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Translations / Anja Carr, by portec on Aug 15, 2018 16:00:37 GMT 1,

Current solo exhibition by Anja Carr
10.08.2018 - 01.09.2018

Gallery website:
All pictures and details about the exhibition and works: HERE
Anja Carr's website

And for more information, purchases etc: post@qbg.no

A short bio
Anja Carr's solo exhibition Translations at QB Gallery includes two different series on the walls, in addition to the main subject in Kristian Skylstad's exhibition text (the troll sculpture with the same height as the artist). All 17 works are produced in 2018 and never exhibited in Oslo before. The first series is bodily “translations” from objects to surfaces: Costumes and props from performances and personal belongings are forced into thick, self-made aluminum frames, appearing - from a distance - almost as flat as photographs, continuing Carr's ongoing photo-series started in 2013, documenting her performances (a selection is available in the gallery's storage). An opposite translation takes place in the second series, where photo-series of different people are printed on PVC-canvas (normally used for banners in the advertising industry), each person cut out and sewn together, forming more abstract wall-sculptures with personal props attached.


Carr's previous solo exhibitions include Skåne Art Association (Malmö, SE), the Agency Gallery (London, UK) x 2, POPPOSITIONS Art Fair (Brussels, BE) with Noplace (Oslo, NO) and Trøndelag Centre for Contemporary Art (Trondheim, NO). Recent group exhibitions are Photo London 2018, Somerset House (London), Oslo Fashion Art Festival 2017, Mellomstasjonen / The National Museum (Oslo), When Will I Be Little Again?, CRICOTEKA, Tadeusz Kantor Museum (Kraków, PL) among others. Carr has performed at venues like Fotogalleriet (Oslo), NOoSPHERE (NYC), Miami Performance International Festival '15 (Miami, FL), Le Générateur (Paris, FR) and W139 (Amsterdam, NL). She has founded and run PINK CUBE gallery in Oslo for five years, presenting an upcoming exhibition in December. Her work is to be found in public collections such as Gothenburg Municipality (SE), DLA Piper law firm, Tjuvholmen (Oslo), Buskerud Art Center (Drammen, NO), Morten Viskum's Collection (Vestfossen, NO), Galleri S.E (Bergen, NO), as well as private collections.


In the 2017-book Girl on Girl: Art and Photography in the Age of the Female Gaze by Charlotte Jansen, Laurence King Publishing (London, UK) Carr is one of forty featured photo-artists from across the globe - now available in several museum bookshops. Her work is currently on display at The Nordic House in the Faroe Islands (Tórshavn, FO) and as part of a public commission at the new Snøhetta-building of the University of Bergen (NO). Later this autumn she takes part in PTV: Performance TV at the Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw (PL).

What's your thoughts? 


























Anja Carr, Lykketroll, 2018, XPS, acrylic plaster, acrylic, artificial hair, plastic, a diaper for elderly people, h: 165 cm


Anja Carr, Flattering Flat (personal belongings 2), 2018, costumes from performances and personal belongings in aluminium frame, 80 x 80 x 6 cm


Anja Carr, Imaginary posing as object of posing imaginary posing as object (Karin), 2018, photography on PVC, hand-sewn, found objects, variable dimensions (photographs 1:1)

Current solo exhibition by Anja Carr
10.08.2018 - 01.09.2018

Gallery website:
All pictures and details about the exhibition and works: HERE
Anja Carr's website

And for more information, purchases etc: post@qbg.no

A short bio
Anja Carr's solo exhibition Translations at QB Gallery includes two different series on the walls, in addition to the main subject in Kristian Skylstad's exhibition text (the troll sculpture with the same height as the artist). All 17 works are produced in 2018 and never exhibited in Oslo before. The first series is bodily “translations” from objects to surfaces: Costumes and props from performances and personal belongings are forced into thick, self-made aluminum frames, appearing - from a distance - almost as flat as photographs, continuing Carr's ongoing photo-series started in 2013, documenting her performances (a selection is available in the gallery's storage). An opposite translation takes place in the second series, where photo-series of different people are printed on PVC-canvas (normally used for banners in the advertising industry), each person cut out and sewn together, forming more abstract wall-sculptures with personal props attached.


Carr's previous solo exhibitions include Skåne Art Association (Malmö, SE), the Agency Gallery (London, UK) x 2, POPPOSITIONS Art Fair (Brussels, BE) with Noplace (Oslo, NO) and Trøndelag Centre for Contemporary Art (Trondheim, NO). Recent group exhibitions are Photo London 2018, Somerset House (London), Oslo Fashion Art Festival 2017, Mellomstasjonen / The National Museum (Oslo), When Will I Be Little Again?, CRICOTEKA, Tadeusz Kantor Museum (Kraków, PL) among others. Carr has performed at venues like Fotogalleriet (Oslo), NOoSPHERE (NYC), Miami Performance International Festival '15 (Miami, FL), Le Générateur (Paris, FR) and W139 (Amsterdam, NL). She has founded and run PINK CUBE gallery in Oslo for five years, presenting an upcoming exhibition in December. Her work is to be found in public collections such as Gothenburg Municipality (SE), DLA Piper law firm, Tjuvholmen (Oslo), Buskerud Art Center (Drammen, NO), Morten Viskum's Collection (Vestfossen, NO), Galleri S.E (Bergen, NO), as well as private collections.


In the 2017-book Girl on Girl: Art and Photography in the Age of the Female Gaze by Charlotte Jansen, Laurence King Publishing (London, UK) Carr is one of forty featured photo-artists from across the globe - now available in several museum bookshops. Her work is currently on display at The Nordic House in the Faroe Islands (Tórshavn, FO) and as part of a public commission at the new Snøhetta-building of the University of Bergen (NO). Later this autumn she takes part in PTV: Performance TV at the Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw (PL).

What's your thoughts? 


























Anja Carr, Lykketroll, 2018, XPS, acrylic plaster, acrylic, artificial hair, plastic, a diaper for elderly people, h: 165 cm


Anja Carr, Flattering Flat (personal belongings 2), 2018, costumes from performances and personal belongings in aluminium frame, 80 x 80 x 6 cm


Anja Carr, Imaginary posing as object of posing imaginary posing as object (Karin), 2018, photography on PVC, hand-sewn, found objects, variable dimensions (photographs 1:1)