EVENTS
Sarah Ryder - Imperceivable (until it isn’t)
Exhibition opens Wednesday 30. OCTOBER 2024
Continues Thurs 31. OCT, Fri 1. Nov, Sat 2. Nov and Sun 3. Nov kl. 12 - 17 or by appointment
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Scrumpleface.
Pinchmouth.
Browsdrawn.
Eyes to the side.
And down.
Letting a thought meander.
'thing is, we do know a bunch of stuff.
don’t we?
We feel it.
Gary Economics looked straight into the camera and relayed a question he’s often
asked:
“So, why aren’t you in politics?”
PAUSE.
LOOK.
“I am in politics.”
Unless they get lost in the post, 'Imperceivable (until it isn't)' literally brings together 9 paintings. Using cables/cords/tendrils. Joining them into one large THING.
A painting pretending to be a sculpture? The other way around? Scenery? Architecture? Or... maybe neither, none, nothing.
Well, it is something.
I'm hoping you'll be able to go inside it. If you want to. You'll certainly be able to move around it.
You won’t know what I do, so roughly it goes a little something like this: practising artist since 2000, ping-ponging painting, sculpture, drawing—responding to my surroundings, circumstances, situation, and whatever space may temporarily host my art.
I love the enigmatic languages of abstraction: colour, texture, form. COMPLEXITY. Nuance. The murky spaces in between, where things might look a bit like they’ve gone wrong. Wrong according to who though?
The reason why things are the way they are.
Behind a behaviour there’s always a feeling > behind a feeling > there’s always a reason… reasons.
Spinelift.
Shoulderswide.
Lungsfill.
Out.
And out.
Bio
Sarah Ryder lives and works in Colwyn Bay, North Wales. She graduated with an MFA in Painting at Slade School of Fine Art, London, 2008.Her most recent solo exhibition ‘Feet. Brain. Back Again.’
moved from Galeri, Caernarfon to Cass Art Gallery, Manchester, 2022.Recent group exhibitions: Caught in the Act, Royal Society of Sculptors, London; PLAY: The Movie!, Ty Pawb, Wrexham,
2023; BLINK Room Share 4, Safehouse 1, London, 2023; Maquette, No Show Space, London, 2023; Exeter Contemporary Open, Exeter Phoenix, Devon, 2022; Yellow Archangel Perceiving Anomalies, General Practice, Lincoln, 2021.
She was recipient of the overall award for Exeter Contemporary Open 2022.
TBC
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* For further information about Isotop events please contact us via isotopfellesatelier@gmail.com
Ongoing Exhibition
Sarah Ryder - Imperceivable (until it isn’t)
Exhibition opens Wednesday 30. OCTOBER 2024
Continues Thurs 31. OCT, Fri 1. Nov, Sat 2. Nov and Sun 3. Nov kl. 12 - 17 or by appointment
Scrumpleface.
Pinchmouth.
Browsdrawn.
Eyes to the side.
And down.
Letting a thought meander.
'thing is, we do know a bunch of stuff.
don’t we?
We feel it.
Gary Economics looked straight into the camera and relayed a question he’s often
asked:
“So, why aren’t you in politics?”
PAUSE.
LOOK.
“I am in politics.”
Unless they get lost in the post, 'Imperceivable (until it isn't)' literally brings together 9 paintings. Using cables/cords/tendrils. Joining them into one large THING.
A painting pretending to be a sculpture? The other way around? Scenery? Architecture? Or... maybe neither, none, nothing.
Well, it is something.
I'm hoping you'll be able to go inside it. If you want to. You'll certainly be able to move around it.
You won’t know what I do, so roughly it goes a little something like this: practising artist since 2000, ping-ponging painting, sculpture, drawing—responding to my surroundings, circumstances, situation, and whatever space may temporarily host my art.
I love the enigmatic languages of abstraction: colour, texture, form. COMPLEXITY. Nuance. The murky spaces in between, where things might look a bit like they’ve gone wrong. Wrong according to who though?
The reason why things are the way they are.
Behind a behaviour there’s always a feeling > behind a feeling > there’s always a reason… reasons.
Spinelift.
Shoulderswide.
Lungsfill.
Out.
And out.
Bio
Sarah Ryder lives and works in Colwyn Bay, North Wales. She graduated with an MFA in Painting at Slade School of Fine Art, London, 2008.Her most recent solo exhibition ‘Feet. Brain. Back Again.’
moved from Galeri, Caernarfon to Cass Art Gallery, Manchester, 2022.Recent group exhibitions: Caught in the Act, Royal Society of Sculptors, London; PLAY: The Movie!, Ty Pawb, Wrexham,
2023; BLINK Room Share 4, Safehouse 1, London, 2023; Maquette, No Show Space, London, 2023; Exeter Contemporary Open, Exeter Phoenix, Devon, 2022; Yellow Archangel Perceiving Anomalies, General Practice, Lincoln, 2021.
She was recipient of the overall award for Exeter Contemporary Open 2022.
Upcoming Exhibitions 2024
TBC
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* For further information about Isotop events please contact us via isotopfellesatelier@gmail.com
Workshops
Transforming Drawing into Darkroom Prints by Cliché Verre
An introduction workshop to darkroom with Lexy Liangzi Xiao
4 participants maximum for 2 hrs
Book by contacting @lexylexyxiao, or xiaoliangzi_lexy@126.com
An experimental workshop based on drawing on transparent film, followed by B&W printing and development at the Isotop darkroom under professional guidance by Lexy Liangzi Xiao. Cliché Verre is originally a print made by placing light sensitive photographic paper beneath a glass plate or a transparent material, where a design has been scratched through an opaque coating, and then exposed to light to get an inverted image on a photo paper. The workshop will provide 1 piece of transparent film and limited amounts of photographic paper per person, and the chemistry for the development. Participants can bring a drawing on a piece of transparent film (size about 4x5 inches) for the printing, instead of finishing a drawing at the workshop.
Lexy is an artist and researcher based in Bergen. She has been working with alternative and analogue photographic processes since 2018, and has developed and specialized in her own Alternative Silver Mirroring Toning recipes and processes. She aims to spread the art and analogue photography related knowledge, reinterpret the traditional techniques from a contemporary perspective, and provide more hands-on experience during workshops in the Isotop darkroom.
Drawing Club
with Viktorija Semjonova
Upcoming drawing clubs to be announced
Contact hello@viktorijaillustration.com for more information
Bergen Akt og Kroki - WEEKLY
Mondays at kl 18.00 - 21.00
Doors open 17.50
Bergen Akt & Kroki holds weekly drop in drawing sessions with a live model, open to professionals & amateurs.
For more info see: www.facebook.com/Bergen-Akt-og-Kroki-108683831645415
Past
Fergus Tibbs - Hosting Infrastructure (Isotop Version)
Fri 6th Sep, from 18:00 continued Sat 7th - Sun 22nd Sep, 12:00 - 17:00
Hosting infrastructure is an ongoing project by Fergus Tibbs which explores ways of creating the spaces and objects needed for gatherings and communal experiences.
Pop-up Members’ Exhibition & Summer Party
Mathilde Sæthre, Lexy Liangzi Xiao, Torild Stray, Hanna Pherson, Luke Drozd, Viktorija Semjonov, Rune Werner Molnes, Solvor Holan, Marie-Louise Lorentzen, Kim Diaz Holm
Wed 5. Jul
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Hanna Pherson, Helle Kongstad Holm Petersen
Wed 5. - Sat 8. Jun 2024
<3 OVE CALLS BACK <3
Veronika Öberg, Mattias Hellberg, Henna Ner, Mila Elisabeth Larvoll, Laura Bus, Ida Christina Mårdhed // MISS MOTH
Fri 26. - Sun 28. Apr 2024
Natt
Frank A. Unger
Fri 22. - Sun 24. Mar 2024
Entropy
Rune Werner Molnes
Thursday 30. Nov – Sunday 3. Dec 2023
DRAWING PEOPLE
Viktorija Semjonova
Torsdag 23. Nov - Søndag 26. Nov 2023
A Warm Gray Fabric Lined On The Inside With The Most Lustrous And Colorful Of Silks!
Eleni Ieremia
Onsdag 1. Nov - Lørdag 5. Nov
FERAL TONGUES
Ananda Serné (with Kristen Keegan and Eira Søyseth), Hamid Waheed and gentian rhosa
Lørdag 21. Okt
Produced for Isotop Fellesatelier by artist and curator Alex Hamish Millar. Supported by Arts Council Norway.
B-Open 2023
Open studios and group exhibition from studio members Amani Al-Kidwa, Birgit Brühl Studio, Daniel-in Heggelund, Eleni Ieremia, Lexy Liangzi Xiao, Luke Drozd, LUOM (Luke Drozd and Omar Johnsen), Sara Guttormsen, Simen Skaarup, Solvor Holan, Rune Werner Molnes, Torild Stray and Viktorija Semjonova.
Lørdag 23. Sept 2023
12:00-19:00
In the Flesh
An exhibition of new paintings by Torild Stray
Thursday June 8th - June 12th
17:30-20:30
Zion
Ewa Lorenc og Maria Helena K. Nerhus
Tirsdag 2. mai, 2023
Kl.18:00 – 19:00
GIVE ME A BREAK
Sofie Hvid Vinther
4-5 og 10-12 feb 2023
Spoon carving workshop
Amber Ablett
9th February 2023
Members Exhibition
8 - 11 desember 2022
We're Here: We're Queer - WILD THINGZ @ ISOTOP
Lise Carlsen, Courtney Coombs, Nina Eriksson, Henna Nerg, Mina Paasche, and Tobias Valentin
20-27 November, 2022
Isotop workshop series
Andrea Urstad Toft, Kim Diaz Holm, Håvard Legreid and Amber Ablett
Workshops in photogram, ink illustration, digital illustration and carving.
Autumn 2022
In Search of the Receptionists of The Genetic Salon
Bobby Yu Shuk Pui
29 October - 6 November
Spoon carving workshop
Amber Ablett
27th October 2022
Meus Caros Amigos – part IV
Nayara Leite
20 - 23 oktober 2022
Shapeshifting
Eli Mai Huang Nesse
24. september - 2. oktober 2022
WAYS
Tine Adler, Nayara Leite, Sigrid Lerche, Derek Sargent.
16 - 25 september 2022
Introduction to silk screen workshop with artist and designer Siv Støldal.
Sunday 18th September, kl 1300 - 1600
The Box aka Collections and the Thingness of Stuff or I Am Not a Collector
Luke Drozd
16 - 18 September 2022
Fra Leire til Lyd (From Clay to Music)
Elever fra Bergen Kulturskole og Øyvind Skarbø
27 august - 10 september 2022
Kutta av
Maria Helena K. Nerhus
12 - 17 august
ANIMISMS Film Festival
25th June 2022
huggers and gropers
Ingrid Forland
10 - 19 juni 2022
Spoon carving workshops
Amber Ablett
April, May, June 2022
all overgrown by cunning moss
Alex Hamish Millar
1 - 14 april 2022
Happy Man
Robert Carter
25 feb - 6 mars 2022
The Grave Project (Skeiv Norge)
Derek Sargent & Jess Miley
25 - 27 februar 2022
Isotop Medlemsutstilling
4 - 11 desember 2021
B Open
25 - 26 september 2021
Workshop Open day
12 juni 2021
TIME CRISIS CONFERENCE: STAGE ONE
Samuel Brzeski and Robin Everett
18 - 20 september 2020
Landships and Ownerscapes
Sara Nielsen Bonde & Sidsel Bonde
6 - 8 mars 2020
Fanzinekveld de Amore
presentert av Pamflett & Kiosken & Eira Søyseth
14 februar 2020
If you are interested in being a Workshop Member or in renting our project room for a large scale project, have a look on pages for the WORKSHOP and PROJECT ROOM.