Artist: Josefine Lyche
Webpage: www.josefinelyche.com
Selected exhibitions:
* "Theme and Variations", Galleri MGM, Oslo,
* “Up Against The Wall / Pod ścianą”, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland,
* "Remake" (with Ane Graff), Kunstnerforbundet,
* “Tomorrow Always Belongs to Us”, Göteborgs Konsthall, Sweden,
* "Cosmic Dropout", 0047 Oslo



- What are you currently working on?
- I am currently in Paris at Citè, working on my French and my abs. But I also work with some upcoming exhibitions; "Vorspiel/Nachspiel" at Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium in May, and then a split show with Jone Kvie and Jan Freuchen at Sørlandets Kunstmuseum in June. Ane Graff and I are also co-working on a stage curtain for Larvik Kulturhus.

- Can you describe your work process from idea to work?
- Research and development. Internet and hard work.



- What are your main influences when creating a work of art?
- Other artists work and ideas, sci-fi, new-age, fairy tales, Norwegian nature, literature and films.

- Can you name an artist/ artwork or exhibition that has inspired you?
- Børre Sæthre's "My private Sky" in 2001 at Astrup Fearnley Museum made a huge impact on me when I was a student at Strykejernet. I had never seen anything like it, and fell in love with his work. Also Mike Kelley: "Kandors" at Jablonka Galerie in Berlin last year. And more general artist like Robert Morris, John M Armleder, Sol LeWitt, Sylvie Fleury and the list could go on forever.



- Can you name a writer or book, fiction or theory that has inspired your works?
- Right now I am reading David Foster Wallace, which is great and inspiring. Others would be Aleister Crowley, Terence McKenna, James Joyce, J.L Borges, J.D Ballard, Stanislaw Lem, C. S. Lewis and Plato to mention some. Books, both fiction and theory are a great part of my life and work.



- Why is art important?
- "Art is art-as-art and everything else is everything else." (Ad Reinhardt, "Art-as-art")