Subsisting
24.10.20—23.11.20
Ada Nilsen (NO)
Morten Jensen Vågen (NO)
Kaare Ruud (NO)
Ada Nilsen (b. 1990) Oslo, Norway) lives and works in Oslo and Malmö. She holds a BA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo and Stockholm University.
She has participated in exhibitions at Hulias, Bunny’s Garage and Emanuel Vigeland’s mausoleum. She is also a co-founder of the record label New World Entertainment.
Morten Jensen Vågen (b. 1987, Haugesund) lives and works in Oslo and graduated with an MFA from Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2019. Vågen’s artistic practice mainly focuses on video and sculpture, and often uses the public urban space as a source for his works.
Vågen often uses video as a tool for documenting how he makes his works of found materials. These videos are often shown alongside the works of art. Vågen has made several sculptures that blends in with the urban landscape in different ways. Morten Jensen Vågen has been exhibited at the National Gallery in Prague, the Autumn Exhibition, BOA, Studio 17 in Stavanger and at Palmera in Bergen.
Kaare Ruud (b. 1993, Gausdal) lives and works in Oslo and graduated with an MFA from Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2020. Ruud’s artistic practice mainly focuses on sculptural interventions and sculptural work in a range of different and untraditional materials.
Ruud has had solo shows at Samlingen, Nesodden (2023), Heerz Tooya, Veliko Tarnovo (2022), SOL, Nexø (as Simpathy with Mikkel Carlsen, 2022) Hulias, Oslo (2022), Norsk Billedhoggerforening, Oslo (2020/2021) Galleri Toll, Stockholm (2021) and Løvens Hule, Oslo (2019) Ruud has also been included in group shows at STANDARD, Oslo (2021) QB gallery, Oslo (2021/2022) Hulias, Oslo (2020), Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (2020) Vestlandsutstillingen (2020) and The Annual Autumn Exhibition at Kunstnernes Hus (2017).
Forthcoming he will present works at CANTINA, Aarhus (2023), Stormen kunst/dájdda, Bodø (2023) and a residency at Cite des Arts Paris in 2023/24
Works
Ada Nilsen
Hungerhunter (2020)
Bronze
21 × 20 × 16 cm
Unique
Morten Jensen Vågen
Stealth Stack (2020)
Wood, metal straps, peephole.
250 × 65 × 85 cm
Unique
Kaare Ruud
Repetition and fiction: Pylon (2020)
Styrofoam mold, flour, flour worms, found cables, welded steel box with glass.
40 × 60 cm
Unique
Kaare Ruud
Repetition and fiction: Buttress (2020)
Bicycle helmets, beads, rosette, flour, mealworms, aquarius jewelry, styrofoam hearts, pearls, welded steel tub.
140 × 140 cm
Unique
Kaare Ruud
Repetition and fiction: Pilaster (2020)
Flour, mealworms, found pieces of glass ground by water and sand, found shirt, pearl, parts of torso in styrofoam, styrofoam pots, blown leaves in glass, found flower in glass, welded tub in steel.
140 × 140 cm
Unique