A big ferry took us over stormy Skagerrag /Northsea to Kristiansand. It is a beautiful old town with plenty of white wooden houses. The Otra-river and the open coastline give it a spesial fresh atmosphere. Modern theater building Kilden and a brand new artmuseum, Kunstsilo, that was really built to an old grain silo originally from 1935 and opened In May 11. 2024. The exhibitions were very Nordic. Modern paintings of already older Norwegian artists, photographs and videos. Mette Tornvoll’s photos described the relationship of humans and nature. Exiting experimental art; communication of voice and light by an icelandic musician and artist. However, the most impressive in my mind were videos, “Over seas” by Elina Brotherus. She had cooperated with the Kristiansand symphony orchestra and the conductor Eivind Aadland. The music followed Elina when she was dancing on rocky shoreline with a friend or sitting beside a lighthouse as the twilight turned into darkness, simultanously in second video she was writing by the table shown as a silhoutte and the lighthouse lamp shows through the window. In the third video tens of candles are floating along the river Ganges and the music of symphony orchestra follows their movement. Even in the Main lobby is one of her videos from Venice with the music played with Tapio Wirkkala’s glass works.
