Olsen / January to April 2025
Olsen’s works are investigations into the interfaces between man and machine. Particular attention is paid to everyday technologies and how they shape human existence, our preferences and behavioral patterns. At the center of this perspective is the question of whether “technology is the effort that is supposed to save us effort.”
The installations, robots and apparatuses that Olsen designs and constructs are positioned just beyond the boundaries of function and rationality. In a humorous, sometimes whimsical, sometimes metaphysical way, each of his objects plays in a league of ‘extraterrestrials’.
After training as a carpenter, Olsen studied Media Art at the HdK Zurich and Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. In 2018, he graduated in Media Art at Queen Mary University in London. Since 2019, he has been a founding member and board member of the non-profit art association Global Forest, based in St. Georgen in the Black Forest.
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“I find the spaceship character of the flying artists’ room on Gravensteiner Platz and the view of the artists as aliens flown in exciting and entices me to work.”
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“I’ve always enjoyed listening, thinking along and initiating artistic processes and projects. With, through and in the midst of technology as a way of life.”