Art in vesterålen by Siv Reinholtsen

Art

in vester책len

2011

A GUIDE

Streams of energy This folder guides you to quality art and acquaints you with the artists in Vesterålen. Most of the exhibitions are scheduled during the summer months, but most of the information is valid throughout 2011. Cultural Cooperation in Vesterålen bids you welcome to a large variety of art experiences! Vesterålen is a strip of islands along the northwest coastline. Nowhere else in the world does the Gulf Stream snuggle in closer to the shoreline than here. It was for that reason that the Gulf Stream was chosen as a theme and metaphor when the Vesterålen islanders celebrated the new millennium. The celebration is still going on! The Gulf Stream brings with it warm blue currents and provides Vesterålen’s oceanscape and landscape with an energy that inspires artists of many kinds. They may be visiting guests or artists from the outside world who have chosen to live and work here, but they also include Vesterålen residents who have lived here for generations. Much of the art created in Vesterålen may be experienced on a trip through the six municipalities, including Lødingen. This little folder is designed to be your guide to Vesterålen art. We present the artists, studios, sculptures, installations and galleries that display what the artists have created, as well as works in progress. We also focus on some of the collaborative projects, many of which are the result of the area’s collective tribute to the Gulf Stream. Cover picture: The art installation RÆK III at Buholmen in Hovden, Bø. See p. 8. Photo Trym Invar Bergsmo

Electrical transformer sheds become power art Six grey, drab and modest transformer sheds in the six Vesterålen municipalities have been transformed into powerful works of art. The project was achieved by the Vesterålen Cultural Council with joint financing and the collaboration of Andøy Energi, Hålogaland Kraft, Trollfjord Kraft, Vesterålskraft Nett, the municipalities of Andøy, Bø, Hadsel, Lødingen, Sortland and Øksnes as well as Nordland County Administration. The transformer art is part of Vesterålen Cultural Committee’s cultural boost from 2000 to 2010, and builds upon the concepts of the millennium celebration. But why transformer art? Art supervisor Ingrid Larssen explains: – We have previously completed something similar through the RÆK project in collaboration with the Andøy Art School at Andenes. The transformer art was very well received here, and we wanted to extend the project. The transformer sheds practically screamed out for artistic decoration; they were solid cubes waiting for an artist’s touch. Five artists closely associated with Vesterålen have completed their projects (sites in parentheses): Siri Tollefsen (Risøyhamn in Andøy), Terese Riis (Vinjesjøen in Bø), Myriam Borst (Stokmarknes in Hadsel), Heidi Nygård (Sortland centre and Lødingen centre) and Karel Rouwenhorst (Myre in Øksnes).

HADSEL: «Transformasjoner» Myriam Borst

SORTLAND: «Strømninger» (Currents) Heidi Nygård

ANDØY: «Havblomst» (Sea Blossom) Siri Tollefsen

BØ: «Det røde gullbergslottet» (The Red Gullberg Castle) Terese Riis

Lødingen has two decorated electrical sheds, «Livskraft» (Life Power) and «Kystkraft» (Coastal Power). The first of these is located at the bus stop in Lødingen; the other is on the right side of the road exiting Lødingen.

ØKSNES: 4

«Naustet» (The Boathouse) Karel Rouwenhorst

LØDINGEN: «Livskraft» (Life Force) Heidi Nygård

Art takes place Artscape Nordland is an internationally renowned art project. Six of the 33 sculptures are located in Vesterålen – an area representing Artscape’s northernmost border. “Art takes place” is a motto for Artscape Nordland. In Vesterålen, art takes place along the sea. All of the sculptures here are placed directly on the seashore or are inspired by a maritime theme. In Lødingen, one finds the 37-ton ”Eye in Stone”, at Sortland ”The Eye on the Sea”. In Bø, “The Man from the Sea” towers in tribute to the ocean, and in Øksnes, the artist located the lamp-like sculptures “After-images” in the former fishing village of Nyksund and in the centre of modern Myre. In Hadsel, the sculpture “Days and Nights” is installed across the inlet from the old coastal express Finnmarken, and at Andenes, “Island Museum” comprises a collection of articles found along the shoreline. Maaretta Jaukkuri has expressed the rationale for Artscape Nordland: ”The most important reason for these sculptures being placed in Nordland’s landscape is that it was here that they originated – in the meeting between the landscape itself and the artist. And it is in the corresponding encounters between the landscape, the sculpture and the beholder that significance is recognized and recreated. It is in the moment that art occurs.” 6

LØDINGEN: «Øye i stein» (Eye in Stone) Anish Kapoor

HADSEL: «Dager og netter» (Days and Nights) Sarkis

ØKSNES: «Etterbilder» (After Images) Inghild Karlsen

SORTLAND: «Havsøye» (Eye on the Sea) Sigurdur Gudmundsson

ANDØY: «Øymuseet» (Island Museum) Rafael Rheinsberg

BØ: «Mannen fra havet» (The Man from the Sea) Kjell Erik Killi Olsen

The Gulf Stream has gone ashore The warm caress flowing out of Mexico brings very much with it. At Andenes and Stø, in Hovden and on the seaward side of Hadseløya, some of what has drifted ashore has been used in art installations.

ANDØY: RÆK I is located at the car park at Hisnakul, Andenes

The RÆK projects were realized as a part of the Gulf Stream Cultural Lift, which began at Andenes in 2001. The art school here completed the project together with artists Bent Aune and Ingrid Larssen. Sundry items from the shoreline were affixed to a transformer shed in the harbour area, painted blue and decorated with words and phrases.

ØKSNES: RÆK II at Stø near Stø Caravan Camping

In 2002, the project was expanded. Myre primary school, Husjord School, Romset School and Øksnes Coastal Society created RÆK II with ornament artist Ingrid Larssen as consultant. The artists, working on a volunteer basis, placed three large wooden beams at Stø. The boulder behind it was given an eye – so that it looks like a whale or wolffish. Using nine metre-long beams of driftwood and a twometre tall basalt column from Iceland, Oredam and his able assistants created the art installation RÆK III. See cover picture. On the outer side of Hadseløya, at Taen, a stone spiral has been created, since stones have also drifted with the Gulf Stream. Pupils from Stokmarknes primary school and Hadsel upper secondary created the installation in collaboration with artist Siv Johansen. A path with a love bench and youthful poetry leads down to RÆK IV. 8

HADSEL: RÆK IV at Taen in Hadsel

The Blue City by the Sea Sortland will be painted blue! Newspaper articles with this type of headline now fill several scrapbooks. Artist Bjørn Elvenes first presented the idea of a blue city in 1998, and a pilot project was started as part of Sortland municipality’s millennium project and as part of its cultural boost and stream of culture, with the Gulf Stream as a source of inspiration. A storm ensued. The local newspaper, during several stormy periods, printed page after page of letters to the editor, both against and in favour of the blue city, for and against the various shades of colour that were presented. In the meantime, the city has become bluer and bluer. A wall here, an alley there, and a facade the next day. The idea is to give the local population and visitors to the city new energy, to improve open public spaces, and to create an environment for growth, quality of life and creativity. Some of this creative power has found expression in Writing on a background of blue. Young people from Vesterålen have worked together with author Lars Saabye Christensen to create literary embellishments on a volunteer basis. – We plan to collaborate in order to give Sortland a gift of poetry, said Saabye Christensen, before the volunteer group went out into the streets to find locations in need of a word, a sentence, a poem, a phrase. The blue facades have been adorned with letters – short phrases addressed to you who wander along a wall, cross a street, round a street corner. Be sure to stop and ponder for a moment! 10

Artists

Separate galleries and open workshops ANDØY (1) BENT AUNE

Fr. Nansens gt. 37, Andenes Tel. 95 11 28 56 E-mail: bent-h-a@online.no Art medium: Graphics, paintings. Exhibitions: «Verkstedet» Studio. Ring to make an appointment. Educated at the Academy of Art, Bergen. Participated in a number of juried exhibitions at home and abroad. Several public acquisitions. Member of Norwegian Pictorial Artists (NBK) and NNBK.

(2) DICK MONSHOUWER

Risøyhamn Tel. 76 14 51 00/47 65 00 58 E-mail: dick.monshouwer@c2i.net Web site: www.dickmonshouwer.com Art medium: Jewellery, paintings. Exhibitions: Galleri Dick Monshouwer, Risøyhamn. Open: See p. 19. Educated at Vakschool Schoonhoven, workshop attendance, Kautokeino. Has participated in a number of juried group and solo exhibitions in Norway and other countries. Member NK.

HADSEL (3) INGRID LARSSEN

Hadsel, Stokmarknes Tel. 99 15 75 44 E-mail: ingrid.larssen@c2i.net Web site: www.ingridlarssen.no Art medium: Arts and crafts, jewellery and objects in silk and wool. Showing: Ring to make an appointment. Educated at National College of Art and Design and the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. A number of solo and group exhibitions in Norway and other countries. Member NK.

(4) MYRIAM BORST

Storskjervøya, access by boat from Stokmarknes. Tel. 90 22 13 52 E-mail: myriam.borst@gmail.com Web site: www.myriamborst.com Art medium: Pictorial art. Exhibitions: Galleriet Parallell Univers at Storskjervøya, visits by appointment. See p. 23. Education from the Willem de Kooining Academy in Rotterdam. Solo exhibitions and group exhibitions. Decoration commissions. Member NBK.

Karel Rouwenhorst «Titleless»

Ove Aalo «Boat House 1»

(5) SIV JOHANSEN

Teigan, about 12 km west of Stokmarknes Tel. 91 72 03 82 E-mail: siv.johansen@gmail.com Art medium: Painting, textiles and glass art. Exhibitions: Summer exhibition at Galleri Uvær. Open: See p. 21. Education from Mølla School of Art and Unversity College of Oslo, several courses in glass fusing. Solo and group exhibitions. Ragnhild Adelheid Holten «Appearing no 1»

(6) ANTHONY WHITE

Strandgata 5, Melbu Tel. 47 84 25 69 E-mail: antleo42@live.co.uk Web site: www.artby.net Art medium: Painting, collage, drawing. Exhibitions: Tollergården Atelier. Open: See p. 22. Showing: Ring to make an appointment. Education from Northbrook College, Sussex and University of Brighton. Solo exhibitions in Vesterålen, group exhibitions in in Norway and other countries. Member NBK.

(7) KARIN HAY WHITE

Strandgata 5, Melbu Tel. 47 84 25 69 E-mail: karinw08@hotmail.com Web site: www.artby.net Art medium: Painting, drawing. Exhibitions: Tollergården Atelier. Open: See p. 22. Showing: Ring to make an appointment. Education from Northbrook College, Sussex and University of Brighton. Solo exhibitions in Vesterålen, group exhibitions in Norway and other countries. Member NBK.

(8) RAGNHILD ADELHEID HOLTEN

Ivar Bergmos gt. 6, Stokmarknes Tel. 47 37 52 19/48 19 11 32 E-mail: adholten@gmail.com Web site: www.adholten.no Art medium: Painting and woodworking. Exhibitions: Atelier Holten Skagen, Stokmarknes, Hadsel Open: See page 22. Education from Northbrook College, Sussex Education in wordworking and TV/film in Norway. Solo and group exhibitions in Norway and other countries. Member NBK.

(9) CHRISTIAN SKAGEN

Ivar Bergmos gt. 6, Stokmarknes Tel. 47 39 55 50 E-mail: papirarbeider@cskagen.no Web site: www.cskagen.no Web site: www.cskagen.com (English) Art medium: Drawing and constructions. Exhibitions: Atelier Holten Skagen, Stokmarknes, Hadsel. See p. 22. Showing: Ring to make an appointment. Education from Granum Art School, The School of Art in Kabelvåg and NTNU. Public decoration commissions. Member of the Association of Norwegian Drawers and NBK.

Christian Skagen «Drawing 4 Circles»

(10) SILVIA REHNLUND

Kalsnes, 8450 Stokmarknes. Tel. 91 16 80 92 E-mail: silviarehnlund@gmail.com Web site: www.rehnlund.com/silvia Art medium: Handmade jewellery in noble metals. Exhibitions: Smia Silvia at Kalsnes. Open: See p. 24. Advanced craft certificate as a goldsmith from Plus School in Fredrikstad. Has worked during recent years designing original jewellery.

SORTLAND (11) Tove Hov Jacobsen

Lihallen Cultural Centre, Sigerfjord Tel. 76 12 70 11/95 17 87 97 E-mail: post@lihallen.no Web site: www.lihallen.no Art medium: Painting and graphics. Exhibitions: Lihallen Cultural Centre. Open: See p. 26. Education from Egen Art school of painting, Oslo and studies in France. Solo exhibitons all over Norway, group exhibitions. Several decoration commissions. Member NBK.

Anja V. Hansen «Portrait on Textile»

Dick Monshouwer «Spring»

Tove Hov Jacobsen «Pink Night»

(12) IVAR MALLAUG

Risev. 253, Sortland Tel. 76 12 61 06/90 58 76 96 E-mail: imallaug@tnett.no Web site: www.mallaug.no Art medium: Ceramics. Sales: Ceramic sales from the workshop. Open: See p. 27. Applied crafts and unique items in stone and porcelain.

(13) EVA CHARLOTTE NILSEN

Torget 16, Sortland Tel. 91 35 94 96 E-mail: rampelys@online.no Web site: www.rampelys.no Art medium: Photography and film. Showing: Ring to make an appointment. Education as a film photographer. Experience as a producer and director of films. Member of the Norwegian Film Association.

(14) INGUNN MOEN REINSNES

Lamarkvn. 54, Sortland. Tel. 76 30 35 85 E-post:ingunnjmr@hotmail.com Web site: www.123hjemmeside.no/reinsnes Art medium: Painting. Showing: Ring for an appointment for a studio showing. Education from the Oslo School of Drawing and Painting. Has participated in a number of juried group and solo exhibitions. Public decoration commissions. Member NBK and LNM and SDS.

(15) OVE AALO

Solveien 5A, Sortland Tel. 90 03 43 49 E-mail: ove.aalo@vkbb.no Web site: www.oveaalo.com Art medium: Photography. Exhibitions: Photo exhibits at Nyksund Ekspedisjonen in Nyksund all summer long. Open: During the restaurant’s scheduled opening hours. Self-taught.

(16) KAREL ROUWENHORST

Gåsbøl, Sortland. Tel. 90 57 05 92 E-mail: karelkotz@gmail.com Art medium: Collage, shamanistic style, works with skulls, bones, driftwood, etc. Exhibitions: Exhibition at Nyksund LV (festival). See p. 30. Showing: Studio in Nyksund. Visits by telephone appointment. Self-taught artist from the Netherlands.

Blås Ide «Puffin and Chicken»

(17) GUNNAR TOLLEFSEN

Maurnes. Tel. 76 12 66 09/92 81 46 68 E-mail: post@atelier-noss.com Web site: www.atelier-noss.com Art medium: Painting, woodworking, graphics, drawing. Exhibitions: Atelier Nøss Open: see p. 19. Education from the Academy of Fine Art, Oslo. Member of Norwegian Pictorial Artists (NBK) and LNM.

Myriam Borst «Titleless»

(18) ELIN RINDAHL STEIRO

Elvebakken 91, Sortland. Tel. 95 21 69 00 E-mail: elin.rindahl@c2i.net Web site: www.moods-of-elin.no Art medium: Drawing, painting, collage, water colours. Exhibitions: Open workshop May–September at The Artists’ Residence, by appointment. Solo exhibition at The Artists’ Residence. See p. 26. Is Exhibiting at Galleri Hildreland in Bø. See p. 20. Educated at the Interdisciplinary Institute in Bærum, University College in Tromsø and advanced studies in Fine Arts og Graphics, USA. Has had solo and collective exhibitions.

Gunnar Tollefsen «Titleless»

(19) ANJA VERONICA HANSSEN

Reinsnes, Sortland. Tel. 90 51 29 07 E-mail: anjavero@hotmail.com Art medium: Textile artist. Showing: Visits by appointment at The Artists’ Residence. Educated at the Academy of Art, Bergen, textile department. Has participated in exhibitions in Norway and abroad.

Bent Aune «Icelandic Sheep»

(20) Ann-Helene Iversen

Slalåmveien 16, Sortland Tel. 90 56 22 76/+39 36 65 34 42 61 E-mail: lene.iversen1@gmail.com Art medium: Installations, woodworking, graphics, painting. Exhibitions: At Ekspedisjonen Vertsbrygga in Nyksund. See p. 29. The artist may be contacted for further information. Educated at the University College of Akershus, Art education also from Italy and Denmark. Group exhibitions in Norway and other countries.

ØKSNES (21) SIGRID SZETU

Kvitbrygga, Nyksund. Tel. 92 09 14 93 E-mail: sigridszetu@hotmail.com Web site: www.szetu.net Art medium: Painting and collage. Exhibitions: Atelier 8439, visits by appointment. Also exhibiting at Kvitbrygga, Nyksund. Open: See p. 28. Education from Camberwell School of Art. Solo exhibitions in more than 20 countries, participated in a number of juried group exhibitions. Public decoration commissions. Member of Norwegian Pictorial Artists (NBK) and TF.

(22) HILDE SKJØNBERG HANSEN and Robert Tangrang

T. Liens vei 3, Myre. Tel. 95 81 01 61/41 55 01 16 E-mail: skjonberg@hotmail.com Web site: www.blaside.no Art medium: Glass art. Sales: Blås idé Open: see p. 28. Hilde was educated at BA Glass University of Wolverhampton, England. Robert has lengthy experience as a glassblower.

Galleries, exhibitions, sculptures and installations. (Subject to changes)

ANDØY (17) ATELIER NØSS

Nøss. Tel. 76 12 66 09/92 81 46 68 E-mail: post@atelier-noss.com Web site: www.atelier-noss.com Exhibitions: Painting, woodworking, graphics, drawing. crafts, photo, textile art. Open: 2.7.–7.8. Tues.–Sun. from 12–17. (Mondays closed). Gunnar Tollefsen, see overview of artsts p. 17, Siri Tollefsen, Espen Tollefsen and Åse Tollefsen.

(2) GALLERI DICK MONSHOUWER

Just across from the coastal express pier, Risøyhamn. Tel. 76 14 51 00/47 65 00 58 E-mail: dick.monshouwer@c2i.net Web site: www.dickmonshouwer.com Exhibitions: Jewellery, paintings. See overview on artists p. 12. Open: 1.6.–15.9. Tues.–Sat. 10–16 and by appointment. Open: 16.9.–31.5.Fri.–Sun. 10–15. Open year round with exhibitions of original works.

Sigrid Szetu «Titleless»

Eva Charlotte Nilsen «Thoughtful»

Blås Ide «Titleless»

(23) GALLERI FARGEKLATTEN

Sjøgata 38A, Andenes Tel. 97 76 00 20 E-mail: post@fargeklatten.no Web site: www.fargeklatten.no Sales exhibitions this summer: 4.6.–29.6. Solo exhib. by Laila Lanes (water colours and book). 2.7.–31.7. Solo exhib. by Roy Samuelsen (photo). 30.7.–31.8. Solo exhib. Bjørn Elvenes (pictorial art). Open year round from 11–16, (closed Sundays). Group reservations may be made by telephone or e-mail.

Myriam Borst «Waterfall»

(24) THE ISLAND MUSEUM

Artscape Nordland Raffael Rheinsberg. Collection of objects the artist found on the shores of Andøya during August 1992. Exhibition in a garage next to the Polar Museum. Open every day 10-17 (Enquire at the Polar Museum).

(25) THE SEA FLOWER Electrical Transformer shed Siri Tollefsen. Decorated transformer shed at Andøykroa, Risøyhamn, See p. 4.

(26) HISNAKUL, Andenes

Centre for art and cultural experiences. Open: 15.6.–15.8. from 09–18. 16.8.–31.8. 9–16

(27) RÆK I

Vinjesjøen Tel. 76 13 56 54/76 13 82 00/47 46 85 64 E-mail: bo.museum@museumnord.no Web site: www.museumnord.no/bo Exhibitions: From the Eyes to the Hands. Drawings by Sara Elstad Rehnlund. Light along the Coast. Photo exhibition by Øystein Lunde Ingvaldsen. Open: 12.6.–14.8. 11-17 daily.

Terese Riis. Decorated transformer shed, Vinjesjøen at Museum Nord – Bø Museum. See p. 4.

(31) THE MAN FROM THE SEA

BØ

(32) RÆK III

Straume. Tel. 95 72 60 11 E-mail: hildreland@gmail.com Web site: www.gallerihildreland.com Exhibitions: «Vesterålen art» Alternating exhibitions. as well as permanent sales exhib. of pictorial art, ceramics, glass, woodworking, textiles, etc. Open: 8.7.–8.8. Weds. and Sat. 11-16 and Thurs. and Fri. 11–17. It is possible to ring for an appointment outside open hours. Open year round, see home page for open hours off season.

Ingrid Larssen «Teleostei»

(30) DET RØDE GULLBERGSLOTTET (The Red Gullberg Castle) Electrical Transformer Shed

Decorated electrical transformer shed at Andenes at HISNAKUL. HISNAKUL, see p. 8.

(28) GALLERI HILDRELAND

(29) MUSEUM NORD – BØ MUSEUM

Artscape Nordland. Kjell Erik Killi Olsen. Cast iron and crystal. Bø Community Museum, Vinjesjøen. See p. 6.

Ann-Helen Iversen «C ’ è una storia»

Harald Oredam. Installation at Buholmen in Hovden. See p. 8.

HADSEL (5) GALLERI UVÆR

Gunnar Tollefsen Teigan, about 12 km west of Stokmarknes «Titleless» Tel. 91 72 03 82. E-mail: siv.johansen@gmail.com Exhibitions: Summer exhibition by Siv Johansen, Ivar Mallaug, Wenche J. Johansen and Marianne L. Strand. Art medium: Painting, textile, glass art, poetry installations and ceramics. See overview of artists pp. 13 and 16. Open: 26.6.–7.8. Tues.-Sun. 12-16, otherwise by appointment (closed Mondays). Open SunAnja V. Hansen days in November and December. Kindly con- «Reconstructed Collar from 1600» tact us for appointments outside open hours. 21

(6/7) TOLLERGÅRDEN STUDIO

Melbu. Tel. 47 84 25 69 E-mail: karinw08@hotmail.com Web site: www.artby.net Art medium: Painting, collage, drawing and handbags. See overview of artists, Karin Hay White and Anthony White p. 14. Open: 1.7.–20.7. 12-18 daily.

(8/9) STUDIO HOLTEN SKAGEN

Ivar Bergmosgt. 6, Stokmarknes. Tel. 47 37 52 19 E-mail: adholten@gmail.com Web site: www.adholten.no/www.cskagen.no Exhibitions: Painting, drawing, woodworking. Exhibitors: Ragnhild A. Holten and Christian Skagen. See pp. 14 and 15. Open 1.7.–30.8. Weds.–Sun. 12–18. (Closed Mondays and Tuesdays). Otherwise open weekends during the year or by appointment.

(33) GALLERI APOTHEKET

Apothekergården, Stokmarknes Tel. 90 93 74 00/41 30 36 92 E-mail: sylvelin.sandvik@trolllfjord.no Exhibitions: Summer exhibition by Trym Ivar Bergsmo. Art medium: Photography. Open: 18.6.–14.8. Daily 12-16. (closed Mondays).

(34) MELBU MANOR

Maren Fredriksens Alle 1, Melbu Tel. 76 15 91 11 E-mail: epost@nordland-akademi.no Hjemmeside: www.nordland-akademi.no Exhibition: The paintings of Gunnar Berg. Open: 3.–9.7. 11-17.

(35) RØDGÅRDEN

Strandgata, Melbu. Tel. 76 15 91 11 Exhibition during Summer-Melbu. Open: 1.–10.7. 12-18. Sales exhibition featuring the following artists. Thorstein Rittun (paintings), Runi Langum (drawings), Sigfrid Sannes (jewellery), Grete Anne Vangen (ceramics) and Dag Brattbergsengen (ceramics).

Ingunn J. M. Reinsnes «Ultima Thule»

(36) GALLERY AT FLATSET

Flatset. 7 km west of Stokmarknes Tel. 41 73 10 16 E-mail: valdisopmanis@googlemail.com Web site: www.artman.times.lv Exhibition: Pictorial art. Open: July–September. The artists live here and are open all day long. Valdís Opmanís is educated from the Art Academy of Riga. Solo and group exhibitions in Norway and other countries. Gundega Zíle is educated at the School of Woodworking in Riga and at the State University.

Elin Rindahl Steiro «Mother’s Love»

(4) Galleriet Parallell Univers

Storskjervøya, access by boat from Stokmarknes. Tel. 90 22 13 52 E-mail: myriam.borst@gmail.com Web site: www.myriamborst.com Art medium: Pictorial art. Exhibition: Showing by appointment by telephone. Will transport visitors by boat – NOK 200 per passenger, prior appointment by telephone. See overview on artists p. 13.

Ivar Mallaug «Dame II»

Bent Aune «Small Boat Marina»

(37) NEPTUN

Neptunveien, Melbu Tel. 76 15 98 25 E-mail: epost@nordland-akademi.no Web site: www.nordland-akademi.no Exhibition: Interactive exhibit in graphics, photos, sound and video designs. Exhibitors: Asle Lauvland Pettersen, Marius Almås Johansen, Silja Leivsdottir and Ditte Krus Tønnesen. Open: 3.–9.7. 9–15.

(10) Smia Silvia

Kalsnes, 8450 Stokmarknes. Tel. 91 16 80 92 E-mail: silviarehnlund@gmail.com Web site: www.rehnlund.com/silvia Art medium: Handmade jewellery in noble metals. Exhibition: Silvia Rehnlund’s jewellery. See p. 15. Open: Sat. and Sun. 12-17 and by appointment. Open year round. The artist resides on the premises.

(38) BATHING BOAT

Harald Oredam. Sculpture located across from the gravel football pitch, Melbu School. Dark larvikite. See p. 25.

(39) DAYS AND NIGHTS

Artscape Nordland. Sarkis, Turkey. Sculpture in two parts. Lødingen- and white granite. on the water line at the bridge spanning Børøya–Stokmarknes. See p. 6.

(40) TRANSFORMATIONS Electrical Transformer Shed

Myriam Borst. Decorated electrical transformer shed at Stokmarknes, near the hospital. See pp. 4 and 13.

(41) RÆK IV

Stone spiral near the bathing beach, Taen. Siv Johansen supervising artist. See p. 8.

LØDINGEN (42) FARKOST

Annelise Josefsen. Skulpture at Lødingen Upper Secondary School, Lødingen monsonite.

(43) COMMUNICATION

Ellen Jacobsen. Sculpture in cast bronze, at the Telenor building in the Telecom Park, Lødingen.

(44) LIFE POWER Electrical transformer shed Heidi Nygård. Decorated electrical transformer shed at the bus stop in Lødingen. See p. 4 and 26.

Ragnhild Adelheid Holten «Drifting rocks III»

(45) COASTAL POWER Electrical Transformer shed

Heidi Nygård. Decorated transformer shed at the entrance to Lødingen. See pp. 4 and 25.

(46) EYE IN STONE

Artscape Nordland Anish Kapoor. Lødingen granite. Stands on the shoreline at Hustad Farm, Lødingen Vestbygd. See p. 6.

SORTLAND

Karin Hay White «Titleless»

(47) GALLERI JENNESTAD

Jennestad Trading Station. Tel. 90 01 10 40 E-mail: kb@kongsnes.no Web site: www.jennestad.no Sales exhibition featuring Norwegian contemporary artists. Art medium: Oil paintings, graphics, sculpture. Open: 25.6.–4.8.: Weds.–Sun. from 11–17. Mon.-Tues. open by appointment. Permanent exhibition: Hamsun portraits, Jennestad Sculpture Garden.

Tove Hov Jacobsen «Veranda towards Møysalen»

(48) GALLERI VESTERÅLEN

Strandgata 33, Sortland Tel. 76 12 52 00 E-mail: postmaster@galleri-vesteraalen.no Web site: www.galleri-vesteraalen.no Exhibition: Dagfinn Bakke, Gunn Vottestad, Eva Harr, Kari Rindahl Endresen, and others. Art medium: Oils, water colours, graphics. Open year round Mon.–Fri. between 10–16, Saturdays 10 - 14, (Closed Sundays).

(11) Lihallen Cultural Centre

Sigerfjord Tel. 76 12 70 11/95 17 87 97 E-mail: post@lihallen.no Web site: www.lihallen.no Art medium: Painting and graphics. Exhibition: Tove Hov Jacobsen. (See overview of artists p. 15. Open: 26.6.–7.8. Weds.–Sun. from 12-16. (Closed Mondays and Tuesdays). Can be contacted year round for gallery showing.

(49) The Artists residence

Vesterålsgata 57, Sortland Sara Elstad Rehnlund has a solo exhibition (drawings and video) 14.–17.7. between 11–17 daily. Astrid Falch Rostad has the exhibition «Light and Nature. From Finnmark to Provence (paintings) 4.–10.8. 11-15 daily. Pictorial artist Elin Rindahl Steiro has her studio in The Artists’ Residence and open workshop. She has a solo exhibition in August. See overview on artists p. 17. Textile artist Anja Veronica Hansen has her studio in The Artists’ Residence and open workshop. See overview on artists p. 17.

(12) WORKSHOP SALES OUTLET CERAMICS

Risev. 253, Sortland Tel. 76 12 61 06/90 58 76 96 E-mail: imallaug@tnett.no Web site: www.mallaug.no Art medium: Ceramics. Exhibition: Ivar Mallaug has sales of ceramics directly from the workshop. See overview on artists p. 16. Open: daily 10–22. Applied crafts and unique items in stone and porcelain. Open year round.

Eva Charlotte Nilsen «Sea Mouse»

(50) COASTAL EXPRESS TERMINAL

Open: 9–15 and 00–3.30. 69.7º N. Decoration by Oili Puolitaival (see p. 17). Inside the terminal there are two texts that are part of the project Writings on a Field of Blue. See p. 10.

Anthony White «Ovation»

(51) SAABYE’S LIBRARY/HAMSUN FOYER

Sortland Hotell, 1st floor, Sortland. bust of author Lars Saabye Christensen, bust of Knut Hamsun and sculpture of the protagonist Herman created by artist Nico Widerberg.

(52) EKSPEDISJONEN (lunch restaurant) Blåbrygga, Sortland Exhibition: Alternating exhibitions. Open: During the restaurant’s scheduled opening hours. Open year round.

(53) HAVSØYE (Eye on the Sea), Artscape Nordland

Silvia Rehnlund «King Crab»

Sigurður Gudmunðsson, Iceland. Granite. Facing the waterfront at the marketplace, Sortland.

(54) INTERNAL DIALOGUE 26

Harald Oredam, sculpture at the entrance to the newspaper building. Rådhusgata 2, Sortland, Monsonite.

Siv Johansen «Black Organic Form»

(55) MANN MED EGET TAK [Man with His Own Roof]

Harald Oredam, 1987. Bronze sculpture at Breines, inner Sigerfjord, down on the shoreline.

(56) CURRENTS Electrical Transformer Shed

Heidi Nygård. Decorated electrical transformer shed in downtown Sortland, outside the former “Dairy” building. See p. 4.

ØKSNES (22) BLÅS IDÉ

T. Liens vei 3, Myre By artists: Hilde Skjønberg Hansen and Robert Tangrang. See p. 18. Tel. 95 81 01 61/41 55 01 16 E-mail: skjonberg@hotmail.com Web site: www.blaside.no Art medium: Glass art. Open: 28.5.–6.8. Mon.– Fri. 10–15. Saturdays 10–14, (Closed Sundays). Possible to make a reservation by telephone for a showing. Ring 95 81 01 61.

(21) GallerI 8439 Kvitbrygga

Nyksund. Tel. 92 09 14 93 E-mail: sigridszetu@hotmail.com Two exhibitions in Kvitbrygga this summer. First exhibition entitled “Once Upon a Time There was a Fishing Village” under the auspices of Øksnes Art Association. Exhibition: Gunn Vottestad. Open: 1.–17.7. from 12-18. Art medium: pictorial art; a film about Nyksund is also shown. Exhibition: Sigrid Szetu, Erik Tendeland, Hilde Tendeland as well as several designers from the region. Open 19.7.–7.8. from 12–18. Art medium: Pictorial art and jewellery. See overview of artists, Sigrid Szetu, p. 18.

(57) GALLERI TINDEN

Tinden, postal address: Storgata 30, Myre – Tinden Tel. 76 13 28 56/ 90 94 57 27 E-mail: post@finvag.no Web site: www.tinden.oksnes.no Art medium: Pictorial art. Exhibition: Dagfinn Bakke. Open: 24.6.–20.8. from 10-17.

Ingrid Larssen «Ctenophorae»

(58) GALLERY ARCTIC SEASONS – Finvåg

Finvåg, postal address: Storgata 30, Myre – Finvåg. Tel. 76 13 28 55/ 90 94 57 27 E-mail: asle@finvåg.no Web site: www.arktiske-aarstider.org Art medium: Pictorial art. Exhibition: Jarle Rosseland. Open: 24.6.–20.8. from 10-17.

(59) GALLERI SOLHEIM

Sørvåg, 8432 Alsvåg. Tel. 76 13 11 41/ 41 10 80 14. E-mail: villy@iaksess.no Web site: www.solheimart.net Art medium: pictorial art in water colours, acrylics, oil, pastels and felt pen. Exhibition: Villy Solheim and Maria Solheim’s art. Open: 1.6.–5.8. Mon.–Fri. 10–18. (Closed Sat. and Sun.)

Karin Hay White «Northern Lights»

Siv Johansen «Fragments»

(60) NYKSUND EKSPEDISJON

Restaurant and café in Nyksund. Exhibition: photography by Ove Aalo this summer. Open: During the restaurant’s scheduled opening hours.

(61) EKSPEDISJONEN Vertsbrygga

Restaurant in Nyksund. Tel. 48 11 80 68 E-mail: post@nyksund-info.com Web site: www.nyksund-info.com Exhibition: C’è una storia by Ann-Helene Iversen. Open: 1.6.–31.8. from 12-24. Ivar Mallaug «Dame III»

(62) NYKSUND LV (festival)

Nyksund, Postboks 446, Myre Art exhibitions indoors and outdoors in several locations in Nyksund. Tel. 95 11 30 48 E-mail: vel@nyksund.no Web site: www.nyksund.no Art medium: Installations, objects, paintings, photos, sound and video designs. Exhibition: Christian Skagen, Karel Rouwenhorst, Marius Almås Johansen, Paul Timo Vrebalovich and others. Open: 13.–15.8. approx. 11–20.

(63) ETTERBILDER [After Images] Artscape Nordland

Inghild Karlsen. Granite, galvanised and polished steel, vacuum pressed acrylics and eternally lit lamps. Sculpture in two parts placed in the harbour park at Myre and on the market square in Nyksund. See p. 6.

Responsible for this brochure: Cultural Cooperation in Vesterålen. Margrethe Berntsen and Erik M. Bugge Editorial Committee: Ingrid Larssen, Ingunn Moen Reinsnes and Erik M. Bugge (responsible supervisor) Photographers: Pages 1–12: Trym Ivar Bergsmo, Erik Bugge. Heidi Nygård, Vegard Moen, Alf Oxem, Terese Riis and Svein Spjelkavik Reference texts: Pages 2–10: Bård Michalsen Layout: Advertisement bureau Mål og Mening AS in collaboration with the editorial committee.

(64) THE BOAT HOUSE Electrical Transformer Shed

English translation: Tim Challman.

(65) PORTAL

The artists from Vesterålen who are represented in this brochure are either members of national professional associations for artists or have been qualified for inclusion by a professional jury. There are more galleries this year than ever before. All galleries will be evaluated during the summer.

Karel Rouwenhorst. Decorated electrical transformer shed at the entrance to Myre. See pp. 4 and 17. Gunn Harbitz. At Myre Church. Granite.

(66) RÆK II

Installation of driftwood and stone at Valen, Stø. See p. 8. Other vesterålen artists with installations/sculptures, etc.

Sigrid Szetu «Titleless»

Silvia Rehnlund «Sea Urchin For Eternity»

Financed through a cultural agreement with Nordland County Administration. Christian Skagen «Drawing no. 110»

1 23 24 26 27

Andenes

= Art galleries/workshop studios/sales exhibits = Artscape Nordland = RÆK- og TRAFO installations = Sculptures/other 17

Nøss

66 16 21 60 61 62 63

Nyksund

2 25

Stø

Risøyhamn

22 63 64 65

Myre

Sørvåg

Tinden Hovden

Finnvåg

Jennestad

Straume

26 29 30 31

Vinjesjøen Kalsnes Skjervøy 39 5 41

Teigan

Rise

13 14 15 1711181219 20 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 56

Sigerfjord

Breines

Børøya Stokmarknes Hadsel Melbu 3

Flatset Taen

8/9 33 40

Sortland

6/7 34 35 37 38

Lødingen Hustad 42 43 44 45 46