New Visions
Curated by Susanne Østby Sæther at Henie Onstad Kunstenter in collaboration with Behzad Farazollahi and Christian Tunge from MELK.
February 21 – September 13, 2020
In line with the avant-garde legacy of the Henie Onstad, we are proud to present a new Triennial that will showcase recent experimental developments in photography and camera-based art more generally, says Susanne Østby Sæther, the Curator for Photography and New Media at the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Norway.
The inaugural Triennial for Photography and New Media brings together recent work of 31 international artists. Several works are exhibited for the first time and the Triennial is the first major international presentation of its kind in Norway.
The exhibition foregrounds practices that acknowledge the fluctuating and networked condition of contemporary photography and society more generally. It also articulates a keen sensitivity towards the history of photography and art. Abstraction, digital and manual collage, new configurations of still life and the human body are key tendencies. Produced within the scope of our digital culture, several of the works exemplifies the dissolution of the distinction between the still and moving image and the dimensional and material expansion of the image.
The first edition of the Triennale is titled New Visions, referring to the movement developed by László Moholy-Nagy in the interwar period. In line with the Bauhaus pedagogy, Moholy-Nagy and his peers aimed to employ the qualities intrinsic to the medium in order to transform photography from a reproductive medium into a productive one. And just as photography a century ago was a tool for new perceptions and conceptions of an increasingly mechanized world, today artists frequently use the medium to explore our increasingly computational, information-saturated, and automated surrounds.
Artists: Morten Andenæs, Viktoria Binschtok, Lucas Blalock, Lucile Boiron, Asger Carlsen, Louisa Clement, Sara Cwynar, Ingrid Eggen, Roe Ethridge, Victoria Fu, Espen Gleditsch, Andrea Grützner, Annette Kelm, Nico Krijno, Owen Kydd, B. Ingrid Olson, Linn Pedersen, Matt Rich, Erin M. Riley, Maya Rochat, Johan Rosenmunthe, Torbjørn Rødland, Viviane Sassen, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Timur Si-Qin, Wolfgang Tillmans, Sara VanDerBeek, Hannah Whitaker, Carmen Winant, Letha Wilson and Daisuke Yokota.
February 21 – September 13, 2020
In line with the avant-garde legacy of the Henie Onstad, we are proud to present a new Triennial that will showcase recent experimental developments in photography and camera-based art more generally, says Susanne Østby Sæther, the Curator for Photography and New Media at the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Norway.
The inaugural Triennial for Photography and New Media brings together recent work of 31 international artists. Several works are exhibited for the first time and the Triennial is the first major international presentation of its kind in Norway.
The exhibition foregrounds practices that acknowledge the fluctuating and networked condition of contemporary photography and society more generally. It also articulates a keen sensitivity towards the history of photography and art. Abstraction, digital and manual collage, new configurations of still life and the human body are key tendencies. Produced within the scope of our digital culture, several of the works exemplifies the dissolution of the distinction between the still and moving image and the dimensional and material expansion of the image.
The first edition of the Triennale is titled New Visions, referring to the movement developed by László Moholy-Nagy in the interwar period. In line with the Bauhaus pedagogy, Moholy-Nagy and his peers aimed to employ the qualities intrinsic to the medium in order to transform photography from a reproductive medium into a productive one. And just as photography a century ago was a tool for new perceptions and conceptions of an increasingly mechanized world, today artists frequently use the medium to explore our increasingly computational, information-saturated, and automated surrounds.
Artists: Morten Andenæs, Viktoria Binschtok, Lucas Blalock, Lucile Boiron, Asger Carlsen, Louisa Clement, Sara Cwynar, Ingrid Eggen, Roe Ethridge, Victoria Fu, Espen Gleditsch, Andrea Grützner, Annette Kelm, Nico Krijno, Owen Kydd, B. Ingrid Olson, Linn Pedersen, Matt Rich, Erin M. Riley, Maya Rochat, Johan Rosenmunthe, Torbjørn Rødland, Viviane Sassen, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Timur Si-Qin, Wolfgang Tillmans, Sara VanDerBeek, Hannah Whitaker, Carmen Winant, Letha Wilson and Daisuke Yokota.
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Dislocating Surfaces — New Scandinavian Photography
An exhibition curated by MELK for CENART in Mexico City.
October 27, 2017 – February 18, 2018
National Arts Center
The Exhibition Dislocating Surfaces is a continuation of the publication NEW SCANDINAVIAN PHOTOGRAPHY. The first iteration of the exhibition was curated for Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, May 2016.
The exhibition is comprised of work from 6 Scandinavian photographers MELK has chosen based on a variety of experience, approach and topography. What they have in common is their exploration of the medium and further understanding of a potential within a medium specific discourse. We have mainly focused on the photographer’s use of the medium in a space, as the photographs work as pieces activating the room as a whole, rather than the classic narrative line reading of a photographic exhibition.
Since the late 1980’s the Scandinavian field of photography has evolved towards an internationally recognized scene of highly skilled practitioners. The focus originally lied within documentary photography, whereas the 90’s generation marked a shift towards a discourse within fine art. In the last decade, there has been a strong generation of younger artists whom have moved this shift further, in close dialogue with contemporary art in general. Thus stepping out of what has been seen as a closed field of fine art photographers.
In Dislocating Surfaces, the artists explore material processes and ideas concerning surface and depth, they enter in a dialogue with other mediums such as painting, sculpture and film, and actively engage with the exhibition space itself. With bold, playful and seductive means, these artists manifest a photography that confidently engages with new spaces and formats and that freely opens itself to experimentation and chance.
Dislocating Surfaces includes works by Ole Martin Lund Bø (NO) , Sandra Vaka Olsen (NO), Markus Von Platen (DK), Ingrid Eggen (NO), Flemming Ove Bech (DK) and Linn Pedersen (NO).
October 27, 2017 – February 18, 2018
National Arts Center
The Exhibition Dislocating Surfaces is a continuation of the publication NEW SCANDINAVIAN PHOTOGRAPHY. The first iteration of the exhibition was curated for Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, May 2016.
The exhibition is comprised of work from 6 Scandinavian photographers MELK has chosen based on a variety of experience, approach and topography. What they have in common is their exploration of the medium and further understanding of a potential within a medium specific discourse. We have mainly focused on the photographer’s use of the medium in a space, as the photographs work as pieces activating the room as a whole, rather than the classic narrative line reading of a photographic exhibition.
Since the late 1980’s the Scandinavian field of photography has evolved towards an internationally recognized scene of highly skilled practitioners. The focus originally lied within documentary photography, whereas the 90’s generation marked a shift towards a discourse within fine art. In the last decade, there has been a strong generation of younger artists whom have moved this shift further, in close dialogue with contemporary art in general. Thus stepping out of what has been seen as a closed field of fine art photographers.
In Dislocating Surfaces, the artists explore material processes and ideas concerning surface and depth, they enter in a dialogue with other mediums such as painting, sculpture and film, and actively engage with the exhibition space itself. With bold, playful and seductive means, these artists manifest a photography that confidently engages with new spaces and formats and that freely opens itself to experimentation and chance.
Dislocating Surfaces includes works by Ole Martin Lund Bø (NO) , Sandra Vaka Olsen (NO), Markus Von Platen (DK), Ingrid Eggen (NO), Flemming Ove Bech (DK) and Linn Pedersen (NO).
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Dislocating Surfaces
Curated by MELK
May 13 – June 26, 2016
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
In 2015 MELK released the book New Scandinavian Photography in collaboration with the London based publisher Black Dog Publishing. The aim of the publication was to survey a young generation of Scandinavian artists who are developing new critical dialogues with photography that both acknowledge and dispute traditional boundaries.
The exhibition should not be seen as a representation of the book, the ambition has rather been to present a new project which further explores the different positions manifested in the book, adding a new set of artists to the list. The artists presented at Kunstnernes Hus all elaborate on the photographic within and beyond a medium-specific discourse. They explore material processes and ideas concerning surface and depth, they enter in a dialogue with other mediums such as painting, sculpture and film, and actively engage with the exhibition space itself. With bold, playful and seductive means, these artists manifest a photography that confidently engages with new spaces and formats and that freely opens itself to experimentation and chance.
Artists: Emil Salto (DK), Linda Hofvander (SE), Kristina Bengtsson (SE), Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson (NO), Markus von Platen (DK), Espen Gleditsch (NO), Sandra Vaka Olsen (NO), Flemming Ove Bech (DK), Kamilla Langeland (NO) and Linn Pedersen (NO).
May 13 – June 26, 2016
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
In 2015 MELK released the book New Scandinavian Photography in collaboration with the London based publisher Black Dog Publishing. The aim of the publication was to survey a young generation of Scandinavian artists who are developing new critical dialogues with photography that both acknowledge and dispute traditional boundaries.
The exhibition should not be seen as a representation of the book, the ambition has rather been to present a new project which further explores the different positions manifested in the book, adding a new set of artists to the list. The artists presented at Kunstnernes Hus all elaborate on the photographic within and beyond a medium-specific discourse. They explore material processes and ideas concerning surface and depth, they enter in a dialogue with other mediums such as painting, sculpture and film, and actively engage with the exhibition space itself. With bold, playful and seductive means, these artists manifest a photography that confidently engages with new spaces and formats and that freely opens itself to experimentation and chance.
Artists: Emil Salto (DK), Linda Hofvander (SE), Kristina Bengtsson (SE), Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson (NO), Markus von Platen (DK), Espen Gleditsch (NO), Sandra Vaka Olsen (NO), Flemming Ove Bech (DK), Kamilla Langeland (NO) and Linn Pedersen (NO).
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Milkshake
MELK is an artist run space in Oslo, Norway since 2009, and the leading initiative for new Scandinavian photography. The aim is to raise awareness of the scene of contemporary photographers in the region and the position of the medium today. MELK's program is materialized through exhibition projects in-house, external curatorial projects, art and book fairs, publishing and the like. MELK was established in 2009 by the artists Behzad Farazollahi and Bjarne Bare and is supported by the Arts Council Norway.
For more information please visit www.melkgalleri.no
For more information please visit www.melkgalleri.no
