REKORD
Location: Oslo, Norway
Year founded: 2006
Address:
Nomadic
Contact details:
Tel: +4798083944 / +4795060005
Email: thora@gallerirekord.no / www.gallerirekord.no
Website: gallerirekord.no
Indicative opening times:
Varies according to project
Current staff:
Thora Dolven Balke / Eirin Støen (both founder/director/curator)
Rekord is a nomadic curatorial project for contemporary art and other artistic expressions bordering up to the visual arts such as sound, music and performance, run by artists Eirin Støen and Thora Dolven Balke.
Rekord exists to enable young artists careers, and we draw parallels to the international art scene by inviting both young and more established international artists to exhibit in Norway. Rekord works actively to promote young artists on their on conditions, towards the press and the audience, collectors and the gallery scene. It is a place for testing out experimental, situational and time-limited projects. Therefore, we include performances and music in our programme. Rekord does not wish to reduce art merely to theoretical concepts, but to confront the audience with something fragile and human, no matter if it’s real or constructed, live or framed, aesthetical or dirty, explicit or inaccessible. Together the artist-run projects in Norway have created a position where they can challenge the more established galleries and museums for the power of definition. Today these projects act as a clear and necessary counterweight to the commercial powers that set the current standard for the presentation of contemporary art.
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Showing at Trajector:
For Trajector Art Fair Rekord will present works by Terike Haapoja (FI), Thora Dolven Balke (NO), Jumana Manna (NO/IS/PS) and Eirin Støen (NO)
Rekords participation at Trajector Art Fair is a two-part installation concerning subjects such as power relations, the vulnerability and safety of a crowd, the fragility of claiming the authentic, and questions surrounding what we perceive as natural. Two-part, in the sense that the whole installation consists of two collaborations; Terike Haapoja and Eirin Støen, and Jumana Manna and Thora Dolven Balke.
Manna will show her work The Danish Gymnastics Project, a video installation based on an iconic Danish gymnastics display, invented by Niels Bukh in the 1920's. Reflections of zoo visitors on the glass wall of animal-cages, are to be seen in Haapojas video installation Cat Valley. Haapoja will also show the video work: Untitled (A Portrait).
Dolven Balkes new 4-channel sound work is a filmatic portrait of a crowd moving. Støen will show a sculpture from the series Vitrines (Arrival) and a small photograph.
Jumana Manna (born 1987) lives and works in Oslo, Norway and Jerusalem. Her latest solo exhibitions include Marianne Spore, Brooklyn, New York and Maria Veie Gallery, Oslo, Norway. Her latest Group shows include The Mediterranean Biennale of Haifa, Israel Toronto Palestinian film festival, Canada, 1001 nights/ Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA and Arte Giovani Turino video festival, Italy.
Terike Haapoja (born 1974) lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. Her latest exhibitions include solo shows at Kluuvi Gallery and Forum Box, Helsinki, and group-shows at Riga Centre for new media culture RIXC, Latvia and at the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary art.
Thora Dolven Balke (born 1982) lives and works in Oslo and the Lofoten Islands, Norway. Recent exhibitions include AntArctica, group show at Haugar Vestfold Art Museum, Biennale of Jafre in Catalonia, Spain, The 53rd Venice Biennale, The Collectors, Danish Pavillion and Lights On – Norwegian Contemporary Art at Astrup Fearnley MoMA, Oslo.
Eirin Støen (born 1974) lives and works in Nevlunghavn and Oslo, Norway. Her latest exhibitions include group shows at Haugar Vestfold Art Museum, Norway, Astrup Fearnley MoMA, Oslo and Tromsø Kunstforening, Norway. She has just received a one-month residency in Svalbard.
Rekords participation is supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway and the Norwegian Embassy in Brussels.
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