Høstutstillingen 2014

Once a year, since 1882, there´s this  huge group exhibition in Norway, called Høstutstillingen. And this year they picked out my first Black Metal texstile, "Solve Coagula nr.1" to enter the 127 edition of the exhibition.

In total, there was 82 artist represented this year at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, and it all turned out pretty great! 

I joined a guided tour around the exhibition to learn more about the other artists, and it was really REALLY strange when they came to my work and started to talk about it! I was standing right in front of the guide when she was talking, but nobody knew I was the artist, hehe. Stange, but cool.

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(picture is a still from the video "True Norwegian Action", 2012, by Grete Johanne Neseblod)

I was´nt the only person at this years exhibition who worked with Black Metal  as a theme.

Grete Johanne Neseblod showed a video work of a performance. She is an a white room, covered whit spikes and corpsepaint, headbanging  and moving around with a lot of black paint in her hear. Great!

Black Metal in contemporary art is on the rise! 

THIS is so AWESOME!!! The Nordenfjelske Kunstindustrimuseum is a big museum located in Trondheim, and they decided to by Solve Coagula nr.1!!!  Guess who got exited when receiving those news!!! 

It´s now all over, the last day was October the 12th.

Høst + Høst

Ölright!

The fall is finally here!!! And a lot of interesting things are happening! 

The festival Høstsabbat is soon here, so is the opening of Høstutstillingen! This year one of my works is going to be exhibited there, alongside 81 other artists. So exited! 

First of all, I´m just going to give a short update on what I have been doing this extremely hot summer.

I´ve been working at the sculpture park at Ekeberg, which was fantastic! Too bad my contract ended in August, so now I´m finished up there. But I still have my job at the Exotic Zoo pet shop :)

On my freedays I´ve been resting or fishing, or doing small projects for festivals and some bands.

Most important, I am now finished with my Bachelor in Fine Art at the Art Academy in Oslo!!!!

Here are some pictures of my part of the degree show. 

Finally finished installing everything! 

The newest work, Solve Coagula nr.3

The tekst are taken from comments I have been collecting over some years now. I have a huge folder, only with comments about females in Black Metal or similar. These are the most stereotypical once. 

I also showed 30 drawings this is from the series "Party Time For Demons"

And, then, my first festival poster!

This weekend it is time for the second edition of the magnificent festival HØSTSABBAT!!! 

And another poster for South of Heaven! They always book great bands to Oslo! Behold! 

Besides working all day and all night, there is always room for some great fun and good times!

Some News

Aaaaaah, the winter is soon over and it is time to start living again! 

I have been horribly bad at updating my blog this year, but I will try to be a bit more active during the lighter days coming ahead. 

First of all, I have gotten new jobs... I´ve started to work at a very nice pet shop and also at Ekebergparken, a outdoors sculpture park in Oslo. I am very very happy about this! 

At the Art Academy I have been working with my Bachelor thesis, application for the master studies in Fine Art and small side projects. But  now the most important thing is to work agains my graduate show, which will find place in the end of May.

...One of the side projects is a drawing collaboration with my good friend Alida. 

What it is and what it will be I will reveal later, when the time is right. But one thing is sure, I very exited about this! 

..Been doing some drawing for the excellent festival Høstsabbat!!! I was there last year and it was great as HELL!!!!!! So if you have the chance, don´t miss out on this years festival. So far the bands that are announced are Valhall, Saturnalia Temple, The Chronicles of Father Robin, Vidunder, Årabrot, SUMA, Beglomeg, Hombre Malo.

I did their logo last year also. I usually don´t do logos...but sometimes I just have to say yes:)

Vidar being DJ at Kniven:)

....And, of course I´ve been spending a lot of time (and money) at Kniven. It´s starting to feel like my third home or something. But what can you do, when there is so many cool people there, great DJs with loads of interesting underground music and a quiz every other tuesday. Usually it is the guys, Vidar & Jo, from my favorite metal radio show Overkill who are the quizmasters. You should join next time if you can! 

Process of an Black Metal Exhibition

Here is some pictures taken during the process of making the exhibition "When Listening To Black Metal Every Day" I have used ridiculous long time on this project, even though it might not seem so, since I ONLY had eight works in the gallery space.  

Wish I had time to make more drawings though! 

But damn, it is WAY much more stressful to make an exhibition all alone than I expected, at a point I even got blind on one eye for some minutes, the day before the opening...

If you want to see more pictures from the exhibition, visit my other blog!!! 

Made almost everything my hand, even though I have an sewing mash in in my studio. It just does not look the same. 

First time in many years I tried this. Total destruction of the t-shirts! Moahaha 

Starting to look like a total mess! 

Some finished works....

From the exhibition, right before people started to turn up. 

Thanks to those who came! And those who helped! 

And many thanks to my friends, just because you´re awesome! 

When Listening To Black Metal Every Day

Next week I´ll have an exhibition in one of the galleries at my school, Oslo National Academy of the Arts. 

Titeled:

Å Høyra på Svart Metal Kvar Dag / When Listeing To Black Metal Every Day.

Opening is on Thursday 7th of November, at 19.00.

Hope some might have the time to visit! 

Link to Facebook event: When Listening to Black Metal Every Day

Bunker II 2013

First years Bunker festival in Oslo was a blast!

 This years Bunker festival was absolutely brutally great! 

I just want to share some of the bands I saw. 

I did´nt take picture of all the bands, only the best. 

So many great memories, so ridiculous many great persons at under one roof! 

Thanks for everything!

First out on thursday, the youngest band on the festival, Norwegian Condor from Koldbotn! Seen them many times, they never disappoint, always thrashing heavier than hell! 

Second out on thursday INFERNÔ!!!!!

BEST band out this day! 

ALCOHOLOCAAAAAUUUST!!!! 

Friday!

Friday started out with Schizo from Italy. Brutal! Great gig!

Heavely headbanging going on at this point! Third time I see them live! Always a blast!

NettleCarrier for the first time ever in history! Damn! 

NettleCarrier and Djevel, all in one performance! Erlend is a fantastic front man in this situation! 

Djevel/ NettleCarrier

And now... all behold.. URFAUST! From Netherland. One of my absolute favorite bands! 

I saw them once in Bergen in 2010. An unforgettable gig! So was this! I dont have words, it was sublime....

The whole Urfaust gig felt kinda like this. 

Just looking at the pictures gives me chills down my spine.

Urfaust, Oslo Ritual 2013, what a memory.

Headliner for Friday was the Norwegian band Isvind, did´nt hear about it before it showed up in the Bunker line-up. Great concert! 

I had a lot of freinds from all over the world coming visiting Oslo this very weekend. I took them with me to visit the new location for Neseblod Records. It´s where Helvete used to be. I´m very happy about that this record store finally got some bigger place.... but I feel it is still not big enough! They have so much stuff!

Khold, Norwegian band. Have´nt seen them since I was 15 years old! Pretty cool to see them again! 

Horna from Finland! YOU FUCKING STINK! Stinky stinky stinky stinker! 

For those who was not there, Hornas clothes was smelling so bad, because of rotten blood and what not. It smelled like rotten fish and puke and death and horror and hell! 

But the concert was great! Great great Black Metal! ..But the smell, the Smeeeeeell!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!NEGATIVE PLANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!    N-E-G-A-T-I-V-E    P-L-A-N-E   !!!

I love this band!

Death, Thrash, Hell, Aaaaaaaargh!

Aura Noir from Koldbotn played an extra long gig this evening! Ending the whole Bunker Festival for this year. I never get tired of seeing these live! Never ever and I have seen them quite a lot now. 

I am all in all extremely satisfyed with the whole festival! Oh yeah! Thanks to all those who made it into a fantastic weekend!