Open Forum - Steffen Håndlykken & Stian Eide Kluge, 1857
mandag 30. september 2013 kl. 19:00 på Kunstnernes Hus
Steffen Håndlykken (b. 1981) and Stian Eide Kluge (b. 1977), are artists based in Oslo, both graduates of Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo – Håndlykken from Kunstfag and Kluge from Kunstakademiet.
Håndlykken and Kluge have worked together to establish 1857, an artist-run exhibition space in Grøland, downtown Oslo since 2010. In the former lumberyard, they have been presenting young artists from abroad and have been dedicated to form connections between the local art scene and the international. According to the artists the vision of 1857 is to create a platform to convene and converge, receive, answer and honor contemporary art in Oslo.
Recent exhibitions include:
MADE TO MEASURE (Jimmy Robert)
SUNBATHERS (David Douard, Aude Pariset, Adele Röder, Camilla Wills)
TUSSIE–MUSSIE (Liudvikas Buklys, Allison Katz, Theodor Kittelsen, Rolf Stenersen, Ruth White, Federico Domínguez Zacur)
Open Forum is pleased to announce this fall’s program on travel, transportation, and settlement. Turning our heads towards the vast term and ever expanding project of globalization, we are interested in where and how to position ourselves – whether to move or to stay. To which extent do we affirm to or resist against the global flow of imageries and information? How do we deal with the subsequent, or potential, gains and losses of time, space, and identity? And what are some of the habits and wishes developed during and after the move and their influences on our ways of working and living? With the current demographical and geo-political change we see here in the Oslo art scene and in Scandinavia at large in mind, we believe it is a good time to question and discuss what we already know and don’t know about the issues of locality and global connections and art-making and viewing in these contexts.
Please join us at Kunstnernes Hus, Wergelandsvein 17, every Monday at 19.00. The program is free and runs in English.
Open Forum is a student initiative conceived in 1999 and is supported by the Academy of Fine Art, Oslo National Academy of the Arts.