Vestlandsutstillingen 2011
Kunstmuseet KUBE, Sunnfjord Kunstlag, Kunsthuset Kabuso, Haugesund Kunstforening, Stavanger Kunstforening, Norway
Jan.-June 2011

The raft was built in stavanger, launched to the sea and sailed to the island Sør-Hidle where it stranded.
Afterwards it was dragged back to Stavanger and installed outside Stavanger kunstforening as part of the collective exhibition Vestlandsutstillingen 2011.

Untitled (WP #7)
Acrylic on wall, 3×5 m
2011

Cluster II (Black Ghost)
Textile – torn, washed in washing machine, dried in tumbledryer, 2,5×0,8×0,8 m
2011

Bunch (Towards Something)
Stacked paper with the text Towards Something, 30x30x20 cm
2010

Untitled (WP # 6)
Acrylic on wall, 3 x 3 m
2010

XYZ (Seed)
Wood, glue, 8x 15 x 15 cm
2010

Norwegian Asphalt (Sandnes)
Piece of asphalt from performance in Sandnes, Norway
2010

Ground
Performance and temporal site specific installation, 1 x 1,5 x 2 m, Sandnes center
A hole made through the asphalt floor, wooden structure.

Untitled (WP #5, Sandnes)
Acrylic on wall, temporal, 3 x 3 m
In an alley, Sandnes center

An Island
Mdf, cardboard, filler, lacquer
Model of Karlsøya,1 : 5900

Cluster (Down)
Textile, ca. 2×2 m, 2008

Interview (Svein-Egil Haugen)
Video, 60 min, 2010

Interview (Berit M. Paulsen)
Video, 55 min, 2010

Interview (Stein J. Ellysef Olsen)
Video, 60 min, 2010

New Beginning (Karlsøya)
Glass jar, earth from Karlsøya, water, 2010

Bunch (Towards Something)
Stacked publication, Towards Something, drawing and text, 2010

Medallion (Tabula Rasa)
Sanded 10 norwegian crown coin, metal chain, 2007

XYZ (Up) II
Wood, glue, 30x30x30 cm, 2010

Mythos
Print, reworked photo from Karlsøya community in the 1970s, 2010

Untitled (WP #6)
Acrylic on wall, 3×3 m, Towards Something, 2010
Artconnexion, Lille, France

Untitled (WP #5, Sandnes)
Acrylic on wall in alley, Sandnes, 3×3 m, 2010
Vitamin Sandnes, Sandnes, Norway

Untitled (WP #4)
Acrylic on wall, ca. 3×6 m, Entrance 09, 2009
Rogaland Art Center, Stavanger

Untitled (WP #3)
Acrylic on wall, ca. 5×5 m, Reconfigure, 2008
The Drawing Room, London

Untitled (WP #2)
Acrylic on wall, ca. 3×6 m, Master exhibition, 2008
Stenersenmuseet, Oslo

Untitled (WP #1) Acrylic on wall and floor, ca. 3×6 m, What Is This, 2003
Gallery 21:25, Oslo 2003

XYZ 2
Wood, glue, ca. 75x45x55 cm
Entrance 09, Rogaland Art Center, Stavanger 2009

XYZ 1
Wood, glue, ca. 30x35x30 cm, 2008

CLUSTER
Textile, ca. 200x80x80 cm, 2008

THE WORLD (A LOVE STORY)
Computer generated animation, 12:30 min, 2006

This (Here We Are. Actually)
Pencil on wall, corner, ca. 2,5 x 3,5 x 3,5 m
Gallery Blunk, Trondheim 2006

Something
Pencil on paper, six papers á 1,5 x 2 m
Stavanger kunstforening, Stavanger 2006

About:
I was going to have an exhibition in the student gallery 21:25 in Oslo. I wanted to show many different ideas I had, installations etc. But when it came close to the exhibition date, it all felt meaningless. I had been feeling this since I started at the art academy in Oslo. Everything floating around, without any fixed points. The feeling of insecurity and troubled mind culminated at this point in time also because of the stress I experienced in front of the task of making a public show. I had two choices: Either to go on as planned, neglecting the burden of meaninglessness, or I could take this problem seriously and find a solution. I chose the last option. I quit the old plan. I tried to find a way to work with the problem at hand. Through a reduction process I got the idea of stripping the gallery room and going into a work process of making dots on one of the walls. I saw the dot as the simplest sign and wanted to be inside a process where i could feel very directly a switching between meaning and meaninglessness, the switching between the dots received as singular elements and received as a whole. The four days I had for preparing the exhibition I made dots on the innermost wall of the room.

I remember going to the gallery in the morning on the first day to start working. It felt very special. Sitting in the subway train I listen to Mozart or some other classical music on my md-player. Somewhere in the world a big accident had happened that day. I heard it on the news or saw it in the news paper earlier. Many people had died. People in the train was looking tired and not so satisfied with their lives. Still it was a strong feeling of something like: “This is the world and we are alive”. It felt both very sad and very beautiful at the same time. I were both smiling and almost crying.

I came into the empy white room. I looked at the empty wall for a bit and then started to make dots with my pencil on it, starting in the middle. It was so beutiful to do something that simple. I tried just to be in the process. Not to think too much about the result, to work randomly. But offcourse that´s not easy to do. Your mind interfers all the time and wants to decide how the work is developing. If it felt meaningful or not changed all the time, as it in general does, both in life and art. It became for me a research and meditation on time, life and meaning, and made a change in how I think about and work with art. I felt like finding some solid ground to build on. I was excited to feel like being on a road that actually had a direction. Not knowing the path in detail or what would happen further on, but just knowing this was (really) something.

After this the work with dots continued into other projects, like This (Here We Are. Actually) and Something.

I regard Nothing and All as my artistic fundament.