ARTICulation 1 - I enter the landscape from the north
​​​​ArtBase Helgeland 66°N in collaboration with Kulturbadet Gallery presents a series of exhibitions  focusing upon contemporary artists who were either born, live or have worked over several years in the arctic areas. We believe that artists with this personal experience and years of close association have the North and the Arctic rooted in them. This provides an in-depth understanding and experience of Northern Norway in a distinctive way. Artists from outside can try to understand the affinity and the challenges - but will never be able to experience this unique deep connection through short stays. Therefore, it is crucial that we from the north are the ones who have the clearer and more authentic voice in the stories that are shared with the world. Our goal is to present innovative, high-quality exhibitions with artists who make visible and thematicize the relationship between people, nature, climate and the heritage of future generations.

The collaboration marks the municipality of Alstahaug in Nordland county under European capital of culture Bodø 2024. The project has received support from the Norwegian Culture Fund, Local culture funds Bodø 2024, Sparebank 1 Helgeland Gavestiftelse and Nordland county municipality.

Benjamin Slotterøy CATCH 09.02-16.03.2024

Benjamin Slotterøy is based in Stockholm and in Sleneset / Helgeland. He is behind the exhibition space "Kunst i havgapet" through the Interlude Art Lab project. Slotterøy's artistry can be described as relational and socially oriented, based on an experimental view of handicrafts. In his works, he combines the strict form-blowing with the intuitive and random. Slotterøy is concerned with how climate change affects people and nature, how we must adapt and adapt our lives to climate change. Ethical issues and safety issues in relation to the climate are central to his creative processes. He is also concerned with how old values, habits and traditions, which are still essential to our identity, will be sharpened against new requirements and goals for restructuring. Slotterøy works to highlight old craft traditions and creates meetings between past and present - he conveys coastal history through Northern Norwegian craft traditions - and uses these traditional techniques in new contexts.

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