Hanne Grieg Hermansen and Aja Ulset openings 15 April

Former KHIB master student Hanne Grieg Hermansen (graduated 2010) opened her first solo show at Tag Team Studio on Friday April 15th, showing a series of large drawings. The same evening, another class of 2010 graduate, Anja Ulset, opened a solo show at Knipsu, where the exhibits include postcards and specially produced stamps that the visitor can use to send a message from the exhibition.  The postcard is from the ongoing project "Bergen Art Guide" in which accidentally discovered sites in Bergen are appropriated and then attributed to well-known artists as examples of their work. The postcard shows a "work" by Gordon Matta Clark. Meanwhile, this year's MA exhibition continues at Bergen Kunsthall until May 1st.

The opening of Hanne Grieg Hermansen's show; Tonje Bøe Birkeland, Hilde Skevik, Ellen Suhrke, Hanne Grieg Hermansen, Øystein Wyller. Curator Arne Bakke is reflected in the picture frame behind.

RETROSPEKTIV: film & video art in Norway 1960 - 1990

Exhibition at Stensersens Museum, Oslo, from 1 April until 2 May 2011, curated by Farhad Kalantary and produced by Atopia.  The exhibition, featuring 64 works by 36 artists, is the first major historical survey of artists' film and video work by Norwegian and Norway-based artists. A second exhibition at a later date will examine works produced after 1990.

Images below: two works by Jeremy Welsh included in the exhibition: I.O.D. (1984) and Immemorial (1989)  and curator Farhad Kalantary opening the exhibition.

Strawberry Butterflies and Peppermint Cats

Exhibition in connection with the Borealis Festival 2011 in Bergen. Drawings by Susanna Kajermo Törner, (currently exhibiting at Tegnerforbundet, Oslo) paintings and objects by Mona Aspen Simonsen, graphics & curating by Jeremy Welsh.

More information at the KHIB website and at Borealis.

Images from the opening on 22 March in Rom 8, Vaskerelven, Bergen.

Right About Then, Right About Now

The seminar "Right About Now" proved to be a stimulating  event with a varied programme and lots of interesting connections between the various presentations. We left with a sense of having achieved something worthwhile and with the desire to continue our discussions. For myself it was very interesting to be introduced to the work of Isabelle Jenniches and to discover that we had many common interests. Michelle Teran's project, as a research fellow at KHIB, continues to develop in extremely interesting directions and will be something to watch closely over the next couple of years. Suzanna Jaschko, who has lectured in Bergen on several occasions previously, presented a number of works from "Process as Paradigm" a show she had co-curated at LaBoral in Spain, where many of the works were based on random, chaotic or unpredictable processes, opening up the artwork as a discursive space rather than a closed and completed object or statement.

Below: Ellen Røed introduces the seminar.

Constructing Time: Applied Data Mining: Right About Now

A one-day seminar at Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen on Thursday 3 March 2011. Programme details of the seminar are here.  Presentation by Jeremy Welsh: The Accidental Collector, 2008 - 2010. Musings on art as data and data as art; the compulsion to collect, database narratives or narrative databases; iStories, embodied and disembodied memory; the art of scavenging.

Programme:

Right about Now

Welcome to a symposium for discussing observation, collecting and the production of presence as artistic strategies.

3. march 2011 at ROM8, Vaskerelven 8, Bergen

Thursday 3. of march: Public Symposium

10.00 Introduction by Ellen Røed

10.15 Isabelle Jenniches (USA): A young lady’s illustrated primer to webcams.

11.15 Patrik Entian (N): Close but far away. Landscape painting and webcameras.

12.15 Jeremy Welsh (UK/N): The Accidental Collector, 2008 – 2010.

13.15 Lunch at the Art academy (not included)

14.30 Suzanne Jaschko (D): Process as Paradigm?

15.30 Michelle Teran (CN/N): Future Guides for Cities

16.30 End

Website updates

jewelsh.com has been updated with a new home page, albums of documentation images from several projects, biography, bibliography and links to other related websites. The site will be further updated in the near future to provide a full documentation archive of works by Jeremy Welsh, as well as collaborative projects with other artists.

Exhibition for Borealis Festival 2011

Strawberry Butterflies and Peppermint Cats is the title of an exhibition to be staged as part of the Borealis festival of contemporary music in Bergen, from 22 - 27 March 2011. The exhibition will include classic psychedelic graphics from the late sixties and contemporary artworks taking the heritage of psychedelia as their starting point. Two guest artists have been invited to participate; Susanna Kajermo Törner will exhibit drawings and Mona Aspen Simonsen will contribute with paintings. The exhibition opens on Tuesday 22 March at 6.00 pm, Rom 8, Vaskerelven, Bergen.