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Frauke Materlik (Germany) September 2024
BAG Art Camp has invited Frauke to Bergen Ateliergruppe as artist in residence for the month of September, coinciding with the use of the BAG prosjektrommet for B-Open studios on the 22. September.
Frauke Materlik is an artist (MA Byam Shaw at Central Saint Martins, U.K.), gardener (Herrenhäuser Gärten, Hannover, D), landscape architect (MA University of Greenwich, U.K.) and a member of PAB – Performance Art Bergen. She understands art as a tool for exploring, navigating and negotiating in complex environments, revolving around questions on how to translate and convey. In her practice, she works in dialogue with her surroundings, combining performance, installation, and horticulture. She exhibits, researches and teaches internationally – and also always keeps on gardening.
Recent projects include the performance installation ‘erde’ as part of ‘Embodied Landscape’ at Villa Renata (CH), the performance ‘mimikri’ at ‘Garden of Delight’, Gothenburg Botanical Garden (S), the research project ‘Performance and Landscape’ made possible by the grant ‘Neustart Kultur’ awarded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (D), the video and performance lecture ‘Lacuna’ at the Fourth PARSE Research Conference (S) and at Unit of Play at Goldsmiths University (UK) funded by Nordisk Kulturfond Opstart. Frauke Materlik has been awarded several residencies such as at Oak Spring Garden Foundation (US), Museum Upernavik (GL), Cité des Arts Paris (F) and Nida Art Colony (LT).
On the German Westcoast, Frauke Materlik currently establishes the cultural meeting place ‘Kunstverein Lunden’, a space for thought, artistic creation, gardening and conviviality.
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Katarzyna Roman (Poland) – May to August 2024
BAG Art Camp has invited Katarzyna to Bergen Ateliergruppe as artist in residence for the summer. During the art residency Katarzyna plans to illustrate nature found in Norwegian woods, by the northern sea and on walks everywhere in-between.
She will then use metal plates and linocuts on the printing press at BAG to create many compositions of illustrations and experiments with different kinds of paper and ink. In addition to the printmaking methods she will also work with paint, drawing, and calligraphy. During Katarzyna’s time in Bergen she will also work at Bergens Tekniske Museum, developing skills in letterpress printing.
The residency will end with an exhibition at Bici Bicycle workshop, Sandviken, opening on 24. August 2024.
