Teknikk
Installation, sculpture and photography
Artist statement
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Kobie Nel (b. 1984) is an installation artist based in Bergen. She holds an MA from Bergen Academy of Art and Design (2016) and a BA in photography from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia (2011). She works with installation, sculpture, photography, sound and text. She has a love for colour and an unrelenting interest in the intersection of the pictorial way of looking, or thinking, with a physical matter of the body and the materiality of things in a space. Recent exhibitions include Galleri Hvelvet, Parabol – Kunsthall 3,14 (2024), Høstutstillingen (2023), Norsk Billedhoggerforening, VOLT, Vestlandsutstillingen (2022), Gyldenpris Kunsthall (2021), Parabol – Kunsthall 3,14, Bergen (2020), Gyldenpris Kunsthall, Bergen (2020), Bergen Kjøtt (2018), Tag Team Studio, Bergen (2017), Galleri FELT, Bergen (2017) and Bergen Kunsthall (2016). Internationally, she has participated in exhibitions at places such as I: Project Space, Beijing (2017), Hong Kun Museum for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2017), Colour Factory, Australia (2013) and the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra (2011). In 2017 her artist book Black Lake Monologue was published by CODA Press, Bergen.
Besøksadresse
USF Verftet, Georgernes Verft 12
5011 Bergen
Kontakt
E-postadresse: kobi3nel@gmail.com
Web: https://kobienel.com/
CV
Kobie Nel
b.1984, Bloemfontein, South Africa — Lives and works in Bergen, Norway
Education
2014-16 MFA, Bergen Academy of Art and Design (KHiB), Bergen, NO
2009-11 BA Photography, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Melbourne, AUS
2003-05 Multimedia, Planet Pixl School of Advertising, Bloemfontein, SA
Solo exhibitions
2024 Haus N Athen, Athens, GR (upcoming)
2024 Spirit Rapping, The Oceana Art and Cultural Centre, Os, NO
2024 Make your presence known, Parabol/ Kunsthall 3,14, Bergen, NO
2022 Mother’s Ectoplasm, Norsk Billedhoggerforening, Oslo, NO
2022 blow with the wind, VOLT, Bergen, NO
2021 Mother’s Ectoplasm, Gyldenpris Kunsthall, Bergen, NO
2018 Apple Puma, Bergen Contemporary Art Project (BCAP), Bergen, NO
2017 Of her face I have only a feeling that it appeared heavy, Tag Team Studio, Bergen, NO
2015 Empty the Earth to Fill the Sky, Galleri Fisk, Bergen, NO
2014 The Shape of Things to Come, Galleri Blunk, Trondheim, NO
Group exhibitions
2024 Norwegian Situations, NADA East Broadway, New York, USA
2023 NADA Art Fair, Miami, USA
2023 Statens Kunstutstilingen 136, Høstutstillingen, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
2023 Multi Species, Silo basement Bergen School of Architecture, NO
2022 Vestlandsutstillingen, Kunstmuseet Kube, Alesund, NO
2022 Vestlandsutstillingen, Kunsthuset Kabuso, Øystese, NO
2022 Vestlandsutstillingen, Rogaland Art Centre, Stavanger, NO
2022 Vestlandsutstillingen, Sunnfjord Kunstlag, Førde, NO
2022 Vestlandsutstillingen, Kunstgarasjen, Bergen, NO
2021 The Star of Africa, Norsk Skulpturtriennale, Norsk Billedhoggerforening, Oslo, NO
2021 Harmonious Madness, RUMMER radio, Bergen Kringkaster, NO
2020 Harmonious Madness, Lydgalleriet, Parabol/ Kunsthall 3,14, Bergen, NO
2020 Basically, Nikima Jagudajev performance and videographer, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, NO
2020 1:1, Gyldenpris Kunsthall, Bergen, NO
2019 Coast Contemporary, Håholmen Havstuer, Averøy, NO
2019 Latitudes Art Fair, Weekend Server, Johannesburg, SA
2019 Public Space Codex, Weekend Server, Bergen/Johannesburg, NO/SA
2018 Høstutstillingen, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
2018 Shortlisted, Den Danske Bogdesignpris, Black Lake Monologue, Denmark
2018 Superare Sensibus, KNIPSU and Lydgalleriet, Bergen, NO
2017 The Staged Club, Hong Kun Museum, Beijing, China
2017 Back to School, After School Special, Landmark, Bergen, NO
2017 Book launch, Bergen Art Book Fair, CODA Press, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, NO
2017 Axolotl, Galleri FELT, Bergen, NO
2017 Accessing the Memory, I: project space, Beijing, China
2016 hex, KHiB graduate exhibition, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, NO
2015 Performative Reading, Page 2, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, NO
2015 In Hockney’s Footsteps, Rom 8, Bergen, NO
2015 Kunstauksjon Syria,VISP, Østre, Bergen, Norway
2015 Passenger, Bergen Academy of Art and Design (KHiB), Bergen, NO
2011 National Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, AUS
2014 Dissensus, Hardbakka Ruins Project, Bergen, Norway
2014 Cartographer, SIM Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
2014 Colour Factory Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2014 Kodak Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Melbourne, Australia
2012 Kodak Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Melbourne, Australia
2012 Green bag Identity, Colour Factory Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2011 The Rest is Silence, Death Be Kind Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2011 This is Not Fine Art: Contemporary Practice BA Photography, First Site Gallery, Melbourne, AU
2011 Kodak Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
2011 National Photographic Portrait Prize 2011, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, AU
2011 Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Melbourne, AUS
Artist Book
2017 Black Lake Monologue, Published with CODA Press, Bergen, NO
Residencies
2023 HEAT Exchange, Bas Fischer with Hordaland Kunstsenter, Miami, USA
2021 Lokal AiR, S12 Glass Galleri og verksted, Bergen, NO
2021 International Artist Residency Pedvale, Latvia
2014 Artist in residence, hosted by SÍM - Association of Icelandic Visual Artists, Reykjavík, IS
Collections
Midtun Skole, Bergen Kommune, NO
KORO, Public Art Norway, NO
