Læsø is a paradise island that attracts thousands of tourists every year during the peak season. The rest of the year it is almost quiet. Seven artists arrived at Læsø the 3rd august and held an exhebition and a seminare where we discussed contemporary art in marginalized communities, myths, storytelling, freedom of speech, policy on how to facilitate good working conditions for the contemporary art scene in small communities. More documentation here
RASK at Veiholmen (Norway) 2013
Rask was for the first time conducted at the fishing village Veiholmen in July/ august 2013. The project consisted of a seminar entitled "Fram med Rasket" and a workshop with six artists that led to the exhibition Rask. Documentation and photos from the project can be seen here.
RASK at Skagaströnd (Iceland) 2014
The Rask project was conducted in the fishing village Skagaströnd / Iceland 2014. Participating artists was; Nina Maria Kleivan, Mikael Hansen, Hrafnhildur Sigurðardóttir, Bjørn Nørgaard, Rune Johansen, Mona Eckhoff Sørmo and Heidi Rognskog Mella.
Se the results and photos from the project here.
Samvirke invites yearly artists for residency at the fishing village Veiholmen where they are given the opportunity to work with local resources. In the summer 2014 the theme was local identity as the basis for promoting interdisciplinary exchange and innovation. Read more here.
An exhibition that gathers all of the visual peculiarities and interesting phenomena, that we find in the houses of the fishing village Veiholmen at Nordmøre. Everyone was welcome to participate – by hanging up works and objects that are both weird, special, phenomenal, hidden, secluded, has a sentimental value, is homemade or made at school or what ever that are unique, or simply just have to be within the exhibition.
Piccoli Piatti - Italian Chefs visiting Veiholmen in the summer 2014
Vittorio Serritelli and his team held courses in new ways to serve and prepare local seafood. The courses were fully booked and the food gave us the inspiration and new taste sensations. Recipes are posted, and we would strongly recommend to test some of them eg. "Carpaccio Baccalà".
Sentral Periferi by Katja van Ravenstein and Volker Seifried
The artists Katja van Ravenstein and Volker Seifried return to Veidholmen at Easter in 2016 to place the sculpture central periphery from the gallery Samvirke in to the landscape at Veiholmen.
Samvirke - Exhibition Berlin at Prinz-Georg june 2015
The exhibition resumes the collaboration of the artists Seifried / Ravenstein from Germany and Rognskog / Eckhoff from Norway, based on a work exchange at the fishing village of Veiholmen on the northwestern coast of Norway.
Small in Large, Street Exhibition Children 2014
Twelve children - attended a day workshop where they learned to paint on large canvases. The exhibition was hung in the main street at Veiholmen and was very well received. See pictures from the workshop, the opening and the exhibition.
Exhibition at Samvirke from 1 July to 1 September 2017. Participating artists; Find Richard, Håvard Vikhagen, Ellen Solberg, Fredrik Raddum and Magne Rudjord.
People in small island communities know the sea, its whimsical abyss and darkness, the bottomless fearless and ice-cold. They also know the magnificent, the beautiful cascading, lively and generous. The ocean is also in constant motion, the very possibility, the freedom that connects us with the rest of the world.
The project title "On The Edge" refers to the place Veiholmen and its location on the map, - on the outer edge toward the ocean. Eggs, tamp and shallow are terms that describe the lush and resource-rich conditions in the seabed where the fish come to graze through the different seasons and is the very foundation of human existence here by the sea. Eggs, tamp and shallow is also an expression of the difficult conditions that can lead to losses and catastrophes.