STUDIO TRAFO KUNSTHALL IN
MALIN BÜLOW | JANNE KRUSE | JIRI HAVRAN
April - June 2024
About the artists
Janne Kruse was born in 1979 in Denmark and lives and works in Oslo. She is a visual artist and works with a wide range of expressions and media, in addition to collaborative projects. Her works investigate spatial and linguistic relations in the encounter between body and world, where temporal elements and the fragmented nature of memory are central. In parallel with her own work, she is part of the performative artist collective Verdensteatret, which creates extensive audiovisual and interdisciplinary stage performances in both theater and gallery contexts. Janne Kruse is a graduate of the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing.
Jiri Havran was born in 1953 in Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic, and came to Norway in 1974. He has contributed to a number of publications on both modern and traditional architecture. He has had several solo exhibitions in Norway and abroad and participated in group exhibitions and published several monographs. Havran is best known for his photography of architecture, and has completed several major art projects in the last 15 years. He has been a member of the Association of Independent Photographers since 1981 and was one of the founders and managers of Galleri ROM from 1987-1990. He also runs the publishing house ARFO: a publishing house for architecture and art.
Malin Bülow works at the intersection of textile, performance, installation and sculpture. Bülow works site-specifically, and the installations are made with flexible materials that stretch out into monumental sculptures, creating a tension between the architecture and surroundings of the site, and traditional representation of the body in classical sculpture. Bülow holds an MFA from the Oslo Academy of Fine Arts, as well as an MSc in neuroscience from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and a BSc in molecular biology from Lund University. Her works have been shown at, among others, the Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale, Oslo Opera House, Malmö Kunstmuseum, Bodø Biennale, Vigelandsparken, Lustwarande (NL), Piero Atchugarry Gallery (US), Contextile – Contemporary Textile Art Biennial (PT), CHART at Kunsthall Charlottenborg, (DK) (2019) and are part of the permanent collections of Malmö Kunstmuseum and MAC Lyon.
Photo: Jiri Havran
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