Based between Rotterdam and Oslo, Maren Bang (1995, NO) works interdisciplinary with a combination of objects, text, film, and performance, oftentimes using the mechanisms of the field to say something about the field itself.
Experimenting with elements from theatre, she explores performance not only as a means for presentation but for production - embodying various narratives while crafting through different mediums and techniques. Her practice addresses topics like control, systems, narratives, and the idea of constructing and reconstructing identities. Find the full CV here
project overview
EXHIBITION PERFORMANCE PROJECT
Echo- Morphed Mythologies
2024 | Echo- Morphed Mythologies at Het Tijdelijk Museum of Modern Art (currently located at Huidenclub) is a performative exhibition presenting three artworks produced through three alter-egos of Maren Bang.PROJECT THESIS
Uncontrollability Or Paranoid Production And Perception
Or You’re So Paranoid You Probably Think This
Project Is About Me
2021 | Why would it be easier to produce three convincing projects under false narratives than manifest a single project based on actual conviction? The project depicts an undefinable, rootless and paranoid field shaped by inferiority complexes that use intellectual, wordy, complicated criticality in an attempt to make itself appear relevant and important.
PROJECT EXHIBITION
Flex for Flux
2021 | A part of Uncontrollability or Paranoid Production and Perception or You’re So Paranoid You Probably Think This Project is About Me.
Flex for Flux critiques gender norms and biases in craftsmanship, questioning if contemporary art and design institutions perpetuate stereotypes. A short-film features a secret male crochet club making biceps as masculine emblems.
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Big in Berlin
2023 | "Big in Berlin" features a damaged package and emails with the curator regarding an artwork that never made its way to an exhibition. Depicting the story of a non-exhibit it questions the motivation of both artist and curator to exhibit at all.
GRANT
Talent Development
2023 | Interview by Priscilla de Putter for the Stimuleringsfonds NL in the occasion of the exhibition “The Rest Is Still Unwritten.”
PROJECT Back to Scratch
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2020 | Exploring asceticism and the pursuit of a new beginning, this project delves into carving to achieve a perfect fit, using body parts for measurements to rationalize the irrational and enhance a sense of control and order through subjective objectivity.
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Touch Me, But Don’t Ever Make Me Wet
2021 | A part of Uncontrollability or Paranoid Production and Perception or You’re So Paranoid You Probably Think This Project is About Me.
The fountain offers the best of both worlds; ephemeral pleasure and trustworthy predictability. It investigates human-centrism and the need (and ability) to control nature and natural phenomena.
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Learning from Lynch
2019 | Learning from Lynch attempts to translate some of Lynch’s concern for the media-industry to personal concerns for my own field. Sampled footage is presented in two parallel movies, played on a total of nine TV-screens.
RADIOSHOW
Interview with GoodTimesBadTimes at Nieuwe Instituut
2024 | A conversation between Taya Reshetnik, Elif Satanaya Özbay, Maren Bang and Ben Earl from GoodTimesBadTimes Radio recorded during the Stimuleringsfonds X Nieuwe Instituut Talent Day at the Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam.
Listen to the conversation here
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