ContinuUm
Tromsö Academy of Fine Art (UiT)
february 6 – march 8
An exhibition featuring students from the Bachelor’s and Master’s programs at Tromsø Academy of Fine Art.
It explores longing, displacement and transition – between places, times and states. In the encounter between permanence and transience, historical material is juxtaposed with contemporary temporary ideals. Traces of migration, cultural loss or shimmering childhood memories, home is an idea in constant motion, as elusive as the desire for belonging. Together, the works form a continuum of body, identity and landscape in flux.
The main theme has been displacement, movement.
Participating Artists: Danielle Emilie Olsen (BA1), Ingeborg Wie Henriksen (MA1), Jane Johansen (BA1), Jonas Kåre Byström (BA1), Mari Sagrusten (BA1), Marianne Berg Johansen (BA1), Mikaela Augestad (BA1), Petra Elise Hagelund (BA1), Rina Neimi (BA1), Roshana Miranian (MA1), Thea Kårud Tollefsen (BA1), Trygve Tveita (MA1).
BIOGRAPHIES
Danielle Emilie Olsen (b. 1994) primarily works with installations, often based in photography, painting, and sculpture. Her practice is characterized by an exploratory approach, in which she continually challenges and transcends her own boundaries through encounters with materials and modes of expression.
After complications from surgery in 2017, art became a vital tool in her rehabilitation process. Since then, it has been a central driving force in her life and creative work. She works with and about the universal – both as content and form – creating art that is accessible and inclusive, while continuously seeking new ways to communicate the power of art to all.
Ingeborg Wie Henriksen uses play as a medium for artistic exploration, creating interactive experiences where art and life flow into one another. Her works exist in the borderland between mysticism, internet culture, and nature.
Jane Joh (she/her, b. 1995, Kjellerup, Denmark) Through sculpture and video, she explores female corporeality and sexuality, taking her own history as a point of departure. She places these themes within a societal context by reflecting on issues such as demands, expectations, and power. Rather than drawing clear-cut conclusions, her work adopts an open position, playing with the tension between control and the desire for liberation.
Jonas Kåre Byström (b. 1988, Örebro, Sweden) work explores themes of perception, and the connection between the mystical and the mundane. He works primarily with painting, but also sculpture, installation, and sound. The artistic process becomes an aspect of his own study into the nature of consciousness, different states of being, what it means to be human, and who (or what) we are.
Instagram @jonaskbys
Mari Sagrusten (b. 1997, Oslo, Norway) explores a strange and deep connection to a world full of creatures and stories, built from drawings, books, and sculptures. The works come from a pull towards the unreal and uninhibited, wishing to evoke wonder and curiosity.
Marianne Berg Johansen (f.1997, Tromsø, Norway) is a visual artist educated at OsloMet and Einar Granum School of Fine Art. She is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art at the Art Academy in Tromsø. Marianne works with themes such as longing, love, and the body. She draws inspiration from everyday life, capturing experiences and impressions from her life as a queer woman.
Mikaela Augestad (b. 2004, Tromsø, Norway) is a visual artist currently based in Tromsø. Mikaela works between the lines. She is inspired of by universes of the unknown and the exploration between the juxtaposition between the feminine and the unsettling nature of being. Often through her own experiences Mikaela portrays the deeply personal and longingly intimate often in an abstract space and time exploring what it means to live and exist in oneself.
Instagram: @mikaela.augestad
Petra Elise Hagelund (b.1999, Fredrikstad, Norway) is an installation artist and musician. They mainly work with turning abstract concepts into physical rooms, as if stepping into a physical representation of an emotional state. This may for example contain sound and sculpture. Their practice revolves around themes such as emotional expansion and awareness, relational struggles and a call to action for grounding in the present moment.
Rina Neimi (f. 2002, Oslo, Norway) works with a figurative visual language in painting, drawing, and sculpture. Her projects consistently reference art history, religion, and symbolic language, selected intuitively for each piece. She is interested in the cyclical nature of human history and places ancient narratives in a contemporary context, with a raw physical presence shaped by personal experience.
Roshana Miranian (1985, Iran) is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily with painting and sculpture. The practice moves between myth, political history and lived experience, exploring memory, displacement, and the pressures that shapes inner and outer worlds.
Thea Kårud Tollefsen (b. 2001, Årnes, Norway) works in the three-dimensional, where she explores various phenomena related to human experience. Physical relationships to psychological experiences are often central reference points in her work.
Her process is organic, allowing different forms of expression to be explored; the choice of material is guided by the concept being examined. The repulsive is used as a tool to process themes that may be perceived as transgressive in relation to societal norms.
Trygve Aune Tveita (b.1993, Tromsø) is a trained architect whose artistic work is centered around materiality. His work explores materials and their cultural/ideological significance, primarily through sculpture and installation. Trygve is a founding member of the art/architecture collective Arbeidsgruppa Ny Von.
Instagram @arbeidsgruppa