Gunnhild Torgersen: "Purposeful and Desolate Landscapes"

Name: Gunnhild Torgersen: "Purposeful and Desolate Landscapes"
Start: 2024-11-11T10:00:00+01:00
Location: Fakultet for kunst, musikk og design, UiB

Schedule

Mon Nov 11 2024 at 10:00 am

UTC+01:00

Location

Fakultet for kunst, musikk og design, UiB | Bergen, HO

Monday Lectures at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen is pleased to invite you all to the public lecture “Purposeful and desolate landscaes” by artist Gunnhild Torgersen.
This lecture is presented in collaboration with KRAFT, where Torgersen is presenting an exhibition from November 15 – January 12. Gunnhild Torgersen’s exhibition at KRAFT is part of a larger sculptural project revolving around site-specific research, sediments, and life forms both past and future.
The exhibition includes the sculpture series “Agents”, that has grown out of clay, collected from the salt marshes of the Dutch Waddenzee. Its large funnel-shaped capsids retain their experience of the tides and of the landscape. The abstract forms appear simultaneously inert and in anticipation, suggesting directions and potential motion. Torgersen has collaborated with a biologist to explore the no man’s land between inanimate matter and life – how did purpose emerge from, and in, the mud?
In the Monday Lecture, Torgersen will talk about her exhibition and her working methods, including the physical experience of a site; bringing the landscape into the studio; and the combination of intuitive work, research, and process.
Gunnhild Torgersen lives in Oslo and graduated from the Malmö Art Academy in 2011. A variation of the series “Agents” was recently shown in Krognoshuset in Lund. Other recent exhibitions include Hå Gamle Prestegard, Röstånga Konsthall, Norsk Billedhoggerforening (Oslo), Vermillion Sands (Copenhagen), Møre og Romsdal Kunstsenter (Molde) and Noplace (Oslo). She is part of the studio collective CK2 in Oslo and is on the board of the Norwegian Sculptural Society.
The lecture is held at Knut Knaus Auditorium, Møllendalsveien 61. The location has step free access. The lecture is held in English and is free and open to all.
Monday Lectures is a public platform combining invited guest lecturers and professors and researchers of the faculty at KMD. Monday Lectures aim to create a diverse programme of lectures exploring a wide range of disciplines and research topics. Lectures typically take place on Mondays at the Knut Knaus Auditorium and are free and open to all.
Photo credits: Gunnhild Torgersen