HANSEartWORKS

HANSEartWORKS 2016 will be hosted by two main venues, S12 Galleri og Verksted and Kraft Rom for Kunsthåndverk in June 2016. Both venues are situated in the heart of the city and focus on contemporary Art and Craft with a special emphasis on material exploration. The exhibition will focus on the balance between artistic freedom and constraint.

The statement of the curators of HANSEartWORKS 2016, Æsa Björk and Martin Woll Godal:

Rules both written and unwritten play important roles in our daily lives as well as in the way in which we approach materials, tradition and the creative process. Igor Stravinsky once said: “my freedom will be so much greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles.” (Poetics of Music in the form of six Lessons, Harvard University Press 1942).

As a symbol of trade, regulations and artistic opportunity artists and designers of all disciplines from the Hanseatic cities has been invited to submit work that focuses on the craft and the material while at the same time fitting perfectly the constraining format of a EUR-pallet on which it is both shipped and displayed.

Artists: Marit Tunestveit Dyre, Trine Hovden, Barbra Lorentz Hofer, Uwe Schloen, Janno Bergmann, Matiass Jansons, Marijke Schellekens, Ignatowicz, Marcus Schramm, Lucie Marsmann, Manfred Feith-Umbehr Amit Goffer, Eva Preckwinkel, Alar Raudoja, Carl Wetter, Hans Gerd Rehpenning, Yvonne Habbe