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  • Kathleen Ryans first museum survey opened at Kistefos on 4 May. Photo: Tor S. Ulstein/KUNSTDOK.

    Kathleen Ryan – museum survey opened at Kistefos

    Kistefos is proud to present the first major museum exhibition of American sculptor Kathleen Ryan. Following its debut at Hamburger Kunsthalle in 2024, the exhibition opened at Kistefos on 4 May 2025. Showcasing works from the first decade of Ryan’s artistic practice, the exhibition features twenty-five sculptures displayed across two venues: Nybruket Gallery and the industrial-era Tresliperiet.

  • Installation view from exhibition Christina Quarles, Living in the Wake at Kistefos, 04. May to 12. October 2025 © Christina Quarles © Kistefos. Photo: Vegard Kleven

    Christina Quarles – Living in the Wake opened at Kistefos

    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.

  • Utstillingen Christina Quarles – Living in the Wake åpnet på Kistefos 4. mai. Foto: Vegard Kleven.

    Christina Quarles – Living in the Wake åpnet på Kistefos

    På sesongåpningen til Kistefos søndag 4. mai åpnet Living in the Wake – den første store soloutstillingen i Norge med den anerkjente amerikanske kunstneren Christina Quarles (f. 1985). Utstillingen vises i det arkitektoniske landemerket The Twist og gir en omfattende presentasjon av Quarles’ kunstnerskap, inkludert to helt nye malerier laget spesielt for anledningen.

  • Christina Quarles, «Bless Tha Nightn’gale», 2019. Courtesy of the artist and Christen Sveaas Art Collection.

    Kistefos presents 2025 programme

    In 2025, Kistefos will present an exhibition programme with works by three internationally renowned contemporary artists: Christina Quarles, Kathleen Ryan and Nairy Baghramian. Through the theme ‘The Corporeal and Intersectionality’, this year's programme invites an in-depth reflection on the body as both physical form and cultural symbol, while offering visually striking artistic experiences.

  • Hurvin Anderson: Salon Paintings on display in The Twist, Kistefos Museum, Norway. Photo: Vegard Kleven

    Hurvin Anderson: Salon Paintings opened at Kistefos Museum

    Kistefos is delighted to announce the first solo exhibition in Norway of paintings and drawings by acclaimed British artist Hurvin Anderson. Salon Paintings surveys Anderson’s celebrated Barbershop Series, from the earliest Barbershop paintings and related Studio Drawings he made in 2006, through to new paintings on view for the first time with which the series culminates.

  •  Photo: Hurvin Anderson, Afrosheen, 2009. Courtesy the artist and Christen Sveaas’ Art Collection. All Rights Reserved, DACS_Artimage 2023.

    Hurvin Anderson: Salon Paintings opening at Kistefos Museum 04 May–13 October 2024

    Kistefos is delighted to announce the first solo exhibition in Norway of paintings and drawings by acclaimed British artist Hurvin Anderson. The exhibition focuses on Anderson’s celebrated Barbershop series as a lens through which to understand Anderson’s wider practice and unique sense of history, memory and place.