International Forum Oslo
The Art Committee is pleased to invite you on a guided tour at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art on February 6. At the end of January, the Museum opens a great exhibition with contemporary African art, which will display the originality and diversity of seventeen African artists living and working in sub-Saharan Africa. […]
This exhibition presents the remarkable series of etchings and engravings, the Picasso’s Suite 347, which consists of 347 remarkable works by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973). The works are among the last hand-signed etchings and engravings Picasso ever created, and the series has only been presented in its entirety once before, also then at the Henie Onstad […]
The Arts Committee invites you to the next exhibition at KunstStallen in Oslo. The Gallery has not released all the information yet, but the exhibition opens on March 27. We will give you more details in the next Newsletter. We think this will be an important event. So please make a note of the date! Date […]
Welcome back to the Art Committee’s activities! Because of the Corona pandemic, we have chosen an outdoor event in September. This year marks the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion of Norway in 1940 and the 75thanniversary of the liberation in May 1945. Overlooking the City of Oslo, a spectacular art project on Norway during […]
The Art Committee invites you to walk through Ekebergparken to see some of the new sculptures and installations. We hope to be able to see "The Mist", which is activated four times a day until mid-October, starting at 12:30. Hopefully we shall have some fun and make a video of ourselves at Marina Abramocich's "Scream" […]
This visit is cancelled due to Covid-19 regulations. The Astrup Fearnley Museet is proud to present the first major Scandinavian museum exhibition of the American artist Josh Kline. Kline has attracted attention in recent years with his thought-provoking artistic practice, which focuses on the technological, economic and biological changes affecting human life in the 21st century.
TENTATIVELY. We have to await the Cocid-19 instructions for mid-Aril before sending an invitation. This sculpture park was opened in 2013 in Groruddalen in Oslo (Smedstua). At the opening there were nine sculptures, and more are constantly being added. Most of us have probably never heard of it! This promises to be an exciting new […]
Giant Without A Body: Guided Tour at the Astrup Fearnley Museum, Strandpromenaden 2, 0252 Oslo PRICE: NOK 105.- by Vipps 591747 or by bank payment to the Forum account: 1600 40 36631. No cash will be handled. Please mention the event in the transaction. Entrance to Astrup Fearnley 130.- paid at the entrance Max number of participants: […]
The Art Committee is very pleased to invite you to a guided tour of this exhibition, which showcases the German avant-garde artist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) and his artist colleagues. Schwitters was one of the most distinctive and versatile artists of the first half of the 1900s, and the artistic tactics and strategies that he developed […]
The Art Committee has the pleasure of inviting you on a guided tour at TBS Gallery. The gallery houses a permanent collection of Tore Bjørn Skjølsvik and shows a selection of sculptures, paintings and drawings by the 82-year-old artist. Recent works includes statues and intense portrayals of famous sport personalities, politicians and royalty. If we […]
The Art Committee is pleased to invite you on a guided tour of the exhibition INFORMATION (Today) at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art. Encrypted networks, digital currencies, artificial intelligence, data harvesting, algorithmic biases, sentient machines – all are products of 21st century data-based capitalism. The proliferation of information, and data’s nebulous modes of […]
ART COMMITTEE Visit to Sculptor Kirsten Kokkin’s Studio and Gallery April 6 at 11:45 for 12:00 Kirsten Kokkin is one of the most renowned and famous figurative sculptors, not only in Norway, but also in the USA, where she has numerous public installations in many different states. She has her academic education from the Norwegian […]
This year’s summer exhibition at the Astrup Fearnley Museum on May 31 will feature significant works by Synnøve Anker Aurdal (1908 – 2000), who was one of Norway’s most prominent textile artists. Her vast knowledge of both the Norwegian weaving tradition and the contemporary art discourse made her a true pioneer within the field. In […]
The 134th Annual Autumn Exhibition is organised by the Association of Norwegian Visual Artists at their exhibition hall. All artists living in Norway, as well as those living abroad, may apply to participate in this popular event. The primary prerequisite is that the works must be new; i.e. created within the last two years. All […]
Henie Onstad Art Centre November 24 The art committee invites you to join us on a guided tour at the Henie Onstad Art Centre for a retrospective of Niki de Saint Phalle. Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) made a name for herself on the international art scene during the late 1950s and early 1960s, developing […]
Grayson Perry’s exhibition Fitting in and Standing Out The New National Museum in Oslo. Grayson Perry is one of Britain’s most celebrated and internationally acclaimed contemporary artists. This is his first-ever solo exhibition in Norway. An exhibition not to be missed! In 2003, Perry won the prestigious Turner Prize for his innovative pictorial stories and […]
Flytårnet Kultursenter is located in the old workshops around the control tower of what was Oslo’s airport, Fornebu. There are nearly 100 studios and workshops for artists, wood carvers, ceramicists, sculpturers, glassworkers, frame makers and interior designers, in addition to four galleries: Volart, Galleri DC-3, Galleri Odonata and Bærum Kunsthall. The buildings are also home […]
The exhibition sheds light on a highly topical, but little-known side to Marc Chagall – his works from the 1930s and 40s, when his colourful palette took on a darker hue. Chagall is one of the most celebrated of the early European modernist artists: a distinguished painter, graphic artist, stage set designer and producer of […]
Guided tour of the annual exhibition at Blaafarveværket The National Museum of Stockholm visits Blaafarveværket (The Kittelsen museum has an exhibition of Fredrik Skavlan) Blaafarveværket offers a very special event this summer showing 70 works of art from the Swedish National Museum. Some of the artists will be Carl Larsson, Anders Zorn, Bruno Liljefors and […]
Every Atom is Colour Harriet Backer at the National Museum October 19 The Art Committee invites you to rediscover the works of one of Norway’s most prominent painters, Harriet Backer. In this exhibition entitled Every Atom is Colour, we will be introduced to a large collection of her paintings which illustrate the life and times […]
Leonard Rickhard Between Construction and Collapse Thursday, March 7 Astrup Fearnley Museum The museum’s first exhibition in 2024 is devoted to the Norwegian artist Leonard Rickhard. Over the years, Rickhard has cultivated a distinctive, easily recognisable artistic style in his body of work. His figurative paintings are inhabited by solitary figures in intimate interiors, or […]
NATIONAL MUSEUM Vasily Kandinsky: The Father of Western Abstraction The Art Committee invites you to an exhibition of the artist who is generally hailed as the founder of abstraction in western art. Born in Moscow on December 4, 1866, Kandinsky spent much of his early life in Odessa. Although fascinated with art from a young […]
Mark Rothko: Paintings On Paper August 22 Mark Rothko’s luminous paintings revitalised abstract art and made him one of the most important artists of the last century. With nearly 80 works, the exhibition at the National Museum is the first major presentation of Rothko’s work in the Nordic region. Mark Rothko, No Title, 1969, National Gallery […]
Anna Eva Bergman Visual and Graphic Artist and Painter Thursday, September 12 Anna Eva Bergman was born in Stockholm in 1909 but was raised in Norway. She studied at the National Academy of Craft and Art Industry in Oslo. Light, poetry and landscape are central in Anna Eva Bergman’s art. Her pictures evoke a sense […]
Henie Onstad Art Centre Alia Farid: Bneid Al Gar Thursday, October 17 Alia Farid is a Kuwaiti-Puerto Rican artist born in 1985, who works with a range of media including textiles, drawing, film and sculpture. She is passionate about creating in a visual form the shared conversations among people and the ecologies they inhabit in […]
Else Hagen: Between Humans Thursday, January 16 Else Hagen is known for her visually rich artistic production. She worked with painting, graphics and site-specific works in public buildings. She executed several large commissions, including the large mosaic Samfunn (‘Society’) in the stairwell of the Norwegian Parliament. Using a modern abstract idiom, her works challenge traditional […]
THE ART COMMITTEE Guided tour of Bærum Town Hall and Its Art Collection Thursday, March 13 Bærum Town Hall, built in 1895 by architect Hjalmar Welhaven, is a significant piece of Bærum’s architectural history. However, as the municipality grew in size and population, the building became too small for the expanding community. In response […]
