White IV. Container-installation, Festplassen, Bergen (2012)
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.
Studvest: ‘Groteskt og Estetisk’
Photo: Studvest/Marie Havnen
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/
Bachelorutstillingen KHIB 2012 – Folder
Photo: Studvest/Marie Havnen
Information Overload II (2011)
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.
Black (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 - Black (2011), detail.
Yellow (2011)
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.
Catch a Cold Open (22.01.2011)
Catch a cold Open @ Premiss, 22.01.2011
PRESS RELEASE
Opening dinner @ PREMISS (just below TAG TEAM studios. MAP)
Saturday 22.01.11 @ 20.00h
Free food, free art
works by Rasmus Hungnes, Ellen Ringstad, Eric Alvin Wangel
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.
White I/II (2010)
Ellen Ringstad - White I/White II (Installation view). Glass Showcase and shredded paper. Approx 200x50x40cm.
Ellen Ringstad - White I, detail. (2010). Glass Showcase and shredded paper. Approx 200x50x40cm.
Sculpture made for the exhibition: In Exhibition Space No One Can Hear You Scream (2010). Press here for text (in norwegian only).
Untitled (2010)
Ellen Ringstad. Untitled (2010), installation view. Assemblage of various materials. Ca. 300x30x30cm.
Ellen Ringstad. Untitled (2010), detail. Assemblage of various materials. Ca. 300x30x30cm.
Information Overload I (2008)
Ellen Ringstad. Information Overload I (1999-2008). Paper from glossy magazines, Acrylic. 35x35x35cm.
In today’s world we are overloaded with aesthetic information, making it increasingly difficult to decipher the clutter. Information Overload I is a sculptural collage, composed of thousands of paper spikes cut out from magazines, hand-rolled by the artist, and glued onto what was once a plastic world globe. It is attached to the ceiling by a thin thread, making it turn around its own axis; the speed is induced by movements in the air created by passers-by. The viewer’s eyes are seduced by a wonderful colour play, but as they zoom in on the surface, they cannot rest – as if bombarded with splinters of information, causing dizziness and unease. Spikes are often found in the natural world and serves as an aggression/ defence mechanism, so when standing in front of the sculpture, one has the contradictory feeling of being both visually/tactically attracted to and instinctively threatened by it.
Ellen Ringstad. Information Overload I, detail (1999-2008). Paper from glossy magazines, Acrylic. 35x35x35cm.
