Artists
Bio
Dag Erik Elgin was born in 1962 in Oslo and studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and the Academy of Fine Art in Oslo. Elgin’s work is informed by an ongoing investigation into the history of painting, modernist ideals and contemporary visual culture. He has established a practice where the specific physical qualities of painting, historical analysis and personal production are constantly negotiated. His projects engage in an explorative dialogue with the history of art practices, interpretation, provenance and reception. Recent projects like In Order of Appearance, Originals Grisaille and La Collection Moderne introduce text-based works and repetitive strategies as catalysts for exploring modernism's ongoing affair with current cultural and aesthetic representations. A parallel production of texts accompanies the visual investigations.
Dag Erik Elgin
Selected Works
Courtesy of The Vigeland Museum © Photo by Vegard Kleven
Courtesy of The Vigeland Museum © Photo by Vegard Kleven
Courtesy of The Vigeland Museum © Photo by Vegard Kleven
An exhibition within an exhibition.
In summer 2018 the National Museum presented an artistic intervention in the National Gallery. The project took the form of a mild intervention within the museum’s display of historical art from its own collection, "The Dance of Life".
An exhibition within an exhibition.
In summer 2018 the National Museum presented an artistic intervention in the National Gallery. The project took the form of a mild intervention within the museum’s display of historical art from its own collection, "The Dance of Life".
An exhibition within an exhibition.
In summer 2018 the National Museum presented an artistic intervention in the National Gallery. The project took the form of a mild intervention within the museum’s display of historical art from its own collection, "The Dance of Life".
An exhibition within an exhibition.
In summer 2018 the National Museum presented an artistic intervention in the National Gallery. The project took the form of a mild intervention within the museum’s display of historical art from its own collection, "The Dance of Life".
An exhibition within an exhibition.
In summer 2018 the National Museum presented an artistic intervention in the National Gallery. The project took the form of a mild intervention within the museum’s display of historical art from its own collection, "The Dance of Life".
An exhibition within an exhibition.
In summer 2018 the National Museum presented an artistic intervention in the National Gallery. The project took the form of a mild intervention within the museum’s display of historical art from its own collection, "The Dance of Life".
An exhibition within an exhibition.
In summer 2018 the National Museum presented an artistic intervention in the National Gallery. The project took the form of a mild intervention within the museum’s display of historical art from its own collection, "The Dance of Life".
An exhibition within an exhibition.
In summer 2018 the National Museum presented an artistic intervention in the National Gallery. The project took the form of a mild intervention within the museum’s display of historical art from its own collection, "The Dance of Life".
An exhibition within an exhibition.
In summer 2018 the National Museum presented an artistic intervention in the National Gallery. The project took the form of a mild intervention within the museum’s display of historical art from its own collection, "The Dance of Life".
'MoDERNISM MACHINE : The Museum as Study Object', Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, 2012
'MoDERNISM MACHINE : The Museum as Study Object', Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, 2012
'MoDERNISM MACHINE : The Museum as Study Object', Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, 2012
Size 70 x 70 cm
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Size 70 x 70 cm
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Size 70 x 70 cm
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Size 40 x 30 cm
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Size 40 x 30 cm
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Size 40 x 30 cm
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Size 53,5 x 53,5 cm
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Size 40 x 55 cm
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Size 25 x 30 cm
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oil on canvas
Oil on Canvas (Diptych)
135x135 cm
Oil on canvas
140x250cm
Telenor Collection
Gallery Exhibitions
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Dag Erik Elgin b. 1962, lives and works in Oslo
Education
1990
National Academy of Fine Art, Oslo
1988-90
Düsseldorf Art Academy (DAAD-Fellow)
1986-88
National Academy of Fine Art, Oslo
1983-85
National College of Art and Design, Oslo
1981-83
Oslo University (Philosophy/Law)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022
Flowers of Evil, OSL contemporary, Oslo
Provenir, Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger
2020
La Collection Moderne (Ciurlionis), Vartai Gallery, Vilnius
In Order of Appearance, OSL contemporary, Oslo
A modernistic Endpoint, The Vigeland Museum, Oslo
2018
Museum Work, The National Gallery, Oslo
2017
Mirror falling from the Wall, Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger
2016
Originals Grisaille, OSL contemporary, Oslo
2015
Abendzeichnungen/Evening Drawings, Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger
2014
Evening Drawings/Abendzeichnungen, OSL contemporary, Oslo
2012
Balance of Painters, OSL contemprary, Oslo
Originals, Opdahl Gallery, Berlin
2010
The E. Beyeler Obituary Phenomenon, The Institute of Social Hypocrisy, Paris
La Collection Moderne I, Opdahl Gallery, Berlin
La Collection Moderne II, MGM Gallery, Oslo
2009
Dysfunctional Male Parent, Nivet-Carzon, Paris
2007
Eternally Vanishing Bodies, Opdahl Gallery, Berlin
Figure, MGM Gallery, Oslo
2006
Amor Vacui, Opdahl Gallery, Stavanger
2004
Cabinet, Soelvberget Gallery, Stavanger
2003
Foliage, MGM Gallery, Oslo
2002
Vocabulary, Soelvberget Gallery, Stavanger
2001
Sinthome, Bruening+Zischke, Duesseldorf
1999
Sinthome, Soelvberget Gallery, Stavanger
1998
Abendzeichnungen, Brüning+Zischke, Düsseldorf
1997
Sinthome, Bott Gallery, Cologne
1994
Spalt, Art Museum Gelsenkirchen
1993
Double, Kunst-Werke, Berlin
1992
Zaun, Borbeck Castle, Essen
1991
Lequeu, Stadshil Gallery, Copenhagen
1990
Kunstnerforbundet Oslo
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
Art Cologne, Galleri Opdahl
2021
&zines, Zarinbal Khosbakht, Köln
2019
A Seed’s a Star, Loyal, Stockholm
2020
A Collective Chaosmos, Kunsthall Oslo
THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME, OSL contemporary, Oslo
2019
Charlotte Wankel og L'Esprit Nouveau, Galleri F15, Moss
Erwerbungen der GMKD, Albertinum, Gemäldegalerie neue Meister, Dresden
2018
Nordic Views, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen
Norway Contemporary! - Landschaftsmalerei von der Romantik bis zur Moderne,
MKdW, Museum Kunst der Westküste, Föhr
Northern Exposure, Nordic Museum, Seattle
2017
The Armory Show, OSL contemporary, New York
2016
Expanding Frontiers, Fondation Hippocrène, Paris
Art Brussels, OSL contemporary, Oslo
Tegnebiennalen, Tegnerforbundet, Oslo
Mimesis Machine, The National Theatre, OsloDa, OSL contemporary, Oslo
2015
Performing the BMC Archive in Black Mountain- an Interdisciplinary Experiment, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
The Drawing Biennial, Tegnerforbundet, Oslo
In search of Matisse, Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Bærum, Norway
2014
Art Brussels, OSL contemporary
An Appetite for Painting, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
2013
Carnegie Art Award 2014, The Art Academy, Stockholm
Elgin&Kox, Opdahl Gallery, Stavanger
Market, OSL contemporary , The Art Academy, Stockholm
2012
MoDERNISM MACHINE, Henie Onstad Art Centre
Sidetracks, Painting in the Paramodern Continuum, Rogaland Art Museum,
Stavanger
Mesmerized, Opdahl Gallery, Berlin
Prisms, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
Fliegen, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Matter of Words, OSL contemporary
Millenium Magazines, MoMA, New York
2011
Artissima 18, Opdahl Gallery, Torino
Screaming from the Mountain, Sørlandets Art Museum
Market, Opdahl Gallery, The Art Academy, Stockholm
2010
Konstruktiv! Beck&Eggeling New Quarters, Duesseldorf
Steinway Only, La Collection Contemporaine, Sommer&Kohl Gallery, Berlin
Das Versprochene Land, Albertinum, Gemäldegalerie neue Meister, Dresden
Paperfile on Tour, oqbo Gallery, Berlin in Edvard Munch Haus, Warnemünde
The Educational Art Show, MFAPS, Oslo
2009
Trafo Gallery 1, Trafo Art Hall, Asker
Kunstakademiet 100 år, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and
Design/Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
Hotchpotch, Studio, Oslo Open
New Works, MGM Gallery, Oslo
2008
Third International Art Biennial, National Museum of Art Beijing
Rykk tilbake til start!, # 2, 0047 Gallery, Oslo
Ten Raised to the Eighty-first Power, MGM Gallery, Oslo
sic! Stavanger International Collection, Rogaland Art Museum, Stavanger
Market 2008, Konstakademien i Stockholm, Opdahl Gallery
Afternoon of a Duesseldorf Faun I, Galerie Andreas Brüning, Duesseldorf
2007
Transit Art Space, Stavanger
Obergeschoss dritter Finger rechts, Ballhaus Ost, Berlin
2006
Art Chicago, Andreas Bruening Gallery, Duesseldorf
2005
Art Forum Berlin, Opdahl Gallery, Stavanger
Art Chicago, Andreas Bruening Gallery, Duesseldorf
2004
Berlin North, The National Gallery in Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Art Chicago, Andreas Bruening Gallery, Duesseldorf
Art Forum Berlin, Soelvberget Gallery, Stavanger
2003
sic! –so far, Sic Collection, Stavanger
Tromsø Art Assosciation
Art Forum Berlin, Andreas Bruening Gallery, Duesseldorf
In Residence, Nordic Embassies, Berlin
2002
Carnegie Art Award, Victoria Miro Gallery, London/ Kópavogur Art Museum/Art
Academy, Stockholm/Helsinki Art Hall
Bomuldsfabriken Art Hall, Arendal
Painting as a Place to be, nifca, Gaevle Art Centre
Cabinet with Outfit, Andreas Bruening Gallery, Duesseldorf
2001
F15 Gallery, Moss
Carnegie Art Award, ARKEN Museum for Contemporary Art,
Copenhagen/Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
Imperfect, Bomuldsfabriken Art Hall, Arendal/ Trondheim Art Assosciation/54
Gallery, Gothenburg
Lines, Kai Hilgemann Gallery, Berlin
2000
Illuminations, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
The Flux of Painting, Sørlandets Artmuseum, Kristiansand
Imperfect, Rogaland Art Museum, Stavanger
Project for the Autumn Exhibition, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
1999
Brüning+Zischke, Duesseldorf
Edvard Munch-Haus, Warnemuende
..not quite minimal, Bott Gallery, Cologne
1998
Norwegian Profiles, Rostock Art Hall
1997
Birkás-Elgin-Maning, Albertinum, Gemaeldegalerie neuer Meister, Dresden
Roger Bjorkholmen Gallery, Stockholm
1996
Space for Contemporary Art, Rotor Gallery, Gothenburg
Norwegian Profiles,Folkwang Museum/Zollverein, Essen
1995
Neher Gallery, Essen
In the League, Heer Gallery, Oslo
Library, Otto Plonk Gallery, Bergen
1994
Double, Heer Gallery, Oslo
Library, UKS, Oslo
1992
Makroville, Duesseldorf Art Museum
1991
Kunst, Europa, Bayreuth Museum of Fine Art
Billed-Rom, Oslo Art Assosciation
1990
Treibhaus 5, Duesseldorf Art Museum
Status 1990, UKS, Oslo
Selected Public Comissions and Projects
2007
Norwegian Embassy, Copenhagen
2006
Consultant for NHO - Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise, Oslo
Consultant for The Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities
2005
Statoil Boardroom, Stavanger
2004
Statoil Solastrand Guest House, Stavanger
2002
Art Consultant for Border Veterinary Center, Oslo Central Airport
2002-2004
Curator for the International Collection, Norwegian Parliament
2001
Moss Public School
Selected Public Collections
Henie Onstad Art Centre (HOK)
Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Albertinum, Dresden
The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
Sørlandets Art Museum, Kristiansand
Nordnorsk Art Museum, Tromsø
Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger
Norwegian Arts Council, Oslo
Oslo Muncipal Art Collection sic! Stavanger International Collection, Stavanger
The Corporate Collection of the National Bank of Norway
Statoil
Telenor Art Collection
The Norwegian Foreign Ministry
Provinzial Art Collection, Hamburg
Hypo Bank Art Collection, Frankfurt
O.M. Ungers Collection, Cologne
Other
2014
Carnegie Art Award 1 Prize
2010
Professor Oslo Academy of Fine Art
Selected Bibliography
(c)= Catalogue (a)= Article
Tayfun Belgin: Art, Europe, Neher Gallery, Essen 1991 (c)
Mona Pahle Bjerke: ”MoDERNISM MACHINE”, NRK P2, 17.8.2012 (a)
Ina Blom: ”Vår evige streben etter orden”, Aftenposten 20.11.1994 (a)
Eugen Blume/Gabriele Knapstein/Franciska Zölyom ed.
”berlin north”, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, 2004 (c)
Magnus Bons: "Verdige vinnere", Carnegie Art Award 2014, Kunstforum 27.11.2013 (a)
Trond Borgen: "Dialog om kunstens vesen", Stavanger Aftenblad, 12.3.2013 (a)
Trond Borgen: ”Den blinde flekken”, Stavanger Aftenblad, 31.10.2006 (a)
Trond Borgen: ”Sinthome”, Stavanger Aftenblad 12.9.1999 (a)/
published Norwegian Art Yearbook 1999 (c)
Trond Borgen: ”Et billedsug”, Stavanger Aftenblad 10.11 2002 (a)
Jan Brockmann: ”The Blind Centre”, Royal Carribean Arts Grant 2008 (c)
Jan Brockmann: ”Dag Erik Elgin: Sinthome”, Illuminations, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo 2000 (c)
Jan Brockmann: ”Abendzeichnungen”, Imperfektum, Riksutstillinger, Oslo 2000 (c)
Kåre Bulie: "Et slag for maleriet" DN Magasin, Dagens Næringsliv 14.9. 2014 (a)
Einar Børresen: ”Dag Erik Elgin”, www.sicart.net, Stavanger 2003 (c)
Einar Børresen: ”Abendzeichnungen”, Rogalandsposten, 20.2.2004
Michaela Cecchinato; ”Berlin North”, Exibart, 31.1.2004 (a)
Gunnar Danbolt: Norsk Kunsthistorie (Norwegian Art History), Samlaget, 3rd. ed., 2009
Dag Erik Elgin: "Preparing for Painting to Happen: The Space between Recto and Verso on Josef Albers' Homage to the Square", Josef Albers: no tricks, no twinkling of the eyes, Tone Hansen, Milena Hoegsberg (ed.), Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, Köln 2014
Dag Erik Elgin: "Fornærmende billedkompetanse", Morgenbladet, 17.1.2014 (a)
Dag Erik Elgin: "Kunstakademiets stedløshet", DN Dagens Næringsliv 7.1.2011 (a)
Dag Erik Elgin: Amor Vacui, 2006 (c)
Dag Erik Elgin: ”Marcel Duchamp: Rex Nemorensis”, UKS Forum for Samtidskunst,
nr. 2/3, 1993 (a)
Dag Erik Elgin: "Fra kjøkken til museum - pragmatisk praksis i tysk kunstliv", Morgenbladet, 31.12. 1993 (a)
Dag Erik Elgin: Modell, UKS Forum for Samtidskunst, no. 2/3, 1994 (a)
Dag Erik Elgin: ”After Image”, Illuminations, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, 2000 (c)
Dag Erik Elgin: "p.p. Provenance Painted" in: Looters, Smugglers, and Collectors: Provenance Research and the Market - Oslo, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter - Ed. by Tone Hansen & Ana María Bresciani. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2015 (c)
Harald Flor: ”Intenst og presist”, Dagbladet 17.12.2006 (a)
Pål Bang-Hansen: Videoportrait for NRK – The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, 2001
Harald Fricke: ”Vom Himmel und Boden”, taz, Tageszeitung, Berlin 10.8.1994 (a)
Mika Hannula: "Balance of Painters", Carnegie Art Award Catalogue, 2014 (c)
Simen Joachim Helsvig: "Eiendom er tyveri", Kunstkritikk.no, 23.9.2015 (a)
Thea Herold: "Geklaut", Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin 6.3.2010 (a)
Kari Immonen: ”Interview Dag Erik Elgin”, in Stop for a moment-Painting as a place to be, nifca publication 11, Nordic Institute of Contemporary Art, Helsinki 2002 (c)
Gavin Jantjes; "Drawing to Painting and back", "Prism", Film 3, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Youtube
Heinz-Norbert Jocks: ”Stille Zeichen eines Künstlerlebens”,
Westdeutsche Zeitung, 6.5.1998 (a)
Maria Kreutzer: ”Abendzeichnungen – Morgen der Malerei”,
Aktuelle Kunst aus Norwegen, Museum Folkwang, DuMont, Köln 1997 (c)
Maria Kreutzer: Double, Kunst-Werke, Berlin 1993/Billedkunstneren 3/4, 1994 (a)
Maria Kreutzer:”Treibhaus 5”, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf,
Kunstforum International, Bd. 89, 1990 (a)
Jørgen Lund: ”Blikket forbi” (”The Gaze beyond”), Amor Vacui, 2006 (c)
Frances Morris: "Painting All Over?", Carnegie Art Award Catalogue 2014 (c)
Lauren Monchar (ed.) and Victor Boullet: Dag Erik Elgin, ”Bon a Fide”, The Institute of Social
Hypocrisy, Fanzine -4 ISH, Paris 2010 (c)
Sten Nilsen: Interview with Dag Erik Elgin, Kunstmagasinet, Nr. 3, 2008 (a)
Tommy Olsson: ”Svart tekst på svart kvadrat på svart bunn”, Kunstkritikk.no, 20.11.2009 (a)
Tommy Olsson: ”Spøkelset i maskinen”, Morgenbladet 17.8.2012 (a)
Royal Caribbean Arts Grant: RCCL: Videoportrait (2008)
Arve Rød: "Museum Impressions, Dag Erik Elgin La Collection Moderne", Norwegian Art Yearbook, vol. 19, 2011 (a/c)
Arve Rød: "På sporet av det tapte maleri", Dagbladet, 16.9.2015 (a)
Ketil Røed: ”Klargjørende utgravninger”, MoDERNISM MACHINE, Aftenposten, 19.8.2012 (a)
Petra Schmidt: ”Dag Erik Elgin”, Edvard-Munch-Haus e.V, Warnemünde, 2003 (c)
Frank Scholz: ”Abendzeichnungen und Sinthome-Stationen auf der Suche nach dem EINEN Bild”, Auf offenem Gelände, Norröna Sonderband 3, Edition Kirchhof & Franke, Leipzig und Berlin, 2003 (c)
Fiona Tan: ”Open House: A Conversation between Fiona Tan and Dag Erik Elgin” in Mirror Maker", edited by Martin Hochleitner/Torsten Sadowsky, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2006 (c)
Tannert, Christoph: ”Flying”, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2012 (c)
Tolstichin, Elena: “Adjø, Matisse! Abschiedsfeier für ein migrierendes Gemälde”. Bilderfahrzeuge. Aby Warburg’s Legacy and the Future of Iconology. http://iconology.hypotheses.org 26.1. 2016 (a)
Ustvedt; Øystein: "New Norwegian Art since 1990", Fagbokforlaget, 2011 (c)
Werner, Anna-Lena: "Dag Erik Elgin Originals" www.artfridge.de/
Maiken Winum: "Den store kunsten og livet, liksom”, Stavanger Aftenblad, 25.3.2015 (a)