opening the new location of ATOPIA

 

ATOPIA is proud to open its new Gallery space located on the riverside in Lilleborg-Oslo.

The Gallery in line with the rest of ATOPIA projects is devoted to the presentation, screening and exhibition of artists’ film and video works from around the world.

 

                ATOPIA, Ivan Bjørndals gate 34, 0472 Oslo

 

 

 

The new space was inaugurated by the performance of sound artist Alexander Rishaug on Saturday, 12 May 2012.

 

 

This event marked the 9th anniversary of ATOPIA.

 

 

                

 

 

 

 

 

Atopia is pleased to present a new work by Nina Bang on Vitrine.

 

RED LIST RED

12 - 26 January 2012

Opening: Thursday, 12.01.2012 at 18:00

 

As we, the human race, expand our domination over the planet we “humanize” all terrains of existing nature - an act that forces many other species into extinction. Civilization moves forward as it relentlessly crushes down other life forms in its progress.

Nina Bang takes the extinction of other life forms as the departure point for her new work RED LIST RED. The work is an appropriation of the list of threatened species made by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. The four-screen video brings the list into an abstract space and gives it a visual impact.

Nina Bang, born in Oslo-1956, is a visual artist working with a variety of media including painting, digital prints, installations and video. Her works explore the meeting points between the natural processes and technological progress. Bang studied art at Statens Kunst og Håndverkskole and Statens Kunstakademi (National Academy of Fine Arts) in Oslo during the 1980s.

Along with exhibiting widely around the country, she has carried out several public art commissions and currently she is working on a new commission for Sam Eyde high school in Arendal, Norway. Nina Bang lives and works in Oslo.

 

 

 

Atopia is pleased to present a work of Santiago Parres on the Vitrine:

Antena

 

1-15 December 2011

Opening: Thursday, 1.12.2011 at 19:00

 

 

Santiago Parres (born in Valencia - Spain, 1968) is a self taught artist, writer and photographer.  He works with a variety of media combining literature, graphic design, photography and video in his projects. He lives and works in Valencia.

 

 

Antena is a contemplative multi-screen video commissioned for Atopia’s Vitrine. Shot from the same angle but in different times of the year. The four videos display a single antenna and its background sky. Being a receiver the antenna attracts flocks of birds and becomes a momentary watchtower.

 

 

NATURAL FEATURES (times 3 + 1)

17- 30 November 2011

Opening: Thursday, 17 Nov. 2011 at 18:00

 

Gunvor Nelson (1931, Stockholm) is one of Sweden's internationally most prominent artists in her field - film and the moving image. She is one of the pioneers in experimental film and has, as few Swedish artists, had the recognition of a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

 

Nelson has said that for years she has wanted to slow down NATURAL FEATURES (1990) – her film that uses paint to animate stills, mostly of faces. To this end, she had her 16 mm film converted into a high-definition video and began editing three separate copies. It took her over a year to fulfill her wish, to slow down her own found footage and get the three new films to work together. The result is a masterful triptych entitled NATURAL FEATURES times 3 (2011), in which the looped video projections move in and out of sync with one another and with a single soundtrack.

For her exhibition on Atopia's Vitrine Gunvor Neslon has made a new 4th screen to interact with the other 3 without the soundtrack.

 

"... In NATURAL FEATURES I used cut-outs, photographs, mirrors, water, toys, paint, ink ... in many different combinations. The central theme is 

faces. A dark delicacy lingers. "

Gunvor Nelson will be present at the opening.

 

 

 

                                                                                        Now Available Online!

 

    

Retrospective Exhibition, Part 1

Retrospektiv: Film- og videokunst i Norge, 1960-90

30 Years of Motion

 

Utstillingen Retrospektiv: Film- og videokunst i Norge er et resultat av et forskningsprosjekt i regi av Atopia som tar for seg kunstneriske film- og videoarbeider fra 1960-tallet. Formålet er å utforske og utvikle den historiske konteksten for eksperimentell film og videokunst i Norge. Dette er første del av en utstillingstrilogi og retter oppmerksomheten mot arbeider produsert mellom 1960 og 1990.

Mange av kunstnerne i denne utstillingen er velkjente videokunstnere. Andre hører mer hjemme på kino enn i gallerier eller museer. Noen av filmarbeidene har aldri før vært plassert i en museumskontekst. De er likevel bemerkelsesverdige verker som hovedsakelig ble laget for kino på 1960- og 1970-tallet. Kjent som “frie kunstneriske kortfilmer” er de nært knyttet til samtidskunstneres filmatiske verker. Som dokumentararbeider er de kompromissløse i sine synspunkter, filmatiske stil og tilnærming, og som kortfilmer faller de utenfor den narrative produksjonsstandarden.  

Utstillingen består av 64 filmer og videoarbeider av 36 enkeltstående norske kunstnere foruten ti videoportretter fra 2010 og 2011.

 

                                                           

                                                                          still from Running, Inghild Karlsen, 1988