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Ane Mette Hol will be part of the group exhibition Material Shifts at the Astrup Fearnley Museum in Oslo. 

Curated by Owen Martin and Steinar Sekkingstad, Hol will be presenting alongside Olga Balema, Katinka Bock, Ludovica Carbotta, Rhea Dillon, Miho Dohi, Vincent Fecteau, Brad Kronz, Jean-Luc Moulène, Germain Ngoma, Kaare Ruud, Stein Rønning, Diane Simpson, Dima Srouji, and Mungo Thomson.

"A major international group exhibition that looks at sculpture as an act of translation.

Traditionally, the notion of sculpture recalls a stable object rendered in a robust material: something frozen in time and space. Still, sculptural practices have always also retained a notion of “material shifts”: from mold to cast, from sketch to three-dimensional form, or from idea to physical realization.

The works on view span conceptually driven pieces, material explorations, space-activating installations, and repurposed objects, mapping a field made vital through translation."

– Astrup Fearnley Museet

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A K Dolven is currently presenting her solo exhibition four hundred million years of sunrise from the dark at St. Matthäus Church, located within the Kulturforum in Berlin.

"The Norwegian artist A K Dolven presents works in St. Matthäus Church that allow geological, historical, and personal time to flow into one another. An invitation to encounter oneself within a temporal fabric that extends far beyond us. A sculpture carved from Arctic marble, a voice calling across a lake in the Lofoten Islands and returning transformed, daily drawings that bear witness to the passage of time and to one’s own presence during a period of isolation, a tulip poised between decay and resurrection: all of these works are connected by a shared inquiry into touch and time. A hand resting on stone. A brush upon a petal. A voice reaching every listener. These works meet a space long accustomed to receiving voices addressed to that which eludes the eye." 

– Stiftung St. Matthäus

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Ahmed Umar is currently part of the group exhibition Himoya: Matrilineal Energies, Oracular Kin at the Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture in Kazakhstan, opening 15 October.

“Across multiple linguistic traditions, Himoya evokes protection, shelter, guardianship, and the defence of vulnerability. Reading this notion anew, the exhibition, its embodied research, workshops and learning programme attune to oracular knowledge systems and ancestral intelligence as constellations inherent to cultural production and artmaking today. Himoya charts intersecting paths that renew artistic relations with matrilineal energies, anti-imperial cosmologies and environmental custodianship while navigating colonial tensions, ideological erasures, and civic repression evidenced in epic losses of languages, rites, and localized ways of life. More than 20 artists and a thinker actively involved with these areas participate with newly commissioned projects, site responsive and existing works.”

The Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture is located in Almaty, Kazakhstan. It is founded in 2018 by Kairat Boranbayev as the nation’s first private cultural institution.

The exhibition is open until 04.04.2027.

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A K Dolven will be part of the upcoming 16th Gwangju Biennale titled You Must Change Your Life. The artistic director for this edition is Ho Tzu Nye.

The duration of the biennale is 05.09 – 15.11.2026

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"Inspired by the final line of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem Archaic Torso of Apollo, the 16th Gwangju Biennale explores how new capacities and forms of life emerge through artistic practice.

In Rilke’s 1908 poem, a fragment of an ancient sculpture releases within its viewer an overwhelming surge of emotional energy, culminating in the injunction: “You must change your life.” Yet the poem offers no prescription. Transformation remains open—urgent, but not yet determined. Taking inspiration from this imperative, the Biennale approaches change not as a destination but as a method: a process through which matter, bodies, perceptions, and relations are continually reorganised.

Change is often most immediately visible to us in moments of rupture and crisis. Yet change also unfolds quietly and unnoticed, like the changes in faces of the loved ones we see daily. And change also unfolds through the accumulation of our everyday acts and rituals as they accumulate to practices of repetition that brings about difference and. It is through such practices that we expand our capacity to affect—and to be affected.

A central proposition of this Biennale is that change is sustained through practice. But in order to be generative, any practice must be sustainable enough to repeat across multiple scales of life. Repetition is what shapes how we perceive, how we relate, and how we live. As such living models of persistence and experimentation, artistic practices appear here as cumulative techniques through which individuals and communities embody their experiences of transformation."

– Gwangju Biennale

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We are delighted to announce the acquisition by Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg of the work Washed Together by Ragna Bley.

The painting was acquired for Kunsten’s collection through the generous support of Jens and Margit Haven Christiansen.

Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg is internationally recognised for both its architecture and ambitious exhibition programme. Designed by Alvar Aalto, the museum is beautifully situated in Aalborg and presents art from the 20th century to today.

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Image:

Ragna Bley
‘Washed Together’
2026
Oil and acrylic on linen canvas
207 x 150 cm

The solo exhibition They Live by Vibeke Tandberg is now open at Kode, Bergen.

Curated by Lars Bang Larsen and Synnøve Marie Vik, the duration is until 13.09.2026

The most extensive presentation of Tandberg to date, the exhibition will cover her works over three decades, from the renowned series such as ‘Bride’, ‘Living Together’, and ‘Old Man’, to new works.

As a pivotal part of the Nordic wave of young artists during the 1990’s, Tandberg’s artistic practice encompasses a multitude of disciplines, including photography, painting, sculpture, film, and literature.

While her early production takes the vantage point of staged and manipulated self-portraits, her practice has been increasingly directed toward a restless testing of opportunities within the arts. By using a wider variety of media and techniques, her work can be described as an investigation of how the world shapes itself and how to shape the world. Ideas and works are deconstructed and reconstructed. Creating becomes violence, alteration, conversion, and dissolution. Tandberg emphasises that the subject is an unstable point of venture, meaning is shifted all the time, and artistic freedom is without expectations.

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Ragna Bley is part of the group exhibition When I'm In My Painting, opening Saturday 9 May, at The Twist, Kistefos. Bley has produced new monumental works for the exhibition. The show is a focused investigation into contemporary abstract painting through the work of Ragna Bley, Ida Ekblad, Oscar Murillo and Albert Oehlen—artists represented in the Christen Sveaas Art Foundation and Private Collection.

"Taking its title from Jackson Pollock's well-known reflection on becoming fully immersed in the act of creation, the exhibition foregrounds the moment when making becomes inseparable from meaning. The exhibition traces how these four artists navigate the shifting space between intention and spontaneity, testing the boundaries of mark, movement and surface. Visitors are invited into a layered environment, gaining insight into the physical, psychological and metaphysical dimensions of painting as a lived process.”

– Excerpt from Kistefos

The exhibition is curated by Kate Smith-Raabe, Chief Curator at Kistefos

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We are delighted to announce that ‘Eyeless Split’ by Ragna Bley has been acquired by HAM Helsinki Art Museum.

The work is currently part of the Ars Fennica 2025 group exhibition at the museum, where Ragna Bley is presenting alongside Roland Persson, Jani Ruscica and Hanna Vihriälä.

Considered to be the most significant visual art prize in Finland, this exhibition presents the four artists nominated for the 2025 edition. The Ars Fennica is granted biennially by the Henna and Pertti Niemistö Art Foundation.

The exhibition is curated by Heli Harni and is open until 29.03.2026.

Vibeke Tandberg’s presentation of ‘Old Man Dancing’ is now open to the public at Stormen kunst/dájdda, Bodø, Norway.

The exhibition’s video presentation depicts the Russian ballet dancer Maria Kochetkova performing while wearing the lifelike mask of an old man – a recurring motif in Tandberg’s oeuvre. Kochetkova’s performance is a mixture of improvisation and classical ballet directed by the artist, with music composed by the Norwegian band Ulver.

The film and performance premiered at the Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, in 2021 as a collaboration between the museum and the Norwegian Opera & Ballet.

The exhibition at Stormen kunst/dájdda is open until 26.04.2026

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We are delighted to share that A K Dolven is part of the upcoming exhibition NEW WORKS at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.

The recently acquired 16mm film ‘amazon’ will be featured in the exhibition, opening 2 December.

A K Dolven ‘amazon’ is a 16 mm film projection of an androgynous figure shooting a bow and arrow. A fast edit gives this minute and a half long film the sense of a single shot. For the most part, the camera is tight on the body – neck, chest and arm muscles snap between tension and rest. When it jumps back the camera exposes the torso as that of a single-breasted woman. Under the glare of harsh sunlight the woman relentlessly shoots arrow after arrow, each imprinting stark shadows on her skin. Her target is never visible; what is involved in getting the arrow to it seems more vital than where or what the target might be. ‘amazon’ makes reference to the Greek myth of a matriarchal society of brave female warriors who are said to have cut off one breast to hit their target better. The work speaks of harnessed strength, female courage and determination.

‘amazon’ was conceptually edited after the second movement, Allegro Molto, of Shostakovich’s String Quartet No.8b In C Minor, Op. 110; a score composed following a visit to Dresden where Shostakovich was confronted with the devastating effects of the bombing of the city during the war. In the end, however, the film is mute. Music extracted, the remaining sound in this installation is the noise produced by the 16 mm projector.

Camera: Vegar Moen
Editor with artist: Ulrike Munch

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Ragna Bley is currently presenting at HAM Helsinki Art Museum as part of the Ars Fennica Art Prize 2025.

Ragna Bley has been nominated for the Ars Fennica Award 2025. Awarded in recognition of artistic work of excellence, it is considered to be Finland’s most prestigious visual arts prize.

The other candidates are Roland Persson, Jani Ruscica, and Hanna Vihriälä.

The exhibition is open until 29.03.2026.

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Ane Mette Hol’s exhibition ‘Mot utsiden / innsiden’ is opening Saturday, 29 November at Stormen kunst/dájdda in Bodø, Norway. Curated by Stian Hansen, the exhibition duration is until 11.01.2026

Hol works conceptually with drawing and investigates the relationship between the original and the reproduction. For her upcoming exhibition, Hol will be presenting new works that continue her meticulous exploration of the medium, including a site-specific installation.

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Ahmed is presenting a new body of work from his ongoing 'Glowing Phalanges' series at Kunstmusuem Stuttgart as part of the exhibition 'Ingraining and Unfolding' in dialogue with works by Rolf Nesch and Nadira Husain.

The exhibition is open until 12th April 2026.

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Thorbjørn Sørensen, Vanessa Baird, and Vibeke Slyngstad are presenting works on paper at the group exhibition 'Nordic Noir' at the British Museum.

"Featuring over 150 works by 100 artists from the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden), Nordic noir opens with two important prints by Edvard Munch (1863–1944), arguably the most famous artist to emerge from the Nordic region and explores how the graphic arts continued to flourish and evolve after his death. It includes the charming prints of the Norwegian colour woodcut school of the 1940s; Danish prints tackling post-war angst and the threat of the Cold War; and political art from the 1970s in the form of vibrant screenprints by the Norwegian GRAS (Grass) group.

The contemporary Nordic artists represented here delve into the world of Norse myth, struggles with mental health and political issues such as feminism or the rights of the Indigenous Sámi people. The dominant theme for many, however, is nature and the vital urgency to preserve the fjords, mountains and forests unique to the region. One artist who has been extremely vocal on the subject is the Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967) who, last year, made an extraordinary watercolour especially for the exhibition using glacial meltwater to highlight the effects of global warming." – The British Museum

The exhibition is open until 22nd March 2026.

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Ragna Bley will be part of the group exhibition ‘The Canvas Can Do Miracles’ at The Contemporary Austin, curated by Alex Klein.

Bley will be presenting alongside Nathan Carter, Patrick Dean Hubbell, Suzanne Jackson, and Hayal Pozanti.

“The Canvas Can Do Miracles presents an intergenerational group of artists who share a commitment to abstraction unbound by formalism and embody an artistic ethos rooted in alchemy, process, and resistance. The exhibition foregrounds their diverse painterly strategies, which draw on varied touchstones ranging from the natural world, Indigenous symbologies, and underground ecosystems. For these artists, the canvas is both a material and a coded space for networked communication, transformation, and metaphysical inquiry.”

- The Contemporary Austin

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[Image: Ragna Bley, Inter-waver, 2016]

We are delighted to announce that the photographic work ‘The Woolly Eye’ by Bjarne Bare has been acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

Founded in 1961, LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States, holding an extensive collection of artworks from various historical periods and regions globally.

“The Woolly Eye (2025) presents a close-up photographic study of a sheep’s gaze, captured in California, in the winter of 2025. The work is part of an ongoing series in which I photograph domesticated animals as allegorical figures, symbolising the vulnerability and dispossession of nature under the pressure of human dominance. The sheep, with its deep historical and cultural associations as a symbol of obedience, sacrifice, and docility, serves here as a complex figure through which to explore tensions between domestication, control, and loss.”

- Bjarne Bare

Emily Gernild is part of the duo-exhibition 'Feminist Aesthetics' at the Vigeland Museum in Oslo, in dialogue with the late Danish modernist sculptor Sonja Ferlov Mancoba.

"Gernild emphasizes that Ferlov Mancoba’s sculptures present both a feminine and masculine strength and sensuality. This is a duality that also characterizes modern humanity. A specific example she mentions is the sculpture Bird with Young (1935), which is about the parent-child relationship, and not specifically the mother-child relationship.

Gernild’s paintings exhibit what may appear as a visual restlessness. We do not immediately find a focal point for the eye – but it comes. It is only a matter of time and patience. In each painting, there are areas of fragments and dissolved forms, but eventually, a visual whole emerges, tied together by color, line, and form.

Both Gernild and Ferlov Mancoba are modernists with a strong foundation in their respective modes of expression. This is evident in the interplay between surface, space, and volume – both in painting and sculpture."

- Jarle Strømodden, director of the Vigeland Museum

The duration of the exhibition is 05.06.25 – 14.09.25.

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The exhibition 'Deterrence and Reassurance' by Toril Johannessen has recently opened at Tromsø Kunstforening. This will be its third presentation following previous editions at Bergen Kunsthall and Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter.

The exhibition examines how geopolitics and military presence shape society and everyday life in Norway, with a particular focus on Northern Norway. The works in the exhibition form an interwoven civil-military landscape, and thematise how militarisation and soft power leave their mark on language, landscape and experiences of safety and unrest.

A new work was added for this iteration - a book with notes, diary entries, anecdotes and photographs titled "Notes from the deep to the cold peace 1989 -2025".

The exhibition is open until 31 August 2025.

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Produced by Jone Kvie in collaboration with Atsite landscape architects, the new memorial to the war sailors from the Stavanger region has been officially unveiled in Stavanger, Norway.

Titled ‘Inner and Outer Landcape’ the two distinctive sculptural pieces by Kvie are part of the new memorial site located in the War Sailor’s Square in the city.

This memorial commemorates the Norwegian war sailors from the Rogaland county who served in the merchant fleet and navy during World War II. Their role has contributed a crucial role in safeguarding Allied merchant ships from attacks, where over six hundred seafarers from the local region lost their lives during the war. It additionally acknowledges the physical and psychological trauma affecting many more, their families, and across generations.

A K Dolven’s solo exhibition ‘amazon’ at The National Museum is now open.

Dolven’s practice spans across a variety of disciplines, where recurring themes of representation of natural forces and their deep resonance with human sensibilities run through the extensive body of work.

Her work alternates between the monumental and the minimal, the universal and the intimate, resonating with concepts and structures beyond the confines of any particular piece. Interpersonal relations and interactions are central to her practice.

The exhibition located in The Light Hall will be open until 31st August 2025

“In video installations and film projections, paintings and sculpture, as well as photography, sound and text, Dolven addresses the universal through the intimate.
By exploring the sphere between the familiar and the unfamiliar, her work invites new perspectives on the world that surrounds us.

Using a broad range of materials, formats and means of expression, Dolven’s work contains certain recurring themes: the natural environment, the human body, and their relationship with time and culture.

Across the range of her work Dolven explores natural phenomena such as light and darkness, landscape and weather. Fog plays a central role in one work, while drifting icebergs are a focus in another.”

- excerpt from The National Museum

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‘Oracle’ by Jone Kvie is currently presented at Göteborg Konstmuseum, Sweden as part of the group exhibition ‘Apocalypse: From Last Judgement to Climate Threat’.

The exhibition is open until 18.01.2026

“The exhibition Apocalypse: From Last Judgement to Climate Threat takes the viewer on a journey through end-of-the-world fantasies, prophecies, dystopian critique of society – and magnificent artworks oozing of angst and creative desire. Featuring a broad selection of paintings, sculptures, video works and prints in a dramatic setting, it presents the art history of doom from the Renaissance until today.”

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Ahmed Umar’s first solo museum exhibition opens on Saturday, February 1, at the Museo Universitario del Chopo in Mexico City.

This exhibition features works created between 2018 and 2024, exploring themes of identity, religion, love, belonging, spirituality, and cultural values through photography, video, performance, and installation.

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Dag Erik Elgin's solo exhibition 'BOMBA' at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo is now open to visitors.

Presented in the institution's iconic skylight halls, the show is contextually based on and a reference to Pablo Picasso’s seminal work ’Guernica’ exhibited in 1938 at the same location.

The exhibition is open until 15.12.2024

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We are delighted to announce that Toril Johannessen has been nominated for the Lorck Schive Kunstpris 2025.

Selected as one of four nominees, she will be part of an exhibition at Trondheim Kunstmuseum opening 27th September 2025.

Initiated by the Lorck Schive and Spouse Trust, the Lorck Schive Kunstpris is considered to be one of the most prestigious art prizes within Norway, its aim to encourage discourse and debate on contemporary art.

The other nominees are Marthe Ramm Fortun, Silje Linge Haaland, and Anawana Haloba.

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'Vanessa Baird: Go Down with Me' at MUNCH is now open to visitors.

For her extensive solo exhibition Baird is presenting over five hundred works across the museum’s third floor.

The show is a kaleidoscopic manifestation of her views, ideas and themes ranging from the intimately personal, to the political, and the global. Merging the surreal and figurative, Baird is frequently revealing and confrontational whilst maintaining candour and humour. In addition to the depictions of routine in daily domesticity, her works also expand to deal with human suffering caused by war and conflicts.

The exhibition is curated by Kari J. Brandtzæg, and is open until 31st December 2024

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We are excited to announce that Ahmed Umar will be participating at the upcoming Toronto Biennial of Art 2024 with a new video installation ‘Truth Bears No Scandal (الـواضِح مو فـاضِح)’.

The work depicts the artist performing three Sudanese songs that were originally written by poets about their same-sex lovers. These types of narratives - often masked to erase the queer side of the Sudanese culture - are presented by Ahmed with a direct and unapologetic approach.

Ahmed has performed each song visually inspired by the original singers in their respective eras, describing his presentation as Sudanese drag.

Visitors can experience Umar's installation at Collision Gallery between 21.09 – 01.12.2024

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We are delighted to announce that Ragna Bley has been nominated for the Ars Fennica Award 2025. Awarded in recognition of artistic work of excellence, it is considered to be Finland’s most prestigious visual arts prize.

The other candidates are Roland Persson, Jani Ruscica, and Hanna Vihriälä, and a joint exhibition showcasing all the nominees’ works will be on display at Helsinki Art Museum between 24.10.2025–15.03.2026.

The winner will be selected by Mami Kataoka, Director of the Mori Art Museum and the director of the National Center for Art Research (NCAR) in Japan. The nominees for 2025 have been selected by the award panel consisting of the chairperson, Dr. Leena Niemistö, visual artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Dean Leevi Haapala (University of the Arts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts), and Museum Director Arja Miller (HAM Helsinki Art Museum).

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Ragna Bley is currently part of the group exhibition 'After the Sun—Forecasts from the North' at Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Buffalo, New York.

"After the Sun—Forecasts from the North surveys a generational response to the precarious state of our natural environment. Historically, art from the Nordic region has been closely tied to depictions of nature. It is no surprise, then, that a diverse group of artists with strong ties to Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden question what it means to depict landscape today in a time of intensifying climate crisis. After the Sun considers how emergencies at a Northern latitude reverberate globally and asks what images are generated in response."

This exhibition is curated by Helga Christoffersen.

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Ane Mette Hol's solo exhibition 'Midtkarriere retrospektiv (Mid-career retrospective)' is now open at Haugar Kunstmuseum, presenting a comprehensive introduction to Hol's practice.

The show is in conjunction with the group exhibition ‘Arbeidstittel: The Workers’, where they overlap thematically and conceptually related topics concerning various dynamics in the art field, such as how art is distributed, presented and communicated.

Hol approaches the medium of drawing conceptually. One of the central questions in artistry is how the relationship between original and copy has been affected by the entry of the readymade object into art and what consequences this has had for the objects considered to have value.

The exhibition is curated by Erlend Hammer.

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OSL contemporary is delighted to announce that Ahmed Umar has been awarded the 25th Baloise Art Prize for his presented work ‘Forbidden Prayers’ at Art Basel 2024.

Since 1999, the Baloise Art Prize has been awarded every year by the Baloise group to two participant artists in the Statements sector at Art Basel.

As part of the prize, Umar’s work ‘Forbidden Prayers’ will be acquired and donated to Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt.

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Toril Johannessen will be presenting her solo exhibition ‘Deterrence and Reassurance’ at Bergen Kunsthall as this year’s selected artist for The Festival Exhibition in Bergen.

Considered to be the most important solo presentation for a Norwegian artist domestically, Johannessen will present a new installation for the exhibition including a new large-scale woven carpet made from military textiles.

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Britta Marakatt-Labba's solo exhibition 'Moving the Needle' is now open at The National Museum in Oslo, Norway.

The expansive exhibition presents Britta's impressive body of work, ranging from never-before-shown works on paper, textiles, and installation works – including her iconic tapestry work 'Historjá'.

As an artist and activist, Britta has become an inspirational figure in advocating environmental issues and the rights of the Sami people.

The exhibition will be open until 25 August 2024.

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The exhibition ‘Cadmium Orange Red Violet Lamp Black’ by Callum Innes is now open at Kode in Bergen, Norway.

Located within the museum’s Tower Room in Lysverket, Innes presents a selection of works, including site-specific wall paintings, oil paintings, and an installation of forty watercolours.

As part of the exhibition, Innes will also present a light installation by the artist on the historic building’s exterior facade.

The exhibition will be open until 28 April 2024.

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OSL contemporary is delighted to announce Ahmed Umar's participation at the Venice Biennale 2024, opening on 20th April.

Curated by Adriano Pedrosa, he will be part of the biennial's 60th International Art Exhibition titled 'Foreigners Everywhere'.

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It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Leonard Rickhard.

Leonard Rickhard is recognised as one of Norway's most essential contemporary painters, with a celebrated and significant career spanning over 40 years. Rickhard's works have been exhibited extensively across major Nordic institutions and included in numerous collections. Rickhard's distinctive expression has captivated viewers and has a unique position in Norwegian contemporary art.

Our most caring thoughts go to his family and friends. It has been an incredible privilege for OSL contemporary to work closely with Leonard for many years. He will be dearly missed as an artist and friend.

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Leonard Rickhard (1945–2024)

Det er med stor sorg vi har mottatt meldingen om kunstner Leonard Rickhards bortgang. Leonard Rickhard er anerkjent som en av Norges fremste malere, og hans enestående karriere strekker seg over 40 år. Rickhard har representert en helt særegen og tydelig stemme i norsk samtidskunst.

Våre varmeste tanker går til hans familie og venner. Det har vært et fantastisk privilegium for OSL contemporary å arbeide tett med Leonard i mange år. Han vil bli dypt savnet som kunstner og venn.

Image: Leonard Rickhard in his studio, May 2023. Photo: Helle Holm

OSL contemporary is happy to announce that Vanessa Baird will open her first exhibition at the Munch Museum in October 2024, where she will fill the impressively spacious galleries on the museum's third floor.

Vanessa Baird (b. 1963) has established herself as one of our foremost visual artists since the 1990s. The exhibition demonstrates how Baird's art evolves through repetitions and variations of the same themes, but also how they are influenced by private and political events.

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Leonard Rickhard's large-scale solo exhibition Between Construction and Collapse, opening at the Astrup Fearnley Museet 26. January 2024. Curated by Solveig Øvstebø.

"Throughout a long artistic career, Rickhard has cultivated a distinctive, easily recognisable style—a visual signature all of its own within recent Norwegian art history." - Excerpt from AFM website.

Photo: Leonard Rickhard, Figure Against Red Bird Cabinet, 2006-2007. Astrup Fearnley Collection. © Leonard Rickhard, 2023. Photo: Jens Hamran

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Ahmed Umar will be part of the upcoming Toronto Biennial of Art 2024, alongside artist Sonja Boyce and Cecilia Vicuña among others. The Biennial is curated by Dominique Fontaine and Miguel A. López, and will take place between 21.09.2024 - 01.12.2024

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Emily Gernild will have a solo exhibition at the historic art center Gammel Holtegaard in Denmark, opening on 17.11.23.

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On the occasion of his upcoming exhibition ‘Glowing Phalanges’ opening Friday 15 Sept, 20.00, at Bergen Kunsthall, it is with pleasure to announce that OSL contemporary is now representing Ahmed Umar.

Ahmed Umar (b. 1988, Sudan) is a cross-disciplinary artist living and working in Oslo. He received his MFA degree in medium- and material-based art from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2016. Through his work, Umar has become an important figure for queer communities in both Norway and Sudan. He has exhibited at The Biennale of Sydney and is currently nominated for the Lorck Schive Art Prize at the Trondheim Art Museum.

Umar’s works are in the permanent collections of the National Museum, Drammens Museum and City of Oslo Art Collection. In 2023 has had a solo exhibition at Kunstnernes Hus, and his work has been on view at Trondheim Art Museum in connection with his nomination for the Lorck Schive Art Prize.

His debut solo exhibition at the gallery is scheduled for the fall season in 2024.

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Hosted by The Association of Norwegian Sculptors Vibeke Tandberg’s sculpture ‘Hestebarrikade’ (2023) will be unveiled at Øvre Slottsgate, Friday 15 September, 3 pm. Attendance at the sculpture zone.

The title ‘Hestebarrikade’ (Horse Barricade) refers to a combination of two elements in the cityscape of Oslo today; the police horses (the equestrian corps) and concrete barriers (the iron and/or concrete flower boxes), both of which are measures to protect the citizens of Oslo. In the sculpture, these safety measures are visualized in a barrier that must be able to withstand vandalism, harsh weather and violence.

The ceremony will reveal five new sculptures. This year's artists are Vibeke Tandberg, Yamile Calderon, Aleksander Stav, Gisle Harr and Ingrid Solvik.

The sculpture zone in Øvre Slottsgate is a collaborative project between The Association of Norwegian Sculptors, the Oslo Municipality Agency for Cultural Affairs and Agency for Real Estate and Urban Renewal.

Opening Thursday 17 August, Per Barclay will be having an extensive solo exhibition entitled 'Soft Sweet Vortex' at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, with representative works from his 40-year artistic career. Barclay’s practice encompasses photography, sculpture, and installation, using materials such as stone, steel, aluminium, glass, water, and waste oil.

The exhibition is curated by Ana María Bresciani.

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Vanessa Baird, Vibeke Tandberg and Toril Johannessen part of ‘LOL - humor i norsk kunsthistorie’ ( LOL- Humour in Norwegian Art History)’ at Haugar Art Museum in Tønsberg. On view this summer and until 17th September 2023.

Curated by Erlend Hammer, the exhibition explores the theme of humour within art history of Norway, ranging from the historical to the contemporary. Coinciding with the exhibition is the release of the exhibition catalogue.

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New publication ‘The Hollow Man’ by Bjarne Bare, published by Hassla in New York, January 2023.

'...The Hollow Man is inspired by the forms and figures that are hand-shaped from scraps of cardboard and on view in a piñata factory near the artist’s home in industrial downtown Los Angeles. Like much of what we have built to keep up with late-stage capitalism’s relentless aggression, the empty paper man in the window will soon be filled with bright, cheap, plastic parts and sugar...’ - Excerpt from text by Jennifer Piejko

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Per Barclay has unveiled a public installation in Oslo where he revitalised the iconic ‘Love Carousel’ structure, located in the lower slopes of Stensparken in Fagerborg (St. Hanshaugen). This was a result of a collaboration between the Norwegian Cultural Agency, the Norwegian Environmental Agency and the Norwegian Antiquities Agency.

Completed in 1937, the public urinal was built in a functionalist style, and was also used as a meeting place for gay men during a time when homosexuality was not only seen to be socially unacceptable in Norway, but also illegal. Its reputation as a gay cruising spot in combination of its circular shape assigned the structure the aforementioned moniker. Other nicknames included ’The Wheel of Fortune’ and ’The Umbrella’. In 2009, it was declared a monument, and Per has had to privilege to lease it a new artistic life. The installation will be possible to experience until 01.06.23.

Ane Graff will be defending her doctoral research work and PhD thesis ‘The Wound In Its Entanglements’ at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO) on 06.12.22.

Ane Graff is a PhD scholar in the doctoral program for artistic research at the department of Fine Arts. As part of her thesis, she presented an exhibition under the same name at Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam, Netherlands, becoming the first Norwegian artist to have a solo show in the country.

Toril Johannessen has created a permanent installation Representation (for people and those who represent them) at Bergen City Hall, commissioned by the City of Bergen.

The work consists of woven textiles with a design including computer generated portraits.

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Jone Kvie is participating at this year's edition of documenta fifteen and present two works as part of the ‘Jimmie Durham & A Stick in the Forest by the Side of the Road’.

documenta fifteen will be held in Kassel, Germany between Jun 18, 2022 – Sep 25, 2022.

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Ane Graff’s solo exhibition ‘The Wound in Its Entanglements’ at Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Exhibition duration: Friday 6 May — Sunday 21 August 2022

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For Artica Svalbard’s first artists edition A K Dolven has created a unique limited edition. Exclusive to Artica Svalbard the edition entitled NOW, features a drypoint print and sound piece. The work is an edition of 25 plus 2 AP.

All profits from the sale go directly to supporting future Artica residents, the public programme and projects.

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Toril Johannessen will be showing as part of the group exhibition 'Spor af Niels Bohr' at Sophienholm, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.

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Jone Kvie as part of the exhibition 'A Stick in the Forest' at Labinac, Napoli.

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Jone Kvie takes part in the exhibition Marble at Kunsten, Aalborg

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Solo exhibition 'Stranger's Eye' at Kunstnernes Hus

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Ane Mette Hol

Following her solo exhibition at Vienna’s MUMOK Museum, Hol will showcase both new - and older works in the temporary OSL viewing room. Amongst others, a series of new “editions” of original drawings featured in her Mumok exhibition catalogue, as well as selection of sculptures will be displayed in the show.

The presentation will be available from Thursday January 20.

A K Dolven

Dolven, who is currently working towards her large scale retrospect at the new National Museum of Norway in 2025, as well as a solo exhibition at OSL contemporary 2023, will be presenting a series of new sculptures and paintings. The new work will be in dialogue with a selection older works, such as ‘A Other Teenager’ and ‘Warmth II’. The presentation will be available from Thursday 10 until Saturday 26 February.

View Ask Bjørlo's 'Studio Visit' presented by Norwegian Crafts

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Ane Graff solo exhibition at Kunstinstituut Melly

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Jone Kvie will take part of Documenta 15, as part of the collective 'By the side of the road'

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Ane Graff, A K Dolve and Per Barclay to take part in the exhibition Subterranean at Helsinki's Amos Rex.

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A K Dolven and John Giorno's transatlantic dialogue and duet, 'JA as long as I can' at Cinemateket Oslo. The event is in collaboration with Cinemateket and Kunstenreshus.

For tickets and further information visit Cinemateket

Norwegian artist and author Vibeke Tandberg’s newest film, Old Man Dancing, premieres Saturday 25 September at 20:00. The premiere is a collaboration between the Astrup Fearnley Museet and the Norwegian Opera & Ballet. In addition to the screening, there will be a live performance at the Astrup Fearnley Museet and a digital film premiere on the Opera’s website that same evening.

To view the digital premiere

Ane Graff in conversation with Tal Danino
Moderated by curator Martha Kirszenbaum
Introduction by Executive Director, Rhizome, Zachary Kaplan

The Armory Show 2021
10 september at 1pm EST/ 7pm CET

The talk is co-hosted by OSL contemporary, Rhizome and Kistefos, and is supported by the Royal Norwegian Consulate General and Office for Contemporary Art Norway, OCA

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'As far as my Eyes can Sea – The Expedition Exhibition' at Bomuldsfabriken, Arendal

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Solo exhibition at Entrée, Bergen

'Falm varsomt, hold om oss'

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Bjarne Bare takes part of the exhibition Rites of Passage, The National Museum at Kunstneres Hus, Oslo

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Bjarne Bare solo exhibition at No Moon LA

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Toril Johannessen takes part in Sustainable Societies for the Future at Malmö Kunstmuseum

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A K Dolven takes part of STILL ALIVE at Sammlung Hoffmann, Dresden

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Ann Iren Buan exhibition at Kristiansand Kunsthall

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Solo exhibition by Vanessa Baird at Kunsthall Stavanger

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New artist book by Vanessa Baird, published on No Comprendo Press

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Ane Mette Hol solo exhibition at Mumok, Vienna

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A K Dolven takes part in the group exhibition "STILL ALIVE": Werke aus der Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann at Albertinum, Dresden

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Solo exhibition by Vanessa Baird at Drawing Room, London

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Ane Graff takes part of 7 x 7. A collaboration between New Museum, Rihzome and Kunsthall Stavanger

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New permanent site-specific sculpture by Lawrence Weiner unveiled at Kistefos. As part of the Kistefos Sculpture Park

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Leonard Rickhard Før og etter solnedgang at Trondheim Kunstmuseum

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Untuned Bell, now installed at Honnørbrygga, Rådhusplassen, Oslo. Produced by KORO

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Solo exhibition 'A modernistic endpoint' at The Vigeland Museum, 31. January – 16 May 2020. Exhibition opening Thursday 30 January, 6 pm

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Part of the group exhibition 'Brainwashed' curated by Jana Baumann, at Haus der Kunst, Munich

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Ane Graff part of the upcoming Liverpool Biennial 2020

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Ragna Bley exhibition at Malmö Kunsthall, 1 February - 13 April 2020. Exhibition opening Friday 31 January, 6 pm and Artist Talk Saturday 1 February, 3 pm.

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Ann Iren Buan takes part of the 2019 Drawing Triennial, curated by Helga Marie Nordby. Organized by Tegnerforbundet and produced in collaboration with Kunstnernes Hus

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Jone Kvie Her, her solo exhibition at Stavanger Kunstmuseum

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A K Dolven takes part of the exhibition ETHEREAL. PHOTOGRAPHIC ART FROM NORWAY at the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt

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Vanessa Baird takes part of the 2019 edition of Coast Contemporary

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A K Dolven takes part of the Helene Schjerfbeck Symposium, Royal Academy of Arts, London

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Site specific sculpture by Lawrence Weiner at KODE Bergen

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Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk on Liquid Properties

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Ann Iren Buan takes part of the exhibition 'mind moves with matter, body blends into space' at Kunsthall Trondheim

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'Skogsaken' a Two-Part Exhibition at Entrée and Trykkeriet, Bergen

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Ragna Bley takes part of 'Tempo Tempo Tempo' curated by Rhea Dall, Kistefos-museet 

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"Vibeke Tandberg: art and literature", part of Dramatikkenshus (The Norwegian Centre for New Playwriting) lecture series spring 2019. 

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Per Barclay will be in conversation with Tone Hansen, Chair of the Norwegian Arts Council and Director of the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter; and Beatrice Galilee, Daniel Brodsky Associate Curator of Architecture and Design at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The event is in collaboration with The Armory Show VIP program and The Royal Norwegian Consulate General New York

Saturday April 6, on the last day of the exhibition seng og sekund  and as part of OSL series, A K Dolven has invited contemporary dancer Tale Dolven to perform live within the exhibition. 

Tale Dolven has collaborated with A K since the age of 12, then in the work to you (1994) up until most recently in A Other Teenager (2016). Dolven is based in Brussels and work internationally with theatre, dance and choreography. She performed at the opening of the Turbin Hall, Tate Modern, London as well as the Centre Pompidou, Paris together with acclaimed choreographer and dancer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker of the Rosas Company. 

Dolven currently works with the Nature Theatre of Oklahoma, co-produced by Ruhrtriennale and Dusseldorfer Schauspielhaus

Jone Kvie takes part in the exhibition 'The Gifts of Tony Podesta', Curated by Klaus Ottmann and Jennifer Sakai at the American University Museum, Washington

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In conversation: Ann Iren Buan & Thomas Phongsathorn

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A K Dolven takes part in the 2018 Thailand Biennale, Krabi, Thailand

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Ann Iren Buan 'Around Us Surround Us' at The Vigeland Museum

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Ragna Bley takes part of the 2018 edition of the Moderna Exhibition, Moderna Museet, Stockholm

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Bjarne Bare is nominated for this years Sparebanken Sør Artist Award. All nominees are currently showing at Sørlandets Kunstmuseum (SKMU)

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In conversation: Per Barclay & Jarle Strømodden

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Take part in Manifesta 12 Collateral Events

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A K Dolven takes part in the symposium, Women in Conceptual Art, at Chelsea College of Arts

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'Litteratur på Blå' invites to a conversation between Vibeke Tandberg, Matias Faldbakken and Stian Gabrielsen with regards to Tandberg and Faldbakken's artistic and literary practices.

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Toril Johannessen takes part of Dak'Art - La Biennale de Dakar Edition 2018

Artist talk at Museum Kunst der Westküste

Ane Mette Hol + Richard Venlet at Sint-Lukasgalerie in Brussels. As part of Off-programme at Art Brussels 2018

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A K Dolven is nominated to produce a public work for the new Munch Museum alongside nominees Olafur Eliasson, Tracey Ein, Matias Faldbakken, Cristina Iglesias, Ragnar Kjartansson and Adrian Villar Rojas

Vibeke Slyngstad at Kristiansand Kunsthall

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Dag Erik Elgin's Museum Work at The National Gallery, Oslo

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Vibeke Tandberg, Aase Texmon Rygh and Leonard Rickhard take part in the group exhibition Det Felles Eide at Oslo's Kunstnernes Hus.

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Dag Erik Elgin and A K Dolven take part of the group exhibition Norway Contemporary! at Museum Kunst der westkuste

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Vibeke Tandberg takes part in the group exhibition Troløse Bilder at the National Gallery, Oslo.

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Bjarne Bare takes part in the Grand Opening of Annex at M+B, Los Angeles

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Ragna Bley takes part in the group exhibition REPEAT FORWARD at Galleri F 15, Moss

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Vibeke Tandberg takes part in the group exhibition Journeys with 'The Waste Land' at Turner Contemporary, Margate UK

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Callum Innes at Chateau La Coste

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Ragna Bley solo exhibition at Kunstmuseet Kabuso

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Vibeke Tandberg takes part of the exhibition HEN- Flytende kjønn at Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum

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Bjarne Bare takes part of the exhibition Belt Friction at Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles

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Unveiling of A K Dolven's utferdstrang/wanderlust at Skansekaia, Ålesund

Ane Mette Hol takes part in Original Copy's 'A Ditto, Ditto Device', Wien, Austria

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Open vacancy/ledig stilling

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Vibeke Slyngstad takes part in the exhibition LA NOUVE FRONTIERE DELLA PITTURA, Fondazione Stelline, Milano

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Dag Erik Elgin part of the seminar 'PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE THIRD DIMENSION' at Fotogalleriet

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'You are something else' at Kunstnernes Hus

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'Mirror falling from the Wall' at Galleri Opdahl

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Dag Erik Elgin in conversation with Gavin Jantjes at Oslo Kunstforening, 6pm

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'COLOR ME GONE' at Haugar Art Museum

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Toril Johannessen part of the Plug In ICA Art Auction

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Vibeke Tandberg part of Lorck Schive Art Prize exhibition

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Vibeke Tandberg in panel talk with Ben Lerner, Karl Ove Knausgård and Sverre Karen Bjertnæs at The Munch Museum

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A K Dolven at Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, as part of the group exhibition 'what do I do with the world'

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Vibeke Tandberg screening and conversation with Morgenbladet's Håkon Gundersen at Kunstnernes Hus Kino, 12 September at 7-9pm

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Vanessa Baird in conversation with Karl Ove Knausgård at The Munch Museum

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A breakfast salon with Toril Johannessen during CHART art fair

OSL contemporary will present Toril Johannessen at CHART art fair, Copenhagen

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Toril Johannessen at Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, as part of the exhibition 'STAGES: Drawing the Curtain' 

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Bjarne Bare takes part in the 2017 Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Auction. Online bidding August 10-23

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Marie Bovo at Les Recontres de la photographie, Arles

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Toril Johannessen at Parc Saint Léger as part of the exhibition 'Anthropic Landscape'

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Jone Kvie takes part in the Nordic Biennale of Contemporary Art MOMENTUM 9

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A K Dolven at White Cube, London, as part of the group exhibition 'Dreamers Awake'

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Toril Johannessen at ARoS Focus/New Nordic at ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum 

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Leonard Rickhard in conversation at 'Kunstarbeid' book launch at Litteraturhuset at 6pm

Dag Erik Elgin in conversation with Espen Gleditsch at Bergen Kunsthall at 8pm

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'Oppfinnelsen og avviklingen av øyet' at Hordaland Kunstsenter

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'Stanze' at Giorgio Persano, Torino

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Jone Kvie in artist talk at the Vigeland Museum as part of the exhibition 'Vessels' at 6pm

A conversation between artist Marit Følstad and Sonic Pieces founder and director Monique Recknagel, moderated by Ny Musikk director Anne Hilde Neset.

Saturday 18 March, 2-4pm, at OSL contemporary, 3 Haxthausens gate.

OSL contemporary is pleased to announce the launch of OSL series. A new initiative to stimulate dialoge and open conversations cross disciplines and audiences. 
Launching during the Armory Art Fair, as part of their official VIP program the first series is organized in collaboration with Independent Curators International (ICI) and the Royal Norwegian Consulate General, and is supported by the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA).
Series #1 is a conversation on Norwegian Art featuring artists Vibeke Tandberg and Bjarne Bare, as well as curator Francesca Gavin. The talk is moderated by ICI Executive Director Renaud Proch.

Solo presentation at the Vigeland Museum, Oslo

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