Andy Allen-Olivar, Nisse Bergman & Alina Rentsch – Master of Fine Arts Degree Exhibitions på Konstfack

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Galleri Konstfack, Tellusgången 16

𝗔𝗻𝗱𝘆 𝗔𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻-𝗢𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗿 – 𝗘𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗱

An exhibition of 28 light boxes

Andy Allen-Olivar (b. 1995, Bogotá, Colombia, raised in Oxford, UK and Buenos Aires, Argentina) works with film, photography and installation. With collections, documentations and speculative stories.

His work is dedicated to scientists and hoarders and those who bend their knees to see; to diggers and explorers; to what is written on the back of things, and to what is not; to unelaborated memories, and pasts which somehow rhyme with them; to pasts that are not necessarily one’s own; to history, to language, to traces and to rituals; to a place changed over time; to constructivist anthropology, parallel presents, slow magic; to the flavor and vividness of trying for a long time; to the thing that is missing and defines what it is missing from; to saving it for later; to the familiar, unconnected, out of reach; to myth; to proof; to not knowing.
Previously, he worked in the postal industry.
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Havet, Konstfack, LM Ericssons Väg 14

𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗥𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀𝗰𝗵 – 𝗳𝗶𝗴𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗰𝗵

Following the idea that text is made, is worked out in a perpetual interweaving, the project investigates the literal potential of figures of speech and their material-semiotic dimensions. Combined with the modular system of sewing patterns – templates from which the parts of a garment are traced before being cut out and assembled – the pattern is applied in the space in which the figures of speech become guide-lines; an offer to read, to trace and to recombine. Not only to delineate a space and reconfigure the possible movements within it, but to reveal the apparently limitless plasticity of language itself and the potentialities within it.

Alina Rentsch (b.1992, Berlin, Germany) works mainly with language, or more particularly with communication processes and structures of response. Interested in questions surrounding the distribution of text and the role of the reader, her artistic projects often materialize as text and textile works or as performative interactions.

𝗡𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗺𝗮𝗻 – 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗶-𝗽𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀

For his final masters exhibition ”Anti-patterns” Nisse Bergman will exhibit five large-scale, sculptural picture making machines that feature various images depicted on mirrored mosaics, working in combination with painted wood, steel and textile objects.

Nisse Bergman (b. 1985, Norberg Sweden) works predominantly with sculpture and installation, exploring the materiality of information, scientific experimentation and subcultures surrounding specialist interest. Many of the tools and techniques he utilizes in his artistic practice were acquired during the fifteen years he spent working professionally as a computer engineer before switching to study Fine Art at Konstfack.

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