Imagine Sandnes

In the middle of October - middle of the city created a temporary venue for the arts in Sandnes. In stores, in the street, in restaurants, on walls and shop windows can be caught off guard and surprised. In 10 days, a number of Norwegian and international artists put their mark on various Long Street and downtown.

Vitamin Sandnes is the result of a collaboration between Sandnes Sentrum AS Sandnes and Rogaland Art Association Art Center. We are also with and celebrating an innovative and creative city, as part of anniversary program Sandnes its 150 years of city status.

We have a comprehensive tour program so that those who want a kunstlos through the course are given opportunities to do so. In addition, events, workshops and performances.

Vitamin Sandnes is more than the presentation of art in the streets - it is an experiment, a happening and hopefully a proper boost.

Lucy Gunning, (London) sculptor who works with film and video will during her residency period at KINOKINO’s facilities investigate and examine the expression ‘cinema’ generally (the cinema’s struggling position and the cinema as social space) and KINOKINOs position in Sandnes especially.

The Vitamin Festival (October 2010) and its curators aimed to ask the question: Can art shed light on and stimulate the future of Sandnes?

Vitamin Sandnes created loud as well as quiet dialogues about art at street level in the centre of Sandnes, Norway.

An organic public exhibition, it looked ahead by stimulating an external as well as local scrutinising gaze at Sandnes with international perspective and credibility based on local belonging and ownership.