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Christina Leithe
Kristiansand, Norway
Christina Leithe is a visual artist with an MFA from Malmö Art Academy. She has published several books, including Saudade and Projections with Spesial Nord, as well as Notes (Press Publishing), which won the Nordic Dummy Award in 2012. Her collaborative projects include Ingen kjenner Ingen with Eivind Hofstad Evjemo and Kristiansand Kunsthall, Angel Series with Multipress, and most recently Prøvetrykk, a graphic portfolio created together with five other artists. Leithe has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally, at venues such as Kunstnerforbundet, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, and Kunsthall Charlottenborg. In addition, she curated the Oslo Photobook Festival in 2019 and is co-editor of the publishing house Spesial Nord.
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Publications
Notes (2013)
ISBN–978-82-754768-4-3
Notes presents a selection of photographs from Leithe Hansen’s archive collection in black n white. Focusing on the book as a narrative experience, Notes tells a story of loss and melancholy. The random landscapes and places depicted in the photographs become part of the same journey, a journey told in absence of words. Notes is thus a visual notebook detached from the original archive itself, inviting the beholder to use it a place for longing and contemplation.
Design Henrik S.Haugan, Form etc.
Winner of the Nordic Dummy Awards 2012.
Saudade (2020)
ISBN–978-82-691979-0-7
Saudade is photobook, with poems by author Kristin Berget written especially for this publication. Saudade is a Portuguese term that cannot be translated, but which expresses the love that remains when something or someone is gone. The project has its origins in a longing that has been propagated in the past and which becomes the basis for a quest and a journey forward. The landscapes in the photographs are inspired by the old trade route between Norway and Portugal.
Inkludes poems by Kristin Berget.
Fonded by Art Council Norway.
Projections (2023)
ISBN–978-82-691979-1-4
Projections explores the concept of ‘empathy’, through different interpretations and definitions of the word. The concept of empathy is often linked with an ability to understand the emotional life of others, but the term was originally used to describe a way of relating to objects. The English word empathy stemming from the German word Einfühlung translated by German philosopher and psychologist Theodor Lipps in 1903. For Lipps, to relate to an object or a work of art with empathy, meant to be emotionally engrossed in the object to such an extent that it felt like an expression of one’s own personality, as opposed to an analytical or distanced reading of it.
Design Anna Katrin Karlsson, Forest.
Founded by Art Council Norway and Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfong.
Ingen kjenner ingen - vitnemål fra kommunen (2022)
ISBN–978-82-999074-6-0
Like many other Norwegian municipalities, Søgne, Songdalen, and Kristiansand were merged into one in 2020. This was part of a national decision on regional reform, a process that in many places had clear local and personal consequences for the inhabitants.
Kristiansand Kunsthall invited the writer Eivind Hofstad Evjemo to serve as a ‘writer of the city’, within the exhibition series Lokale omkalfatringer. Together with artist Christina Leithe he has portrayed the new Kristiansand during this quiet yet dramatic year of amalgamation. This book is the result of their observations.
Eivind Hofstad Evjemo, text.
Christina Leithe, photo.
Cecilie Nissen and Pernille Skar Nordby, curator and editor.
Published by Kristiansand Kunsthall.
Design Høydal og Hjorthaug.
Founded by Art Council Norway and Fritt Ord.
