’s digital exhibition «Life Killed My Chihuahua» on the Instagram account of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (2018, curated by Elise By Olsen and Julia Peyton-Jones). In 2018 Pasenau published her first photo book «Whit Kind Regrets Pasenau», and in 2019 in connection with her exhibition at Fotogalleriet, she published her second photo book «Pasenau and the Devil» and in 2020 here third book «The Hoplesness Of Beeing Alive» . She is one of the youngest artists to have work acquired by the Norwegian National Museum for their permanent
GK—1:1 Pt 2 Slot #4—Lydstrømmer~ Meters & Motors
Stephan Meidell is a musician, sound artist, and composer residing in Bergen, Norway. He has written several commissions and released many records spanning from art rock and noise to baroque techno. He creates sound art and installation work through improvisation and performance, often employing new technology and electricity – creating audible and visible bridges between the electronic and acoustic. Lydstrømmer~ is the title of his Artistic Research project, that will span over the next four year as a Ph.D. research fellow at the Grieg Academy/KMD. In Meters & Motors – a commission written for Bergen Barokk – Meidell is expanding the potential of the traditional baroque trio: Cembalo, Cello, and Recorder using percussion, transducer speakers, and electromotors. The sound installation will be presented in three stages. The first stage will feature pre-recorded sound, interrupted by a concert during the exhibition period. As the trio starts playing the commissioned work, they will transform the installation to the second stage – into a resonating accompaniment for the composed music and improvisations. As they leave, their performance traces will be heard in the installation as the final third stage.Bremnes recently graduated from the Master of Fine Art programme at Bergen Academy of Contemporary Art (KMD), University of Bergen.
GK—1:1 Pt 2 Slot #5—Oda Bremnes
Oda Bremnes (b. 1994) is investigating how we respond emotionally towards technology. Through her work with video installation, sound, and kinetic electronic sculptures she experiments with ghosts as a felt presence and investigates how inanimate objects and machines could be recognised as living creatures.В At 1:1 she is exhibiting an interactive installation consisting of several kinetic electronic sculptures, video and sound. The sculptures are made from familiar objects and will sense and respond to the presence of the audience.
GK—1:1 Pt 2 Slot #6—Kristin Austreid
Kristin Austreid makes paintings that are both photorealistic and abstract, using optical tools to view and distort imagery. Her interest in perception and the slow act of seeing itself are returning themes in her work. Over the last couple of years she’s been developing several series of paintings where different objects and surfaces are placed together in surreal compositions of overlapping layers. At Gyldenpris Kunsthall she is showing a very small selection of these works. Cropped and isolated images of museum objects are dislocated and repositioned together with surfaces we tend to cover up, like backsides or insides.Trivialities like stains and traces are studied up close, and along with the shallow perspective, the physical surface of the painting seem present. Different perspectives and viewpoints are set up against each other, both in the relation between the different paintings, but also merged together in one and the same painting. Relative dimensions like proximity and distance are slightly shifted and distorted. The focus on details indicates a slow process where representation in painting and the ambiguity of things are measured against each other; like the relationship between the flat and the spatial, between looking at and looking into. Kristin Austreid was born i Haugesund 1985 and lives and works in Bergen. She holds a master's degree from Bergen Academy of Art and Design (2014).
GK—1:1 Pt 2 Slot #7—Cristian Ştefănescu
Totems — an evolving collection of objects and images embodying spatial potential are gathered in such a way as to collapse the difference between one thing and another. Consisting of found, borrowed and self made material, little exists to identify where things come from, who made them, what they are for, whether they are 1:1 or actual representations of larger objects, furniture, buildings or landscapes. This new constellation invites free associations across scale, purpose, provenance, history and authorship, opening up for other ways of seeing and feeling space.
Cristian Ştefănescu runs the Bergen-based architecture and art practice a-works in tandem with serving as assistant professor at the Bergen School of Architecture. His practice constructs environments that play with spatial and sensorial experience, often of a marginal and peripheral nature. These environments evolve through the curious use of materials, assemblies and methods, while extending across various scales, locations and types. This approach has led to varied works such as his collaboration with James Turrell on the award-winning Hardanger Skyspace or Pyramid Park, which saw the transformation of a wasteland into a community park through the reallocation of "dirt, weeds and concrete relics" receive the 2017 first place award for public space design in Romania. He has exhibited at, among others, the Hordaland Kunstsenter in Bergen, Norway, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, Romania and at the Architekturzentrum Wien as part of the Vienna Biennale.
GK—1:1 Pt 2 Slot #8—Amalie Vestergaard Olsen
Amalie Vestergaard Olsen (b.1990, Denmark) is a visual artist living and working in Oslo. She graduated with an MFA from The Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (KMD), University of Bergen, in 2020. Amalie wishes to explore narratives about female identity and independence. She mainly works with drawing in an extended field of installation and sculpture. She works interdisciplinary with text, drawing and video, and often the result consists of a dialogue between text and image. The installation in Gyldenpris Kunsthall is based on old tales from Norwegian Svartebøker. The recipes in the books are handwritten tales from the past that consist of magical forms and spells.
