Gallery BASTARD presents: MONUMENTO MORI
12 January 2008 at 14 hrs
Astrup Fearnley Museet (link)

I am participating in the exhibition MONUMENTO MORI curated by Bastard to be part of the large exhibition Lights On at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo. The show includes a long list of young, Norwegian artists. Opening on the 12th of January 2008, the Bastard show includes Lina Viste Grønli, Lars Laumann, Anders Smebye, two mysterious Germans and myself. The title MONUMENTO MORI can indicate the search many contemporary sculptors find themselves lost in, ending up at sites, non-sites, dead sites and future sites. Don't miss it!

ONE FOR THE BOOKS

For the same exhibition at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, I am organizing ONE FOR THE BOOKS, a temporary bookshop. Bringing together a wide range of printed material by young, Norwegian artists, the bookshop will offer visitors a chance to dig deeper and wider into the field, which hardly can be summarized in one show. Additionally, ONE FOR THE BOOKS will present small, independent publishing houses which give Norwegian artists the chance to distribute their artist's books, fanzines, monographs, catalogues, etc. Two of them can be found here:

noCUBE www.trondhugo.no/nc/
Ctrl+Z www.ctrlz.no

A lovely project, with a long list of names, will soon take place at 0047. Each week a new group of artists being brought together. I will be part of the last lot to show, opening on the 21st of February 2008.

More info www.projekt0047.com | www.janchristensen.org

Opening at Kunstforening Kristiansand 23rd of February 2008

With Vanna Bowles, Monica Winther, Kjersti Wetterstad, Munan Øvrelid and myself.

I will show photographs from my January trip to Asmara, Eritrea. More info about this project will come as soon as I have narrowed down the amazing material I have found in this city. If you are in Bergen, have a drink in Bien Bar and you will know exactly what I am talking about.

One artist presented each month of 2008: Bjørn Bjarre, Tor Børresen, Jorunn Hanstvedt, Marianne Hurum, Marte Johnslien, Yngvar Larsen, Jørgen C. Lello/Tobias Arnell, Per-Oskar Leu, Josefine Lyche, Andreas Soma, Snorre Ytterstad, Stian Ådlandsvik

More info www.snowballeditions.com

The Bislett Stadium Clocktower has returned to Bislett. Three years after I discovered it in a parking lot outside a scrap dealer and had it moved on wheels inside a public museum (see Works), it has now been installed in the brand new stadium. The original copper coating has been removed, and in total the municipality has spent about 500.000 kr (€62.000) on the renovation of it. The scrap dealer's price on the tower was 100.000 kr (€12.000), and this was actually paid by a private person. He bought the tower and donated it to the municipality, on the condition that they would cover the restoration of it.
I wonder if the donor knows that Oslo paid the same scrap dealers to have it removed in the first place?
I also wonder if this is the time for me to claim ownership of the tower, insisting on it being turned over on its side and given wheels. It can look like it needs some assistance to escape from its current position.