Vibeke Tandberg

Gallery Klosterfelde is happy to exhibit two works by Norwegian artist Vibeke Tandberg (b. 1967). Sunflowers (2001) is a new photographic series which shows her subtly interfereing with a given order and arrangement of plants in a field of sunflowers. Contrary to her earlier works she refuses the strategies of digital alienation or of appropriation of other persons‘ characters, both methods causing a shift of identity. Here the sunflowers are presented as an evenly arranged group before a blue sky, while the artist appears to subtely change the scenery. Over the series of 11 photographs Tandberg demonstrates the senseless action of digging out a sunflower in order to present it as unique for one moment only to integrate it again in the crowd of the others.

The 16mm film Taxi Driver Too (2000) is based on Tandberg‘s appropriation of the character Travis Bickle, played by Robert De Niro in Scorsese‘s 1976 classic ‘Taxi Driver‘. Her adoption of the protagonist‘s body movements as well as his surrounding causes a tension which in addition to the use of the characteristic film music caught in a loop ultimately collides with the uneventfulness of the action. The trip through New York City turns into a seemingly standstill in between a moment of dream and memory.

The screening of the film starts on March 19th.

On the same opening night of March 8th Gallery c/o Atle Gerhardsen in Berlin shows its exhibition with Vibeke Tandberg with the photo piece Princess Goes to Bed with a Mountain Bike, 2001.

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opening March 8th, 2002, 7 - 9 pm
exhibition March 9th - April 27th, 2002
opening hours Tuesdays through Saturdays, 11am - 6pm