Lina Viste Grønli combines sculptural and collage techniques that deconstruct language as a narrative form. Her work draws from popular culture and imagery proposing alternative strategies and redefinitions. Although varying widely in scale and orientation, her work manifests a sense of displacement, suggesting a subversive orientation and a defying of convention. Grønli is currently working on several public sculpture proposals and a publication on the work Grace Jones on Sculpture (Torpedo Press). Recent exhibitions include a solo show at Gaudel de Stampa, Paris, France (upcoming), Henie Onstad Art Centre, Oslo, Performa09, New York, NY, USA, Art Since the Summer of 69, New York, and Galerie de la Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille. Grønli recently was a resident in Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Recipients 2007
Karolin Tampere is a recent graduate of De Appel in Amsterdam, with a BA in Visual Arts from Bergen National Academy of Arts (2005). Together with the artist Åse Løvgren, Tampere initiated the ongoing collaboration Rakett in 2003 as a mobile platform for various activities ranging from curatorial practice to initiating own collaborative artistic projects. Rakett projects function as temporary platforms for collaborative, often interdisciplinary, production; where the role of the initiator/curator is not only to create a framework and a stage but also to bring together different cultural producers, to create a moment of potentiality. Implicitly and explicitly, the projects touch on a range of questions around (co)authorship, (im)material production, the role of artist and curator, and the potential of mobile and changeable platforms in the institutional infrastructure for art.