Stian Ådlandsvik and Lutz-Rainer Müller
Curated by Wiebke Gronemeyer
23 September 2010
(14 January – 18 December 2010)
As part of its ongoing 2010 project MOT International will be having a reception for Stian Ådlandsvik and Lutz-Rainer Müller on 23 September 2010.
For more information see www.motinternational.org
Stian Ådlandsvik (N) & Lutz-Rainer Müller (G) work collaboratively since 2006 on various occasions while also pursuing their individual practices concurrently. Their collaborative work process often originates in particular situations or contexts that they either create for themselves or upon which they react. For their exhibition at MOT International curator Wiebke Gronemeyer has asked them to investigate the idea of collaboration itself. In response to this invitation the artists developed a conceptual framework in which their methods and mechanisms of collaboration are tested in relation to their individual practices. Coming to terms with this involves the seemingly paradoxical plan to defer the decision-making process in favour of an exhibition based on a fortune teller’s vision and medical technology. CT-Scans of Lutz-Rainer Müller’s left arm and Stian Ådlansvik’s right arm were made to produce duplicates of the respective bones in their arms cast in Polyamide. Over the summer the bone-duplicates travelled to MOT International in purpose-built briefcases where they have been examined and interpreted by a London-based fortune teller who articulated his vision for their next exhibition. The new series of works that Stian Ådlandsvik and Lutz-Rainer Müller are presenting at MOT International deals with the predictions the artists were given by the clairvoyant, as well as it manifests their very own means of collaboration and its evolving nature in communication.
Stian Ådlandsvik (b. 1981 in Bergen, Norway) and Lutz-Rainer Müller (b. 1977 in Neustadt in Ostholstein, Germany) met in 2006 while studying at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo. Recent exhibitions of their collaborative practice include You only tell me you love me when you’re drunk at Hordaland Art Centre, Bergen, Still life with hyena, lotus and cave at W17, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, in 2010, If I won’t fly, try using it as a reducing machine, simultaneously at Galerie HfbK, Elektrohaus, Trottoir and St. Pauli Kunstverein, all in Hamburg, 2008, and Sketches for the meantime at Fotogalleriet, Oslo, 2006. At MOT International the artists present their collaborative practice for the first time in the UK.
Kindly supported by the Norwegian Embassy
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