I juli måned hadde vi besøk av den tyske kunstneren Claudia Kapellusch i gjesteleiligheten på Ekely.
Kapellusch sitt opphold var et samarbeid med Edvard Munch Haus i Warnemünde , støttet av Willy Brandt-stiftelsen. Under kan du lese en oppsummering av Claudias opphold:
From the sound of the tiny
Work stay in Oslo Ekely in July 2025
Arrived with great anticipation and curiosity in the studio and apartment of the Stiftelsen Edvard Munchs Atelier in Oslo, I was now allowed to start it, my journey of discovery, my time in Ekely. Following the plan to devote my attention to the oldest plants of our earth, the algae, in addition to the flora of the Ekely Garden, I turned for the time being to their occurrence in the nearby fjord.
Soon, however, the first rays of sunshine of the early morning hours lured me to their enchanting play with light and colour under the apple, pear, and cherry trees between which Edvard Munch had once stood with his easel. This morning spectacle, in which the sun made the garden shine piece by piece in its summery colours, in order to «turn on» the light in it – finally arrived at the windows of the studio house – made me the first guest in the Ekely Garden.
This spectacle needs no audience, no applause. For my sake, I found myself morning after morning punctually among the fruit trees, enjoying the beauty of the moment and daring to try to capture nuances of what I had experienced.„….At best, this is about entrusting oneself to the still unknown in many ways, the game of nature.
…Such a deep sinking, a true surrender to an unpredictable event allows me to collect and process dust, sediments and other ground or ground components of our environment.“ I described the intention of my work in the project outline for my stay.
Dust is my material. The tiny particles that surround us everywhere, floating or lying like «skin» on all things represent untamed and in fascinating colour the limits of what is visible to us. Astonished I drew daily coloured, fragrant and dancing material from this small, so special world in Ekely. The naturalist and explorer Alfred Russell Wallace will have felt something similar when he wrote in his essay «The Wonderful Century» in 1898: „Half the beauty of the world would vanish with the absence of dust.“
The gnarled old fruit trees in the garden welcomed me into their shadows, were a link – dispensable was the pinch of dust that I brought with me as a small bridge between the two places from Warnemünde, from the beach where Munch painted in 1907 and 1908 and in whose immediate vicinity I work today, and Munch’s Oslo residence – between the past, the present and the future, and a hiding place at the same time. Unconditionally I was allowed to be a guest, undisturbed I caught particles, extracted, drew, photographed, immersed myself in works by Przybyszewski and Supervielle or could take time for the sound of the tiny. Even if I probably had some conversation with him, with the great painter, here in his refuge, I can not say how decisively this place, its silence, its colours, its light, its fragrance and the «invisible», the tiny played a role in his work, which often reveals itself to us in such vulnerability. I can only guess, very much.
– Claudia Kapellusch
Markering av Edvard Munchs fødselsdag (f. 12. desember 1863)
