Tidligere kunstnere
10 år på gada
I forbindelse med at det er tiende året vi lager midlertidige verk i det offentlige rom som festival, har vi avtalt med Kristiansand Folkebibliotek å utvikle en illustrerende og kronologisk oversikt over kunstverk oppført til fra de forskjellige årene 2015-2025.
Utstillingen er en fotoutstilling med fotografier av verk tatt av blant annet den lokale Gatekunst-jegeren Reinert the Dog.
Fotografen var ikke interessert i kunst før han la merke til og likte verk på gaten når han var ute og luftet Dachsen sin Reinert. Han lagde en populær Instagram-konto samtidig i hundens navn, som viste hunden foran verkene. Samlingen av fotografier er en god dokumentasjon av mye av gatekunsten som har dukket opp i Kristiansand de siste årene og samtlige
festivalkunstnere er med.
Utstillingen er gratis og åpnet for alle i bibliotekets åpningstid
AMNESTI
Amnesti er en utstilling som har T I D i Mandal som base. Dette er en gruppeutstilling
hvor deltakernes identitet holdes skjult (for publikum, men også de andre i utstillergruppen) Målet med dette er å gi deltakerne et pusterom.
En mulighet for å ytre noe de normalt ikke kan. Noe som ikke passer inn i kunstnerskapet, noe som kan oppfattes negativt i deler kunstmiljøet og dermed være ødeleggende for egen karriere, noe som bryter med eget kunstnerskap, byggingen av eget navn som merkevare osv.
Amnesti er vårt bidrag til å gi kunstnerne den totale ytringsfriheten tilbake.
Deltakerne inviteres inn i prosjektet gjennom personlige møter en og en. Det vil
også være aktuelt å tildele noen av deltakerne spesifikke steder ute i det offentlige rom.
At deltakernes identitet er skult stiller også viktige spørsmål til hvordan kunstverden
fungerer i dag -
ROA
ROA is a graffiti and street artist from Ghent, Belgium. He has created works on the streets of cities across Europe, the United States, Australia, Asia, New Zealand and Africa. ROA generally paints wild or urban animals and birds that are native to the area being painted. He usually uses a minimal color palette, such as black and white, but also creates works using vibrant colours depicting the flesh or internal systems within the animals and birds.
"ROA treats each surface he paints like a space to investigate, play with, and fit his creatures into. The technical perfection of his painting belies an underlying resourcefulness with simple tools,” “The animals are matched to their location, with rats in New York City and elephants in Bangkok. There are dark and funny messages, the beauty of both life and death, universal metaphors, inside jokes, and occasional violence, but always in ways that honor the animals and the spaces where they are painted."
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NAFIR (Iran)
Nafir is a self-taught Iranian artist born in Tehran whose works are influenced by traditional Iranian art and culture.
As he call him self vandal street artist his art focus on social problems of Iran and whole world.
Isaac Cordal
“With the simple act of miniaturization and thoughtful placement, Isaac Cordal magically expands the imagination of pedestrians finding his sculptures on the street.” – Steven P. Harrington, Brooklyn Street Art
Cement Eclipses is a critical definition of our behavior as a social mass. The art work intends to catch the attention on our devalued relation with the nature through a critical look to the collateral effects of our evolution. With the master touch of a stage director, the figures are placed in locations that quickly open doors to other worlds. The scenes zoom in the routine tasks of the contemporary human being.
CBLOXX
(Born 1983) in the old Yorkshire mill town of Huddersfield, Cbloxx (Jay Gilleard) is an English muralist, painter, music producer and multidisciplinary artist. They became most well known for co founding internationally acclaimed street art duo Nomad Clan who notably painted the tallest mural in the UK.Currently based between the wilderness of the Pennines and the dust bowl of Los Angeles Cbloxx resumed solo practice in 2020 after 6 hedonistic, yet transformative years touring globally with Nomad.Cbloxx predominant weapon of choice is spray paint, with over 16 years experience working tirelessly with the medium. Layers of fine freehand details bring an otherworldly realism to portraiture, whilst textural painterly backgrounds often involve the weathered wall patina. This is a key element that is often reflected in their studio practice, often working on found objects that guide the way Cbloxx works onto them, everything from colour palette choice, composition down to the thematics.
Szabotage
Gustav Szabo is a prolific, contemporary urban artist and designer known as Szabotage. He grew up in Hove (near Brighton in the UK) where he studied architecture before moving to London where he worked as an architect and designer. After moving to Hong Kong he quickly gained notoriety with sold-out exhibitions, solo shows, collaborative projects, private and commercial commissions with iconic brands such as Prada and Louis Vuitton.
Characterised by bright colours and popular cultural references, Szabotage’s visual language is high impact. His signature style uses layers of stencils to depict life and create personality in each unique piece.
Martin Whatson
Martin Whatson makes public murals, paintings on canvas, prints, and sculptures that unite detailed grayscale compositions with colorful scribbles—his muted pictures of dancers, animals, and iconic art historical figures feature patches of explosive, abstract graffiti. The juxtapositions create a significant sense of layering and opposing worlds within each work. Whatson began making art when he participated in Oslo’s graffiti scene in the 1990s. He drew inspiration from the city’s continuously changing landscape as he developed his own energetic aesthetic. Whatson has exhibited in Oslo, New York, Paris, London, Tokyo, Berlin, and beyond. He has also completed a number of commissioned murals and participated in collaborations with fashion brands.
MISS.PRINTED
Miss.Printed is a Norwegian based artist who is filling the gap between Collage, Photography and Streetart. She is born in the Netherlands on a car-free sunday 1973. In the Netherlands she worked many years at Knust, part of ArtHouse Extrapool. Here she worked at many different artprojects, mostly with mimeographing print (riso-print).
Summer 2007 she emigrated to Norway where she lives in a rural area. Her passion is “Locative Collage”. She makes small paper collages and photograph them in an outdoor setting that reinforces the story she wants to tell. She photographs her collages on location under adverse conditions. She loves to combine paper elements and its predators: water,fire, snow, wind and sky She does not use any form of digital editing. In an urban environment she leaves her papercuts behind. Leaving bits of sanity for others to reflect upon. She believes in the accumulation of small gestures. The more we can engage people with our ideas, the more we can empower people to think, feel, dream, the better the world will be.
She has been working with Locative Collage and collage since 2010. She have had several exhibitions in Norway, Uk and USA. August 2016, she opened a museum The Scandinavian Collage Museum. She is the founder of The Collageclub, an international group of collage artists that uses the same image to make a collage with. She is also the founder of Project Paper Nation, a project which initiates collage/street-art projects around the world.
Often she gets messages of people who are inspired by her work and take their papercuts outside to photograph. This makes her sing out loud in her little red house on a mountain in Norway.
Camilla Prytz
Camilla Prytz ble født i Oslo i 1971. Hun har sin utdannelse fra Kosta Boda Glasskole, og jobbet i glasshytta i Stavern 1993-1996. Fra 1997 har Camilla drevet sitt eget glass studio i Oslo, og siden 2011 på Odderøya i Kristiansand. I 2018 åpner hun Kristiansand Emaljeverksted, hvor hun har restaurert den gamle emaljeovnen til sin slektning Grete Prytz Kittelsen.
I 2001 begynte Camilla Prytz å lage sine første smykker. Hun har laget smykker i glass og sølv, fisker, hjerter, kors og sommerfugler. Smykkekolleksjonen Animals i sølv ble brukt av Olsen-tvillingene, Rihanna, norske-og utenlandske prinsesser, kjendiser og fashionistaer. I 2011 lanserte Camilla en ny drøm, hun designet en norskprodusert emaljesmykkekolleksjon inspirert av sine forfedre som var store emaljekunstnere i Norge. Emalje hadde vært umoderne siden 70-tallet, men er nå ettertrykkelig satt tilbake på kartet.
Alle Camillas arbeider er inspirert av kollektiv symbolisme, og hun beveger seg hele tiden mellom kunst, design og fashion. Hun har nominert til designprisene Nåløyet og Costume Awards hvert år siden 2011. I 2012 vant hun årets fagpris under Oslo fashion Awards.
Camilla har laget 2 smykkebøker sammen med fotografen Knut Bry: Friends of Glass (2005) og Elle Melle (2010). Hun har skrevet bidrag i bøkene ”Kjære Mor” og boka ”Evig Barnefri”.
Camilla har håndlaget glassdråpe-smykker for Voss Foundation i flere år, hvor pengene går uavkortet til vannprosjektet Kvinner hjelper Kvinner i Afrika.
I 2014 var CP den første kunstneren som designet Rosa Sløyfes Kunstpin for Kreftforeningen. Pinen solgte i over 100 000 eksemplarer.
Camilla Prytz har hatt 60-70 utstillinger i Norge og utlandet siden hun begynte som kunstner for 20 år siden.
I 2015 startet hun kunst-og kulturbloggen www.artistlife.no under Aller Media sin store nye kvinnesatsning.
I 2016- har Camilla blitt ny designer på Magnor Glassverk.
I 2016/17 har Camilla mottatt Kristiansand Kommunes Kunstnerstipend for etablerte kunstnere, og Vestagder Fylkeskommunes arbeidsstipend for kunstnere.
2018: Åpner Kristiansand Emaljeverksted i Marvika, og videreutdanner seg innenfor emaljefaget.
Douglas Maddison
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Amale Gahl
Amale er autodidakt og har studio på Odderøya, Kristiansand. Hun har drevet med maleri de siste 4-5 årene. og henter inspirasjon fra en rekke ulike steder, blant annet fra surrealisme og naturalismen.