Skreda rest area
Lofoten, Norway
Location: Skreda, Lofoten, Norway
Year: 2018
Status: Built
Client: Norwegian Scenic Routes
Photo Credit: manthey kula
Award: Nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2019
The project is a complete transformation of an existing rest stop from the 1980’s, dominated by an over-sized traffic area. The site was organized in, and between an artificial terrain of nature-like mounds and boulders which obscured the view to the Lofoten seascape. The new project aimed to establish an inviting floor where from where travelers can enjoy the beautiful view across the water. The platform is subordinate to the landscape, yet its convex geometry contributes to place the visitors in an exposed, but secure position in the center of the large open space.
The platform is constructed of steel sheets spanning between cast concrete foundations. The foundations form floors for the furniture, ramps, and stair. The furniture consists of benches, tables, and railings, all structurally interdependent, all made from bent standard flat steel bolted or welded together to form stable elements. There are thirty different surfaces to sit on and by. Each piece has a different pattern in solid colors. The surfaces are highly reflective, mirroring the ever-changing sky.
Tullholmen pier
Karlstad, Sweden
Location: Tullholmen, Karlstad, Sweden
Year: 2017
Status: Unbuilt
Client: Karlstad municipality
Photo Credit: manthey kula
A public pier into one of Lake Vänern’s many delta-bays in the city of Karlstad, Sweden. The pier is a public art project and as such connected to the municipal development. It is situated as a prolongation of the central axis through the new densely developed area. It is pointing southwestwards towards the natural reserve on the opposing shore. The form of the pier allows a lot of people to spend time on that which is a pier’s most attractive part; the very end. The public space at the end of the pier is sheltered from wind and from the city view by tall benches lining the two sides of the pier. The pier is a concrete structure: pillars, slabs, floor and 160 meters of prefabricated bench-elements. The area of the pier is 1500m2.
Archipelago – Building from solitude
Val de Loire, France
Year: 2017
Status: Part of the collection at the Frac Centre Val de Loire, France
Photo Credit: manthey kula
Archipelago - Building from solitude is a work commissioned by Le Frac Centre, Val de Loire. The five projects are generated from brief accounts of five individuals that experienced profound isolation, across history and across the map. The fates of these people are known. However, their dreams – products of lived impressions, existential reasoning, and subdued thoughts – remain outside our reach. In the five projects exact formal and spatial ideas are developed from speculation and inspiration. As such the work explores the relationship between order, association and intuition.
Viking age museum
Oslo
Year: 2016
Status: Competition
In collaboration with LCLA + Charlotte Hansson, Grape Architects, and Groma
Open competition for the new Viking Age Museum in Oslo, Norway.
Collection exhibitions at the new Munch museum
Oslo
Location: The Munch museum, Oslo, Norway
Year: 2021
Status: Built
Client: The Munch museum
Photo Credit: The Munch museum/ Einar Aslaksen and Manthey Kula
In the new Munch museum by estudio Herreros there are four collection exhibitions designed by Manthey Kula:
Edvard Munch : Infinite is a large exhibition showing paintings, print-works, drawings and bronze sculptures by Munch. The open plan emphasizes the non-linear presentation of the art works.
Edvard Munch : Monumental shows some of Munch’s monumental paintings including sketches and a draft for a sculpture.
Up Close is an intimate exhibition showing a selection of Munch’s print-works and printing blocks.
Edvard Munch : Stenersen shows works from the collection of Rolf Stenersen, a contemporary art collector and friend of Edvard Munch.
The exhibition halls have two to four entrances and no daylight. Manthey Kula is responsible for the spatial layout of the exhibitions, design of walls, colors, display cases and safety measures.
Zenisk as is responsible for the lighting design. Blæst Design as is responsible for the graphic design.
Looking Through Portals
Oslo
Location: Museum of Cultural History
Year: 2018
Status: Built
Client: Museum of Cultural History
Photo Credit: manthey kula
With Eyes Closed - Gauguin and Munch
Oslo
Location: Munch museum, Oslo
Year: 2018
Status: Built
Client: The Munch museum
Photo Credit: The Munch museum/ Ove Kvavik
Exhibition of art by Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) and Edvard Munch (1863–1944), two artists who in all likelihood never met. Gauguin is said to have remarked that he closed his eyes in order to see, while Munch famously said: “I don’t paint what I see, but what I saw.” The exhibition focused on the graphic work of the two aritist, revolving around three main suites made by Gauguin, exhibited in three unique spaces.
Det Felles Eide
Oslo
Location: Kunstnernes Hus
Year: 2018
Status: Built
Client: Oslo Kommune
Photo Credit: Werner Zellien and manthey kula
Exhibition of a selection of Oslo municipalities’ art collection which consists of more than 20 000 works. This is art we all own, art we meet in the public space, art we relate to in our lives in the city.
Through Nature
Oslo
Location: The Munch museum, Oslo, Norway
Year: 2014
Status: Built
Client: The Munch museum
Photo Credit: manthey kula
The exhibition was a collaboration between the Museum of natural history and the Munch museum, contextualizing Edvard Munch’s interest in the natural sciences by juxtaposing Munch’s art with objects from the zoological, botanical and geological collections.
Puberty
Oslo
Location: The Munch museum, Oslo, Norway
Year: 2012
Status: Built
Client: Munch museum
Photo Credit: manthey kula
Mono exhibition of Edvard Munch’s newly restored painting Puberty at the Munch museum.
Prefabricated plywood panels and white flooring creating a space where the spectator is confronted with the vulnerability of both the young model and the painting.
