NEON GUIDES ME book release and artist conversation at Galleri Balder, Oslo

Please join Galleri Balder in celebrating the publication of NEON GUIDES ME with multi disciplinary artist Anne Katrine Senstad in conversation with artist and curator Per Hess.

Thursday February 16, 7-8 pm

 

Galleri Balder 

Riddervoldsgt 9

0258 Oslo

www.galleribalder.com

Photo by Stella Saarts

Neon is at the core of Norwegian artist Anne Katrine Senstad’s wide ranging work across light and space, sound and synesthesia, aesthetics, form, and perception. Through advanced in-depth research, she has examined spatial, topological, and scientific phenomena of light, sound, and color since the 1990s, a foundation for her explorations in the experiential, the participatory, and the experimental. In the monumental neon sculpture series Elements I-VI (2018-2021) with sound environments composed by JG Thirlwell (Elements IV, V,VI) and Catherine Christer Hennix (Elements III), the artist has transformed space and challenged our awareness of spatial limits, our presence within the infinitesimal and empyrean experience. 

 

Senstad’s neon practice is now presented in book form: NEON GUIDES ME with texts by JG Thirlwell in conversation with Patrick Rolandelli, Catherine Christer Hennix, Andres Kurg. Erik Meling, Dr Aura Seikkula, Sanna Karimäki-Nuutinen, Sarah Walko, and Marianne Solberg. 

Illustration for ELEMENTS by Anne Katrine Senstad

Book photo by Archive Culture 

Anne Katrine Senstad’s multi-disciplinary practice lies at the intersection of installation art, photography, video, neon sculpture, land art, and site specificity, with a focus on the phenomena of perception and the cognitive system in response to the properties of light, sound, and color. She is concerned with sensorial aesthetics and the transformative—the transcendental ideas of art and philosophical practice. Senstad has exhibited widely internationally, including at Kunsthal Regelbau 411, Denmark, Seinajoki Kunsthall, Finland (2021), S12 Gallery, Norway (2021), He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen (2019), Kai Art Center, Tallin (2020), Bruges Art and Architecture Triennale, Belgium, (2015), 55th and 56th Venice Biennales (Collaterali Eventi), (respectively 2013 and 2015), Good Children Gallery, New Orleans (2017), and Trafo Kunsthall, Norway (2018). 

 

 

Per Hess is a Norwegian artist, curator and writer. His neon practice centers on sculpture and performance. His neon installations have been exhibited at the 56^th and 57th Venice biennales (collaterali eventi) at Palazzo Bembo, 2013 and Palazzo Mora, 2017. In 2020 his performance work, Neonmeditasjoner, was presented at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo. Hess curated the first neon exhibition in Norway, Neon, Argon, Krypton, at Bærum Kunsthall, 2018 and the commissioned neon sculpture by Lars Ramber, Brainstorm, for the new Deichman Library in Oslo, 2021.  His forthcoming exhibition, In the Light of Neon, opens September 29^th, 2023 at the Georgian National Gallery, Tbilisi.

 

 

NEON GUIDES ME will be available for purchase at the book launch, and is also available at Tronsmo Bokhandel in Oslo, Palais de Tokyo bookshop in Paris, and Dashwood Books in New York. 

Supported by Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Fritt Ord, Arts Council Norway Governmental Artist Grant, Norwegian Visual Artists Fund (BKV) and Fritt Ord.

NEON GUIDES ME – Anne Katrine Senstad
Published by Praun & Guermouche
Printing and Binding: Rotolito S.p.A. / Nava Press S.r.l., Milan, Italy
ISBN 978-91-527-1427-0 

POIESIS - Kunsthall Regelbau 411 - February 11 - May 21, 2023

POIESIS

An exhibition by Anne Katrine Senstad with a sound environment by JG Thirlwell

11.02.23 - 21.05.23

KUNSTHAL REGELBAU 411

Regelbau 411’s upcoming exhibition POIESIS by Anne Katrine Senstad presents a meditation on the transformative power of light, sound, and color. 

The multi-sensory installations created for Regelbau 411's two bunkers, delve into the impact of artistic intervention on the experience of place. Vibrant colors and sonic luminosity create a dialogue between the entropic environment and ephemeral qualities of art.

The video installation Cubiculum Red + Blue, focuses on dualities between the enclosed space of the bunker and the spectator’s interior landscape. The monochromatic projections reflected in pools of water evoke a subtle connection to ancient cubiculums and the idea of rest at the threshold of life and death, consciousness and sleep. The accompanying sound piece by composer JG Thirlwell creates floating spatial sensations between sonic gravity and the lunar qualities of water, inviting the audience to contemplate the balance between what is enclosed and what is released within these chambers.

Elements VII, the seventh iteration in Senstad’s light sculpture series, transports the visitor into a world of light, color and sound. The labyrinthian bunker is redefined into four monochromatic chambers, where radiant columns, as a sculptural lattice, connect past architectural styles with the electrical currents of technology. Enveloped by a sublime horizon, familiar boundaries dissolve as bright neon colors expand into uncharted realms.

Throughout POIESIS we encounter a process that encompasses the sensory, corporeal, affective, and experiential aspects of space suggesting regeneration in times of change.

Anne Katrine Senstad is a multi-disciplinary Norwegian artist based in Oslo and New York. Her practice lies at the intersection of light art, installation art, land art and site specificity with a focus on the phenomena of perception. Senstad has exhibited internationally since the late 90’s. The exhibition at Regelbau 411 is her first solo exhibition in Denmark.

JG Thirlwell is a composer/producer/performer based in New York. He has released over thirty albums and featured as producer, collaborator and arranger for a wide variety of artists. He works under many pseudonyms including Manorexia, Foetus, Xordox, Steroid Maximus, Baby Zizanie, Hydroze Plus, Clint Ruin, and Wiseblood. 

Opening: 11 February 2023, 15:00-17:00
Exhibition period: 11 February - 21 May 2023
Opening hours: Every day 10-16. Admission is free

Book launch event + artist talk: To be held at Sound Art Lab on the day of the opening.

The exhibition is curated by Simon Thykjær.

Anne Katrine Senstad has been supported by Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Arts Council Norway Governmental Grant for Artists, Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond and Fritt Ord.

The exhibition POIESIS is part of Regelbau 411’s exhibition program for 2023 supported by the Danish Art Foundation, Det Obelske Familiefond, Augustinus Fonden, Færchfonden, Knud Højgaards Fond and Lemvigh-Müller Fonden. The exhibition has received additional support by The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Copenhagen.