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The featuring includes a weeklong sharing of my artwork on the @TSA_NY feed, culminating in a video interview, and I will take over of TSA´s Instagram Stories.
Check out: @tsa_ny
TSA is an artist-run exhibition space in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY, with locations in Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Greenville, SC. Thank you for the sharing of my work, TSA team!
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ARTISTS AT HOME is an online interview series where artists are invited to talk about their various situations under the pandemic, and which I am fortunate to have been included in. I have been collaborating with Open Source Gallery several times, both as exhibiting artist and as co-curator/producer.
Photo: Jan Inge Haga
Norwegian: "Eg såg desse verka for første gong i «Aanestad-rommet» som var del av gruppeutstillinga Frail Mighty ved Stavanger Kunsthall i 2018. Eg kjende meg småsakral. Eg har ikkje sagt det til kunstnaren, eller til andre for den del, for eg visste ikkje kva eg skulle seia. Eg visste berre at eg ville vera i rommet så lenge som mogleg. Ha verka rundt meg. Eg ønskte det var ein sofa i rommet, ein stol eller ei seng, slik at eg kunne opphalda meg der, over tid, gjerne i avslappande positurar.” https://www.chttps://www.contemporaryartstavanger.no/skjor-og-deileg-lettheit/
Review by Michael Orr / Corridor8.uk, on the duo exhibition with Elin Melberg and myself at Abingdon Studios Project Space, Blackpool, UK / Oct 2019: https://corridor8.co.uk/article/continuation-and-or-duration/
Thursday Oct. 24. Elin Melberg and I are opening our duo exhibition at Abingdon Studios Project Space in Blackpool, UK. We are very happy for this collaboration with Garth Gratrix and the gallery.
I am proud to announce the launch of my online show in the Web Exhibition series at MOCA London! Selected works from 2015-2019. Curated by Roberto Ekholm / MOCA London. / IG: @mocalondon_we
The Place, 2019
I am participating in this group show “Vestkyst”, produced in collaboration with Elin Melberg where we are showing works by Anders Sletvold Moe (NO) and Marit Roland (NO) in addition to our own works. Opening Feb 15.! Interface gallery, Oakland, CA.
I will participate in this serie at MOCA London, UK, in October 2019 with selected works from 2015-2019. Curated by Roberto Ekholm.
httpoca.london/webexhibitions_margretheaanestad.html
In the autumn of 2018, Kunsthall Stavanger will launch a new series of exhibitions in which artist-run spaces are invited to present a project. Prosjektrom Normanns, which I am co-director of together with Elin Melberg, is curating the inaugural exhibition of the series. The title is “Frail Mighty” and will include works by AK Dolven (NO), Vibeke Tandberg (NO), Mattias Härenstam (NO), Ane Graff (NO), Nathlie Provosty (USA).
In addition, Prosjektrom Normanns is invited to a separate exhibition - as an artists-behind-the artist-run-concept.
https://kunsthallstavanger.no/en/exhibitions/frail-mighty
http://www.prosjektromnormanns.com
Mattias Härenstam, Portrait of a smiling man (video still), 2010. Image courtesy of the artist.
I will participate with six works (acrylic on paper) in the group exhibition Velvet Rope at Galleri Golsa. This is s an international traveling series of group shows with international artists. All works shown are original works on paper in the format of A3 and sold for the low price of $100 USD, or the local equivalent (In Norway: NOK 1000). Golsa also hosts Got It For Cheap (GIFC) simultaneously with works in A4 for $30 or the local equivalent. The goal of GIFC/Velvet Rope is to make buying original art accessible to all people.
Today I was awarded the Culture Grant for Visual Artists from Rogaland County Council in Norway. It is an annual grant to support and secure the artist to focus on the artistic practice, and is of immense value. Thank you, Rogaland fylkeskommune!
February through November 2019 I will be participating at the juried exhibition Vestlandsutstilligen, which is presenting artists related to the West side of Norway. Curator is Marte Danielsen Jølbo.
I am looking forward to show together with so many great artists at the following museums, galleries and institutions along the West Coast of Norway: Jugendstilsenteret & Kube, Ålesund; Haugesund Billedgalleri, Haugesund; Kunsthuset Kabuso, Øystese; Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger; Sunnfjord Kunstlag, Førde; Kunstgarasjen, Bergen.
City of Stavanger awards visual artists a stipend each year, and I received the one for 2018 - handed by Trine Skei Grande, Minister of Culture i Norway, and Stavanger´s Mayor Christine Sagen Helgø. Thank you, Stavanger kommune!
Margrethe Aanestad is a Stavanger-based artist and co-director of the artist-run project space Prosjektrom Normanns. Below, Aanestad answers our questions about balancing artistic production with managing a gallery, her relationship with abstraction and art history, and the underlying themes behind her artwork and creative process.
Please click here to read the interview
Photo: Jan Inge Haga
Represented artists: Anders Sletvold Moe (NO) / Siv Bugge Vatne (NO) / Jan Christensen (NO) / Ingeborg Kvame (NO) / Ingrid Toogood (NO) / Ole Martin Lund Bø (NO) / Margrethe Aanestad (NO) / Elin Melberg (NO).
Curated by Margrethe Aanestad & Elin Melberg / Prosjektrom Normanns.
Untitled Art Fair San Francisco
Photo: Jan Inge Haga
Kunstsnakk #8 will be at Mellomstasjonen, as is a conversation with Sabrina van der Ley, director of dep. of contemporary art, where we will talk about the various aspects of Prosjektrom Normanns as an artist run space, and also our individual practices as artists. For more information click here (in Norwegian).
Read the review of the installation piece Du og jeg og de andre in Periskop. The installation is a collaboration between Elin Melberg and myself. Commissioned by Stavanger Municipality for Gosen kindergarten. Consultant: Daniela Arriado.
Photo: Tommy Ellingsen
