8 November – 15 December 2024

Opening hours:
Thurs–Fri, 16–19
Sat–Sun, 12–16

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Since 2006, BABEL has been Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder’s (LKV) artist-run exhibition space for contemporary art. After more than 18 years and 200 exhibitions in the same venue in Mellomveien, we will move into a newly refurbished exhibition space in the former gymnasium building at LKV in the autumn of 2025. Now we would like to invite you to join us for the last exhibition in our current premises to celebrate BABEL’s present, past and future with us. Warm welcome!

For the final show at the old BABEL, Rina Eide Løvaasen presents an intermezzo between two projects, with a composite organism in stone as the connecting element between the two. When Løvaasen travelled with contemporary dancers to record performances in places that are on the verge of vanishing, stones were brought back home. A collection of these stones has taken the form of an organism dependent on co-operation for survival.

This display of interdependent objects is inspired by the symbiotic structure of the Siphonophorae – an order of marine cnidarians. These polymorphic and complex organisms consist of many individual specimens that join together to form a large, floating colony, where each individual has a specific structure and function. This makes the colony resemble a single organism, with the individuals functioning like organs contributing to maintaining a common livelihood.

The interdependency and reciprocity of the Siphonophorae is the starting point from which the ongoing project grows, in the form of rhizomes. These forms propagate further as geo points in nature, where the stones will be returned. In the exhibition the geo points of Yugoslavia’s futuristic Spomenik monuments are marked as stars on a large-scale digital jacquard weave. Here, the monuments sit in a country that no longer exists, like stars in the sky that have already burned out. 

A weave is a canvas is a textile hosts an eternity that is the immortal jellyfish, Turritopsis dohrnii, in oil painting and embroidery. The exhibition also includes the audio and video work from the disappearing places, and live performances by Chollada Phinitduang and Thomas of Norway, running throughout the opening weekend.

Rina Eide Løvaasen is artist in residence at Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (LKV) for November–December 2024 and her exhibition will be the final one at BABEL’s current premises before we are moving the gallery to the former gymnasium in LKV’s courtyard.

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The exhibition is supported by The Fund for Performing Artists (Fond for utøvende kunstnere).

Photo: Per Stian Monsås
From Exhibition TEMPE #1 – Håkon Bleken, Anne-Karin Furunes, Carlos A. Correia, Per Stian Monsås, Agnieszka Foltyn, Ørjan Amundsen, and Anna Marie Sigmond Gudmundsdottir.

APPLY FOR ATELIER IN TEMPE HEALTH AND WELFARE CENTRE

Tempe studio – 39 m2 – 0,-/month
Two-year contract starting 1 February 2025

Application deadline: 1 November 2024
Application form: https://www.lkv.no/open-call-studio-tempe/

Crafts artists and visual artists are invited to apply for studio space at the Tempe Health and Welfare Centre. The centre is linked to nursing and residential care homes, but also functions as a community hub and cultural centre for the neighbourhood. 

The studio is purpose-built with a mezzanine and high ceilings. The floor area is 39 m2. There is good daylight from the north. The centre has a ballroom that can be used for community projects, meetings or exhibitions. 

The studio will be rented from 1 February 2025 for a period of two years. The artist will pay no rent, but will be required to make their work available to the residents of the Tempe Health and Welfare Centre. This can be through various forms of collaboration and engagement such as open studios, exhibitions, talks or other types of community projects. Collaboration with the cultural unit, Senior Culture, is also a possibility.

Priority will be given to artists working on projects that are suitable for collaboration with, or dissemination to, the Health and Wellbeing Centre.

The applicant must use the digital application form. If your application includes audio or video, please include this as an online link in the portfolio section of the application. The application must be submitted in one of the Scandinavian languages or in English.

The application must include:

Completed form: the applicant’s full name, registered address, home address, email address, telephone number, organisation number and any other relevant contact information.

Attached PDF: max 13 pages, 20 MB, name file: TEMPE_Surname with the following:
– CV and portfolio
– Motivation for application
– How the studio will be used for artistic production
– Thoughts on how collaboration with or dissemination to the Health and Welfare Centre and its residents can take place

Applications will be processed by the City of Trondheim’s Studio Allocation Committee. The award criteria can be read here: www.trondheim.kommune.no/atelier/

The General Manager of Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (LKV) is the secretary of the Allocation Committee for the Trondheim Municipality Studio Programme and receives all applications.

Members of the award committee:
– Anniken Elisabeth Storhaug, representative from Trondheim Municipality for the field of visual arts
– Solveig Lønmo, representative from Trondheim Municipality for the field of crafts
– Anne-Karin Furunes, representative from NTNU, Academy of Fine Arts
– Jørgen Moe, representative from Norske Kunsthåndverkere Midt-Norge
– Annika Borg, representative from Trøndelag Visual Artists
– Lill-Kristin Bjørnstad, unit manager at Tempe Health and Welfare Centre (for awards at Tempe)
– Øyvind Rongevær Kvarme, advisor to the director of the municipality’s professional staff (for awards at Tempe)
– Thea Meinert, representative from Gregus Kunstnerverksteder (for awards at Gregus)
– Ellen Sofie Griegel, representative from Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (for awards at LKV)

For practical questions regarding Tempe Health and Welfare Centre, please contact the Unit Manager Lill-Kristin Bjørnstad, tel.: +47 97 99 62 40

Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (LKV) is pleased to announce a new offer for Trondheim-based artists who do not have a studio at LKV.  At the request of many artists, we are now introducing an annual subscription to LKV’s production facilities. For a trial period of two years, we are offering 5 memberships.

• Price per year: 8000,- kr.
• Access to LKV’s common workshops (booking through online system) 
• Access to LKV’s kitchen
• Access to the cloakroom
• Prices for use of LKV’s common workshops and project rooms are the same as for LKV’s tenants.
• Separate rates apply for the production of fully funded projects, such as commissions. See price list.
• Additional costs may be incurred for consumables such as welding gas and the like.
• There is an additional charge for the use of a pottery kiln.
• It is mandatory to participate in at least one of the shared workshop responsibility groups. 
• The subscription is valid for 365 days and is binding.

To apply for an annual subscription, please use this application form. 

The deadline for applications is 4 September 2024. A response to the application will be sent on 5 September. Membership will start no later than 1 October 2024. Priority will be given to artists with expertise in the various common workshops. The capacity of the workshops will also be taken into account. LKV’s common workshops are set up and run by the users. LKV does not currently have a workshop master to offer artists assistance in the workshops. LKV will not justify any rejection of an application.

See membership terms & conditions here.

If you have any questions, please contact: mail@lkv.no.

Application deadline: August 1, 2024.
Application form: link

BABEL is the longest running artist-run exhibition space in Trondheim, established by artists at Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (LKV) in 2006. After 19 years in the same premises in Mellomveien 4, we are moving BABEL into the renovated gymnasium at LKV. On this occasion, we would like to invite local, regional and international artists to send us applications for exhibitions for 2025/26.

The new exhibition space will consist of one large and airy room of 110m2 with good natural light and 6 meters high ceilings. See architectural drawings here. The opening is planned for the first half of 2025.

The exhibition honorarium is currently NOK 12,000. In connection with the exhibitions, the artists will have free access to LKV’s common workshops, where we have facilities for working with wood, metal, printmaking, photography and ceramics. In addition, we offer professional photo documentation of the exhibitions, marketing and assistance with practical arrangements as far as possible. BABEL is an artist-run exhibition space with limited resources, so we encourage all artists to apply for project support for their exhibitions. 

Applications can be submitted for solo or group exhibitions, predefined projects or loose exhibition ideas. We are looking for interesting artists and ideas that can work well in the exhibition space.

We are also currently planning the opening exhibition, which will focus on the building’s former function as a gymnasium. Please let us know if you have works that you think could work in such a context.

Applications are submitted digitally via this application form with one PDF containing:
1. A brief introduction to the artist/exhibition proposal (max 350 words)
2. Portfolio (the works’ title, format, technique and year can be added directly to the PDF)
3. CV

The attachments must be combined and submitted as one single PDF file (max. 10 pages and 10 MB) via the application form. Name the PDF with BABEL25-26_lastname.pdf. Example: BABEL25-26_Garcia.pdf.

We accept applications in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and English.

The applications will be evaluated by the artists in the BABEL committee and the artistic director of BABEL.

We look forward to seeing the submitted proposals. Good luck!

Links:
Application form
Building plans

For tredje gang utlyser ArtScene Trondheim og Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (LKV) nye gjesteopphold for tilreisende kritikere. Med dette løfter vi frem kritikkens betydning på kulturfeltet. De utvalgte kritikerne vil få et stipend på kr. 15 000 i tillegg til et honorert tekstoppdrag i løpet av sitt arbeidsopphold.

Kulturbyen Trondheim er i en voldsom vekst, med nye atelierfellesskap, private kunstgallerier og museer, som Rotvoll kunstnerkollektiv, Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst, Kunsthall Trondheim og Galleri Dropsfabrikken. Våren 2025 åpner også storsatsningen Posten Moderne. På scenekunstfeltet har Rosendal Teater etablert seg i Østbyen og Nye Hjorten Teater åpner våren 2025. Det gjør det svært aktuelt å invitere flere kritikere til byen slik at de får anledning til å fordype seg i det som foregår her.

Samtidig er kritikken som sjanger i nedgang på nasjonal basis. Som en viktig aktør for kunstkritikk i Midt-Norge ønsker ArtScene Trondheim sammen med Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder å løfte frem kritikervirket gjennom et gjesteopphold.

De aktuelle kritikerne vil få opphold og arbeidsplass i inntil en måned på Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder i Trondheim i mars 2025 eller mars 2026.  

Kritikere som skriver om sjangre som visuell kunst, scenekunst, musikk og dans er velkomne til å søke. Oppholdet kan brukes til faglig fordypning, til å bli kjent med regionens kunst- og kulturscene og skrivearbeid. Les om gjestekritikere for perioden 2021/22  og for perioden 2023/24. 

I løpet av sitt gjesteopphold skal kritikerne gjennomføre en presentasjon av sitt kritikervirke, samt skrive en tekst som publiseres på artscene.no. Teksten honoreres etter Kritikerlagets satser og kan ta form som kritikk fra regionens kunstscene, et intervju med en lokal kulturaktør eller en tekst fra kritikerens faglige interesseområde. 

Praktisk info:

• Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder tilbyr opphold i fullt utstyrt gjesteleilighet (ettroms). 
• Kritikeren dekker selv utgifter som kost, reise, forsikring, etc.
• Kritikeren mottar et stipend pålydende kr. 15 000 fra ArtScene Trondheim.
• Teksten honoreres etter Kritikerlagets satser (som per nå er kr. 7 000 / 11 000) av ArtScene Trondheim.
• Periode: mars 2025 eller mars 2026.
• Ordningen er rettet mot kritikere bosatt i Norden. (Trondheimsbaserte kritikere blir ikke vurdert).

Vi tar kun imot søknader via dette søknadsskjemaet.

Søknaden skal inneholde:

• Utfylt skjema
• Vedlagt PDF med maks 9 sider totalt, opptil 20 MB, navnefil: Kritiker_Etternavn med følgende:
  – Kort beskrivelse av ens kritikervirke og motivasjon for arbeidsoppholdet. (Maks 1 side).
  – 2-3 teksteksempler (Maks 6 sider totalt, ved bruk av Times New Roman, fontstr. 12 eller tilsvarende). 
  – CV (Maks 2 sider).

Spørsmål om oppholdet rettes til mail@lkv.no og post@artscene.no. 

FRIST: 16. juni 2024 kl 23:59 (CET).

Juryen vil ha følgende sammensetning;
Ine Therese Berg, førsteamanuensis ved drama og teater, NTNU og kritiker
Petter Buhagen, kunstnerisk leder for Babel visningsrom for kunst / LKV
Eline Bjerkan, kritiker og redaksjonsmedarbeider i ArtScene Trondheim
Marit K. Flåtter, kritiker og redaktør ArtScene Trondheim

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ArtScene Trondheim (AST) er et uavhengig nettmagasin for kunstkritikk og formidling. Vi belyser og diskuterer samtidskunsten i regionen, og er en aktiv deltager i den nordiske kunstdiskursen. I redaksjonen sitter Eline Bjerkan og Marit K. Flåtter.

Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (LKV) er en kunstnerstyrt institusjon som omfatter et arbeidsfellesskap for over 40 profesjonelle billedkunstnere og kunsthåndverkere, produksjonsverksteder for arbeid med tre og metall, grafikk og analogt fotografi, samt et keramikkovn og tre prosjektrom tilgjengelige for alle profesjonelle kunstnere, et internasjonalt artist-in-residence program for kunstnere innen visuell kunst, dans, musikk, scenekunst, film og litteratur, samt kuratorer og kritikere, og BABEL visningsrom for kunst.

Studio 101 – 31 m2 – ca NOK 2182/month
· For artists graduated in the current year or the previous year
· One-year contract – with a possibility to have a smaller studio at LKV for around 7 more years
· Available from August 1^st, 2024

Application deadline: April 7th, 2024

In addition to the rent:
· Shared costs: ca NOK 4500/year
· Husrådet: NOK 400/year
· BABEL visningsrom for kunst: NOK 1200/year

APPLICATION FORM

Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (LKV) is a broad art institution that includes a working community for over 40 professional visual artists and craft artists, production workshops for printmaking, metal, wood, analogue photography and a ceramic kiln available to all professional artists, an international artist-in-residence program and a solid artist-run exhibition space for contemporary art: BABEL visningsrom for kunst.

The applicant needs to use the application’s form.
If your application contains audio or video, insert this as an online link in the portfolio section of your application. Application must be submitted in any of the Scandinavia languages or English.

Application must contain:
Filled in form: applicant’s full name, registered address, residential address, email address, telephone number, organization number and other relevant contact information.

Attached PDF: 13 pages maximum, 20 MB, name file: STUDIO_Lastname with:
· 1 page with presentation of your future plans (max. 400 words), short artist statement (max. 200 words), description on how the studio/workshops will help your practice/plans (max. 200 words)
· Portfolio – max. of 10 pages
· CV – max. of 2 pages

Applications are reviewed by Trondheim Municipality Studio Assignment Committee. Award criteria can be found here (in Norwegian): www.trondheim.kommune.no/atelier/

Trondheim Municipality Studio Assignment Committee consists of:
– Anniken Elisabeth Storhaug, Freelance art consultant and advisor within Norwegian contemporary art
– Solveig Lønmo, Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum
– Representative from NTNU Kunstakademiet
– Jørgen Mo, Norske Kunsthåndverkere Midt-Norge
– Annika Borg, Trøndelag Bildende Kunstnere
– Ellen Sofie Griegel, Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder

We are pleased to announce the Open Call for our LKV International Residency Program for 2025 and 2026. Each program – interdisciplinary and crafts & visual arts – has a unique application form. LKV AiR hosts four artists simultaneously, with two apartments allocated for each program and a studio for the crafts & visual arts.

Guidelines for 2025/2026

AiR: Interdisciplinary
This AiR program focuses on interdisciplinary projects within dance, music, performing arts, film, literature (working with non-fiction literature projects) and curators. We are open for applications from professional artists that already work with interdisciplinary projects or would like to challenge their own practice.
More about the program.

AiR: Crafts & visual arts
Our International Residency Program is open to professional craft & visual artists who do not reside in Trondheim.
More about the program.

Short Notice Open Call Residency 2024

Due to recent cancellations we have a short-deadline Open Call for 1 apartment in January and/or February 2024.

WHO
This AiR program focus on interdisciplinary practices within visual art, craft, music, dance, film, performing arts, and literature, in addition to curators and art critics.
We welcome applications from professional artists regardless of their discipline, background, or gender.
This residency is for artists that do not live in Trondheim.

WHEN
Residency: January and/or February 2024
Deadline: 30th of November
Results: 11th of December

WHAT we offer
A full equipped studio apartment during your residency period. The apartment is located in the former gymnasium building just across the courtyard from the main building. This contains: 120 cm wide bed, bed linen and towels, dishwasher, refrigerator and freezer, fully equipped kitchen, laundry room and storage room if needed.
24/7 access to joint workshops for wood, metal, printmaking, analogue photography and a kiln.
Possibility to rent project rooms (50 and 90 sqm).
Possibility to have guests (NOK 50,- p/ night), free for children under 2 years old.
January stay: additional large studio of 50sqm on the 1st floor  of the main building with large windows facing the park (west).

OTHER
Other expenses, such as living costs, travel, materials, insurance and transport must be covered by the artists themselves. We encourage all applicants to apply for funding in their home countries.
Residency artists are expected to do a short artist talk/reading/concert/performance etc. during the stay.
As we are running the residency on limited administrative resources, selected artists must be prepared to be self reliant at times. We will do our best to facilitate contacts, network and local collaborative partners so that artists can achieve what they have set out to do for their stay. Trondheim is a small and friendly city and it is easy to get in touch with the local art community.
We do not have elevators in any of our buildings.
Unfortunately, there is no possibility to exhibit your work at BABEL visningsrom for kunst.
Download detailed residency information here.


Please send an e-mail if you have specific questions or would like more information on the facilities/collaborators. Some facilities might be subject to rent. 

Application
We only accept digital applications through the online form.
Incomplete applications, and applications handed in by email will not be considered.
In addition to the online form, the application must contain:
1. One PDF file (max. 10 pages and 10 MB) containing:
A portfolio with relevant works. If applicable please provide us with links to video and/or sound works.
CV
Name the PDF: ‘LKV_lastname’, example: ‘LKV_Nguyen’

If you are applying as a duo, use the contact person’s name in the application. Include CVs from everyone in the group in the attachment. This allows the PDF to be more than 10 pages, according to the number of CVs. Portfolio should be relevant for collaboration.

Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (LKV) is celebrating its 30th anniversary and invites the whole town to join in the festivities on Sunday 12 November from 12-16.

Hurramegrundt and Hubba Bubba! Lademoen Kunstverksteder is 30 years old. This year. Around this time. The 30th anniversary will be celebrated in various ways, and on 12 November we invite you to a birthday party. The birthday party will include open studios, performances, activities for children, a café and a sales exhibition. There will be an exhibition with artists from the house where the art will be for sale. Cash N carry / Vipps N Go. Kristina Karlsen has created a Fantasy Room, a sensory room for the little ones. Linn Halvorsrød will hold a collage workshop for children and adults. There will be a performance by choreographer, dancer and researcher Nefeli Gioti, who is in residence at LKV, and at 15:00 a birthday speech by Morten Wolden, Director of Trondheim Municipality. This is the day to get to know the artists who have studios at Lademoen kunstnerverksteder. The day to visit artists you already know, and the day to make new acquaintances. Come and celebrate with us at Lademoen kunstnerverksteder! The doors are open from 12-16 and everyone is welcome.

See the programme:

Open studios 12:00-15:00
Imagination room for the little ones 12:00-15:00
Sales exhibition and collage workshop 12:00-16:00
Soup and coffee 12:00-14:00
Performance in the guest studio 12:30 and 14:30
Guided tour of the house 13:00
Cake and speech 15:00

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Free entrance, allways!

CHRONIC PLURALISM PART 1: LKV 30 YEARS
02 – 19 November 2023

Eva Ballo, Annika Borg, Helga Bøe, Oddvar I. N. Daren, Nirmal Singh Dhunsi, Per Formo, Linn Halvorsrød, Dag Marius Hestvik, Hermann Isaksen, Farhad Kalantary, Kristina C. Karlsen, Markus Lantto, Veslemøy Lilleengen, Ann Lundström, Andrea Martinez, Tore Reisch, Solrunn Rones, Liv Rygh, Håvard Stamnes, Knut Sveen, Per Rune Vatne, Tove Weie, Anita Wollamo. 

Welcome to LKV’s anniversary exhibition Chronic Pluralism Part 1!

Opening: Thursday 02.11, 18.00–20:00

Since 1993, a total of around 150 professional visual artists have had studio space at Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (LKV), in the building that used to be Lademoen School. 

The fact that a self-organized working community of this kind has now been in operation for 30 years is something we believe is worth celebrating. We have therefore invited all 44 current tenants at LKV, one guest artist and a small selection of former tenants to take part in an anniversary exhibition at Babel – LKV’s own exhibition space for art. There are 50 artists contributing works to the exhibition, so we have divided it into two parts to accommodate all the works. If all 150 artists were to be presented, we would have had to show at least six such densely packed anniversary exhibitions. 

In addition to marking an anniversary by celebrating the artists and their work, it is also important for us to show the great diversity in art today. Both here in Trondheim and in the studios and workshops at LKV. In this working community, everyone follows their own paths, where ‘forward in all directions’ is the order of the day. This situation is like a gift package and an open door for a curious art audience: there should be something for everyone. Welcome to the first part of the anniversary exhibition and enjoy!

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The Babel Committee supports the artistic director in the execution of the exhibition program and now consists of LKV artists Anne Helga Henning, Polina Chernitskaya and Per Formo. The artistic director of Babel is Petter Buhagen.

Babel Art Space was established in 2006 and has since its opening presented around 220 exhibitions to the public. Babel is run by Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder.

www.babelkunst.no