WORKS IN SITU

For this exhibition Kristin Nordhøy draws on her extensive material vocabulary which includes masking tape, reinforcement steel and mass-produced industrial materials. She often uses the line as a tool and repetition as method in her practice. For the larger wall-based works, the artist covers the surface with thin strips of masking tape and explores the relationship between the staging of the works and the physical properties inherent in the matter.

Nordhøy works with a range of materials and modes of expression, which relate to the exhibition space to varying degrees. For the exhibition at Volt, Nordhøy will be make new site-specific works created in situ in the converted factory space at Bergen Kjøtt.

Kristin Nordhøy holds an MA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. She recently held solo exhibitions at Lautom Contemporary and Tegnerforbundet in Oslo. She has also participated in a number of group shows including Arctic Challenge Site Specific 2010 in southern Troms, Drawing Consequences (2009) at Akershus Kunstsenter, Tempo Skien 2009, and Norwegian Summer at Galerie Gabriel Rolt in Amsterdam (2009). WORKS IN SITU is Nordhøy’s first solo exhibition in Bergen.

http://www.kristinnordhoy.com