CHROMA IV

For the group exhibition CHROMA IV Volt are presenting new works by artists Jenny Hval, Cecilia Jonsson, Stian Eide Kluge, Magnhild Øen Nordahl and Marthe Elise Stramrud.

The CHROMA project is inspired by British artist, writer and filmmaker Derek Jarman’s book Chroma – a book of Colour (1993). Jarman worked and experimented with a range of different media including film, photography, writing, the diary format, collages and gardening. Chroma consists of a mix of observations, quotations and meditations on life and colour. It contains of 19 essays on the primary colours as well as white, black, grey, silver, gold, shadow, light and translucence.

Jenny Hval is an artist and writer. She has brought out two albums under the alias Rockettothesky and her third album, Viscera, was released in 2011 under her own name. In addition to these solo projects, she works with improvisation and electronic music in the duo Nude on Sand with Håvard Volden, and the two released their first album in 2012. Hval made her literary debut with the novel Perlebryggeriet (Kolon Forlag, 2009). Her second book Inn i ansiktet (Oktober forlag) was published in the autumn of 2012. Together with Inger Bråtveit, Hval created the performance Kvit søppel in 2011. Previous exhibitions include Innocence is kinky at the Henie-Onstad Art Centre (2012).

http://www.jennyhval.com

Cecilia Jonsson is a Swedish artist based in Bergen. She holds an MA degree from the Bergen Academy of Art and Design (2012) and has also participated in the MA programme ‘Nordic Sound Art’. She has previously taken part in group exhibitions at the F-Block Gallery in Bristol; the Singuhr Hörgalerie in Berlin; LiveInYourHead in Geneva; and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde. Jonsson’s work often takes the form of artistic interpretations of empirical material, inspired by the research methods used in the natural sciences. Plants, water and iron form the backdrop of many of her works, where these elements operate as figures and thematics in imagined slippages between nature and technology, environmental concerns and social culture.

http://www.ceciliajonsson.com

Stian Eide Kluge is a visual artist based in Oslo. He was educated at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and at the School of Visual Arts, Department for Film and Video in New York. He has been running the 1857 gallery together with Steffen Håndlykken since 2010. Recent exhibitions include The A Priori Echo And The Necks at IMO in Copenhagen and the group show I Wish This Was A Song. Music in Contemporary Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo. He has also shown at the Oslo venues Kunstnerforbundet, Galleri Erik Steen, 0047 and Galleri Trafo, as well as at Galerei Gabriel Rolt in Amsterdam.

http://stian-eide-kluge.com

Magnhild Øen Nordahl lives and works in Stockholm, where she began her MA at the Royal Institute of Art (KKH) in the autumn of 2012. She holds a BA degree from the Bergen Academy of Art and Design (2010). She has recently exhibited at Blank Projects in Cape Town; the Tin Sheds Gallery in Sydney, at The Armory Show in New York, at Svalbard, at Bergen Kunsthall and, most recently, at Entreé at Platform Stockholm. Øen Nordahl works predominantly with sculpture and installations. Her art projects often take as their point of departure investigations into the mechanical and aesthetic features of architecture and functional structures, such as frameworks for buildings or knots. Her most recent work deals with notions of craft and epistemology.

http://www.magnhildnordahl.com

Marthe Elise Stramrud is a visual artist. She is a member of the artist collective Gruppe 11 and the shared studio community at Flaggfabrikken. She holds a BA degree from the Bergen Academy of Art and Design (2011), and has also studied Photography at Valand Academy at the University of Gothenburg; Oslo Fotokunstskole; and Prosjektskolen Kunstskole i Oslo.
Stramrud has recently participated in group exhibitions at Hobusepea in Tallinn; CC in Malmö; Akershus Art Centre; Bergen Kjøtt; de Joode & Kamutzki in Berlin, Tollbodallmenningen 39; and Sørlandsutstillingen. In 2012, she was awarded the Debutant Prize by the Norwegian Association of Art Societies for the photographic series Livingroom Poetics. Stramrud works predominantly with photography through which she presents different sculptural compositions.

http://www.martheelise.com