Welcome to the launch of Eline McGeorge's book As Spaces Fold, Companions Meet.

Time: Wednesday November 22nd, 7 pm
Venue: Oslo Kunstforening, Rådhusgaten 19
Refreshments will be served
Free of charge

The book As Spaces Fold, Companions Meet is based on a solo exhibition by Eline McGeorge with the same title at Oslo Kunstforening in 2016 and contains a selection of the artist’s work form 2003-2016.

The book is the first comprehensive book presentation of McGeorge’s work, which embrace a rich variety of media, methods and interrelated themes and discussions. Besides from about 100 images of McGeorge’s works, the book includes six texts discussing and contextualizing the works and McGeorge’s practice in general.

Text contributors to the book are: Norwegian art historian Marit Paasche, Norwegian art critic Line Ulekleiv, UK art historian Marcus Verhagen, German UK based visual theorist Henritte Gunkel, director of Oslo Kunstforening Marianne Hultman, and designer Maki Suzuki from the design group Åbäke, London (who designed the book) in conversation with McGeorge.

The book is realized by the help of Norwegian Art Council, Vederlagsfondet and Langaard foundation. It's published in the UK by dent-de-leone and in Norway by Forlaget Uten Tittel as well as being distributed by Oslo Kunstforening, Hollybush Gardens, London and the artist.

An artist talk between Eline McGeorge and Natalie Hope O'Donnell will take place during the book launch.

Eline McGeorge (b. 1970) lives and works in London. She has exhibited extensively internationally since completing a Master in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London, 2000. She has had separate shows at amongst others Oslo Kunstforening (2016), Hollybush Gardens, London (2012), Gallery Kirkhoff, London (2007), Fotogalleriet, Oslo (2007), and has participated in exhibitions like «Ode til en tiger, hymne til en vaskeklut», Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo (2016) and «»We are Living on a Star», Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (2015). Two of her video films were premiered at the film festival in Berlin (2012, 2015). McGeorge is represented internationally by Gallery Hollybush Gardens, London.

Natalie Hope O’Donnell is Senior Curator at the Munch Museum in Oslo, where she curates the off-site contemporary art programme inMunchmuseet on the Move (2016–2019). Her educational background includes a BA in Modern History and Politics from the University of Oxford (2002) and an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art in London (2008). She holds a PhD from the Oslo School of Architecture entitled Space as Curatorial Practice: the exhibition as a spatial construct (2016), which examined three exhibitions at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in the period 1970–1972.  She retains an interest in curating as a spatial process, queer performative art practices, and the exhibition as an historical and cultural text.