May 2010 I am in my 7th month of maternity leave, and am now looking forward to getting back to work. Having said that, I have been working on proposals for public commissions in Stavanger and Bergen, Norway, and one really interesting group show at the Museum of Modern Art in Antwerp during these hectic months. More info on those events will follow, but here are some glimpses of what's currently occupying me. Model of the piece Chasing Rainbows:
Model of the piece Sibelius' Ghost:
Sketches for the piece Monument to the right angle (Museum of Modern Art in Antwerp September 2010):
Model for an outdoor sculpture:
Goethite Colour Chart:
From a coming piece on Modernism in Eritrea, photography and sculpture:
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I was commissioned to produce a design for the coloumn On Language in the New York Times Magazine in May 2008. This exhibition will show that piece along with contributions from more than 200 other designers, illustrators and artists. Check out the NY Times webpage for the archive of William Safire's intriguing writing. For those who don't have the opportunity to see the show, here is my page- WACKADOODLE!
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Åpning av utstillingen Kunstnerboken på Tegnerforbundet Torsdag 24. september kl 18 Jeg viser prosjektet Le Livre sur le Livre
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Åpning av skulpturprosjektet Vitner på Utviklingshuset, Vestbanen, Oslo. 28.08.2009 Opening of the sculpture project Witnesses at Utviklingshuset, Vestbanen, Oslo. 28.08.2009
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15th April 2009
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Commission for a public art piece, January 2009 The Development Centre / Senter for Utviklingssamarbeid - at Vestbanen, Oslo I am currently working on an art piece for Norad which is due for September 2009. The sculptural piece will be produced in collaboration with Zambian artists, so I am happy to announce that I will be in Lusaka for 5 weeks this February and March. African art and its influence on Picasso and other giants of Modernism will be the main topic of the process- oriented project. It will result in an 8 meters tall floating installation which will cut through 3 floors at the development centre. The picture above shows Picasso in his studio, surrounded by some of the African sculptures from his collection. The picture below shows the yellow building before the renovations started. On the left: Aker Brygge, on the right: The Nobel Peace Centre. The project is commissioned by KORO
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| 18% Gray Solo exhibition at 0047 Oslo , AUGUST 21 - SEPTEMBER 21 2008 From the opening
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Bookish A visitor viewing my installation I am currently showing a piece in the exhibition BOOKISH at the fantastic Lewis Glucksman Gallery in Cork, Ireland, curated by Matt Packer. The exhibition explores the changing status of books, as featured in sculpture, film, photography and other art forms. BOOKISH presents artists that have used books at the core of their work; from Hans- Peter Feldmann's life-scale photograph of his own book shelves, through to books being used as sculptural material in works by Damien Roach and Richard Wentworth . The exhibition also features John Baldessari, Niall de Buitléar, Pavel Büchler, Jonathan Callan, Ulises Carrión, Rainer Ganahl, Katharina Jahnke, Idris Khan, John Latham, George Henry Longly, Goshka Macuga, Jonathan Monk, Rosalind Nashashibi, Olaf Nicolai, Simon Popper, Mandla Reuter, Jamie Shovlin, Dirk Stewen and Peter Wüthrich.
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Lights On - Norwegian Contemporary Art – Bastard presents Monumento Mori Lights On - Norwegian Contemporary Artists at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo Gallery BASTARD presents: MONUMENTO MORI 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! |
Lights On - Norwegian Contemporary Art – ONE FOR THE BOOKS Lights On - Norwegian Contemporary Art 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. Three of them can be found here: |
Rykk Tilbake Til Start  Rykk tilbake til start Projekt 0047 Curated by Jan Christensen and Marianne Zamecznik 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. |
Let there be light Let there be light Curated by Åse Løvgren Opening at Kunstforening Kristiansand 23rd of February 2008
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Snowball Editions 200∞ Snowball Editions 200∞ Curated by Per-Oskar Leu and Yngvar Larsen 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 |
Let me move straight into history -
The Return of the Clocktower  Let me move straight into history The Return of the Clocktower 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. |
Oslo Lusaka Artist's Books - Launch and exhibition |
| Anmeldelse på Kunstkritikk "Ut med industrien, inn med kunsten," anmeldelse av Tempo Skien 2007 |
| Tempo Skien 2007 Utendørs skulptur utstilling i Skien.  Mitt bidrag til utstillingen kom på plass den 29. juni. Den offisielle åpningen av samtlige prosjekter vil finne sted den 18. august, i Skien. |
| Synthetic Nature D21, Leipzig  From the mounting of the show: Leif Magne Tangen, me and Eline Mugaas. From the curator's statement: The artist and his environment "Synthetic" and "Nature" - both terms could not be more differing. In the selected images of ten Norwegian artists who form the exhibition, nature is not merely a mimetic depiction of itself but a set of staged nature-alike images in the guise of an invisible collage not to be mistaken with reality.The works on the show convey a strong sense of how photography has mutated from a medium representing our world into a medium re-enacting our world. Besides the classical concepts of an intact and untouched nature, Leif Magne Tangen, the curator of this exhibition, is presenting artists who are looking at their immediate living environment in order to reflect on 'urban nature'. Synthetische Natur - Group show April 20 - June 10, 2007 and June 20-24, 2007 Kjersti Berg, Per Christian Brown, Sveinn Fannar Johannsson, Einar Horsberg, Marte Johnslien, Mikkel McAlinden, Eline Mugaas, Jenny Rydhagen, Børre Sæthre, Anders Valde D21 View article in VG "Kunstig natur" |
