About
CV / Artistic activities
Upcoming Exhibitions // Activites
2024 // Expedition // Sinai Desert // Egypt
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 // Solo Exhibition // Nonneseter Kloster // Bergen // Norway
2023 // Public Decoration // Sortland // Norway
2021 // We passed the horizon // Hornbæk Havn // Denmark
2019 // Måneløs // Galleri Fisk // Norway
2019 // Akantus Fever // Bokboden // Norway
2018 // Natrejse // Project room Vera // Denmark
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 // Nudge it - Kick it - Prod it - Push it - // Bergen Kunsthall // Norway
2022 // Kunstens kilde // Køge Kunstforening // Denmark
2022 // MA1 Exhibition // Bergen Kjøtt // Norway
2022 // All Shall Perish // Bergen Kunsthall // Norway
2022 // Darkness // Frappant Galerie // Germany
2020 // Apnea // Gyldenpris Kunsthall // Norway
2020 // Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition // Denmark
2018 // The New Districts // Danish Cultural Center Beijing // China
2018 // Bornholm Spring Exhibition // Svanekegården // Denmark
2017 // Virtual glance // Bergen Kunsthall // Norway
2017 // Descending movements // KMD //Norway
2017 // Degree show // Vera school of Art and Design // Denmark
2017 // Boiler R00m // Project room Vera // Denmark
2017 // Summer Exhibition // Vera school of Art and Design // Denmark
Education
2021 -2023 Master OF Fine Arts // Bergen Academy of Art and Design
2017 - 2020 Bachelor Of Fine Arts // Bergen Academy of Art and Design
2017 Vera School of Art and Design
2016 Education in funiture carpeting
2012-2015 Assistent for Henrik Vibskov
Legater
2023 - Diversestipend for nyutdannede kunstnere
2022 - Toyota Fonden // Værkproduktion & udstillingsstøtte
2022 - Grosserer L.F. Foghts fond // værkproduktion & udstillingsstøtte
Publications
2020 - Gyldenpris Kunsthall 1:1 Pt 1 Publication
2019 - AF·ART Magazine
Artist statement
My body of work is composed as personal accounts of hushed landscapes of sculptures, text and sound. The works are primarily created using organic materials. I approach materials and their story based on my own experiences and try to make the stories merge. I strive to bring out the embedded narratives of the materials.
In my work there is an essential longing after reconnecting with nature, and especially the ocean, as it forms a special place of inspiration to me. I reflect on the movement of the waves, as it draws on this animating source as a thematic starting point. A recurring theme is how the ocean simultaneously merges the accounts of the past and future by adding and eroding the land – how the ocean elevates, transforms and regulates the materials.
I follow traces and experience what the embedded narratives of the materials represent as they are transformed. In order to do so, I attempt to create the final work so it internalises the coherence between the given material and its place of origin.
These investigations of how and why materials belong to certain geographic sites additionally reflects my own experiences of belonging to a given place, person or kinfolk. my work becomes declarations of family – both given and acquired.
A large part of my practice is based on an interaction with nature as a channel that opens up for a sensibility that I use as work generating. Other parts of my process are carried by physically tiring work. I believe an energy transfer from mine to the work is possible through physical presence.
These concepts of coherence between the used materials, nature and interpersonal relations is important to me and can be uncovered throughout my artistic practice, as I try to articulate a strong personal take on natural materials found mainly in Northern Scandinavia.
I try to create a place for physical and emotional presence. To find an affective force in the works. An emotional monumentality.
I aim to create atmospheres of unstoppable movement and various Mutual relationships – new and lasting, present and forgotten.
Contact
Erik Hjorth
rkhjrth@gmail.com
phone (+45) 31 67 68 65
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rkhjrth/
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