In the winter of 2024-25, we will have 1,200 school students visiting Olav Ringdal's exhibition ROTVELT.
Artists Regine Stensæth Josefsen and Mari Østby Kjøll welcome the sixth graders in Asker kommune for both a tour and a workshop in connection with DKS. Focusing on Ringdal's fascination with roots, students are invited on a two-part journey of discovery into a landscape filled with imagination, colors, doodles and play. What do we really know about roots and their hidden world underground? Can roots talk or move, and if so, what on earth are they saying and where are they going?
The students are invited to reflect on what a root ball can mean and in the workshop they get to be sculptors and create their own roots using three-dimensional techniques, plaster bandages, steel wire and pigments.
Regine Stensæth Josefsen (b.1988) is an Oslo-based visual artist with a master's degree from Bergen Academy of Art and Design (2013-2015) and a bachelor's degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Trondheim, NTNU (2010-2013). In the past year, she has also furthered her education as an art educator at Oslo Met's study program, Practical-pedagogical education in design, art and craft (2022-2023). In her art, Josefsen primarily works with painting, drawing and performance, where body language and human identity are recurring themes. In recent years, Josefsen has been involved with two performances in connection with the National Museum's opening exhibition, I call it art (group exhibition, 2022), the museum's opening event Sidesprang in Førde (solo, 2020), and Have you had a trip? A reorienting trail (performance, solo, 2024) at Dikemark.
Mari Østby Kjøll (b. 1983) is an Oslo-based artist who works with painting in combination with media such as collage, wax, wood, graphics and drawing. In parallel with her own artistry, she has collaborated with Yola Maria Tsolis and Siren Dahle in the artist group Svartjord since 2014. Kjøll is educated at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, the Interdisciplinary Art Institute in Bærum, and the Escola Superior de Artes e Design in Portugal. Her work has been exhibited at venues such as RAM Galleri, Norske Grafikere and Galleri Format in Oslo, as well as in group exhibitions with Svartjord at venues such as Kummelholmen in Stockholm and Spriten Kunsthall in Skien.