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The Great Indoors

MFA Graduation Show 2021
07.04.21 – 25.04.21
PROMOBILDE Avgangsutstillingen 2021

This year’s graduation exhibition is unusual and the result of circumstances accentuated by the current pandemic. The Great Indoors is not an exhibition, but a group of artists exploring what artistic thinking, artistic making and an artistic institution can be in these times.

The 15 graduating artists of KHiO’s MFA programme will act as a collective in residency from the moment they arrive at Kunstnernes Hus on April 7th. Some moments and situations from The Great Indoors will spontaneously be shared on virtual platforms.

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About the exhibition

This year’s graduating MFA students are approaching the yearly final exhibition at Kunstnernes Hus by developing a collaborative project called The Great Indoors. The project will use the sense of home as shaped by the ongoing pandemic as main operative notion, and will seek ways to understand it and heal it. Visit the project's website: thegreatindoors.ooo.

The home, that place where we’re supposed to take shelter but that lately also feels like a prison. The home of extreme solitude and extreme connectedness, of multitasking, where your top half wears a dress shirt for the meeting and your lower half spends the day in pyjamas. Where family is a chair-swivel away from work, where intimacy appears behind a makeshift curtain, where the public space is shaped as an invisible cone of intrusion shooting from a laptop camera to a carefully chosen piece of presentable wall behind you. Maybe today another landscape will hide the mess: hello from the beach! hello from the sunset! hello from the confines of the milky way!

The Great Indoors seeks to take the home, in all of these coexisting complications, and move it into another house, the house of the artists, Kunstnernes Hus. Here the artists will enact makings, rituals and gestures in search of ways to heal. The Great Indoors will be a house that is correspondingly not tidily separated by rooms but by attitudes, moments and needs. As such, this will be a space primarily for its inhabitants in their capacity as artists: a residency, an artist residency. The artists will inhabit the space during the institution’s accessible hours and interact with each other by talking and discussing, taking on practical experiments, developing collective rituals, and building for future activities. The group will meet everyday for breakfast and sum-up everyday at dinner.

The public face of The Great Indoors will take the shape of daily broadcasts, postings, and if possible, on-site interactions with the public. As a way to align with the world in ways that are not just digital, each day of the residency will be activated under the theme of an international day celebration corresponding with the days of the residency (between April 6 and April 27): Bicycle Day, World Voice Day, Earth Day, Fashion Revolution Day, and so on.

There will also be two main instances of collaboration outside the graduating group itself: The door to the workspaces in the “back” of the building will be open, and interaction with the FKDS residents will be pursued. Also the group will work towards an outdoor event to take place during the BFA exhibition in St. Olavsgate during May.

Pedro Gómez-Egaña

Artists

Rickard Aall, Alex Achtem­, Ingrid K. Bjørnaali, Jinbin Chen, Mari Eriksen, Hedda Hørran, Jaan-Yuan Kuo, Jørgen Herleiksplass Lie, Montserrat Llampallas, Eirik Melstrøm, Mehregan Meysami, Øyvind Novak Jenssen, Kier Cooke Sandvik, Elina Waage Mikalsen and Shuk Pui Bobby Yu.

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