My contribution to the group show “Bachelorutstillingen KHIB 2012, avd. Containere” with Maria Therese Fernander Smit, Hågen Magnus Kristiansen, Joar Nedberg, Katarina Skjønsberg, Camilla Renate Nicolaisen, Tarald Wassvik, Ellen Ringstad.
Location: Festplassen, Bergen.
Ellen RIngstad. White IV. Interactive video installation. Wood, Plastic, Latex, Ash, Projectors.
Ellen RIngstad. White IV. Interactive video installation. Wood, Plastic, Latex, Ash, Projectors.
Interview in STUDVEST: “Groteskt og Estetisk” about the KHIB Bachelor’s exhibition, where I’m exhibiting three projects in three places: 1) in the old Bergen Prison, 2) inside containers in the the city centre, and 3) at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design, department of Fine Arts-building in C. Sundtsgt 53. More information on the Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/354166714632186/
Information Overload II (2011). paper, acrylic. Size: 50x50x50cm.(Will be shown at the National Art Gallery Sofia in May.)
Paper sculpture made for the 2011 Sofia International Paper Art Biennial in Bulgaria. The sculpture will be on show at the National Art Gallery Sofia from May 5th, 2011.
Ouroboros - Installation view - Black (2011). Leftover plastic taken from the exhibition at Hordaland Kunstsenter Leila by AiPotu, appropriated for the exhibition Ouroboros by Ellen Ringstad.
Ellen Ringstad. Yellow (2011). Installation view. Site-specific installation: Yellow plastic bags filled with shredded paper. Premiss, Bergen.
Ellen Ringstad. Yellow (2011). Detail. Site-specific installation: Yellow plastic bags filled with shredded paper. Premiss, Bergen.
Ellen Ringstad. Yellow (2011). Detail. Site-specific installation: Yellow plastic bags filled with shredded paper. Premiss, Bergen.
Site-specific installation for the exhibition Catch a Cold Open at Premiss, located in a condemned building, 22.01.2011, in Bergen, Norway. See more pictures from the opening here.
Warming up for this season’s cool series of hot exhibitions, Premiss sets the premises and opens their premises by inviting to COLD OPEN: an opening dinner with contemporary art as a side dish.
You remember MacGyver, right? Right right? Right right right? The show always started off with a COLD OPEN: the exciting few minutes before the catchy tunes during the vignette hit in, setting the premises for the unveiling of the further next to intolerable excitement of the continued episode, spreading out in time and realm of perception, like a blossoming flower in the spring sun, flowering, its colourful petals reaching for our celestial star. Now, this opening dinner will be similar to this meta-into: Like MacGyver sez: (bad russian accent) I am political, but I also drink… blood… Who do you think would win, MacGyver or Jack Bauer? Creative non-violence or idealistically motivated torture?
24 will not be shown, but Ellen Ringstad, Eric Alvin Wangel and Rasmus Andreas Hungnes will show new work: there will be, if nothing else, a clean, aesthetic site specific installation in trashy surroundings by Ringstad, a stunning as usual video piece by Wangel; Hungnes will deliver the longest Waste line (you know, the dynamic art piece, which can be made at any time of the day, anywhere, by anyone, at any size, by anybody, by everybody and each and every one) yet materialized in the name of art.
I’m looking forward to seeing some videoworks by Bill Viola at Kabuso on Saturday; in the meantime I’m enjoying a youtube-clip of a video installation he did for the 2007 Venice Biennial.
Ellen Ringstad, Hélène Førde, Sofia Eliasson, Emily Ilett, Moa Franzén Limen – exhibition opening this Friday 20.00 at Premiss, Damsgårdsveien 35. There will be a performance at about 20.30. The exhibition will also be open Saturday and Sunday 12.00 – 18.00. For more information see www.prmss.no
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