Virtual conversation with Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Nov 25., 2020

Margrethe Aanestad and Monika Wuhrer are talking about all the projects they have done together and about Margrethe's recent work.Margrethe Aanestad is a Nor...

On Nov 25., 2020, I did a virtual conversation from my NYC-studio with Monika Wuhrer, Founder and Director of Open Source Gallery in Brooklyn (est 1997). I am proud to be on the Advisory Committee of the gallery since 2019. Open Source has been fundraising for one month now (Nov 7.-Dec 6.). This to support and secure the valuable existence of the space, which has been and still is facing the threat of closing because of the pandemic.

For this cause I donated two hand made silk screen prints, and as a gesture in return Open Source publishes online talks with many of the artists donating.

If you would like to watch the whole conversation I had with Monika, please click here or on the screenshot to the left.

July 20.-26., 2020 my work is featured at Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York´s Instagram Spotlight

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!

www.tigerstrikesasteroid.com

I did an with Open Source Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, where I talk about my work and processes and the times we currently live in.

https://open-source-gallery.org/artists-at-home-margrethe-aanestad/

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

Merete Jonvik (NO) Ph. D., Social Anthropologist and Sociologist, has written an essay for CAS, about experiencing art, and in particular about her personal meeting with my works.

Fragile Etherality (English version)

In this essay, Merete Jonvik questions what occurs when a viewer encounters an artwork. What kind of emotions and thoughts are evoked by the work? She points out that an experience with an artwork can be considered as a conversation between the personal sensation engendered by the work and the established art discourse, and that this conversation necessarily depends on the legitimacy of the personal experience.

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 on "Continuation and/or Duration" in Corridor8.uk, by Michael Porr

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/

"Continuation and/or duration" / Upcoming at Abingdon Studios Project Space in Blackpool, UK / Opening Oct 24., 2019

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.

Oct 1. - Nov. 17. , 2019: Solo presentation at MOCA London / Web_Exhibitions, curated by Roberto Ekholm / MOCA London

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

Vestkyst / Interface Gallery, Oakland, California, opening Feb 15., 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.

MOCA London Web Exhibitions 2019

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

"Frail Mighty" at Kunsthall Stavanger, opening Nov 1., 2018

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.

Velvet Rope at Galleri Golsa / OSLO EDITION Aug. 17 & 18. 2018

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. 

Thank you Rogaland County Council for the Grant for Visual Artists 2019!

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! 

Vestlandsutstillingen 2019 in Norway, curated by Marte Danielsen Jølbo (NO)

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.

I am proud to receive City of Stavanger´s stipend for Visual Art, June 4. 2018

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! 

Interview in Contemporary Art Stavanger (CAS) by Heather Jones, published Feb 12., 2018

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

Prosjektrom Normanns will participate at UNTITLED Art Fair in San Francisco, CA, Jan. 12./13./14., 2018 at Palace of Fine Arts, Booth C05

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

GIFC (Got It For Cheap), Rod Bianco, Oslo, Oct 27./28./29., 2017

Rod Bianco / GIFC

Flowing Keeping / Find Your Eyes vol. 2. at Kulturøya Sølyst, Stavanger, Norway / A land art project curated by Monika Wuhrer (USA) / Opening Sept. 15., 2017

Photo: Jan Inge Haga

FOR FULL DOCUMENTATION OF THE PROJECT CLICK HERE

Prosjektrom Normanns will participate at COSMOSCOW Art Fair in Moscow, Russia, Sep. 8./9./10., 2017 at Gostiny Dvor, Moscow, Booth A04

Represented artists:  Ann Iren Buan  (NO) / Per Christian Brown  (NO) / Marit Roland  (NO)
Curated by Margrethe Aanestad & Elin Melberg / Prosjektrom Normanns.
Cosmoscow Art Fair

Kunstsnakk #8 at Mellomstasjonen, The National Museum in Oslo, April 18., 2017 / Elin Melberg & Margrethe Aanestad

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).