Tromsø Kunstforening
Tromsø Kunstforening / Romssa Dáiddasiida er den eldste kunstinstitusjonen i Nord-Norge og fortsatt et sentralt visningssted for samtidskunst i regionen. Vi legger vekt på å presentere et program som omfatter og kombinerer internasjonalt etablerte kunstnere, yngre kunstnere og utstillinger med en forankring spesielt i vår egen region. Foreningen eies av våre medlemmer, og enhver kan bli medlem i foreningen.
Tromsø Kunstforening is the oldest art institution in Northern Norway and is still a vital space for contemporary art in the region. Our program includes and combines internationally recognised and less established artists, with special attention to projects that are rooted in the region. We are organised as an association where anyone can become a member and take part in owning the association.
Tromsø Kunstforenings hjem i Muségata 2 skal renoveres og i den forbindelse har vi flyttet inn i midlertidige lokaler i Hvilhaug sykehjem på Mellomvegen 82 for en periode på ett og et halvt år.
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MBKP åpner TKF på Hvilhaug
Utstillingen står til og med 17. Desember
Åpningstider onsdag - søndag kl 12 - 17
Alltid gratis inngang og gratis kaffe og te
Materialbanken for Kreative Prosjekter er et kunst- og formidlingsprosjekt som samler og distribuerer brukte materialer i bytte mot folks historier om materialene. Utstillingen tar form av en installasjon som endres i takt med materialene som går inn og ut. Historiene presenteres i et voksende arkiv.
Materialbanken har også utformet og tilpasset sykehjemslokalene til Tromsø Kunstforenings bruk ved hjelp av sine gjenbruksmetoder.
Prosjektet drives av Amalie Holthen og Robert Julian B. Hvistendahl, og med seg har de invitert kunstnerne Fredrik Einevoll, Anna Naümann, Mihaly Stefanovicz og Ruth Alexandra Aitken til å lage kunst basert på innholdet i materialbanken.
Materialbanken for Kreative Prosjekter er en positiv, pragmatisk og oppfinnsom respons på vår tids store utfordring med overforbruk og klimakrise. Historiene til materialene i omløp formidles gjennom et arkiv, og bidrar til å utfordre våre forutinntatte forventninger til hva et materiale er og hva det kan brukes til.
Gjennom utstillingsperioden kan du hente ut og donere materialer - med andre ord blir dette en utstilling i kontinuerlig forandring.
Prosjektet er støttet av Kulturrådet, Tromsø Kommune, Kunstsentrene i Norge og Failure, Understanding, Care (& Kunst)
MBKP opens TKF at Hvilhaug
The exhibition is open till December 17
Opening hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 12 - 5pm
Admission is always free and we have free coffee and tea
Materialbanken for Kreative Prosjekter (MBKP) is an art project that collects and distributes used materials in exchange for people’s stories about the materials. The exhibition takes the form of an ever-changing installation, shifting shape as materials come and go. The collected stories are presented in a growing archive.
In addition to creating the opening exhibition, MBKP has shaped and adapted the old nursing home premises to Tromsø Kunstforening’s needs with their methods of reuse.
MBKP is run by Amalie Holthen and Robert Julian B. Hvistendahl who have invited Ruth & Alexander, Fredrik Einevoll, Anna Näumann and Mihaly Stefanovicz to create artistic responses to the content of the Material Bank.
MBKP is a positive, pragmatic and inventive response to the major problems of our time, challenging our preconceived expectations to what materials are and what they can be used for.
[ KINOBOX ] x TKF: CARE
Havneterminalen at Prostneset
Artists' Film International: Sena Başöz and Kiri Dalena
17.11 - 15.12 07:00–00:00
In 2021, after lockdowns were becoming the norm, the AFI network selected care as its theme. As the virus rippled out across the globe, the importance of care in all of its facets became tangible, a social and environmental necessity visible at the infrastructural, economic, personal and physiological levels. At our present moment, we see care being exhibited at the most difficult times, as acts of resistance, as solidarity.
Artists’ Film International is a partnership of 18 international art organisations that celebrates moving-image. Every year, each institution selects a film from an artist connected to their region, based on a collectively agreed theme.
We will show 3 different selections of films consecutively at Kinobox until 12.01.2024. A fourth selection will screen at TKF: Hvilhaug 25.11-17.12. The screening of these programmes tie into TKF’s recent move to the former Hvilhaug Sykehjem (care home) where we will focus on care and the community.
KINOBOX is a drop-in cinema kiosk, currently based in Havneterminalen/Prostneset. It screens a broad range of works and artistic approaches, selected with consideration for their material, political and aesthetic sensibilities, but central to the cinema is a belief in the importance of artists moving-image to question how we consume and are consumed by our media landscape. Entrance is free, and films can be watched as you wait.
The Box, Sena Başöz, 2020, 5 mins (selected by Istanbul Modern))
Başöz explores gestures of care and compassion in The Box as hands gently stroke a woman’s hair revealing symbolic objects hidden in her locks. Hair is dead tissue extending from our living body, so it acts as a space in-between life and death just like soil. In the video, the hair becomes an uncanny, liminal landscape.
Mag-uuma (Farmer), Kiri Dalena, 2014, 2 mins (selected by MCAD Manilla)
Mag-uuma (Farmer) features a young female dissenter from Mindanao whose performance during a peasant demonstration caught the attention of filmmaker and visual artist Kiri Dalena. After agreeing to document the song she sang during the rally, Dalena filmed the young woman in the middle of a rice field while farmers submerged in knee-deep paddies continued to plant. However, the young woman performed another song, compelling those around her to take pause and listen. This song of protest which she sings in the video is an old ballad learned from her mother, its verses speaking of a history of exploitation and poverty, circumstances that continue to cast a shadow on their community and personal lives.
