DETROIT KUNSTHALLE

'Detroit Kunsthalle Under New Management'

Studio17, Stavanger 2018

In collaboration with Sayed Sattar Hasan

Nicholas John Jones and Mathew Lacosse

DKH COVID19-NEWS 2020:

JANUARY 2021:

COVID-19 COMPLIANCE

We are limiting the number of people permitted into the Detroit Kunsthalle at any one time and introducing a number of other measures to keep our visitors and staff safe. We ask that all visitors abide by the following guidance:

Please do not come to the Detroit Kunsthalle if you are ill or displaying any symptoms of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Please pre-book your ticket online.
Visitors are required to wear a face covering at the Detroit Kunsthalle, in line with the current government guidance.
Please maintain social distancing within the Detroit Kunsthalle and follow the one-way routes we have introduced, if possible.
Please make use of the hand sanitisers provided around the Detroit Kunsthalle area.
Our foyer and cloakroom is currently closed. Only really really small bags will be permitted into the Kunsthalle and these must be carried safely at all times.

While The Detroit Kunsthalle is temporarily closed to support efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), we will be offering you ways to experience contemporary art and culture, to inspire curiosity, and to remain connected to one another during this period of collective hibernation.

The Detroit Kunsthalle started with the mission of making contemporary art in public spaces accessible to the widest possible audience, and over the last years, we’ve been astounded by and deeply grateful for the incredible enthusiasm and support you’ve shown us.

We can’t wait to welcome you back to the Kunsthalle, and we’ll keep you posted on when we will be able to reopen. We are wishing you all good health, and hope to see you soon.

MAY 2020:

Due to the COVID-19 situation Detroit Kunsthalle will for the coming season be shifting from physical to virtual.

MARCH 2020:

Detroit Kunsthalle will always put the safety and well-being of our guests and employees first, under all circumstances.

We are therefore sorry to have to inform that due to the fight against the outbreak of COVID-19, and as a preventive measure against the spread of the virus, Detroit Kunsthalle is currently closed.

We are cancelling all physical events scheduled in 2020.

Going forward we will follow the advice from the The Directorate of Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health and Sola, Sandnes and Stavanger municipalities, and act accordingly.

We appreciate your understanding in this matter, and we look forward to welcoming you back to Detroit Kunsthalle in the future.

Detroit Art Couture

Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo 2018

In collaboration with Tone Bjerkaas

DETROIT KUNSTHALLE

An artist-initiated laboratory for art & public space. Physically located at an eight meter long and three meter wide shoreline plot named Stranna, situated at Lurahammeren in Nord-Jæren on the Norwegian west coast. The plot Stranna has been donated to the project for the purpose of artistic exploration within the field of art & public space.

The vision for Detroit Kunsthalle: Create, curate and conduct programmed activities on the donated site itself, but also temporary nomadic productions created and conducted elsewhere, in collaboration with invited artists.

The concept of Detroit Kunsthalle is also used as a form of material and a source for various art productions presented elsewhere; Studio17, AiR Sandnes, Rogaland Kunstsenter, etc...

Freezing feet,

in descending

sand,

surrounded

by salty

water.

Scent of shore,

blends

with

dried seaweed

and the smell

of vegetation.

Big

old

trees

are swaying,

along with thin,

fragile,

dancing sand straws, beau-

tiful and calm.

Elegance

captured by

the westcoast wind, while

the train passes.

On its way,

somewhere.

Massive sound,

but not

unknown.

It also belongs.

NOMADIC RESERCH LABORATORIES:

2020

AiR Bergen, USF / Bergen

Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder, Trondheim

ISP Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger

The

gusty

wind

travelling

with

the train

meets the

gentle

wind

from

the fjord

and greets

for a moment

before

dancing

on,

and

away

through

the trees.

I’m back where I started. Where my grandmother held me while I watched my grandfather swim. Among the concrete from the factory, the still, huge, rocks, the big pipes, old pump tower, everything I'd later learn to climb. And love. The broken branches from the wind's ravages, scattered together with the plastic that has driven onshore. Patterns and grids. Blue, red, yellow, bottles and bags, driftwood. Large logs, small white shells. Old rope. This is how it ́s become, at this eight meter of sea-plot. My child-hood kingdom, my realm. And I spot my grandmother's neighbours old cat. She has become a grandmother too. White Whiskers. And I spot fishes. Birds. A crab. And so it has always been here.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

2018

Sayed Sattar Hasan (UK)

Nicholas John Jones (UK)

Mathew Lacosse (CA)

2017

Tone Bjerkaas (NO)

Detroit kunsthalle, Kjetil Detroit Kristensen

'detroit kunsthalle ist eine konvention'

AiR Sandnes, Sandnes 2018

'The Beginning of Forms'

Published by Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger 2018

Detroit Kunsthalle (DKH). Established 2017 at Lurahammeren - Nord-Jæren, Norway

...Through such actions, DKH is an institution that fundamentally incorporates self-reflexive examination and critique into its framework. Similar to the philosophy of open source software development, which allows any developer to modify and contribute to improving programmes for the use of all, this gives DKH the potential to evolve into a genuinely open institution of unprecedented quality...

- DKH 2018