NEON GUIDES ME and other Publications

Neon Guides Me presents an index of artist Anne Katrine Senstad’s light and space practice with essays by acclaimed composers, authors, art historians and curators

NEON GUIDES ME presents an index of artist Anne Katrine Senstad’s monumental light and space practice that has presented internationally at galleries, museums, art centers, and institutions. NEON GUIDES ME examines philosophic, aesthetic, critical and architectural dimensions to the artists cosmology of light, space, and color through exquisite photographic documentation and a selection of in-depth, critical, and conceptual texts. The ethereal spatial light sculpture works presented in the book, the series ELEMENTS I-VI, were created between 2018 – 2021, and include enveloping sound environments by Senstad’s collaborators; the acclaimed Australian-American composer, musician and producer, JG Thirlwell (ELEMENTS IV-VI) and the late legendary polymath Catherine Christer Hennix (1948-2023) (ELEMENTS III BLUE), who are also represented in the book with texts.

The book includes texts by:

JG Thirlwell in conversation with media writer Patrick Rolandelli (US)
Composer, musician, philosopher, scholar, author/poet, and mathematician Catherine Christer Hennix (1948-2023), (SWE)
Sarah Walko, author, visual artist and curator (US)
Marianne Solberg, author, literary critic and social-political anthropologist (NO)
Art Historian Erik Meling (NO)
Andres Kurg, Professor of Architectural History and Theory,Tallinn School of Art, Estonia (EE)
Sanna Karimaki-Nuutinen, Director, Seinajoki Kunsthall Finland, (FI)
Art historian, curator, author and philosopher Dr Aura Seikkula.(FI)

Contributing photography: Sarah Bauwens (BE), SHAO Yi (CHN), Samuli Kuusisto (FI), Anne Katrine Senstad

The publication of Neon Guides Me and/or the artworks in the book have been made possible with support from Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Arts Council Norway Governmental Grant for Artists, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, Kunst og Ny Teknologi, Norske Billedkunstnere BKV, Fritt Ord, The Royal Norwegian Foreign Ministry, Emily Harvey Foundation – New York and Venice

144 pages, Hardcover

6 color offset, edition of 600

Printing and binding: Rotolito S.p.A. / Nava Press S.r.l., Milan, 2022

Designed and published by Praun & Guermouche, Sweden.

ISBN 978-91-527-1427-0

NEON GUIDES ME is.represented in the following libraries, art collections and institutions:

The Museum of Modern Art Archives, Library, and Research Collections, New York

The National Museum of Norway’s Library collection

The National Library of Norway

The Musea Brugge Library serving 13 museums in Bruges, Belgium

Nordnorsk Kunst Senter Library, Svolvær, Norway

Artica’s Library in Longyearbyen, Svaldbard, Norway – the northernmost library in the world

Bodleian Libraries at Oxford University – Art, Architecture and Ancient World Libraries, UK

Avery Architecture and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York

The New York Public Library’s Photography, Art and Prints collection, NYC

Franklin Furnace Artist Book Collection, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn

The Haas Arts Library, Yale School of Art at Yale University, New Haven

The Bobst Library, New York University, New York

Libraries at MIT, Cambridge, MA

School of Visual Arts Library, New York

The Marquand Library, Princeton University, NJ

Fine Arts Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Ingalls Library and Museum Archives, Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
Library at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
Frederic Morton Library, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
The National Library of Austria, Vienna
Tiroler Landesmuseum, Department of Modern Art, Innsbruck, Austria
Gropius Bau Museum, Berlin

Sachsische Landesbibliotek Staats und Universitetsbibliothek, Dresden, Germany
Centre for International Light Art, Unna, Germany

The Great Library of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt

Libraries at The American University in Cairo, Egypt

Jafet Library. The American University in Beirut, Lebanon

The Reed Foundation Library at the Poets House, New York

Neon Orleans Museum of Neon Art, New Orleans, LA

Hachioji Library at Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
Walther König & Cahiers d’Art Bookshop, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Donald Judd Foundation, New York
Paul McCarthy Studios, Los Angeles
Larry Clark, New York
The Film-makers Cooperative, New York

Book Fairs, talks and exhibitions:

Neon Guides Me Book release Event and exhibition, panel talk with composer JG Thirlwell, art critic Tom McGlynn and Anne Katrine Senstad. Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, 2022

Neon Guides Me book release talk with Anne Katrine Senstad and curator Simon Thykjær on the occasion of Senstad’s solo exhibition POIESIS at Kunsthal Regelbau 411, Denmark, February 14^th, 2023

Neon Guides Me book release event and talk, Anne Katrine Senstad and Norwegian curator and artist Per Hess, Galleri Balder, Oslo, Norway, February 26^th, 2023

Explosive Vision, exhibition, organized by Black Iris in conjunction with Stockholm Art Week, May 13, 2023

CHART Art Fair – Chart Book Fair, Copenhagen, Aug 24-27, 2023

The Swedish Photography Foundation Photobook Fair, October 27-28, 2023

High Desert Art Fair, Joshua Tree, California, February 24-25, 2024
Berlin Art Book Fair, Haus der Kultur der Welt, June 13-15, 2025
Vienna Bookart Fair, Die Angewandte, Vienna, October 17-18, 2025

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OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Artist book: HYPERBOREA – Anne Katrine Senstad, 2020

Published on the occasion of Senstad’s solo exhibition Hyperborea at Freight & Volume Gallery, New York, January 5th – February 10, 2020. The 150 page soft-cover book, examines Senstad’s multifaceted practice across time and methodology. The book presents her work in experimentation, light, color and and multi-projection installations, site specific interventions, sculpture and photo-based work, and her critical work. The book serves as prelude to an in-depth survey on her practice.

Texts by Sarah Walko, Celina Jeffery, Nick Lawrence. Designed by John Gross. Published by Freight & Volume Gallery. 150 pages. edition of 100, numbered.

Exhibition catalogue: Trans / Essence – Uj Kriterion Gallery, 2020

Trans / Essence was published on the occasion of Senstad’s solo exhibition at Uj Kriterion Gallery, in Miercurea Ciue, Transylvania, Romania, curated by Botond Reszegh. The exhibition as survey, presented Senstad’s photographic works on light, color, and space – the phenomena of perception and the sensorial realms through lens based art, from 1997 – 2017.

Texts by Gary Snyder, Anne Katrine Senstad. Published by Bookart, Romania. Edited by Hajdu Aron. Designed by Botond Resszegh. 34 pages, softcover. In English, Hungarian and Romanian.

Exhibition Catalogue: The Pink Project – Anne Katrine Senstad, 2007

Published on the occasion of Senstad’s two city solo exhibition Light Writes Always in Plural, presenting large scale mural photographic works that examine the aesthetic and perceptual properties of light and color. The two solo shows were held at Bjorn Ressle Fine Art, New York and Houston Center for Photography, Texas, in 2007.

Texts by:Joseph Albers: Color – Juxtaposition – Harmony – Quality, from Albers book Interaction of Color (The Joseph and Anni Albers Foundation/Artist Rights Society, New York), Gary Snyder: Anne Katrine Senstad: Recent work, Birgitte Schiøth: Essence of Color, Duben Duckworth Canales: Naked Light.

Exhibition catalogue: Light Color Sound – Anne Katrine Senstad, 2003

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Anne Katrine Senstad – Matthew Abbott, Transient, New York, 2003

Light Color Sound includes a text by Tracey Hummer. Hummer is a former editor at Art In America, and Managing Editor at Artforum. Designed by Anthony Sperduti. Printed: HBO AS, Norway.

Exhibition catalogue: ONE – Anne Katrine Senstad, 2002

ONE was published on the occasion of Senstad’s solo exhibition ONE at Galleri JMS, in Oslo, Norway. Texts: A Visual Absolute, by Gary Snyder, Is her name Red?, by Malin Barth.

THE NORWEGIANS – Volume I and II

The Norwegians is a set of two artist books that examine cultural identity and the meaning of being Norwegian through portraiture. The photographic works engrain the use of color as cultural coding and implied emotive pshychology .The sitters wear traditional and national clothing such as the Bunad, personal expression of identity through costume and clothing, as well as the laplander traditional clothing . Volume I presents 50 portraits created in a classical studio setting of both public figures, famous Norwegian men, as well as the everyday Norwegian. Volume II presents 50 portraits of Norwegian women photographed in natural city landscapes, parks and gardens, who range from well known political figures, actors, musicians, artists and writers, as well as the typical everyday Norwegian women clothed in the national Bunad and female Sami dress.

Essays:The Norwegians Volume I: Gerhard Sander (1940-2021), On Subjectivity and Documentation, grandson of August Sander and founder of Sander Gallery, New York and Washington DC and The Sander Foundation in Cologne, and acclaimed Norwegian author Thure Erik Lund, On the Hell of Being Norwegian. The Norwegians Volume II includes texts by Norwegian author, philosopher and art critic Kjetil Røed, Norwegianized: A Case of Specific Women, and Norwegian art historian and curator Malin Barth, Portraits: Marker of Identity.

The Norwegians Volume I and II, are represented in museum and library collections, such as New York Public Library Bryant Park Books, Photographs and Prints collection, Metropolitan Museum Library of Photography and Prints.

The Norwegians Volume I, 2005 by Anne Katrine Senstad

Designed by Pure and Applied, New York. 80 pages, soft cover. Edition of 600 (out of print). Printed at Deschling AS Norway. ISBN: 82-393-0518-8

The Norwegians Volume II, 2010, by Anne Katrine Senstad

Designed by Pure and Applied New York. 96 pages hard cover. Edition of 1500. Supported by Arts Council Norway, The Norwegian Federation for Craft Enterprises. ISBN: 978-82-998021-0-9

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