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Den uferdige presse forlag
Oslo, Norway
"the unfinished press" is an art book publisher run by Matias Grøttum in collaboration with «the unfinished institution.» We print and publish small pamphlets with artistic, dialogue based content in collaboration with different agents. Although changes may happen at any time.
We are an intercity project between Sørkedalen, Oslo and Laksevåg, Bergen.
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Publications
204 Art Academy Anxieties (2023)
ISBN–978-82-693486-0-6
204 Art Academy Anxieties is a manifest by Rosa Marie Frang about her fear of the path that Art Academies of today have seemingly choosing to tread.
title: 204 ART ACADEMY ANXIETIES
writer: Rosa Marie Frang
design: Ragnhild Gjøen and Matias Grøttum
translation from Danish: Matias Grøttum
publisher: den uferdige presse forlag
A meditation on X (2024)
ISBN–978-82-693486-1-3
Brandon Labelle reflects on the use. of the letter X. This text was originally presented as a lecture as part of The Pirate Academy, Kunsthall 3,14, Bergen, on November 2, 2023.
title: A meditation on X
writer: Brandon LaBelle
illustration: Charlotte Besuijen
design: Ragnhild Gjøen and Matias Grøttum
publisher: den uferdige presse forlag
Gimme shelter, Gimme a Kitchen (2025)
ISBN–978-82-693486-6-8
Artist and writer Mitch Speed writes about his experience at the group exhibition "Unfolding the Kitchen" by the unfinished institution at "After the Butcher Galerie" in Berlin, 2025.
title: Gimme shelter, Gimme a Kitchen
writer: Mitch Speed
design: Ragnhild Gjøen
layout Design: Matias Grøttum
publisher: Den uferdige presse forlag
A conversation made at the edge of a world (2025)
ISBN–978-82-693486-2-0
The workshop PolarGraphic took place in the small, remote, roadless village of Sagjorbottn, a little more than two hours by boat north of the village Fauske, deep within the Arctic Circle in the north of Norway. It was organized by Thomas Kilpper, Stephan Dillemuth and Sveinung R Unneland. For ten days, a small farmhouse was used as the site for workhsops and discussions on contemporary art.
This text is based on a series of conversations recorded during the stay in Sagjorbottn. It touches upon several topics relating to modes of artistic production as well as the research and developent of art in individual and collective contexts.
title: A conversation made at the edge of a world.
Stephan Dillemuth & Sveinung Unneland in conversation
design: Ragnhild Gjøen and Matias Grøttum
publisher: den uferdige presse forlag
