OCA ANNOUNCES

SOLO EXHIBITION 'ANE METTE HOL'
AT KÜNSTLERHAUS BETHANIEN, BERLIN

CURATED BY CHRISTOPH TANNERT, DIRECTOR KÜNSTLERHAUS BETHANIEN

Exhibition Dates: 24 September–10 October 2010
Opening Reception: 23 September 2010, from 19:00
Gallery location: Kottbusser Straße 10, Berlin, Germany
www.bethanien.de
 

From 24 September to 10 October 2010 Ane Mette Hol holds a solo exhibition as part of her year-long residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany. Within the exhibition, curated by Christoph Tannert, Director Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Hol's animation film After Day and Night (2010) will be screened. The film is composed of drawings taken from a webcam that records an anonymous section of landscape with tunnel and railway tracks, and a road crossing above, over the course of 24 hours. The individual drawings come together to produce the animation film, giving shape to two different parallel cycles of twelve hours, each running simultaneously. The drawing process registers as well the changing light and weather conditions. The lack of action and the long duration of the film — which is in fact impossible to experience in full given the gallery's opening hours — put the work in relation to the history of experimental film, such as Andy Warhol'sEmpire (1964). In addition, a selection of drawings on paper will be exhibited.

For press contact please email Christina Sickert at sickert@bethanien.de.

About the Artist

Ane Mette Hol (b.1979 in Bodø, Norway) is an artist based in Oslo, whose work is concerned with the relation between the original, the photograph and drawn reproduction. Using different methods and concepts of drawing, she approaches mass-reproduced objects — through Xerox copies, prints or masking paper — and renders all the traces and minutiae these objects have in themselves. The resulting drawings are not objets trouvés — as they may seems at first sight — but her own inventions, and because of that they maintain a very specific relation to the original. Ane Mette Hol has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including 'Goddesses – Women Who Move Art II' (2009), The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo; 'The Garden of Forking Paths' (2009), Kunsthalle Mulhouse, France; 'Nachspiel/Vorspiel' (2009), Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway; 'Lights On' (2008), Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo; 'Hardcore' (2008), Sørlandet Art Museum, Kristiansand, Norway. She had solo exhibitions at, among others, Galleria Enrico Fornello, Prato, Italy; Schürmann Berlin, Germany; and Konstfack Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden.

About OCA's Künstlerhaus Bethanien Residency Programme, Berlin

OCA offers a twelve-month residency programme for an artist at the International Studio Programme Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. During the residency the artist is offered an exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, directed by Christoph Tannert, and a presentation of the artist portfolio included within the BE-Magazine, published by the institution.