Artist Gardar Eide Einarsson will be in conversation with Ifra Osman, Curatorial Assistant, reflecting on his work  Liberty (2006), and on selected works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection. 

Artist on the Collection offers a close encounter with works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection. The program invites artists featured in our current display to discuss their own work and works by their peers which resonate with their practice. It offers a personal and insightful entry into the collection. 

With a practice spanning installations, sculptures, paintings, photography, video, graphic works, and textiles, Gardar Eide Einarsson has explored questions related to power, oppression, and propaganda since the late 1990s. The work Liberty, currently on display at Astrup Fearnley Museet, consists of a black textile appliquéd with a white crescent moon and the word “liberty” in white block letters. Flag-sized, the work measures 150 × 250 cm. In his investigations into how visible and invisible systems shape society and our lives, Einarsson draws attention to the ways in which power and control manifest themselves through images, symbols, and language.

Gardar Eide Einarsson (b. 1976 in Oslo) is a Norwegian contemporary artist who lives and works in Tokyo. He was educated at, among other institutions, the Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Städelschule in Frankfurt, and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York. Einarsson has held solo exhibitions at numerous international art institutions and participated in renowned biennials, including the Whitney Biennial, Istanbul Biennial, and Sydney Biennial. His works are held in several major public collections worldwide, including MoMA in New York, LACMA, The British Museum, and the National Museum in Oslo.

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