Jens Chr. Jensen working on his pice, Varde in 2019
Artists from Baltic and Nordic countries, all Arctic areas and others with Arctic connections where invited apply for Kjerringøy Land Art Biennale 2021
The jury wish to thank all the artists for their contribution to the Open Call.
"We had 169 highly qualified applicants to select from, amongst them 20 duos and 1 trio and 1 quartet. Thirteen applicants have been selected including 1 duo. It was a difficult process to select such a small group of artists. We are impressed by the artistic work and the applications. We are humble and felt privileged to take part in the artists thoughts."
12 projects and 13 artists will come and make place-specific land art in the stunning region of Kjerringøy, North Norway . These artists is participating at the next Kjerringøy Land Art Biennale the 30. June – 11. July 2021
AIPOTU: Andreas Siqueland og Anders Kjellesvik NO
https://www.aipotu.org www.andreassiqueland.com www.anderskjellesvik.com
Andrius Sirtautas LT
Elin Sundstrøm SE
Elina Joupperi FI http://www.basis-frankfurt.de/de/node/1060
https://www.hiap.fi/elina-juopperi-on-falling-in-love-with-spaces/
Hilde Angel Danielsen NO www.hildeadanielsen.no
Ingeborg Annie Lindahl NO www.ingeborgannie.com
Ingibjörg Gudmunsdottir IS www.ingagumma.net
Jan Egil Finne NO https://www.instagram.com/jefinne/
Peter Dean NO www.peterdean.no
Ryszard Litwiniuk PL/CA www.RyszardLitwinuik.blogspot.com
Sidsel Nielsen Bonde DK www.sidselbonde.com
Ted Efremoff RU/USA (Baltikum) https://vimeo.com/317752379
The jury and curators 2021:
Rita Marhaug, Artist and curator, Per Gunnar Eeg-Tverbakk, Artist and curator Ane Øverås, Artist and initiator of the project
More information under the photo
Anette Friedrich Johannessen, NO, performance Time Based Erosion, 3,5 hours. K-Lab Nord 2019. Photo, Glafira Severianova. ©K-Lab2019
Open Call Information:
WHO CAN APPLY: Artists from Arctic areas - all the Nordic countries, the Baltic, Barents region, Canada, Alaska, or having a special affiliation or connection with the north. Or having had longer stays in Northern areas or a special arctic connection visible in your work. Please make contact with us. Artists from different artistic disciplines are invited, including musicians, dancers, art critics etc. We encourage interactive work and collaborative projects. Participants must commit to staying on location during the full length of the Biennale.
OUTLINE: The Biennale is an interdisciplinary arena where ecology and a mindful interaction with nature are explored. The work is to explore and interact with place and with the natural and biodegradable materials available and to investigate, transform, alter, reflect on or commune with these on site.
We encourage you to remain open to what the place and landscape have to offer and not come with preconceived plans and ideas. Hence, there is no need to bring materials for making the work. The work or activity should not contain any artificial materials and should when choosing your site and making your work, be made in mindful ways with respect for the place and its inhabitants and creatures great and small, possibly integrating with or disappearing into the landscape.
We offer a seminar and a workshop as part of the experience. On the last day of the Biennale, July 10th, there will be an exhibition tour where the artists present their work in situ to the general public.
DOCUMENTATION: The process as well as the finished work will be documented by a professional photographer. The pictures and video recordings will be presented on social media and in the press.
ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD: We offer free main meals and lodging. You will live in shared houses in the valley. There may also be people housed in a caravan and in tents. The Community Hall in the village will serve as our hub for shared meals, presentations and social gatherings. Cooking will mostly be a communal effort but the last few days of the Biennale meals will be served.
FUNDING: Participation is free of charge. In addition, we are hoping to offer travel support for participating artists.
We encourage you to find your own funding as well.
THE SETTING: Kjerringøy is a place of outstanding natural beauty. The landscape is steeped in wilderness and is breathtakingly beautiful with dramatic mountains, woodlands and marshlands, lowland and highland lakes and a river delta where the valley meets the fjord. The area has a great variety of wild flora and fauna, which makes a spectacular setting for just being and making creative and land- based work.
The population of the Kjerringøy region is close to 500 people but attracts many summer visitors.
About Kjerringøy Land Art Biennale: www.kjerringoylandart.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kjerringoylandart
About Kjerringøy: http://www.kjerringoy.info
APPLICATIONS:
Send your proposal by the 20th May 2020 to: apply.klab@gmail.com
INCLUDE IN YOUR APPLICATION:
1. Short CV, max 2 A4 pages, a short bio (1/4 A4 page) and link to your website.
2a. A short (1/2 page) text regarding your motivation, what you want to explore, methods, approach, etc.
Note: Do not give a project description, but more a general and personal intention, or an approach to the site.
2b. If you are not native of any of the counties mentioned above, please add a ¼ page to describe your situation.
3. Six images of relevant work (not exceeding 3 MB each).
Please mention where you heard or found out about this arrangement.
Contact us for advice. Use the contact form below.
Applicants will get a reply by the 30th August 2020
We look forward to hearing from you!
Yours sincerely,
Ane Øverås
Kjerringøy Land Art Biennale
Kjerringøy Art Base Camp AS
WHO CAN APPLY: Artists from Arctic areas - all the Nordic countries, the Baltic, Barents region, Canada, Alaska, or having a special affiliation or connection with the north. Or having had longer stays in Northern areas or a special arctic connection visible in your work. Please make contact with us. Artists from different artistic disciplines are invited, including musicians, dancers, art critics etc. We encourage interactive work and collaborative projects. Participants must commit to staying on location during the full length of the Biennale.
OUTLINE: The Biennale is an interdisciplinary arena where ecology and a mindful interaction with nature are explored. The work is to explore and interact with place and with the natural and biodegradable materials available and to investigate, transform, alter, reflect on or commune with these on site.
We encourage you to remain open to what the place and landscape have to offer and not come with preconceived plans and ideas. Hence, there is no need to bring materials for making the work. The work or activity should not contain any artificial materials and should when choosing your site and making your work, be made in mindful ways with respect for the place and its inhabitants and creatures great and small, possibly integrating with or disappearing into the landscape.
We offer a seminar and a workshop as part of the experience. On the last day of the Biennale, July 10th, there will be an exhibition tour where the artists present their work in situ to the general public.
DOCUMENTATION: The process as well as the finished work will be documented by a professional photographer. The pictures and video recordings will be presented on social media and in the press.
ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD: We offer free main meals and lodging. You will live in shared houses in the valley. There may also be people housed in a caravan and in tents. The Community Hall in the village will serve as our hub for shared meals, presentations and social gatherings. Cooking will mostly be a communal effort but the last few days of the Biennale meals will be served.
FUNDING: Participation is free of charge. In addition, we are hoping to offer travel support for participating artists.
We encourage you to find your own funding as well.
THE SETTING: Kjerringøy is a place of outstanding natural beauty. The landscape is steeped in wilderness and is breathtakingly beautiful with dramatic mountains, woodlands and marshlands, lowland and highland lakes and a river delta where the valley meets the fjord. The area has a great variety of wild flora and fauna, which makes a spectacular setting for just being and making creative and land- based work.
The population of the Kjerringøy region is close to 500 people but attracts many summer visitors.
About Kjerringøy Land Art Biennale: www.kjerringoylandart.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kjerringoylandart
About Kjerringøy: http://www.kjerringoy.info
APPLICATIONS:
Send your proposal by the 20th May 2020 to: apply.klab@gmail.com
INCLUDE IN YOUR APPLICATION:
1. Short CV, max 2 A4 pages, a short bio (1/4 A4 page) and link to your website.
2a. A short (1/2 page) text regarding your motivation, what you want to explore, methods, approach, etc.
Note: Do not give a project description, but more a general and personal intention, or an approach to the site.
2b. If you are not native of any of the counties mentioned above, please add a ¼ page to describe your situation.
3. Six images of relevant work (not exceeding 3 MB each).
Please mention where you heard or found out about this arrangement.
Contact us for advice. Use the contact form below.
Applicants will get a reply by the 30th August 2020
We look forward to hearing from you!
Yours sincerely,
Ane Øverås
Kjerringøy Land Art Biennale
Kjerringøy Art Base Camp AS
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Biographies of the jury and curators
Rita Marhaug (b. 1965) is a visual artist, born and trained in Bergen, Norway. Marhaug holds an MA in Fine Art from Bergen Academy of Art and Design '89 (KHIB) and a BA in History of Art from the University of Bergen ‘96. For 12 years (2001-13), Marhaug was a professor in the Fine Art Department at her alma mater KHIB, (now part of the Faculty of Art, Music & Design, UiB). Since the 90’s she has participated in many solo and group exhibitions and performance festivals in Norway and abroad. She is currently focusing on her practice, which fosters a complex relationship among printmaking, drawing, photography, artist books, video and performance.
Collaboration is an important part of Marhaug's practice. In her portfolio, she has shorter and longer-term collaborative projects, both with local- and internationally-oriented artists. The body in the landscape, time and impermanence are key to her methods. Perception and transformation are core themes in later productions - often paradoxically expressed through juxtapositions; like the blind woman seeing. "In Personas" is her latest performance project
https://www.ritamarhaug.com
Per Gunnar Eeg-Tverbakk co-initiated and was the director of Kunsthall Oslo from 2010–2012. He was project manager for Artistic Interruptions – Art in Nordland, Nordland County from 2003–2005 and was co-curator of the 2004 Nordic Art Biennial Momentum in Moss (alongside Caroline Corbetta). Eeg-Tverbakk was deputy director of the Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo from 2000–2001; co-curator of the 1999 Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF) (with Tor Inge Kveum); exhibition manager at the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art in Helsinki in 1999, and director of the Otto Plonk Gallery in Bergen from 1995–1998. Between 2015–2017, González-Sancho Bodero and Eeg-Tverbakk worked together as co-curators, developing and concluding OSLO PILOT, an experimental two-and-a-half-year research project to conceive the format for osloBIENNALEN FIRST EDITION 2019-2024
https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Gunnar_Eeg-Tverbakk
Ane Øverås is a visual artist from Oslo, who since 2003 has lived and worked in Kjerringøy, outside Bodø. Øverås trained at SHKS under Eilif Mikkelsen and Hans Normann Dahl as professors, and at the Ecole de beaux arts de Brest and Quimper with a Diplôme Nationale Superieure d'Expression Plastique, DNSEP. Øverås works site-related with sculpture, installations and land art. She has exhibited nationally and internationally.
https://www.nnks.no/kunstnere/ane-vigdis-overas/
Kjerringøy Land Art Biennale was initiated by Ane Øverås in 2007. She has curated and organized the biennial and exhibitions at Bodø Art Association. In 2013, Øverås organized a Land Art seminar with Nord University, the National Centre for Arts and Nordland County Council / The Cultural School Bag, as a course for teachers at elementary school (1-10 cl.) in Bodø municipality. In 2017, Øverås and K-Lab were invited by Nordland County to attend the Norwegian and Russian culture week in Murmansk to present the Land Art Biennale and the Air-project.
In 2019, a one-day seminar in Stormen Library, Bodø, where, amongst others, Per Bjarne Boym was a speaker. During the Biennale in 2019, Nrk, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, followed some of the artists for 5 days, andK-Lab will be an episode in a series of 3 programs to be shown on national TV in 2021. The series deals with how artists are inspired by nature.
Kjerringøy Art Base Camp AS has two projects in Bodø 2024, which has been chosen to be the European Culture Capital of 2024.
Kjerringøy Art Base Camp AS is now planning an Artist in residence project for the coming season, so be alert!