KLub: Public programme

“The Grieved Act”, a performance by Ina Hagen. Focusing on some feminist readings of Antigone (c. 442 BC) by Sophocles, The Grieved Act is a meandering and poetic essay performance circling the question: What can be discerned from Antigone as a warning in the present, as Western democracies punish forms of solidarity and collective action with increasing violence and impunity?

The Grieved Act was developed for KLub by Saskia Holmkvist at Fotogalleriet. It is part of a larger writing project that in different ways has been supported by Jessica Warboys; Casa da Cerca – Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Almada (PT); the Latitudes Residency Program at Hangar – Centro de Investigação Artística, Lisbon (PT); and Baltic Art Center, Visby (SE). An essay will be published in the forthcoming catalogue of Jessica Warboys’ exhibition Story Armor at Casa da Cerca, and variations have previously been performed at Hangar, Lisbon (PT); Casa da Cerca, Almada (PT); and Snails, Oslo (NO).

Ina Hagen is an artist, writer, and organiser based in Oslo, Norway. In her artistic practice, spanning video and digital media, text and printed matter, collective making practices, and pedagogical forms, Hagen constructs platforms and performative situations for critical reflection. From 2016–2020 she co-initiated, programmed, and ran the discursive platform and exhibition venue LOUISE DANY in Oslo with Daisuke Kosugi, from their home and adjacent shop front.

In preview 2015-2025, Manuel Pelmuș revisits past performances and personal histories and aggregates notions of visibility and invisibility in connection to history and politics of representation.

Pelmuș, a Bucharest-born choreographer and artist based in Oslo, is renowned for expanding the role of performance within visual art contexts. His work has been shown at Palais de Tokyo, Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, MUNCH, Tanz im August, and the Romanian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale.

Before the performance, Saskia Holmkvist, Sara Eliassen, and Dora García gathered for a conversation on working with loss, disappearance, and resistance—offering a discursive frame that echoes the themes running through Preview.

The performance forms part of KLub, the solo exhibition by Saskia Holmkvist currently on view at Fotogalleriet.

Fotogalleriet and Sandaker Trialektek welcome you to the performance “How to catch a mole: Obsessional practices from Vermeer to Kafka”. The event is a performance lecture based around Franz Kafka’s short story The Burrow, and the life and works of Johannes Vermeer. The talk hopes to be both fun and engaging and will touch on a wide range of other references. Mulled wine will be served at the event.

The event will take place at Sandaker Trialektek and is a part of the public programme connected to the ongoing exhibition KLub by Saskia Holmkvist.

George Seamus McGoldrick currently lives and works between Oslo and Amsterdam. His most recent series of works, titled Starter-packs, looks at ways in which the promise of a new outdoors hobby or the deeper knowledge of your family history is available for both production and purchase online.