By RosenbergArt
Meaningful "one of a kind" paintings
Welcome!
We are a couple who work with different expressions, but share a common commitment to materiality, form and emotion.
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.
Artist
T.R. Rosenberg
Tonje works primarily with mixed media and tactile, layered works that explore memories, identity and silence. She draws inspiration from the decay and reconstruction of nature, and often uses fragments and symbols in her works. Her idiom is quiet, poetic and sensual – with an emphasis on texture, transparency and the unspoken.
Artist
J.C. Rosenberg
Jan works expressively and intuitively with painting and symbolic motifs. His art is characterized by strong colors, contrasts and emotional energy, often inspired by life experiences, paradoxes and injustice in the world. He combines spontaneity with deep thematic roots that are presented in a humorous context.
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.
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.