B-sides

Diverging from the standard is a main theme in Marius Enghs exhibition B-sides at 0047. Regarded as rarities, the B-sides of the music singles contains songs considered to be too far from the mainstream to be bestsellers. Nonetheless, the seemingly surplus side B material often turns out to be the most original and interesting work in retrospect.

Through documentations of human errors and misinterpretations of everyday phenomena, Marius Engh shows how new possible and often positive (mis-)readings emerge. Through photos and found objects, he collects samples of these incidents from his surroundings, while he with the sculpture Ditch evokes a personal abortive teenage attempt on building a skateboard ramp. With wrong materials and construction technique the object ended up unusable for skating – and the 1:4 scale reconstruction carries both the platonic ideal of the original, and is at the same time a new object with distinct formal qualities.

Marius Engh graduated from the Oslo Academy of Fine Arts in 2000. Living and working in Oslo, he has participated in group shows all over the world and has recently had solo exhibitions in Copenhagen and New York. Marius Engh is represented in the collections of the Norwegian Arts Council and Norwegian Museum of Photography as well as the corporate collections of Telenor, Norsk Hydro and Deka Bank, Frankfurt.

The exhibition is part of the Kunst Mitte Nord, a collaboration between art galleries and institutions in the Mitte Nord district.

For more information: www.kunstmittenord.de