Marthe Ramm Fortun

Thursday, November 27, 2014

Skrive byen, skrive den om, UKS, Oslo & Inverted Sky; letters to Jackie at New York Art Book Fair, PS1 MoMA

Friday, February 7, 2014

Inverted Sky, Grand Central Terminal November 2013, Performa 13 in collaboration with UKS and MTA-Arts for Transit

Image curtesy of Linus Sundahl-Djerf

Monday, January 27, 2014

Sunday, December 8, 2013

Too Not Only Specifically Allegorically Too with Kasper Bosmans at Cafe Homey, Antwerp 6/12 2013

Image curtesy of Sarah Dewilde

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

We Are Living on a Star, opening at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter January 2014

We Are Living on a Star, curated by Tone Hansen and Marit Paasche, opening 30 January 2014 at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in collaboration with Fritt Ord Foundation. The title comes from the tapestry of Hannah Ryggen from 1958 that was hanging in the Norwegian government building and that suffered a tear in its lower part during the bombing in 2011. The project investigates the concepts of normality, collective values and freedom of speech. During and after the trial against Anders Behring Breivik, Norway was encompassed in a larger debate about his sanity and responsibility, about normality and the soundness of the mind. Normality, however, is far more than the opposite of insanity. The normative intervenes in all parts of society and regulates all our actions; it defines what is natural.
Participating artists: Burak Arikan, Doug Ashford, Julian Blaue, Martin Braathen in collaboration with Marius Engh and Even Smith Wergeland, Marthe Ramm Fortun, Hanne Friis, Else Marie Hagen, Silje Linge Haaland, Per-Oskar Leu, Lotte Konow Lund, Jumana Manna, Eline McGeorge, Eva Rothschild, Hannah Ryggen, Ahlam Shibli, and Javier Téllez.

Image curtesy of Ana Maria Bresciani

Thursday, November 28, 2013

Performa 13, New York Grand Central Terminal: Inverted Sky, November 8th, 9th and 10th

Sunday, May 19, 2013

100 situasjoner, a pamphlet commemorating the Norwegian women's vote centennial, Aschehoug Publishing House 23/5 2013

Launch of the Torpedo Bookstore satellite at Kunstnernes hus, Oslo 18/4 2013

Thatcher Variations #1: In a site specific performance, Marthe Ramm Fortun will load the new Torpedo bookshelves with temporal texts and shapes, found objects and happenstance to create a heterotopic pirate ship, heavy with stolen goods. Drawing on a collective unconscious, she trusts the audience to follow her in making fluid connections between a selection of Torpedo books and the distinct architecture and institutional context of Kunstnernes Hus.