Survey Exhibition #1
1.- 9. October 2022
Vernissage, 1. October 2022, 6pm.
Small Projects presents the first of a series of exhibitions focusing on artists based in Tromsø. This exhibition series aim to do a comprehensive look at the visual artists living and working in Tromsø, and curate exhibitions based on specific themes and ways of working. This exhibition, which is titled "Elemental" will feature the works of artists Anne Lindgaard Møller, Eva Faché, Ina Otzko, Lawrence Malstaf, Martin Eilertsen, Robert Julian B. Hvistendahl, Tanya Busse and Trond Ansten.
Anne Lindgaard Møller was born in 1991 in Mørke, Denmark and studied at the Tromsø Art Academy. Her works are often site-responsive and take their point of departure in the materiality and/or history of specific places. Process and transformation are important elements in her practice as well as language and storytelling. The shaping of her works is context-based and manifests in installations composed of photographs, sculptures, text and moving images.
Eva Faché was born in 1994 in Gent, Belgium. She studied at the NARAFI School of photography in Brussels and received her MA degree in photography from the Conservatory of Art KASK, Ghent. Eva’s personal work is grounded on the curiosity to understand the world around us. Often taking interest in communities and practices that are often controversial or misunderstood, such as the underprivileged in Belgium and bull fighters in Portugal. She lives and works between Tromsø and Ghent.
Ina Otzko (b. 1972, Sandnessjøen) is a visual artist based in Northern Norway and Italy. Her work revolves around questions of connections, communication and belonging - visible and invisible. Through a deep listening approach she explores time, space and consciousness. How our individual and collective energy exchange affect our choices, bringing/creating changes in how we perceive and relate to ourselves, others, our surroundings. Her artistic production manifests through various media including photography, video, sound, sculpture and poetic stories.
Lawrence Malstaf was born in Belgium in 1972. His work is situated on the borderline between the visual and the
theatrical. He develops installation and performance art with a strong focus on motion and coincidence. He
creates immersive sensorial rooms for individual visitors and also larger mobile structures dealing with
space and orientation. Living objects, kinetic architecture and physical interaction are characteristic for his
installations. His responsive environments generate theatrical situations involving the
visitor as an essential presence and co-actor in their dramaturgy. In a complex play with unstable order,
chance and change his machines display emotion, doubt and other human qualities.
Martin Eilertsen was born in Tromsø in 1955. In the period between 1980 to 2018, he worked as a painter in the theater, helping to make props and set designs, while also having a practice in photography. In 2019, he started painting as a freelance artist full time on focused his attention on his studio practice.
Robert Julian B. Hvistendahl is a mixed media artist who works primarily with wood, sculpture
and kinesis. His work seeks to explore the human relation at a political, social and emotional level,
through multi-dimensional objects (both visible and theoretical) and how we perceive them, and by
creating complex moments of material tension. This tension allows the pre-existing qualities of
materials to work with or against each other, holding themselves in stasis, transforming explosively
or degrading imperceptibly.
Tanya Busse (b. 1982, Moncton, New Brunswick, currently lives in Tromsø, Norway) is a visual artist working across the mediums of moving-image, sculpture and printed matter. Her interest lies in deep-time, invisible architecture, and how power is articulated through material relationships and histories of place. She is also the director of Mondo Books, an independent book platform that publishes and distributes printed materials across the circumpolar north.
Trond Ansten works in a symbiosis of biology, cultural traditions and social aspects. He studied at the Academy of Arts in Karlsruhe (Germany) and is now based in Tromsø. With a background in nature management and a strong passion for hunting, fishing and gathering, his work focuses on the relationship between man and nature. His artistic practice balances between the symbolic and the relational in the transformation of organic material. He was awarded the Norwegian Artists' Grant for younger artists in 2019 and has exhibited at LIAF and the Tokyo Museum of Photography, among others.
This project is organized and curated by artist Jet Pascua, and is generously supported by the Norske Reindriftsamers Landsforbund.