MELK (NO)

MELK is an artist-run initiative for new Scandinavian photography located in Oslo, run by Behzad Farazollahi & Christian Tunge. The aim for the initiative is to raise awareness of the scene of contemporary photographers in the region and the position of the medium today, in a contemporary context.

Stensberggata 11
0170 Oslo
(+47) 92 84 05 47

post@melkgalleri.no
melkgalleri.no

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Dev Dhunsi (NO)

Dev Dhunsi is a Norwegian-Indian multidisciplinary artist. His projects, developed in large installations, combine textiles, lens-based works, and experimental printing techniques into mixed media presentations. The images themselves speak to sociopolitical and anthropological questions that exist beyond the picture’s frame. Dhunsi’s works examine identity, origin, and encounters between cultures, exploring the cultural bridge between his ancestries and upbringing in the physical landscapes of Scandinavia and the techno- and mediascapes of Asia. Dhunsi explores how a site turns into sight, pointing to photography’s intrinsic historical function of land grabbing, and how photographic representations have been used to serve the interests of dominant power structures.

Dev Dhunsi (b. 1996, Trondheim; NO) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. The artist has been educated at the Oslo National Academy of The Arts and The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. He has recently explored the distribution and attitudes towards photography and textile production creating a symbiotic relationship between the two mediums, while simultaneously looking at the world through a lens of queer theories and diasporic gaze. Recent exhibitions include: Fotogalleriet (Oslo; NO), Mint abf (Stockholm; SE), MELK (Oslo; NO), Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo; NO), National Sports Museum in Stockholm (SE; Stockholm).

Encircling Stories

Installation View
2023

Courtesy of the artist and MELK

Encircling Stories

Installation View
2023

Courtesy of the artist and MELK

Encircling Stories

Installation View
2023

Courtesy of the artist and MELK

Lesia Vasylchenko (UA)

Lesia Vasylchenko (born in Kyiv, Ukraine based in Oslo, Norway) works across a range of media including video, photography and installation. In her research-based practice Vasylchenko is exploring time as an infrastructure, looking into encounters between visual cultures, media technologies and chronopolitics. Vasylchenko’s work transpires as a reflection on the standstills of our historical moment and the impossibility of overcoming it, based on the idea that progress has created in our societies.

Lesia Vasylchenko (b. 1990, Kyiv; UA) lives and works in Oslo, Norway. Vasylchenko is a founder of STRUKTURA. Time, a cross-disciplinary initiative for research and practice within the framework of visual arts, media archaeology, literature, and philosophy. She holds a degree in Journalism from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and Fine Arts from Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Vasylchenko have been recently shown among others at the Kunsthall Oslo; MUNCH Museum; Henie Onstad Art Center; Oslo Kunstforening; Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art. Her work is part of the collection of Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA / Finnish National Gallery in Helsinki, Finland.