Fra magasinet KUNST nov/des 2016. En malende dramatiker Av Therese Sjøvoll / Foto Camilla Jensen . - Jeg er opptatt av mennesket. Det handler om det narrative. Om menneskets drama. Det figurative er bare en form. Det er det jeg kan. Helene Knoops atelier i den gamle sementfabrikken i Slemmestad utenfor Oslo er luftig. Lyset strømmer inn gjennom kjøreporten som utgjør nordveggen, og takhøyden er stor. Lukten av linolje og terpentin pirker deg i nesen mens du beveger deg mellom staffelier og de ulike trepodiene for modellene. Rundt om henger tekstiler, og på veggene er det oljeskisser,...

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The actor, Kristofer Hivju, known from Game of Thrones and Beck, together with the Swedish lifestyle magazine Cafè, made a photoshoot in Helene Knoop's studio. The surroundings were a perfect fit for Hivjus personality and reflected his past. Knoop and Hivju used to hang out in the same milieu around Nerdrum in their 20´ies. 

In large format and with deeper experience Helene Knoop is showing 20 new works; paintings, drawings, installations and lithographs. Knoop interpreters the Nordic temperament and landscape with a baroque history and brushwork. Figures are poetically placed into the Birchwood and shows scenes which explains the show-title; Undercurrent. Woodland and scrub grows between large trees. Figures living their lives in the great society, children’s own world in our world and the true story about the sisters. Each work gives you layer of layer as much technique as content. As always, Knoop mixes...

Humanisme og kunst   Som malerinne har jeg ofte fundert over hvorvidt humanismen er til stede i kunsten opp gjennom de forskjellige kunstepoker og om den i det hele tatt er gyldig i dagens kunstliv. Med begrepet humanisme mener jeg at mennesket har en verdi i seg selv og en iboende verdighet. Når jeg selv skaper humane malerier går jeg inn i menneskets skjønnhet og verdighet uten å ta hensyn til kjønn, religion eller nasjonalitet, og maler deres historie og legeme med en solidaritet og respekt på den mest sublime måte, om det så er tiggeren eller prinsessen som males.   Med...

After being on the move for a year Helene Knoop has established a studio in an old cement factory, in which she has created new paintings in 2015. The story of the “Three Graces” continues, now in oil on canvas and in alarge-scale format. Knoop depicts the meeting of three women and an intimate moment which reflects upon their sisterhood. Knoop’s series “Motherhood” is enriched with a new motif: Three characters—a mother and her children—melt together in a “Goodnight Kiss.” This is a self-portrait including her two children.    

My painting "Clio", from the series The Nine Muses is on the cover for this book. Later this year two other works will adorn the fronts of books: one about pregnancy and another for a poet... I like the idea that the paintings can live their life in other disciplines.