Photos from Formation / 4+4

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening of Formation / 4+4 at Vedholmen Galleri on 8 March! Thank you to gallery owners Vibeke Harild and Peter Marron for initiating this show, and to art historian Ingebjørg E. Astrup for giving the opening speech.

Vedholmen Galleri is located a 30 min drive south of Bergen, and the exhibition is open until 6 April.

Artists: Tuva Gonsholt (glass), Torunn Skjelland (painting/sculpture), Suvi Nieminen (sculpture/print), Rita Marhaug (print/sculpture/performance), Sofie Brønner (wood sculpture/installation), Mariken Kramer (photography/installation), Daniela Bergschneider (textile/ceramics/sculpture), Cathrine Alice Liberg (printmaking).

Photos: Bjarte Bjørkum

Formation / 4+4 at Vedholmen Galleri

Images: 1. Painting by Torunn Skjelland. 2. Sculpture by Daniela Bergschneider. 3. Sculpture by Sofie Brønner. 4. Prints by Cathrine Alice Liberg. 5. Video still by Rita Marhaug.

Welcome to Formation / 4+4, a group exhibition featuring:

Tuva Gonsholt (glass)
Torunn Skjelland (painting/sculpture)
Suvi Nieminen (sculpture/print)
Rita Marhaug (print/sculpture/performance)

Who in turn have invited four artists:

Sofie Brønner (wood sculpture/installation)
Mariken Kramer (photography/installation)
Daniela Bergschneider (textile/ceramics/sculpture)
Cathrine Alice Liberg (printmaking)

Vernissage Saturday 8 March 14:00
Opening speech by art historian Ingebjørg E. Astrup
The exhibition is open until Sunday 6 April

Vedholmen Galleri
Røtingavegen 23, 5216 Lepsøy (near Bergen)

Welcome to "Imagined Memories" at Northing

Thank you to everyone who came to the opening and panel talk of Imagined Memories, a duo-exhibition featuring the works of myself and fellow printmaker and QSPA nominee Hammer Chen at Northing Space in Bergen. Thank you founders and curators Ben Yu and Yilei Wang for bringing us together and inviting us to exhibit, and to all the old and new friends we have made in Bergen over the past week. Last but not least, thank you to the brilliant Hammer Chen for such a fun and inspiring collaboration!

Imagined Memories is open Wed-Sat 12-17:00, and is open until 29 March.

Northing - Centre for East Asian Art and Culture
Østre Skostredet 10, Bergen (directly opposite Litteraturhuset)

Photos: Yilei Wang / Northing Space and Hammer Chen

Imagined Memories // LitFest Bergen

Welcome to Imagined Memories, a duo-exhibition together with artist and printmaker Hammer Chen at Northing Space, Østre Skostredet 10, Bergen. The exhibition is part of LitFestBergen - Bergen International Literary Festival (5-9 February 2025) and is curated by Northing Space.

Vernissage: Saturday 8 February 17:00.

The vernissage is preceded by a presentation and panel discussion with curator Ben Wenhou Yu at Litteraturhuset Bergen (Olav H. Hauge) on Saturday 8 February 14:15.

The exhibition is open until 29 March 2025.

 

About the exhibition:

Both the Norwegian-Singaporean artist Cathrine Alice Liberg and the Chinese artist Chenxi Chen (aka Hammer) employ etching as their primary technique for crafting dreamlike graphic works.

Hammer seeks to reconstruct memories from collective experiences, capturing scenarios and moments that most of us have encountered in some form: a drowsy, long journey by train or bus, or a seemingly perpetual escalator rising in the middle of nowhere. Much like the way we process memories in our minds, photos and images are manipulated and abstracted on the metal plates.

Cathrine, who recently returned from an adventurous trip to Svalbard, where she attended a thirteen-week-long residency, brought back works imbued with the weight of Arctic exploration history. As she noted in her weekly blog reporting from the last depot of human civilisation: It was impossible to come to Svalbard and not be influenced in some way. The series of prints she produced there stands out remarkably from her ongoing exploration of her own diasporic family background.

Both artists were nominated for The Queen Sonja Print Award in 2022.

Trykk i sanntid 05: Karbonpuls

I am participating in the group exhibition Trykk i sanntid 05: KARBONPULS, currently on show at Galleri Nord-Norge in Harstad. Together with Erika Reed and Suzannah Rehell Øistad, we are showing our collaborative large format linoleum print printed at Guttormsgaards Arkiv in Blaker.

"Trykk i sanntid" is a 5-year project using the theme of carbon as a point of departure. The purpose of the project is to give poetic expressions to carbon's inscrutable paths through using printmaking methods and subsequently displaying of the results. Another important aspect of "Trykk i sanntid" is to create a network between print studios in Norway through sustainable methods. “Trykk i sanntid” is a collaborative project within experimental graphics that takes place along the entire Norwegian coast. There have been simultaneous printing sessions across numerous print studios for five years in a row on the brightest day of the year (summer solstice). There are 10 different graphics workshops along the entire coast with a total of 60 involved artists who have participated.

Photos: Kjell Ove Storvik