Book Release 6.12.24

The Exposed Eye #1

by Helga Härenstam and Anna Strand, published by Sailor Press

During a breezy sea vacation, we entered into an agreement that over the next year, we would embark on a shared game. The game was to give each other assignments that were formulated: “Do something about…” The ellipses were to be replaced with something one of us thought the other should take on. The assignment, once completed, contained the seed for the next one, and it would continue in this vein until it somehow came to an end. We started with a man who was called Raftworks Abrahamsson and moved around after that in realities and escapisms, among children, X-rays, deserted houses, archives, sorrows, photo labs, sadists, harbor towns, slaughterhouses, amusement parks, dreams, coffins, and cyclo-
pes. We impacted life and were impacted by life. We traveled to Vindeln, to Paris, to Helsinki, and in time. We mixed together and were mixed together. The result of those completed assignments can be found in the book

This is not an ordinary book release, but one where the visitor/reader is given an assignment. The contributions we receive will be part of our exhibition at Alingsås Konsthall (January 25-May 10) and may also end up in our next bookThe Exposed Eye #2,to be published by Sailor Press autumn 2025.

About the Artists and Their Collaboration
Helga Härenstam and Anna Strand share a background in photography as the core of their artistic practices. In recent years, both have increasingly incorporated text into their works. Works that has been presented in books and exhibitions. Helga Härenstam’s projects often explores associative, experimental, and humorous narratives, sometimes tinged with a dark reflection on life and chance. Anna Strand, on the other hand, frequently draws upon archival materials as a starting point. These archives, often personal and seemingly ordinary at first glance, become crucial in her process of questioning and shaping alternative narratives.In the projectThe Exposed Eyethey have met in a desire to open up to the unexpected and to what arises in the conversation between two related, yet different artists and lives.

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Opening Friday November 1st from 17 – 20

NW Gallery is excited to invite you to our next exhibition with a group of Nordic artists:

Øistein Sæthren Dahle (S/NO)
Karl Henrik Edlund (FIN)
Katinka Goldberg (NO/S)
Sara Skorgan Teigen (NO)
Nina Worren (DK/NO)

Curated by Nina Worren

Exhibition period 1.11.-24.11.24

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Dedicated to the photographic artist's book in the Nordics, the viewer is taken along on the entire artistic journey from sketches, thoughts, work and the final works.

Through close encounters with the artists and the book as object and storyteller, memories, human relations, and our relationship with nature are explored.

By immersion and time, the viewer is let into the personal universes the artists work with in their practice: the archive, experimental photography, collage, text, drawing, painting and sculpture.

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Thank you to The Royal Norwegian Embassy and

Nordic Culture Fund for their generous support

Sara Skorgan Teigen (NO)

International contemporary photography gallery emphasizing on the hybridity and diversity in

form, material and expression. 

All exhibitions are curated on themes concerning human conditions, identity and our relation to nature.

We aim to give the public audience a possibility to immerse and insight into the process of artistic practice and research.

The beautiful space with natural surroundings and light gives experience of closeness between the audience, art works, the artists.

Everyone is welcome <3

Mia Irmgard Klit (DK)

Woong Soak Teng (SGP

Birk Thomassen (DK)

AdeY (UK)

Cecilie N. Rasmussen (DK)

Katinka Goldberg (S/NO)

Åsne Eldøy (NO)

Miriam H. Nielsen (DK)

Japanese handmade Artist Books

in collaboration with Reminders Photography Stronghold

Lene Hald (DK)

Jacob Aue Sobol (DK)

Margot Wallard (F)

Dagny & Charlie Hay (NO)

Inuuteq Storch(GR)

Photobook Week Aarhus 

Meet us at the Photobook Market October 30th from 11-16 at Godsbanen.

Focus 2022: Off Balance

The ninth edition of this special festival is 27–30 October 2022 in Aarhus, Denmark.

https://photobookweek.org

O S L O 

Photo: Jan Khür

Part of 

CPF PHOTO BOOK MARKET 2022

June 11th from 11-16 at Refshaleøen -

the center of Copenhagen Photofestival.

We are very proud that one of Sune Amstrups works will be on view as part of "The Camera and Us" at  The Danish Roal Library - The National Photomuseum /Black Diamond from 18.11.21 -

In 2018 we curated the group exhibition "Family Matters" and the public collection decided to include ten of Sunes works from his project "Dissolved Family" -

Congratulations Sune <3 

NW Gallery and Blankt Papir are happy to once again invite you to a mini workshop.

Sunday August 15th.:
From 13-15.
Location: NW Gallery, Nansensgade 10.

THREAD THE NEEDLE
is a 2-hour workshop where we teach you to sew your own book.
At the workshop, we sew two notebooks with the simple but beautiful Japanese staff sewing and the functional and easy singer sewing.

As a participant, you learn about materials and tools that must be used to sew books yourself.
All participants go home with handmade notebooks, as well as knowledge and understanding of what it means to make their own book.

The techniques we teach can be used to make our own magazines, notebooks, zines, artist books and / or photo book dummies.

Perfect for beginners.
All material is included.
DKK 500 incl. VAT

- Only few seats
- For registration and payment info write to mail@nw-gallery.dk.

We look forward to make bookbinding with you!

NW Gallery reserves the right to cancel the workshop due to insufficient participants or reasons beyond our control. In such a case, a full and immediate refund of the workshop fee will be issued.
NW Gallery is not responsible for reimbursement of travel, accommodation or other expenses in case the workshop is cancelled.
If a participant decides to cancel for whatever reason, this must be confirmed in a writing notification.
• if the cancellation is less than 7 days before the workshop starts, no credits can be issued.

For everyones safety we follow the Danish governments Covid-19 restrictions.

Copenhagen Photofestival June 2021

Thank you to Copenhagen Photofestival for inviting Julia Mejnertsen/Blankt Papir.& Nina Worren/NW Gallery to curate photobook exhibition, talks and the first ever photobook market at this years festival at Refshaleøen.

ROOM 

We call the photobook area of this year’s festival “ROOM” as a nod to the important feminist work “A Room of One’s Own” by Virginia Woolf. In “A Room of One’s Own” Woolf argues simply that the lack of female representation is not due to lack of talent, but rather lack of opportunity. The photobook area of this year’s festival gives ROOM to photobook talks, photobook market and a curated photobook-shop.

Soft Power – The Second Phase of Photobooks –  a curated photobook exhibition and shop 

The winds of change have been blowing for some time, but that doesn’t mean that the issue of representation is solved and with this year’s curated bookshop, we wish to push for further opportunities to be created by sharing some of the amazing and important photobooks made by women in recent years. Works that we find empowering and which have made an impression on us. This is by no means an exhaustive collection, but rather a window into a room of personal expressions.

Photobook Exhibition

Soft Power - the second phase of photobooks.

“Soft power as opposed to hard power are both terms used in politics. Soft power represents a way of getting a desired outcome by seduction rather than coercion, and is often associated with for instance cultural and pop cultural influences. Soft power is thus a term defined by softer values. What soft power represents is culture for everyone, and we believe that photobooks can be enjoyed by everyone. It doesn’t take an art education to enjoy pictures, visual narratives and personal stories - and just as important, everyone has a story to tell. In politics, soft power is also termed “the second face of power” (i.e. hard power being the first), and as the photobook market continues to bloom, we believe that the second phase of photobooks are photobooks made by voices that have previously been neglected. While this shop is focused on women, we believe that works by a more diverse group should be strived for - we wish to see works by transgender, queer, diverse cultures and nationalities all the same. In our curation, you’ll find works dealing with everything from beauty industry to connecting with nature, motherhood and the lack of - whether by choice or not, and about memories of love and loss.”

Including phenomenal book works for browsing and for sale by Laia Abril, Katherine Longly, Ann Massal, Lise Saxtrup, Margot Wallard, Lisbet Nielsen, Nina Strand, Janemaria Mekoline Pedersen, Linda Bergman, Giulia Iacolutti, Paola Favoino, Katinka Goldberg and Claudine Doury.

Curated by Julia Mejnertsen/Blankt Papir

and Nina Worren/NW Gallery.

NW Gallery presents

Like Purity, Like Gravity

a solo exhibition by
Carolina Echeverri

05.06.-26.06.21.

Carolina Echeverri's solo exhibition Like Purity, Like Gravity pushes for our understanding of nature and re-formulates our relationship with it.

In a series of photographic diptychs and a sound installation, Echeverri explores the purity related to innocence contained in natural attributes, in instinct and qualities related to religion, culture, gender and identity connected to nature. When we remove the natural chaos and the beautiful freedom we were born into, and then create a fabricated, controlled and manipulated disorder disguised as a tainted idea of order, human beings will innocently lose their compass.

Carolina Echeverri wants to reset our relationship with nature, by showing it as it is - or as it may be without our intervention. The child's leg under the dress belongs to her son, and it was precisely this photograph that started her study of nature and man as two separate beings, trying to dominate each other in an eternal dance.

Carolina Echeverri was born in 1980 in Bogotá, Colombia, with schooling in the capital and all her free time spent on her father's farm far outside the city. The free and unruly nature became her playmate, who has then followed her all her life and shaped her view on the world.

She has previously participated in group exhibitions at e.g. Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Hans Alf Gallery, and the exhibition at NW Gallery is her first solo exhibition in Copenhagen. In 2019, she was featured in GUP Magazine “Fresh Eyes” as one of the best emerging photographers in Europe, and in 2021, the Latin America Photography Foundation and  Enfoque Visual Magazine named her as one of 30 recommended new Latin American photographers.

She lives in Copenhagen with her husband and two children. See her works at www.carolinaecheverri.com.

Artist Book Fair in Tokyo

at Reminders Photography Stronghold

March 26 - 28 2021

We are participating at a new Artist Book fair in Tokyo organised by Reminders Photography Stronghold (www.reminders-project.org).

The plan was to go there ourselves - but at least two boxes of 8 kgs of Nordic photo books is there during the coming weekend March 26-28.

These are the selected books:

Eat a Chili

By Wei Weng (CN), selfpublished

Fractal State of Being

By Sara Skorgan Teigen (NO), Journal Photobooks

Surfacing

By Katinka Goldberg (SE), Journal Photobooks

45

By Damian Heinisch (NO), Selfpublished 1. Edition

Flesh 

By Inuuteq Storch (GL/DK), Disko Bay 

I don’t think you were the same and now I wonder, was I?

By Lise Saxtrup (DK), Blankt Papir

Hope Blinds Reason

By Terje Abusdal (NO), Journal Photobooks

You Shine I reflect

By Christian Klintholm (DK), Selfpublished

Montöristen

By Carl-Mikael Ström (SE), VOID 

Immersed in Stone – Black Ice

By Line Bøhmer Bakken (NO), Multipress

The Komidiary 

By Filippo Zambon (FIN), Lecturis

Midnight Milk

By Marie Sjøvold (NO), Journal Photobooks

Inga kan älska som vi/Noone can love like we can
By Ylva Sundgren, Journal Photobooks

All books are also available in our gallery bookstore - contact us on mail@nw-gallery.dk for information.

COMPLEX STATES 

We are excited about being one of the contributing venues to the exhibition “Complex States”.

“Complex States” is an international exhibition that comes as a
timely and urgent response to both the divisive events of “Brexit” and the “Covid-19”
pandemic. With more than 30 international artists, 13 venues and a cutting edge
augmented reality platform, the exhibition will run
until the 31st of December 2020 when the Brexit process draws to a close.
As an exhibition
that traverses nations, as well as the physical and virtual, Complex States offers a platform
for renewed trans-national dialogue, collaboration and cultural exchange.

Curated by Catherine Harrington and Vassiliki Tzanakou - the founder of ARTinTRA in cooperation with the software company afca. based in Bern.

NW Gallery will exhibit works by Eliza Tamo.

Other contributing artists:

Zish Alexander, David Bannister, Jan Bowman, Jason deCaires-Taylor, Michael Craig-Martin, Jeremy Deller, Led By Donkeys, Rita Duffy, Ben Jakober and Yannick VU, Stephane Graff, Lara Hoad, Michal Iwanowski, Henry Jones, Keep It
Complex, Richard Littler, Hynek Martinec, Stefana Mcclure, Gil Mualem Doron, Poshfruit,
Quiet British Accent, Simon Roberts, Martin Rowson, Bob & Roberta Smith, John Springs, Susan Stockwell, Joe Sweeney, Koen VanMechelen, Wolfgang Tillmans.

October 1-4 in Århus

Arranged for the 7th time by Gallery Image and Aarhus School of Architecture.

NW/Nina Worren is invited to curate an exhibition showing Norwegian Photobooks.

This exhibition, which continues PWA’s geographical focus on Northern Countries, will show the diversity of Norwegian books and publications with an emphasis on photography.

NW Gallery will also have a stand at the book market 4.10.20 - come visit us!

Fore more info -

http://photobookweek.org/news/exhibition-preview-norwegian-photobooks/

September in Oslo 2020

We are also this year invited to hold portfolio reviews in Oslo arranged by Cyan Folio at Henie Onstad Art Center

For more info -

http://cyanstudio.no/cyanfolio-2020

Exhibitions June/August 2020

NATURE RELATIONS & TRANSIENCE SITE

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Exhibition december 2019

C L O S E

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Exhibition June 2019

Interior Landscape

- The room as a sketchbook &

The Nature Within

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Exhibition January 2019

Året, København  / The year, Copenhagen

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Exhibition December 2018

B R E A T H E

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Exhibition November 2018

Grief

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Talk November 2018

Dreams from a hospital bed

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Book Release February 2019

Unsettled City by M.H. Frøslev

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Book Release September 2018

Året. København / The Year, Copenhagen

July & August 

by Blankt Papir Press

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Book Release June 2018

Porcelain Souls by Inuuteq Storch

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Previous Workshop March 2020

and February 2019

with Calin Kruse

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Previous Workshop Autumn 2020

and June 2018

with Jan Rosseel

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Previous Workshop 1-4. February 2020

with JH Engström

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