POIESIS - Kunsthal Regelabu 411 - February 11 - May 21, 2023

POIESIS Anne Katrine Senstad
with a sound environment by JG Thirlwell


Kunsthal Regelbau 411
www.regelbau411.dk



February 11 - May 21, 2023

POIESIS by Anne Katrine Senstad presents a meditation on the transformative power of light, sound, and color. The site-specific multi-sensory installations created for Kunsthal Regelbau 411's set of repurposed WWII bunker structures, a former ammunition bunker and the central Commando bunker situated on the North Atlantic coast of Denmark, delve deeply into the impact of artistic intervention on the experience of place. Vibrant colors and sonic luminosity create a dialogue between the charged, entropic environment and the visceral qualities of art.

The video installation Cubiculum Red + Blue, focuses on dualities between the enclosed, submerged spatial properties of the bunker and the spectator’s interior and cognitive landscape. The hypnotic, seemingly 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 liberation. An enveloping spatial sound composition by acclaimed composer JG Thirlwell creates floating spatial sensations of sonic waves between infinite vastness and molecular particles, harnessing the emotive. Cubiculum Red + Blueinvites the audience to contemplate the balance between what is enclosed and what is released within these chambers.

Elements VII, the seventh iteration in Anne Katrine Senstad’s series of spatial neon sculpture installations, transports the visitor through a commanding sensorial world of light, color and sound. The labyrinthian Commando bunker becomes a prismatic universe defined by four monochromatic chambers (Pink, Green, Blue, Yellow), where luminous slender columns, as a sculptural lattice, connect canonical form as representation with transmutational currents of technology, the perceptual and the expansive. Each of the four chambers are enveloped by a continuous sublime neon horizon gently slicing through traces of time, anchoring an ontological transformation of place, where our familiar boundaries dissolve as radiant 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.Senstad's practice lies at the intersection of light sculpture, installation art, photography and video art, 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 Seinajoki Kunsthall, Finland (2021), S12 Gallery, Norway (2021), Kai Art Center, Tallinn, (2020), He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen (2019), 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). The exhibition at Regelbau 411 is Senstad's first solo exhibition in Denmark.

 

 JG Thirlwell is an Australian-American composer, producer, and performer based in Brooklyn, NY. Thirlwell has released over thirty albums under his various pseudonyms including Foetus, Manorexia, Xordox and Steroid Maximus. JG has completed commissions for Kronos Quartet, Bang On A Can, Alarm Will Sound, and many more. He is a member of the “freq_out” sound-art collective, curated by CM Von Hausswolff, and has created several solo sound installations. JG performs live solo and with his own chamber ensembles. He has collaborated with Karen O, Noveller, Zola Jesus, Helm, Lydia Lunch, Tony Oursler, and dozens more. Thirlwell creates the musical score for the Emmy-winning FX show Archer, and Adult Swim / Cartoon Network show The Venture Bros. Thirlwell and Senstad have collaborated on numerous exhibitions and film projects since 2000. 

Regelbau 411 is an art center situated in two former WWII bunkers. The program focuses on exhibiting international sound, light and video art. Regelbau 411 creates exhibitions opposing the idea of art as isolated works contemplated in the clean white cube or neutral spaces. Set between concrete walls, rust, salt and calcium we invite the public to experience art in an uncommon and informal setting, bringing visitors into the labyrinthine universe of the bunkers.

Curated by Kunsthal Regelbau 411 Artistic Director Simon Thykjær.

Exhibition period: 11 February - 21 May 2023.

Opening hours: Every day 10-16. Admission is free.

Exhibition documentation: Vimeo 

In partnership with Soundartlab.org

Supported by Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Arts Council Norway Governmental Grant for Artists, Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, Fritt Ord and The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Copenhagen

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.

NEW YEAR NEW FILMS Film Festival February 10-11, 2023

 

NEW FILMS NEW YEAR FILM FESTIVAL - Film-Makers Cooperative, New York

Join the Film-Makers' Cooperative (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) on FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10th and SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11th, 2023, at 7pm, for a two-night program of recent additions to the growing collection of experimental and avant-garde films, submitted by new and longstanding members of the FMC/NACG!

**TICKETS FOR EACH NIGHT ARE $10 AND MUST BE PURCHASED SEPARATELY ON THE ONLINE STORE.**

FRIDAY NIGHT PROGRAM:
1. TOO LATE, Kinga Syrek
2. BAMBOO IN THE WATER, Wei Gao
3. MEMORIES (PARIS VU PAR), Joe Wakeman
4. TIGER EATS A BABY, Kalil Haddad
5. ROOFTOP FLICKER, Pop Chodorov
6. A PORTRAIT OF COWBOY ON BOLEX, Katherine Burns
7. LAURIE ANDERSON'S STUDIO, Cody Simons
8. INSOMNIA, Emilia Izquierdo
9. THREE PRIDE FLAGS, Tom Bessoir
10. TIME CRYSTALS, Abinadi Meza
11. INFERNO, I SAW YOU ON MY WAY TO THE GARDEN, Priyanka Das

SATURDAY NIGHT PROGRAM:
1. CASUAL TRIBUTE TO MARIE MENKEN, Rrose Present
2. SWERVE, Lynne Sachs
3. REFLECTIVE MEDITATION, Rosalind Schneider
4. CURLY'S THANKSGIVING, Bill Morrison
5. BIRTH, Erica Schreiner
6. BALLET ANEMIC, Siegfried A. Fruhauf
7. THE SUGARCANE LABYRINTH, Anne Senstad
8. THE SLOW LIGHT BETWEEN ABSENCE AND BELONGING, Phil Weisman
9. BUSINESS CASUAL, Matt McKinzie & Zach Cargie
10. REMEMBRANCE: A PORTRAIT STUDY, Edward Owens (recently preserved by the FMC!!)

NEON GUIDES ME in Bookshops and Libraries

We are happy to announce that NEON GUIDES ME is available at  Walther König & Cahiers d’Art Bookshop at Palais de Tokyo in Paris,  Dashwood Books in New York and Tronsmo Bookshop in Oslo, Norway.

Tronsmo Bookshop was praised by both Allen Ginsberg and The Financial Times as one of the best bookshops in the world. Read the story in FT on the worlds most brilliant bookshops here.

NEON GUIDES ME presents an index of Norwegian artist Anne Katrine Senstad's light and space practice through the spatial light sculpture installation works ELEMENTS I-VI with sound environments composed by JG Thirlwell (ELEMENTS IV-VI) and CC Hennix (ELEMENTS III BLUE). The book includes texts by acclaimed composer JG Thirlwell in conversation with media writer Patrick Rolandelli(US), composer, philosopher and mathematician C.C Hennix(SWE), author, artist and curator Sarah Walko (US), author and social-political anthropologist Marianne Solberg(NO), Art Historian Erik Meling, Professor of Architectural History and Theory Andres Kurg (EE), director Seinajoki Kunsthall Finland Sanna Karimaki-Nuutinen (FI), art historian, author and philosopher Dr Aura Seikkula (FI). Designed and published by Praun & Guermouche.

Contributing photography: Sarah Bauwens (BE), SHAO Yi (CHN), Samuli Kuusisto (FI), Anne Katrine Senstad

The publication and forthcoming presentations of Neon Guides Me and/or the artworks in the book have been made possible with support from Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Arts Council Norway Governmental Grant for Artists, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, Kunst og Ny Teknologi, Norske Billedkunstnere BKV, Fritt Ord, The Royal Norwegian Foreign Ministry, Emily Harvey Foundation New York and Venice, Italy.

NEON GUIDES ME has been collected by or acquired by these libraries and institutions:

The Museum of Modern Art Archives, Library, and Research Collections (ALRC)

The National Museum of Norway's Library collection

The National Library of Norway

The Musea Brugge Library serving 13 museums in Bruges, Belgium 

Nordnorsk Kunst Senter Library, Svolvær, Norway

Artica's Library in Longyearbyen, Svaldbard, Norway - the northernmost library in the world

Avery Architecture and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York

The New York Public Library's Photography, Art and Prints collection 

Franklin Furnace Artist Book Collection, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn

The Haas Arts Library, Yale School of Art at Yale University, New Haven, CT

The Bobst Library, NYU, New York

Libraries at MIT, Cambridge, MA

School of Visual Art Library, New York

The Marquand Library, Princeton University, NJ

Fine Arts Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Sachsische Landesbibliotek Staats und Universitetsbibliothek, Dresden, Germany

Jamestown Art Center, Rhode Island, US

The Great Library of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt

Libraries at The American University in Cairo, Egypt

Jafet Library. The American University in Beirut, Lebanon

Galerie 8 + 4/Bernard Chauveau Editions, Paris

Atelier Carlos Cruz-Diez, Paris 

Rune Johansen Museum, Norway

Photo: The National Museum of Norway Library: New acquisitions wall.

We are proud NEON GUIDES ME is part of the private library of Atelier Cruz-Diez in Paris. The art work ELEMENTS I featured in the book was exhibited alongside Cruz-Diez's light and color work CHROMOSATURATION in the exhibition Through the Spectrum, 2018, including light and space artists James Turrell, Robert Irwin,Carlos Cruz-Diez, Leo Villarreal, Anne Katrine Senstad, Timo Nasseri, Nasser Al Salem and others.

Photo: Carlitos Cruz-Diez of Atelier Cruz-Diez. Photo by Anne Katrine Senstad

PALAIS DE TOKYO

Walther König & Cahiers d’Art, two key trademarks in the world of art, have created one of the largest art bookshops in Paris situated at Palais de Tokyo.

American Scandinavian Cultural Grant exhibition opening February 2, 2023

Announcement of the 2022 American Scandinavian Society Cultural Grant and the Elfie von Kantzow Alvin Art Award - I am honored to be a recipient of the Norwegian Cultural Grant.

Exhibition opening and concert

7 pm, February 2nd, 2023

Curated by Anita Alvin Nilert

Anne Katrine Senstad and Tine Lundsfryd

Trygve Lie Gallery

317 East 52nd street,

New York, NY

Anne Katrine Senstad: Color Kinesthesia 4A52, 2012

For over 100 years, the American Scandinavian Society has been promoting and celebrating the cultural and intellectual ties between the people of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the US.

NEON GUIDES ME book launch Emily Harvey Foundation

 

Anne Katrine Senstad NEON GUIDES ME book launch  
 

Join The Emily Harvey Foundation for a panel discussion with Anne Katrine Senstad, JG Thirlwell, and Tom McGlynn celebrating the publication of NEON GUIDES ME

 

Saturday, November 5th, 4 - 6 pm

 

The Emily Harvey Foundation

537 Broadway #2

New York, NY 10012

 

Free admission

Please join The Emily Harvey Foundation in celebrating the publication of NEON GUIDES ME by Anne Katrine Senstad, with a panel discussion with Senstad, composer JG Thirlwell, and Editor at Large, Brooklyn Rail, Tom McGlynn, followed by a video talk with publisher Praun & Guermouche, and a neon installation on view. 

 

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 enveloping sound environments composed by JG Thirlwell (ELEMENTS IV, V, VI) and C.C. 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, published by Praun & Guermouche, and includes texts by JG Thirlwell in conversation with Patrick Rolandelli, Catherine Christer Hennix, Andres Kurg. Erik Meling, Dr Aura Seikkula, Sanna Karimäki-Nuutinen, Marianne Solberg, and Sarah Walko.

Anne Katrine Senstad is a multi-disciplinary artist working with 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 Seinajoki Kunsthall, Finland (2021), S12 Gallery, Norway (2021), Kai Art Center, Tallin (2020), He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen (2019), Trafo Kunsthall, Norway (2018), Athr Gallery, Jeddah (2018), K4 Gallery, Norway (2017), Good Children Gallery, New Orleans (2017), Bruges Art and Architecture Triennale, Belgium, (2015), 55th and 56th Venice Biennales (Collaterali Eventi), (respectively 2013 and 2015). In 2020, Senstad was awarded the prestigious Arts Council Norway Government Grants for Artists. She has, since 1996, received numerous artist grants from Arts Council Norway, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Fond for Lyd og Bilde (NO), Forbundet Frie Fotografer (NO), Billedkunstnernses Vederlags Fond (NO), Foundation for Contemporary Art and the Rauschenberg Foundation’s emergency grants (USA). Senstad was raised in Singapore and Norway; today, she lives and works between New York and Oslo, Norway. Forthcoming exhibition; Kunsthall Regelbau 411, Denmark, 2023. 

 

JG Thirlwell is an Australian-American composer, producer, and performer based in Brooklyn, NY. Thirlwell has released over thirty albums under his various pseudonyms including Foetus, Manorexia, Xordox and Steroid Maximus. JG has completed commissions for Kronos Quartet, Bang On A Can, Alarm Will Sound, and many more. He is a member of the “freq_out” sound-art collective, curated by CM Von Hausswolff, and has created several solo sound installations. JG performs live solo and with his own chamber ensembles. He has collaborated with Karen O, Noveller, Zola Jesus, Helm, Lydia Lunch, Tony Oursler, and dozens more. Thirlwell creates the musical score for the Emmy-winning FX show Archer, and Adult Swim / Cartoon Network show The Venture Bros. Thirlwell and Senstad have collaborated on numerous exhibitions and film projects since 2000. 

 

Tom McGlynn is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in the New York City area. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, and The Cooper- Hewitt National Design Museum of the Smithsonian among many other national and international collections. His work has also been featured on the cover of Artforum magazine. He is currently an Editor at Large at The Brooklyn Rail, contributing articles and criticism since 2012. His most recent show of paintings opened in February 2020 at Rick Wester Fine Art in New York City. 

 

Praun & Guermouche is a Stockholm-based publishing house established in 2020 by graphic designer Sandra Praun and artist Oscar Guermouche, which focuses on art, photography, theory, essays, and artists’ books. The core of their collaboration is the translation of artistic œuvres, projects, or individual artworks into book form. P & G believe that the way books convey art has intrinsic value, and accordingly the books they produce both reflect and complement the art. 

The Emily Harvey Foundation has developed an ambitious and comprehensive art/event program that draws on its rich history, art collection, and archive grounded in Fluxus, Concept Art, Mail Art, and Performance Art. Artworks from the EHF collection are regularly lent to temporary exhibitions worldwide, and the EHF archive is open to scholars. The Emily Harvey Foundation art program concerns itself with supporting ideas resistant to frameworks of easy legibility. Its emphasis is on giving voice, and momentary material form, to discursive and process-based practices. In this historical moment, much of what we do would be impossible, and unfeasible at almost any other site. Show by show, we aim to nurture experimental, collaborative and cross-disciplinary approaches, while generating a spectrum of alternatives to other more solid contexts for contemporary practice. 



The publication of NEON GUIDES ME and the art works in the book have been made possible with the generous support of Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Arts Council Norway Audio and Visual Fund, Arts Council Norway Governmental Artist Grant, Norwegian Visual Artists Fund (BKV).

Supported by the Royal Norwegian Consulate General New York.

Audio-Visual Partner Me On Air 

Digital Media Partner Archive Culture

Wine by Bodvár - House of Rosés


Book Credits
NEON GUIDES ME – Anne Katrine Senstad
Published by Praun & Guermouche, Sweden
Printing and binding: Rotolito S.p.A. / Nava Press S.r.l., Milan, Italy
ISBN 978-91-527-1427-0 
Edition: 600