Marius Presterud
Address: Oslo Open, Rådhusgata 19, 0158 Oslo
Floor: 1.
The studio is open Sunday 28 April from 12-17
MARIUS PRESTERUD (b. Drammen, 1980) is a Norwegian artist working between Berlin and Oslo. He works across a variety of media; performance, poetry, sculpture and ecoventions. Presterud has toured Europe as a poet, as well as performed and shown in galleries such as Henie Onstad kunstsenter (2016), Galleri F15 (2016), Kunstnernes Hus (2018), Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst (2022) og The Sculptor’s Association (2023), Norway, as well as Kunsthalle Vienna (2020), Austria, Hamburger Bahnhof (2017) and og Exgirlfriend Gallery (2021), Germany.
Sculpture, poetry, performance, ecoventions
GOTH BEEKEEPING (2022)
Marius Presterud
Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst, Trondheim
For Ecophilia, the Meta.Morf Biennale 2022
May-Aug 2022
Descr: Video installation. Ritual-hygienic cleansing of Oslo Apiary & Aviary’s beeyard (2014-2019),
at Losæter, downtown Oslo. Video shown through mourning veil.
Performance by Marius Presterud & Mikkel Dagestad. Camera and editing by Lene Johansen.
Length: 01:06/looped
TOBACCO MANDALA (2023)
Marius Presterud
For SMOKE BREATHER
Norsk Bliledhuggerforening, Oslo
May-July, 2023
Descr: Temporary installation
Mat: Tobacco and paper
Dim: 80cmx80cm
Tech: Tobacco from artist's kleingarten. To be consumed/destroyed by audiences.
HIBERNACULUM (Insect-) #2
Marius Presterud
For SMOKE BREATHER
Norsk Billedhuggerforening, Oslo
May-July, 2023
Descr: Ecovention
Mat: Clay, wood, concrete, glass, stone, straw, gum, pollen
Dim: 75x60x115 Cm
Tech: Poured cement using sand from the city beach. Smashed glass foraged from city streets. Glazed ceramics. Polished and linden-oiled sticks. Burnt etchings. Chewing gum with pollen.
HIBERNACULUM (Bat-) #7
Marius Presterud
For SMOKE BREATHER
Norsk Billedhuggerforening, Oslo
May-July, 2023
Descr: Ecovention
Mat: Clay, beeswax, wood
Dim: Ca 40x25x12cm
Tech: Burnt clay, linden-oiled upcycled wood.
https://vimeo.com/365364963
In my studio
6 artists without studios have been invited to present their practice at Billedkunstnerne i Oslo during the event Oslo Open.
In connection with the theme of studioless artists, a panel debate with local politicians will be organised during the weekend.
I have chosen to play on the theme of ‘the unwanted artist’ or ‘the displaced’ by showing a larger work that was initially installed in public space.
The work THE LIFE BOAT was erected at an attempted commons, Losæter, in downtown Oslo in 2019, but had to be removed when Oslo municipality redirected a school road. This in turn led to Bjørvika Development’s ´City-farmer´ choosing to appropriate the space it stood for other purposes.
Re-shown in Rådhusgata 19, the work loses some of its visual impact, where it was originally meant to resemble an overturned lifeboat vis a vis the monumental installation ´Bjørvika Bakehouse´, built to resemble a rescue-boat.
By being exhibited in a new context, the work also loses its original function, as potential housing for a non-human audience.
By presenting and placing an ecological intervention such as THE LIFE BOAT in a gallery context, the work advocates a non-hierarchical relationship to the city and the life that resides here, as if asking “Who is this place for?”
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The work will be a supple with a smaller work, SURVIVALIST SILK SHAWL (2020).
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There will be free catalogs from previous exhibitions that the public can take with them from their visit.
Planned projects and exhibitions
Environmental Lunchtime Discussions – Poetry and work documentation for a publication by the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities
CV
Showings:
2023
REST RELIEF, Kiosken Studio, Bergen
RØYKPUSTER (SMOKE BREATHER), Norsk Billedhuggerforening, Oslo
2022
Ecophilia, Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst, Trondheim, for Biennalen Meta.Morf
2021
WETLANDS, Exgirlfriend Gallery, Berlin
2020
INCUBATION HIGHWAY, Marius Presterud, Monika Grabuschnigg, Andreas Ervik.
Cosmo Carl – Platform Parasite, online
2020
MIRROR, MIRROR DOWN THE HALL, Monika Grabuschnigg in collab. w. Marius Presterud. For Fluc Wanne, Kunstsalon in fluc, Wie Gesselschaft Farbe vërandert, Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria
2019
MAN FALLS – A WAKE, Khartoum Art Center, Oslo
MAN FALLS – PREPARATIONS FOR A WAKE, for Lose Ties, Exgirlfriend Gallery, Berlin
TRACING THE FJORD (Redoux), Bærum Kuntshall, Bærum
TANNENBAUM ZU ‘WUNDERBAUM’, a collab with Scent Club Berlin, VZOR Artspace, Berlin
2018
WAX BATONG, for Pluss Pluss at Black Box Theater, curated by Karen Nikgol, Oslo
WORK RELIEF /// LØNN, National Art Exhibition (Høstutstillingen), Oslo
CHA-CHANGE!, TOP interdisciplinary projectspace, Berlin
ANTI-FREEZE, collab. W. Nataliia Korotkova Spriten Kunsthall, Skien
PEARL BORN, Exgirlfriend Gallery, Berlin
DEATH CAFÉ, for Futurefarmers Full Moon Gathering (SF), Losæter/Oslo
2017
PEARL DIVING – Part 1, Gallery Field of Dreams, Oslo
TRACING THE FJORD, for Retten til Byen, Losæter/Oslo
NORTHERN BUMBLING, Losæter Bakehouse, Oslo, Losæter/Oslo
Ditto, Slakthusatelierna, Stockholm
Ditto, The Nordic House, Reykjavik
COMMON PROSPECTS, for Futurefarmers Full Moon Gathering (SF), Losæter/Oslo
2016
SMOKER SEANSE, for TO BEE OR NOT TO BE, Gallery F15, Moss
TOP-BAR HIVES, for TO BEE OR NOT TO BE, Gallery F15, Moss
OSLO AVIARY with OSLO APIARY, for Futurefarmers (SF), Losæter, Oslo
TRACING THE FJORD, collab. w. Future Farmers (SF), Henie Onstad Kunstsenter,
Oslo-Bærum
Untitled (‘THE SHEPHERD’), for Futurefarmers (SF) INTO THE GROUND AND UP
(IN)TO THE SKY, Losæter/Oslo
PEARL DIVING – Part 1, Journal of Somaestethics, Vol. 2, Nos. 1 and 2
2015
IF THESE WALLS COULD WALK, WHERE WOULD THEY STRAY, collab. w. Klara
Pousette, Losæter/Oslo
NEIGHBORHOOD BATCH, Mølleren Sylvia, Oslo
SANKE GULL, collab. w. Andreas Ervik for (SANKE), Oslo
CITY MEADOW, TRANSFORMER#5, collab. w. Vigdis Storsveen & ROM for kunst og Arkitektur, Oslo
2014
FOYER WORK, collab. w. Victoria Günzler, One Night Only Gallery, Oslo
2011
HOW TO D.I.Y. with Bourgeois Stallion, Malmøgata Fine-Art Project Space, Oslo