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13.2 2010 kL 14.00
HAUGAR VESTFOLD KUNSTMUSEUM
29.1 2010 kL 17-20 galerie bel'art
Hyllning till KJARTAN SLETTEMARK
(1932 - 2008)
Nixon visions, 1971-74, akryl/serigrafi på duk, 100X81cm.
VÄlkommen till VERNISSAGE
Fredagen den 29 januari 2010
Klockan 17-20
Klockan 18 inviger Sune Nordgren
Samtidigt presenteras den
nya boken om konstnären
KjArtan Slettemark '
konsten att falla',
ca 275 sidor,
fotografier av Brita Olsson.
Carlsson bokförlag.
Release för den nya boken
torsdagen den 28 januari
klockan 17-18 i galleriet.
GALERIE BEL'ART
Birger Jarlsgatan 2, 114 34 Stockholm
Tel: 08-611 60 52, www.belart.se
Öppet: tisdag-fredag 11-17, lördag 12-16
Utställningen pågår till den 24 febuari.
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13/12 2009
foto: Brita Olsson
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Lørdag 19.september kl 15.00 med Knut Reiersrud m band
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KUNSTEN Å FALLE
LESSONS IN THE ART OF FALLING
FOTOGRAFIER AV NORSK PERFORMANCE OG PROSESSKUNST 1966-2009
PHOTOGRAPHS OF NORWEGIAN PERFORMANCE AND PROCESS ART 1966-2009
12.9.2009-3.1.2010
ÅPNING LÖRDAG 12.9 KL 14
FOREDRAG OM SÖRFINNSET SKOLE/THE NORD LAND VED GEIR TORE HOLM OG SÖSSA JÖRGENSEN KL 15
SEMINAR I SAMARBEID MED KUNSAKADEMIET I OSLO HOLDES PA FRITT ORD FREDAG 11.9 KL 10-17
KuRATORER: JONAS EKEBERG OG ELISABET BYRE
BAKTRUPPEN, PER BARCLAY, LENE BERG, JEANETTE CHRISTENSEN, DEN POETISKE TEATER, D.O.R., JOHN ÖIVIND EGGESBÖ, INA ERIKSEN, RIKSEN/FREMME/FÄRÖJ//JÖRGENSEN, MATIAS FALDERBAKKEN/GARDAR EIDE EINARSSON, HILMAR FREDRIKSEN, IVAN GALUZIN, GRUPPE 66, MARIANNE HEIER, ANDREAS HEUCH, MARIANNE HESKE, MARIUS HEYRDAHL, GOKSÖYR & MARTENS, GEIR TORE HOLM,KURT JOHANNESSEN, INGHILD KARLSEN, KONKRET ANALYSE, LAMBRETTA, ANE LAN, VICTOR LIND, ELISABETH MATHISEN, NEW MEANING, WENCKE MÜLEISEN, TOMMY OLSSON, SAMLIV, KJERTIL SKÖIEN, KJARTAN SLETTEMARK, BENTE STOKKE, WILLIBALD STORN, SÖRFINNSET SKOLE/THE NORD LAND, MONICA WINTHER, TORI WRÅNES
FRI INGANG PÅ ÅPNINGSDAGEN, GRATIS BUSS TUR/RETUR BORGGÅRDEN OSLO RÅDHUS/PREUS MUSEUM KL 12/16.30. BERGRENSET ANTAL PLASSER
SlettemarkART 2009
med kunst som brekkstang for endring
Naustdal 5 -7 juni
Fredag 5. juni Kl. 18:
Kunstverkstad for born med Karin Grönlund og Marie Grönlund.
Instedalen skule
Laurdag 6. juni
Kl. 10-15 Marknad i Naustdal sentrum
Kl. 12-17 "I kjARTans fotefar: Å vekke undring, å skape endring"
Minneutstilling for Kjartan Slettemark. Barnehagane og skulane i Naustdal
Spelemann Vegard Slettemark: Rosa
Velkomen ved rektor Kirsten Friis
Opning ved fylkesdirektør for kultur i Sogn og Fjordane fylkeskommune,
Ingebjørg Erikstad. Naustdalshallen
"Kosmisk Kos". Domus Kjartania, utstillingsopning
Arkitekt Bjørn-Are Vollstad, arkitekt Andreas Fadum Haugstad og biletkunstnar Jarle Kvamme
"Romleg glede" i bassenget på Naustdal barne- og ungdomsskule.
Elevarbeid ved kunst&handverkslærar Nina Masdal og elevar i ungdomsskulen
Kl. 14 V A K. Landskapsinstallasjon
Biletkunstnar Magne Vangsnes i samarbeid med ungdomsklubben Rampen
Opning ved ordførar Håkon Myrvang
"Kulokk og budeie". Naustdal Danseverkstad. Lagunen i Sanden
Kl. 15 Improvisert musikk til eit videopartitur. Trioen BMS (Bjørkø-Maribo-Shepard). Kommunehuset
Kl. 15.30 Miniseminar: "Med kunst som brekkstang for sentrumsutvikling"
ved ass. fylkesdirektør for kultur Svein Arne Skuggen Hoff
"Om å ikkje vere heime" ved professor siv.ark. MNAL Arild Wåge
"Domus Kjartania – ambassade for Kjartanistan i Naustdal?"
Arkitektane Bjørn Are Vollstad og Andreas Fadum Haugstad
Panel med Svein Arne Skuggen Hoff, Arild Wåge, biletkunstnar Magne Vangsnes,
utstillingssekretær i Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum Fridtjov Urdal, dagleg leiar i Sandviksboder
kystkultursenter Egil Sunde (prosjektleiar for "Budeie med kjARTanroser"). Kommunehuset
Kl. 19 Kunstkveld i Instedalen skule
Spelemann Vegard Slettemark
Slettemarkforedraget: "Ondt skal med kunst fordrives". Kunstskribent Harald Flor.
Vevringutstillinga presenterer 30-årsjubileet i september. Catrine Andresen
Med kunst skal Naustdal samlast. Skal vi skipe eit kunstforum i Naustdal?
Åsmund Berthelsen
Trioen BMS (Bjørkø-Maribo-Shepard)
Festleg samkome med sal av mat og drikke
Sundag 7. juni
Kl. 12-15 "I kjARTans fotefar: Å vekke undring, å skape endring".
Minneutstilling om Kjartan Slettemark.
Borna i barnehagane og skulane i Naustdal. Naustdalshallen
Kontaktperson:
Rådmann Anna Elisa Tryti, tlf 91890448
Naustdal info: >>>
KjARTan DepARTure
21 maj 2009 (K. Himmelsfärd) kl. 14–sent OSA här >>
Hammarby Artport, Virkesvägen 26, 6 tr
Kjartan Slettemarks videoverk och performance på video.
Digitalisman
DepARTure pARTy:
Neon Heart, Scandalites, DJ Mabuze, Xango, och VJ Telefunk
+ Kjartanistanier
Entré 50:- (endast kontanter)
Tvärbana eller buss 74 till LUMA, gå ett kvarter mot Sickla,
ta till höger på Maltgatan,
fortsätt upp för trapporna och gå till
vänster på Virkesvägen.
Man kan också ta
buss 2 eller 55
till Barnängen och ta färjan över till LUMA, eller promenera
från
T-Gullmarsplan.
Kontakt: Mattias Larson 0736 719770, mattias@glimp.se
Karta och mer information: www.hammarbyartport.com
Samtidskonstens
Ljusbärare är borta
Läs texter & se bilder ->
21/6 2008 ->
Hjortnäs Handel, Galleri, Leksand
Oktober 2008
Voksenåsen Galleri, Oslo
28/11 2008 ->
Centro Cultural Matucana 100,
Santiago de Chile, Chile
HUMANISTISK KULTURPRIS 2007
Tidigare utställningar
10/11 – 25/11 2007
Stor Liten Retro med Burka
Nationalgalleriet, Gamla stan, Stockholm
Öppet Tors–Fre 12–17 Lör–Sön 12–16
www.nationalgalleriet.just.nu >>
13/10 – 3/11 2007
Teatergalleriet, Uppsala Stadsteater
Vernissage 13/10 13.00-15.00
Öppet Mån-Lörd 12.00-18.00
www.uppsalastadsteater.se >>
6/10 – 6/11 2007
Kjartan himself as Marilyn
Galerie Bel’Art, Stockholm.
www.belart.se >>
Inaugurated by Jan-Åke Pettersson, October 6th >>
A book is published in connection with the exhibition
Kjartan himself as Marilyn, at Galerie Bel’Art, 6 October – 6 November 2007.
All works have the same title: Selfportrait as Marilyn.
Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, sizes in centimeters, height by width.
The edition is 700 examples, and a deluxe-edition
of 25 examples, signed and numbered 1–25
each containg a signed painting and silkscreen on paper by the artist.
Graphic Design: Johan von Friedrichs, Slow Fox produktion AB
© Photo: All pictures taken by Kent Belenius
The picture at the back is taken in the studio, Stockholm, June 2007
© Photo page 2, 12 and 13: Hans Esselius
Translation: Anette Lindegaard
Typefaces: Palatino [Adobe] and Berthold Akzidenz Grotesque
Paper: Silverblade 200g
Bookbinder: Carl Svanberg Tryckeri AB
Print: Palmeblads Tryckeri AB, Göteborg, 2007
Download the book as PDF kjartan_2007.pdf
3/8 - 5/8 2007
Naustdal Kunstfestival, Naustdal, Norge.
Budeia
Monument under uppförande.
Färdigställs till Kjartans 75 - årsdag den 6 augusti 2007.
30/5 2007
KJARTAN SLETTEMARK, KJETIL MANHEIM, LASSE MARHAUG Støytrio / Noise Trio
| BERGEN MUSIC POOL Samtidsensemble / Contemporary Ensemble
| BOREALIS
LYDSYSTEM DJs
Festspillene og samtidsmusikkfestivalen Borealis har i gjensidig begeistring
innledet et samarbeid. Borealis vil bidra med innslag til Festspillene og Festspillene
vil bidra til Borealis i årene fremover. Det er i denne anledning Borealis
presenterer verdenspremiere for ny mørk støytrio: Kjartan Slettemark (f. 1932)
er en kjent norsk politisk kunstner som sa opp det norske statsborgerskapet
sitt i 1966. Han lager mørk maskerade sammen med publikum. Kjetil Manheim
var trommeslager i det legendariske norske black metal-bandet Mayhem
(1983–). Lasse Marhaug står for det beste innen norsk noise i dag og syr
spikermatter for anledningen. Det nyoppstartede samtidsensemblet Bergen
Music Pool forsøker å gjøre stemningen litt lysere med slagere fra nåtiden.
Dirigent: Manuel Nawry.
Satelitt Borealis er kuratert av Borealisfestivalen. Samtidsmusikkfestivalen finner
sted 11.–18. mars 2007. Festspillene er medarrangør av konserten med Dansk
Radiokor under Borealis 12. mars 2007. Program: Nono, Bent Sørensen, Gabrieli og
Castiglioni.
www.borealisfestival.no
The world premiere for a dark noise trio: Kjartan Slettemark (1932) is a well-known
Norwegian political artist who renounced his Norwegian nationality in 1966. He makes a
dark masquerade along with the audience. Kjetil Manheim was the drummer in the legendary
Norwegian black metal band Mayhem (1983–). Lasse Marhaug is at the forefront of
today’s Norwegian noise, and is sewing a bed of nails for the occasion. The newly-started
contemporary ensemble Bergen Music Pool aims to lighten the mood with current hits.
Conductor: Manuel Nawry.
17/1 - 13/5 2007
"Attityd" Stockholms Länsmuseum, Diselverkstan, Nacka.
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Cosmo-Political Identity NoMad of Art
A Retrospective Peep-Show by Jan- Åke Pettersson
The following retrospective look at Kjartan Slettemark's unconventional life and creation covers a period of nearly 20 years. During this time, he and his art has existed under what is best characterised by William Burrough's statement, "Nothing is true, everything is permitted".
As often as the techniques have changed, his identity has metamorphosed. We can trace his development in his signatures, from the early paintings' "K.Slettemark", to when he finally arrives at the eccense of his own concept - "kjARTan", with art in the middle - when he himself is the artwork.
In his role as a living artwork he has continiously appeared in new guises - as an American president, as a poodle in his own dog's-life or as Dr Video to his most recent identity Mr Digitalisman. For lack of any specific geographical identity, Kjartan has become a Swedish-Norwegian borderline case, but is far from being one in a psychiatric sense, although he was classified as such in the late 60's, by virtue of not conforming in dress or in his attitude to art. He had to work hard to disclaim this accusation, but eventually succeeded as the title indicates. If anyone is worthy of the title Shaman, Kjartan certainly is.
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The painter and his eviroment (1959-64)
Art schools were to prove a predominantly negative experience for Kjartan, and not until 1963, when he made a decisive brake with their model methods, can we discern anything of that which characterises his oeuvre. The frame was getting too cramped in Oslo, and the general moralism was too severe.
Therefore, when the Swedish artist Inga Bagge turned up one autumn evening in 1959 at the Indremisjon Hotel where Kjartan worked, and started to talk of art sa an expression of personal and sensual freedom, he needed only 5 minutes to think before accepting her invitation to go back with her to Sweden.
The following day he left Oslo, and since then he lived in Sweden. Inga had been a student of "1947 year's man" Lennart Rodhe, but free and pedagogical use of "abstract movements" was in sharp contrast to the originator's more rigid system.
Kjartan soon realised this when he started at the Swedish Royal Academy of Art and chosed Rodhe as his teacher in 1962. It was a leap out of the frying pan and into the fire.
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Plastic art in semantic chaos (1965-67)
For Kjartan, plastic represented the abolition of norms concerning what a work of art should look like. It moved the boundaries of creativity to realms where nothing was true and everything was permitted. In the winter of 1964-65, he began his excursion to rubbish-dumps to look for objects, things that appealed to him sensually - "shapes that saw me". Some of these were incorporated in his plastic assamblage, "No.1, 1965", in which he has pacaked a green-painted sheet and some bits of plastic behind a large cross made of white plasticised canvas strips. 
The first picture he made with a political content is known in Norway as the Vietnam Picture. He made it in response to his emotions on seeing a photo in a newspaper of a child burnt by napalm. It was a white plastic painting, between red parted lips the letters VIETNAM were written over a burnt plastic doll and a "blood-splattered" American flag.
In the summer of 1965, the Vietnam picture shook Norway's cultural life more than any artwork before or after. From the perspective of art history it may be one of the decade's most importante pictures in Norway.
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Body art happenings & actions (1967-68)
Kjartan liked dressing in daring, expressive clothes, and in 1964 he had aquired a pink suit that had evoked a strong response, not least within himself. "I looked, and felt, like a shop dummy - and I liked it. It was good for my identity. " Like much of Kjartans art, the clothes were not made to be exhibited in galleries but to be used in life among people. The following year he said his reverberating Yes to imagination by having three coloured capped teeth put into his mouth, 2 green and 1 red. These he kept for 10 years. In Oslo he staged Norway's first happening, by sitting unannounced on a black pelt wearing a pink-painted jeans outfit, and laying a tarot or patience with 5000 portraits of Chairman Mao.
At Kjartan's first separate exhibition in Sweden he issued invitations with soil and grass seeds that he distributed naked in the street. Later he built a bed and moved into the gallery. The premises were dark and visitors were given electric torches to light their way around the many objects in this anarchistic eviroment. A female assistant in nurse's garb handed out pills to high and low. He used day-trips offerd by LSD in the 60's, and by liberating this side he found the road to his mind's "launching-ramps".
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Persecution (1968-70)
Earlier the same year he had been evicted from his studio flat. The bailiffs destroyed 6 works of art. The police were called in but did not intervene. The suit for damages was lost in the Supreme Court, after the defence counsel made the decisive plea: "Your Honor, what Mr. Slettemark does can not be called art."
One day, on way to the social security office, he took over a burnt-out hot-dog stand and started handing out "Soot-sausage with shrapnel mustard and plastic ketchup". He was reported by the owner for braking-and-entry and was arrested by a policeman with a dog. The event formed the starting point for a multi-media exhibition, "600 White-and-Black Police Hallucinations in Colour".
The police, who had increasingly interfered with his art and life in several other situations when he had refused to follow rules or paragraphs, had given him "pig-paranoia". At the social security office, wich he turned to as a jobless, homless artist to "get money for food and plastic", the officers formed their own private opinion of Kjartan. And when he turned up in his imaginative clothes and discussed his approach to art, one officer described him as "so eccentric in thought and appearance, that a layman naturally wonder if he is mentally sane". Kjartan personally was to become one of the sharpest criticts of this intolerant concept of Normality in swedish psychiatry.
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Persecution (1968-70)cont.
In the autum of 1968, the reports of the social welfare office were referred to a social psychiatrist, who diagnosed Kjartan as suffering from "mental illnes" and promptly offered him a bed in a mental hospital. When Kjartan turned this down, she prescribed him a jar of Hibernal pills - strong ataraxica - also known as Chloropromazine and Hibanil. He did not ingest the Hibernal (the name is associated withthe wor Hibernate), but used it as artistic material. One of his protecting police dogs was give pills for eyes and was transformed in to the drug dog "Hibernal-Basse".
In 1969 Kjarta had a break-through with the exhibition "Kjartan's psychiatric un-health - a borderline case", in which he assambled all his anti-psychiatric objects. The invitation cards were printed on social office welfare application forms. The bill for the exhibition was posted to the social welfare office. He's "case" filled a whole page in Dagens Nyheter, Swedens largest daily paper, and the threat of involuntary confinment was removed. Ha was an artist, albeit poor, but he was no longer a mental hygienic dilemma.
However, he's ordeals did not end here. He had succseded in getting a flat in a house that was to be pulled down at the end of the year, according to the bailiffs. Once again he would be out on the street. So he packed all his belongings, had them taken to the Museum of Modern Art and moved in as a squatter. He appealed for "asylum from the Swedish society, which persecutes non-conforming minorities ".
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Nixon visions (1971-74)
Nixon was the person and the identity that he was to pull down totally in his art. He found an attractive poster of Nixon and equipped it with a han holding a coffee-cup, from a Swedish advertisement. It was a striking paradox in Sweden at the time, with Bad-guy No.1 promoting the country's most popular coffee brand. This picture was Kjartans starting point for new actions. In nightly raids he plastered Stockholm with the coffee-drinking president. The picture could be seen everywhere. As usual when Kjartan was in action, there was a great deal of fighting, but also, for the firts time in many years, good art critique.
However, he was not satesfied. He now started serching for Nixons real identity beneath the polished surface. This generated an intensive visual "study of Nixons mental health". He began to operate on the sleek PR face with scissors and glue and produced a series of Nixon Cut Ups. In 1971 Kjartan exhibited 12 posters and portraits in Norway. During a performance with Nixon and fish blood at Nordkap, the whole exhibition was stolen, right under the nose of photographing American tourists. The police did not want to deal with the matter, since they considered the stolen goods were of no value.
Kjartan decided to write to Nixon in person to ask what he thought the vanished pictur was worth. "Since your apperance is more divine than material - if you see what I meen - I myself would suggest a price of 85,000 for yor portrait. Does this seem resonable to you, Mr President? "
The Identity Artist (1974-75)
In march 1974, he told the last Nixon story, he had managed to get his passport issued by the County Administration. It contained a photo of Richard Nixon, with Kjartan's hair and beard. He had assumed Nixon's identity, been stigmatised. The following year he travelled with his passport to New York to complete the metamorphosis. The passport marks the ultimate fusion of life and art. Here he found a symbol for his long path as an art object. Seven years of performances and a whole life dedicated to art are synthesised in his signature under his passport photo: kjARTan.
For a long time kjARTan had been leeding a veritable dog's life. In order to survive as an artist, it was advisable to be a good dog and wag one's tail to the authorities. In his own highly original way, he now wanted to visualise this, and decided promptly to become a dog.
He ordered nylon wigs from a factory on Reperbahn in Hamburg, and for 3 months worked on getting a tight-fitting and realistic poodle costume. With this specially designed poodle, he submitted himself as a work of art to the jury of the Liljewalchs museum spring exhibition.
Moderata Museet, Kotteriet & garbage art (1975-82)
At the end of the summer of 1975, Kjartan's activities took on a new character. He had rented an empty tobacconist's shop on Bellmansgatan in Stockholm and opend his own gallery. A year later, he renamed the gallery Moderata Museet - a pun on Moderna Museet, the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm - and changed its adress to Meinhofgatan 88a. As an "art terrorist" he fel vast sympathy for Ulrike Meinhof and dedicated a post-art stamp that could be pasted onto an envelope to her memory.
It smelled of christmas baking. Kjartan had the idea of making food for a nice Christmas table to decorate his gallery window. Once he got started, he could'nt stop.
His new identity was the Konstbagaren (Art Baker) who stood in his Konstitori (approx. Delicartessen), baking ginger bread policemen. And in this project both my male and female sides, and all my other characteristics, came to expression.
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Video - Polaroid (1978-82)
Kjartan's acquaintance with video as an artistic medium dates back to the
"STOP-ART". In a video taped performance at Liljevalchs museum i early 1978, with an American artist, Annie Hamburger, whom he plasticsed andgarlanded with pine cones. When the video was first introduced in the choc-a-bloc studio, where an electronic organ now accopanied its visual counterpart with technological beats, it was to alternate with his longstanding experimental filming, wich had been one of his innumerable means of expression since the day's of the gallery in 1967.
Polaroid photography played an important suporting role. He had used fas-developing polaroid on a small scale ever since the Transevision exhibition at Galleri Konst in 1976, but it was not incorporated in excavation project until 1979, when it took on it's most grandiose dimensions, with incessant snap-shots.
In 1 year, he took more than 8.000 of everything he saw and everything "the camera wanted to see".
The artistic status of video and polaroid was shifted yet again at the video and polaroid installation at Norrköpings Konstmuseum, where he mounted the polaroids on transperent plastic sheets, forming large quilts, contorted sculptures or, simply, Slettemark clothes.
In 1980 Kjartan started a clinic for "Video treatment", and "continuos treatment of children's groups as Polaroid-Daddy". In his role as video therapist and layer-on of media, he became Dr Video, who recived patients at his video hospital.
<< previousb11 (1965-67)
For Kjartan, plastic represented the abolition of norms concerning what a work of art should look like. It moved the boundaries of creativity to realms where nothing was true and everything was permitted. In the winter of 1964-65, he began his excursion to rubbish-dumps to look for objects, things that appealed to him sensually - "shapes that saw me". Some of these were incorporated in his plastic assamblage, "No.1, 1965", in which he has pacaked a green-painted sheet and some bits of plastic behind a large cross made of whit plasticised canvas strips.
The first picture he made with a political content is known in Norway as the Vietnam Picture. He made in response to his emotions on seeing a photo in a newspaper of a child burnt by napalm. It was a white plastic painting, between red parted lips the letters VIETNAM were written over a burnt plastic doll and a "blood-splattered" American flag. In the summer of 1965, the Vietnam picture shook Norway's cultural life more than any artwork before or after. From the perspective of art history it may be one of the decade's most importante pictures in Noorway.
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Juryens begrunnelse:
Human-Etisk Forbunds humanistiske kulturpris 2007 går til en kunstner med en omfattende, viktig og synlig produksjon. Han uttrykker seg i mange formater: skulptur, collager, kroppskunst, performance, multimedia, polaroidfoto og video. Miljøvennlig nok har han i flere tiår brukt søppel og avlagte materialer i sine installasjoner. Med et slikt blikk innlemmes menneskets hverdagsliv og strev i kunstens særegne verden. Kunstneren er samfunnsengasjert, og har på sitt særegne vis vist at protest er et viktig aspekt ved god kunst. Han gjør krav på total kunstnerisk frihet i sitt virke.
Kjartan Slettemark fylte i år 75 år. Han har vært en pioner på den skandinaviske kunstscenen, og preget samfunnsdebatten i to land. Han har aldri sluttet å fornye seg.
Slettemark er kanskje mest kjent for å provosere, men lekenhet og nysgjerrighet er vel så karakteristisk for ham. Han er rar og skeiv og annerledes, og ved å lekent insistere på sin egen annerledeshet, forsvarer han også retten til å være annerledes, noe han gjør med varme, entusiasme og mot. Menneskets ansikt - det mest nakne, sårbare og avvæpnende vi har, manipulerer han gjerne med et humoristisk glimt. Med dette utfordres vår kanskje farligste fiende - vanetenkningen. Kjartan Slettemark er genuint åpen og nysgjerrig i møte med publikum. Det er som om han sier: - Hei mennesker! - Hvem er dere? - Hvordan ser dere ut inni?
Det er juryens mening at det er nettopp en slik nysgjerrighet humanisme handler om. Det går en rød tråd av menneskekjærlighet gjennom alt Slettemark skaper. Når han provoserer og overrasker, er det ofte for å forsvare folk som trenger forsvar, som i det enormt gjennomslagskraftige verket "Av rapport fra Vietnam".
Prisvinneren har beholdt sitt rabulist-stempel fra 1960-årene helt fram til 2000-tallet hvor han er blitt hedret med blant annet Norsk kulturråds ærespris. Human-Etisk Forbunds jury takker for alle opprørske år og er glad for å kunne hylle 75-årsjubilanten Kjartan Slettemark med Humanistisk kulturpris 2007.
Juryen har bestått at Anna Bache-Wiig, Finn Skårderud, Steinar Ofsdal, Silje Riise Næss og Inger Marie Helle fra Human-Etisk Forbund.
Oslo, 23. november 2007
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Biography, exhibitions and performances
1932
Born on
August 6, on the farm Slettemark in Naustdal, Sunnfjord, in Norway, the youngest of four children.
1945
Before his final year of elementary school, he celebrated his 13th birthday just as the atom bomb exploded over Hiroshima.
1948-50
College in Førde.
1952-55
Norwegian Telecom operator course in Lillehammer.
Worked in Otta and completed his military service with the German Brigade in Regensburg.
Study tour to Rome.
1952
Worked in Oslo. Evening studies at the Klemetsrud Malerskole.
1956-59
Statens Håndverks- og Kunstindustriskole in Oslo.
1959
Admitted to the National Academy of Art under Reidar Aulie, but moved to Stockholm after a few weeks.
1960-62
Gerlesborgsskolan in Stockholm.
1962-65
Guest student at the Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm.
1963
Interrupted his studies under Lennart Rodhe and moved out to studios on Skeppsholmen with Erland Melanton as his teacher.
1963-65
Participated in exhibitions in Lidköping, Karlstad, Halmstad, Spånga and Norrtälje.
1964
June UKS Spring Exhibition in Oslo.
Refused by the Autumn Exhibition.
Took part in protest exhibition of refused artists.
Course in plastic techniques at the Hantverksinstitutet. His first experiments with the material.
Won a competition for the decoration of a monumental window in the Hallstahammar City Hall. The plastic window was installed in 1966.
1965
May The assemblage “No. I 1965” exhibited as “Picture of the Month” in the UKS showcase in front of the House of Parliament in Oslo.
July The Vietnam picture exhibited in the showcase.
Aug The Vietnam picture was attacked with an axe and received police protection. Later stoned in Stavanger.
First separate exhibition at the Woodstock Gallery, London.
Started teaching at Grundskolan för Konstnärlig Utbildning, Stockholm. Fired in 1968 due to refusal to assess pupils according to a standard distribution curve.
Sept Exhibition in Västervik with K G Nilsson.
Oct Exhibition in Värnamo with Inga Bagge.
Dec Participated in “14 Unge” in Stavanger, Oslo and Trondheim.
1966
Became a Swedish citizen.
Feb Exhibited with “Ung Generation -66”.
July Exhibition at Limhamn Konstförening with Jan Håfström.
Sept Exhibition at Liljevalchs, “Contemporary Swedish Sculpture”.
Dec Exhibition at Charlottenborg, Copenhagen.
“Nordic Youth Biennale”.
Exhibition at Galleri Mini, Stockholm.
1967
March Exhibition at Galleri 66, Stockholm.
May Exhibition at Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm. “City images”.
June UKS Spring Exhibition.
Sept Happening in front of Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo. Norway’s first ever!
Happening in Bredäng Public Library, Stockholm.
Two assistants.
Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
“Plastic”.
Dec Galleri Observatorium, Stockholm. His second separate exhibition is a total environment, which he inhabits together with Robert Jäppinen. Two plasticising performances, “Symfoni Realista Nr. I og II”.
1968
March “A Plastic Opera with Fried Eggs”. Happening with Robert Jäppinen at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, during a three-day presentation of international underground avant-garde, “Bombay Free School”.
“Symfoni Realista Nr III - diamanten Hué”. Happening with Robert at an art festival at the Dipoli University, Finland.
April Happening with Robert at the Department of Art History at Stockholm University, assisted by five students.
May Action at the annual ceremony of the Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm, 13 assistants.
June Anti-militaristic action in Norrtälje, 7 assistants.
July Action with Robert against the World Church Meeting in Uppsala.
Aug “Soot sausage with shrapnel mustard and plastic ketchup”. Took over a blown-up hot-dog stand.
Sept Galleri Observatorium, solo exhib. “600 White-and-Black Police Hallucinations in Colour”. Multi-media exhibition.
Oct Diagnosed as “mentally insane” by a socio-psychiatrist, prescribed a jar of Hibernal and offered a room at a psychiatric clinic.
Dec Galleri Café Mejan, solo exhibition. “600 White-and-Black Police Hallucinations…”
1969
March Skånska Konstmuseum, Lund. “Underground”. Plasticising of audience.
April Charlottenborg, Copenhagen. “Nordisk kunst”. “Hibernal splatter” - plasticising of clothes with Robert.
Founded “Högpartiet” (The High Party) which stood for election to Parliament in 1970.
Diagnosed as a “borderline case” by the social security office psychiatrist.
June “Lesson in the Art of Falling”. Performance where Kjartan walks the tightrope in a Stockholm park.
Aug Film show at Uppsala University.
Dec Observatorium, solo exhibition. “Kjartan’s Mental Unhealth - A Borderline Case”.
1970
Jan Squatted in Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Aug Bogesund prison. Interned for two months. Continuously arranges exhibitions in his barracks - “Radhusrätten”.
Nov Observatorium, solo exhibition. “Million Art - Social Rehabilitation”.
1971
Jan Krognoshuset, Lund, solo exhibition. “The Art of Falling”. Squatted the premises.
Feb Film show at Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
June Nixon posters.
Aug Galleri Aquarius, Honningsvåg, solo exhibition. The exhibition was stolen.
Oct Galleri Cheap Thrills, Helsinki.
Dec Galleri Sen Nin, Stockholm, solo exhibition. “A Thousand and One Nixons”.
1972
May Action with Nixon posters at Labour Day demonstrations in Stockholm. Eight assistants.
June Published “Nixon Head Catalogue”.
Aug Exhibition at NWT Galleriet, Karlstad, together with Robert.
Nov Exhibition at Göteborgs Konstmuseum. “A Thousand and One Nixons” and “Faces old and new”. Performance at the opening in a white dress.
1973
Feb UKS, Oslo. “Nixon Visions”.
March Norrköpings Konstmuseum, solo exhibition. “Nixon visions”.
May Club 7, Oslo, solo exhibition. “Nixon Visions”.
1974
Feb Exhibition of “Nixon Visions” in Umeå. Jan Horne started on his film about Kjartan. First version censured by NRK. Second version shown in 1978.
March Arbetets Galleri, Malmö, solo exhibition. “Nixon Visions”. Graphic Triennale at Liljevalchs, Stockholm. Passport with Nixon photo issued and stamped. Performance as fisherman at the International Art Fair in Basel. Later performed at Grafikhuset, Stockholm, and Linds Konsthall, Lund, with Sture Johannesson.
July Passport is exhibited in the press. Sweden’s six mayor daily papers had the passport photo on the front page.
1975
Feb Poodle performance at Liljevalchs, Stockholm. Submitted himself as a work of art to the Spring Exhibition.
March Poodle performance at Sture Johannesson’s exhibition at Galleri Legèr, Malmö. Poodle performance at inauguration of Malmö Konsthall. Poodle performance at Høvikodden Kunstsenter, Oslo.
June Poodle performance at the International Art Fair in Basel.
Aug Poodle performance at Liljevalchs during one of Olle Granath’s tours of the Moderna Museet collection.
Sept Kjartan opened his own “Galleri Konst”. The first exhibition was STOP-KONST, KONST-STOP”. Video.
Dec Poodle performance at the French Embassy in New York. “The Art of Wagging the Tail”.
1976
Jan Poodle performance at the inauguration of the artist’s magazine “Picture Newspaper” in New York.
Feb Galleri Konst. “Transvisions”. Exhibited Picture Newspaper. Polaroids.
June Kalvöya festival, Oslo. Posters.
Renamed his gallery “Moderata Museet”.
Nov Moderata Museet. Poster exhibition.
Dec Moderata Museet. “Konstitoriet” (Delicartessen). Until March 1977.
1977
Feb “Nixon Visions” and the passport included in the one-year tour of an exhibition arranged by the collective Gruppa Ljunej in Yugoslavia.
Mar Moderata Museet closed until October after fascist activists smashed windows with stones.
1978
Feb Spring Exhibition, Liljevalchs. “Kotteriet”.
Video performance with Annie Hamburger.
Sept Autumn Exhibition, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo. Vietnam picture and passport.
1979
May Moderna Museet, Stockholm. “Children and Video”.
June Kulturhuset, Stockholm. “Norwegian 70s - Tendencies”. Kjartan’s contribution was “A Tutanchbomanic Cultural Excavation” (alluding to the conservative party leader G Bohman). Food, pinecones, video and polaroids.
July Førdehuset, Norway. “Children and Video”.
1980
Feb Fotogalleriet, Oslo. Polaroids.
Gallerit, Stockholm. Passport and IDIOT-cards.
May Norrköpings Konstmuseum, solo exhib. “LOOK I SEE”. Video - Polaroids.
Aug Monumental ornamentation for Høyanger Rådhus consisting of 25 laminated Polaroid prints.
Oct Autumn Exhibition, Oslo. Video - Polaroids.
Nov Kunstakademiet, Oslo. Guest lecturer in video art.
1981
Feb Studio Teatro Galleria, the Culture Palace, Warsaw, solo exhibition. Polaroids.
1982
July The Norwegian people donated the Vietnam picture to Nationalgalleriet, Oslo.
1983
Jan Folkets Hus, Årsta. Group exhibition.
July Television programme on a Swedish national channel: Fantasiöppet TV2, Ivideohuvet på en konstnär – Individeohead.
1984
Dec Galleri Café Vära, Oslo, solo exhibition.
1985
June Dagen i Hagen, Oslo, an outdoor event.
Nov Stockholm International Video Art Festival, Kulturhuset, Stockholm.
Representative of historical and contemporary video art.
Live ART video performance, “Chroma-key Identity Blue”.
1986
Feb Stockholm Independent Art Fair.
Flower art sculptures.
“Garbage Fashion Show”.
March Galleri Helium, Paris. Installation with flower art and art video show.
March Hotel Rex Art. Performance, Garbage Fashion Show, Art en March.
May Toulouse. Exhibition and performance, Art Garbage Fashion Show.
July Sola Art International Festival, Norway.
Exhibition at Sola Strand.
Art Platform. Performance, “Art and Garbage Fashion Show”.
Aug Kongeparken, Stavanger, Norway. Creative project for children.
Sep Stockholm Mobile, Clothes as characterisation, group exhibition.
Sep PS1 Event, Augustendal, Stockholm. Performance, “Garbage Fashion”.
1987
March Galleri Fenix, Örebro. Solo exhibition, garbage collage, flower art sculptures. Video workshop.
April Art Garbage Fashion Show. Skärholmen Cultural Committee and Business Association.
May Sola Vidaregåede Skola, Norway. Retrospective, creative work with children.
Oct Performance, “Konsten går” (Art Goes), Inauguration of Art Week, Örebro.
Oct Performance, “Art Spraying”, Örebro Länsmuseum.
Dec Galleri Engström, Stockholm. Solo exhibition, flower art, garbage collage, sculptures, video installation.
1988
Feb Exit Stockholm, live video performance.
March Galleri F15, Norway. Video festival, live video performannnce, art video.
April Galleri S:t Olof, Norrköping. Solo exhibition, flower art, garbage collage, sculptures.
May Fylkesgalleriet, Förde, Norway. Solo exhibition. Flower art, garbage collage, video, sculpture, Helicopter-Performance.
May Awarded the City of Stockholm Honorary Prize for his artistic oeuvre.
June Kellerman Art collection. Dress in art, works by nine artists.
Dec Konsthögskolan, Stockholm. Art-88. Gestalt performance.
1989
April Uppsala University. Live Video Performance, Art Spraying.
May Galleri Sveger, Glasnost Segerkonst (Victory Art). group exhibition.
June Sandvikens kulturfestival. Performance, “Art Spraying”.
Aug Vadköpings Örebro konsthall. Installation, “Videoandakt” (Video Eucharist).
Oct Sveagalleriet, Stockholm. “Utsökta kroppar” (Exquisite Bodies). group exhibition.
1990
Jan Drammens Kunstforening, Oslo, Norway. Solo exhib. Vacuum icons.
Feb Wasahallen, Stockholm. Black Light Performance.
March Muu ryy Galleri, Helsinki. Solo video exhib.
Galleri Mallander, Helsinki. Solo exhibition. Retrospective.
March Galleri Sveger, Stockholm. Solo exhib. paintingss and objects.
June Smålands Konstarkiv. Joint exhib. “Utsökta kroppar” (Exquisite Bodies).
Oct Cultural seminar, Förde, Norway. Exhib. at Fylkesgalleriet.
1991
March Galleri Furst & Sörensen, Oslo, Norway. Retrospective and new art. Camille Colette Konst.
May Trondhjems Kunstforening, Norway. Joint exhib.
TMW Festival, Trondheim, Norway. Performance.
June Trondelags Kunstnerscenter, Trondheim, Norway. Solo exhib.
June The Allende Museum, Santiago, Chile. Swedish protest art to Chile.
Oct Midsommargården, Stockholm. AGY, Hägersten Art Society. Joint exhib.
Dec Gallery VYY, Stockholm. Rotating Christmas smorgasbords.
1992
Jan-Feb Galleri Plaisiren, Hässelby Palace. Artists living around Mariatorget in Stockholm.
Feb Östersund. Seminar at the art college.
Salon Municipal de Exposiciones, Montevideo, Uruguay. Retrospective solo exhibition.
May Trondhjems Kunstforening, Norway. Joint exhib. of the Museum’s collections.
Nov Guest on Aschberg chat-show. Performance Landstingskubism (County Council Cubism).
1993
March Stockholm International Art Fair. Galleri M, daily video performance.
Main Greenhouse, Rosendal botanical gardens, Stockholm. Dennispaketet går upp i rök (The Dennis Traffic Scheme Goes Up in Smoke). Joint exhib.
Mar-Apr Galleri M, Stockholm. Solo exhib.
Nov-Jan Teatergalleriet, Uppsala Theatre. Solo exhibition.
Nov Andalusiska hunden, Stockholm. Kjartan’s sculptures, photos by Diana Duhalde.
Dec Konstreservatet S:t Erik. Joint exhib. Opening performance.
1994
May Galleri M, Stockholm. Joint exhib.
Mejeriet, Naustdal, Norway. Solo exhib. Retrospective performance, “Art Spraying”.
Tivoli, Kungsträdgården, Stockholm. Exhibition.
June Haugesund, Sogn och fjordane. Purchased artworks in small retrospective exhibition. Performance, Art Spraying.
Nov The Dept. of Botany, Stockholm University. Inauguration of artistic decoration in the glass cabinet purchased by the National Public Art Council.
Dec Galleri Mocca, Göteborg. Solo exhib. sculptures.
1995
March Stockholm International Art Fair, Galleri M, One Man Show, sculptures, graphic works.
June Galleri c/o, Oslo. Solo exhibition, sculptures.
Aug Galleri Tomarps Gård, Kristianstad. Solo exhibition, sculptures, graphic art.
1996
June Millesgården, Stockholm. Solo exhibition of vacuum icons, graphic art, outdoor installation, “Garden of Eden of Sweden”.
July Millesgården, Stockholm. Performance, “Kjärringa med staven”, (The Hag with the Staff).
Sep Bergen University. Performance, “Kjärringa med staven” ((The Hag with the Staff).
Sep Galleri s.e., Bergen, Norway. Solo exhibition, sculptures, vacuum icons, graphic art.
Nov Galleri Agneta Kallur, Stockholm. Solo exhibition, sculptures.
Dec Sandnes Kunstforening. Solo exhibition.
1997
Feb Presentation of a sculptural installation, ”Sentralborddamerne og Kjartan” (The Central Switchboard Ladies and Kjartan), at the Telenor head office in Oslo. Purchased by Telenor, Oslo.
Feb Inauguration of the sculpture “Den lilla harpan” (The Little Harp) in the Norwegian House of Parliament, Oslo. Performance, Harp Art, together with Arne Nordheim and Norwegian MPs.
Drammen Kunstforening, Solo exhibition, vacuum icons, graphic art, “Kjärringa med staven” performance.
July Fylkesgalleriet i Sogn och Fordane, Förde, Norway. Solo exhibition, sculptures, cacuum icons, graphic art, “Kjärringa med staven” performance.
Sep Galleri 54, Gothenburg. Solo exhibition, sculptures, “Kjärringa med staven” performance.
1998
Feb “Come Closer”, ’90s Art from Scandinavia and its Predecessors, group exhibition shown at Liechtensteinische Staatliche Kunstsammlung in Vaduz, Nicolaj Museum in Copenhagen and the Ludwig Museum in Budapest.
March “Hjärtat sitter till vänster” (The Heart is to the Left), group exhibition of Swedish art 1964-1974, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Luleå Konsthall, Uppsala Konstmuseum and Södertälje Konsthall
April The Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital in Stockholm. Scultural installation, “Världspremiär” (World Premier), purchased by Stockholm County Council.
July Bodö Kunstforening. Solo exhibition. Art from the ’80s and ’90s. “Kjärringa med staven” performance.
Sep Stavanger Kunstforening, Stavanger. Solo exhibition, sculptures, ”Kjärringa med staven” performance.
Sep Stockholm Cultural Capital 1998. “No One’s Dog”, Moderna Museet.
Oct Stockholm Arkipelag, Nordiska Museet. “Swedish Mess”.
Nov Tim Galleria, Sofias Skafferi, Stockholm. Solo exhibition.
Dec Södertälje Konsthall. ”Juldyrkarna” (The Christmas Worshippers). Group exhibition, sculptures.
1999
March Galleri Christian Dam, Oslo. Solo exhibition, sculptures.
June Haugar, Vestfolds Kunstmuseum, Tönsberg. Retrospective exhibition.
Nov “Diáspora”, Oviedo, Spain, International Art Meeting. Sculpture installation at Campo Amor, and chess performance on the Cathedral Plaza.
2000
June Uppsala International Contemporary Art Biennial. “Kjärringa med staven” performance.
Sep Sunfjord Kunstlag, Förde. 25th anniversary, group exhibition. “Digitalisman” performance.
Autumn exhibition 200, Bergens Kunstmuseum. Sculptural installation, “Digitalisman” performance.
2001
Jan Stockholm International Antiques Fair, Sculptural installation, “Digitalisman” performance.
Feb Sandefjord Kunstforening. group exhibition.
March Bahnhof Stockholm. “Digitalisman” performance in connection with the inauguration of Bahnhof’s IT server hall.
May Eikaasgalleriet, Jölster. “Till bords” (At Table), group exhibition.
June European Conference on Art and Politics, Hotel Bristol, Oslo. “Digitalisman” performance.
Sep Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm. Sculptural installation. group exhibition.
2002
jan Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tönsberg, Norge ” Bodies ” solo show
sep Steninge Slott, Märsta, Stockholm, retrospective exhibition with
Odd Nerdrum
dec Trans-Art, Trondheim, Norge ”bodies” solo show ”Helt om konst” performance
2003
APRIL Studio ALMA, Stockholm, performance "Drop in destruction"
may Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tönsberg, Norge, retrospective solo show
on-going until may 2006
2004
FEB Stockholm Art Fair, Älvsjö, performance "marilyn"
march Trondheims Kunstmuseum,Norge retrospective solo show
may Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Moderna by night, performance ”Kjartanistan”
och ”Digitalisman”
Rydöbruks Konstnärsby, Halland, ”4 kanter” group exhibition
performance ”Digitalisman”
july Sogn og Fjordarne Kunstmuseum, Förde, Norge, retrospective solo show
nov Haninge Konsthall, Stockholm, ”Attityd” group exhibition
performance ”Marilyn”
NOV Candyland, Stockholm, performance “Usch Bush”
2005
feb Norrtälje Konsthall, Norrtälje, “Attityd” group exhibition
performance ”Marilyn”
april Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping, performance “Digitalisman”
may Candy Tour, Stockholm, performance ”Videobehandling"
sep Vevring, Norge, group exhibition, performance ”Digitalisman goes
Medicinman”
SEP "en kanon efter Munch" Korad till en av 10 viktigaste konstnärerna i Norge
efter Munch.
2006
feb Candyland, Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, ”Mini-Market”, samlingsutställning
Stockholm Art Fair, Galerie Bel´Art
may Galerie Bel´Art, Stockholm, group exhibition
june Hå Prästegård, Jären, Norge retrospective solo show, performance
”Digitalisman goes Medicinman”
aug Festivalutställare Steinker Jazzfestival,Norge performance ”Digitalisman
goes Medicinman”
Ålesund Kunstförening Ålesund, Norge, retrospective solo show
performance ”Digitalisman goes Medicinman”
sep Bomuldsfabriken Arendal Norge, retrospective solo show
okt Jubileumsutställare Konstnärsklubben Stockholm
Norska Kyrkan Stockholm, group exhibition
nov Sollentuna Konsthall, Sollentuna ”Attityd” (Attitude) group exhibition
2007
JAN Nacka Konsthall, Nacka , ”Attityd” samlingsutställning
FEB "Supermarket" Candyland, Konstnärshuset Stockholm, samlingsutställning
FEB Stockholm Art Fair, Sollentuna, Galerie Bel`Art, samlingsutställning
APRIL Laholms Teckningsmuseum, Laholm, samlingsutställning
MAJ Borealis, Bergen Festspel" Stöjkonsert, performance "Marilyn goes Medicinman"
AUG Naustdal Kommune, Norge, Kjartans75-års-jubileum, retrospektiva utställningar
på 3 olika platser i kommunen. Invigning av skulpturen "Budeia", performance
Dervishdans runt Budeia.
OKT Galerie Bel`Art, Stockholm, separatutställning, "Kjartan himself as Marilyn"
OKT Teatergalleriet Uppsala, separat retrospektiv
OKT Operatingplace PUB, Stockholm, samlingsutställning + Marilyn-installation i ett
av PUBs Skyltfönster.
NOV Nationalgalleriet Stockholm, separat retrospektiv, performance "Ge burkan ett
ansikte"
2008
JAN Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, performance "Kjartan som Pudel"
FEB Stockholm Art Fair, Sollentuna, Galerie Bel`Art, samlingsutställning
JUNI Agneta Kallur Galleri, Hjortnäs, separat retrospektiv, performance resning av
Kjartanistanska midsommarstången samt dans runt denna.
OKT Vallentuna Bibliotek, Vallentuna, separat
nov Centro de Arte Matucana 100, Santiago de Chile, separat
nov Nationalgalleriet, Stockholm, julutställning