#FROMKSTOYOU: Banners

#FROMKSTOYOU is a new and ongoing project by Kunsthall Stavanger initiated in response to the current COVID-19 crisis. Artists are asked to make works that can spread solidarity in this moment of time. While most of the projects take place on digital platforms — such as Kunsthall Stavanger’s website and Instagram — we also bring art to you in the form of commissioned banners. The banners are installed on the outside of the kunsthall’s building, located in the centre of one of Stavanger‘s traffic hubs. It is meant to bring art to the public in a safe and engaging way, visible for the hundreds, if not thousands, of onlookers that pass the building on a daily basis.

During the Covid-19 pandemic we bring the art to you through our digital channels, and with banners on our building, under the title #FROMKSTOYOU. With this project we invite you to experience art at home from your screen, showing video works that can hopefully ground and inspire, and bring joy and calmness at this moment in time.

In addition to our exhibitions, projects and educational activities at Kunsthall Stavanger, we are inviting you to experience art at home through our digital channels. During the outbreak of COVID-19, we are bringing you art through our digital channels and banner art on our building, under the umbrella title #FROMKSTOYOU.

Garb
Break Bread (2020)
July 17–August 6

For Garb the banner represents a call to "break bread" — to all come together at the same table to share food and conversation. Garb: "Responding to widespread protests following the murder of George Floyd, our social media feeds transformed into truly active spaces where live streams, organisational information and educational resource exchange drove crucial conversation across new platforms. To aid your self-education we are sharing vital resources which are important in understanding the current shape of our world and the ways in which we must change."

Garb is a design collective consisting of researcher & artist Sophie Frances Coates & graphic designer Eloise Harris working together remotely from London & Berlin since lockdown 2020. Garb attempts to find relationships between everyday life & materials, and functionality in objects and images. Break Bread is created by Garb, with support by type design agency Dinamo. The publishing resource list is created by Black History Month Norway.

Lauren Martin
Our Planet Deserves the World (2020)
June 20–July 10

Lauren Martin will show a specially commissioned work for Kunsthall Stavanger’s project #fromKStoyou. While most of the projects take place on digital platforms — such as on our website and Instagram — the banner is installed on the outside of the kunsthall’s building, located in the centre of one of Stavanger‘s traffic hubs. The banner is meant to bring art to the public in a safe and engaging way and is visible for the hundreds, if not thousands, of onlookers that pass the building on a daily basis.

About the banner, Martin says: "We are facing a critical moment on our planet where we have the opportunity to collectively manifest a positive future. We owe our planet a debt of gratitude, and we owe each other compassion, love, and an opportunity to heal undue suffering".

Molly Rose Dyson
Moons’ Echo (2020)
May 25–June 18

Moons’ Echo (2020) by Molly Rose Dyson is a specially commissioned work. The work takes the form of a banner on the kunsthall’s building, and is a psychedelic puzzle that visualises the reverberations between the cosmic, natural and human spheres.

Dyson about her work: “As the world entered Corona-virus lockdown, I watched spring bloom and humans retreat into their homes. In parks, gardens and forests, plants thrived and animals emerged from hibernation, while we entered our own kind of hibernation. The moon waxed and waned on it’s usual course.”