Margrethe Aanestad
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Sunday, February 21, 2016
11:00am
Join us as Margrethe Aanestad, co-founder of Prosjektrom Normanns, discusses her work and the current exhibit at Open Source, Transcendental Tactility. This is a free event and bagels and coffee will be served.
Margrethe Aanestad (b. Stavanger, Norway 1974) is based in Stavanger, Norway and Brooklyn, NY. Thematically her work is about form, spatiality and materiality, which she explores in an contemplative, abstract and minimalistic language through sculpture, installation and two-dimensional formats. The materials used in the three-dimensional work are normally found objects. For exhibitions she works site-specific, working with with the features of the room, atmosphere and light conditions, in a dialogue with the space. Aanestad has education background from primarily fine arts, but also graphic design, art history, cultural development and curating.
Recent solo exhibitions include Locus Mien at Torrance Shipman Gallery, New York, NY, solo, Curated by Meaghan Kent/Site95; Hither/Thereat at Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL (2015); Herein at Open Source Gallery, New York (2013). Selected group and duo exhibitions; We all have good taste – Miami at Tub gallery, Miami, FL, curated by Alexis Callado Estefania (2015); ee/aa at Another Space, Copenhagen, duo with Eugenio Espinoza (USA) (2014); Quattro at Interno4, Bologna, Italy (2013); Utopia at Galería Des Pacio de la Cruz, San Jose, Costa Rica, curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud (2013); The Meeting on ISCP, New York, curated by Nick Kline (USA) and Monika Wuhrer (USA) (2012); The 124. Annual National Art Exhibition in Norway, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway (2011). She has participated at UNTITLED Art Fair, Miami, FL, with Prosjektrom Normanns, Norway (2015/2014/2012).
Aanestad is co-founder and co-curator of the artist run space Prosjektrom Normanns in Stavanger and is co-founder and –owner of the co-working space Erfjorgata 8 in Stavanger. She also is currently the Advisory Board of Kunsthall Stavanger.
