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SKAUS: ROGALAND KUNSTSENTER / TOU
19:00 – ANDREAS AMBLE – Ventetomten next to TOU, Kvitsøygata 25
Welcome to two new Skaus exhibition openings featuring artists Linda Lamignan and Andreas Amble. We begin at Rogaland Kunstsenter at 18:00 and continue to Ventetomten next to TOU at 19:00. The exhibition at Rogaland Kunstsenter is open until 20:00 and Ventetomten until 21:00.
Skaus is a platform – simultaneously host and occupant, a support structure that initiates meeting points between places, artists, institutions, social infrastructures and audiences. Skaus is initiated and developed by Håvard Sagen, Mari Kolbeinson and Markus Bråten.
Linda Lamignan
Linda Lamignan is educated at Kunstakademiet i Oslo and Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi. They have previously exhibited at Stavanger Kunsthall, Kunsthal Aarhus and Charlottenborg Kunsthal. Larsen is interested in what arises in the encounter between different cultures, sexualities and genders, and in what arises in the encounter between culture, nature and technology. They explore this from an aesthetic, historical, philosophical and political perspective.
Andreas Amble
Andreas Amble's practice centres on painting, sculpture and the exhibition space as core media. He works with a linguistic and spatial arrangement to bring out relationships between the works, the space and the audience. His ongoing project draws on craft traditions in a semantic game: the sculptures are inspired by modernist furniture and traditional ornaments. They are not built to function as furniture, but use a formal language that most people recognise, at times because it feels trustworthy. There is a play here in which decorative elements take on a structural function.
About Skaus
In this pilot, Skaus is shown in parallel at Rogaland Kunstsenter and at a vacant lot next to TOU. These two places are tied together through a body, a structure in two versions, that will develop in different directions over the course of the exhibition period. Across several project phases, a range of artists and artist groups will work site-specifically, acting independently from the structures and artistic conditions that have arisen in the room (RKS) and at the site (TOU).
The intention behind Skaus is to draw lines of flight, to shape and accumulate work, and to open up for narratives. By exploring new forms of collaboration and methods, ideas tied to origin, authorship and reproducibility are challenged. The project builds on the idea of continuous change and takes the form of an endless exhibition, which after this pilot will move to new places and take on new forms.