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Welcome to Christinegaard Mansion _~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

A public presentation of Flaggfabrikken’s current artist in residence group held in the most lavish surroundings that suburban Bergen has to offer.

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Flaggfabrikken Residency and TASC Ablett & Brafield welcomes you to a saturday afternoon with artist presentations by Yinon Avior, Katarina Henrikkson and Kevin Malcolm followed by food, dancing and wine.

Yinon Avior (Copenhagen), Katarina Henrikkson (Stockholm) and Kevin Malcolm (Copenhagen) have been in residence at Flaggfabrikken Center for Contemporary art the whole of september and from 17.00 they will hold their artist presentations at Christinegaard.

Followed by the lecture TASC Ablett & Brafield will prepare a special dinner for the evening.

Please sign up for the dinner by 21st Sept 13:00 to [email protected]

You can bring your own wine, or buy it.

All are welcome!

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Residence selection was computed through the Curatron system.curatroneq.com

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Yinon Avior

I do.

In order to investigate the world, I do not confine myself by choosing a certain technique or media; therefore my work
and action is interpreted across different disciplines. I am driven by control, while the artistic process is uncertain.
My aim is to reach a certain visual accuracy by relaying on personal conceptual and aesthetic principles. My work contains
autobiographic elements yet it is not what defines it. Conflicts and impossible cooperation stand at the base of my work
and characterize it.

Yinon Avior was born in Tel Aviv in 1991. After graduating from the Thelma Yellin School of Arts in Tel Aviv, he continued
his studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under the tutelage of Marcel Odenbach and subsequently at the Hamidrasha
Faculty of Art in Israel. Earlier this year Avior had his first solo show at Galerie Koal in Berlin. Selected group shows include
the Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2016), L’Atelier d’Alexandrie, Alexandria (2015) and the Israel Museum of Art,
Jerusalem (2013). Avior lives and works between Copenhagen and Tel Aviv.

yinonavior.com

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Katarina Henriksson

”I don’t have a manifesto. But I’ve realised that all trash can be gilded, that everything gilded looks trashy and that I can make
something out of anything that happens to be laying on the floor. I’m interested in the flux of visual impressions, how they
submerge and cement in our subconscious and rise to the surface in dreams and desires. With a scenographic approach,
informed by experience as a scenic artist, I use set elements like props and soundtracks to create lose scenarios. These
happenings function as secluded universes with their own logic. Anything placed in the same room will inevitably communicate,
whether it’s Andy Kaufman in a yellow jumpsuit, a gun, The X-Files theme, or Lady Di. I play a never-ending game with these objects
and phenomena, placing them on scales between obscure & exploited, good & evil, true & false, heaven & hell. ”

Katarina Henriksson is a Stockholm based artist whose practice spans from painting to spatial installations.
She received a BFA from Konstfack University in 2014.

www.katarinahenriksson.se

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Kevin Malcolm

Through a process of alteration, combination and repositioning, Malcolm aims to highlight residual histories and power dynamics, enabling
reflection on knowledge production and representation. He is driven by an interest in how images, texts and objects communicate and is
concerned with unearthing subliminal layers of meaning. As subjectivities are fundamentally altered by the technological advances of the period,
he demonstrates how various media and can be approached from new perspectives and their authority re-examined. Malcolm’s practice often
focuses on the speculative and subversive spaces of literature and features a fragmentation or decay of language and information, suggesting
alternative narratives and interpretations. Exhibition making and publishing are an integral part of this artistic practice which he activates through
the exhibition space Vermilion Sands and the publishing house and curatorial platform Hour Projects/Editions.

Kevin Malcolm (1979, Glasgow) lives and works in Copenhagen. He has a BFA from Glasgow School of Art and an MA in Social Geography
from the University of Glasgow.

kevinmalcolm.com

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TASC Ablett & Brafield is the collaborative art practice of Amber Ablett and Stacy Brafield whose research is based on social choreography and conversation-as-art. Since 2013, TASC have worked at the intersection of performance, discussion and education through exhibitions, events, text works and workshops throughout Norway and internationally. During 2016 TASC initiated TASC Studio Kitchen, an open studio/cafe with Hordaland Kunstsenter, which acts as a place for experimentation and thought, the first permanent space for TASC. Functioning as both a work space and communal space, TASC are interested in exploring the boundaries between the public and the private and how an environment affects social codes and behaviours.

TASC Ablett & Brafield’s recent projects include: Infrastruture Summit, Bergen Assembly (2016), TASC Studio Kitchen, Hordaland Kunstsenter (2016), The Royal Standard, Liverpool, UK (2015); Halka Art Project, Istanbul, TURKEY (2015); Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, NORWAY (2015); ROOMARTSPACE, London, UK (2015); Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NORWAY (2015); Entrée, Bergen, NORWAY (2014); Bergen Kunsthall, NORWAY (2014).