STUDIO EXHIBITION
Admir Batlak
Admir Batlak
Admir Batlak
Admir Batlak
Admir Batlak
Admir Batlak
Bobby Yu Shuk Pui
Bobby Yu Shuk Pui
Bobby Yu Shuk Pui
Bobby Yu Shuk Pui
Bobby Yu Shuk Pui
Bobby Yu Shuk Pui
Sigbjørn Bratlie
Sigbjørn Bratlie
Sigbjørn Bratlie
Sigbjørn Bratlie
Sigbjørn Bratlie
Admir Batlak
Trafo Kunsthall is pleased to welcome you to a studio exhibition at Studio Trafo Kunsthall , Sunday, September 22nd from 1 - 8 p.m. Winter 2023 sent Trafo Kunsthall issue a call for artists and craftsmen for free studio space for Studio Trafo Kunsthall in the summer season 2024. The second work period is now over and will be rounded off with a studio exhibition on September 22nd.
SUNDAY 22 SEPTEMBER, FROM 1 PM - 8 PM.
TRAFO KUNSTHALL
LENSMANNSLIA 60, ASKER
Photo: Kari Margrethe Sabro
BOBBY YU SHUK PUI
Disappearing Miss Hong Kong (2024) is a work-in-progress that builds on my previous video project of the same title. This new iteration features multiple video stills printed on porcelain tiles, blending my exploration of video and ceramics.
Simultaneously, I've started developing an animation piece for my upcoming solo exhibition at UKS in 2025. Both projects reflect my continued exploration of themes that merge traditional materials with contemporary storytelling.
- Bobby Yu Shuk Pui
SIGBJØRN BRATLIE
Sigbjørn Bratlie works with video, painting and textiles. His works have a conceptual and analytical, yet humorous angle. They are often made as an attempt to clean up and cement linguistic meaning in cultural phenomena.
In his video projects in recent years, Bratlie has worked with the theme of ' communication in foreign languages ': As performance projects, the videos are the final result of a process in which the artist first sets aside one to two years to learn 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.
Many of these projects stage situations where access to meaning, interpretation and mutual understanding is made difficult by lack of language skills, poor grammar or inadequate vocabulary. Other projects thematize a single language and its history, or take a language out of its "natural element" and place it in a completely foreign landscape.
At Trafo, Bratlie will show an ongoing series of paintings and textiles, as well as his latest two video projects.
ADMIRAL BATLAK
Admir Batlak works with textiles and sculpture. Central to his work is experimentation with craftsmanship 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.
In his work with sculpture, he presents textiles and sewing accessories as building materials and tries to open up new ideas about monumentality and materiality.
On Trafo Kunsthall Batlak has been working on works for his upcoming exhibition at Galleri Riis in Oslo (14.11. - 21.12.). In the studio exhibition, he will show a selection from his Sequin Skin series, a series of wall sculptures in which he uses the heat of an iron and vliesofix to weld sequins into sculptural form. The iridescent sequins enter into a dialogue with the art hall's stained glass windows, which are a characteristic part of the monumental brick building.
