5 Texts On Terje Nicolaisens Artist Books
How to convey the content of 400 Artist Books?
I arranged a competition
Det må være flere tusen bilder inne i disse ulike bøkene
Formally speaking, Nicolaisen is a very skilled bureaucrat. Tone Hansen
Kai Johnsen
Jonas Ekeberg
Øystein Ustvedt
Jeremy Welch
Dag Solhjel
0047 Rykk Tilbake Til Start - Return to Start!
92 artists show work from their starting pit as artists
curated by Jan Christensen
Academy work from 1993
1974 Vinyl LP
"The Wilhelmsens elsker Terje Nicolaisen - 1974"
I've listened a lot to this album, and as I said, and I just have to say, that I love it all the way through. Because here we are undoubtedly talking about an all-around artist and songwriter who deserves a much bigger name than he already has - just saying - due to this fabulous release alone.
The Wilhelmsens
A summary
participating in 7 shows this year + launching a new book!
Nicolaisen's oeuvre can be described as an uninterrupted, unfiltered stream of consciousness that resonates from his adequate viewpoint as an artist, musician and fellowman
Tidens Krav 2012
Alternative Wedding Ritual
Alternative Wedding Ritual (1999)
In the appropriate time in a wedding, bring forward a pistol of a certain size...
Artist Statemnets
Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø
19.03.2010 - 02.05.2010
Today when I woke up, I had extremely many good ideas, unfortunately I forgot. Tomorrow I will have a déjà vu
B-post Journal
my entry to B-post journal focusing on the role of the artist in public space
Artists In Public Space + Strategic Art
norwegian below
Bad Painter
Høstutstillingen 2018 -
National Art Exhibition
I am always happy when I encounter art that as well as being interesting to look at and reflect on, is genuinely entertaining.
Kåre Bulie in D2 magazine
Baggage Claim, TABF23
Curator
@bjarnemelgaard, #mariusengh via @borgenheim.rosenhoff, @nemiepeba, @hanshamidrasmussen, @joarnango, @lordjimpublishing, @pasenau, @terjenicolaisen & @victorboullet
@bjarnemelgaard, #mariusengh via @borgenheim.rosenhoff, @nemiepeba, @hanshamidrasmussen, @joarnango, @lordjimpublishing, @pasenau, @terjenicolaisen & @victorboullet
Bergen Kunsthall No.5
Solo show with Solveig Øvstebø
Galleri NO. 5
Terje Nicolaisen
Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen
7 September — 1 October 2006
Bergen Kunsthall No.5 Solo
A soloshow in Bergen Kunsthall with curator Solveig Øvstebø
A lot of Artist books, drawings and the first Norsk Sokkel Award ceremony
Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall
When I was at the Prado Museum, I saw in one of Goya's pictures (Perro Semihundido) a figure that clearly stood out in the picture and in the epiphany, I thought this was sensational
- that the museum itself had not seen this?
Så jeg bestemte meg for å skrive til Prado museet for å høre deres mening om oppdagelsen, jeg hentet frem skikkelsen på skisser og sende en post med billedmateriale. Jeg fikk et overbærende svar om at jo; takk for brevet! og; vi får mange brev fra mennesker som har sett rare ting!
By The Way Gallery
1.8 - 21.9.2000
VISAMALERIER
Terje Nicolaisen lager malerier direkte på vinduene med en nal-teknikk spesielt utviklet for b.t.w. Testing out the Visa Painting possibilities on a glass surface
Drawing For Freedom
«When I draw what I see, I touch the thing I am looking at with my mind [...] but it is as if my hand is caressing its outline.» —Siri Hustvedt
I was asked by colleague Jeanette Christensen and Anne Marit Austbø to show and help students how to investigate the possibility of using portraits / drawings as a tool for political means, in this case to highlight the situation of imprisoned writers in Azerbaijan.
Kunstnere
Shwan Dler Qaradaki
Lykourgos Porfyris
Jeannette Christensen
Anne Marit Austbø
Terje Nicolaisen
Hans Adell
Erla Audunsdottir
Julia Alfe Bylund
Øyvor Hansen Engen
Therese Frisk
Aksel Octavius Norreen Hauklien
Amanda Hårsmar
Heidi Klemetsen
Anna Knappe
Kachun Lay
Janne Maria Lysen
Anna Sofie Mathiasen
Nasim Iranpour Mashak
Elisabeth Samstad
Erle Saxegaard
Love Terins
Linnea Vestre
Morten Jensen Vågen
Suzannah Rehell Øistad
Kuratert av
Rikke Komissar
Tor Arne Samuelsen
Europals – Alive in Berlin
CD-rom release
Songs made on a recidency in Berlin 2006/2007
recorded directly on to the laptop
mastered by Marius Gegenbach
(allthough it was not much to work with)
released on the occasion of the Galleri Riis Solo show
Alive In Berlin - Europals
Fiesta Mayor På Ole Bulls Plass 1998
Beneath an umbrella on Ole Bulls plass in Bergen in spring 1998, I gained a greater understanding of the potential melancholy in Terje’s oeuvre. As part of the Bergen Festival, he presented the installation Fiesta Mayor, reminiscences from a Spanish village festival: pennants, lights and music unreachably high up on the trees in the square. The work proved to be a much-loved blend of his artistic populism and his romantic proletarian attitude to life and his own ancestry. Geir Tore Holm (2000)
Frie Kunster
Museet for Samtidskunst /
Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst
Lotte Konow Lund, Erik Pisani, Hannah Høines, Hilde Rognskog and Terje Nicolaisen
One of the core ideas of Nicolaisen’s oeuvre has been precisely that of creating a non-artistic room around his own works.
Ingvild Krogvik
Grey Gorges Cast No Shadows
I made a preludium to Kurants exhibition Grey Gorges Cast No Shadows
Hanne Kolstø Solo and Terje Nicolaisen med venner
HOK LIVE
- Hanne Kolstø og Terje Nicolaisen er to særpregede norske artister som vandrer i ingenmannslandet mellom pop og kunst.
Lars Mørch Finborud, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter.
Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Berlin
Intrigued to be a part of Anne Marit Austbø and Jeannette Christensens workshop at KHIO called Drawing For Freedom, where we, togeteher with students tried to make portraits of political prisoners in Azerbadjan, to see if we could help releasing them by promoting portraits of them
Hans Adell, Erla Audunsdottir, Julia Alfe Bylund, Øyvor Hansen Engen, Therese Frisk, Aksel Octavius Norreen Hauklien, Amanda Hårsmar, Heidi Klemetsen, Anna Knappe, Kachun Lay, Janne Maria Lysen, Anna Sofie Mathiasen, Nasim Iranpour Mashak, Lykourgos Porfyris, Elisabeth Samstad, Erle Saxegaard, Love Terins, Linnea Vestre, Morten Jensen Vågen and Suzannah Rehell Øistad, Terje Nicolaisen, Jeanette Christensen and Anne Marit Austbø
I Will Never Exhibit Again (Leipzig)
For a show in Leipzig I sent an artpiece in the form of a letter stating that I would never exhibit again
The response from the gallerist, initiated more works, since misunderstanding and understanding of art mixed with a bit of very different senses of humor, eventually will trigger philosophy
Untitled (I Will Never Exhibit Again) (2007)
Typewriter and inkjet on paper. Unibind.
300 x 215 mm
14 sheets + cover
Unique-TN-2360
I wish I was a Song
- Music in Contemporary Art
National Museum of Art, Oslo
14.10.2012 - 20.01.2013
Nevin Aladağ, Dave Allen, Apparatjik and Autokolor, Fikret Atay, Tim Ayres, Johanna Billing, Christoph Brech, Catti Brandelius, Laura Bruce, Clegg and Guttmann, Sophie Clements, Phil Collins, Malin Elgan, William Engelen, Mohamed Ali Fadlabi, Graham Dolphin, Gilbert & George, Goodiepal, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Her Noise Archive, Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen (Complaints Choir), Idris Khan, Ragnar Kjartansson, Stian Eide Kluge, Erkki Kurenniemi, Jan Köchermann, João Ferro Martins, KILLL, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Bruce Nauman, Terje Nicolaisen, Camille Norment, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, Susan Philipsz, Adrian Piper, Santiago Reyes, Michael Sailstorfer, Tom Sandberg, Wilhelm Sasnal, Félix González-Torres, Tori Wrånes, David Zink Yi.
Jævlade Klasseforrædere / Damn Class Traitors
The artists of "Damn Class Traitors" have in common that they come from some form of working class background and that in their artistry in various ways touches upon issues of economic, cultural or social capital
Bjørn Hatterud, Curator
Klagesang - Elegy
A soloshow with recent sculptures
"..Nevertheless, it has become a litmus test for any prestigious institution in Norway if they have exhibited Nicolaysen. If not, they have slept in class." ØSB
Kunst Til Folket / Art To The People
Bergen Kunsthall, Kunstnernes Hus, Tromsø Kunstforening
AdBusters, Ingrid Book og Carina Heden, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Matias Faldbakken, Goksøyr/Martens Salong, Gunnar S.Gundersen, Ane Hjort Guttu, Høgskolene i Telemark og Stavanger, Marianne Heier, Klassekampen, Per Maning, Morten Krohg/GRAS, New Meaning, Terje Nicolaisen, NRK Kulturavdelingen, Racecar, Lars Ramberg, Kjartan Slettemark, Space Group>
Litteraturhuset i Oslo
25 portraits of international writers in
permanent hanging
"The colour bleeds or shines a light through the lines, creating an unruly pulse or bursting line, so that the open shapes of the faces and sprawling outlines of the bodies awake a curiosity that will not be satisfied"
Kjetil Røed
Living Lines
5 contemporary artists on Edvardt Munch archive of drawings
In this book, the five prominent contemporary artists Marlene Dumas, Terje Nicolaisen, Nalini Malani, Georg Baselitz and Tracey Emin have each put together a selection of Edvard Munch's drawings.
LYNX (Oslo)
Soloshow at LYNX (Oslo)
The particular inquire presented at LYNX is “stage one” in the process for the preparation of a seminar held at KHIO later this fall where Nicolaisen will talk about how he works with portraits and participate in the workshop Drawing For Freedom
MACEB - Museo d’art Contemporani de El Bruc
I invited 18 artists to design a new museum of contemporary art...
9 artist responded to the call
Thomas Shütte
Claes Oldenburg
Pekka Nevalainen
Reinhardt Mucha
Geir Tore Holm
Paul Dring
Pep Dardanyà
Daniel Burén
Talleiv Taro Manum
Yutaka Sone
Andreas Slominski
Maurizio Cattelan
Tadashi Kawamata
Gabriel Orozco
Hans Hemmert
Gunda Förster
Pawel Jarodzki
Nana Petzet
MOLAF
Museum of Longing and Failure
27.11.2010 - 23.12.2010
This Apple Pulp is made from apples from Art collector and Patron of Art: Rolf M Stenersens (1899 - 1978) garden
Momentum 2004
nobody knows if there is a painting on the canvas...
Text by Halvor Haugen (norwegian)
Museo de Pasatiempo Enlargement
Kunsthall Oslo 20.08.2010
Instructions:
1. Look for a flat surface, put together the five largest pieces in such a way that it assembles a museal space.
2. Use the smallest piece as an artwork and place it according to the space.
3. Observe the placement, lightning and expression that your placement represents. Repeat actions as much as you need.
4. Alternatively, find domestic objects as an artwork and place them around. 5. When finished playing the game can easely be left as decorative element in your home.
Neste Utgave
A one-page A1 newspaper (front and back of course) - light-hearted, critical and eclectic. Emphasizing pleasure in all aspects. Circulation 50,000. Go big or go home!
MORTEN LANGELAND (RED.) OG ELISE BY OLSEN (RED,)
Norsk Skulpturbiennale 2003
Young Melancholic Society
- The Surfboard
He thus began his own exclusive association and started conjecturing what I would define a deliberate self-isolation from the collectivity through the non-intervention in the social/political debate. An individualistic, thus melancholic, attitude of resistance against a society whose communal activities are highly structured, and mainly based on consumerist activities.
Carolina Corbetta
Norsk Slacker Tegning
Drammen Museum 7.march to 28.Apri 2002
Lotte Konow Lund, Tirill Schrøder, Elise Storsveen, Ulf Carlsson/Johannes Kanschat, Bjørn Bjarre, Terje Nicolaisen, Elisabeth Mathisen, Sofie Berntsen, Eli Skjønberg, Viggo Pedersen, Hanne Sjøtrø.
Kurator: Åsmund Thorkildsen
Norsk Sokkel 2014 - Ambassadeboligen i Roma
16.01.2014
The Norsk Sokkel Award is given to "person or institution in the art world who have done something important and good for Norwegian art life, especially if this has helped Terje Nicolaisen's career"
Once emerging, Now emerging: The visitation
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
Vito Acconci, Lynda Benglis, Minami Haynes, Michael Haight, David Hockney, Terje Nicolaisen, Yunhee Min, Patrick Meagher, Paul Sharits, Milton Stevenson, Peter Demos, Ted Gahl, Justin Gainan.
Former visiting galleries: Multiples (NY), Bernard Jacobson (UK), Paula Cooper (NY) and Light Gallery (NY).
Curated by Aaron Wrinkle and Jean Milant
Jan 14 - March 5, 2012
Paintings 2016
SOLOSHOW AT KUNSTNERFORBUNDET
9th of June - 10th of July 2016
Paintings 2016 / MALERIER 2016
Review in Klassekampen Wedn 15th june 2016 (see image norwegian only)
Also mentioned by Kåre Bulie in D2 magazine
08.08.16 in an article about painting today
According to Kunstnerforbundet 3000 visitors saw the exhibition
Parallelle Projekte In Der Stadt Münster 1997
...in 1997, Nicolaisen decided to participate with a parasitic project. He went to Münster, found an appropriate exhibition space in a pavilion, produced a catalogue, posters, postcards and a press release and attended the official press conference. In short, he acted as if he were part of the Sculpture Project Münster. His actions were fuelled by impatience, a feeling of not wanting to wait until he was seventy....
But whereas Peter Weibel and Michael Asher emptied the space in order to show the gallery as an architectural framing device, Nicolaisen chose a different strategy to objectivise the space. The gallery itself was closed to the public during the exhibition and could only be seen from outside. In this way, the gallery was transformed from a venue for socialising and experiencing art to an inaccessible sphere that only emitted an enigmatic, yellow light.
Ingvild Krogvik
Pekkaterje Give-away Paintings / 50 % Happiness
with Pekka Nevalainen
Bergen / Helsinki 2000
"Help! Someone gave me a painting!"
Bypasser to Pekkaterje performance
Planka i Tromsø #1
Planka i Tromsø er en viderføring av Galleri Planka som ble startet av kunstnerne Anna Daniell og Sverre Strandberg i deres hjem på Tøyen i Oslo. Planka befant seg da mellom kjøkkenet og stua hvor små kunstverk ble stilt ut til allmenn forlystelse. Så også i Tromsø. Den originale Planka er nå montert på Kunstakademiet og drives videre av helga. Til en plankautstilling blir 5 kunstnere invitert og verket de leverer bør ikke overskride 45 cm.
Plateomslag. Vinylens tilbakekomst
Visningssted: Nasjonalmuseet - Kunstindustrimuseet, 07.06.2015 - 13.09.2015
Plum Trim - Civil Kurage
Nina Skarsbø / Freja Burgess / Mercedes Muhleisen / Carl Mannov / Ylva Greni / Jørn Aagaard / Joar Nedberg / Terje Nicolaisen / Jon Erik Kopperud / Petter Napstad / Liv Ertzeid
...because the painting is damaged and faded, from earlier restorations, not everything you see in the picture can be attributed to Goya!
letter to Nicolaisen from Chief Curator Manuela Mena at the Prado Museum
Portrait of the Artist as Entrepreneur
Portrett av kunstneren som entreprenør
Tegnerforbundet
03.04.2014 - 04.05.2014
"It's easy to love Nicolaisen's warped and unpretentious entrance in to art, in a landscape akin to people like Dieter Roth and David Shrigley, with his kinky artist humor".
Line Ulekleiv
Rolf erik nyström interprets terje
At the opening of PAPERWORK at Henie Onstad in 2011 Rolf Erik Nyström interpreted my exhibition
Kamera: Syver (9)
Skulpturbiennalen 2006
Vigelandsmuseet - The Vigeland Museum
kurator: Cecilia Widenheim
Jørgen Craig Lello / Tobias Arnell, Espen Dietrichson, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Marius Engh, Matias Faldbakken, Lina Viste Grønli, Ane Hjort Guttu, Tone Hansen, Marit Justine Haugen / Dan Zohar, Anne Karin Jortveit, Leif Inge, Josefine Lyche & Lars Morell, Elisabeth Mathisen, Terje Nicolaisen, Marius Notvik, Anders Smebye, Kjetil Skøien, Ståle Sørensen, Sørfinnset skole, Anne Traegde, Lars Traegde, Mikkel Wettre, Plakatkampanjen; Per Gunnar Tverbakk, Kristian Viken & Tone Hansen
Smestad Gjenbruksstajon
Nicht Realisiert
Stacky shopping carts, tired consumers and fantasies concerning the use, the reuse and recycling are conveyed with a light stroke and humour.
Else Haavik
Something Rotten In The State Of Norway
UKS - Forum for Samtidskunst 1/2 2001
- Guest editor
What actually is the problem with Norway – a very wealthy country with public poverty and insignificant concentration upon culture?
Kasper König
Tegnebiennalen 2010
Selvinnlysende
Stedsspesifikt
Prosjekt 2010
Knut Benjaminsen, Johan Urban Bergquist, Mona Brekke, Oda Broch, Dania Burger, Mattias Cantzler, Per Dybvig, Frøydis Eriksson Erstad, Stian Gabrielsen, Ivan Galuzin, Ane Graff, Christian Hennie, Guri Guri Henriksen, Steffen Håndlykken, Arne Heglum Ingvaldsen, Anders Kjellesvik, Sofi Lardner Häggström, Petter Lie, Janine Magelssen, Kristoffer Myskja, Terje Nicolaisen, Shwan Dler Qaradaki, Tammo Rist, Sex Tags, Andreas Soma, Tegneklubben, Catrine Thorstensen, Helene Torp, Øyvind Torseter, Kjell Varvin, Magnus Vatvedt, Gunhild Vegge, Emma Wright, Heidi Øiseth, Munan Øvrelid, Ørjan Aas og Stian Ådlandsvik.
Tegnebiennalen 2014 !
The Drawing Biennale Oslo 2014 including Erased de Kooning Drawing
Robert Rauschenberg
A Kassen, Viggo Andersen, Louis Bevalet, Serina Erfjord, Berit Marie Friestad, Wade Guyton, Hanne Grieg Hermansen, Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk, Sture Johannesson, Irma Salo Jæger, Silke Otto-Knapp, Kitty Kraus, Anders Dahl Monsen, Ronak Moshtaghi, Punish (Ewan Imrie og Robert Johnston), Robert Rauschenberg, Christian Skagen, Roman Signer, Fredrik Værslev, Emma Wright, Richard Wright, Ida Ekblad, verk fra Guttorm Guttormsgaards samling og Norsk rettsmuseums samling
Curator: Will Bradley, Elisabeth Byre and Terje Nicolaisen
Tegneklubben - HIFILOFI - WTF
KINOKINO Senter for Kunst og Film, Sandnes, Norway
13.06.2013 - 18.08.2013
...Together they get to draw five times as much......
Kari Skippervold
Tegneklubben at UKS
A show about the art academy last 100 years
Kunstakademiet, 1909-2009
30 May - 7 June, 2009
UKS, Oslo, Norway
Tegneklubben in the flow
Prosjektrom Normanns 2019
Sørlandets Kunstmuseum 2019
Trondheim Kunstmuseum
with Håkon Bleken 2018
Kunstgarasjen 2018
Tegnerforbundet 2018
See Tegneklubbens website for more info
Tegnetriennale 2023
What determines whether an idea, a feeling or an experience ends up as a text or a drawing?
63 national and international artists take part in the triennial, which focuses on two of the most important forms of human communication throughout history – drawing and text
Terje Nicolaisen - Paperwork
Henie Onstad Art Centre, Bærum
03.02.2011 - 01.05.2011
Through the fact that all his works are only suggestions on events and projects that could have been realized, in the form of detached sentences, he shows us a forty year old point, which is just as important to take in today: - That an artist is not necessarily a producer of objects, but rather an initiator of vibrant, independent thought processes in the viewer.
Gjennom det faktum at alle hans verk kun er forslag på hendelser og prosjekter som kunne vært virkeliggjort, i form av løsrevne setninger, viser han oss et førti år gammelt poeng, som er like viktig å ta innover seg i dag: - At en kunstner ikke nødvendigvis er en produsent av objekter, men snarere en igangsetter av levende, selvstendige tankeprosesser i betrakteren.
Mona Pahle Bjercke, NRK P2
The Artist Book - Unique and Diverse
Kunstnerboken - Codex Polaris, Kristiansand Kunsthall, Kristiansand
ARKIR Book Arts Group (IS), Susanna Autio (FI), Crow Press (NO), Michal Czinege (SK/FI), Olle Essvik (SE), Carina Fihn (SE), Karin Hald (DK), Halden Bookworks (NO), Eeva-Liisa Isomaa (FI), Thomas Iversen (NO), Kurt Johannessen (NO), Sarah Jost (SE/NO), Kamilla Jørgensen (DK), Ane Thon Knutsen (NO), Margrethe Kühle (DK/NO), Hans Ragnar Mathisen (NO), Terje Nicolaisen (NO), Lina Nordenström (SE), Mágnus Pálsson (IS), Karen Pettersen (NO), Pist Protta (DK), Sandborg+Higgins (NO/UK), Kimmo Schroderus (FI), Marja-Leena Sillanpää (SE), Emilia Tanner (FI), Richard Årlin (SE).
The mind of this death is unrelentingly awake
the multiple Museo de Pasatiempo exhibited at OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway 04.11.2009 - 19.12.2009
works by
Martha Rosler, Marcel Broodthaers, BANK, Lina Viste Grønli, David Hall, Pablo Helguera, Simon Linke and Terje Nicolaisen
The Visa Paintings
an indefinite number of paintings made in a particular manner
Terje’s work, like the situationist dérive, is much more than the roadmovie's mystical credo that ”The journey’s the thing, and anyone who thinks differently is just wasting gas.”(5) Rather, they constitute a process where pleasure and coincidence merge into a description of the nature of the surroundings, and of how movement is defined through these surrounding
THE DÉRIVE IN TERJE NICOLAISENS PRACTICE
Gardar Eide Einarsson
Tidens Krav
Terje Nicolaisens kunst er som en uavbrutt ufiltrert bevisshets-strøm som ressonerer utifra hans adekvate ståsted som kunstner, musiker og medmenneske Tidens Krav
Terje Nicolaisen slipper vinylskiva Terje Nicolaisen onsdag 12.12.12 hos Tidens Krav. Begivenheten vil bli behørig feiret med releasekonsert med Terje og hans band.
Uncertain States
V A N E T T E N Gallery
Bærum Kunsthall
Kristiansand Kunsthall
Munchmuseet (Publication)
Atelier Munch Ekely
- He was surprised that I was just another bloke from the hood, with a tie and regular working hours, he had admittedly had the impression that artist where very particular introverted people.
Ministry of Culture on studio visit
Unge Melankolikeres Samfund
Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo
10.2.2011 - 06.03.2011
Absurditeten i alternative visuelle og konseptuelle løsninger har vært en fast følgesvenn i Nicolaisens virke gjennom flere tiår. Den upretensiøse og skøyeraktige signaturen er umiskjennelig, ikke minst gjennom Nicolaisens innsats i Tegneklubben, som på sist høstutstilling var et absolutt høydepunkt med sin harselas over norsk kulturliv.
Line Ulekleiv, Vindskjeve glimt fra atelieret, Morgenbladet 25.februar 2011
Van Etten At Large
Van Etten at LARGE
HANNA ROLOFF / TERJE NICOLAISEN / MAJA PAULINE BANG / SINDRE HUSTVEIT / NEBIL ZAMAN / MIKAEL ANDRE JACOBSSON / MILAN BENZA / ØYVIND SØRFJORDMO
Van Etten Gallery
Soloshow at the newly established Van Etten gallery in Oslo
Therefore, it has never been more important to examine the visualisation of the body than now. With this backdrop, Nicolaisen examines the body as a "common space" in imperfect imagery, where bodily figures in absurd poses and missing limbs represent a chaotic place in an endangering world.
We started Tegneklubben!
PAUL DRING
MARTIN SKAUEN
ULF CARLSSON
BJØRN BJARRE
TERJE NICOLAISEN
Yellow Lights
During three years I installed yellow lights in 14 different museum and art institutions throughout Norway, in Helsinki and in Münster, Germany.
"Nicolaisens omgang med gult lys står i en stilling for seg. På en utstilling i Galleri Otto Plonk i Bergen i 1996 kom publikum til en stengt galleridør. Inne var lokalet derimot fullt opp med et kraftig, gult lys som strålte ut gjennom noen ruter. Kunstverkets objektkarakter og kunstsystemets varefetisjisme ble undergravet samtidig som selve kunstrommet ble løftet frem som kilde til energi og innsikt".
Øystein Ustvedt (2011), En ny oppmerksomhet om tegning i Nyere Norsk Kunst etter 1990