Space Making | Press preview 28 May 12:00-14:00
Space Making is an exhibition addressing depth and spatiality in painting. It features the work of eight artists, who span generations and bridge contemporary positions with historical context.
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Between Rivers | Press preview 17 October 2024
Between Rivers brings together the practices of contemporary artists who respond to the place of rivers in our lives at a moment when they are being profoundly reshaped by human activity.
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Silje Figenschou Thoresen - "Et stille og beskyttet farvand, de overliggende lag gik uforstyrret hen over den"
A quiet and protected water, the layers above it, passing undisturbed is a new site-specific commission by Silje Figenschou Thoresen. Its permeable form is created through the gathering of diverse objects into groups, which are often stacked precariously on top of one another.
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The Deep West Assembly - Cauleen Smith | Press preview 13 June 2024
Astrup Fearnley Museet presents a solo exhibition of work by multidisciplinary American artist and filmmaker Cauleen Smith (b. 1967, Riverside, California; lives and works in Los Angeles).
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Leonard Rickhard, Between Construction and Collapse
Leonard Rickhard
Between Construction and Collapse
26 January – 19 May 2024
Astrup Fearnley Museet’s first exhibition of 2024 is devoted to the painter Leonard Rickhard. Over a long artistic career, Rickhard cultivated a distinctive, easily recognizable style—a visual signature that is all its own within recent Norwegian art history. For the public, and for a younger generation of art -
Before Tomorrow - Astrup Fearnley Museet 30 Years | Opening 22 June
Exhibition period: 22 June - 8 October 2023
Astrup Fearnley Museet is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary in 2023. To mark this significant milestone, the museum is undertaking an extensive exhibition titled Before Tomorrow featuring works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, which will fill the museum’s two buildings designed by Renzo Piano.
With more than 100 works on display, Be -
Rachel Harrison: Sitting in a Room | Opening 30 September
Exhibition period: 30.09.2022–12.02.2023
On September 30, the Astrup Fearnley Museet will open an exhibition by American artist Rachel Harrison, her largest in Scandinavia to date. Spanning mediums that include sculpture, drawing, photography, and painting, Sitting in a Room has an emphasis on recent practice.
Harrison’s nimble, layered method of artmaking escapes easy categorization. Abstra -
Synnøve Anker Aurdal | Opening 21 May
Exhibition period: 21.05.–04.09.2022
This year’s summer exhibition is devoted to Synnøve Anker Aurdal (1908–2000), one of Norway’s foremost textile artists. The presentation features works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection alongside key pieces loaned from other collections in Norway, a number of which have rarely or never before been shown in public. Together, these works illustrate the f -
Nora Adwan – Sang i et fremmed land
Nora Adwan – Sang i et fremmed land opening Saturday, 23 April at 14:00
Exhibition period: 23 April – 7 August 2022
As part of the exhibition program 2022, Nora Adwan has been invited to produce a commissioned work especially for the Astrup Fearnley Museet. Adwan works with sculpture, film, sound, and technology. In her works she draws on different geographical contexts and her own, personal -
INFORMATION (Today)
Like it or not, we are surrounded. There is no escape from the incessant flow of information that drives this twenty-first-century, data-based capitalism. Encrypted networks, digital currencies, artificial intelligence, data harvesting, algorithmic biases, sentient machines: these are just some of its effects. The proliferation of information, and data’s nebulous modes of circulating now fundament
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The Astrup Fearnley Museet presents its exhibition program for 2022
Welcome to a new year at the museum! The program ranges from a thematic group exhibition to a retrospective presentation and new productions. In 2022 the spaces at the institution will be used in different ways, and we have, among others, invited a young artist to develop a temporary installation in our permanent collection building. Furthermore, we will launch a series of lectures in the fall, wh
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SISSEL TOLAAS RE________
Exhibition Period: October 08 — December 30, 2021
In the course of a single day, each of us breathes in and out around 24,000 times. With every breath, irresistible signals are sent straight to the brain – smells, which in a matter of nanoseconds trigger emotions and memories, stirring up the subconscious in turn. For Sissel Tolaas, smell is a vital yet often overlooked tool for communication.
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