Tech 4 Change
2.5.-4.10.2015
Curated by Mari F. Sundet
The main exhibition at Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium in 2015 was Tech 4 Change, a project curated by Mari F. Sundet, based on loans from Statoil Art Collection.
The project was the result of a collaboration between Statoil Art Programme and Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium. Our initial intention was to exhibit selected works from Statoil's extensive collection and, indeed, the goal was achieved: all the art presented in the exhibition was owned by Statoil. In meeting with Statoil, however, we quickly came to realize that the company's art programme was more than a collection and that in presenting it we also had to reflect what the works mean in their usual environment, hanging on the walls of a large oil company.
The exhibition project Tech(nology) 4 (for) Change had as its point of departure the assumption that Statoil uses art to stimulate thought, and thereby to generate a creative mindset in the emplyees, who are of course the company's most valuable resource.
A book was published to accompany the project – the result of collaboration between the curator Mari F. Sundet, and photographer/designer Nina Ansten. In conjunction with the plans for the project and the exhibition, Mari F. Sundet and Nina Ansten visoted six of Statoil's offices to document the art in its context and to interview employees about the company's art initiative. The material is presented in the book.
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Installation photo: Nina Ansten
Participating artists
- Nils Aas
- Maurizio Anzeri
- Chan-Hyo Bae
- Sammy Baloji
- Per Barclay
- Bjørn Barre
- Luiz Braga
- Espen Dietrichson
- Gardar Eide Einarsson
- Elmgreen & Dragset
- Sam Falls
- Kjetil Finne
- Amirali Ghasemi
- Alexander Gronsky
- Rolf D. Groven
- Osang Gwon
- Hassan Hajjaj
- Karl Erik Harr
- Thore Heramb
- Ane Mette Hol
- Pieter Hugo
- Tom Hunter
- Adam Jeppesen
- Simen Johan
- Per Kleiva
- Roald Kyllingstad
- Päivi Laakso
- Camilla Løw
- Susanna Majuri
- Andrea Mastrovito
- Mikkel McAlinden
- Marius Moe
- Richard Mosse
- Eline Mugaas
- Sohei Nishino
- Kjell Erik Killi Olsen
- Knut Rose
- Tom Sandberg
- David Benjamin Sherry
- Vibeke Tandberg
- Alexander Tokarev
- Kjell Torriset
- Mette Tronvoll
- Per Ung
- Frans Widerberg