ANTENNE ANTENNE

The master's students at the Academy of Fine Art, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, present their work in a joint degree exhibition at Kunstnernes Hus. The exhibition is a conjunction of collective efforts through a radio show, a library, a self assembling publication station, a cabaret and performance programme orbited by individual contributions in the various spaces of Kunstnernes Hus.
A reason to reach out to people, to make it together and make it to share. Self-organize, without necessarily agreeing. Transmitting, making an infrastructure for relational effort.
About the exhibition
The title “Antenne Antenne” is Norwegian for both “antenna” and “spark/ignite”, giving flight to ideas of listening in, receiving a multitude of signals, and at the same time spark something; resistance, a provocation, an energetic field, a leak, a laugh. In the case of the master´s degree exhibition, it might spark or activate beginnings, ongoings and endings by self-organized effort, engaging in formats which by definition offers the group an invitation to listen in and reach out.
The collective spark invited the format of the radio station and listening space, the library, the stage, and the interactive assembly of material into publication as the core, collaborative elements of the exhibition.
The sculptural presence and performative nature of the cabaret-inspired stage extends into both the restaurant and the exhibition space. A flock of sculptural otters - reproductions of the café’s own - guide the audience through elements of the artist's individual practices, sometimes in fragments, sometimes dialogue with the house, sometimes as entire works of art. These reside within and around the collective structures, in the spaces between them, and throughout the large exhibition hall on the lower floor of Kunstnernes Hus.
Pakkerommet hosts the radio- and listening station, the stage commutes between the restaurant and the exhibition space, both hosting programmed events throughout the exhibition period. Located in the corridor there is a self-assembling publication station. Here, visitors can compile their own edition of the publication, consisting of a fixed cover filled with materials that change in response to the exhibition's evolving programme.
The exhibition extends across the café and terrace, the reception area, the lower gallery, the Academy Room, the basement toilets, Pakkerommet, and the corridors.
Artists
Camilla Bahnsen
Julie Barfod
Catriona Grace Beckett
Joanna Helen P. Blanckaert
Zida Bruun
Alice Darby
Lone Sigmond Eivindsdottir
Franciska Eliassen
Aljoša Eraković
Anders Hagen
Moa Hjärtström
Matias Kiil
Lukas Sødahl Moland
Anna Näumann
Manos Saklas
Gloriya Talebi
Carla Wedderkopp
Yanina Zaichanka
Credits
ANTENNE ANTENNE is curated by Liv Bugge and Miki Gebrelul.
The exhibition is organized and produced in collaboration between the Academy of Fine Art at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and Kunstnernes Hus. Head technician is Sara-Lovise Ask Ewertson.











