STUDIO TRAFO KUNSTHALL II
BOBBY YU SHUK PUI | SIGBJØRN BRATLIE | ADMIR BATLAK
July - September 2024
About the artists
Second period: July - September
Photo: Jonas Carlsen
Bobby Yu Shuk Pui is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Hong Kong and Oslo. Bobby's practice is focused on building intimate relationships and collaborations, where physical, tangible and affective phenomena associated with body politics and the future are created by the media of video, text, installation, sculpture, and performance.
Bobby received a BA from Hong Kong Baptist University and an MFA from Oslo National Academy of Fine Art in 2021. Previously, her work has been included in exhibitions at Kunstnernes Hus , K4, and Podium—all three spaces in Oslo. Her work has also been presented at Parasite, Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences and numerous film festivals. In 2023 she won Best Director at the 17th Freshwave Film Festival in Hong Kong. This summer she will be included in a group exhibition with Situations, New York. In 2025 she is scheduled to have solo exhibitions at UKS, Oslo and Open Source gallery, New York.
Sigbjørn Bratlie was born in Oslo in 1973 and lives and works in Oslo and Gdynia, Poland. He holds a master's degree from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London (2002). In his video projects in recent years, he has worked with the theme of ' communication in foreign languages ': As performance projects, the videos are the final result of a process in which he first spends about two years learning a (more or less useful) foreign language, and then creates an art project in which he, – in a specific setting, – communicates with someone in this language. Among his most recent solo exhibitions are Telemark Kunstsenter (2021), Kunstgarasjen (2022), Oppland Kunstsenter (2022), Galleria Ars Libera (Kuopio, Finland, 2022), Visningsrommet USF (2022), Tenthaus (2023) and Sandnes kunstforening (2024).
Photo: Jannik Abel
Admir Batlak (b. 1982 in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina) works with textiles, sculpture and clothing. Central to his work is experimentation with craft and the development of new textiles. Through a wealth of techniques and references to fashion, history, social movements and mainstream culture, he creates complex expressions that observe the present, and explore questions of taste, ideals and identity.
Batlak graduated as a fashion designer from the Istituto Marangoni in Milan (2006). In recent years, he has worked primarily in the art field and has shown his work at, among others, Munch (2023); Soft, Oslo (2022); Skulpturtriennalen, Billedhoggerforeningen (2021); NoPlace, Oslo (2020); and Galleri Riis, Oslo (2019).
PROGRAM SECOND PERIOD
JULY - SEPTEMBER