The 9th Kjerringøy Land Art Biennale 23/24
K-LAB
Kjerringøy Land Art Biennale is an interdisciplinary and site-specific platform for land art established in 2007. K-LAB creates and conveys art projects. Artists from various art genres are invited to investigate, transform, reflect and communicate with the landscape, while the biennale facilitates meetings for a wide audience. Artists work with natural, local and degradable materials. The works are integrated into the landscape and are made with biodegradable materials so that they gradually, naturally disappear.
The 8 biennale artists visited Kjerringøy in May 2023 and in June 2024, they will return to create new art along Kjerringøyveien and in Nevelsfjord.
Exhibition opening of new works was on July 6th & 7th.
In Nevelsfjord
Jannik Abel (NO) is a multidisciplinary artist concerned with themes of belonging, vulnerability, inheritance, humaneness and impermanence. Abel always chooses environmentally and human-friendly materials. During K-LAB 2024, Abel presented the work Lineage/Avstamning in Nevelsfjord. The work is a performance.
Mar Serinyà Gou (ES) is a performance artist. She studies the rhythms of the body, nature and society, researching how we can live in harmony with each other. She uses her own body as an instrument in her work, and the surrounding landscape as her canvas. For K-LAB 2024 she plans to create, together with her audience, a performance, using stone and water in her work.
In Alsos
Jette Mellgren (DK) is a visual artist and basket maker. Her work is rooted in her relationship with nature and embodies an essence of the artist's experiences in nature, where she combines ancient techniques with modern form. For K-LAB 2024, she has found a partially open wooded area with marsh puddles and views of rocks, sea and mountains. Relevant materials will be heather and moss, seaweed and kelp, twigs and clay.
By Kjerringøy Trading Center
Kristen Rønnevik (NO) works with installation, text and performance, as well as social, relational and site-specific projects. For K-LAB 2024, together with volunteers, he will uncover traces of the cultural history at Kjerringøy trading post. He wants to highlight the qualities of place, dwell on the place, and give it time and care.
In Fjære
Rainer Fest (DE) is a sculptor interested in the spirit of the place – genius loci, but also physical positive and negative spaces and shapes that mirror each other. For K-LAB 2024, he plans to create a sculptural installation of stone and other local material on an islet, where he wants to create balance by being inspired by the site's energies and concrete natural formations.
At Strengen
Raffaele Vitto (IT) is a young artist working with the soil. His works are most often installations in inner and outer space and in the natural environment. Vitto's method is divided: the physically heavy work, the relationship between the number of elements, between work and space, and the underlying concept. Vitto feels like a farmer and works low, and for K-lab 2024, he's grateful for places to unearth.
Elin Sundström (SE) is a materials- and performance-based multidisciplinary artist. She is preoccupied by nature’s right to existence, and with listening to the landscape. She is planning, for K-LAB 2024, a performance and installation combined.
Ted Efremoff (US) is a visual artist working with video, performance and installation. He studies human society and humanity’s effect on nature. For K-LAB 2024 he will work with the concepts of listening to and speaking to the sea.
Jannik Abel (NO) is a multidisciplinary artist concerned with themes of belonging, vulnerability, inheritance, humaneness and impermanence. Abel always chooses environmentally and human-friendly materials. During K-LAB 2024, Abel presented the work Lineage/Avstamning in Nevelsfjord. The work is a performance.
Mar Serinyà Gou (ES) is a performance artist. She studies the rhythms of the body, nature and society, researching how we can live in harmony with each other. She uses her own body as an instrument in her work, and the surrounding landscape as her canvas. For K-LAB 2024 she plans to create, together with her audience, a performance, using stone and water in her work.
In Alsos
Jette Mellgren (DK) is a visual artist and basket maker. Her work is rooted in her relationship with nature and embodies an essence of the artist's experiences in nature, where she combines ancient techniques with modern form. For K-LAB 2024, she has found a partially open wooded area with marsh puddles and views of rocks, sea and mountains. Relevant materials will be heather and moss, seaweed and kelp, twigs and clay.
By Kjerringøy Trading Center
Kristen Rønnevik (NO) works with installation, text and performance, as well as social, relational and site-specific projects. For K-LAB 2024, together with volunteers, he will uncover traces of the cultural history at Kjerringøy trading post. He wants to highlight the qualities of place, dwell on the place, and give it time and care.
In Fjære
Rainer Fest (DE) is a sculptor interested in the spirit of the place – genius loci, but also physical positive and negative spaces and shapes that mirror each other. For K-LAB 2024, he plans to create a sculptural installation of stone and other local material on an islet, where he wants to create balance by being inspired by the site's energies and concrete natural formations.
At Strengen
Raffaele Vitto (IT) is a young artist working with the soil. His works are most often installations in inner and outer space and in the natural environment. Vitto's method is divided: the physically heavy work, the relationship between the number of elements, between work and space, and the underlying concept. Vitto feels like a farmer and works low, and for K-lab 2024, he's grateful for places to unearth.
Elin Sundström (SE) is a materials- and performance-based multidisciplinary artist. She is preoccupied by nature’s right to existence, and with listening to the landscape. She is planning, for K-LAB 2024, a performance and installation combined.
Ted Efremoff (US) is a visual artist working with video, performance and installation. He studies human society and humanity’s effect on nature. For K-LAB 2024 he will work with the concepts of listening to and speaking to the sea.
Click on the map above to view the locations of all of the standing artworks made for the 9th Kjerringøy Land Art Biennale 23/24 Special Edition |
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Kjerringøy Land Art Biennale is in the main program of Bodø 2024 as the European Capital of Culture.
In 2024 we are supported by:
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