Artist talk: Damien Ajavon, Kåre Aleksander Grundvåg and Linda Lamignan
Damien Ajavon, Kåre Aleksander Grundvåg og Linda Lamignan
Artist talk with Damien Ajavon, Kåre Aleksander Grundvåg and Linda Lamignan moderated by Axel Wieder
Saturday 18 November 14.00-15.00
The talk will be held in English
Oslo Kunstforening is pleased to invite you to an artist talk with Damien Ajavon, Kåre Aleksander Grundvåg and Linda Lamignan, moderated by Axel Wieder, director of Bergen Kunsthall and jury member in this year’s jury for Sparebankstiftelsen DNB’s Grant Exhibition.
Three distinctive artistic practices are presented in separate rooms at Oslo Kunstforening in this year's grant exhibition. Through total installations, the audience is invited to enter different artistic universes. In the conversation, we move from room to room together with the artists as they talk about their work.
Damien Ajavon was born in 1990 in Paris and is of Senegalese and Togolese origin, living in Oslo. Ajavon graduated from the textile department at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2023, and as a queer Afropean they are concerned with the relationship between different craft traditions. Ajavon uses the intersection of their African and Western backgrounds as a tool for storytelling and exploration.
Kåre Aleksander Grundvåg was born in 1984 in Tromsø, where he lives and works. Grundvåg is educated from the Academy of Arts in Tromsø and is currently a PhD candidate in artistic research at UMAK, Tromsø and KMD, Bergen. Through various sculptural techniques and process-based projects, Grundvåg explores a non-human architecture. Material experimentation, bio-mimetics and traditional knowledge are included as elements in his practice, with the coastal landscape of Northern Norway as a frame of reference.
Linda Lamignan was born in 1988 in Stavanger and lives and works in Copenhagen. Lamignan is educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo and at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. In performance, objects, video and music, Lamignan examines, among other, how the experience of floating between different worlds is connected with diaspora, landscapes and cultural conditions related to West Africa and Scandinavia.
Sparebankstiftelsen DNBs stipendutstilling 2023
