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SKAUS: ROGALAND KUNSTSENTER / TOU
7 PM – INGRID FURRE – Ventetomten ved TOU, Kvitsøygata 25
Welcome to two new Skaus exhibition openings with the artists Ingeborg Kvame and Ingrid Furre. The artists worked in Skaus in March, but the openings had to be postponed in line with the government's Corona restrictions. We're looking forward to finally letting you see what the artists were working on during their phase. The openings will be held in a Corona-friendly way, with one metre distancing and hand sanitiser available.
We start at Rogaland Kunstsenter at 6 PM and walk to Ventetomten ved TOU at 7 PM. The exhibition at Rogaland Kunstsenter is open until 8 PM and Ventetomten until 9 PM.
Skaus is a platform — both host and occupant, a support structure that initiates meeting points between sites, artists, institutions, social infrastructures and audiences. Skaus is initiated and developed by Håvard Sagen, Mari Kolbeinson and Markus Bråten.
Ingeborg Kvame (b. 1978) works across several media including drawing, print, textile and sculpture, and often uses nature as material. Her works are open and exploratory, while at the same time grounded in solid craftsmanship. By juxtaposing and staging contrasts — the light against the dark, the living against the dead — she seeks to give simple visual expressions room to hold multiple layers of meaning. Ingeborg Kvame holds a Bachelor of Arts from Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland. She has had solo exhibitions at venues including Arkivet, Stavanger; Studio17, Stavanger; Bryne Kunstforening; Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger; and Haugesund Billedgalleri, Haugesund.
Ingrid Furre (b. 1983 in Stavanger) proposes formations in the space between language and sculpture. Her works resemble nesting, an ongoing human activity. Ingrid Furre has had solo exhibitions at Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen; Obra, Malmö; Forlaget Gestus, Copenhagen; and Dan Gunn, Berlin, among others. She has published books with Flamme Forlag, Hordaland Kunstsenter and Forlaget Gestus. She received the Aase & Richard Björklund grant from Malmö Konstmuseum in 2014 and the Edstrandska Stiftelsen grant in 2015. She was the recipient of an Iaspis Residency in Mexico City in 2015 and a six-month residency at Cité des Arts, Paris in 2018 from the Ingrid Langaard Foundation.
About Skaus
In this pilot, Skaus is shown in parallel at Rogaland Kunstsenter and on a vacant lot next to TOU. The two sites are linked through a single body, a structure in two versions, that will develop in different directions over the course of the exhibition period. Across several project phases, a series of artists and artist groups will work site-specifically, acting independently from the structures and artistic conditions that have emerged in the room (RKS) and on 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 collaborative forms and methods, ideas connected to origin, authorship and reproducibility are challenged. The project rests on the idea of continuous change and takes the form of an endless exhibition that, after this pilot, will move on to new sites and take on new forms.
Photo: Håvard Sagen