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WINTER SOLSTICE NIGHT EXHIBITION 2016

Vandaler forening is thrilled to invite you to the Winter Solstice night exhibition for the 5th Year Jubileum: NOVE SED NON NOVA

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stage: Méryll Ampe; Dead Alive; Agnes Hvizdalek, WAAAHAWAD vs Torgeir Berg&Peter Horneland; Center of Universe; Alexander Rishaug; Risto Holopainen; Cédric Pigot & Magali Daniaux; Europ Europ; Valery Poulet; Skævv; feilkontroll, Prunk Möbel; Samvær Under Tilsyn; Julius androide; Experimental High

performances: Garry Williams; Karoline Aamås, Mari Stoknes and Love Kjellsson; Foot in Face (contemporary circus), Allyce Wood; hoaxhoes.com/cyberhex, Anja Malec & Ilja Badulin; Kirsty Kross; Ellmer Stefan (The Institute for Digital Humanities); Daniel Slåttnes and Sara Rönnbäck; Aksel Høgenhaug; Rahel Kraft; Ellakajsa Nordström & Ylva Trapp; Andreas Hald Oxenvad

exhibition: First Supper Symposium; Luca Forcucci, Cheryl Leonard & Crystal Sepùlveda; Johan Söderström; Sara Wolfert & Anne-Liis Kogan; Isabel Cantzler; Méryll Ampe; Ragnhild Aamås; Elin Glærum Haugland; Anni Tiainen; Linda Bournane Engelberth

video screening: Atef Berredjem; Eli Maria Lundgaard; Ilavenil Jayapalan & Bjørn Hatterud; Petra Kuppers; Futurefarmers; Pilar Mata Dupont; Moutain; Risto Holopainen, Vivild Bergersen & Camilla Wærenskjold; Aurore Le Duc; Håkon Gåre; Joel Correia; Ronnie Sluik; Kirsty Kross; Farhad Kalantary; and more…

The Winter Solstice is a night exhibition and cross-disciplinary event happening in Oslo during the longest night of the year, initiated in 2012 by Hanan Benammar. Since 2015, Vandaler Forening has been arranging it. Vandaler Forening is a collective initiative formed by several art practionners. Previous collaborators for this event are: Martinka Bobrikova, Oscar De Carmen, Bård E. Dahl, Senta Rebecca, Jan Moss and many more.

The event aims to gather the local audience around various practices of both emerging and established artists, offering a unique opportunity to experience an exhibition through the night combined with performances, concerts, poetry, video screenings, plays and even yoga sessions.

Since its beginning in 2012, the event has gathered over 80 different artists and performers. Many of the works were presented at the Winter Solstice for the first time and later shown again in prominent art exhibitions. Our event therefore functions clearly as a space of pro-ject: as throwing something towards the future.
Together with PNEK, we will for the second time give From Dusk Till Dawn Art Prize to a participating artist based in Norway.

We especially put an effort in highlighting experimental and time-based practices. Even if the exhibition is open only during one night, many of the works demand to stay in the space for some time.

This event is inspired by the Annual Avant Garde Festival of New York, initiated in 1963 by the cellist and performance artist Charlotte Moorman, as well as pre-christian pagan traditions such as Yule and Modranicht.

More than focusing on darkness, we celebrate the return of the light.

Full program coming soon…. Stay tuned!

NB: Booking required!

Thanks to Kulturrådet, Notam, PNEK, SiO and OCA