Introducing artists in residence: Kata, Katla & Tómas

Kata Jóhanness is a visual artist from Reykjavík. She explores the human connection to the environment and its phenomena, as well as how humans interpret reality through collection and documentation. Her work weaves together multiple threads with the common goal of encouraging perception, respect, and interplay. The pieces heighten the sense of time and how everything is interconnected in the past, present, and future.

Katla Björk Gunnarsdóttir is a visual artist who is interested in people and stories. In her art, she explores themes such as communication and how language shapes the world we live in. Her aim is to blur the line between reality and fiction. This often results in a great deal of humour that can be drawn upon. Katla Björk is accustomed to working in various media, but recently, drawing and writing have been at the forefront.

Tómas van Oosterhout is a visual artist and musician who works with a variety of media, often weaving them together. It is the process itself that interests him, a process that leads to a work or a process that leads to nothing, a process that is constantly changing and is never predictable. In his works, he plays with concepts such as interplay, both the interplay between musicians and the interplay of the objects around us. Playfulness and improvisation are at the forefront of Tómas’s work.

They have worked on all sorts of projects together, but Katla Björk and Kata Jóhanness make up the performance duo KÁHH-diagnosis, and all three are part of the artist collective Rúletta, which has held regular exhibitions for the past four years. In addition, Katla Björk and Tómas van Oosterhout have published the poetry book Dagur íslenskrar Flungu and the magazine Krant, together with Þórhallur Runólfsson.

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