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The Oslo Project
March 23rd - October 28th, 2012
Kunsthall Oslo has invited artists to investigate the city of Oslo and present their results to the public over a seven-month series of exhibitions, talks and events. With a central focus on the material reality of the city and on the present day, the artists' projects explore many sides of city life: aesthetics, ideology, architecture, economics, social relations, history, politics, conflict, everyday life and personal experience.
Events in the city project programme (further projects, talks and events are to be announced):
March 23rd-April 3rd: View from Ekeberg
Curated by Harald Østgaard Lund
Opening Friday March 23rd, 19.00
Performance on the opening night by Abdulrahman Surizehi and Anne Hytta.
The opening exhibition of the Oslo project presents the view from Ekeberg, a hill to the south-east of the city, and the viewpoint from which Edvard Munch painted 'The Scream'. The exhibition offers a double history, both of the physical development of the city and of the development of specific ways of seeing and representing it.
April 2nd 19.00: Romanes language symposium
The Norwegian Roma Embassy, Tullinløkka.
Authors Linda Gabrielsen and Hanne Ramsdal (Norwegian - Romanes phrasebook),
Steffan Palleson (Swedish - Romanes dictionary), Jamanda Jansen.
The Norwegian Roma Embassy is a temporary cultural house at Tullinløkka in Oslo. The embassy will serve as a site for cultural events in the period 25 March to the International Roma Day on April 8th. The project is initiated by the architect group FFB.
For further information see www.dennorskeromambassade.tumblr.com
April 4-7, 14–15.30: Romanes writing workshop
Linda Gabrielsen and Hanne Ramsdal are arranging a series of writing workshops for children, both Norwegian- and Romanes-speaking, and working towards the publication of a Norsk-Romanes phrasebook. Contact
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for more information.
April 10th-27th: Atelier Populaire Oslo / Palestinerleir
On the initiative of the artist Andrea Lange, Kunsthall Oslo will operate as a workshop and forum for public discussion, artistic production, research and activism in relation to the situation of 'paperless' people in Norway. The workshop is organised in cooperation with the members of the Palestina camp in Oslo, Johanna Zwaig and Marius von der Fehr. Over fifty artists, writers, activists and experts will contribute to a series of talks and events, and the workshop will be open to the public throughout its duration.
April 12th: What is a monument? - a panel discussion at The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design.
New date to be announced.
The Museum of Contemporary Art continues its series of afternoon panel discussions, this time with the collaboration of Kunsthall Oslo. Time to be announced.
May 4th - 20th: Steinar Haga Kristensen
Fortvilelser i leire (Despair in Clay)
Opening Friday May 4th, 19.00
Steinar Hagen Kristensen's exhibition "Fortvilelser i Leire" centres on the manipulation of twenty-five tons of raw clay, excavated from the very foundations of central Oslo.
May 25th - June 10th: Harald Østgaard Lund
Veikrysset i Gamlebyen
Opening Friday May 25th, 19.00
A presentation of footage from Harald Østgaard Lund's lost film Veikrysset i Gamlebyen, a film essay about Oslo, using the Gamlebyen crossroads as a starting point to explore geographical, social and cultural intersections in the city.
June 15th - July 8th: Ane Hjort Guttu
Byens lys
Opening Friday June 15th, 19.00
Ane Hjort Guttu's exhibition raises the question of the ownership of light in the late-capitalist metropolis. The exhibition looks at the link between the sun and the privileged classes, and at how poverty, both symbolically and in real terms is associated with darkness.
Hjort Guttu has also curated a parallel exhibition presenting a selection of French graphic artist Gustave Dore's illustrations for the Harper's Magazine articles London - A Pilgrimage from 1872.
August 17th-26th: Bodil Furu
Alnaelva
Two films by Bodil Furu. Presented at Kunsthall Oslo and elsewhere in the city.
The Alna river is given great importance by city planners, politicians and local activists. The river is a key element in the development of Groruddalen, Oslo's eastern valley and site of the city's major social housing schemes. In two films, we follow the river's journey from Lillomarka via Groruddalen to its outlet to the fjord in Bjørvika. In one film, we see the river without commentary, in the other we hear the voices of those involved in the administration of its development. Political visions for different areas are presented, as well as already completed decisions. How many roles can a river play beyond just being a river?
August 31st - September 16th: Jon Benjamin Tallerås
Gaps and Spaces
The work of Jon Benjamin Lund Tallerås describes a close relationship to the fabric of urban space, exploring hidden or forbidden areas of the city, using found materials to create sculpture and making transient performances that claim the accidental gaps and spaces formed on the margins of functional architecture. Among other works, Tallerås will present a publication documenting a series of 'Street Sculptures' realised in collaboration with Ruben Steinum.
September 28th - October 29th
Arbeiderbilder
The Oslo Project's concluding exhibition looks at how the representation and reality of work in the city has changed over the past century, from heroic social democratic images of working class participation in the creation of modern Oslo to the unseen labour that supports the increasingly post-industrial city today. An exhibition of rarely-seen historical artworks will be accompanied by a series of contemporary commissions, talks, screenings and publications.
September
Betryggende bilder
Presentasjon by Marius Grønning in collaboration with Helle Waahlberg.
Date to be announced.
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