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KARBONNERVE, Mottaket, Ålesund, spring 2026
KARBONHJARTE, Kunsthuset Kabuso, Øystese, November 2nd 2025
Vestlandsutstillinga, KUBE og Jugenstilsenteret Ålesund opening October 19th 2025
Vestlandsutstillinga, Kunsthuset Kabuso, Øystese, opening September 6th 2025
Between Sky & Sea 07: Flying Blind, at Nordøyane part of curator- and organizing team August-September 2025
Hybrid materialitet - om forholdet mellom kunsthåndverk og kunst(ner)bøker,
group exhibition at Opland kunstsenter 14th of June 2025
Vestlandsutstillinga, Rogaland kunstsenter, opening June 12th 2025
Video work at Riga Performance Festival 27th until 1st of June 2025
Make or Brake, group exhibition at Isotop Fellesatelier, Bergen 26th of April until 4th of May 2025

Make or Brake
26th of April-4th of May 2025
Isotop Fellesatelier, Bergen
The world is changing.
The world is fragile and unpredictable.
We would like to invite you to gather around art and call for an urgent art exhibition.
The theme is "Make or brake" and we want your work at Isotop Prosjektrom Galleri.
We ask that your work has not been exhibited before.
The exhibition is an inclusive project and the works will be mounted in a salon style.
We want works in all media, mainly in limited size.
We want to gather around art across different media and philosophies.

Organizers and curators: Torild Stray and Trine Lise Nedreaas

Artist book exhibition at Galleria Duetto
The exhibition opens 23rd of April 2025 in Helsinki, Finland

Riga Performance Art Festival
The videofilm The Sleeping Donor is selected for the festival STARPTELPA 2025.
27th of May-1st of June.

The theme of the Riga Performance Festival STARPTELPA 2025 is More-Than-Human. The festival will explore the multifaceted layers of interaction between humans and non-humans, focusing on interspecies reciprocity and the dynamic relationships between the natural and material worlds. Although performance art traditionally centers on the human body—shaping its forms, materials, and meanings around anthropocentric frameworks—the upcoming festival challenges this notion. Artists are invited to create works that conceptually decenter the human as a dominant entity, highlighting the capacities of other species, objects, and materials. By framing these works within the philosophical lens of posthumanism, the festival emphasizes ideas such as bioperformativity and the More-Than-Human paradigm, encouraging artists to engage with themes that transcend the human-centric perspective.

Bergen Art Book Fair 2025
CODEX POLARIS is part of Bergen Art Book Fair 3rd until 6th of April. The event takes place in Bergen Kunsthall, like previous years.
My book Palimpsest will be part of our table.

The artist collective CODEX POLARIS (founded 2013) focuses on the book as a work of art, the unique, the handmade. CODEX POLARIS creates opportunities and exhibition platforms for book artists in Norway and the Nordic countries, arranging exhibitions, initiating networking projects and text production. Run by visual artists Imi Maufe, Rita Marhaug and Randi Annie Strand.

https://babf.no/

FORMATION / 4+4, GROUP SHOW AT VEDHOLMEN GALLERI

From the curator Vibeke Harild:
Gjennom Formation/ 4+4 ønsker Vedholmen Galleri å bidra til økt synlighet og bedre muligheter for kvinnelige kunstnere
– fra en liten øy i vest.

Likestilling innen billedkunsten anno 2025
Til tross for at Norge ofte trekkes frem som et foregangsland innen likestilling, viser nyere statistikk at kunstfeltet fortsatt er preget av betydelige kjønnsforskjeller. Menn dominerer fortsatt salgsinntektene og har større tilgang til separatutstillinger, både nasjonalt og internasjonalt.

Ifølge Kulturdirektoratets rapport "Kunst i tall 2022" utgjorde kvinnelige kunstnere kun 21 prosent av inntektene fra videresalg av kunst i 2022, en nedgang fra 22 prosent i 2021. For verk av nålevende kunstnere var andelen 26 prosent, sammenlignet med 74 prosent for mannlige kunstnere

Heldigvis ser vi en økende bevissthet rundt denne skjevfordelingen, og gradvis skjer det en positiv endring. Men arbeidet for bedre kjønnsbalanse må fortsette – og nettopp her ønsker Formation/ 4+4 å bidra.

ENGLISH
Through Formation/ 4+4, Vedholmen Galleri wants to contribute to increased visibility and better opportunities for female artists
– from a small island in the west.

Gender equality in the visual arts in 2025
Despite the fact that Norway is often highlighted as a pioneer in gender equality, recent statistics show that the art field still is characterized by significant gender differences. Men are still dominating sales and have greater access to solo exhibitions, both nationally and internationally.
According to the Directorate of Culture's report "Kunst i tall 2022", female artists only accounted for 21 percent of revenues from resale of art in 2022, a decrease from 22 percent in 2021. For works by living artists, the share was 26 percent, compared to 74 percent for male artists.
Fortunately, we are seeing a growing awareness of this imbalance, and a positive change is gradually taking place. But, the work for better gender balance must continue – and this is precisely where Formation/4+4 wants to contribute.

https://www.vedholmen-galleri.net/formation-/-44-2025

AVKOM (offspring)
A group exhibition at Kunstgarasjen in Bergen Opening 13th of December 2024, ending 19th of January 2025
With artists:
Anne Tveit Knutsen, Arne Rygg, Astrid McGarrighan, Birgit Eide, Bjarte Bjørkum, Brynhild Grødeland Winther, Eleanor Clare og Dillan Marsh, Gunhild Sannes, Harald Tørresen, Judith elisabeth De Haan, Karina Herteig, Kristina Austi, Kwestan Jamal Bawan, Laura Gaiger, Lillian Presthus, Manuel Portioli, Rita Marhaug, Sara-Marie McGarrighan, Siavash Kheirkhah, Tone Andersen, Tove Tømmerberg, Trine Hovden, Vibeke Rød Kjøde

Curator is Jane Sverdrupsen
https://www.kunstgarasjen.no/utstillinger-1/avkom

Image: From the series "Life and Death" 75 x 115 cm, produced in 2008,
drawings based on family photos of the mother line of the artist.

Performance workshop at Art d', Valencia, Spain, 25-26th of October 2024
This is a 4 hour workshop focusing on composition of movement, sound and object al important elements of (visual) performance art.
Saturday 26th of October at 11.00 o'clock ant
Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana

Lugar: CCCC Centre del Carme, Sala Refectori
Fecha: 26 de octubre de 11:00h a 15:00h
Organiza: Associació Cultural Art D’
Produce: Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana
Tipo de público: Artistas, performers, artistas sonoros y de la improvisación y de la performance y l’art d’acció, músicos y poetas.

https://www.consorcimuseus.gva.es/centro-del-carmen/actividades/taller-amb-rita-marhaug/?lang=es

THE TILT OF THE EART (VERDEN VELTER)
Duo exhibition with Trine Lise Nedreaas at Galleri Langegården, Bergen opening 5th of October 2024.

Nedreaas og Marhaug har laget et felles prosjekt til denne utstillingen som består av film, foto og skulptur. Nedreaas har laget en ny film inspirert av Marhaugs univers. Filmen tar utgangspunkt i og retter en feministisk linse på myten om Sisyfos og tar i bruk ulike elementer og symbolikk fra folklore, eventyr og mytologi. Marhaug har rollen som mytisk vesen på sin vei opp fjellet. Underveis møter hun ulike utfordringer og erfaringer og går gjennom ulike kroppslige transformasjoner. Rekvisitter til filmen er adaptert fra Marhaugs tidligere performancer, mens andre er laget spesielt til filmen av Marhaug og Nedreaas.
https://langegaarden.no/

VEVRINGUTSTILLINGA
2024 19th-22nd of September 2024

Fantastic to be part of this 45 year old festival in Vevring, Norway showing my latest collection of HANDGJORT (hand made), wooden sculptures made of Sitka spruce.
Each of the 3 days a new performance is given.

In the background you se glass works from artist Æsa Bjørk

https://vevringutstillinga.no/

SALE TO KODE,
museum of fine arts in Bergen
I just got the news from my gallerist Galleri Vedholmen, that KODE has bought the double monoprint KARBONFANGST 01 (carbon capture) produced in 2021, at Foreningen Trykkeriet.
The work was part of my solo show at Vedholmen this spring.
Dimensions: each part 112 x 78 cm

Photo: Daniel Persson/Foreningen Trykkeriet

TRYKK I SANNTID 05: KARBONPULS
Galleri Nord-Norge opening 29th of August - 27th of October 2024
Group exhibition with:
Kjellaug Hatlen Lunde
Rita Marhaug
Åse Anda
Dominika Kemilä
Lise Anita Stenberg

Image of the installation FATET, (the Barrel)

https://www.gallerinn.no/utstilling/karbonpuls/

Photo: Rita Marhaug

MIDNIGHTSUNSCREAM FESTIVAL:
Min venn jeg drømte det jo bare
10th of August at The Barn, Kvalnes, 2024
Group exhibition, festival and party curated by artist Kjetil Berge.
Marhaug took part with four wooden sculptures from the series
HANDGJORT, (handmade)

https://www.facebook.com/kjetil.i.berge/

Photo: Kjetil Berge

KLAB, Kjerringøy Land Art Biennal
Special Edition 2023/24
Marhaug is part of the organizing team from the 22nd of June with grand opening the 6th of July at 12.00 o'clock at Kvarven ungdomshus, Kjerringøyvegen.

https://www.kjerringoylandart.com/

TRYKK I SANNTID: KARBONPULS
(print in real-time: carbon pulse)
For 3 days a team of 9 artists worked on big scale collective prints resulting in 9 variations with the headline KARBONPULS.
Our host was Den Frie Presse in Bodøgaard, Bodø.
https://www.bodogaard.no/den-frie-presse

Saturday the 22nd of June they could be seen in the spaces of Bodøgaard kunst og kultur
https://www.bodogaard.no/

KARBONPULS is part of Trykk i sanntid, a collective project initiated by artist Kjellaug Hatlen Lunde at KK-trykk, Lofoten, Norway
https://www.trykkisanntid.no/
https://www.trykkisanntid.no/about-3
Beside Den Frie Presse four more printmaking studios took part this year:
Guttormsgårds ARKIV Blaker, grafikkverksted
https://www.guttormsgaardsarkiv.no/pageom
Tou Trykk
https://www.toutrykk.no/
Foreningen Trykkeriet
https://www.trykkerietbergen.no/no/
Aggregat Kunstnerfellesskap
https://www.aggregatkunst.com/

Artists in Bodø:
Are Andreassen, Martin Losvik, Gøran Moya, Ole Meløysund,
Lise Anita Stenberg, Åse Anda, Dominika Kemilä, Kjellaug Hatlen Lunde,
Rita Marhaug

Images from the workshop at Bodøgaard

(POST)
The Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland
Welcome to the opening of the exhibition (Post), 7th June at 6pm.
The curator and artists will be present during the opening.
The multimedia art exhibition (Post) presents artwork created between 2005 and 2022 by mainly Nordic artists who question and reflect our time and our future. An underlying theme of these diverse works is the anthropocene – the most recent period in Earth’s history when human activity has started to significantly impact the planet’s climate and ecosystems. Most of the works depict post-industrial structures that raise questions about how we might think of coming times.

Curated by Ruth Hege Halstensen, this exhibition at the Nordic House takes on urgent questions in striking ways, featuring work by a stellar lineup of artists:
Nana-Francisca Schottländer (DK)
Katie Paterson (GB)
Marte Aas (NO)
Rita Marhaug (NO)
Anna Líndal (IS)
Rúrí (IS)

The exhibition is part of Reykjavík Arts Festival 2024.
Acessibilty to Hvelfing exhibition space is good. A ramp leads up to the main entrance of the building and from there an elevator goes down to Hvelfing. There is also a staircase leading to the exhibition space outside. Accessible and gender neutral restrooms are on the mainfloor. Entrance to exhibitions in the Nordic House is always free.

Photo credit;
„Fatet“2022 eftir RitaMarhaug. Ljósmynd: Bjarte Bjorkum

(https://nordichouse.is/en/event/welcoming-to-the-opening-of-the-exhibition-post/

ALT ENDAR, ALT BYRJAR
Vedholmen Galleri, (NO) solo exhibition opening 6th of April 2024

https://www.vedholmen-galleri.net/ritamarhaug-separatutstilling2024

Photo: Vibeke Harild

Trykk i sanntid 04: KARBONSYKLUS
Tou kulturhus Stavanger, Arkivet and Bruksrommet 1. of February-3. of March -24
Print in Real Time is a five-year long, collective project initiated by the artists Åse Anda, Kjellaug Hatlen Lunde and Rita Marhaug in 2019. Starting from the basic material carbon, the project brings together practicing graphic artists from all over the country to give poetic expression to the inscrutable paths of carbon. “Carbon footprint, carbon capture, carbon storage and carbon cycle” are well-known and crucial terms debating environment and climate changes. The substance itself – the element carbon – is also a fundamental factor in the material history of graphics, where carbon-black is a main ingredient. Through a defined and up-to-date theme, Print in Real Time opens up for individual, creative interpretations carried out in the spirit of the collective.

Print in Real Time has invited Bent Erik Myrvoll, Elin Kjøsnes and Rita Marhaug to interpret the theme of the carbon cycle in their own way. The exhibition will also show four joint works by 50 artists.

Trykk i sanntid er eit femårig, kollektivt prosjekt initiert av kunstnarane Åse Anda, Kjellaug Hatlen Lunde og Rita Marhaug i 2019. Med utgangspunkt i grunnstoffet karbon samlar dei utøvande grafikarar frå heile landet for å gi poetiske uttrykk til karbonets uransakelege vegar. Karbonavtrykk, karbonfangst, karbonlagring og karbonsyklus er kjende og svært aktuelle omgrep med sentral plass i miljø- og klimadebatten. Sjølve stoffet – grunnstoffet karbon – er dessutan ein grunnleggjande faktor i den materielle historia til grafikken, der sverte er ein hovudingrediens. Gjennom ein definert og dagsaktuell tematikk opnar Trykk i sanntid opp for individuelle, kreative tolkingar utført i kollektiv ånd.

Trykk i sanntid har invitert Bent Erik Myrvoll, Elin Kjøsnes og Rita Marhaug til å tolka temaet karbonsyklus på kvar sin måte. Utstillinga vil også visa fire fellesverk av tilsaman 50 kunstnarar.

KUNSTPODDEN
Wednesday 10th of February Codex Polaris had the pleasure of talking with Cecilie Tyri Holt about "kunstnerboken", -the artist book in realtion to the Nordic artist book exhibition we curated for Kristiansand Kunsthall, Kunstnerboken: unik og mangfoldig, September and October 2023:
(Norwegian language)
https://www.kunstpodden.no/podcast/episode/f60b1578/codex-polaris?fbclid=IwAR3cdlRQMJlrcQsXWyPEzSWqxBQhro6OfQmidN-Da1hXwHw3cUhx-8_qCjU

Kunstpodden er Norges første podkast om kunst. Vi ser nærmere på hvilke strukturer som ligger bak utstillinger og hvilke prosesser som styrer kunstnerskap.
Podkasten når ut til hele landets kunst- og kulturmiljø.
Ledes av Cecilie Tyri Holt og produseres av Flink Pike.
Lages med støtte fra Kulturrådet og Fritt Ord.

INTIMATED STRUCTURES
A group exhibition at Palacio de Bellas Artes, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Dec-23 until Feb-24.
The exhibition «Intimated Structures» is a direct response to the curatorial project «Whisper» by curators María Elen Ditrén and Juan Carlos Ditrén (CulturArte Dominicana), showed at Rogaland Kunstsenter a year ago.
The overall project is developed specifically for the exhibition collaboration between Rogaland Kunstsenter and Palacio De Bellas
Artes, of 2021-2024.

The Norwegian part is curated by Jane Sverdrupsen.

Fellow artists:
Ingvild Melberg Eikeland
Gro De-Martine
Lars Korff Lofthus
Vegard Ekberg

Photos: Rita Marhaug
Palacio De Galería Nacional del Palacio de Bellas Artes

PROMOTION OF THE INTIMATED STRUCTURES
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2fBjNFrqne/?igsh=MXBkNXl6MGRkbzkxeg%3D%3D&fbclid=IwAR08lV0zgMvU_HCyS7WqMQ5pMCvliwJq7s3_dX1Ru7AD2S5I23mIKslV02Q

Stories: The world is more complicated than our truths about it
Performancefestival in Kunstbanken Hamar, 19-22nd of October 2023
https://kunstbanken-offentligkunst.no/samarbeid-2023-2024/?newWindow=1

CARVING THE LANDSCAPE
Group exhibition at GEDOK Stuttgart, Germany from 20th of September - 30th of September 2023
Carving the Landscape ist ein druckgrafisches Experiment. Ein Teil wird während des Artist-in-Residence-Aufenthalts von ›Studio 3000‹ (Traci Kelly, Julia Wenz-Delaminsky und Christian Eickhoff) auf den Lofoten in Norwegen gemeinsam mit den Künstlerinnen Kjellaug Hatlen Lunde und Rita Marhaug entwickelt. Der andere Teil entsteht (wieder in derselben Besetzung) in Stuttgart in der Druckwerkstatt des Künstlerhauses. Fokus liegt auf der Landschaft und wie deren Eindrücke in visueller und akustischer Form übersetzt werden können.
Mit: Traci Kelly, Julia Wenz-Delaminsky, Christian Eickhoff, Kjellaug Hatlen Lunde, Rita Marhaug.
Ausstellung vom 21. – 30. September.
GEDOK-Galerie, Mittwoch – Freitag, 16 – 19 Uhr, Samstag 13 – 16 Uhr.

https://www.gedok-stuttgart.de/aktuell/rueckblick/carving-the-landscape/

Postcard design by Julia Wenz-Delaminsky

Artist in residency at GEDOK, 11th of September - 3rd of October 2023
Fantastic to be back in Stuttgart and Gedok to work and set up a new exhibition with good friends and colleagues from Germany and Norway.

Part of the production is supported by Office of Contemporary Art, Norway

Photo: Rita Marhag

Høstutstillingen
(The annual National Art Exhibition)
Opening the 9th of September 2023
The video work Fatet (The Barrel) is participating in this years exhibition.

https://www.nrk.no/anmeldelser/anmeldelse_-hostutstillingen-2023-1.16547794

Photo: Bjarte Bjørkum

Kunstnerboken: unik og mangfoldig,
artist's books from the Nordic coutries
in Kristiansand Kunsthall and Kristiansand folkebibliotek, Norway

Opening 1st of September, last day 29th of October 2023
https://www.kristiansandkunsthall.no/utstillinger/kunstnerboken-unik-og-mangfoldig

Curtors: Codex Polaris (Imi Maufe, Randi Strand, Rita Marhaug)
Photo: Rita Marhaug

CHART Book Fair 2023
The artist collective Codex Polaris focuses on the book as a work of art - the unique, the handmade. Codex Polaris creates opportunities and offers a platform to book artists in the Nordic countries, arranging exhibitions, as well as initiating networking projects and text production opportunities. Codex Polaris is run by visual artists Imi Maufe, Rita Marhaug and Randi Annie Strand.
This year, Codex Polaris is promoting the exhibition Kustnerboken: unik og mangfoldig, opening at Kristiansand Kunstall and folkebibliotek Friday August the 1st.
https://chartartfair.com/exhibitors/codex-polaris
Photo: Rita Marhaug

CLUELESS//TRÅDLAUS
- A Local Festival in Kvalnes on Saturday 5 August
Midnightsunscreamfestivalen 2023 i
Midnightsunbar'n, Kvalnes.
Everyone is welcome to a one-day festival at Kvalnes,
Saturday 5 August from 15.00 o'clock in Haverringen 936.
Local and international contributors generously share their work for the festival which hosts film, video, crafts, design, visual arts, film and video.
Rita Marhaug and Chris Reddy offer performance and unexpected incidents and In Star Losnegaard's Auditorium, Kvalnes we host the premiere of The Last Spring, (2023) by Franciska Eliassen.

From 6pm - 7pm food is available to buy, please feel free to bring your own food / drinks and then we can all enjoy socialising and karaoke (!) until 12 p.m.
We look forward to seeing you there.

Curator: Kjetil Berge

Poster image: Sara Korshøj Christensen, "Going Metal - Be Kind"

Stories. The world is more complicated than our truths about it
https://opowiesci-stories.pl/
Stories. The world is more complicated than our truths about it is an interdisciplinary art project financed by the Norwegian and EEA Funds,realized from April 2023 to March 2024 by the Mazovian Museum in Płock in partnership with Kunstbanken, a cultural centre located in Hamar, Norway.
The project is inspired by the oeuvre of Franciszka and Stefan Themerson, avant-garde artists connected with Płock and appreciated all over the world. Since 2021, the Mazovian Museum in Płock has been presenting a permanent exhibition “Themerson Gallery” dedicated to them.
The two outstanding artists’ work was interdisciplinary in character, it included experimental film, animation, painting, graphics, book publication, literature (prose, poetry, books for children, theatre, opera, philosophy and experimental photography. Not only its international dimension is important
for us, but also the local one. Stefan Themerson spent his childhood and youth in Płock, where Franciszka's mother also grew up, whereas the couple spent a significant part of their life in England, moving from Warsaw via Paris to London.
Where does the title "Stories" come from?
Storytelling is the oldest way of communication between humans as social beings. Stories can be told in various ways. People like to hear stories because there is real life in them. Every person and every work of art carries a story. By creating art, we share our experiences, feelings and knowledge with others. By openingup with all sincerity, we build trust, which is the basis for real and creative cooperation. In the project, the title "Stories" play the role of a universal language (method) by
means of which the partners propose to enrich the experience of participating in art, its understanding, reception and creation. The subject matter of the stories is all-encompassing, understandable/accessible and inclusive. We begin with the individual and finish with the universal.
Art has an inherent quality of establishing communication/transferring information, which gives a different status to our experience.

Carving the Landscape
Stuttgart – Lofoten, artist exchange.
Artists in residence at Kunstkvarteret from June to July 2023
Participants:
from Norway
Kjellaug Hatlen Lunde and Rita Marhaug
from Germany
Studio 3000 (Traci Kelly, Christian Eickhoff, Julia Wenz-Delaminsky)
Exhibition:
Carving the Landscape
2nd of July, Kunstkvarteret gallery Hagskarveien 82 8370 Leknes, Norway

https://kunstkvarteretlofoten.no
https://www.trykkisanntid.no/ kunst

HENDELSER VED HAV
Gyldenpris Kunsthall, (NO) opening 8th of March 2023
Hendelser ved hav (Incidents by the sea) is an exhibition that presents artworks by 6 artists living in Western and Northern Norway / Sápmi:
Agnete Tangrand
Elin Mar Øyen Vister
Hanne Grete Einarsen
Fernanda Chieco
Rita Marhaug
Terese Longva
We are visual artists currently researching materials and subjects related to rural contexts, as opposed to the urban and new technology, which often dominate contemporary culture. Not just the theme, but also our choices of places to live have deeply influenced our production. Modernity versus tradition and cultivation versus nature are the common themes for the works displayed at the exhibition. We intend to create a space of reflection for the viewers to experience a productive interface between past and future. Without being sentimental or nostalgic, we intend to present a broader picture of our lives, here and now.

RØYND OG KJENSLE (Experience and Feeling)
at kunsthuset KABUSO, Øystese,
https://kabuso.no/program_/marhaug-longva/

preparation for opening with Terese Longva the 28th of January 2023.

25 liters painting the walls in the colours:
Blek sand (Pale Sand)
Grå skifer (Gray Slate)
City Scape

Photos from the installation process:
over; Terese Longva's images -almost there...
under; a selection of Rita Marhaug big prints from fotoshoot in July -22 very professionally assisted by Bjarte Bjørkum!

Al inkjet prints produced at Trykkeriet, Bergen
https://www.trykkerietbergen.no/no/

Photos: Rita Marhaug

trykk i sanntid 03: KARBONLAGRING
Group exhibition, Norwegian Printmaker's galery, opening 5th of Jan. untill 11th of Feb. 2023.

https://www.norske-grafikere.no/utstillinger/#03

Photo: Rita Marhaug

BOOKED
Codex Polaris is attending the exhibition Booked at the Cable Factory in Helsinki from 26th of November.
Showing Bibliotek Nordica

https://www.muu.fi/events-and-exhibitions/

Photo: Rita Marhaug

JULEUTSTILLING (Christmas Exhibition)
I am taking part of this charming group exhibition at Christinegård Visnings- og prosjektrom for the next weeks.
Good atmosphere and nice artworks fore sale from local artists.

Thanks to the organizors and Karina Herteig

https://www.gallerichristinegaard.no/utstillinger-2

IDENTIDAD SUBVERTIDA
I am proud to be part of the X edition of PHOTOIMAGEN in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
The group exhibition is opening 1st of September 2022

CODEX POLARIS at CHART book fair
CODEX POLARIS was invited to the second book fair at CHART ART FAIR. We exhibited works by 10 artists: Nanna Amstrup, Solveig Landa, Randi Annie Strand, Lisa Him-Jensen, Imi Maufe, Elisabeth Rydland Nilssen, Hans Ragnar Mathisen, Vibeke Luther O'Rourke, Ane Thon Knudtsen, Rita Marhaug.

Supported by OCA and the Norwegian Embassy.

Photo: Rita Marhaug

I am proud to take a small part in Traci Kelly's second solo show

Bones that Whisper Through the Years
opening 26th of August 2022

JJPR+H78
Isfahan Province, Esfahan, Marnan, Iran

About Aknoon Art Gallery:
The Gallery of visual arts has been opening since 2012.
This gallery entered the field of art with the aim of working in the field of visual arts and holding exhibition with creative and young amazing artists.
This gallery has been installed with more than one hundred artists in the field of painting,photography and installation.
Iranian and international artist have had the experience of coopration.
The point that distinguishes this gallery from other galleries in Isfahan is the new and bold look at the modern art of the artist of this city and discovering the talents of young.

Represented in Iran by Tazkar Projects
Tazkarprojects.com

It is an honour to be included in TAZKAR's selection of artists:
TAZKAR is a space for the promotion of artists whose art presents a theoretically different conceptual understanding and forms of expression. The word different refers to the artist’s individual potential in applying a quite “personalized”* approach. This trait builds up to a sort of inquiry and theorization in arts and it helps to view art’s public praxis from a private point.
Tazkar is an exclusive representative of its artists in Iran and introduces them based on a certain schedule and analyzes the capacities of their works according to the fields of theory and criticism. The approach is adopted to increase abilities for a critical communication, creative reception and in general ideas of a different space for conversation in arts. The aim behind studying foreign artists beside the Iranian artists is to introduce the non-local practices in line with this experimentation. These artists, according to their contextual and academic differences, principally differ in their conceptual sensitivities or techniques from the local artists. Although the differences are shown implicitly, they do not make the main goal. Those artists are targeted who at the same time display the differences and are independent in their art episteme and approach to the surrounding. What is sought is to recognize and promote the independent ways of looking in arts and toward what we identify as “reality.”

https://parastoojafari.com/projects/

ART IN PROGRESS
Working 10-15th of July 2022 , with the very best photographer Bjarte Bjørkum, creating new video works and photoes in Lofoten. The works wil hopefulle be presented in my coming exhibitions next year.
10-15th of July 2022

Photo: Rita Marhaug

ARTISTS’ BOOKS EXHIBITION
Galleria Duetto, 20.7.–14.8. 2022
Helsinki, Finland

I am proud to take a small part in Traci Kelly's solo show
Bones that Whisper Through the Years,
in Iran at Maryam Art Gallery, Kashan.
June 23 – July 05, 2022
Address:
Baba Afzal St
Kashan
Iran
Curated by Tazkar Projects

left image shows the videowork
image below shows the photoseries

Photo credit: Maryam Art Gallery

trykk i sanntid: KARBONLAGRING
(print in real time: CARBON CAPTURE)
Joint printing event at Kunstkvarteret trykk 21st of June
06:00-16:00 o'clock

with:
Kjellaug Hatlen Lunde
Kjetil Ingvar Berge
Erik-Ottar Hansen

Photo: Rita Marhaug

SIGLA BINDA
group exhibition at Iclandic Printmakers Gallery in Reykjavik, (IS)
16th of June until 18th of July 2022

trykk i sanntid 02: KARBONFANGST
Exhibition opening 12th of May at Mottaket, Ålesund

https://www.aggregatkunst.com/mottaket-kunstscene/

Poster: William Hut
Photos: Bent Erik Myrvoll

BABE, BRISTOL ART BOOK EVENT
with Codex Polaris, (UK) 22-23rd of April 2022.
Imi Maufe represented Codex Polaris in BABE:
BABE was a little different this year. For the first time it wasn't held at the Arnolfini in the centre of Bristol, but rather at the Art School Campus - Bower Ashton - which is out of town, but the space was amazing - 108 stands filled room after room. There was less public than usual, but the public that were there were interested and informed about artists books, so they were easy to talk to and very very receptive to the work shown on the Codex Polaris stand.

Imi at our stand, the sircle-shaped book is my latest object in the series of Stella Polaris.

CARVING THE LANDSCAPE
A 3 week stay at GEDOK with Kjellaug Hatlen Lunde: working together, presenting our perspectives from Lofoten and Bergen, Norway, and finally showing our work results 5th of May.
GEDOK Stuttgart is an undogmatic network of artists; a cross-disciplinary cultural center; a place for exchange and encounter; a platform for the most varied forms of artistic expression.
Supported by the commitment of the members, GEDOK brings out a program of events three times a year with exhibitions, concerts, readings, performances, workshops, lectures, studio visits and parties, in which members and non-members, women and men are involved. Since the gallery is not commercial, it also offers the artists a space to easily share ideas, concepts and experiments with the public. GEDOK Stuttgart is institutionally funded by the art sponsors of GEDOK Stuttgart, the City of Stuttgart and the State of Baden-Württemberg.
GEDOK is interdisciplinary. It unites artists from the visual arts, applied arts, performing arts, from literature, to dance and music – all under one roof. The guiding principle of GEDOK Stuttgart can also be derived from this open structure: Exchange.

https://www.gedok-stuttgart.de/

photoes from GEDOK web site

SIGLA BINDA
A group exhibition of unique artist's books by:
Nanna Gunhild Amsdrup
Kristin Thora Gudbjartsdottir
Solveig Landa
Rita Marhaug
Svanborg Matthíasdóttir
Imi Maufe
Ingiríður Óðinsdóttir
Anna Snædís Sigmarsdóttir
Sigurborg Stefánsdóttir
Randi Annie Strand

https://entreebergen.no/

Kelly|Marhaug|Ojalvo
Borrowed Landscape (Lånt landskap)
At Galleri 2
Stamsund, Lofoten, Norway
18th of September util 3rd of october 2021

Kelly|Marhaug|Ojalvo is an international collaboration that explores performative actions within nature. The artist’s multi-year project is situated in unique and fragile environments across Norway’s Arctic, the American Southwest and Wales. The collaboration is comprised of Traci Kelly (UK/Germany), Rita Marhaug (Norway) and Nisa Ojalvo (USA), working cross-discipline utilizing performance, video and installation, collaboratively, successively in each artists’ geographical area.

http://www.galleri2.no/
http://www.kellymarhaugojalvo.com/

Poster: Rita Marhaug

KARBONAVTRYKK
Trykk i Sanntid 01: KARBONAVTRYKK
Group exhibition at Fryseriet, Meieret kulturhus Leknes, Lofoten
11-19. September 2021.

Artists:
Åse Anda, Kjetil Berge, Solveig Landa, Kjellaug Hatlen Lunde, Rita Marhaug, Lise Anita Stenberg, Torgrim Wahl Sund og Agnete Tangrand.

Poster: William Hut

CHART, Copenhagen Artist Fair with Codex Polaris, 26-29th of August

FAT(T) DET UFATTELIGE
(grasp the incomprehensible)
Title:
Oljefat (oil barrel)
Performance during the opening of the art festival at Rambergstranda.
Duration 10 min
Arranged by Galina Manikova

Photo: Vebjørg Hagene Thoe

trykk i sanntid: KARBONFANGST
(Print in Real Time: CARBON CATCH)
A print hapening June the 21st 2021 at Kunstkvarteret, KK-trykk.
Started at midnight, ended at 5.30, -the brightest time of this year (on the northern hemisphere).
Together 17 artists from Tou Trykk in Stavanger, Trykkeriet in Bergen, Aggregat studios in Ålesund, KK-trykk in Lofoten and Snefjord studios in Finnmark participated in the event. This was the starting point for the portfolio entitled KARBONFANGST, that will be finished during autumn 2021.

Marhaug's individual contribution: direct printing from ferns.

Photo: Daniel Persson

OPPHOLD DALSÅSEN
Two fantastic months at Dalsåsen, NKD Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dale.
March and April 2021.
Originally the residency was planned together with colleague Traci Kelly.
Due to Covid 19 restrictions in Norway Kelly was not allowed to travel into Norway from Germany.

http://www.nkdale.no/#artists

Photo: Rita Marhaug

ROM FOR BØKER
(Room for Books)
Group exhibition with Kurt Johannessen. Imi Maufe and Randi A. Strand
January 30th- March 14th 2021.
https://www.kristiansandkunsthall.no/utstillinger

Posterimage of Randi Strand's Metaforboka

KUNSTGARASJEN 5 YEARS
Marhaug is participating with works from the series Konsekvensutredning, collages from materials like felt, woodcut on paper, fur, skin and acrylic paint og wooden plates.. Produced in 2021.
January 30th- March 7th 2021.

Group exhibition with the artists who initiated and funded Kunstgarasjen.
Rita Marhaug, Kurt Johannessen, Marianne Morild, Ruth Moen, Rakel Huglen, Berit Hartveit, Arne Rygg, Grethe Unstad, Hilde Skjeggestad, Håkon Holm-Olsen, Arne Bekke, Mia Öquist, Jannecke Knudsen Heien

https://www.kunstgarasjen.no/event/jubileumsutstilling/?wcs_timestamp=1612000200Paragraph.

HARD WORK SOFT LIFE

Studio K: Exhibition Rita Marhaug, 04.12-06.12.2020
The exhibition project will be realized for the public from Friday the 4th to Sunday the 6th of December, where the public can both experience the exhibition through the windows from the outside, or by entering the room. HARD WORK SOFT LIFE will have a diverse content of images and objects installed in interaction with performative events and changes in the exhibition. The artist will stay in the space throughout the weekend as a part of the exhibition. In the tension between childish fantasies and existential questions, she tries to create a poetic space. Rita Marhaug's latest book with the same title - HARD WORK, SOFT LIFE, will be presented during the exhibition.
Opening: Friday 04.12. 18.00-20.00, performance 18.45
Further opening hours:
Saturday 05.12.: 13.00-17.00, performance 14.00
Sunday 06.12.: 13.00-17.00, performance 14.00
Free entrance and coffee!

https://www.facebook.com/events/874062829998556

Photo: Daniel Persson

TIDSHORISONTAR
Exhibition/performances at MOTTAKET, Ålesund,
22nd -31st of October 2020

With:
Terese Lognva
Hild Borchgrevink
Henrik Koppen

Poster by Henrik Koppen

STREAMING LIVEART “Kunst på kaia”
Is a Corona Art Project initiated by visual artist T.Stray with Performance Artist Anette Friedrich Johannessen and Noise/Sound Artist Ivan Paulsen and guests.

Supported by Bergen Kommune.

Art performance episodes are supported by Bergen Municipality Arts & Culture

Please contact wavelength@ tstray.com for more info

Marhaug is invited guest in episode #4:
Falling Together, live streaming, 1st of October

B OPEN
Open studio between 12.00-17.00 o'clock 26th of September
as part of the festival
https://www.b-open.no/

Photo of books and prints in the studio

Photo: Rita Marhaug

SEPTEMBER EQUINOX
September 22nd 18.00-19.00 o'clock
Festplassen, Bergen
PAB OS /September Equinox, A Day of Public Actions for Freedom and Democracy.
This project developed from the Bbeyond symposium, Being in Public, Encounters, Outside Space and Inner Space, April 2017 and was proposed by Chumpon Apisuk who stated that:
“It is the day that all states must recognise and allow actions from the people which are ‘peaceful’ and ‘non-violent’. This day of action can be with or without context, but for the recognition of all people’s rights to share the public space together, in solidarity with each other, in respect of each others rights to share the same public space, as well as the time.”
Everyone is welcome to join, participating with performative actions or as spectator.
This event is also part of the celebration of Bergen 950år:
https://www.bergen950.no/ka-skjer/KjsOReSP
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About PAB Open Session:
Open Session or "PAB OS" is a free experimental art space which open to artists, performers and public who share our interest in Performance Art. It encourages the emergence of something new and inventive. The PAB OS has organized by Performance Art Bergen and take place in and around Bergen city since December 2012. We also aim to stimulate and foster exchange between improvisers from various fields and disciplines – artists, movers, musicians, actors, vocalists and above all those, who are crossing all the divisions and improvising interdisciplinary and inter-medially.
https://www.facebook.com/events/360494315333801/

Photo: Petter Lønningen

FOTOBOKFESTIVAL
Opening in Oslo 10th of September 2020
HERBARIUM ARCTICA, blue and red versions are presented.

http://www.fffotografer.no/en/projects/fotobokfestival-oslo-2020
Photo: Rita Marhaug

NATTSVERMEREFFEKTEN
Performance at Midnightsunscream 2020
"Alt fast smeltar"
Duration 15 min
Kvalnes, Lofoten 8th of August 2020
https://www.facebook.com/events/2719878355004744

Photo: Emilie Marhaug

FROM THE SERIES PERSONAS
New performance for OPEAN in München 7th of February 2020
https://www.opean.de/

Curated by Tobias Frank and Patrick Morarescu

Photo: Bjarte Bjørkum

A DREAM OF COMMUNITY
Asbjørn Hollerud and Rita Marhaug have curated the exhibition at KODE art museum, celebrating Norwegian Printmakers' 100 year anniversary.
The exhibition is produced by Trykkeriet in collaboration with KODE.

You can see works from the collection of KODE and Trykkeriet combined with 3 new art projects commissioned from Azar Alsharif, Heli Rekula and Thomas Kilpper.

Last day: 15th of March 2020

Project leader from KODE: Knut Ormhaug
Design by Anne Ree /KODE
Photos: Rita Marhaug

GRAVITAS
In September and October you can see the exhibition GRAVITAS at Lysverket in Bergen.
The exhibition is initiated by Kunstgarasjen in collaboration with Lysverket.
http://www.kunstgarasjen.no/lysverket-rita-marhaug/
http://lysverket.no/

Kunstbokmessen BASTARD 2019
Presenting 3 books as part of Codex Polaris
23-24-25th of May

Photo: Randi Strand

,Norske grafikere 100 år
Bodø kunstforening, marking the 100 years' anniversary of Norwegian Printmakers
Opening 23rd of March, untill 28th of April

The book object Herbarium Arctica takes part,
In the background work from A. Kjellesvik to the left and from R. Misvær Grønstad to the right.

http://www.bodokunst.no/utstillinger/norske-grafikere-100-aar

I am taking part with some of my books at Nordic Art Press at Kunstnernes hus in Oslo.
A focus made by Bastard as a taste of forthcoming Bastart Art Book fair in May this year at Lillehammer.
At Bastard CODEX POLARIS will have our own stand.

Books:
l i m i t l e s s, 19 cm x 24 cm, soft cover, edition 20
Håret, 19 cm x 24 cm, soft cover, edition 20

http://kunstopp.no/2019/03/01/bastard-er-fokusaktor-hos-nordic-art-press-i-mars-og-april/

Photos: Randi A. Strand

ITS (IN) OUR NATURE
Marte Aas, Ragna Misvær Grønstad, Anders Kjellesvik, Rita Marhaug, Daniel Persson, Hedvig Thorkildsen
14.02.19 – 10.03.19
Mangfoldiggjørelse er uløselig knyttet til så mange av våre livsområder. Vår grunnleggende mangfoldiggjøring er selvsagt knyttet til den genetiske reproduksjonen, vår natur. I et kulturhistorisk perspektiv er bilde- og skrifttegn de fremste reproduserte «objektene». Vi skal selvsagt ikke undervurdere mursteinens rolle, men skriftens og bildets kunnskapsakkumulerende posisjon har en særstilling. Verden er mangfoldig og kompleks. Kunsten både speiler og er en medskaper av denne virkeligheten. Den enkelte kunstner opererer innenfor sitt interessefelt der noen beskjeftiger seg med «auratiske» perspektiv, mens andre utfolder seg i det brede feltet som strekker seg mot massekommunikasjonens millioner av «likes». Å skape variasjoner over et bildetema er en integrert, selvsagt metode for mange kunstnere. Uavhengig av medium har det gjentagende, repeterende, kanskje på grensen til det mediterende, blitt undersøkt.

Utstillingen i Bærum Kunsthall viser sammensetninger av verk fra individuelle kunstprosjekter. Rettet mot felles tematiske berøringspunkter utforsker de friksjon, repetisjon og mangfold. Utstillingens utforming består av grafiske verk, installasjon og video.
http://www.baerumkunsthall.no/utstillinger.html

Image right:"Herbarium Arctica" from ongoing series of monoprinted books with handwriting. Images on wall behind by Hedvig S. Thorkildsen.

CODEX POLARIS AT CODEX 2019
San Francisco Bay area, 2-6th of February 2019
Image from the Norwegian table, Herbarium Arctica in the front, Randi Strand's Arabesk.
The table is part of this year's focus on the Nordic countries.
Codex Nordica is initiated and organized by CODEX POLARIS:
Imi Maufe, Randi A Strand and Rita Marhaug

https://www.codexpolaris.com/
http://www.codexfoundation.org/codex-2019/codex-nordica

HERBARIUM ARCTICA AND HOMO MECHANICUS
Two artist books presented at NORWAY MEETS CHINA IN A BOOK SHELF #2,
as part of CODEX POLARIS' stand at abC Artbook Fair in Shanghai, China,
November 2018
"Spotlight" presentation:
http://artbookinchina.com/?fbclid=IwAR0uizEQJJx6q5abeNVvQLs95wqG9Ilyxy-urqVLle7Det5VLKZsufkDslU

The participation of CODEX POLARIS is made possible by
the Norwegian Embassy in Beijing and
Northing (by designer Yilei Wang):
http://www.northing.no/

HERBARIUM ARCTICA
Artist book, presented for the first time in public at CODEX POLARIS'
stand at Bergen Art Book Fair 1-4 November
with the projects CODEX NORDICA and BIBLIOTEK NORDICA,
both going to CODEX in San Fransisco next year.

Photo: Rita Marhaug

September 2018
PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP AT BAS
(Bergen School of Architecture)

5 days workshop as part of the theme LIMITS OF CONTROL:
The possibilities and limitation of spatial production in the ́banlieues ́ of Paris and Bergen
Semester: Autumn 2018
MA-students
Teachers: Anders Rubing, Alec Ross Andreassen, Kari Anne K. Drangsland

http://www.bas.org/Nyheter

INTERNATIONAL WEEK, PAB
9-16th of September -18

Seminar:
HISTORY WILL BE KIND TO ME?
Performance Art Bergen (PAB), in collaboration with Department of Fine Art, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, invites you to a one-day seminar in Møllendalsveien 61, in the Knut Knaus auditorium.
Wednesday 12th of September from 10:00 to 15:00 o’clock
9-16th of September, two international performance art tours will meet in Bergen: "History will be kind to me, for I intend to perform it" and "It’s Personal". Similar themes in both groups are how big and global societal trends affects the local environment and the sphere of the individual.
Today's postcolonial world both requires and offers new positions for north and south, east and west. During the seminar artists from Asia, Africa and Europe will present their strategies and attitudes in this complex reality of possibilities and limitations.

The seminar is organized by Rita Marhaug and Frans Jacobi

Poster by Marit Tunestveit Dyre

Bergen International Performance Festival (BIPF)
HISTORY WILL BE KIND TO ME, FOR I INTEND TO PERFORM IT
The festival is organized by Kurt Johannessen, Terese Longva, Anette F. Johannessen and Rita Marhaug

Poster by Kurt Johannessen

IT'S PERSONAL
Performanceart tour
1-16th of September -18

Posters by Marit Tunestveit Dyre

ART MUST BE FOOLISH, ARTIST MUST BE FOOLISH
Performance at THE MIDNIGHTSUNSCREAM
Duration 15 min.
A one day art festival at Haverringen 936, Lofoten Saturday 4th of August from 15.00 o'clock
https://www.facebook.com/events/196797957846865/

KONSEKVENSUTREDNING
Solo exhibition at Lille Kabelvåg Galleri
Opening 15th of July -18

Photo: Rita Marhaug

TIDE
Exhibition opening at Galleri Christinegård, Bergen
19.00-21.00 o'clock
11 photos on the walls and an installation i the centre of the space constitute TIDE, Marhaug's latest exhibition.

In the main building concert with HP Gundersen at 21.00 o'clock

Photo: Emilie Marhaug

NÆRMERE
Welcome to NÆRMERE (Closer), performance together with college Gillian Carson, Saturday 21st of April -18. at C. Sundsts gate 55, project space,
2nd floor (3. etasje)

Starting at 14.30 o'clock, ending 17.00 o'clock

Audience can walk in and out of the scene as they prefer

Preparing for the exhibition TIDE at Gallery Christinegård
All images are 75,5 cm x 57 cm
Ink-jet on Hahnemuhle 300 gram cotton paper
Edition 3
Produced in 2018 at Foreningen Trykkeriet

Friday 16th of February at 19:00-21:00 o'clock
BORROWED LANDSCAPE/LÅNT LANDSKAP
Exhibition opening at Kunstgarasjen Bergen with Traci Kelly and Nisa Ojalvo

Thursday 15th of February at 13:00-14:30 o'clock
HARD WORK, SOFT LIFE
Lecture at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, at 13:00-14:30 o'clock
http://www.khio.no/events/510

IT'S PERSONAL
Part 2
A two week performance art project at Longva Residency with college Marit Tunestveit Dyre, Terese Longva, Pavana Reid and Sareena Sattapon.
Thai & Talk at Framtun IL 27th of October
Performance program at KUBE artmuseum 4th of November
Images are from the series Mythologies

Photos: Sareena Sattapon

PREDATOR
Performing Sunday 8th of october with Chibs at PAB Open, Vaskerelven 8,
Bergen, from 13.00 untill 17.00 o'clock (break between 14.30 and 15.30).
Free entrance -and about 25 other performances to see along!
Duration 4 hours

Photo: Emilie Marhaug

PERSONAS
Performed at WAKE festival in Folkestone, Kent, UK
Saturday 10th of September
Duration 30 min.
Curators BEAN and Benjamin from performance s p a c e
http://www.performancespace.org/wakefestival

Photos: Andrea Abbatangelo

LIQUID BODY, SOLID MIND
It is my pleassure to announce that my book Liquid Body, Solid Mind is published this spring by PABLISH. This small publication is focusing on my "liquid" series of art works produced between 2000 and 2013. The essay is by Dr. Traci Kelly followed by 28 full colour ilustrations. Artist Jane Sverdrupsen is in charge of the book design.
Edition: 500
Price: 80 NOK - 8£ - 9 euro, exclusive postage

Photo from the books, spread from the performance 13+35 first performed in Bergen, 2000.

ART HAS TO BE FOOLISH. ARTIST HAS TO BE FOOLISH
Invited by Venice Live 2017 and curator Jonas Stampe, Marhaug will perform Thursday 11th and Friday 12th, both days at 14.00 o'clock in Venice. The place is close to The Giardini, next to the Biennale vaporetto stop at the seafront, About 15-20 min duration, so be sharp on time!
"Art has to be foolish. Artist has to be foolish"
https://www.facebook.com/events/1878928125681437/
Photo: Wichai Juntavaro

YES NO
InvItied by Kunsthall Genland and exhibitors Birgit Eide and Øyvind Johnsen -at the moment showing Ordet fanger, Marhaug has develloped a new performance: YES NO.

http://kunsthallgrenland.no/-/event/show/645830/9165371_rita-marhaug-performance

Photo by Monika Sobczak
from Performance Art Oslo Festival Nov. 2014

FROM THE SERIES BORROWED LANDSCAPE
Residency in Corris, Wales With college Nisa Ojalvo (USA) and Traci Kelly (UK/DE) 20th of August untill 4th of September 2016

One of many thousand images by KELLY/MARHAUG/OJALVO

SMAK AV BOK
Visningsrommet USF, Bergen, 18th untill 29th of August -16
10 artists 10 projects on the theme
Taste of Book

An artist organized project led by imi Maufe, Randi A. Strand and Rita Marhaug

Suported by Norwegin Arts Council, Billedkunstnernes vederlagafond and Bergen kommune

Poster by Imi Maufe

www.codexpolaris.com

FØL TANKEN, TENK FØLELSEN
Norske grafikeres galleri (Norwegian Printmakers' Gallery) solo show, Oslo May 7th 2016.

http://www.norske-grafikere.no/utstilling

FØL TANKEN, TENK FØLELSEN
Haugesund kunstforening 18th of March until 24th of April.
Solo show.

http://www.haugesund-billedgalleri.net/ritamarhaug/
https://hnytt.no/2016/03/09/hva-holder-hun-pa-med-her/

PERFORMANCE FOR THE OPENING OF KUNSTGARASJEN
Kvinne 51 (Woman 51)
Kunstgarasjen performance for the opening of the new institution
Friday 19th of February 19.00 o'clock

http://www.kunstgarasjen.no/

Photo: Emilie Marhaug

PINK CUBE, battle 21
22– 31. January 2016 with True Solvang
Opening performance at 20.00 Friday 22nd of January

TEACHING IN AARHUS
For 4 days I am teaching professional artist the simple methods of colour separating images to use for photogravure at Højbjerg FotoGrafisk Værksted in Aarhus, Denmark. The hard working participants are:
Iben Zorn, Birgitte Kristensen, og Birgitte Munk, Birthe Reianu og Taina Vidlykke and Inger Lise Rassmussen.

From 23rd untill 27th of November

Arranged by Inger Lise Rassmussen

REALITY CHECKERS
Alda/Carson/Kipphoff/Marhaug will show their lates collaboration at Gallery 3,14 Sunday 1st of November at 19.00 o'clock. The performance improvisation will last for 30-40 min.

Free admission.

( U N) F A M I L I A R at M. K. Ciurlionis National Museum of Art, Kaunas Lithuania, together with with Alda, Carsson, Kipphoff, 6th of August til 6th of September-15.
Negotiating familiar and unfamiliar obstacles of everyday life, often requires the individual to examine, dismantle, rebuild and at times reinvent the familiar, to regain familiarity. Observation of the self in familiar surroundings are subject to examination, and attempts at making sense of the world in a wider perspective manifest in artistic practice. While the resulting two and three dimensional artistic works, speak of individual experience in personal language, they can be seen to contain a more general expression of wonder and bewilderment, shock and awe in this age of estranged, hot and cold, dirty and clean living.

Marhaug has continued her work with a large “skin-like “fabric first tried out in Berlin September -13. The scale of the beige fabric is now about 200 m2. Another material introduced during the winter has been furs. Marhaug has earlier worked with soft sculptures made from leather, originally from old furniture. For Kaunas she has produced 3 soft fur sculptures. Still spending energy, end joy in drawing parallel to her wide art praxis, another connected series of work will be live drawings from objects and props used in her performance situations.

Co-curator Egle Komkaite Baltusnikiene

The project is supported by: Bergen kommune, Billedkunstnernes vederlagsfond and OCA: Office of Contemporary Art, Norway

Photos: Rita Marhaug, entrance and Marhaug's sculptures "The Familiar"

BLIND (ARTIST)
Part of Beautiful Lies, Warszawa 12th of June 2015

Performance event in the garden of the university of Warszawa, 8 artists

Curator: Eulalia Domanowska

Photo: Pavana Reid

Kjerringøy Land Art Bienniale 2015
Production time: May 28th till June 6th with Traci Kelly 2015
Results:
The installation (image left) Observance, 15 birch trees and stones at Nevelsfjorden.
Curators: Ane Vigdis Øverås, Tanja Thorjussen, Per Gunnar Eeg-Tverbakk

http://www.kjerringoylandart.com/

Photo: Rita Marhaug

The installation (image right) Observance, detail

Photo: Rita Marhaug

Result:
Performance at the opening of Kjerringøy Land Art Biennale Exhibition 2015
"Gestures from the Woods for Live Stock"
Duration 10 min

Photo: Line Anda Dalmar

Preparations and testing before Kjerringøy Landart Biennial
Sketches for PREDATOR
http://www.kjerringoylandart.com/

Photo: Emilie Marhaug

Gallery 3,14
13th of March,  2015
CREPUSCULAR revisited, performance
Bergen

Curator Malin Barth

Photo: Camilla Aasen

PAO Festival 2014
"Visual Poetry"
14th and 16th of November
Artist talk and Skin Deep, performance
Oslo

“It’s not easy to talk and do things at the same time”. These were the opening words of Rita Marhaug’s presentation: which offered an informative and deep insight into her work, research and philosophy. Short actions combined with spoken fragments of her research made her work accessible. The sculptural aspect and her interest in Surrealism were clearly visible. Simple actions like standing blindfolded on a pile of white sheets of paper, changing into the outfits which she uses in other performance works and finally sitting on a table and blowing white powder into a match box- all creative replacements for words. The visuals transformed from words in which meaning was open to different interpretations for the observers. As art is not made to be understood, but rather to create a dialogue between image and perception, Rita Marhaug’s ‘artist's talk’ offered an interesting conversation which translated the complex universe of her work into an approachable dictionary.
BBB Johannes Deimling

Curator: Franzisca Siegrist
http://www.performanceartoslo.no/pao-festival-2014.html

Photo: Monika Sobczak

Poesie Marseille 2014
7th of November
Skin Deep, performance
France
Curator: Marina Mars
http://poesie.marseille.free.fr/

The room was darkened when the audience entered the space. A huge piece of fabric covered the floor like moss. A body was covered by the fabric and was positioned at the end of the room on a small podium. The sombre atmosphere silenced the audience. Slowly the fabric was moving towards the silhouette of the body, the moss turned into a river which softly floated backwards to its well. While pulling the fabric towards the body, the fabric changed into a huge skin with wrinkles until the body seemed to imbibe the fabric until it completely disappeared. The body slowly raised up and was now sitting on the podium. Cautiously this figure placed a book on its lap. When the book was opened, a red light appeared softly out of the pages like a story coming alive between the pages. As the pages were calmly turned, the red light became stronger creating a dream-like image which was surrealistically beautiful and mystic at the same time. Leaving the red glowing book on the podium, the figure stood up, cloaked itself in the fabric and slowly walked towards the audience. While passing the audience one could see that the head was covered with fur which heightened the surrealistic qualities of this image. The Performance from Rita Marhaug combined mysticism and surrealism and created a universe of poetical images which transported the viewer into spheres of the unknown and the subconscious where words have no meaning and only images can be used to comment upon existence.
(Text from PAO Festival 2014 by BBB Johannes Deimling)
Photo: Marina Mars

Contexts 2014
25-29th of July
The 4th International Sokolovsko Festival of Ephemeral Art

Marhaug will show her performance work Secons Skin for Sokolovsko Sunday the 27th of July at 19.30-20.30 o'clock.
Curator: Malgorzata Sady

www.the context.pl

The image shows material preparations for the performance made in Lofoten

Photo: Rita Marhaug

ALLEGORI OVER NORDLAND VI
One evening exhibition at Trykkeriet, senter for samtidsgrafikk, in Bergen Fjøsangerveien 70A at 20.00 o'clock Saturday 24th of May.

Seven new woodcuts from the series Allegory of Nordland VI will be shown during the event. The production is initiated and organized by Trykkeriet and Asbjørn Hollerud. Technician has been Ivar Bergseth, artist and designer working at Isotop.

http://trykkerietbergen.no/
http://www.ivarhbergseth.com/

Image #2 from the series Allegory of Nordland VI

Dimanche Rouge: Focus on Norway
March 19th, 2014, 7-9pm, Free- Presentation/Performance at Maison de Norvège
March 20th, 2014, 5-10pm, Free- Round Table and Exhibit at Plateforme Gallery
March 23rd, 2014, 5-9pm, 5 Euros- Performances at Le Générateur

Dimanche Rouge presents FOCUS ON NORWAY, an event introducing a selection of performance artists based in Norway.

The Focus series aims to explore the diversity and thrust of performance art internationally. In partnership with PAB (Performance Art Bergen) and Le Générateur, Dimanche Rouge will present a selection of five Norwegian performance artists from Bergen and Oslo, curated by Rita Marhaug and Agnes Nedregard.

The five artists Kiyoshi Yamamoto, Anja Carr, Franzisca Siegrist, Rita Marhaug, and Agnes Nedregard, will perform at Le Générateur on Sunday March 23rd, 2014, 5-9pm.
The performances will explore the theme “Civilization and Human Nature.” Since the human body is used as a medium, performance artists tend to improvise and take risks resulting in uncertain and unpredictable actions. These actions emphasize primal, pre–linguistic modes of experience, which point back to nature. The Norwegian performances will explore the tension between the “natural” and “civilized” within human nature.

Review of our evening at Le Générateur in Inferno Magazine:
http://inferno-magazine.com/2014/03/28/focus-on-norway-carte-blanche-a-dimanche-rouge-au-generateur/

https://www.facebook.com/events/604737326240271/?fref=ts
Photo, Rita Marhaug
From exhibition at La Galerie Plateforme Thursday 21st of March-14. In front, work of Anja Carr

Performance at Mobius Friday February 28th, Boston USA
Starting 19:00 sharp

Marhaug is also giving a student workshop at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts weekend 1st and 2nd of March-14.

http://www.mobius.org/events/mobilize-performance-series-rita-marhaug-bergen-norway-mobius

Photo: Nisa Ojalvo (from the exhibition Second Skin at NOoSHERE Arts NYC)

Exhibition opening Friday February 21st
Performance at 6:15PM sharp

Second Skin Presented by NOoSPHERE
This three day exhibition at NOoSPHERE Arts presents the work of Rita Marhaug in collaboration with Nisa Ojalvo and focuses on the dialogue of interface – the meeting point of subjects and their selected materials and processes. For Ojalvo this is the meeting point of her fleshy eye and the camera’s mechanical body to touch with the performance gestures she and Marhaug instigate. For Marhaug it is the poetic qualities of skin – at once recto/verso and the tactile quality of drapery as membrane. Together the artists create a trajectory of intersubjectivity through the process of collaboration… Where does one end and the other begin?

Marhaug’s performance Second Skin will be brought to NYC audiences by NOoSPHERE.

In the main space Nisa Ojalvo’s photographic works of collaborative performances with

Marhaug will be on view, with further drawing works by Marhaug presented in the rear space.

Drawing by Rita Marhaug

Photo by Nisa Ojalvo (picture from Rita's performance improvisation)

Tuesday 4. of February
Marhaug is taking part inNOoSPHERE ANNIVERSARY SHOW ON VIEW FEBRUARY 4-7, 2014
Open to the public during regular hours for 3 days only:
Wed, Feb 5 through Fri, Feb 7
In the main gallery:
WORKS by FORMER NOoSPHERE EXHIBITORS & NEWCOMERS
selected by international curator Dr. KJ Baysa

Open Studios
Wednesday 22nd of January 18.00 o'clock
Point B lodgers invite to open studios.
71 North 7th Street, Williamsburg, NYC

Marhaug will show her latest test of Skin Deep, performance in progress.

Picture from testing out Second Skin for Point B

Photo: Rita Marhaug

Marhaug is from 2.1.2014 untill 245.2.2014 guesting Point B Worklodge, Williamsburg NYC.

The resicency is offered by Bergen Municipal.

http://pointb.org/http://www.bergen-newyork.no/

Rita in her Green Studio, Point B
Photo: Nisa Ojalvo

Exhibition opening in Rom 8, Bergen Academy of Art and Design (KHIB).
4th of Descember,
17.00 o'clock, artistpresentation/ talk with professor Gerd Tinglum.
18.00 o'clock, opening of exhibition by Dean Jeremy Welsh
Vaskerelven 8, Bergen

Together with former colleges Annette Kierulf, Caroline Kierulf, Odd Melseth and Herbert E. Wiegand, Marhaug opens the group exhibition

Wer zu spät kommt...

The exhibition will present art work related to the subject area printmaking at KHIB.

Photo: Red Princess, Green Prince installed in Rom 8
Photo: Art in progress, from studio, waiting for my model Sofie...

Public Art Screens
Marhaug is artist of November.
Stavanger and Sandnes, Norway 2013
Togheter with Traci Kelley she is presentet with 4 videos from their latest co-production.

Public Art Screens presents contemporary video art and animation. The Public Art Screens are custom made to public and private rooms, terminals, schools, foyers and meeting areas. Public Art Screens creates a new venue for people to experience art directly in public space.

The project is initiated and produced by i/ o / lab - Center of Future Arts in Stavanger.
http://www.publicartscreens.no/

Picture from the video
CHAPTER 2: HOLDING ON BY LETTING GO
First Form

Curator Hege Tapio

Photo: Bjarte Bjørkum

Thursday 17th of October will Rita Marhaug in collaboration with Traci Kelly show the new performance Phoenix from Chapter 3: Mandarin Dust, at Spode factory during Britsh Ceramics Biennial conference: Between Studio and Factory.

http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/whats-on/list/conferences/

Photo: Bjarte Bjørkum

The new performing platform for Thursday 17th of October

Photo: Rita Marhaug

Friday 11th of October Rita Marhaug takes part in group exhibition Pop-Up Art

Opening: Friday 11th of October, 20:00 at Frantz : Navle (Strandgaten 205, Bergen) till 13th of October.

Exactly one year after odds exhibition in Odda, Hardanger, the text compilation and catalogue will be presented. In addition, the Pop-Up Art show with some of the artists that participated in odds project will open.

Marhaug is participating with a new (textile) installation.

http://www.odds-project.com/

Photo: Christopher Hewitt

Saturday 5th of October Rita Marhaug takes part in PAB i Kalfarlien 18.
From 13.00 till 17.00 o’clock audience will have the pleasure of 11 performance artists from Performance Art Bergen (PAB) showing site specific works in the old villa in Kalfalien. Marhaug will bring her latest development from shows in Berlin and Stoke on Trent. Her part will be related end developed in collaboration with college Robert Alda, Gillian Carson and Karen Kipphoff.

Photo: Christopher Hewitt

Friday 27th of September Traci Kelly and Rita Marhaug performed Slipping Slipping is a texture and an undoing, a friction in passing, a series of bodies that have lived in architectures of clay. Before then, after this, now then… Slipping is time, a moment between revelation and concealment, between standing still and moving on. It is a series of fluid and dislocated poetic gestures that grapple with what it means to remain. On a landscape of moulds two female performers consider what it is to be cast, to ingest and ooze and find form, as they resist their place in a post-industrial landscape that still yearns for the ready-made.

Photo: Tone Såstad