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Less than one week to go! Are you joining us for the opening? 😍 We’re kicking off the 2025 season with two new exhibitions by Christina Quarles and Kathleen Ryan, plus the unveiling of this year’s new sculpture by Nairy Baghramian. Mark your calendar for 4 May! 🤩 Visit our website for the full program 🙌🏻 Repost video by @francescobeggio and @archi.best #kistefos #visìtoslo #visitnorway #visiteastnorway #norway #norwaytravel #norwayphotolovers #christinaquarles #kathleenryan #nairybaghramian

Get to know this year’s sculptor at Kistefos – Nairy Baghramian ✨ ⠀ For the opening of the 2025 season, Kistefos is delighted to be unveiling the 56th permanent work in the museum’s sculpture park: Resting Arms by the Iranian-born, German artist Nairy Baghramian (b. 1971). The sculpture is a highly abstracted portrait of primary joints in the body made in white Carrara marble and steel. Nairy Baghramian was born in 1971 in Isfahn, Iran. She has lived and worked in Berlin since 1984. Baghramian is internationally renowned for her work with large-scale sculpture and installations, which she often makes in reference to architecture and the human body. Her work addresses temporal, spatial and social relationships to language, history, and the present. Baghramian has exhibited widely, including recent solo shows at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Aspen Art Museum, and the Nasher Sculpture Center. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Nasher Prize Laureate (2022) and the Nivola Award for Sculpture (2023). ⠀ Her new sculpture, Resting Arms, will be unveiled at Kistefos on May 4, marking her first permanent work in Northern Europe. Photo: Portrait of Nairy Baghramian. Photo by Nan Coulter. Courtesy of the artist and kurimanzutto, Mexico City, New York. ⠀ #Kistefos #NairyBaghramian #contemporarysculpture #sculpture #restingarms

Only two weeks to go! Are you coming? 😍 We’re opening two new exhibitions: Christina Quarles in The Twist and Kathleen Ryan in Nybruket Gallery and The Pulp Mill. We’re also unveiling this year’s new sculpture: Resting Arms by Nairy Baghramian 🌟 As always, free hot dogs and prosecco for everyone on opening day! 😋 See you on Sunday, May 4th! #kistefos #christinaquarles #kathleenryan #nairybaghramian #seasonopening #artexhibition #sculpture #sculpturepark

Get to know Kathleen Ryan – on view at Kistefos’ Nybruket and Wood Pulp Mill from May 2025 ✨ Kistefos is proud to present the first museum survey of American sculptor Kathleen Ryan, opening 4 May 2025. Spanning the first decade of Ryan’s practice, the exhibition features twenty-five sculptures and is presented across two of Kistefos’ unique exhibition venues: Nybruket Gallery and the industrial-era Wood Pulp Mill. Kathleen Ryan has garnered international acclaim for her inventive use of materials, her emotionally resonant forms, and her exploration of themes including decay, desire, excess, and transformation. Monumental in scale and intricately detailed, Ryan’s works often incorporate found objects such as bowling balls, chandelier fittings, or rusted car bonnets, alongside traditional sculptural materials and glittering semi-precious stones and beads. Ryan’s practice is deeply material-focused, juxtaposing the synthetic and the organic, the mass-produced and the handcrafted, and imbues each component with symbolic and cultural meaning. Her sculptures are layered with time: the labour of making overlaid onto the histories of the objects themselves. Born in 1984 in Santa Monica, California, Ryan lives and works in New Jersey. She holds a BA from Pitzer College and an MFA from UCLA. Her work is held in major international collections and has been exhibited at institutions including the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, and Hamburger Kunsthalle, where she was awarded the Rosa Schapire Art Prize in 2020. Photo: 1. Portrait Kathleen Ryan. Courtesy Gagosian. Photo: Jeff Henrikson. 2. Kathleen Ryan, "Deluxe, 2023". Photo: François Ghebaly. Courtesy of Christen Sveaas Art Collection. 3. Kathleen Ryan, «Bad Cherries», 2021. Belongs to Timothy C. Headington's private collection. © Kathleen Ryan. Photo: Lance Brewer. #kathleenryan #christensveaasart @christensveaasart #badfruit #sculpture

New season, new hosts – welcome to Kistefos Kafé! 😋 ⁠ This year, our good friends at Kunstpause are taking over the kitchen at Kistefos Café. Expect delicious, homemade food using seasonal ingredients—the perfect break between art and nature. ⁠ 🥖 Fancy a picnic in the park? We offer lovely picnic baskets filled with quality ingredients and cosy moments. ⁠ Picnic baskets must be ordered in advance – get in touch via kistefoskafe.no ⁠ P.S. Want to add a bit of bubbly to your basket? Just let us know when you order! 🥂 ⁠ 📍 Kistefos Café is open during the museum’s regular opening hours. Photos: Photo: Nataliia Myronets og Iryna Bukina #kunstpause #kafé #kistefoskafé #piknik #piknikkurv #piknikiparken

Get to know this year’s exhibition artist – Christina Quarles ✨ For the 2025 season, Kistefos is proud to present Living in the Wake, the first major solo exhibition in the Nordic region by acclaimed American artist Christina Quarles (b. 1985). Staged within the architectural landmark The Twist, the exhibition offers a comprehensive survey of Quarles’ work and includes two entirely new paintings created specifically for the show. Quarles is widely celebrated for her fluid, dynamic figuration that grapples with the instability of identity and the complexity of embodiment. Her work challenges the boundaries of legibility and representation, creating spaces where the self can be fragmented, overlapping, and constantly remade. Christina Quarles was born in 1985 in Chicago and lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her MFA from Yale School of Art in 2016. Quarles’ highly distinctive paintings combine figuration with abstraction to explore identity, queerness, race, and the experience of being in a body. Her work has been widely exhibited internationally, with recent solo shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2023); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2023); and South London Gallery (2021). She was featured in the 2022 Venice Biennale and her work is held in the permanent collections of institutions including The Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate, and LACMA. Photo: - Christina Quarles in her studio. Photo: Ilona Szwarc, 2021. Courtesy of the artist and Pilar Corrias, London. - Christina Quarles, «Behold! And Be Held Beside Me». © Christina Quarles. Belongs to Gary Steele and Steven Rice's Private Collection. #christinaquarles #christensveaasart @christensveaasart

📣 Season Opening May 4th - Programme for the day 📣 We’re kicking off the 2025 season with two new exhibitions by Christina Quarles and Kathleen Ryan, and the unveiling of this year’s new sculpture by Nairy Baghramian. Programme May 4th: 10:45 – Exhibition openings in Nybruket Gallery and the Pulp Mill: Kathleen Ryan 11:20 – Unveiling of this year’s sculpture: Nairy Baghramian 11:30 – Official season opening outside The Twist 12:00 – Opening of this year’s exhibition in The Twist: Christina Quarles As per tradition, we’ll be serving complimentary sausages from Kistefos Viltkjøtt and prosecco. The Sculpture Park, the Industrial Museum, the café, and the museum shop open at 11:00. The Twist opens at 12:00. Tickets can be pre-booked via the link in bio, on our website or purchased at the entrances. Kistefos is a spacious site – everyone will get in. Residents of Jevnaker, Lunner, Nittedal, and Gran enjoy free admission courtesy of the Sparebankstiftelsen. Please present your name and address upon entry. We look forward to welcoming you! 😍 Tickets can be pre-booked via the link in the bio, on our website, or purchased at the entrances. Kistefos is a spacious site—everyone will get in. #seasonopening #artexhibition #sculpturepark

@artbasel has named Christina Quarles’ exhibition at Kistefos one of the most important shows in Europe this spring! From the article: "Why it matters: Subverts notions of identity, gender, and desire – all within an architectural wonder." "Just as the building disrupts notions of what a museum can look like, Quarles’s work upends conceptions of the body, gender, identity, and desire through colorful, intertwined, and outstretched bodies – which through a prolonged gaze also reveal fragmented and disjointed limbs." We’re thrilled to welcome you to this thought-provoking exhibition, opening Sunday, 4 May! 😍 Artwork: 'Behold! And Be Held Beside Me', Christina Quarles. © Christina Quarles. Courtesy the Private Collection of Gary Steele and Steven Rice. #christinaquarles

Takk til alle som kom på måneskinnsvandring i skulpturparken i går! Det ble en riktig så stemningsfull kveld, med klarvær og fullmåne 🌕 Vi gleder oss allerede til neste år - blir du med? 😍

We are pleased to announce the architect shortlist for our new site-specific standalone museum. The new museum building will become a permanent home for the significant art collection built up by museum founder, investor and art collector Christen Sveaas @christensveaasart The shortlist was chosen from an invited list and includes celebrated and emerging architects (in alphabetical order): • BIG (DK) @big_builds • Christ & Gantenbein (CH) @christgantenbein • Ensamble Studio (ES) @anton_ensamble • Jensen & Skodvin / Hølmebakk Øymo (NO) @jensen_skodvin_architects @holmebakk_oymo • Kengo Kuma and Associates (JP) @kkaa_official • Lina Ghotmeh – Architecture (FR) @linaghotmeh_architecture • Snøhetta (NO) @snohetta • SO-IL (US) @solidobjectives The project benefits from a picturesque site within the wider Kistefos sculpture park and post-industrial campus. For over 30 years, Kistefos has developed a highly distinctive identity—integrating art, architecture, nature, and people. Our expansive sculpture park features 55 world-class works by artists such as Yayoi Kusama, Claes Oldenburg, Olafur Eliasson, and Pierre Huyghe, many of which are site-specific. The winner announcement is expected in early autumn 2025. @malcolmreadingconsultants #architecturecompetition #shortlist #architectural #kistefos Photo: Laurian Ghinitoiu Benjamin A Ward Jon Christian Bjone, Studio Hei

🔴 🔵 Pop art in the snow 🔵 🔴 The sculpture 'Tumbling Tacks' can best be described as four oversized push pins falling down the hillside where the old aerial cableway once stood. The design is inspired by the site’s industrial history, with paper as a common thread between the tacks and the wood pulp once produced at A/S Kistefos Træsliberi. A great example of pop art by Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen. Photo by @tomaszmajewski.no 🙏🏻 #oldenburg #claesoldenburgcoosjevanbruggen #popartstyle #artinnature #sculpturelovers #kistefos

📅 SAVE THE DATE – SEASON OPENING MAY 4, 2025! 📅 In 2025, we proudly present an exciting programme featuring Christina Quarles, Kathleen Ryan, and Nairy Baghramian – three internationally acclaimed artists exploring the body as both a physical form and a cultural symbol. - In The Twist, Christina Quarles presents a solo exhibition of her dynamic, color-saturated paintings, challenging perceptions of identity, gender, and perspective. - In Nybruket Gallery and The Wood Pulp Mill, Kathleen Ryan’s monumental sculptures – often inspired by everyday objects – play with themes of decay, decadence, and consumerism. - In the sculpture park, Nairy Baghramian unveils Resting Arms, a striking marble and steel sculpture exploring the body’s fragility and strength. We also continue our commitment to new curatorial voices with ‘Springbrett’ 2025, an exhibition curated by emerging talent Liv Brissach, based on works from the Christen Sveaas Art Foundation. Mark your calendars and stay tuned for more! ✨ #christinaquarles #katleenryan #nairybaghramian #springbrett #christensveaasart @visitoslo @visiteastnorway #visitoslo #visiteastnorway