https://mikeylaundryartgarden.com mikeylaundryartgarden Mon, 25 May 2026 11:41:59 +0000 https://mikeylaundryartgarden.com en https://mikeylaundryartgarden.com/Meet-Me-in-the-Hollow Mon, 25 May 2026 11:41:59 +0000 mikeylaundryartgarden https://mikeylaundryartgarden.com/Meet-Me-in-the-Hollow <img width="2800" height="1867" width_o="2800" height_o="1867" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c98fedc1bb04cf7d3a4d1d694dd6697bf4a678c9682510bc8c3e2dbc5787eb1/bodvar-hole-mlag-mmith-9063.jpg" data-mid="248712930" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c98fedc1bb04cf7d3a4d1d694dd6697bf4a678c9682510bc8c3e2dbc5787eb1/bodvar-hole-mlag-mmith-9063.jpg" /> Sonia BARREIRO, Lisa BROMS, Jenni ÖSTERLUND, Sahar TARZI Meet me in the hollow Vernissage 22.05. 18 - 22 22-24 May 2026 MLAG Halfdan Kjerulfsgate 4, 5017, Bergen. Opening Hours: 1-4 pm Saturdays and Sundays or by appointment Curated by Viola Dóra Lenkey MEET ME IN THE HOLLOW The feeling of safety so often involves the desire to disappear. Why do we need to become invisible to feel safe – and where do we go when we disappear? Meet me in the hollow brings together four artists to explore how safety is constructed in moments of uncertainty. Through installation, prints, and sculpture, the exhibition considers the ways individuals create spaces of refuge – physical, emotional, and symbolic – shaped by memory, fear, and the need for protection. Here, safe space is not a fixed location but an act: something performed, imagined, and continuously reshaped. It emerges through gestures of transformation and disappearance – hiding behind a locked door, retreating into childhood fantasies, reshaping memory, or dissolving into other forms. In these moments, invisibility becomes a strategy of self-preservation. The works trace how these impulses unfold across different situations: a public bathroom turned into a private refuge – a communal space that belongs to no one and everyone at once – Barreiro reveals how the simple act of locking the door can transform this moment into something deeply personal. To seek shelter is also to negotiate visibility. A non-place becomes a refuge: a site of privacy, care, and temporary invisibility. The faces and expressions depicted in Barreiro's prints extend this further, reflecting the quiet urgency of that need: to be seen only when we choose to be. Österlund approaches the question of visibility from the perspective of survival. She raises the question of whether disappearance is required in order to survive. Her practice holds the tension between disappearance as an individual strategy and endurance as a collective condition – asking who holds responsibility when the stakes exceed the self. Her hanging installation carries a military aesthetic, yet the softness of the textile introduces a striking contrast, emphasising the importance of care and emotional preparedness alongside physical survival. Broms constructs personal mythologies through the merging of human and animal forms, exploring how childhood fantasy and imagination can become a shelter for identity. Her large scale equestrian sculpture invites the viewer to move deeper into fantasy to construct one’s own narrative while it reflects gently on the tradition of equestrian statues based on the idea of power and domination. Broms offers a different approach for connection and noticing our surroundings. The merge of the female body with the horse feels like a mythology built from the inside out, a shelter shaped by the self. Tarzi works with the tension between remembering and forgetting, tracing how memory shapes and erodes the self. Her work reflects on the difficulty of recognising which memories are grounded in reality and which are not. Just as a mirror does not reflect reality but shows only fragments, constructions, and instability, her sculpture holds the same unsteady truth. The fragments of the mirror hanging above the torso allude to the identity crisis that can be triggered by a flood of memories. In the moment of forgetting, one's identity can be shaken – a fragility to which the missing parts of the bust sensitively allude. Together, they suggest that safety does not reside in external conditions alone, but in the internal structures we construct and inhabit. The hollow becomes a shared space – a private shelter – where vulnerability and care can co-exist. It is not a place of resolution, but of temporary holding space. The question lingers: are we hiding alone – or is there someone else in there with us?&nbsp; Curated by Viola Dóra Lenkey Supported by the City of Bergen <img width="2240" height="2800" width_o="2240" height_o="2800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a477bc113091cd1d88b4db64567d1bd7c4617f4b5dbe7f256f87f643a3c87acb/bodvar-hole-mlag-mmith-9069.jpg" data-mid="248712934" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a477bc113091cd1d88b4db64567d1bd7c4617f4b5dbe7f256f87f643a3c87acb/bodvar-hole-mlag-mmith-9069.jpg" /><img width="2800" height="1867" width_o="2800" height_o="1867" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2b66645745d7aa17fae95f5016b223d6c1aab03aab11f6b116ab62446787fd4f/bodvar-hole-mlag-mmith-8963.jpg" data-mid="248712927" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2b66645745d7aa17fae95f5016b223d6c1aab03aab11f6b116ab62446787fd4f/bodvar-hole-mlag-mmith-8963.jpg" /><img width="2240" height="2800" width_o="2240" height_o="2800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0ae52eef18e3ad4e6bd849fa7f29e7fa14bafb69cb849e505601ebeb97af2c02/bodvar-hole-mlag-mmith-9067.jpg" data-mid="248712933" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0ae52eef18e3ad4e6bd849fa7f29e7fa14bafb69cb849e505601ebeb97af2c02/bodvar-hole-mlag-mmith-9067.jpg" /><img width="2240" height="2800" width_o="2240" height_o="2800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa86d812b3a1d21833976989782f44d27e00098ee8586136dc0c5836b6e7c74f/bodvar-hole-mlag-mmith-8983.jpg" data-mid="248712931" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fa86d812b3a1d21833976989782f44d27e00098ee8586136dc0c5836b6e7c74f/bodvar-hole-mlag-mmith-8983.jpg" /> https://mikeylaundryartgarden.com/Knekt-Knackt Fri, 29 Nov 2024 12:51:23 +0000 mikeylaundryartgarden https://mikeylaundryartgarden.com/Knekt-Knackt <img width="7497" height="5001" width_o="7497" height_o="5001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6138a00f9dac23aa93897d1144ca3c2efbfbd44cbe8abb2907439f6a4fb67e31/Resized-1.jpg" data-mid="222615593" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6138a00f9dac23aa93897d1144ca3c2efbfbd44cbe8abb2907439f6a4fb67e31/Resized-1.jpg" /> Odin Austefjord Odin Austefjord’s Knekt Knackt Vernissage 02.02. 18 - 22 2-19 February 2024 MLAG Halfdan Kjerulfsgate 4, 5017, Bergen. Opening Hours: 1-5 pm Saturdays and Sundays or by appointment Curated by Michael Laundry Odin Austefjord’s new exhibition at MLAG allows Norwegian wood to tell its own story with its own voice. The interdisciplinary sculpture and sound art project concerns different species of wood types and their constituent structures. The sonic works for the exhibition look to the musicality of fibers in the trunk, and the unique tone and timbre signatures. The five types of wood used are Ash, Aspen, Pine, Birch and Spruce. The process of creating the sonic scape in the gallery to accompany the sculptures uses the force of a one hundred tonne hydraulic press forcing the trees to the breaking point. The artist calibrates the machine to snap the wood but preserve just enough structural integrity for the sculptures to stand on its own. The resulting broken trunks are a visual reminder of the artist’s search for nature's ability to transcend sonic ecotones and as a gesture meant to signal our fragile relationship to nature, as well as an ecocritical position of the market’s use of nature. The artist says, “when I break the tree, I have removed it from being valuable within the lumber industry”. The artist conscientiously asks what it means to put the trees into the ecosystem of the art market instead. The artistic effectively makes a postmodern shift from the productive economy to the symbolic one. Austefjord’s Knekt Knackt is an artistic research project in which the sonic recordings of the individuated timber experiments contemplate the laws of nature and the points at which their power can be challenged or broken using technology. At the project’s core is sonic research on the poetics of what might be termed “forest acoustics”. The poetic essence of the research may be understood as a romantic longing for what William Wordsworth described in, The Sublime and the Beautiful (1811), as “the law of sublimity”. For Wordsworth, nature has qualities both beautiful, inspiring love and passion, and the sublime as inspiring terror and awe. Austefjord’s new exhibition at MLAG searches for an aesthetic language where the sublimity of timber’s destruction informs a syntax and register unique to the species of wood investigated. Austefjord’s artistic positioning on the role of the human capacity for listening to wood is a posthumanist phenomenological position. This project acknowledges the essence of wood’s own communicative strategies, inverting or leveling any hierarchical sonic privileges between man and nature. Knekt Knackt looks at the emancipatory potential of the human relationship to nature. This year’s curatorial theme at the gallery examines EMANCIPATORY PRACTICES from multiple perspectives. Austefjord relies upon multi-media installation in equal parts to sculptural elements finding a distinctive approach to being in nature and being part of the sublime. While the trees may appear similar to us, the artist’s experience working with wood over a lifetime in art, furniture production and various carpentry tasks, means that the artist sees each tree as a unique life form. If the wood could speak, then the artist becomes a conductor raising the pitch and intensity in a choral frenzy. The artist sees the work as a kind of personal and ecological examination of the relationship between destruction, liberation and voice. Curated by Michael Laundry Supported by the City of Bergen <img width="7952" height="5304" width_o="7952" height_o="5304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/649d4b28eed1d2fc4cba3462a63e6e01861e875052b13e1b848686cd0d5acf5b/resized-3.jpg" data-mid="222615595" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/649d4b28eed1d2fc4cba3462a63e6e01861e875052b13e1b848686cd0d5acf5b/resized-3.jpg" /><img width="7952" height="5304" width_o="7952" height_o="5304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7209eb16d65187f6ee509724a187b17ef38eb125dcb58eedbfe4dd6deba9b82d/resized-2.jpg" data-mid="222615594" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7209eb16d65187f6ee509724a187b17ef38eb125dcb58eedbfe4dd6deba9b82d/resized-2.jpg" /> https://mikeylaundryartgarden.com/Never-Felt-Like-This Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:08:49 +0000 mikeylaundryartgarden https://mikeylaundryartgarden.com/Never-Felt-Like-This <img width="6192" height="4128" width_o="6192" height_o="4128" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/95712a281da4f80f8c128ae107e31ebe9be2cb75045a4287ae1f7cebff8f675a/IMG_2140.jpg" data-mid="236927983" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/95712a281da4f80f8c128ae107e31ebe9be2cb75045a4287ae1f7cebff8f675a/IMG_2140.jpg" /><img width="6192" height="4128" width_o="6192" height_o="4128" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66c421ecc4370c4afe430262008b8334b4f4c0098a713dcff9766bc5f45c77ba/IMG_2144.jpg" data-mid="236927985" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66c421ecc4370c4afe430262008b8334b4f4c0098a713dcff9766bc5f45c77ba/IMG_2144.jpg" /> Lena Trydal NEVER FELT LIKE THIS Lena Trydal 8.08.25 - 31.08.25 Opening hours: Vernissage 8.08 6-9 pm Saturdays and Sundays 1-4 pm or by appointment Each year MLAG is curated thematically. This year we discuss the theme `heavy in love´ after French Sociologist Roland Barthes´ A Lover´s Discourse.&nbsp; The book is a collection of fragments about love from Plato, Nietzche, and Goethe published in 1977. In the preface, Barthes tells us that “the lover's discourse of today is one of an extreme solitude”. Being in love is isolating on many levels. Almost 50 years later, the state of love, finding it, and our feelings toward it - are in a state of alienation. Lena Trydal’s ‘Never Felt Like This’ presents work interrogating Barthes’ assumptions. Barthes argues that love is “forsaken”, “disparaged, or derided” by the realm of natural and social sciences. But Barthes suggests love is an “unreal” thing that is nonetheless still affirmed. Love´s affirmation as a subject, a driver, and an adversario has been taken up by artists since the first cave paintings and continues to pose conundrums at MLAG. But what is it about love`s mediation in today´s frenzied and confident pop culture media landscape that makes it something needing to be navigated? … something to be mistrusted yet kind of affirmed? Lena Trydal´s series of oil paintings on stretched canvas parlays as lover´s do with what Barthes calls the “unreal” of the language of love - when the mechanisms of our rational faculties fail us and we still affirm love´s authenticity. Trydal plums the world of reality TV shows and royalty-free stock images from the net,checking back in with the “unreal”. The process might be likened to found object art - where Trydal is the wizard tossing our readymade referencescape for a loop. In her own words, “the world of reality-TV and shows such as Love is Blind, Love Island, Married at First Sight, The Ultimatum and Perfect Match—a realm brimming with red roses, cheesy pickup lines, diamond rings, and clichéd gender norms”, these are the subjects and objects of aesthetic study. What story do they tell when appropriated by Trydal - whisked out into the public gaze again, sultry, still dressed up - yet naked. One possible way of seeing the evolution of the readymade is to see it as a movement pushing back against capitalism’s demand for growth. Trydal’s series of figurative paintings are no upside down urinals, yet in a post-Duchamp world we see objects differently - aesthetically, we see their relational potential more than we did before. Hal Foster - the old Princeton professor of Art History was freaked out by a younger generation of figurative painters since the 70’s. He worried that if the paintings weren’t meta-artistic - if they failed to have a critical self-referentiality - their appropriation of culture risks becoming spectacle. Trydal’s disruption of the everydayness of finding love does as Robert Grober and Cindy Sherman have done before her - make art make us step-outside of our assumptions about what has come before us. Trydal’s painting’s sometimes imitate the selected source yet, their power is in the evidence of the artist’s hand. It draws our attention to the question of making. In elevating low culture, the artist returns to the conversation of "art-as-simulacrum", asking what the simulation substantiates?&nbsp; Trydal’s exhibition is full of paradoxes and the disenchantment of proximity. The act of drawing us closer to the hyper-detailed has the surprising effect of bringing us further away from its intended symbolism, zooming further and furher out, deepening our relationship to the superficial painted back upon itself. Curated by Michael Laundry MLAG is supported by the City of Bergen and Vestland Fylkeskommune Lena Trydal (b. 1994 in Kristiansand, Norway) is a Norwegian artist based in Oslo. She works with figurative paintings on contemporary pop and internet culture, using a colorful and humorous painting style. She has a bachelor’s degree in aesthetic studies from the University of Oslo and has studied fine arts at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (The Hague, Netherlands) and Metàfora (Barcelona). In 2022, Trydal participated in the opening exhibition of the new National Museum in Norway, “Jeg kaller det kunst”, a portrait of the Norwegian Royal family - a polemic work discussed widely in the press. She has also exhibited at “The State’s 135th art exhibition, Autumn Exhibition 2022” at Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo), Artists’ Autumn Exhibition (KE) at Den Frie Udstillingbygning, Copenhagen (2021 &amp; 2023), IRL Gallery (New York), KöSK Gallery (Oslo), TM51 (Oslo) as well as at Roodkapje Rot(t)terdam (Netherlands), among others. Works by Trydal have been purchased by the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design (Oslo). lenatrydal@gmail.com / @lenatrydal / lenatrydal.com <img width="5972" height="3981" width_o="5972" height_o="3981" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca18f846706b2ae1498b4200e4207198da7f5db9cd6b36bbaf80a39d283971e4/IMG_2145.jpg" data-mid="236927986" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ca18f846706b2ae1498b4200e4207198da7f5db9cd6b36bbaf80a39d283971e4/IMG_2145.jpg" /><img width="6192" height="4128" width_o="6192" height_o="4128" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9f443826a849b28d3fb9a8c050054ce2cc06b3d095c9b84026fbd24eb1d4f63c/IMG_2148.jpg" data-mid="236927987" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9f443826a849b28d3fb9a8c050054ce2cc06b3d095c9b84026fbd24eb1d4f63c/IMG_2148.jpg" /><img width="6192" height="4128" width_o="6192" height_o="4128" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4de9021ac34985ddb216ae73a0520a012977e8ba7b34fd33ce5aa8dfe3cfabfd/IMG_2150.jpg" data-mid="236927988" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4de9021ac34985ddb216ae73a0520a012977e8ba7b34fd33ce5aa8dfe3cfabfd/IMG_2150.jpg" /><img width="6192" height="4128" width_o="6192" height_o="4128" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bc3f734a5db2aea0ab18b9039a0b0076b786788d7f82eb5071c8a44770929f03/IMG_2154.jpg" data-mid="236927991" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bc3f734a5db2aea0ab18b9039a0b0076b786788d7f82eb5071c8a44770929f03/IMG_2154.jpg" /><img width="6192" height="4128" width_o="6192" height_o="4128" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1bafc998b11a33f3ee3aefd2e101798011440599b26a7bdcaa94f5e0015afc1a/IMG_2153.jpg" data-mid="236927990" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1bafc998b11a33f3ee3aefd2e101798011440599b26a7bdcaa94f5e0015afc1a/IMG_2153.jpg" /><img width="6192" height="4128" width_o="6192" height_o="4128" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bc3f734a5db2aea0ab18b9039a0b0076b786788d7f82eb5071c8a44770929f03/IMG_2154.jpg" data-mid="236927991" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bc3f734a5db2aea0ab18b9039a0b0076b786788d7f82eb5071c8a44770929f03/IMG_2154.jpg" /><img width="6192" height="4128" width_o="6192" height_o="4128" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/546c33ff1a2b1331f3ecb83f243d88accf5b9e9e7d7fde6675f135a5cd832bae/IMG_2156.jpg" data-mid="236927992" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/546c33ff1a2b1331f3ecb83f243d88accf5b9e9e7d7fde6675f135a5cd832bae/IMG_2156.jpg" /><img width="6166" height="4111" width_o="6166" height_o="4111" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c4f278ccac3811063002574893bf887018ed35e74cc4322609b99d817d1252b/IMG_2130.jpg" data-mid="236927994" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5c4f278ccac3811063002574893bf887018ed35e74cc4322609b99d817d1252b/IMG_2130.jpg" /><img width="6192" height="4128" width_o="6192" height_o="4128" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c014c905244c7f98d31cf1165dc0cd38b2ac9b96b023be508714f7222e69099/IMG_2133.jpg" data-mid="236927995" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5c014c905244c7f98d31cf1165dc0cd38b2ac9b96b023be508714f7222e69099/IMG_2133.jpg" /><img width="6192" height="4128" width_o="6192" height_o="4128" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/836d2f653e7d55750f8e6c4d00f2222648d41c915ee07ac7ea4455b990068f2c/IMG_2134.jpg" data-mid="236927996" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/836d2f653e7d55750f8e6c4d00f2222648d41c915ee07ac7ea4455b990068f2c/IMG_2134.jpg" /><img width="6192" height="4128" width_o="6192" height_o="4128" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/875901600767310ad6ca90fd41e8d4c70017bbcca71aeefc32cf84e1fb57f705/IMG_2139.jpg" data-mid="236927998" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/875901600767310ad6ca90fd41e8d4c70017bbcca71aeefc32cf84e1fb57f705/IMG_2139.jpg" /><img width="6192" height="4128" width_o="6192" height_o="4128" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/90433af18bfcc0c52290f541d6d7f31aeee065389b62019886cf58406c783015/IMG_2137.jpg" data-mid="236927997" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/90433af18bfcc0c52290f541d6d7f31aeee065389b62019886cf58406c783015/IMG_2137.jpg" /> https://mikeylaundryartgarden.com/Snart-Kommer-Det-Lystige-Bilder-2 Wed, 07 Feb 2024 16:30:30 +0000 mikeylaundryartgarden https://mikeylaundryartgarden.com/Snart-Kommer-Det-Lystige-Bilder-2 <img width="4956" height="3368" width_o="4956" height_o="3368" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/46559727f032b350e17e94405f16a1d9cdb68ca1b3e950c7e0c0c7c86137aebb/Oversikt1.jpg" data-mid="226600098" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/46559727f032b350e17e94405f16a1d9cdb68ca1b3e950c7e0c0c7c86137aebb/Oversikt1.jpg" /> Tore Winsents Tore Winsents Snart Kommer Det Lystige Bider 2 24 January - 9 February 2025 Mikey Laundry Art Garden MLAG Halfdan Kjerulfsgate 4, 5017, Bergen. Opening Hours: 1-5 pm Saturdays and Sundays or by appointment www.mikeylaundryartgarden.com IG:@mikeylaundryartgarden2 Photos: Daniel Torkelsen Tore Winsents b. 1985 Bergen is a painter primarily working in oil. Winsents holds a BA from the Bergen Art Academy, in 2015. This is Winsents’ first solo exhibition with the gallery. Tore is a fantastically enigmatic person and artist.I first got to know him about 10 years ago. I got invited over to his house for a barbecue. At that time, he was living in Sagene. Tore was kind of living like a skid up there, making sculptures and painting in the oldest medieval building in the neighborhood. There was usually a chain of really interesting people coming and going out of that apartment. Tore must’ve had tens of thousands of A4 papers stacked in columns anywhere from shin to thigh height. I realized that he had managed to draw his portrait over and over again. There was his face - or at least a kind of illustration of his face showing up again and again restricting himself only to about one blue, one green and I can’t remember what the other colour was. It was a mix of pencil crayon, and marker. The whole activity was equal parts artistic exploration, and part Stephen King. The process made me wonder why? What is this artist discovering in doing this? What does it mean?This kind of desire to understand is not the same as the desire to be understood. There is something that Tore has that all great artists hold, it’s the ability to captivate us and make us wonder why and how the artist gets to this point. I’m not sure how we got to this point, but it’s funny when you ask other people and other artists about Tore, they all have a good story about him and I haven’t met anyone who has not held him in high esteem either as a person or as an artist.As a painter he is charming. The colour palette on his brushes is pushed around in gestures that are both simple and exist within a pleasant time and space. A signaling of the pastoral exists paradoxically side-by-side the urban. The works are serene in the positioning of the individual in this idealized state. As soon as one attempts to define the figurative and its function in Tore’s urban pastoral, one quickly learns the limits and the problematics of interpretation. Susan Sontag argued that interpretation takes the sensory for granted. Tore’s work at MLAG appeals to our senses and makes us soft in our curiosity. <img width="5444" height="3588" width_o="5444" height_o="3588" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/61acd72391540a59e0c68761fbebbe7fdff8488c4099747a8e2d4ba32f398774/Ute.jpg" data-mid="226600105" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/61acd72391540a59e0c68761fbebbe7fdff8488c4099747a8e2d4ba32f398774/Ute.jpg" /><img width="4354" height="2908" width_o="4354" height_o="2908" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7759da270a122b69a2b3e6177198c195d73e6f2110d9ecfbb566ca9cf773cc16/0versikt7.jpg" data-mid="226600097" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7759da270a122b69a2b3e6177198c195d73e6f2110d9ecfbb566ca9cf773cc16/0versikt7.jpg" /><img width="5125" height="3357" width_o="5125" height_o="3357" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/37831d1c5abf1fbb06d286879d6f99a17c45babf3ddc4b592571425ed5781ef6/Oversikt3.jpg" data-mid="226600099" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/37831d1c5abf1fbb06d286879d6f99a17c45babf3ddc4b592571425ed5781ef6/Oversikt3.jpg" /><img width="4650" height="3100" width_o="4650" height_o="3100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eee08aa8d6ad4168ec7eb53432937ebda11f0fbb6604f447d553a5f603a7e988/Portrett1.jpg" data-mid="226600101" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eee08aa8d6ad4168ec7eb53432937ebda11f0fbb6604f447d553a5f603a7e988/Portrett1.jpg" /><img width="5224" height="3822" width_o="5224" height_o="3822" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0475d6729d26d64250766ed3bd7e896f52d4b02f7e4eb983fa626976e8ac5b3/Oversikt5.jpg" data-mid="226600100" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f0475d6729d26d64250766ed3bd7e896f52d4b02f7e4eb983fa626976e8ac5b3/Oversikt5.jpg" /><img width="4650" height="3100" width_o="4650" height_o="3100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bdbca09b933b9d2ff80efae55a5e68ddd71d9466aa4b13aee103d5ec01208136/Portrett7.jpg" data-mid="226600102" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bdbca09b933b9d2ff80efae55a5e68ddd71d9466aa4b13aee103d5ec01208136/Portrett7.jpg" /><img width="4650" height="3100" width_o="4650" height_o="3100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d977798aeaad6e16f401a3b2da1586fed9d443381f2fd80c9384bbde8d229d64/Portrett11.jpg" data-mid="226600104" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d977798aeaad6e16f401a3b2da1586fed9d443381f2fd80c9384bbde8d229d64/Portrett11.jpg" /><img width="4650" height="3100" width_o="4650" height_o="3100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/32c0c95399c1ab42b7ea1e2a173d59b61aaed4892942bbb386e878b00c04ee23/Portrett8.jpg" data-mid="226600103" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/32c0c95399c1ab42b7ea1e2a173d59b61aaed4892942bbb386e878b00c04ee23/Portrett8.jpg" /> https://mikeylaundryartgarden.com/Stay-Illusion Mon, 14 Jul 2025 06:50:35 +0000 mikeylaundryartgarden https://mikeylaundryartgarden.com/Stay-Illusion <img width="3378" height="5076" width_o="3378" height_o="5076" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/16e387e53adb652026de5d08ad2b419a51af374502fb48226e2034d9a0e5340d/L1015950-Enhanced-NR.JPEG" data-mid="235774672" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/16e387e53adb652026de5d08ad2b419a51af374502fb48226e2034d9a0e5340d/L1015950-Enhanced-NR.JPEG" /><img width="5212" height="3468" width_o="5212" height_o="3468" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab5acae33b827590aaf4b969476c57591ba3a5a88b38d63ddf1321f52345d8d5/L1015927-Enhanced-NR.JPEG" data-mid="235774671" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ab5acae33b827590aaf4b969476c57591ba3a5a88b38d63ddf1321f52345d8d5/L1015927-Enhanced-NR.JPEG" /><img width="5212" height="3468" width_o="5212" height_o="3468" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/03cd51d932562da512d41db4ed7b14a69f310d3252c5b355b4adf1eb0c5df455/L1015944-Enhanced-NR.JPEG" data-mid="235774676" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/03cd51d932562da512d41db4ed7b14a69f310d3252c5b355b4adf1eb0c5df455/L1015944-Enhanced-NR.JPEG" /> Emelié Sterner Stay, Illusion!Exhibition and performance by Swedish artist Emelié SternerMLAG 15-17 November 2024Performance program | Opening hours15 november 19.30 | 18.00 - 21.0016 november 14.00 | 13.00 - 16.0017 november 14.00 | 13.00 - 16.00 In a performance astrology and conspiracy theories are fragmentarily woven together with Hamlet and composed anecdotes. This in a spatiality where glamping and prepper culture seeks affinity with each other.The exhibition Stay, Illusion! examines, with an ambiguous narrative, the concept of truth. With a focus on source criticism and passive/active stances, the ”search for the truth" is investigated through live performance and small installations that are all connected to water in different ways.Here the water as performative material becomes a temporary place for censorship.It both acts as a free zone and a potential killer - for humans, the water is a temporary room as we cannot stay below the surface for too long. However, there was a time when that was considered a truth and drowned many women during the 17th century witch trials. What do relative truths look like today and what happens when they are perceived as absolute?With ready mades composed in geometric formations, water and light, the exhibition touches thoughts around the capitalization of doom, forest bathing and how Mars affects politics when it goes retrograde. Emelié Sterner (b.1986 in Umeå, Sweden) is an artist working with performance and installation. From a feminist perspective she is interested in spatial boundaries connected to cultural, social and trust capitals. Her work has been presented in group exhibitions and on performing art stages both nationally and internationally. This is her first exhibition in Norway.Sterner holds a BFA in Fine Arts at HDK-Valand.The exhibition is supported by The Swedish Arts Grants Committee and Bergen Kommune.www.emeliesterner.com@emelie.sternerThe exhibition is presented at the artist-run gallery MLAG, Mikey Laundry Art Gardenhttps://mikeylaundryartgarden.com/IG: @MikeyLaundryartgarden2Presscontact: Michael Laundry mwmklaundry@gmail.com <img width="3063" height="4604" width_o="3063" height_o="4604" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a4d17ec94ef9aa46f0621635f672ce254d01dd0d47a1955920e3589da5f801a1/L1015952-Enhanced-NR.JPEG" data-mid="235774674" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a4d17ec94ef9aa46f0621635f672ce254d01dd0d47a1955920e3589da5f801a1/L1015952-Enhanced-NR.JPEG" /><img width="3236" height="4864" width_o="3236" height_o="4864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b07c2a85a2854b5cea4be5f248b46226d206bc34360e3f362b4a52706fbd9802/L1015951-Enhanced-NR.JPEG" data-mid="235774673" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b07c2a85a2854b5cea4be5f248b46226d206bc34360e3f362b4a52706fbd9802/L1015951-Enhanced-NR.JPEG" /><img width="5212" height="3468" width_o="5212" height_o="3468" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ce595399fa2ccb90bfcd7e984d1e79e1be99f3974303d04768a3f5686c277127/L1015941.JPEG" data-mid="235774677" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ce595399fa2ccb90bfcd7e984d1e79e1be99f3974303d04768a3f5686c277127/L1015941.JPEG" /><img width="5212" height="3468" width_o="5212" height_o="3468" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/090a5150568666e06d27405fe1f0725afcad36908d58b4dcaef157836041bdc2/L1015931-Enhanced-NR.JPEG" data-mid="235774670" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/090a5150568666e06d27405fe1f0725afcad36908d58b4dcaef157836041bdc2/L1015931-Enhanced-NR.JPEG" /><img width="5189" height="3453" width_o="5189" height_o="3453" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0556a5c4346c91206b6d1bb88b023ae49818724afe0451746ee94c45be2d03c/L1015930-Enhanced-NR.JPEG" data-mid="235774669" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f0556a5c4346c91206b6d1bb88b023ae49818724afe0451746ee94c45be2d03c/L1015930-Enhanced-NR.JPEG" /> https://mikeylaundryartgarden.com/Whiskers-Varhar-Vol-1 Tue, 15 Jul 2025 20:17:37 +0000 mikeylaundryartgarden https://mikeylaundryartgarden.com/Whiskers-Varhar-Vol-1 <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a05775785ce41323a2231ca2cba77acba940d3f2fae282a129069f192cd13860/3G0A4480-copy.jpg" data-mid="235841701" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a05775785ce41323a2231ca2cba77acba940d3f2fae282a129069f192cd13860/3G0A4480-copy.jpg" /><img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e10ada5ff5034b1de8447cee81841bd36afd9ba5ea36e93a9d117c6f94667f5/3G0A4747-copy.jpg" data-mid="235841703" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1e10ada5ff5034b1de8447cee81841bd36afd9ba5ea36e93a9d117c6f94667f5/3G0A4747-copy.jpg" /> Sara Larsen Stiansen Whiskers Værhår Vol. 1&nbsp;MLAG 26th April - May 12 2024 Sara Larsen Stiansen’s lens captures hidden moments of young men finding themselves caught up in the chaotic world of group mentalities and mimetic desire. Whiskers/Værhår (Vol.1) is an art project that contributes to artistic research on Bergen’s Buekorps and the space between affection and discipline.MLAG is proud to exhibit the artist’s ongoing research project looking at Bergen’s Buekorps – a unique phenomenon in the country. Larsen Stiansen’s original work for the new space at MLAG harnesses an audiovisual vocabulary that is rich within a Gothic logic.Larsen Stiansen’s authentic and stylized understanding of the situatedness of her subject pitch us into a parallel city which exists within our city. In Italo Calvino’s short story The Garden of Stubborn Cats (1963), we are presented with “a kind of countercity, a negative city”. Within this countercity, Larsen Stiansen’s takes us on an evocative journey. The artist’s subtle observation of architecture, and our human, and non-human responses to it, evoke the uncanny, a new way of seeing and hearing the streets. The artist asks us to go beyond an anthropological architectural paradigm towards a sombre photographic street poetry.Larsen Stiansen has acquired the trust of the local Battalions through early mornings and rainy days over two years. Whiskers Vol 1 seamlessly weaves local histories, aesthetics and material culture studies.The artist uses video shot on DV, archival photography and performance. It is less a documentary than a project that catches glimpses, and bears witness to the artist’s immersion into the military sub-culture of children in soldierly play. The artist offers up remarkable moments through her access to not just rehearsals but also the entire ecosystem of parents, neighbors and peers. Larsen Stiansen is an artist who takes the time needed to be accepted. Her artistic practice creates new ways to see complex nuances of accepted behaviour in an often overlooked subject matter. Like earlier pioneers working with film, for example, Nan Goldin, any easy anthropological associations are instantly overturned so that new narratives can be found without prejudice.The titular significance of the work playfully asks the public to make associations with Calvino and a posthumanist phenomenological perspectives. Sometimes the Buekorps are like street cats. Left alone in the rain in dark alleyways to play. Whiskers help cats with hunting, socializing and making sense of their word. The role of ally cats in Bergen and the role of young men in military practice are two interrelated perspectives. The artist frames the phenomenological position of both through affect theory. The artist takes up Laurent Berlant’s early work with affect theory. Sometimes things are felt before they are known. Affect theory can be considered a sociology of accidental encounters, and it is here that Larsen Stiansen’s intuitive approach to the cinematic encourages new thinking about the small haptic moments of being within a group. It’s about capturing what is felt before it is known.Whisker’s is an important contribution to artistic research on localized tradition in Bergen. The art project itself stands as a statement about the kind of dedication to tradition we still find ourselves in regardless of association.Mikey Laundry Art Garden kindly thanks the Bergen Buekorps Museum (Buekorpsmuseet), and&nbsp;Norsk Fotografisk Fond (Nofofo)for their generous support of the project.MLAG is supported by the City of Bergen. <img width="6240" height="4160" width_o="6240" height_o="4160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5637332b0f211737997397bf59c5e429a32aee9721e38dcfa42beb97b0fcedf2/Documentation-Sara-Larsen-Stiansen.jpg" data-mid="235841682" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5637332b0f211737997397bf59c5e429a32aee9721e38dcfa42beb97b0fcedf2/Documentation-Sara-Larsen-Stiansen.jpg" /><img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b6ee1c799b4dd49b66f93e3c3ba22c7823e2372b0b03d6694614a8b6091709d5/3G0A4513.jpg" data-mid="235841702" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b6ee1c799b4dd49b66f93e3c3ba22c7823e2372b0b03d6694614a8b6091709d5/3G0A4513.jpg" /><img width="5664" height="3776" width_o="5664" height_o="3776" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d098da21541ca440a95f23c13bc2543cbf8a58211e294500938fc5b2be0d9a3/3G0A4445-2-copy.jpg" data-mid="235841700" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d098da21541ca440a95f23c13bc2543cbf8a58211e294500938fc5b2be0d9a3/3G0A4445-2-copy.jpg" /> https://mikeylaundryartgarden.com/DELEUZE-KREUZE Wed, 10 Nov 2021 18:23:07 +0000 mikeylaundryartgarden https://mikeylaundryartgarden.com/DELEUZE-KREUZE <img width="1416" height="797" width_o="1416" height_o="797" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/681c35d9a4f7684b69f096318d6d4e3131594fb3ed5ba79eb0a2d4656c59eb0f/Screen-Shot-2020-09-07-at-15.13.56.png" data-mid="124144850" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/681c35d9a4f7684b69f096318d6d4e3131594fb3ed5ba79eb0a2d4656c59eb0f/Screen-Shot-2020-09-07-at-15.13.56.png" /> DELEUZE KREUZ Deleuze Kreuz is a contemporary dance piece by Shelmith Øseth, Myclef Laun and Vonrik Haug working between modular synthesizers and choreography to explore the theme “post-vernacular” or what Antonin Artaud called “the language half-way between gesture and thought” from The Theatre and Its Double (1938). The titular significance of the project comes from conversations between Antonin Artuaud and Gilles Deleuze concerning cultural structures or zones.&nbsp; Both wanted to imagine cultural paradigm shifts away from the ontological certainties implicit in Western understandings. To this they conceived of a body without organs (corps sans organs), or in other words a structure or zone without imposed organization that can be sentient. Simply, if art institutions (including curators) are to impose organizational limits or structures on the artist what sentient thing is there that might be overlooked? What I mean by sentient thing is the intangible and perhaps immeasurable thing that occurs in a moment between gesture and thought.&nbsp; PhD in Philosophy and current PhD in Artistic Research at the University of Bergen, Craig Wells AKA Vonrik Haug describes these phenomena as “post-vernacular” philosophy. The project asks how we can have a thought outside of language.&nbsp; In other words, might we try to consider a body of artistic work, which finds unique ways of communicating? &nbsp;And furthermore, how can bodies of artistic work act as vehicles to express something unbridled by western intellectualism or what Deleuze himself might have called super imposing bodies. Concept‭, ‬Costume Design‭, ‬and Makeup by Myclef Laun Choreography by Myclef Laun and Shelmith‭ ‬Øseth Sound Composition by Vonrik Haug DELUEZE KREUZ is supported by Bergen Centre of Electronic Arts BEKPerformed at BEK and Mikey Laundry Art Garden (MLAG), Bergen September 21, 2020 <img width="1121" height="603" width_o="1121" height_o="603" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/046ab83b49f33596dbafb444ad7d8cffc2dfac2d4b1e2b87250a21d4e6d40782/Screen-Shot-2020-09-07-at-15.04.37.png" data-mid="124144849" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/046ab83b49f33596dbafb444ad7d8cffc2dfac2d4b1e2b87250a21d4e6d40782/Screen-Shot-2020-09-07-at-15.04.37.png" /> <img width="5938" height="3197" width_o="5938" height_o="3197" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/134c081df840019d87a235738abce299eedf4d6653ed1957279147467a1aadc6/Deleuze-Kreuz-Poster.png" data-mid="124144848" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/134c081df840019d87a235738abce299eedf4d6653ed1957279147467a1aadc6/Deleuze-Kreuz-Poster.png" /> <img width="1270" height="709" width_o="1270" height_o="709" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe0b01210e71fced2a5ae76d872560f6c1b9614b6900c4916888e7e8763f603a/Screen-Shot-2020-11-08-at-22.53.23.png" data-mid="124144853" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe0b01210e71fced2a5ae76d872560f6c1b9614b6900c4916888e7e8763f603a/Screen-Shot-2020-11-08-at-22.53.23.png" /><img width="1340" height="739" width_o="1340" height_o="739" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/914d00d3c421588c2c1c60a718ed604381e80b548b0008b7ee1fd43963a3edec/Screen-Shot-2020-09-18-at-21.54.46.png" data-mid="124144852" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/914d00d3c421588c2c1c60a718ed604381e80b548b0008b7ee1fd43963a3edec/Screen-Shot-2020-09-18-at-21.54.46.png" /> https://mikeylaundryartgarden.com/SIMILAR-TO-THE-ENERGY-OF-THE-SUN Thu, 21 Jul 2022 16:10:56 +0000 mikeylaundryartgarden https://mikeylaundryartgarden.com/SIMILAR-TO-THE-ENERGY-OF-THE-SUN &nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="5000" height="3335" width_o="5000" height_o="3335" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5779b144cb8cc52aecb84bd9c8d931f1c00d2e9b816926838ab4a0a95326fe19/sun_artgarden_03.jpg" data-mid="148444000" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5779b144cb8cc52aecb84bd9c8d931f1c00d2e9b816926838ab4a0a95326fe19/sun_artgarden_03.jpg" /> <img width="5000" height="3335" width_o="5000" height_o="3335" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9a852612cefa1c76c1fe05dae1c6ec5af52fbb01b77ad9d76bb775167b108eac/sun_artgarden_24.jpg" data-mid="148444002" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9a852612cefa1c76c1fe05dae1c6ec5af52fbb01b77ad9d76bb775167b108eac/sun_artgarden_24.jpg" /> In the exhibition the viewer encounters an urban garden. Materials such as metal, copper, and plastic function side by side with both living and dying plants, as industrial reminders that testify to a time that pushed knowledge of plants and medicine away from wise women and healers of the past, who in the late Middle Ages passed on free knowledge.The sculptures and the various objects in the installation reflects on the hidden, as something that is not completely transparent, but shows only a section of the world and history. Something is hidden under the sand or buried under the ground. The show also refers to the structures and mechanisms that move knowledge around from one social group to another.The title of the show is taken from Hildegard von Bingen’s description of the fern as a healing and protective plant that has a power that is similar to the energy of the sun and lights up everything that is in the dark. In the exhibition ferns are peeking out from under a surface reminding the viewer of lost knowledge. Von Bingen also known as Saint Hildegard and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner during the High Middle Ages. In “Similar to the Energy of the Sun”, multidisciplinary artist Amalie Vestergaard Olsen utilizes the en plein air gallery at MLAG to make a unique contribution to MLAG’s 2021 curatorial focus on plant and non phalogocentric ontologies. To a large extent one might see the titular significance as a nod to inventive minds which flourish within dark times. 2021 will be a year marked by the global pandemic. Finding relationships between us and plants has been a source of inspiration for artists. Vestergaard Oslen’s practice works with historical research and aesthetics of icon painting and medieval manuscript. The delicate balance between the liturgical and the ornamental function as a revisionist text. Dark ages then and now, have always had Saint Hidegards and Vestegaards. Vestegaard’s work in the botanical garden amongst the ferns evokes a plea to consider the transformative mystic/artists and plants that have come before us. &nbsp; <img width="5000" height="3333" width_o="5000" height_o="3333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d60c4272b99d69112ffa48194a96527881e929b31024cf8a14dc0a4a7754031b/sun_artgarden_21.jpg" data-mid="148444001" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d60c4272b99d69112ffa48194a96527881e929b31024cf8a14dc0a4a7754031b/sun_artgarden_21.jpg" /> https://mikeylaundryartgarden.com/LUMBER-LIMBER Wed, 10 Nov 2021 18:23:12 +0000 mikeylaundryartgarden https://mikeylaundryartgarden.com/LUMBER-LIMBER <img width="4160" height="6240" width_o="4160" height_o="6240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b669504b1e73b195237e86b477500b6766ec4384c7b63fb5a2af48fccb303f4f/DSCF5047.jpg" data-mid="141296640" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b669504b1e73b195237e86b477500b6766ec4384c7b63fb5a2af48fccb303f4f/DSCF5047.jpg" /><img width="6240" height="4160" width_o="6240" height_o="4160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/65241ae8b28dec39b28f77623a9e9956df1e0ecc96645d81e8ed077d0f59dd38/DSCF5036.jpg" data-mid="141296638" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/65241ae8b28dec39b28f77623a9e9956df1e0ecc96645d81e8ed077d0f59dd38/DSCF5036.jpg" /> LUMBER LIMBER MLAG proundly opened the 2021 season with a remarkable exhibition by Odin Austefjord. Austefjord's artistic work affords new insights into neo-encaustic forms merging with crafted wood. Through the layering of dried industrial paints, Austefjord’s approach to physical form is reminiscent of Rachel Whiteread and Lynda Benglis. Austefjord stages a dynamic choreography reliant on strength and spontaneity in the application of the industrial paints. Like lava flows, the industrial material find its own path through Austefjord’s deliberate architecture of richly harvested steamed oak spires.&nbsp; Austefjord's sculptures play with our ideas of consumption, disposability and preservation. The new sculptures on display in the gallery seemingly consume the jettisoned industrial paint, while exquisite steamed oak thrusts outward defying any meaningless spill of the lesser material. The carefully harvested choice oak strips come from Austefjord’s Grandfather’s land on the West-Coast of Norway. The Austefjord family history is often missed, but having the chance to spend time &nbsp;Odin and listen to the care in the types of foresting practices are involved, one can learn a lot about why the materials have value outside of the market-economy of lumber. Each strip of wood as been treated to steam baths then reassembled within Austefjord’s distinct sculptural practice. Michael Laundry Curator May‭, ‬2021 <img width="4160" height="6240" width_o="4160" height_o="6240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/78040e34345128a30d6763c47adae7e58a3404d035ca0c26290dc190b52932b8/DSCF5073.jpg" data-mid="141296648" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/78040e34345128a30d6763c47adae7e58a3404d035ca0c26290dc190b52932b8/DSCF5073.jpg" /> <img width="6240" height="4160" width_o="6240" height_o="4160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/38a9d0c084efcd9718946ce23b647d6287cb60b64f9c4c82fd9ca28bd8d617d7/DSCF5043.jpg" data-mid="141296707" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/38a9d0c084efcd9718946ce23b647d6287cb60b64f9c4c82fd9ca28bd8d617d7/DSCF5043.jpg" /> https://mikeylaundryartgarden.com/DON-T-GIRLS-KEEP-SECRETS-IN-THE-STRANGEST-WAYS Wed, 10 Nov 2021 18:23:01 +0000 mikeylaundryartgarden https://mikeylaundryartgarden.com/DON-T-GIRLS-KEEP-SECRETS-IN-THE-STRANGEST-WAYS &nbsp; &nbsp; "Don’t Girls Keep Secrets in the Strangest Ways" Astri Album,&nbsp; Maria Irgens Blakstad,&nbsp; Nora Shikoswe &nbsp; <img width="5000" height="3335" width_o="5000" height_o="3335" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/77e59dd115ebea1942ff6e92d5c3473bfb4e97b0c35464039b2e263eb08be316/2111_artgarden_32.jpg" data-mid="124146017" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/77e59dd115ebea1942ff6e92d5c3473bfb4e97b0c35464039b2e263eb08be316/2111_artgarden_32.jpg" /><img width="5000" height="3335" width_o="5000" height_o="3335" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c80599e625eaafa3d1a41d31627cddf56232120837037499d7ebf3ba7fd1737/2111_artgarden_01.jpg" data-mid="124145513" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c80599e625eaafa3d1a41d31627cddf56232120837037499d7ebf3ba7fd1737/2111_artgarden_01.jpg" /> “Don’t Girls Keep Secrets in the Strangest Ways” In the exhibition “Don’t Girls Keep Secrets in the Strangest Ways”, Bergen-based painter Astri Album proposes a hydro-feminist relational aesthetic as a strategy for neo-political times. With a keen eye for humour and a noticeable movement away from the post-political, Album brings with her an entourage of musicians and architects building ephemeral sonic and hydrological interventions at Mikey Laundry Art Garden. Album’s painterly style harnesses the energy of 20th century pop approaches, which relied upon ironic symbolism of the postmodern age –think Hockney or Warhol. But, like Anselm Reyle, she finds new sensibilities and new forms of expression. Album primarily works with un-primed canvas and acrylic. Objects, and graffiti are operationalized as brightly coloured banners within pleasant landscapes offering viewers any number of guesses at their significance. But, I would argue there is honesty in the motifs. One does not find the kind of irony of a generation ago. Moving between the cellar gallery and the open-air gallery audiences will delight in the drip, drip, drip of skin fountain installations. With thin veils of latex, these works invite introspection on what secret wishes accompany the loose change collected in their depths, or what Boris Groys called models for a new political world. This world is partly revealed through the handy work of architect Maria Irgens Blakstad. Blakstad’s foray into monumentalism within nature squarely places the architectural interventions in MLAG’s en plein air gallery as a bearer of water, a kind of dream-like Aquarian gesture, forward thinking, and humanist.&nbsp; This exhibition is especially lucky to have river-poet and lose canon Shikoswe testing the house acoustics with pleasing sonic interventions, holding the exhibition’s desperate arenas within a coherent body of work. I am pleased to have such a fine group of artists exhibit as the final show of the season for MLAG’s 2021 curatorial programme. We have had many fine contributions, but this one promises to be a delicate harkening to this year’s attention to women and non-phallogocentric positions through art and culture, and these things are a valuable part of what grows in the garden. Thank you to everyone who has supported us this year. Curator, Michael Laundry Astri Album is painter based in Norway. 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