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  • INFORMATION (Today), Kunsthalle Basel, 2021, view on Marguerite Humeau, Riddles (Jaws), 2017–2021 (front) and Laura Owens, Untitled [SMS +41 79 807 86 34], 2021 (back). Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

    INFORMATION (Today) opens today at Kunsthalle Basel

    The exhibition is produced by Kunsthalle Basel in collaboration with the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, where it will be on view from January 27 – May 1, 2022.

    Encrypted networks, digital currencies, artificial intelligence, data harvesting, algorithmic biases, sentient machines—all are products of twenty-first-century data-based capitalism. The proliferation of information, and data’s nebu

  • Astrup Fearnley Museet reopens with Nicole Eisenman – Giant Without a Body

    Astrup Fearnley Museet reopens with Nicole Eisenman – Giant Without a Body

    The Astrup Fearnley Museet is delighted to announce that it will reopen on Friday 28 May. Originally scheduled to open in February 2021, Nicole Eisenman – Giant Without a Body has been extended through August 29, and we are thrilled to welcome visitors again throughout the summer.
    Giant Without a Body is a major presentation of the work of Nicole Eisenman and her largest solo exhibition in Euro

  • Hans Rasmus Astrup, 1939–2021

    Hans Rasmus Astrup, 1939–2021

    It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Hans Rasmus Astrup on 23 April 2021.
    With his unique commitment to contemporary art, a desire to share his enthusiasm with others, and a clear philanthropic mission, Astrup has had a deep impact on the field of art both in Norway and internationally.
    Hans Rasmus Astrup (b. 1939) held a Cand. Jur. degree in law from the Univer

  • Nicole Eisenman – Giant Without a Body is extended until August 29

    Nicole Eisenman – Giant Without a Body is extended until August 29

    We are very pleased to announce that the exhibition period of Nicole Eisenman – Giant Without a Body has been extended from the original closing date May 23, and will now be on view to August 29.
    The opening of the exhibition was originally scheduled for February 5, but it was postponed due to the Norwegian authorities’ coronavirus measures. It is therefore gratifying that we are able to keep t

  • Nicole Eisenman – Giant Without a Body

    Nicole Eisenman – Giant Without a Body


    Astrup Fearnley Museet’s exhibition programme for 2021 begins with a major presentation of the work of American artist Nicole Eisenman. Eisenman’s largest solo exhibition in Europe to date, Giant Without a Body delves deeply into the artist’s practice from 2006 to the present and includes a number of new paintings and sculptures created over the last year.
    Since the 1990s, Nicole Eisenman

  • EXHIBITION PROGRAMME 2021

    EXHIBITION PROGRAMME 2021

    It is with pleasure that we announce Astrup Fearnley Museet’s exhibition programme for the full 2021. This is also the first year with director and chief curator Solveig Øvstebø in charge of the museum’s programme.
    “In planning the exhibitions, I have considered the museum’s history and institutional position, which in recent years has had one foot firmly planted in the American contemporary ar

  • Josh Kline – Antibodies. Exhibition period 02.10.20 - 03.01.21

    Josh Kline – Antibodies

    Astrup Fearnley Museet is proud to present the first major museum exhibition of the American artist Josh Kline in Scandinavia. Kline has attracted attention in recent years with his thought-provoking artistic practice, which focuses on the technological, economic and biological changes affecting human life in the 21st Century.
    The exhibition Antibodies addresses the precariousness of life and w

  • Alpha Crucis – Contemporary African Art

    Alpha Crucis – Contemporary African Art

    ​Alpha Crucis – Contemporary African Art represents the final instalment of a series of exhibitions launched by director Gunnar B. Kvaran in 2005, exploring the art scenes in different countries and on different continents. The previous exhibitions have presented contemporary art from USA, Brazil, India, China and Europe, and now the focus is on Africa.

  • Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo, Norway hires Solveig Øvstebø as Executive Director

    Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo, Norway hires Solveig Øvstebø as Executive Director

    Founded in 1993, the Astrup Fearnley Museet is one of Scandinavia´s most notable museums for contemporary art. The museum holds the extensive Astrup Fearnley Collection, which includes significant works by artists such as Matthew Barney, Paul Chan, Trisha Donnelly, Ida Ekblad, Matias Faldbakken, Félix González-Torres, Rachel Harrison, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Glenn Ligon, Bjarne Melgaard, Julie M

  • GILBERT & GEORGE THE GREAT EXHIBITION

    GILBERT & GEORGE THE GREAT EXHIBITION

    Two individuals - one artist. For more than fifty years Gilbert & George has created art placing themselves as both subject and object. In THE GREAT EXHIBITION, the artists has selected pictures mirroring their art, just as captivating as it is prolific.

  • Gunnar B. Kvaran and Hans Rasmus Astrup in conversation at Frieze London 2018 (Photo: Javier Auris, NRK)

    Gunnar B. Kvaran steps down as director of Astrup Fearnley Museet

    Gunnar B. Kvaran (64), the director of Astrup Fearnley Museet, is resigning his position as of the beginning of 2020.
    Kvaran has been director since 2001. Earlier this year he informed Hans Rasmus Astrup, who owns the Astrup Fearnley Collection and who established the museum in 1993, that he wished to leave at the end of 2019.
    ‘When Hans Rasmus Astrup stepped down as chairman of the museum

  • New exhibitions: Anselm Kiefer | Private Passion

    New exhibitions: Anselm Kiefer | Private Passion

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    Anselm Kiefer – Books and Woodcuts
    Exhibition Period: May 30 — August 18, 2019
    Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) long hesitated between two practices, writing and painting. Although it was the latter he eventually chose, literature continues to play a preponderant role in his body of work. Through their materiality and aesthetic, books were the first support for his artmaking, and wri

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