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Tori Wrånes introduces us to her works!The Nordic Countries Pavilion presents How Many Angels Can Dance on the Head of a Pin? at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. @labiennaleThe collaborative exhibition by Klara Kristalova, Benjamin Orlow and Tori Wrånes transforms the Pavilion into a sculptural, mythical landscape that transcends cultural and national boundaries.The exhibition is commissioned by @kiasmamuseum and co-commissioned by @modernamuseet and @oca_norwayWrånes contribution is co- produced by Kilden teater @kildenteater9 May to 22 November 2026#ToriWrånes#BiennaleArte2026#InMinorKeys#Venezia#NordicPavilionArtworks in video:Tori Wrånes, Human Lace, 2026.Tori Wrånes, Erotic poetry by the architect, nature and me, 2026.The Nordic Countries Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia is supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation, Kiasma Support Foundation, Nazarian / Curcio Gallery (Los Angeles), Nelimarkka Foundation, Niemistö Art Foundation Ars Fennica, Perrotin, Saastamoinen Foundation, The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, The Ministry of Education and Culture (Finland) and Tiftö Foundation. by @closest_relatives

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@closest_relatives wants us to love ourselves a little more.”We are all just moving on the shoulders of each other, we have to.“Tori Wrånes is a Norwegian artist working across sculpture, performance, and sound. At the Nordic Pavilion (@nordiccountriespavilion), Venice Biennale 2026, she presents two entwined figures moving around a tree, a sound piece, and a series of sculptures that trace generational time through bird-ring markings and small cast hands. She spoke with PRAZZLE about self-love, folklore, and what we carry forward.🔗 Link in bio to read the full featurePhotographed and captured by Monika Mabiki @_mabiki Edited by @vbeafrica for Prazzle #toriwranes #venicebiennale2026 #contemporarysculpture #nordicpavilion by @closest_relatives

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🟡🔵🟡Artist: Tori Wrånes Title: YES NIX Year: 2013 Curator: Mark BeasleyPerforma 13, SIR Stage37, New York CityTori’s visual concert YES NIX set the terms for contemporary operatic theater, vocal performance and the necessary need for the weird. Today Tori opens the Nordic pavilion, Venice. 💫“YES NIX” took place in a room that looked like a nightclub or fashion runway, with two sets of chairs facing each other and colorful lights blasting into a smoke-machine haze. The piece unfolded in four movements. Music began to play as the mechanical rope system slowly dragged Wrånes, who was singing, across the floor, then suspended her above the audience. Her skirt turned out to be a jacket and her shirt, pants, topped off by shoes on her hands: an odd, surrealist touch added to the drama of her upside-down suspension.”- A Visual Concert of Gestures, Ryan Wong, Hyperallergic, Nov 25, 2013 🔺🔻2026 marks twenty years of living in New York City, two decades of curating, commissioning, writing about and joyously returning to making art. (Forthcoming: Harlem ‘26.) I figured if I could last six months it would be something. I chose NY when I first came as a teen, it chose me a decade or so later: from not-for-profit public art, performance biennial, Smithsonian museum to mega gallery. I’ve never archived, there’s too much living to be done but hey it’s been a long trip and continues to be so, so why not.Lou Reed told me “at the point you love/hate this city you’re a New Yorker.” I’m a fully paid up, love-to-heartbreak-to-love New Yorker: it’s not for the faint of heart. Always meet your heroes and ignore the weakeners, as with the greatest of achievement’s they all melt with the sun. ☀️ #2 #toriwranes by @closest_relatives

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Presenting the works! Take a first look at Tori Wrånes’ works at the Nordic Countries Pavilion.Tori Wrånes’ installation integrates sculptural, performative and sonic elements. In Human Lace, towering headless figures interlock and extend through the architecture, dissolving distinctions between interior and exterior space.In Erotic poetry by the architect, nature and me, a kinetic figure repeatedly moves up and down a tree, introducing endurance and temporality as central themes. Wrånes also incorporates a sonic: A foghorn, vital in low visibility, signals every hour to warn off hazards and make you navigate safely.The pavilion will be activated by a unique live performance during its opening ceremony on Wednesday 6 May at 3:30 pm, which will reoccur on Saturday 9 May at 1 pm.The Nordic Countries Pavilion presents How Many Angels Can Dance on the Head of a Pin? at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. @labiennale9 May to 22 November 2026@kiasmamuseum @modernamuseet @oca_norwayArtworks:Tori Wrånes, Human Lace, 2026.Tori Wrånes, In Minor Keys, the zipper's mass, 2026.Tori Wrånes, Erotic poetry by the architect, nature and me, 2026.Photos: Finnish National Gallery / Pirje Mykkänen#BiennaleArte2026#InMinorKeys#Venezia#NordicPavilion#ToriWrånesThe Nordic Countries Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia is supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation, Kiasma Support Foundation, Nazarian / Curcio Gallery (Los Angeles), Nelimarkka Foundation, Niemistö Art Foundation Ars Fennica, Perrotin, Saastamoinen Foundation, The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, The Ministry of Education and Culture (Finland) and Tiftö Foundation. by @closest_relatives

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Experience Tori Wrånes performance at the Nordic Countries Pavilion!The performances take place on:Wednesday 6th of May | 3:30 pmSaturday 9th of May | 1 pmIn Wrånes performance an XXXL headless figure wonders the grounds and starts to sing through the zipper in its trousers, blending voice, body, and identity. The purpose of the zipper is to open or close, to grant access or deny it, protecting one of the body's most powerful and vulnerable sites.Giardini Della Biennale, Sestiere Castello 30122 Venice 📍Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Pirje Mykkänen.#BiennaleArte2026#InMinorKeys#Venezia#NordicPavilion#ToriWrånesThe Nordic Countries Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia is supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation, Kiasma Support Foundation, Nazarian / Curcio Gallery (Los Angeles), Nelimarkka Foundation, Niemistö Art Foundation Ars Fennica, Perrotin, Saastamoinen Foundation, The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, The Ministry of Education and Culture (Finland) and Tiftö Foundation. by @closest_relatives

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The Nordic Countries Pavilion will present How Many Angels Can Dance on the Head of a Pin? at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. @labiennaleBenjamin Orlow born 1984, Turku, Finland; lives and works in London, UK. @benjaminorlowTori Wrånes born 1978, Kristiansand, Norway; lives and works in Oslo and Kristiansand. @closest_relativesKlara Kristalova born 1967, Prague, Czech Republic; lives and works in Norrtälje, Sweden. @hundskogenThis collaborative exhibition will transform the Pavilion into a sculptural, mythical landscape that transcends cultural and national boundaries.Curated by Anna Mustonen, Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma.---The exhibition is commissioned by @kiasmamuseum and co-commissioned by @modernamuseet and @oca_norway9 May to 22 November 2026Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Pirje Mykkänen.#BiennaleArte2026#InMinorKeys#Venezia#NordicPavilionThe Nordic Countries Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia is supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation, Kiasma Support Foundation, Nazarian / Curcio Gallery (Los Angeles), Nelimarkka Foundation, Niemistö Art Foundation Ars Fennica, Saastamoinen Foundation, The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, The Ministry of Education and Culture (Finland) and Tiftö Foundation. by @closest_relatives

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#komposisjonsforum i morra tirsdag 14 oktober på @kunstnerneshus kl 16 (oslo). Jeg snakker om komposisjon med disse råtassene: Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje, Ignas Krunglevicius, og Henrik Hellstenius. Foraene er gratis og åpne for alle. Serien er drevet og kuratert av Trond Reinholdtsen, Guoste Tamulynaite og Fredrik Blichfelt. Gjennom @komponistforeningen og @nymusikk #hvaERkomposisjonidag #mjau by @closest_relatives

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#MoonBag by @closest_relatives

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#MoonBag at @bergenkunsthall for @festspillene curated by @siljaleifsdottir Thanks to everyone involved❤️ my amazing team of incredible people. I could not have done it without you🙏. @anttidesign @lisa.asplund_ #mariRossavik @reyesantiagorojas @tonekittelsen @suleomali #SulekhaAliOmar #AnneSilkjærPetersen @annesilkjaer #SaraMidtskogenHaave @vikinga.latina #IntiWang @suleomali #christopherpardell @jacobsenmakeupeffects the amazing @konkylien_allstars And sounds in collaboration with the best badass #JoarRenolen and spatial edit by the best 🤝 @differencetones #UlfHolbrook #mousespeciality by the great #kristoffermyskja Amazing leather shoecraft by @qq_handmade , @egecarpets the full on team at @bergenkunsthall and the amazing colleagues in the technical team pulling it through🛠️ @axeljwieder for inviting me and @feilkjersti for taking over the ship, to @siljaleifsdottir for the trust🤝⚡️ and to everyone coming to Bergen.📷 by: @thorbrodreskift by @closest_relatives

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Final weekend of #MoonBag at @bergenkunsthall @festspillene Photo: Thor Brødreskift by @closest_relatives

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Thank you to the whole amazing crew at HAM, for making it such a special time to instal. The greatness #MiljaLiimatainen (curator), #ArjaMiller #KatiKivinen. #Nils-HeikkiHyvärinen for smart ass solutions, #BarbaraRadaelli for treating the work with the best respect🧶 To #SampoWiik for never giving up, and to #JenniPystynen for lightening it all up. To all the technicians CesarBrunel, DanBeard, ClémentBeraud, SiniHavukainen, MirkaHämäläinen, KalleJokinen, AdamMonaghan, MirekTräskman, TomiSopanen, TemropeOy, AnswattiOy And of course my amazing friends and team in studio W, @anttidesign @lykom.monika @emnetk @tonekittelsen Anne-KarenHytten, All footage in BIG WATER was filmed during Wrånes’s collaboration with the ILIOS Festival for New Music in Harstad, Norway, SUB ADVENTURE, 2019 curated by #AndersEriksson. And the Thailand Biennale, Krabi, Thailand 2018–2019, curated by #JoshuaJiang. NAAM YAI / น้ำขนาดใหญ่ (Big Water)The performative film installation was made possible by Accelerator Stockholm in 2022. Audience installation built as a historical collaboration between the National Theater and National Museum of Norway. Co-composer #JoarRenolenSound design CarlSvenssonUlfA.HolbrookPi-flute #AnirutKuwalairat Filmphotographers #TreePChowvanayotin, IthinathTantivittapong and JakrinKongdon #sivpedersen#VidarSkålvikGrading #ChristianWieberg-NielsenFilm editors #ErlandEdenholm and #JuliePichardProducer Norway Tone Kittelsen Producer Thailand Palin Anusinha @sadpapayafruit Spesial thanks to Oslo Jazz EnsembleThanks to the brilliant team at @accelerator Curator #ThereseKellner andArtistic Director #RichardJulin by @closest_relatives

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📣 Save the date Plattform: Tori WrånesConversation with curator Silja Leifsdottir🗓️ Sat 24 May 14:00📍 Upstairs📢 Free and open to all!Welcome to a conversation between this year's Festival Artist, @closest_relatives and Bergen Kunsthall's Exhibition Curator, @siljaleifsdottir.The Festival Exhibition transforms our four main galleries into a vast installation – a living stage or an endless concert. The title "Moon Bag" refers to an everyday object and a symbolic notion – something one carries that is hoped to have value. But hope never exists in a vacuum – the word itself evokes the shadow of its opposite.Tori Wrånes (b. 1978) lives and works in Oslo. Her works have been shown at venues including Accelerator Stockholm, Performa 13 New York, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö, the Biennale of Sydney, the Thailand Biennale, and Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Wrånes, Klara Kristalova, and Benjamin Orlow will represent the Nordic pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale in 2026.Plattform is Bergen Kunsthall's series of lectures and debates. This summer, we present talks and conversations in connection with the exhibitions of Tori Wrånes and Rindon Johnson. The Plattform events are streamed live on our website, Facebook, and Vimeo.Bergen Kunsthall is accessible from street level, wheelchair accessible, welcomes assistance dogs and has all-gender toilet facilities.For access requests or further assistance, please e-mail bergen@kunsthall.no or make yourself known to our staff at the door and they will assist you.Bergen Kunsthall is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We follow a no tolerance approach to racism, as well as ageism, homophobia, sexism, transphobia, ableism, or prejudice based on ethnicity, nationality, class, gender, gender presentation, language ability, asylum status or religious affiliation.📸 Tori Wrånes by Anne Valeur by @closest_relatives

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