ATOPIA
Atopia is an artist initiative dedicated to development of film & video art.
Atopia is an artist initiative dedicated to development of film & video art.
by: Haraldur Karlsson
Dimitri Lurie
Tor Jørgen van Eijk
Opening: Thursday, 13 March at 19:00
(14 – 28.3.2014)
by: Haraldur Karlsson
Dimitri Lurie
Tor Jørgen van Eijk
Opening: Thursday, 13 March at 19:00
(14 – 28.3.2014)
Lanseringen av boken “Maleri med tid” av Per Kvist og utstilling av videoarbeider fra 90-tallet med Kjell Bjørgeengen, A K Dolven,HC Gilje og Jeremy Welsh
Atopia is pleased to present a new work by Nina Bang on Vitrine. RED LIST RED 12 – 26 January 2012 Opening: Thursday, 12.01.2012 at 18:00 As we, the human race, expand our domination over the planet we “humanize” all terrains of existing nature – an act that forces many other species into extinction. Civilization moves forward as it relentlessly crushes down other life forms in its progress. Nina Bang takes the extinction of other life forms as the departure point for her new work RED LIST RED. …
Atopia is pleased to present a new work by Nina Bang on Vitrine. RED LIST RED 12 – 26 January 2012 Opening: Thursday, 12.01.2012 at 18:00 As we, the human race, expand our domination over the planet we “humanize” all terrains of existing nature – an act that forces many other species into extinction. Civilization moves forward as it relentlessly crushes down other life forms in its progress. Nina Bang takes the extinction of other life forms as the departure point for her new work RED LIST RED. …
INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART SCREENING AND CURATOR MEETING AT ATOPIA Friday June 3 at 19 – 22 and Saturday June 4 at 16 – 19 During two days 55 works will be screened selected by 11 curators from 8 countries: Hong Kong, Russia, USA, Lebanon, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Germany and Norway The curators will attend and present their program. After each program there will be time for questions and discussion Light refreshments when arriving, during pauses and wine after the last screening. Since …
INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART SCREENING AND CURATOR MEETING AT ATOPIA Friday June 3 at 19 – 22 and Saturday June 4 at 16 – 19 During two days 55 works will be screened selected by 11 curators from 8 countries: Hong Kong, Russia, USA, Lebanon, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Germany and Norway The curators will attend and present their program. After each program there will be time for questions and discussion Light refreshments when arriving, during pauses and wine after the last screening. Since …
- HERE IS NOW presents a series of everyday events that take on a ritual character. In this work the four windows of Vitrine are transformed into storefronts of different shops. The videos show a Jeweler setting up her window display, a Butcher selling meat, a Miller filling up bags of wheat, and a Window cleaner washing the windows of an empty shop. These performance-like events are all shot through glass walls and the images carry the reflections of their surroundings. Giving rise to multiple …
. Atopia is pleased to present a new work by Guy Sherwin on the Vitrine. . Guy Sherwin will give a presentation of his work during the opening. . “Taking material from an unrealized film that I’d shot in 1973, featuring a London railway station, I have reworked it for the four screens of Atopia’s Vitrine. Each screen shows the same framing of the station platform, but the time is different. We see trains pulling in, passengers getting off, workmen walking by. The film plays on our desire to …
. Atopia is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibition on Vitrine. . – A rock concert audience leaps forward and starts to dance as the band hits the stage. 20 seconds of high energy is stretched out to fill 30 minutes of time in Motion. With black/red colors and high contrast Motion gives us a portrait of intense physical energy at the moment of its release. . – Vadim Schäffler studied fine art at Braunschweig College of Art (BA, 1996 & MA, 2003). He works with digital landscapes, …
Atopia is pleased to start the third season of its Vitrine project with a collaborative work by Terese Bolander, Nanna de Wilde and Kristina Stark. . Opening: Thursday 25.11.2010 at 18:00 (25 Nov – 9 Dec 2010) . “Jenny *1910 †2006” is a four screen video installation that documents the entire belongings of a deceased woman. The artists collaborating on this project purchased Jenny’s estate in an auction in 2006 and catalogued all the items. They created a photographic archive of the estate …
Atopia invites you to an evening of projections and discussions about video art in the public space. – Thursday 18.02.2010 from 18:00 to 21:00 – This event aims at investigating the impact of video art on the public space and the influence of public space on video art. Several artists and art critics will take part in this event. They will play around with different combinations of projections and compositions on the Vitrine and discuss the results of their experiments. This event marks the end …
-Atopia is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibition on its Vitrine with the work of Michael Wurstbauer. -Michael Wurstbauer was born in Munich, 1975 and studied Fine Art Photography at the Glasgow School of Art (BA, 2003). He works mainly with time-based media in an investigation of mental states, subjectivity and repetition. His video works have been shown in numerous festivals across Europe, and he lives and works in Glasgow. -“Eastbound – Along Bath Lane, Glasgow” brings the …
- Andrew Salgado (b. 1982, Regina, Canada) graduated in 2005 from the University of British Columbia. In 2009 he received his MFA from the Chelsea College of Art & Design in London, and he lives and works in Vancouver, Canada and London, England. His works have been shown in numerous international venues and his participation in Atopia’s Vitrine is his first solo exhibition in Norway. Salgado’s works employ large-scale figurative oil paintings and videos that engage in an intense exploration …
Atopia is pleased to announce a new exhibition on its Vitrine with the work of the American artist Jonathan Monaghan. . “Calling All Angels” . Opening: Thursday 3,12,2009 at 18:00 . 3 – 17 December 2009 . Sannergata 32, 0557 Oslo Jonathan Monaghan (New York, 1989) is a young artist working with 3D computer software to create digital sculptures, prints, and animations. He is currently earning his MFA at the University of Maryland, USA. “Calling All Angels” is a digital animation work that shows …
Atopia is pleased to host a special presentation of works by the artist/writer Veronika Reichl. VideoForum will follow the presentation. – “Language-cinema” – - Sunday, 29 Nov. 2009 at 17:00 Language-cinema is a series of experimental animated short films about the language of philosophy. Each film works with an original text passage by authors like Spinoza, Foucault and Wittgenstein. The project explores the sensual and the nonsensical aspects of the construction of meaning in philosophical …