Open Studio of Iryna Vorona and Pavlo Baltaziuk

Welcome to the Open Studio

presenting:

Iryna Vorona and Pavlo Baltaziuk – Ukraine based mixed media artists.

Irina and Pavlo have stayed 1 month at KHMessen. During this working period they have dived totally into the norwegian way of living, meaning; working hard, hiking, fishing, enjoying the sunset and capturing nature through there selfmade television screen.

The results of their stay will be shown : Thursday 11th januari, 19:30 hrs.

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Iryna Vorona Installation
“Silence of light” shows essence of human being as unique and perfect spirit connected to nature.
Analyzing of time motion through combination of material and light, and feelings with light. All parts interact each other by changing own material being, and it’s continuous live process, an integral part of which is human.  47 emotionally psychological portraits with intuitively-symbolical way of expression, organic compound of people with environment.
Along with light we can perceive motion of time inside each part of little life fragment. All our feelings, mental, social and emotional experiences are connected with time. It’s not a physical value. It is an experience, unique adventure of our lives.
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Conjointly made project:
#Ålviktv – Specific fiction of fleeting moment, state of soul – something unbelievable and escaping, just a moment in time, that is placed into the memory, like invisible thread connecting your soul with nature
….what you are is what you see…
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Pavlo Baltaziuk project – “ Ålvik, Hardangerfjord” – soul of nature. Research of local environment in order to depict the most important specifics. Diversity and beauty of nature states using oil paint and hand pressing technique.

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Happy New Year !!

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Alt Går Bra

Alt gar bra

Hvor ofte har du muligheten til å snakke om ditt drømme-samfunn?
Måten samfunnet er organisert på avgjør alle aspekter av livet ditt: kvaliteten på helseomsorg, utdanning, offentlig transport og boligsituasjon. Andre viktige avgjørelser bestemmer hvordan samfunnet organiseres og drives, som for eksempel utviklingen av bærekraftige måter å leve på som tar i betraktning naturvern og beslutninger om hvordan vi håndterer vold, krig og fred, for å nevne noe.

Kunstnergruppen Alt Går Bra vil gjerne høre om dine drømmer, for prosjektet Den norske idealstaten.
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vil være på Kabuso tirsdag 5., fredag 8. og lørdag 9. desember for å utføre en spørreundersøkelse med Øysteses innbyggere.
Kunstnergruppen vil presentere prosjektet i Kabuso tirsdag 5.desember kl. 12.00. Alt Går Bra vil deretter være tilgjengelig på Kabuso for å gjennomføre én til én spørreundersøkelser hvor du vil få anledning til å fritt uttrykke dine ideer om din personlige idealstat.

Én til én spørreundersøkelser i kaféen, Kabuso :
tirsdag 5. desember 12.30 – 15.00
fredag 8. desember 11.00 – 15.00
lørdag 9. desember 11.00 – 16.00

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Selected artists for 2018

We like to congratulate the artists for being selected for a residency at KHMessen in 2018! We are looking forward to meet you !

  • Philipp Bünger (Germany)
  • Juliette Romboti (Greece)
  • Filipa Pontes (Portugal)
  • Graham Murtough (USA)
  • Seirin Hyung (UK / South Korea)
  • Zsófia Jakab (Hungary / UK)
  • Carla Souto / Álvaro Giménez Ibáñez (Spain)
  • James Cross (UK)
  • Gabrielle Pare (Canada)
  • Bart Nijboer (The Netherlands)
  • Anna Hill (USA)
  • Sibylle Eimermacher (Germany/The Netherlands)
  • Kristoffer Axén (Sweden)
  • Maja Ingerslev (Danmark)
  • Tammy Salzl (Canada)
  • Cheryl Leonard (USA)
  • Eléonore Scardoni (France / Belgium)
  • Gabriel Kaprielian / Jennifer Chen-su Huang (USA)
  • Rebecca Haseltine (USA)
  • Amy Dynan (Australia)
  • Teresa Reeves (USA)
  • Fei Li (China / USA)
  • Jean-Michel Crapanzano (The Netherlands)
  • Sylvia Waltering (Germany / UK)
  • Raquel Algaba (Spain)
  • Hellen Abma (The Netherlands)
  • Donna Glee Williams (USA)
  • Ingrid Pasmans (The Netherlands)
  • Neal Cahoon (Ireland / UK)
  • Caroline Ligthart (The Netherlands)
  • Zane Tuča (Latvia)
  • Agnieszka Gotowała (Poland)
  • Nicoletta Favari / Christopher Salvito (Italia / USA)
  • Vibeke Rønsbo (Danmark)
  • Laurie Lambrecht (USA)
  • Yukari Kaihori (Japan / New Zealand)
  • Hui Serene (HongKong)
  • Cecilia Hultman (Sweden)
  • Samantha Morris (USA)
  • Maxim Kuphal-Potapenko (Germany)

 

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Open Studio October

Welcome to a new Open Studio on friday 27. oct. 19:15 – 21:00

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Successful Open Studio

Thank you very much every one that visited the Open Studio last wednesday! We were happy with the well-attended evening. We also like to thank the participating artists for showing their exciting works!

Thank you Ross for you lovely poetry reading, Maia for showing your personal art works, Anastasia for your mundfull performance and videoworks, Sam for interesting view on architecture, Sunniva for your exciting illustrations and Karla for your lovely cutout works and Chris, for your great photos of Ålvik!

 

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Ross Donlon reading together with Bjørn Otto Wallevik, from his book Sjøvegen.

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Ross Donlon reading his poems.

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Works from the studio of Maja Skjøth Hegelund

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Anastasia Savinova at het studio showing her videoworks.

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Performance of Anastasia Savinova.

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Sam van Strien talking about his work at his studio.

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Sunniva Krogseth´s colorfull illustrations at her studio.

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Karla Caprali showing her cutouts.

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One of the Ålvik photograps, of Chris Aadland, that he showed at the Open Studio.

Open Studio September

Welcome to the Open Studio in September !

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Open Studio August

Thank you all for a very inspiring Open Studio this August!

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At Ivana Tkalcic studio, watching her new video works, made here during her residency at Messen. (Photos Christian Santana Prinz)

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At the studio of Cristina Megia Fernandez.

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(Photo Christian Santana Prinz)

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Messen inspires…

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The sketchwall in studio of Cristina Megia Fernandez.

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At Asumi Hayashi studio.

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Asumi´s mezzotint print demonstration.

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Asumi Hayashi´s work.

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Anna B. Hursh explaining her collaboration with Christian Santana Prinz at their studio.

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Ana B. Bursh and Christian Santana Prinz collaboration.

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Ross Donlon is reading his poems of Ålvik together with Kristin, who worked on the Sjøvegen book project together with Ross.

Open Studio

Welcome to the Open Studio at 24. August 2017, at 19:00 hrs.

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Workshops at KHMessen

Like every year just before the summer holidays, pupils from the local ungdomsskule (secondary school) are visiting KHMessen.
Hans Pulles organizes these events every year, together with the artists that are staying in Messen at that time, and who want to be part. We make a full program starting with a studio tour, where we visit all the studio´s from the artists in Messen. There is a reading about Messen and about what creativity means. And after a short break there are workshops, given by the artists.

This year the workshops were about complex form finding with soap and curved folding exploration with paper. These workshops have as goal to expand the pupils idea of creativity, the function of creativity and of being an artist or designer. And of course to show that it´t FUN !

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Marika Kaipainen is showing her community art project through a powerpoint presentation, and demonstrates a clay workshop where the pupils have to clay a face blindfolded (not allowed to watch). They have to trust their hands as being their eyes.

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Saurav Roy Chowdury shows his bronze works at his studio.

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Despina Nissiriou is showing her creative process at het studio.

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After seeing an introduction video about the company Robofold. The folding workshop started, lead by Hans Pulles and Marika Kaipainen. Making a 3D form by folding paper with simpel household tools like plates and knitting needles. Starting with simpel forms, ending with complex forms.

 

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After seeing the introduction video of the architect Otto Frei and Zaha Hadid, the pupils discovered complex forms by using soap. Bending aluminium threads into soap holders, and then explore and play. The workshop was lead by Despina Nissiriou and Saurav Roy Chowdury.

 

These workshops are financial supported by NORSK KULTURRÅD and SPAREBANKSTIFTINGA HARDANGER.