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Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art
12.02.2015 – 03.05.2015
Astrup Fearnley Museet has the pleasure of presenting the exhibition NN-A NN-A NN-A – New Norwegian Abstraction.
Modernism has always had a strong position in Norwegian art and culture. In the past years, one can observe how young Norwegian artists are returning to the mindset and expression of modernism. A particular emphasis is placed on the abstract directions, like abstract expressionism, minimalism and concrete art and has also turned in to a renewed interest for painting and sculpture. The exhibition is focusing on a young generations artists, working with a new, abstract expression. The artists has clear connections with the modernistic inheritance, but is at the same time clearly anchored in its own time and its conceptual terms, techniques and semantic references. NN-A NN-A NN-A will show the contours of a generation that with its artistic expression is about to write a new chapter in Norwegian art history.
Participating artists: Ann Iren Buan, Petter Buhagen, Marie Buskov, Ida Ekblad, Ivan Galuzin, Tiril Hasselknippe, Johanne Hestvold, Marianne Hurum, Marte Johnslien, Henrik Olai Kaarstein, Camilla Løw, Magnhild Øen Nordahl, Anders Sletvold Moe, Aurora Passero, Olve Sande, Fredrik Værslev, Emma Ilja Wyller
Curators: Gunnar B. Kvaran, Hanne Beate Ueland and Therese Möllenhoff
Astrup Fearnley Museet has the pleasure of presenting the exhibition NN-A NN-A NN-A – New Norwegian Abstraction.
Modernism has always had a strong position in Norwegian art and culture. In the past years, one can observe how young Norwegian artists are returning to the mindset and expression of modernism. A particular emphasis is placed on the abstract directions, like abstract expressionism, minimalism and concrete art and has also turned in to a renewed interest for painting and sculpture. The exhibition is focusing on a young generations artists, working with a new, abstract expression. The artists has clear connections with the modernistic inheritance, but is at the same time clearly anchored in its own time and its conceptual terms, techniques and semantic references. NN-A NN-A NN-A will show the contours of a generation that with its artistic expression is about to write a new chapter in Norwegian art history.
Participating artists: Ann Iren Buan, Petter Buhagen, Marie Buskov, Ida Ekblad, Ivan Galuzin, Tiril Hasselknippe, Johanne Hestvold, Marianne Hurum, Marte Johnslien, Henrik Olai Kaarstein, Camilla Løw, Magnhild Øen Nordahl, Anders Sletvold Moe, Aurora Passero, Olve Sande, Fredrik Værslev, Emma Ilja Wyller
Curators: Gunnar B. Kvaran, Hanne Beate Ueland and Therese Möllenhoff
