Janine Magelssen
(She/her)
Address: Kommandantboligen, Hovedøya, 0150 Oslo
Floor: 1 etasje
Room number: 1 og 2
The studio is open Sunday 27 April from 12-17
In my artistic practice I work with how reduction and tactility meet in a common idiom. My work are minimal and slightly three-dimensional, it allows for concentrated form without too many associations. A work that activates the spatial sense and provides an abstract experience. Key words such as; spatiality, tactility, visual sound, stillness, light and shade are central. My work is expressed as slightly three-dimensional large reliefs (wall objects), subtle drawings with putty directly on the wall (wall reliefs), objects, colour reliefs and drawings on paper.
I would like the work to construct a space for the spectator, to activate the sensation of presence and space.
Drawing, relief, wallobject
Wallobject (within), Janine Magelssen, Gesso, putty on wood, 60x65 cm, 2023.
Wallobject nr. 30, Janine Magelssen, putty, gouache and oilpastell on wood, 38x32 cm, 2022.
Portrait (hand) nr. 4, Janine Magelssen, frottage on paper, 70x50 cm, 2023, from studio)
Planned projects and exhibitions
2025 Groupshow at Kunstsal Hovedøya, Oslo
CV
Education
University of Colorado, Boulder 86-88, Asker Kunstskole, 89-90, SKHS 90-92 ,SKHS 93-94,
Parson School of art and design, Paris 92-93.
One man shows
2022 Gunnar S. Gundersen gallery, Høyanger
2021 Up against the line (Inntil linjen), The Norwegian Drawing Association (Tegnerforbundet), Oslo
2020 Two close angles, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo
2018 Silent Sounding, Gallery BOA, Oslo
2015 Exhibition with artist Nils Olav Bøe, Gallery Semmingsen, Oslo
2012 Flexible Motion with Øyvind Jørgensen, Trafo Kunsthall, Asker
2008 zone, Gallery Semmingsen, Oslo
2008 areas, Stillscape, Esviken, Norway (Landart project)
2007 White Noise, Kunstbanken, Hedmark Kunstsenter, Norway
2006 White Noise, Art Leauge, Houston, USA
2006 Unmediated Recognition, Galleri Gathe, Bergen
2006 Galleri Semmingsen, Oslo
2002 Between the Lines, Galleri MGM, Oslo
1996 Drawing, Galleri Nebb-X, Oslo
Selected group shows
2022 Galleri Semmingsen, Oslo
2020 Constructing Structures, Coast Contemporary, 2020
2018 Guilt by Association, Bærum Kunsthall.
2017 Konstruktiv Tendens, Tomarps Kungsgård, Kvidinge, Sverige
2016 Nonobjective reality-different strategies, Kunstbanken, Hedmark Kunstnersenter
2015 Presence, Stillness, Moment, Reflection Trafo Kunsthall, Asker
2015 Construction, Bærum Communitiy Art Collection, Bærum Kunsthall.
2014 Spring Exhibition, Charlottenborg Kunsthall, Copenhagen
2014 Gallery Semmingsen, Oslo, Norway
2012 Silence, Gallery Masters & Pelavin, New York
2012 Non Figuration, Edsvik Kunsthall, Stockholm
2011 Extended Drawing, Gallery Tegnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway
2010 Drawing Biennial, Lines on the move, Momentum Kunsthall, Norway
2010 Konstruktive Tendenser, Gallery LNM, Oslo
2009 Apparently Invisible: Spring Selections Show, The Drawing Center, New York
2009 Group show, The Constructivist Tendency Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2008 Abstraktion XXVII, The Constructivist Tendency Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2008 Gallery F15, Jeløy
2008 Kunst1
2007 Gallery Semmingsen, Oslo
2006 Spring Exhibition, The Drawing Center, Oslo
2005 Gallery Semmingsen, Oslo
2002 Galleri MGM, Oslo
2001 Tendencies, Galleri JMS, Oslo
2001 Presented in Slideshow, Reykjavik Art Museum
2000 Tendencies, Galleri JMS, Oslo
1999 The Annual Art Exhibition, Høstutstillingen, Oslo
1999 Spring Exhibition, The Drawing Center, Oslo
1998 Drawing Exhibition, The Peder Balke Center, Toten
1996 The Annual Art Exhibition, Høstutstillingen
1995 Sjokoladefabrikken, Oslo
1993 Østlandsutstillingen
Working experience
2014- Chairleader, The Norwegian Drawing Association
2011 Curator for the exhibition Extended Drawing, Tegnerforbundet, Oslo,
2003 Drawing teacher, Art school, Oslo
1994-98 Galleri Wang, assistant
1994-95 Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, illustration for classical and modern music
Grants
The Artists Consideration Foundation; 2002,2003,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010-2012, 2014,2015. Arts Council Norway, 2016. Arts Council Norway 2017-19. The Artists Consideration Foundation 2019-2021, 2022, 2023