Manon Courtaux / 4. July 2012 23:51
“Klikk! Tromsø poserer”, in Perspektivet Museum invites you to explore a past and gone Tromsø, and to contrast what changed and what actually remained the same on this island where, once, there wasn’t a single building. Vihjelm Riksheim, in particular, took a lot of photographs of Storgata, in a documentary way, which enables us now to easily compare how it [...]
Manon Courtaux / 24. May 2012 22:31
Tomboy is a movie which puts you back in your childhood. It doesn’t need to have been anything like being a ten year old girl pretending to be a boy as is Laure/Michaël’s case: the director, Céline Sciamma, manages to bring the spectator into a child’s universe, with its laws, like the importance in small things – and the [...]
Manon Courtaux / 4. May 2012 18:04
Those who haven’t ever been in the same room as Marita Isobel Solberg (aka Mara, the singer of Mara and the Inner Strangeness) when she’s performing won’t realize how much she can frighten the poor men in front of her. And maybe the women, too. On Tuesday 17th the artist sang two songs, accompanied by two excellent musicians: Mr. River [...]
Manon Courtaux / 2. May 2012 21:54
When you hear of an artistic installation in Rådstua promising to make you hear the sound of your brain waves, you can’t help being curious. Of course, one imagines a medico-sci-fi-like device with wires and electrodes right away, but that’s not quite the reality – not exactly. You do have a kind of hairband with receptors on your forehead, [...]
Manon Courtaux / 26. April 2012 03:05
Julies Hage hosts a special exhibition showcasing the works of young talent. There is currently a very special exhibition in Julie’s Hage, the little art gallery on the mainland: six high school students, soon to graduate and full of ideas, were authorized to take over the place and do whatever they liked. “Ikke til å tro » is the result – [...]
Manon Courtaux / 29. March 2012 18:25
Kurant is known to exhibit artists from all over Norway. This time it hosts an art exhibition about storm hunters; the men (and men only) who chase tornados. Kurant, a combination of a bar and a gallery, welcomes the exhibition “These Are the Moments I Really Live For” by the two visual artists Hilde Honerud and Nina Toft. The [...]
Manon Courtaux / 29. March 2012 00:10
With the International Student Union, ISU, any student gets the chance to learn a foreign language with a native speaker. Indeed, the free classes invite whoever is interested in teaching his/her language and culture to do so, with delivery of a certificate at the end of the term. A member of ISU stands behind this, undoubtly awesome, idea. Being the [...]
Manon Courtaux / 14. March 2012 21:16
In the Gallery Julie’s Hage, where many different artists are exhibited, from jewelers to painters, there has been a new exhibition since the 4th of March. It’s the second solo exhibition in the gallery, and the first one for the artist Marthe Inè Ludvigsen. Marthe’s exhibition is entitled Makro Spøris (Macro Narratives), and is all about how to [...]
Manon Courtaux / 2. February 2012 20:22
Julies Hage Gallery holds its first solo exhibition involving the mixture of biology and abstraction. The gallery Julie’s Hage (Julia’s Garden) had previously welcomed the exhibition “Jungle Beat”, with many artists presenting their works on the theme of tropical nature. On the 15th January a new exhibition opened, this time focused on one artist, Marita Ivarsson Elverum. What’s noticeable about [...]
Manon Courtaux / 24. November 2011 19:47
Not far from the Arctic Cathedral, on the mainland, sits an unassuming house containing an art gallery- Julie’s Hage Galleri. Set on the ground floor of Grete Julie Scholl-Erichsen’s abode, the gallery has been housing the “Jungle Beat” exhibition since the 20th of October, and will continue to do so until the 29th of December. Three exhibition rooms and [...]
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