Opening ceremony Monday 18th July Distorted Landscape & Inside, Outside, Away

Welcome to a new opening ceremony with both artists present 5pm on Monday 18th of July !
The gallery is open from noon until 7 pm every day of the jazzfestival.
On Thursday the 21st there will be live music in the gallery with Gunnar Bech trio from 1 pm until 2.30 pm.
Always free of charge and open to all.
In the Distorted Landscape exhibition Brungot presents 33 new pictures, most of which are from Vienna. The photographs were taken at different times of the day, and in different seasons, over several years. The pictures include photographs taken through plastic shelters standing out in various car parks to house for example shopping carts. The distorted effect creates a more complex sensory experience. The pictures manipulate reality, divide it, and perhaps say something about being either excluded or locked inside, captured or free, about restrictions, hindrances, and obstacles as opposed to safety and protection.
Geir Brungot (b. 1962) is a Norwegian photographic artist based in Sykkylven. He has held solo exhibitions at venues such as the Stenersen Museum (Oslo), KUBE (Ålesund), Preus Museum (Horten), Galleri F 15 (Moss), Trafo Kunsthall (Asker), Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall (Arendal), and Meetfactory (Prague), in addition to group exhibitions at Lillehammer Art Museum, Drammen Museum, and Fotogalleriet (Oslo). His works have been acquired by institutions such as the Danish Museum of Photographic Art (Odense), Arts Council Norway, and the National Museum (Oslo). In 2022 he will be showing works at various exhibitions, such as at Bomuldsfabrikken, the new National Museum’s permanent exhibition, and the Opera Festival Exhibition in Kristiansund.
“Inside, outside, Away”
Drawing is at the heart of Stein Koksvik’s artistic practice. His sketches, drawings, and spatial pieces alternate between being preliminary, finished, and unfinished works. His current exhibition installation can be interpreted as a concrete, spatial sketch whose narrative can be told in numerous ways. Koksvik himself says that he has drawn continually almost every single day for two decades now and that drawing is what structures his art.
The exhibition at MRK consists of a montage of new drawings as well as two new animations, that feature a range of ambiguous elements and variations on different motifs. Various figures and creations turn up in delicate situations, such as a smoking cow, an ostrich in a frenetic and chaotic situation with a woman, and a globe with animals from the entire world on a piano.
The drawings show a wealth of ambiguous situations that are both delicate and dual-edged – and funny!
Stein Koksvik (b. 1963) is Norwegian artist who grew up in Molde and now lives in Oslo. In addition to studying biology, chemistry, and mathematics, Koksvik took an art education at the Academy of Art in Bergen and the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. He has held solo exhibitions in numerous galleries and institutions such as the Stenersen Museum, Tegnerforbundet, UKS, and the Vigeland Museum (all in Oslo). In 2008 he received a Norwegian government grant for artists. Koksvik was the festival artist along with Geir Brungot for the Molde International Jazz Festival in 1997, and in 2008 he was the festival artist for the Bjørnson Festival.