Mona Orstad Hansen

Gjennom Årstidene/Trough The Seasons
24.04-07.09.25
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
Selected work from the Christen Sveaas Art Foundation,
Curated by Lydia Lee.

https://www.hok.no/utstillinger/christen-sveaas-kunststiftelse

With the seasons as its overarching theme, this exhibition showcases a diverse selection of Norwegian Modernism and international contemporary art from the Christen Sveaas Art Foundation. The Exhibition is curated by Lydia Yee, an independent curator and art historian, previously Chief Curator at Whitechapel Gallery, Curator at Barbican Centre in London, and Senior Curator at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York.

En fjerdedel (One Quater)
Kunstnerforbundet
Vindussalen
20.02.—30.03.2024

https://kunstnerforbundet.no/utstillinger/1385/en-fjerdedel

In the Window Hall, Mona Orstad Hansen presents a series of sculptural paintings. Her project revolves around an examination of abs­tract painting. In recent years, she has focused on a more simp­lified expres­sion, working with one or two colours applied in sparse strokes, often in a single motion across the white canvas. Defined fields of colour are subtly blended, while in some areas, the paint is left to run freely. This process forms the basis for her experi­mental approach, where painting extends into sculptural objects, introducing three-dimensionality.

As a result of this process, a transitional space emerges where the painting is no longer ‘just’ a painting, but shifts towards sculpture and archi­tecture. Orstad Hansen draws from her expe­rience with painting and applies this knowledge in her work with wood. Her work is grounded in an interest in painting as an object, introducing a spatial aspect.

White Chapel Gallery, London
Collection Christen Sveaas Art Foundation: The Unseen Selected by Hurvin Anderson
20 May – 7 August 2022

Painter Hurvin Anderson (b. 1965, UK) reflects on illusory and fragmentary space and depictions of black figures and experience in The Unseen, an artist-curated selection of 25 works from the Christen Sveaas Art Foundation.

Drawing on the prologue to American writer Ralph Ellison’s celebrated novel, Invisible Man (1952), about the invisibility of black lives, Anderson brings together lesser-known artists with modern and contemporary figures, each of whom explore aspects of ‘the unseen’ using materials from coal dust and fabric to fibre and glass.

The exhibition includes work by: Ross Bleckner, Amoako Boafo, Svein Bolling, Borghild Røed Lærum, Constantin Brancusi, Matt Connors, Lars Elling, Tewodros Hagos, Mona Orstad Hansen, Thore Heramb, Howard Hodgkin, Per Krohg, Glenn Ligon, Ibrahim Mahama, Herman Mbamba, Simphiwe Ndzube, Henrik Placht, Robert Rauschenberg, Caragh Thuring, Judy Sirks Vevle, Jakob Weidemann, Stanley Whitney, Christopher Wool, and Toby Ziegler.

Mona Orstad Hansen (1976 Norway) is a painter and printmaker who lives and works in Stavanger, Norway.

Her artistic practice is dedicated to an intensely-coloured abstract visual language and her paintings are often combined with simple sculptural objects. Her works are dynamic and rich in contrasts, characterised by hard lines, geometric shapes, dazzling colours and a surface that combines sensitive brushwork with a smooth polished technique. She has cited the visual sampling abstract painter Michel Majerus as a source of inspiration and she experiences an ambivalence towards the history of modern abstract painting – she wants to rebel, but at the same time she is drawn to it. She often asks herself: “Is abstraction enough?”

Exhibition catalogue: The Unseen, Hurvin Anderson selects from the Christen Sveaas Art Foundation, by Anja Grøner Krogstad.

Ølhallene på Tou Scene ønsker velkommen til utstillingen
Lytting og sidespor. Atelierbesøk.
10.03.22 kl. 18:00

Utstillingen viser arbeider av Mona Orstad Hansen, Tove Kommedal, Kristin Velle- George, Helene Espedal-Selvåg og Christine Hansen, alle kunstnere fra Tou Atelierhus. Gruppen startet en lesesirkel på Atelierhuset for flere år siden, lesesirkelen utviklet seg til atelierbesøk som igjen ble til en gruppeutstilling.

Trondhjems Kunstforening
I kjelleren luktet det alltid iskrem
Utstillingsperiode: 19.08. - 19.09.

Hjørnet på en slett vegg
Den irrgrønne plenen foran huset
Former, klosser, blokker, buer, ornament, materialitet, mellomrom
Det skarpe lyset som fremhever detaljene
Fargens foranderlighet
Motsetningsfylte arkitektoniske elementer

Til utstillingen ved Torndhjems kunstforening har Mona Orstad Hansen tatt utgangspunkt i arkitektoniske detaljer og geometriske former fra omgivelsene. Enkelte av formene repeteres, og hun er interessert i det som avviker; formale nyanser og forskyvninger som oppstår. Enkelte av arbeidene delvis speiler og går i samspill med lokalene til Trondhjem kunstforening. Ved å la blindrammen bli en del av verket inkluderes også veggen bak og gulvet under og skillet mellom verk og omgivelser løses opp.

Høstutstillingen 2022/The Annual Atumn Exhibition
Statens 135. kunstutstilling

Skisser til veggarbeid (2019). Vegginstallasjon.