The building and the architecture

The art in Kilden

So you stand here expectantly. You've just come to fill your mind with experiences, or you've just had an encounter with art and want to know more. Art is (almost always) an object or performance, but without your very own sensory apparatus, your own will, your emotions and your openness to experience, the essence of art remains undiscovered. There is no set formula. The experience may be deeply personal, but art is also a conversation. A conversation between you and the artwork, you and your friends, your life references and the artist's intention. It's a conversation that can be inexhaustible - it's hard to find the right words for the emotions that are set in motion, for experiences that stretch out in time beyond the immediate.

If you were walking, you would be greeted by an elegant steel band that curves like glittering waves on a summer's day at sea before materializing into a welcoming Javel. If you came by sea, the first thing you might see is a dancing pirouette in perpetual motion. The building itself is overwhelming in its immediate power. Like a magnet, it draws you into the foyer where you are greeted by a radiant corona - a diamond ring that shoots out its luminous rays with a pulse in time with the building's internal rhythm. You walk up the stairs and meet the wall. A colorful surface as a breeding ground for the imagination. The tone is set. Let the music play. Just throw yourself into the experience. This is for you.

Gro Kraft - Director, KORO - Public Art Norway

Reinhard Haverkamp

Dancing

Like a lighthouse, the 10.7 m high sculpture rises out of this reef. The sculpture twists and turns, forming irregular variations of shapes, with a balance that is spectacular and fascinating. Movement is an important element in Haverkamp's artworks and most are powered by natural energy sources such as wind or water.

Oboussier Claire, Vong Phaophanit

Coronium

The audience is greeted by the work and gets an experience similar to that of classic theater chandeliers, albeit in a highly modern version. The title refers to the corona, or the wreath of radiation that surrounds the sun but can only be seen during a total solar eclipse. The phenomenon occurs when electrically charged ions illuminate gases released from the sun. This work also consists of ions that light up the gases neon, krypton and argon. The neon lights themselves refer to the seductive neon signs in theaters and cabarets.

Arne Revheim, Finn Eirik Modahl

Bleach

The sculpture hangs on the rough-hewn rock wall just behind Kilden In the curved steel snake is the word Javel. The combination of "yes" and "well" is used all over the country to say "okay", "all right", but in Kristiansand the word is also used in a different way. Instead of "hello", "good morning" or other expressions, people here say "javel". In this context, the word functions as a welcoming gesture, but also as an invitation to the public to get involved in Kilden and its activities. The sculpture is the very symbol of the desire for a bridge between people and art.

Josefine Lyche

Wall mural

Lyche wants to show the traces of an action and at the same time create a reflection on painting as a medium. The mural has no secrets, but instead reveals its full potential through the visible artistic process and contains everything from a painting besides the "picture" itself. She uses the painting to create her own space in the given room - a painting that requires space.