Welcome!
We are a couple of artists who work with different expressions, but share a common commitment to materiality, form and emotion.
Of the month
selected painting:
"Where everything once stood"
By T.R. Rosenberg
Faint architecture and shadows of growth merge into a dissolved surface. Lines that were once man-made dissolve into earthy layers and vegetative traces. A thin pink line cuts through the muted field – like a stem, a scar, a breath of life under the weathering. Beneath lie remains of metal, earth and time, as if the painting itself carries the memories of what once stood there.
The material testifies to a slow takeover – nature’s silent reclamation of what man has built. In the silent surface lies an echo of presence and absence, of all that has been lost but is still part of the whole,
Meet the Team
We are Tonje Rebecca Rosenberg and Jan Christer Rosenberg, an artist couple based in Kristiansand in Southern Norway. Although we have different artistic languages, we share a common desire to create space for reflection, presence and emotional depth.
We work both individually and together on selected projects, and see the dialogue between our expressions as a resource. Together we curate and participate in exhibitions where contrasts and connections are allowed to play freely.
When the materials speak
– with roughness, heat, weight or cracks –
we experience something real,
something that has not been smoothed over by a screen or filter.
What is mixed media?
Mixed media means that a work of art is created by combining several different materials or techniques in one and the same work. The artist does not limit himself to one medium, but explores the encounter between several.
In modern art history, the Cubists of the 1910s, particularly Picasso and Braque, are often cited as some of the first to consciously mix media.
Mixed media invites you to use multiple senses. Not just the eye, but also the feeling of texture, layers, depth and material. The finished work can be composed of everything from natural materials, spray, gold, charcoal, stone, marble as well as acrylic or oil paint. Mixed media has few boundaries, and it is often precisely in the play between freedom and limitation that exciting art arises.
