Welcome to finissage and artist talk with exhibiting artist Gunnhild Torgersen in conversation with Gertrud Sandqvist, professor at Malmö Academy of Arts.
Finishing Sunday 25 August at 13pm with light refreshments
Artist talk at 14 p.m., in Norwegian and Swedish (limited number of places due to small premises)
Pathmakers.
Materials from different landscapes and environments have their own history – in the collection stage, in time, in the earth itself and in the life that moved over it.
In the series Agents, on the upper level, clay taken from the salty wetland by the Wadden Sea is processed. An area of the sea where the tide flows between the mainland and islands, and alternately floods the land area or leaves the seabed open to us humans. The works in fired clay and colored glass revolve around theories of consciousness and origins as physical processes – what is required for meaning (life) to emerge from matter, in a landscape? Meaning can arise in a process as much as in the matter itself, and the sculptures embody the external constraints within which a movement can operate. The funnel-shaped capsules act as hosts for external events, or as subsystems with dynamic relationships among themselves. The project is based on a dialogue with the biologist Christiaan Henkel, who has written a text for the exhibition.
Gunnhild Torgersen has studied at the Academy of Arts in Malmö (MFA 2011), and has lived and worked in Oslo since 2013. She mainly works with sculpture and installation, and in recent years has exhibited at Hå Gamle Prestegard in Jæren, Norska Skulpturforbundet and Noplace in Oslo , Röstånga Art Center, Vermillion Sands in Copenhagen, Møre og Romsdal Art Center in Molde. In November, she has a solo exhibition at KRAFT in Bergen. For more info
Gertud Sandq vist is a professor in the theory and idea history of art, supervisor in the doctoral program at Malmö Academy of Arts.
Gertrud Sandqvist was rector of the Academy of Arts in Malmö between 1995-2007 and 2011-2020.
Professor Sandqvist has written extensively, mainly on European contemporary art since the early 1990s, and her most recent publication is Estragon, a monograph on the Norwegian painter Olav Christopher Jenssen, which was published in 2018. In 2010, she co-curated the Modern exhibition at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm . Together with Sarat Maharaj, Dorothee Albrecht and Stina Edblom, she was the curator of the 2011 edition of the Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art. In recent years, she has also curated Siksi—The Nordic Miracle Revisited at Galleri F 15, Moss, Norway, 2015; Red Dawn at HISK, Ghent, Belgium, 2014; Channeled, where works by contemporary artists were shown next to works by Hilma af Klint, at Lund's Konsthall, 2013; and Against Method for the Generali Foundation, Vienna, 2013.
Source for biography https://www.khm.lu.se/gertrud-sandqvist
Photo Gunnhild Torgersen, Agents, 2024, fired clay from the Wadden Sea, wax, colored glass
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