VAN ETTEN (NO)

Van Etten Gallery is an independent art space for contemporary art in Oslo, Norway. It was established in autumn 2020, and is run by curator and art historian Katja van Etten Jarem, and visual artist Øyvind Sørfjordmo. The exhibition venue is located on Oslo’s east side. Van Etten’s curatorial profile focuses on promoting young, aspiring artists and to establish links to more experienced and acclaimed artists. The gallery’s aim is to provide an art space where engaging and dynamic synergies take place.

Curated for
CHART

For CHART 20223, Van Etten will present a solo booth by Hanne Tyrmi. She will exhibit one large sculptural object. Though they may seem extreme in terms of materials and size, Tyrmi’s sculptures themselves are delicate and vulnerable; they have their own corporeality, sometimes to an uncomfortable extent. Tyrmi’s art seems to take place just as much inside the work as it does on the exterior surface, in the same way that skin acts as a membrane for the material that is contained underneath. In Tyrmi’s works the material that lays submerged often holds a particular feminist dimension.

Hanne Tyrmi (NO)

Hanne Tyrmi has always expressed herself through different materials. Hand and mind are in constant dialogue. By using and processing materials such as lead, steel, bronze, felt and cardboard, the Tyrmi conveys basic human experiences and gives them a physical and tactile form. The artist wants to explore the vulnerability that characterizes both society and the individual, an experience of barriers and loss, power and powerlessness. Tyrmi uses ideas of the body – as social and political reality – as a pivotal point in her work.

Hanne Tyrmi (b. 1954) lives and works in Oslo but has for lived and worked in Berlin, Brasil, Delhi, Johannesburg and Paris. Amongst others, she has done solo shows at the Museu de Arte Moderna in Sao Paulo, Henie Onstad Art Center, Haugar Art Museum, Kunstnerforbudnet, Kunstnernes Hus and Van Etten.