News
03/09/10
At work as an art consultant for KORO.
24/08/10
Please attend Anna Lundh’s and Ulrika Gomm’s opening in Haninge Konsthall, Stockholm, on Sept, 11th! The exhibition, «Nu nu nu nu», is accompanied by an essay by yours truly.
03/06/10
In collaboration with André Tehrani, I interviewed Ed Ruscha last week on occasion of his retrospective at he Moderna Museet. Look out for it in financial daily Dagens Næringsliv’s weekend supplement D2.
26/05/10
My short story «Chez Bianca» is included in graphic designer Magda Lipka Falck’s MA graduation project from Konstfack, «Anywhere – A travel guide».
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The UKS event on May 16th was a great experience. Pictured: visitor Cecilie wearing parts of my printed matter. More great pictures by Geir Haraldseth here.
09/05/10
On invitation by artist Marthe Ramm Fortun, I’ll be contributing to an event on May 16th, marking the last day of the exhibition Bad Moon Rising 5 in UKS, The Young Artists’ Society, in Oslo.
09/05/10
Another publication launch is coming up: «See the exhibition on a sunny day - om samtida kritiskt skrivande och curerande» features, among contributions by my peers from Konstfack (2007-09), an experiment in critical/fictional writing by myself in collaboration with Maria Fusco. Welcome to Iaspis in Stockholm, May 17th, for a combined release party and lecture with Pierre Bal-Blanc. The publication’s editor has been Jelena Rundqvist.
26/04/10
My fictional experiment with art criticism, «Transatlantic Journeys» (2009), will be presented as part of the event The Bergen Bienniale (!), organised by Jenny Moore Koslowsky of the London-based collective Gandt together with Bergen’s own (artist collective) Ytter and (artist run gallery) Entrée, on April 30th.
25/04/10
A report from the debate at Oslo’s Office for Contemporary Art on April 7th, featuring Elmgreen&Dragset, Will Bradley, Marta Kuzma, Per Platou and myself, can be read on Kritikerlaget’s pages (in Norwegian only).
15/04/10
I’ve joined the editorial team of Alphabet Prime (ed. Maia Gianakos).
29/03/10
I’ll be participating as a panelist when The Norwegian Art Critics’ Prize is presented to artists/curators Elmgreen & Dragset on April 7th, 18.00 at OCA (Office for Contemporary Art), Nedre gate 7 in Oslo.
Welcome!
More information on Kritikerlaget’s pages.
15/03/10
The Vestlandsutstillingen 2011 is announced! Please visit the site.
31/01/10
On March 15, co-curator Karolin Tampere and I will announce the theme for the Vestlandsutstillingen 2011.
10/01/10
I will soon be writing my first text for Artforum.com’s Critics’ Picks section.
16/12/09
My fiction story «Transatlantic Journeys» has now traveled to even more stores, as excerpts from it is included in Maia Gianakos’ journal Alphabet Prime:
New York Printed Matter, Inc. Spoonbill & Sugartown, Booksellers St. Mark’s Bookshop Paris Section 7 Books Yvon Lambert Frankfurt Azita Press Berlin do you read me?! Motto Berlin Pro qm Oslo Tronsmo Stockholm Konst-ig Kulturbutiken/Konsten at wip:konsthall Zürich Hochparterre Perla Mode/Nieves Kunstgriff Lausanne Payot Lausanne Los Angeles Ooga BoogaMerry Christmas!
23/11/09
I am Morgenbladet’s new art critic.
30/09/09
Very welcome to Milliken Gallery for the release of Maia Gianakos’ Alphabet Prime!
Fri, Oct 2nd at 18-20 in Luntmakargatan 78, Stockholm
(Note: www.jnw.nu is under construction. Welcome back later!)
03/09/09 - Forthcoming fun:
A shorter version of my short story-operating-as-art criticism, Transatlantic Journeys, will appear in the forthcoming issue of Alphabet Prime. The journal, describing itself as a «call to arms for a new language to infiltrate contemporary cultural discourse», is edited by curator Maia Gianakos and features contributions from Goldin+Senneby, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Olav Westphalen, Sarah Rifky and more. Release party: Friday, Oct 2nd in Stockholm. Exact time and venue TBA. Save the date!
I will be presenting the same fiction/criticism-project at The ArtText Symposium in Gothenburg on Oct, 9th. «The art text – Writing in and throught the arts» is meant to discuss what kinds of writing are developed within the field of art research – new kinds?
(Note: www.jnw.nu is continually, though slowly, filled up with more material. Welcome back!)
22/08/09
Welcome to www.jnw.nu, a portfolio of texts, exhibitions and other projects by Johanne Nordby Wernø. This new web page is under construction, but will be up soon. Please visit my old one in the meantime!