Tone Myskja
Molde jazzfestival exhibition 2021
In collaboration with Molde International Jazzfestival, we have the pleasure to present Tone Myskja as this year’s festival exhibitor during Moldejazz 2021!
Welcome to the opening of her exhibition VIA on Monday 19th of July at 3pm.
Elements of the exhibition VIA will also feature in the concert performances during Moldejazz 2021.
In collaboration with Ellen Andrea Wang, this year’s Artist in Residence at Moldejazz 2021, Tone Myskja will show her video “live” during both the opening concert at Bjørnsonhuset and at the closing concert in Molde Cathedral.
Her project VIA, that will be presented in MRKs gallery, is a dynamic project,
a living , three- dimensional painting, formed from video and sound.
The painting is not confined to one composition, a single frame, but consists of compositions in motion. The work relates to the architecture of the physical space; the conventional rectangular video format is fractured by being projected onto both the floor and walls of the room. For the visitor, the work will be enveloping, an impression that will be reinforced by the sound, that has been developed in collaboration with the composer Jon Balke.
Tone Myskja is an artist who works with video as a visual and sculptural element in exhibitions, concerts, and stage performances. Thematically, her art practice relates to complexity in relation to language, perception and identity, and how these aspects are affected by the time and the space one is in.She has a musical approach to working with art / video, and composes complex and complex videos and installations.
Her work exists between different artistic disciplines, based on her interest in music, dance, theater, literature, painting and sculpture.
Tone Myskja has collaborated with several of Norway’s best jazz musicians and classical ensembles, including video for Oslo Camerata’s performance of Steve Reich ́s “Different Trains” during the Ultima festival 2016 and Interpuls 2019, Video for concert Ellen Andrea Wang / Jon Balke, Oslo Jazz Festival 2020, Jøkleba concert Bærum kulturhus 2013, “LautLeben” commissioned work by Rolf Wallin / Sidsel Endresen during Ultima 2006 and Sidsel Endresen’s commissioned work for Nattjazz during the Bergen Festival 2002.
Tone Myskja(1961) has an education in theater design, sculpture and video, at art academies in Oslo, Antwerp and London, respectively. Her first solo exhibition was in Antwerp in 1993, and she has since participated in a number of exhibitions and assignments for the stage, both in Norway and internationally. Upcoming solo exhibitions; Kunstnerforbundets Overlyssal (Oslo) January 2022 and Hå Gamle Prestegård (Jæren) in the spring of 2022.
She has had solo exhibitions at Lillehammer Kunstmuseum 2019, Oppland Kunstsenter 2018, Kunstbanken Hedmark 2015, Trafo Kunsthall Asker in 2014, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter Oslo in 2008 and Kunstnernes Hus Oslo in 2006.
Her work has been purchased by Lillehammer Art Museum, the Nordic Watercolor Museum, the Norwegian Cultural Council and the National Library. Myskja has also had a number of major public art assignments in Norway, Hjemmefrontmuseet, Akershus Festning 2009, Department of Informatics, UIO 2011, Thora Storm upper secondary school in Trondheim 2017 and most recently Nord-Aurdal ungdomsskole in 2020.
She has received scholarships from institutions in Belgium, England and Norway, and is currently a recipient of the Governments grant for Senior artists.
Since 2006, Tone Myskja and Jon Balke have developed the project site MADSTUN AS, at Fall in Søndre Land Municipality, as part of their artistic practice.
https://www.tonemyskja.com/
Translated by The Wordwrights