London Original Print Fair 2024

Somerset House

21.03.-24.03.2024

Kunstverket Galleri is proud to present new works by Hanne Borchgrevink, Lars Lerin, Annette Kierulf, Tore Hansen and Ellen Karin Mæhlum. Each artist capturing their own interpretation of the distinguished Nordic landscape, iconic imagery combined with excellent craftsmanship which has given each of them a noticeable standing in the Nordic art scene.

You will find us at stand W4.

The London Original Print Fair (LOPF) is the longest-running specialist print fair in the world. Bringing together some 50 international exhibitors with expert print knowledge, LOPF provides an opportunity to acquire contemporary prints and rare works by modern and old masters. 

For more information about the fair, please visit www.londonoriginalprintfair.com.

This is the sixth time Kunstverket Galleri is invited to participate at this prestigious fair. Our attendance is supported by OCA, Office for Contemporary Art Norway. 

Hanne Borchgrevink (born 1951, Norway) is one of Norway’s leading painters and printmakers. Over time, she has minimized her motivic range, concentrating on a set of basic shapes revolved around the silhouette of a house or a landscape. Working with woodcuts in the intersection of abstraction and figuration, she is exploring the boundaries, and experimenting with the viewer’s perception of colors and forms.

Hanne Borchgrevink, Huset i huset II, 2002, woodcut, 31x31cm

Lars Lerin (born 1954, Sweden) is considered one of the most outstanding watercolour painters in the world. He is renowned for his unique technique and is represented in collections and exhibitions in the Nordic countries, Europe, and the USA. Lerin has developed his own method of printmaking where he combines the techniques of etching and watercolour, creating ethereal images that seemingly illuminates from the inside in a magical way. Nature has always been of pivotal importance in Lerin’s work. But his artworks also reveal scenes from our own lives conjuring up a sense of loneliness and alienation. The common denominator in all of them is that they touch something deep inside of us with their beautiful, distinctive motifs, characterized by melancholia and wistfulness, but also hope and warmth.

Lars Lerin, Hammarö, 2019, watercolour on etching, 36x39cm

Annette Kierulf (born 1964, Norway) is an artist based in Bøvågen and Bergen, who works mainly with woodcut. She uses visual art as a means of exploring issues on ecology, place and conjunctions between landscape and human emotion. Being outdoors observing nature, from entire landscapes to individual details such as flowers and animals, has a strong place in her work, important both as a motif, a source of inspiration and as symbols. Ideas about the landscape and nature have become increasingly charged, as we can no longer ignore the reality of climate change.

Annette Kierulf, The barn and the birch, 2022, woodcut, 90x90cm

Tore Hansen (born 1949, Norway) is renowned for his everyday existential observations of human beings and our relationship to nature. His simplified and naive forms of forests, trees, moose and people are transformed into existential human metaphors – often accompanied by bittersweet humor. Hansen’s preferred graphical technique is woodcut.

Tore Hansen, Elk at sunset, 2023, woodcut, 54x61cm

Ellen Karin Mæhlum (born 1957, Norway) is a visual artist and printmaker based in Oslo. Educated at the National Academy of Fine Art in Bergen (KHiB), Oslo (KHiO), and at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm (KKH). She has participated in a number of exhibitions nationally and internationally. Her work has been acquired by several public collections, including the National Gallery in Oslo and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo. She often works in series with a common theme, format and graphic technique The various series are rooted in Mæhlum's focus on changes in nature and an experimental approach to the technical possibilities of graphics.

Ellen Karin Mæhlum, Woodscapes, 2023, carborundum monotype watercolour, 60x91cm

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