Those 13 artists are living and working at Salangsverket right now!
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Online lectures 8th of July will be held by:
Marija Griniuk
Dr. Marija Griniuk holds a DA from The University of Lapland in Finland. She is the director
at Sami Center for Contemporary Art in Karasjok, Norway. She is a Lithuanian artist and has
a background in visual arts, performance art, and performance pedagogy.
Kristoffer Dolmen
Kristoffer Dolmen works as a curator based in Bodø. Among other things, he works as a curator for the Nordlandsmuseet's program for BODØ2024, in addition he works on several projects with a focus on art in public spaces.
In the period 2008-2018, he worked actively with the project Artscape Nordland, as part of his position in Nordland fylkeskommunel. He was particularly responsible for press information, new website, editor for the last book about the project and mediation program.
André Dekker
Andre Dekker is co-founder and partner of Observatorium, an artist collective in Rotterdam, working on iconic architectural works of art as part of developments in urban planning and landscape architecture in France, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. He is the author of Observatorium’s publications Big Pieces of Time and Public Art for Public Life, a regular guest teacher at universities and currently working on exhibitions of his landscape drawings.
Vi er glade å presenterer årets kunstnere:
Michiel Jansen (NL)
Michiel Jansen (1973) is a dutch artist, based in Oslo. Graduated in 2000 at the academy for arts and design in Den Bosch (NL). His main focus is on installation, sculptures and collages always site- or the material specific and linked to architecture and nature. This can be related to the fact he studied architecture from ’92 to ’94 in Eindhoven. Next to his artistic activities, he has always been active in organizing and producing cultural events. He was part of Temporary Art Centre in Eindhoven and the Dutch Cacaofactory in Helmond, both artist run initiatives. When he moved from Eindhoven to Rotterdam he founded the SingerSweatShop, a cultural building in the centre of Rotterdam where people could live, work and exhibit. In 2013 he moved to Berlin for a short period and after his return to Rotterdam in 2014 his focus was mainly on his own artistic career. Since his move to Norway in 2018 he already had exhibitions at Norsk Billedhoggerforening, Galleri TM51 and Kunsthall Oslo.
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Siri Tolander (SWE)
Siri Tolander
Graduated with a MFA from HDK Valand – Campus Steneby in 2010.
I create sculpture and installations constructed for or in relation to specific sites and situations with materials and structures that communicate functionality and durability.
My work is derived from moving through and physically experiencing different environments ranging from brutalism to forgotten huts with a never ending fascination for the power of nature and the visual language of power.
The characteristics, limitations and performance of the materials are important, as is the construction of my work, the expression they give and challenges they create.
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Torbjörn Johansson (SWE)
Torbjörn Johansson, born 1959, Emmaboda and works in Stockholm.
He was educated at the Royal Academy of Arts and has had extensive exhibition activities both in Sweden and internationally since the 90s. His work has been shown at Danshallerne (Copenhagen), Örebro Konsthall (Örebro), Färgfabriken (Stockholm), TSSK (Trondheim), Moderna Museet (Stockholm and Malmö), Botkyrka Konsthall (Stockholm), Katrineholms Konsthall (Katrineholm), Cites des Art (Paris), Gallery VER (Bangkok), Molekyl (Malmö) Liljevalchs (Stockholm) PS1 (New York)
His versatile artistry includes painting, sculpture, film, performance and installations. He is also behind a large number of public art around Sweden. His interest in cross-genre contexts has led to a number of collaborations with other artists. For example, he has collaborated with a range of dancers and musicians to explore how different art forms approach the relationship between the body and space.
In addition to his own artistry, since 2013 Torbjörn Johansson has been running the noted cultural center Kummelholmen in Vårberg.
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Esther Kokmeijer (NL)
Esther Kokmeijer, The Netherlands (1977), is an artist and explorer currently residing in Rotterdam and working around the globe. In her work as an artist, she mainly focuses on the ‘Global Commons’. A term typically used to describe international, supranational, and global resource domains. Global commons include the earth’s shared natural resources, such as the high oceans, the atmosphere and outer space and the Antarctic in particular.
For many of her projects she collaborates with scientists. Her work has been exhibited and published worldwide. For various projects, she has visited 85 countries. Seasonally she works as an expedition photographer and polar guide, in the Arctic and Antarctic. She is the founder of Antarktikos, a magazine that is solely dedicated to Antarctica and brings together art and science, (antarktikos.com), co founder of Cosmic Water Foundation (cosmicwaterfoundation.com) and part of the art collective If Paradise Is Half As Nice (ifparadiseishalfasnice.com).
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Ties Ten Bosch (NL)
Ties Ten Bosch (NL, 1977) is a dutch visual artist working between Berlin and ’s-Hertogenbosch. As an artists he works with all sorts of media. He has a provocative surrealistic approach of actual everyday traces that we leave behind. He integrates these banal tracks with social, political and current issues as a paradox and thereby alienates them from their everyday life. This often leads to works that result in an unceasing questioning of viewing habits and of sculpture itself.
Ties has been involved in several artist initiatives, such as the B.a.d foundation, Volksrekorders, art magazine hOUTSKOOL and IPIHAN. His work is part of several collections and has been shown all over the world. As an artist he is currently represented by Little Bird Place in Sofia and Lage Eagle in Berlin.
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Willem Besselink (NL)
My work derives from a fascination with structures that are embedded within daily occurrences.
I endeavour to grasp such structures by observing trivial daily occurrences and the manifestation of their patterns. I seek to understand and assimilate them using different forms of registration and notation. The outcomes visualize these structures and reimagine their appearance, paying specific attention to resourceful and innovative uses of matter and form. The starting points for these examinations are small, trivial and often personal events. The observations’ personal nature determines methods whereby the researcher (me) is the observer and the observed.
The resulting works from the observing, registering and visualizing take on a wide range of media, from small drawings to large installations. The medium, technique and dimensions of the works are informed by what is observed and the site of where the observation is made.
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Pim Palsgraaf (NL)
Inspired by the decay and irregularities of the city, Pim Palsgraaf (1979) explores the discord between nature and urbanity. His work is a result of an ongoing investigation into the erosion of the inner city, finding fascination in empty spaces that are about to collapse, where nature is stepping in to take over.
Palsgraaf's work is focused on the lines of perspective from which we build the world around us. While he previously worked within the existing systems of how to draw the world, he has shifted to investigating the fundamentals of the world. To explore this further, Palsgraaf spent five days in a completely enclosed dark room, without time or noise, realizing that time is only a concept and perception is a construction of the mind. His ongoing discoveries are interwoven into his work, challenging the audience to think beyond their existing perspectives and to explore the world in a new light.
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Hilde Angel Danielsen (NOR)
Danielsen´s arts balance in an expanded field of spatial arts, crafts, and sculpture, with references to architecture, and landscape. She is educated with MA from Bergen Faculty of the Arts and Design KhiB (KMD) 2003/2004 and BA exchanged at University of the Arts London, Camberwell School of Arts (1998).
She has participated in numbers of art exhibitions and interdisciplinary projects in Norway and abroad including The Netherlands, Denmark, UK, Poland, Korea, and Australia. Upcoming Exhibitions at Sami Contemporary Art Centre, Karasjok 2025, and in 2023 with Nils Aas Kunstnerverksted at Muurstrøparken, Inderøy in Norway. As well as NordArt 2023 in Germany. Recently toured her arts in Australia with Sculpture by the Sea Bondi and Cottesloe in 2022. Danielsen participates in Online Gallery KICB 2019, in Korea, and CraftHub in Portugal. Her art is represented in public collections in Norway, in Stockholm, Sweden and private collections in Poland, Australia, and USA.
Lada Suomenrinne (FIN)
Lada Suomenrinne (b.1995) was born in Northern Russia but has lived most of their life in the northernmost point of Finland, Sápmi. There Suomenrinne was adopted by their stepfather into his Sámi family. The roots of their work are in cultural identity and belonging; Suomenrinne explores their relationship to the Sámi culture and identity, which they have inherited through adoption. Their inspiration comes from curiosity about the borderland, where the unseen lakes of Sáminess are. Suomenrinne is in dialogue with nature with whom they search for a place of security as an adopted indigenous person.
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Guus Vreeburg (NL)
Being trained as an art historian (MA Utrecht University, 1972), Vreeburg has been a lecturer at Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam (1973-2020). Besides that, he was the curator of HET PLAFOND - a privately operated art space in Rotterdam (1997-2022) and is presently the curator of DE RUIT (www.deruit.org). Vreeburg has been the Haus-Historiker of IPIHAN projects since 2017, and is an active member since 2020.
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Jan Hakon Erichsen (NOR)
Jan Hakon Erichsen works with performance for video, which he shares daily across social media. In Erichsen’s videos he explores the things we surround ourselves with, often through destroying everyday objects in excessive ways or using them in an unorthodox manner. The performances are sculpturally based, with crude destruction machines as a reoccurring theme. Erichsen makes everything from very simple devices to complex contraptions that are all designed to destroy everyday objects of low monetary value.
Erichsen’s art has been shown in galleries and festivals around the world since he finished his education at The Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2004. His work has gotten attention from media across the globe, among them Art in America, Kunstforum International and New York Magazine.
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Maurice Bogaert (NL)
Maurice Bogaert (1975)studied at the Academie Beeldende Kunst Maastricht and at the Piet Zwart institute, where he graduated in 2001. Currently, Bogaert lives and works in Amsterdam. Recently, Bogaert has been working on a series of projects where different media such as architecture, film, text and visual art come together to create a total experience for an audience. Sometimes these works are extremely large 'walkthrough' installations and at other times infinitely small scale models and maquettes. All these works are, all in their own way, attempts to translate notions of camera movement and montage into physical space. All these works are attempts to create an immersive cinematic experience without actually making film.
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Jens Stegger Ledaal (NOR)
Jens Stegger Ledaal works with a number of different techniques and materials, with particular emphasis on spatial and sculptural works. Ledaal is primarily known for the project Spatial Ops, a voluntary group which since 2014 has worked in a cross-field of performance, land art and sculpture with inspiration from military culture and practice - or infantry as social sculpture and tool for artistic work in terrain. The project has been shown in a number of places in Norway, Aarhus, Berlin, Paris and Los Angeles. In 2019, Ledaal received NTNU's art prize for the film Spatial Ops III-VI.
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