Goro Tronsmo
(She/her)
Address: Vollaveien 19, 0668 0668
Floor: 2
The studio is open Saturday 26 April from 12-17
For the past 10 years I´ve worked on a project series called Staged Institutions.
Here I transform and stage the places I work with in order to introduce a different view, – of the building, the institution, the production structures in the art scene.
I have a background in performing arts, and have always worked with time, dramaturgy and various forms of presence. Throughout my artistic practice, I have investigated the relationship between what is staged, – and reality, looking for an aesthetic where the viewer needs to negotiate what they are witnessing, and by this becomes more present. This research led me to work site spesific, then context spesific, then institution spesific. This again led me to architectural installations, creating installations that appear permanent, and seamless with the context, so the distinction between artwork and institution becomes unclear. When even the institution is part of the site strategy, it opens up another layer to the reality research, where the institutional actions has fictional potential, or the institution´s identity is put into question. For me this uncertainty initiates a presence, just as working with the site does, without borders around the artwork it opens for a urgency.
Architectural installations, performance, film
Staged INSTITUTIONS IV- The City, the Courtyard, the Light
Goro Tronsmo
Architectural installation for the opening exhibition of the National Museum 2022.
The installation covered the Hall 3, (750 m2), and consisted of apartments, sauna, museum, alley and square, as well as 2 sound installations for the walls of the Light hall.
Photographer: Øystein Thorvaldsen
STAGED INSTITUTIONS IV- The City, the Courtyard, the Light 2022.
Architectural installation for 750 m2 of the Light Hall in The National Museum, Oslo. The project also included a durational performance over 3 months, a fictional film shot i the installation, a website, a real estate booklet, alternative museum guides, and a fashion collection posing as merch.
Fotograf: Øystein Thorvaldsen
Excerpt of performance, STAGED INSTITUTIONS IV- THE NEW NATIONAL MUSEUM: https://vimeo.com/861146162
Excerpt of MUSEVILLE, film shot as part of STAGED INSTITUTIONS IV- The City, the Courtyard, the Light: https://vimeo.com/719126975?share=copy
Planned projects and exhibitions
Solo exhibition at Norwegian Sculptors Society august-october 2024
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Goro Tronsmo
Born 1975 in Tromsø, Norway
Lives and works in Oslo, Norway
Education
2017-2019: Master in Theater, (theatre direction), Teaterhøyskolen, Oslo National Academy of the Arts. 120 ECTS
1999-2000: Stockholm’s elementära teaterskola (s.e.t.) Stanislavski based actors training, Equiv. to 60 ECTS
1994-1997: The University of Oslo: Ex. Phil./Ex Fac, History, Theaterhistory. Total: 120 ECTS
Solo exhibitions/ Large scale architectural installations/ Performing arts productions
2023—— The foyer. Installation for the foyer of Moment in Stockholm, Sweden, based on the functionalist architecture of a former old cinema
2022——-Staged Institutions IV – The City , the Courtyard, the Light for The National Museum, Oslo, Norway.
The project is a commission on the basis of Staged Institution III – The Arts Education Factory and The Old Post Office, and included architectural installation for 750 m2 of the Light hall, durational performance over 3 months, a fictional film shot i the installation, a website, a real estate booklet, alternative museum guides, and a fashion collection posing as merch.
2019—— Staged Indstitutions III- The Arts Education Factory. A total staging of Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
The project consists of a website, an installation, a Tv-series, a dogma film, a guided tour and a performance about the theatre architecture of the performing arts faculties. Performances May – June 2019. The filmprojects and the website as performing platform will be re-developed in 2023.
Spatial concept and architectural installation for Constance Tenvik´s artworks at the Astrup Fernley Museum, Oslo for the exhibition “Sun and Spring in January”, January-May 2019. The architectural installation also consisted of an artwork that framed the sunlight from the outside and created a light-installation of a sunbeam moving through the room as the day and season passed.
2016———-Installation for the artproject Repair/Service in Berlin, Germany.
Installation in a basement location inverting the relation of climbing down/climbing up, and confusing the identity of a store design as architectural installation. Collaboration with artist/designer GFS.
2015/16—Staged Institution II, The Old Post Office 1,5 year long living architectural installation for the landmarked functionalist architecture of Altes Postfüramt West, Berlin Schöneberg.
Context specific architectural installation and event series exposing and staging contexts of art market/art institutional structures, and the former post building. Architectural installation “A chair has a concrete use” in collaboration with Xavi Aguirre. Original installation commissioned for the exhibition Concrete Utopias 2015.
2015———-The idea of the kitchen- Architectural structure researching framework of public vs domestic spaces.
Developed for i,ii-xi, a talk series at invitation.of.sorts, Los Angeles, USA, curated by Shoghig Halajian, Andrew Capervitz and Suzy Halajian.
2014——-Zwiefalt, Solo exhibition at Atthebar, Studio space owned by Douglas Gordon, during Berlin Gallery Weekend September 2014. Development of an architectural structure and performers displaying the projects space and the Gallery Weekend´s position within the art market economy.
2013——Staged Institution I, The Residency at Gallery 0047, Oslo. A 6 months long living architectural installation that transformed 0047´s factory premises into loft-living architecture and hosted a curated residency program. Architecture in collaboration with Kine Lillestrøm.