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News 27.06.10: Showing the video “400 Year Legacy” the first instalment of the new body of work “Chapter IV” in the group show THE COLLECTIVE at Nettie Horn Gallery. 2 JULY - 8 AUGUST 2010 11.06.10: I've started a little online art project PXsnatch History 1979 born Chatham UK 1979 moved to Selje Norway 1998-1999 studied Film and media at "Danvik Folke høgskole" where I participated on several short films. 1999-2001 attended compulsory Military service, worked for the Norwegian Navel academy's Internal Television 2001-2002 studied Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, Examen Facultatum and Ecamen Philosphicum. In short Philosophy at University of Oslo 2003-2006 moved back to Chatham UK. Studied BA in Photography at University College for the Creative Arts, Rochester 2007 Currently working at University College for the Creative Arts as Digital media instructor
Exhibitions 2009 Exhibition in Sweden at fotogalleriet [format] 29 August - 27 September 2009. Showing Behold, Paradigm and Sirkel. 2009 Group exhibition in New York. Xto Image Awards. July 9-18, 2009 at Farmani Gallery 2009 Group exhibition at the Joiners Shop. 21 May - 20 June 2009. 2009 Solo Exhibition at Nettie Horn 13 FEBRUARY – 15 MARCH 2009. Preview: Thursday 12 February, 6-9 pmave 2008 I was invited by JJ Charlesworht to show some new and old work at the Three By Three (3) group exhibition.16th December to 18th January 2009. followed by karaoke and Xmas party. 2008 Solo exhibition in Oslo Norway at Fotografiens Hus August. For more info (in Norwegian) click here. 2007 Aqua Art Miami Art Fair. Represented by Nettie Horn, December 2007 Group exhibition. Photomeat presents ''Meat' at Laviande 30th November - 4th December. 2007 YEAR 07 Art Fair at County Hall, Westminster Bridge Road, London. Represented by Nettie Horn, October 2007 Group exhibition 'Beauhemia' at 'Nettie Horn Gallery' 6 July - 12 August. 2007 Group exhibition 'Romantic Ant-Humanism' Featuring Lisa Castagner, Theo Cowley, Jayne Parker, Bjørn Venø. Curated by Francis Summers. At Five Years. 23 June - 01 July 2007 Group exhibition 'ECCE HOMO' at 'The Brick Lane Gallery'. 15 March - 15 April 2006 London Photographic Awards, Documentary: My Back Yard exhibition at Calumet Photographic 93-103 Drummond Street, London. 10 October - 10 November 2006 AOPOPEN exhibition at AOP Gallery, 81 leonard Street, London. 24.08.06 - 29.09.06. 2006 Group exhibition 'Art in Mind' at 'The Brick Lane Gallery'. 28-30 July. 2006 Graduation show at Univeritey for the Creative Arts, Rochester, Kent, UK. 22-28 of June 2006 "2005 Pilsner Urquell IPA Best of Show" Curated by renowned Photography Consultant, Debra Weiss, the exhibition will travel around the world to photography festivals in Los Angeles and New York, Toronto, Canada, Rome, Italy Perpignan, France, Lodz, Poland and Prague, Czech-Republic 2005 London Photographic Awards Ad agency exhibition at Saatchi & Saatchi, London 2005 "Paper cut cult presents Subverting Genesis at the Ship In" a group exhibition by Anton, Louise, Laura, Bianca, Kerry and Bjørn
Awards NEW 2009 International Photography Awards, Awarded 2 place for the photo series "Behold" in the category: People in non-professional, sub category: Self Portraits NEW! 2009 Xto Nude Image Awards. Awarded 2nd Category Winner in 'Body in Nature' for 3 pictures from "Sirkel" 2006 London Photographic Awards. Awarded Gold for my body of work 'Sirkel' in the category: Documentary: My Back Yard. 2006 International Photography Awards, Awarded 1st place for the photo series "Sirkel" in the category: People in non-professional, sub category: Self Portraits 2005 International Photography Awards, Awarded 2nd place for the photo series "Where are we?" in the category: People in non-professional, sub category: Other 2005 London Photographic Awards. Awarded 2nd place for the picture "Sparkle" in the category: Landscape - Landscape with Figures.
Publications 2010 Beautiful Decay Book 3: “The Underdogs”, a book featuring up and coming artists. 2010 Online slide show of work shown on Serge.se 2009 Exposure in The British Journal of Photography (Issue04/02/09) 2008 Interviewed by beautifuldecay.com 2007 Made in Medway, a book featuring artists from Medway,UK. 2006 Featured in Hasselblad News (Issue No. 48, Sep 2006) 2006 Featured in The British Journal of Photography (Issue08/11/06) 2006 Featured in 2005 Annual IPA book |
MANN With the body of work "MANN" I'm exploring what it is to be a man" Exploring ones identity and gender role is something that a lot of women have don extensively, women such as Claude Cahun, Cindy Sherman and Tracey Emin. In our time the man has barley been explored and this is something I and my self portraits wish to help change. MANN currently consists of The last one or two chapters are currently in post production.
Chapter III, Behold:
See the final body of work here "According to Pleck (1981), living up to a gender role is more problematic for boys because of the level of social expectations that males experience. In particular, expectations of strength, power and sexual competence form the basis of male roles. Boys, he argues, are likely to experience failure because of the contradiction between the ideal 'role' and lived experience." From Haywood, Chris and Ghaill, Mairtin Mac An. Men and Masculinities: Theory, Research and Social Practice "I've sailed the seven sees, been imprisoned as a pirate in New York, cooked old leather shoes for the African king, fished sharks and sailed deep in to the Amazon" These are the tales of Bjørn Venø's father from the days men were men, men like Roald Amundsen and Thor Heyerdahl. In those days men did not suffer anxiety and depression instead he bit his teeth, clenched his fist and thought his way through adversary with sheer will alone. Trying to live up to these ideas to day may create conflicts within the man and it is these conflicts Venø investigates, by putting him self in to a state of distress with three maternal figures, urinating on his pillow and confronting his father.
Chapter II, The Paradigm:
See the final body of work here Artist Statement: “Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they can not become conscious.” George Orwell The flicker of an eye, a dream on feed back, the body confined. With these key words Bjørn Venø investigates spaces that have strong connections to his conscious and unconscious self. The child hood home, his mother’s and aunt’s houses, collectively, they have become the architecture of his interior life. Spaces that he, like many of us, returns to obsessively in dreams. How confined are we by the spaces we inhabit and to what degree do they define what and who we are?
Chapter I, Sirkel:
See the final body of work here Artist Statement: “Our wisdom is slavish prejudice, our customs consist in control, constraint, compulsion. Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed down in his coffin. All his life long man is imprisoned by our institutions.” Rousseau The body of work ‘Sirkel’ gave the artist an arena where he could break down such constraints through a form of performance, which takes inspiration from surrealist, automated writing. A method that allowed the artist’s subconscious to press through, and find expression through the body itself. In dialogue with this approach, the artist enforced high levels of control through planning, preparation and postproduction, in order to create juxtapositions between the two, and such contradictions permeate the work throughout. The most prominent, being the distinction between the artist’s ideas of his child self and his attempts at being a man in modern society. “Being a free–lance explorer of spiritual dangers, the artist gains a certain license to behave differently from other people…” Susan Sontag |
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