Visitors 2005

Arve Rød is an artist and critic. Although inspired by the works of conceptual artists, Arve Rød does not describe his work as conceptual. The artist chooses the words "institutional evaluation" or "negotiation". He has exhibited at Galleri F15, Moss, Norway (2006), UKS Biennial, Oslo, Norway (2004) and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (2004). In 2004, he was the Co-editor of the Norwegian Art Yearbook. As a freelance critic, he was written for Kunstkritikk.no, Billedkunst, Morgenbladet, Flash Art International, Klassekampen and currently writes art reviews for the newspaper Dagens Næringsliv.

Lars Laumann is an artist. He draws his inspiration from the outskirts of popular culture in the form of found texts, images and objects. By sampling and re-editing, he creates collages, books or videos. Mixing different media and techniques to create idiosyncratic worlds, the results are, at times, absurd and unsettling revelations of our collective modern mythologies. Recently his work has been shown at White Columns, Foxy Productions and MoMA in New York, USA; 5th Berlin Biennial in Berlin, Germany and in the summer of 2009 he will present new works at Trænafestivalen on the Island of Træna in North of Norway.

Rakett is a collaboration between the artists/curators Åse Løvgren (b.1975 in Bodø, Norway, lives and works in Bergen, Norway) and Karolin Tampere (b.1978 in Tallin, Estonia, lives and works in Bergen) focusing on creating temporary platforms for collaborative, interdisciplinary productions. Implicitly and explicitly, their projects touch on a range of questions around (co)authorship, (im)material or ephemeral production, the role of the artist and the curator, and the potential of mobile and changeable platforms in the infrastructure for art.