Four months change of name and architecture
For the summer’s major exhibition event, the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter will change its name to Henie Onstad Sanatorium, while characteristic installations will transform the building’s architecture.
For the summer’s major exhibition event, the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter will change its name to Henie Onstad Sanatorium, while characteristic installations will transform the building’s architecture.
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (HOK) is pleased to present Myths of the Marble, a unique exhibition collaboration with The Institute of Contemporary (ICA) at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia on view at HOK February 3 through April 2, 2017.
The Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (HOK) is busy preparing for a spectacular exhibition opening on February 19th. Visitors will be invited to enter into Japanse artist Yayoi Kusama's world of colours, patterns and movement. The enormously productive career of this Japanese artist spans over 70 years.
On 24th November, the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (HOK) opened a new exhibition featuring works from its own core collection. Visitors will encounter different thematic narratives and unusual constellations of artworks. The exhibition will be on show throughout the whole of 2016.
With the exhibition Hilma af Klint – A Pioneer of Abstraction, an international success seen by over one million people comes to Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (HOK) at Høvikodden.
For the first time in the Oslo area a selection of works from Christian Bjelland’s private collection will be on public display in a new, major exhibition at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (HOK).
Following the exhibition Human Space Machine: Stage Experiments at the Bauhaus, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (HOK) in Norway is proud to present an exhibition featuring the work of Josef Albers, one of the most influential Bauhaus artists. Welcome to the press preview of Josef Albers: Minimal Means, Maximum Effect at HOK on Thursday 16 September at 10 am.
This year's main contemporary art exhibition at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden Norway. In a short span of time the terror events in Norway of July 22 2011 transformed the experience of normality as it was known and, consequently, the predictable. This exhibtion presents several new commissioned works with an open and inquiring look at our own time
As part of its commitment to the production of contemporary art, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (HOK) has commissioned a new work by Danish artist Lea Porsager: FOOD FOR THE MOON — Sluggish and Well-lubricated, 2013. Porsager was one of the youngest artists represented at Documenta in Kassel last year. Porsagers intallation is presented in a solo exhibition from October 25, through February 16 2014.
For the first time key works from Northern Europe are presented side by side with their European mentors. Unknown to many, the Scandinavian and Baltic artists included played a significant role in the international art scene in the 1920s.
Vast 400 m2 textiles with brightly coloured patterns and figures are suspended from the ceiling. Abstract sounds escape from loudspeakers. In combination, they form the captivating installation OK which will fill the Haaken Hall at the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Norway this summer. The artist behind this work is Are Mokkelbost (37).
The group exhibition Arbeidstid ("Work time") explores the time and space of labor. The exhibition will link historical attitudes towards work, leisure and unemployment to current shifting labor conditions.
The main player at the exhibition Do as you like! is Marie-Louise Ekman, an influential artist of the PUSS group during the 1960s. With this exhibition, the Henie Onstad Art Centre (HOK) in Norway places her wayward art, which embraces everyday surrealism, pop culture, cross dressing and political satire, in an international perspective.