| Jenna Sutela, Sporulating Paragraph, 2017. Image: Momentum 9. |
Momentum 9, taking place in the industrial town of Moss, Norway, is being curated by Ulrika Flink, Ilari Laamanen, Jacob Lillemose, Gunhild Moe, and Jón B.K. Ransu, who together represent the Scandinavian region. With this biennial’s focus on ‘alienation’, the curators joined forces to determine how alien processes and entities are infused in our lives through technological, ecological and social transformations. More »
| Johan Zetterquist, Proposal No.29: A Monument Celebrating the End of Capitalism as We Know it, 2013. Photograph: Vegard Kleven. Courtesy the artist and Punkt Ø – Galleri F 15 & Momentum |
The Nordic Biennial, aka Momentum, takes place in the town of Moss on the outskirts of Oslo. For the seventh edition, two Scandinavian curators harbouring diverse practices – Power Ekroth and Erland Hammer – decided to ‘agree to disagree’: that is to create two parallel exhibitions. More »
| The Long Now Foundation, 2011, image: The Long Now Foundation |
From the perspective of one who had viewed the Sixth Momentum Biennial before the recent massacres in Oslo and Utøya Island, and who now proceeds to discuss it afterward, the biennial’s title “Imagine Being Here Now” carries even more significance. More »
| Wooloo, Two Years’ Untouched Garden, 2011, image: Momentum |
Touring the sixth Momentum Biennial, Imagine Being Here Now, located in Scandinavia, introduces contrasting stimuli: an impressionistic panorama of sailboats, elegant horses roaming the fields and building cranes unfolds around the viewer. More »
| Paolo Bottarelli, The ChessCube Project, 2011, image: Paolo Bottarelli |
What is curious about a monad is that it has no physical or material entrance or exit; the only way to gain access to one is by using one’s intrinsic, personal intuition. More »
| Ann Lislegaard, Time Machine, 2011, image: Momentum |
Norwegian artist Ann Lislegaard presents an off-kilter installation Time Machine, 2011, at the 6th Momentum Biennial which is both alluring and disturbing to anyone entering the windowless room on Gallery F15’s ground floor level. More »