26—27 April

Ragnhild Aamås

(She/her)
Address: infopsin, Hausmanns gate 34, 0182 Oslo
Floor: 2
The studio is open Sunday 28 April from 12-17

I have established a way of working and a body of work that particularly looks at the effects of language and the capture of the writing system. I base myself on poor, commercial and found materials. Since I developed works for Kunsthall Stavanger over their archive in 2015, I have worked with institutional archives on several occasions. This triggered an investigative form of work which later branched out into a method that interweaves written and visual materials. Rather than using the default in the order we live under – the individual, I look to the ‘divid’, and let it stand for a dismembered kind of negative subject that looks for cracks to worry in. I’m currently learning more about the work of Italian artist Anne-Marie Sauzeau-Boetti).

I’m also part of the artist group infopsin, with Ayat Tuleubek, Ignas Krunglevicius og Istvan Virag.

Sculpture, sound, collage, writing

Maintenance sleep / 2022 / Aamås / Kunstnerforbundet Oslo
They should rather make their own machines, what is in the Kunstnerforbundet archives? (Images sendt to me) / 2023 / Post cards
urørt&naturleg untouched&natural intacte&naturel / 2018 / performance over three days for Nordic Art Press, Monnaie de Paris, Paris.
Echopraxia (Vilnius) / 2021 / Performance opera with infopsin (Ayat Tuleubek, Ragnhild Aamås, Ignas Krunglevicius og Istvan Virag).

In my studio

you’ll see works that are in transition, they will be exhibited at Hamar kunstforening later this year.

Planned projects and exhibitions

In 2024 I have a solo exhibition at Hamar Art Association. With the artist group infopsin, we are working towards an independent video installation and processing of digital ephemera as sculptural forms beyond 2025. After the generational change in Podium, I have more time to develop work in the studio. I aim to publish my collected notations (2012-2022) for performance works with visual material and introductory essays in autumn 2026.

CV

Full Cv on request.

Education

2015 BA Arkeologi, med fordjuping i filosofi, Universitetet i Oslo, Oslo.
2011-2012 MRes Art: Exhibition Studies, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London.
2010–2012 MA Billedkunst, Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo, Oslo.
2007-2010 BA Billedkunst, Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo, Oslo.
2006-2007 2.år Einar Granum Kunstfagskole, Oslo.
2004-2006 studiar i arkeologi, filosofi og estetikk, Universitetet i Oslo.
2003-2004 Billedkunst ved Nansenskolen Norsk Humanistisk Akademi, Lillehammer.
2001–2003 Norsk vidaregåande skule, Formgjevingsfag med studiekompetanse, Ørsta.

Solo shows
2024 (upcoming) foreløpig utan tittel, Hamar Kunstforening, Hamar.
2022 Stein hard mjelk / rock hard milk, Kunstnerforbundet Oslo.
2021 Echopraxia, infopsin, ved Swallow & Galeria 1986, Vilnius, Litauen.
2021 AWWWD, infopsin, Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo.
2018 flyt eller minna til ein reisande fjell-ape, KUBE Kunstmuseum, kuratert av Randi Grov Berger, Ålesund.
2013 White Mountain Resting on Manitou, ved Demon’s Mouth, Oslo.
2011 Nothing Seems to Sustain Me More, ved Malmøgata Fine Arts Project Space (MFAPS),Oslo.
2009 Setningssvermarar / A Thicket of You, ved Gallery 21:24, Oslo.
2009 Til veggs, ved Volda Kunstlag, Volda.