Château de Montsoreau - musée d'Art contemporain

 

OFFICIAL Selection for the Cultural Olympics APOLLO"S DECATHLON - Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art in partnership with Paris24 

June 14 - August 11 2024

The world has always been conceptual. We apologize that borders still exist.

Presented by Philippe Méaille Président de l'association culturelle du Château de Montsoreau and Florence Dabin Présidente du Département de Maine-et-Loire.

Château de Montsoreau - musée d'Art contemporain,

Passage du marquis de Geoffre

49730 Montsoreau, France

Official Artist List:

Davide Bugarin, Greig Burgoyne, Zanni Carlo, Julie De Clercq, Ahmed El Shaer, Mathew Emmett, Manuela Viera Gallo, Gladys Kalichini, Ruark Lewis, Mohammad Namazi, Alejandro Penafiel, Dalal Al Obaidi, Andreas Albrectsen, Pia Chavarria, Catalina Chervin, Mária Chilf, Kohli Diego, Negin Ehtesabian, Veronika Gabrielova, Toru Hayashi, Muller Jean Pierre, Željka Mićanović Miljković, Aleksandra Osko, Aga Ousseinov, Vargas-Suarez , Universal Raphael, Taras Sereda, JG Thirlwell, Kjell Varvin, Júlia Vécsei, Lung Wai Ming, Otavio Schipper, Cassia Bray, Fernandes Eduardo Malé, Driton Hajredini, Dejan Kaludjerović, Chessa Luciano, Warren Neidich, Mariana Pende, Hieu Pham, Anne Katrine Senstad, Amasi/Apiet Ben/Enndy, Dede Brown, Victoria Cantons, Ak2deru, Kranemann Ebertrard, Pamela Aobo Enyonu, Nicholas Fudge, Yusuke Fukui, Joaquin Goldstein, KarayannopoulouIrini, Jehabdulloh Jehsorhoh, Dusa Jesih, Nechvatal Joseph, Anita Kapraljevic, Stephanie Lee, Lumeh Leslie, Balea Maria, Farhang Maryam, Kuar Mathew, Yassir Ali Mohammed, Qinza, Luwi Tokapi, Najm, Brain Nathan Buria, Tahmina Negmat, Kejoo Park, Izvor Pende, Ye Qin Zhu, Lieners Sandra, Mehal Sébastien, Suleiman Sharifi, Hynell Fleischer Sigrid, Nasaria Suckoo, Chollette, Mishel Valcheva, Sabīne Vernere, Rohan Wealleans, Sara Zahorjanova, Mohammad Anwarul, HOQUE, Mideo Cruz, Marcel Diogo, Cecilia Fiona, Mladen Stropnik, Lacmanovic Valentina, Chin Chih Yang Yang, Marco Agudelo, Melissa Alcena,; Renate Aller, Zoubir Amina, Meredith Andrews, Aderonke Bademosi, Wilson, Florence Blondeau, James Cooper, Belli Federica, Misha Friedman, Kacingu KambalaHerman, Po-Chih Huang, John Reno Jackson, Louis Kareem Jamal, Darragh Judith, Ira Lombardia, Ruben Natal-San, Miguel, Fredrik Nilsen, Rachael Padilla, Thomas Paquet, Vesna Pavlovic, Asgeir Petursson, Aniko Robitz, Günther Selichar, Vicky Sheelongo, Sarah Singh, Brauen Tashi, Hana Usui, Lee Wells, Okur Yoka,  Lye Yamsonite, Mudaba André, Christian O’Gorman Bök, Schwartz Laura, Olaf Nicolai, Trond Ansten, Annie Attridge, Frida Baranek, Maksym Dutka, Anna Egle, Roland Joseph Awuah- Gebhardt, Darko Joseph, Alexandre Kyungu, Jamie Martinez, Djakou kassi Nathalie, Iván Navarro, Osaru Obaseki, Sam Porritt, Nathaniel Rackowe, Michael Szeemann, Soare Tavioni, Una Valentin, Rafael Attias, Marita Isobel Solberg, Han Bing, Saule Suleimenova, Johan Wahlstrom, Syd Krochmalny, Timothée Comte, Isabelle Forestier, Khaled Jarrar.

The Conceptual Olympiad at the Château de Montsoreau – Museum of Contemporary Art, inspired by the innovative spirit of the Paris 2024 Olympics, transforms the historic château into a nexus of avant-garde ideas and artistic exploration. Emerging and established artists converge in this picturesque Loire Valley setting, redefining the boundaries of contemporary art through a conceptual challenge conjured up by Philippe Méaille and Marie Caroline Chaudruc, with Lara Pan as a consultant on the project. As participants engage with themes ranging from cultural identity to environmental stewardship, the château pushes the boundaries of traditional art exhibitions by inviting a global community of artists to participate. 

Philippe Méaille about the Art & Language’s “A Bad Place” installation:
“In 2018, we installed a monumental work by Art & Language titled A BAD PLACE in the courtyard of the Chateau de Montsoreau – Museum of Contemporary Art. It could signify “we are A Bad Place”, that the place we are in is “A Bad Place”, or that art is “A Bad Place”. For some reason, it became a motto. We are more than happy to welcome people here to keep the discussion of art alive."

On Light, Sound and the Experimental - with Anne Katrine Senstad and Jerry Therio

Good Children Gallery is pleased to present a conversation on Light, Sound, and the Experimental, with artist Anne Katrine Senstad and Jerry Therio of New Orleans Neon and the New Orleans Neon Art Museum, on the occasion of Senstad's solo exhibition Mal Educación, curated by Christopher Saucedo.

New Orleans native Jerry Therio is a legendary neon artist, innovator and neon collector who has collected, restored and designed neon since 1978. He uses neon, new and vintage, as a medium for fine art, in full scale art installations and gallery exhibitions that have earned critical acclaim. Therio has produced neon for theatre, performance, and numerous movie sets filmed in New Orleans. He has created neon for New Orleans Carnival Krewes’ floats, such as Endymion, Bacchus, and Orpheus, as well as improvisational site specific neon installations for public art, and “Neon Sound Performances” in collaboration with jazz musicians and groups such as Sun Ra Arkestra and Kool and the Gang.

Anne Katrine Senstad is a Norwegian interdisciplinary artist based between New York and Oslo. Her practice includes installation art, spatial light sculpture and site specificity, photography, video and film, and text based art, 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 ethics - the transformative and transcendental ideas of art and philosophical practice. Mal Educación is the second solo exhibition by Norwegian artist Anne Katrine Senstad at Good Children Gallery as part of her ongoing research project, Capitalism in the Public Realm. The exhibition explores the intersection between light and text to address critical subjects of ethics, agency, citizenry, and allegory.

Visit Capitalism in the Public Realm

Supported by Office for Contemporary Art Norway

www.oca.no

Special thanks to Ty Provosty, Ali Duffey and Generic Art Solutions

GOOD CHILDREN GALLERY

LA 70117

4037 St Claude Avenue

New Orleans

,www.goodchildrengallery.com

NEON GUIDES ME news 2024

We are pleased to announce that NEON GUIDES ME is now represented in the Great Library of Alexandria in Egypt, and Bodleian Libraries at Oxford in the UK

Order NEON GUIDES ME here: BOOK Order form link 

Special thanks to Norwegian Ambassador to Cairo Hilde Klemetsdahl for presenting NEON GUIDES ME to the Library of Alexandria's permanent collection

KONSTELLASJONER

BUER GALLERY

Oslo, Norway

KONSTELLASJONER

November 30 - December 22, 2023

Årets siste utstilling, Konstellasjoner (Noël), er en kollektiv presentasjon av en gruppe kunstnere som på hver sin måte evner å berøre, og begeistre. Gjennom ulike medier som maleri, fotografi og neon, evner de å male med lys, slippe det inn på gløtt og i strimer på forunderlig, og forlokkende vis. De forvandler sorg og ensomhet til poesi og skjønnhet. Lyset som kraft, energi og kjærtegn, profant og kanskje litt sakralt, er en gylden tråd som binder utstillingen sammen i en dialog mellom verk og mellom verk og visningsrom. På samme måte er fargen et vakkert fundamet; i usynlige overganger, todelte kontraster, stablet på hverandre, i lag på lag, eller i biter av mosaikk. 

Den tradisjonellle julefeiringen handler gjerne om å ta frem det gildeste av alt; duker, dekktøy, levende lys, klær og gaver. Konstellasjoner (Noël) er feiring av lys og varme, med rom for refleksjon og ettertanke, et møte mellom kunst og publikum, der de fineste verk henger på vegg og skulpturer er varsom plassert på sokler.

Mørketiden vekker lengsler om lys, hvor lyset blir et symbol på bedre tider. Snart snur solen, la oss håpe på mer lys på den andre siden av vår lille verden også

Jo Bentdal -  Nils Olav Bøe - Anja Carr -Crispin Gurholt - Katinka Goldberg - Mattias Härenstam - Per Hess - Christian Houge - Hennie Ann Isdahl - Julius Karoubi - Turid Mathiesen Kvålsvoll - Per Maning - Marit Roland - Anne Katrine Senstad - Edith Spira - Ingeborg Stana - Johan Söderström - KC Tidemand - Geir Yttervik - Morten Viskum

SKOG ART SPACE - NORWAY

SKOG Art Space is not a gallery, not a studio, 

not a collection, but something unique in between. 

SKOG means FOREST in Norwegian.

The Winter Exhibition 2023

December 8 2023 - January 13, 2024

The Winter Exhibition at SKOG, presents 

six artists, each with a distinct and clear 

sense of expression. The artists are in different 

phases of their artistic practice, ranging 

from an art student to established artists. 

However, they all have in common a clear

sense of composition with a unified thematic 

concern with the human form, cognition 

and expression. Through media such as 

sculpture, painting, collage, photography 

and printmaking, the exhibition shows 

a narrative exploration of themes as 

body, memory, materiality and perception.

Mari Eriksen

Sofie Brønner

Iver Lennartson Noem

Eirik Stensrud

Anne Katrine Senstad

Vanessa Valero

SKOG ART SPACE

Schweigaardsgate 94,  

0656 Oslo, Norway

SKOGART.ORG 

MAL EDUCACIÓN - Good Children Gallery, New Orleans

 

Mal Educación illustration by Carlos Baragli and Anne Katrine Senstad after Albert Holenstein, 2023

GOOD CHILDREN GALLERY

4037 St Claude Avenue

New Orleans, LA 70117

www.goodchildrengallery.com

MAL

EDUCACIÓN

Anne Katrine Senstad

 

 

 

Curated by Christopher Saucedo

 

 

 

November 11 – December 3, 2023

 

Opening reception November 11, 6-9 pm

Annihilation of the question compels praxis

Theodor Adorno, 1931

 

 

Capitalism is a religion that recognizes neither truce nor redemption

Walter Benjamin, 1921

Mal Educación is the second solo exhibition by Norwegian artist Anne Katrine Senstad at Good Children Gallery as part of her ongoing research project, Capitalism in the Public Realm. The exhibition explores the intersection between light and text to address critical subjects of ethics, agency, citizenry, and allegory. 

 

Playing on the novelty of language, Mal Educación presents a sublime critique of capitalism and our contemporary crises through text-based works in Arabic, Chinese, English, German, Russian and Spanish. Here, Senstad invokes the aesthetic value systems of various languages in deconstructing the expression La Mala Educación. In effect Senstad interprets Wittgenstein’s language game and word-meaning, whereby language is defined by the actions into which it is woven. The exhibition title is drawn from Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar's 2004 film, Bad Education, which portrays how institutions of power oppress the disenfranchised and marginalized.

 

Inspired by Almodóvar's acuity, Senstad’s text works are intended to motivate ethical considerations of the moral zeitgeist. They examine the alterations of our value systems wrought by financial greed and corporate power. Senstad’s work compels place in a consumerist society – as well as how to resuscitate a shared humanity in the spectre of war and posthumanism. Through light and color, art can open the discourse on the hidden value systems underlying society and the culture at large.

 

For the center-piece of the exhibition, Senstad returns to a poetic evocation of ethics that her work has explored in the past, Gold Guides Me — a neon text work in Arabic calligraphy transliterated in the artist's handwriting. Those familiar with Senstad’s oeuvre will identify the reference to her monumental work commissioned by the Bruges Art and Architecture Triennale in Belgium in 2015 where said phrase was presented in latin alphabet letters scaled after the Hollywood sign. Gold Guides Me capitalizes on the phrase, Hope Guides Me from the 6^th century poet and statesman Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy — a valediction for Lady Philosophy of life’s vagaries and vicissitudes as conjured by the author while imprisoned and awaiting execution. In exchanging “Hope” with “Gold” Senstad’s wordplay invokes the ontological forces underlying institutions of power, oppression, and greed.

Consistent with this narrative, Senstad’s text-based video installation, Money Above All – Russian Version (2022) by the artist’s holding company-as-art-work, GGM Holdings, is part of her activistic web project issuing not-for-sale NFTs of corporate-military aesthetics and text-based art that critique the current era’s war climate and the arms industry. With the diptych text piece Liquid Assets in Chinese and English (2020-2023) in dialogue with the static neon sculpture Ascension/Descension Graph X, (2023), Senstad addresses the notion of a human being’s intrinsic value in the context of financial and corporate scaling systems. Further, the sculptural abstraction Portal for Perpetuity VII, (2023) intimates nature's perpetual cycle of regeneration and how mankind’s present grappling with notions of scarcity and of infinity through scientific progress and technological innovations continue to advance the human enterprise.

 

And as the ideological debates of said human enterprise continue into the twenty-first century, as alternative value systems are posited in response to class divisions wrought by an acceleration of the Anthropocene, Senstad returns to Marx with IST-MARX MARX-IST, (2023), a play on the German word “ist” invoking Shakespeare’s famous line from Hamlet, (Act 3, Scene 1) — ”To be or not to be” —to elucidate the famous ideologues’ impact on today’s existential struggle between freedom, human rights and civil rights.

Senstad’s ongoing research project Capitalism in the Public Realm is presented in depth on the platform Capitalism in the Public Realm in dialogue with the exhibition.

The exhibition is supported by Office for Contemporary Art Norway

Anne Katrine Senstad is a Norwegian interdisciplinary artist based between New York and Oslo. Her practice includes installation art, spatial light sculpture and site specificity, photography, video and film, - and text based art, 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 ethics - the transformative and transcendental ideas of art and philosophical practice. Senstad has exhibited widely internationally, including Kunsthal Regelbau 411, Denmark (2023), Seinajoki Kunsthall, Finland (2021), S12 Gallery, Norway (2021), Kai Art Center, Estonia (2020), Freight & Volume Gallery, New York (2020), He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen (2019), Good Children Gallery, New Orleans (2017, 2023), Bruges Art and Architecture Triennale, Belgium, (2015), 55th and 56th Venice Biennales (Collaterali Eventi), (respectively 2013 and 2015). She is the recipient of numerous artist grants including The Norwegian Governmental Grant for Artists, Arts Council Norway, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Association of Visual Artists, Norway, Fritt Ord, Norway, Rauschenberg Foundation Emergency Grant, New York, Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant, New York. A monograph on her monumental light sculpture practice, Neon Guides Me was published by Praun & Guermouche in 2022, marking her third artist book. Senstad is a member of Association of Visual Artists, Norway and The Film-makers Cooperative, New York.

Liquid Assets - Chinese Version, 2023 by Anne Katrine Senstad

Portal for Perpetuity VII, 2023 by Anne Katrine Senstad

KYSTEN Troms Fylkeskultursenter Artist Residency Norway

Artist Residency production 2023 

Performance/Video Production in the Arctic - A Re-Engagement of RADICAL LIGHT within its origin: 

A new collaborative work was created during my artist residency at KYSTEN - Troms Fylkeskultursenter in Tromsø, Norway, 2023 located in the arctic north, over 300 kilometres (190 mi) north of the Arctic Circle at 69°40′58″N 18°56′34″E  - The reinterpretation of the original performance with Marita Isobel Solberg, on the nature of infinite light in the northern hemisphere, its essence and resonance on the human system that also served as an inclusion for my experimental documentary film project Radical Light as Film.Solberg's performance is also a revisit to our intertwining paths since 2007, and resurrection of Solberg's performance Joiking Light, in my monumental light sculpture installation RADICAL LIGHT, at Kai Art Center, on the perceptual and cognitive processes of space, light, sound and our relationship with the interconnected being, where presence within an artwork and through the performative transmission of art is a dedication of ones energy to the human and universal organism.  

Marita Isobel Solberg has previously created performance work for my monumental spatial neon sculpture installation Radical Light at Kai Art Center in Tallinn, Estonia, January 20 - April 20, 2020 (extended to July due to the pandemic), with sound by acclaimed composer JG Thirlwell, where her fpremormance work is entitled Joiking Light. We were both part of Nordic Delights festival in Soho, London in 2018, curated by Vassiliki Tzanakou. Marita is also included in my book The Norwegians Volume II, published in 2010, with texts by art critic, author and Editor in Chief of Kunstkritikk Scandinavia, Kjetil Røed and director of Kunsthall 314, Malin Barth. Special thanks to Trond Ansten of Bar du Nord for technical film support (Sol & Sten).