After Our Bodies Meet / Tiger Strikes Asteoroides, New York, opening Jan 9., 2021

I am proud to announce that I will participate in a group exhibition at Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York, curated by Daniel Johnson (NY), opening on Januar 9., 2021. Titled After Our Bodies Meet, this exhitibion will include works by Daniel Arturo Almeida , Dalia Amara, Cyriaco Lopes, Randy West and myself.

In the novel Tar Baby, Toni Morrison wrote, “At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.” Exploring themes of love and memory, the artists in this show have created works that grapple with how we relate to each other and ultimately posit the question: What is enough? Whether through the investigation of familial bonds as with Almeida and Amara’s work, romantic love in West’s series, or the nature of being in the work of Aanestad and Lopes, the works in this show evoke an ethos of delicateness and a celebration of impermanence. 

- Daniel Johnson, curator

Tiger Strikes Asteroid is a non-profit network of independently operated, artist-run exhibition spaces with locations in Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Greenville, SC.

The gallery will be open every Sat & Sun from 3 – 6pm and by appointment, until February 14., 2021.

Cyriaco Lopes, Sunset (documentation of a performance), 1997, Inkjet Print, 4” x 6″

Cyriaco Lopes, Sunset (documentation of a performance), 1997, Inkjet Print, 4” x 6″

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

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

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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!

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

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/

"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.

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

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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. 

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

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

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