TRIPTYCON - @stamsund_teaterfestival (2025)
Thank you Sissel & Thorbjørn for presenting three of my early works at the festival ❤️
Somewhat Deconstructed (2019-2021), FAUN (2020) and Heliogabalus (2020)
The BEST team:
Producer – @larissetta (!!)
Guitar – @tormundbvea
❤️❤️☀️
Thanks to @fondforlydogbilde for realisation.
TRIPTYCON (2019-2021) at @stamsund_teaterfestival (2025)
Performing a collection of three solo works that highlights fascination with idealization: The works portray the desire and need to be something else – the urge to take or imitate the form of the unattainable.
Somewhat Deconstructed (2019, 2020 and 2021). Music by Eric Spanne
FAUN (2020)
Music by @tormundbvea
Heliogabalus (2020)
Music by @tormundbvea
Thank you @gabrielsthor and Sissel Helgesen
Thank you @larissetta for being the best festival producer.
Thank you @fondforlydogbilde for gjenopptakelsessrøtte
Foto: @emmasukalic
It’s a wrap 🔮
Last two performances of «Juvenilia Garden» by Jonas Øren with Torfí Tomassón, costumes by Anne Karine Thorbjørnsen, and music by Mats Høstaker, November 9th and 10th, 2024. 🌿
Thank you to everyone who came (full house!) and who helped make it possible, project manager Marthe Tveitan, sound technician Martin Dynna, event producer Yonas Changezi, conservator Melany Hoshu Wan, and the audience coordinators and front of house staff.
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@jonasoren@torfitomasson@annekarinethorbjornsen@_freij_@nasjonalmuseet
Excited to invite you back to ‘Juvenilia Garden’ with @jonasoren@torfitomasson@annekarinethorbjornsen and @_freij_ 9+10 November! 🔮🍀 Due to high demand at the premiere the performances are now TICKETED 🎟️
See link in bio or nasjonalmuseet.no to secure your spot 💚
Tickets are discounted for artists, choreographers, curators, and architects with proof of union/organisation, as well as audiences under 25 years, and includes entry to the museum collection and temporary exhibitions on the same day 🏛️
Documentation: Ina Wesenberg/Nasjonalmuseet
Det var en spennende utstillingsåpning for Yayoi Kusamas «Narcissus Garden» på Nasjonalmuseet. Jonas Øren og Torfi Tómasson framførte en nydelig danseperformance kalt «Juvenilia Garden». Veldig inspirerende og fengende. #nasjonalmuseet, #dans, #yayoi_kusama, #juvenilia_garden, #narcissus_garden, #kuler, #kunst, #performance, #grønn, #green, #rosa
Juvenilia Garden (2024)
A performance based on self citation created for Søylerommet @nasjonalmuseet and Narcissus Garden (1966-) by Yayoi Kusama.
Thank you so much for your brilliant contribution Mats Høstaker @_freij_ Anne Karine Thorbjørnsen @annekarinethorbjornsen and Torfi Tomasson @torfitomasson
Thank you for a wonderful collaboration, the trust and for curating the work Håkon Lillegraven @artfag_
Concept and choreography by Jonas Øren
Performers: Jonas Øren and Torfí Tomassón @jonasoren@torfitomasson
Music: Mats Høstaker (freij) @_freij_@fochs_koshka
Costume: Anne Karine Thorbjørnsen @annekarinethorbjornsen
Artistic guidance / outer eyes: @camarajoof@kennethhomstad
Curator: Håkon Lillegraven @artfag_
Project manager: Marthe Tveitan
Conservator: Melany Hoshun Wan
Sound technician: Martin Dynna
Security coordinator: Karin Fagersand
Event coordinator: Yonas Changezi
Exhibition curator: Stina Högkvist @litenstina
Exhibition curator education: Karen Reini Svensson @kmreini
Artworks by Yayoi Kusama, Louise Giovanelli, Hurvin Anderson, Michael Armitage, Yukimasa Ida, and Kerry James Marshall
Photos/Videos:
1. @rebekkaingibjartsdottir
2. 4. 5. @artfag_
7. Yayoi Kusama lying in Narcissus Garden, Venice Biennial, 1966. @kusama_archive@yayoikusamamuseum
9. Pool Boy (2012) @hindafahre
Still processing last night but thank you to all that came and saw ‘Juvenilia Garden’ for the first time (some images from dress rehearsal and process too)! Thank you Jonas, Mats, Anne Karine, Torfí 🍀
‘Juvenilia Garden’
Concept and choreography by Jonas Øren
Performers: Jonas Øren and Torfí Tomassón @jonasoren@torfitomasson
Music: Mats Høstaker (freij) @_freij_@fochs_koshka
Costume: Anne Karine Thorbjørnsen @annekarinethorbjornsen
Curator: Håkon Lillegraven @artfag_
Artistic advisors/external eyes: Camara Lundestad Joof and Kenneth Homstad @camarajoof@kennethhomstad
Project manager: Marthe Tveitan
Conservator: Melany Hoshun Wan
Sound technician: Martin Dynna
Security coordinator: Karin Fagersand
Event coordinator: Yonas Changezi
Exhibition curator: Stina Högkvist @litenstina
Exhibition curator education: Karen Reini Svensson @kmreini
Artworks by Yayoi Kusama, Louise Giovanelli, Hurvin Anderson, Michael Armitage, Yukimasa Ida, and Kerry James Marshall ⚪️
Welcome to ‘Juvenilia Garden’ by Jonas Øren with costume design by Anne Karine Thorbjørnsen and music by Mats Høstaker (freij) on Friday 6 September approx. 17:30 ⚪️
The event is free but with limited capacity, so be there when doors open at 17:00 (also for a complimentary non-alcoholic drink) 💚
In the performance ‘Juvenilia Garden’, dance artist and choreographer Jonas Øren (b.1988) approaches the theme juvenescence — a state of being young — and its proliferation through art history and construction of beauty ideals. Employing movements and choreographic ideas from his body of work, he gets lost in his own oeuvre, which for over 17 years has continued to be described as “up and coming”.
In the process, Øren questions his own attraction and aversion to today’s mechanical development of talents, and the concept of the “prodigy”. The work is created through a continuous reinterpretation and reorganisation of fantasies and notions of artistic greatness, genius, and beauty.
Doors open at 17:00 for the opening of the new exhibition in The Pillars at the National Museum, and close at 19:00.
The performance is curated by yours truly with the support of The Pillars project manager Marthe Tveitan, curator ofeducation Karen Reini-Svensson, event technician Martin Dynna, event producer Yonas Changezi, and Live Roaldset and Sandra Dahl Hansen on communication ⚪️
