2025
Oslo, Norway
Hans/Jean Arp & Sophie Taeuber-Arp - Friends, Lovers, Partners
“Kanskje årets viktigste utstilling.”
- Lars Elton, Dagsavisten
“Det er nok den vakreste utstillingen du kan se nå.”
- Line Ulekleiv, Kunstavisen
Hans/Jean Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp were two pioneers of 20th-century abstract art. Friends, Lovers, Partners is the largest retrospective exhibition dedicated to the artist couple in 35 years.
The exhibition offers a unique opportunity to experience Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s colourful, abstract, and geometric works alongside Arp’s organic forms, collages, and sculptures. In addition to their individual pieces, several of their collaborative works are also on display.
The exhibition provides a rich presentation of Arp and Taeuber-Arp’s artistic legacy. Around 250 works and objects—including paintings, sculptures, collages, drawings, textiles, jewellery, reliefs, photographs, books, and archival documents.
Team: Hans/Jean Arp & Sophie Taeuber-Arp - Friends, Lovers, Partners is curated by Walburga Krupp in cooperation with Caroline Ugelstad.
Designed by +groma (Andrea Pinochet, Daniel Romm).
On view:
21. February – 11. May 2025
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo
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- Lars Elton, Dagsavisten
“Det er nok den vakreste utstillingen du kan se nå.”
- Line Ulekleiv, Kunstavisen
Hans/Jean Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp were two pioneers of 20th-century abstract art. Friends, Lovers, Partners is the largest retrospective exhibition dedicated to the artist couple in 35 years.
The exhibition offers a unique opportunity to experience Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s colourful, abstract, and geometric works alongside Arp’s organic forms, collages, and sculptures. In addition to their individual pieces, several of their collaborative works are also on display.
The exhibition provides a rich presentation of Arp and Taeuber-Arp’s artistic legacy. Around 250 works and objects—including paintings, sculptures, collages, drawings, textiles, jewellery, reliefs, photographs, books, and archival documents.
Team: Hans/Jean Arp & Sophie Taeuber-Arp - Friends, Lovers, Partners is curated by Walburga Krupp in cooperation with Caroline Ugelstad.
Designed by +groma (Andrea Pinochet, Daniel Romm).
On view:
21. February – 11. May 2025
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo
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2024
Oslo, Norway
Christian Skredsvig - Towards the Modern
Christian Skredsvig lived in Bærum for a long time and painted several motifs from, among other places, Sandvika, Høvik and Fleskum. He is linked to art traditions deeply rooted in the 19th century and not immediately to thoughts about the modern.
Nevertheless, the curatorial ambition of the exhibition Christian Skredsvig – Towards the Modern is to highlight Skredsvig's modernity. Not by claiming that he broke through as a modernist himself, but by showing the ambitions, conflicts and choices that he as an artist was confronted with on the way to such an artistic goal.
Team: Christian Skredsvig - Towards the Modern is curated by Øystein Sjåstad, Victor Plahte Tschudi and Caroline Ugelstad.
Designed by +groma (Andrea Pinochet, Daniel Romm).
On view:
08. November – 02. March 2025
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo
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Nevertheless, the curatorial ambition of the exhibition Christian Skredsvig – Towards the Modern is to highlight Skredsvig's modernity. Not by claiming that he broke through as a modernist himself, but by showing the ambitions, conflicts and choices that he as an artist was confronted with on the way to such an artistic goal.
Team: Christian Skredsvig - Towards the Modern is curated by Øystein Sjåstad, Victor Plahte Tschudi and Caroline Ugelstad.
Designed by +groma (Andrea Pinochet, Daniel Romm).
On view:
08. November – 02. March 2025
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo
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2024
Oslo, Norway
Alia Farid: Bneid Al Gar
| Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award
Alia Farid: Bneid Al Gar is her largest solo exhibition to date and it showcases four crucial works from the artist’s career alongside new works on paper.
Kuwaiti-Puerto Rican artist Alia Farid (b. 1985) works with a range of media including textile, drawing, film, and sculpture to make visible the registers of narratives, stories, and ways of knowing omitted by western hegemony. The exhibition title Bneid Al Gar, Arabic for land of tar, refers to Farid's experiences growing up in an area of Kuwait where large bruise-like stains of oil once punctuated the surface of the earth.
Team: Alia Farid: Bneid Al Gar is curated by Caroline Ugelstad and co-curator María Inés Rodríguez.
Designed by +groma (Andrea Pinochet, Daniel Romm).
On view:
13. September – 05. January 2025
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo
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Kuwaiti-Puerto Rican artist Alia Farid (b. 1985) works with a range of media including textile, drawing, film, and sculpture to make visible the registers of narratives, stories, and ways of knowing omitted by western hegemony. The exhibition title Bneid Al Gar, Arabic for land of tar, refers to Farid's experiences growing up in an area of Kuwait where large bruise-like stains of oil once punctuated the surface of the earth.
Team: Alia Farid: Bneid Al Gar is curated by Caroline Ugelstad and co-curator María Inés Rodríguez.
Designed by +groma (Andrea Pinochet, Daniel Romm).
On view:
13. September – 05. January 2025
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo
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2024
Bergen, Norway
Urfolkshistorier | Histórias indígenas
The exhibition presents different accounts of indigenous experience from South America, North America, Oceania, and the Nordic region, through art and visual culture, curated by artists and researchers who are indigenous or of indigenous descent.
The show will bring together around 285 works of multiple media, typologies, origins and periods, from the period before European colonization to the present, by more than 170 artists.
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Team: Indigenous Histories is curated by Abraham Cruzvillegas, artist (Mexico City); Alexandra Kahsenni:io Nahwegahbow, Jocelyn Piirainen, Michelle LaVallee and Wahsontiio Cross, National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa); Bruce Johnson-McLean, National Gallery of Australia (Canberra); Edson Kayapó, Kássia Borges Karajá and Renata Tupinambá, MASP (São Paulo); Irene Snarby, Kode (Bergen/Tromsø); Nigel Borell, Auckland War Memorial Museum (Auckland) and Sandra Gamarra (Lima).
Designed by +groma (Andrea Pinochet, Ingrid Dale).
On view:
26. April – 25. August 2024
KODE Bergen, Stenersen
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The show will bring together around 285 works of multiple media, typologies, origins and periods, from the period before European colonization to the present, by more than 170 artists.
+ Read about the exhibition team here
Team: Indigenous Histories is curated by Abraham Cruzvillegas, artist (Mexico City); Alexandra Kahsenni:io Nahwegahbow, Jocelyn Piirainen, Michelle LaVallee and Wahsontiio Cross, National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa); Bruce Johnson-McLean, National Gallery of Australia (Canberra); Edson Kayapó, Kássia Borges Karajá and Renata Tupinambá, MASP (São Paulo); Irene Snarby, Kode (Bergen/Tromsø); Nigel Borell, Auckland War Memorial Museum (Auckland) and Sandra Gamarra (Lima).
Designed by +groma (Andrea Pinochet, Ingrid Dale).
On view:
26. April – 25. August 2024
KODE Bergen, Stenersen
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2024
Oslo, Norway
Atlanterhavet —Myter, kunst, vitenskap
The Atlantic Ocean is a large-scale celebration of the northern sea that has shaped Norway and made the country an international actor, but also critically examines human practices on and in the sea. The exhibition includes around 140 works and objects ranging from original maps from the 15th century to contemporary works. By examining themes such as mapping and extraction, work and leisure at sea, ecology, and migration, the exhibition conveys the importance of the sea for humans across time and space.
The exhibition is part of a series of interdisciplinary exhibitions in which Henie Onstad delves into current societal issues across culture and nature.
26. April 2024 – 15. September 2024
The exhibition is part of a series of interdisciplinary exhibitions in which Henie Onstad delves into current societal issues across culture and nature.
26. April 2024 – 15. September 2024
Team: Curated by Susanne Østby Sæther, Stefanie Hessler and Knut Ljøgodt. Designed by +groma (Andrea Pinochet, Ingrid Dale).