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Recent Acquisitions at Astrup Fearnley Museet

Nicole Eisenman, Perpetual Motion Machine, 2019

The Astrup Fearnley Collection is one of Europe’s leading collections of international contemporary art and is continuously expanding with new acquisitions. Over the past year, the museum has acquired 52 new works, bringing the collection to over 1,500 pieces. 

On March 28, the museum will open a new collection exhibition where several of the latest acquisitions will be presented for the first time, including Shikh Sabbir Alam’s The elephants and the fruits (2022), Nina Beier’s Fleet (2024), Klara Lidén’s Verdebelvedere (2024) and Verdebelvedere Exit (2024), Julia Rommel’s Crafter’s Choice (2024), Kara Walker’s A Burial at the Artist’s Country Estate (2022), and Nicole Eisenman’s monumental sculpture Perpetual Motion Machine (2019). 

Among the other acquired artists are Lutz Bacher (who will be the subject of a comprehensive retrospective exhibition this fall in collaboration with WIELS Centre for Contemporary Art in Brussels: Burning the Days), Silje Figenschou Thoresen, Cato Løland, Mohammed Sami, Nan Goldin, Isabella Ducrot, Wolfgang Tillmans, Cauleen Smith, Leonard Rickhard, Ann Cathrin November Høibo, Samuel Hindolo, Josiane M.H. Pozi, Eva Gold, Lisa Lacroix, Lawrence Weiner, Olav Christopher Jenssen, Vanessa Baird, and Nairy Baghramian. 


Acquired works: 


Shikh Sabbir Alam  
The elephants and the fruits, 2022 


Lutz Bacher 
Jackie  Me
, 1989 
Jokes Billy Graham, 1987 – 1988 
Horse  Shadow, 2010 
Untitled, 2016 


Nairy Baghramian 
Misfits L, 2024 


Vanessa Baird 
Birds dont Fly Through my Skylight Nowadays, 2002 


Nina Beier 
Fleet
, 2024 


Isabella Ducrot 
Brown Dress II, 2024  
Blue memory, 2018 
Small Tendernesses XIV, 2021 
Almost divine I, 2022 


Nicole Eisenman
Perpetual Motion Machine, 2019


Eva Gold  
Acts of Violence after Lynch 1, 2024 
Acts of Violence after Lynch 3, 2024  


Nan Goldin   
Selfportrait in my blue bathroom Berlin, 1991 


Samuel Hindolo  
Saida Two Scenes One Predicament II, 2024  
Saida Two Scenes One Predicament II Study, 2024 
Passageway I , 2024  


Ann Cathrin November Høibo  
Untitled, 2024  


Olav Christopher Jenssen 
 Journal Lagan Laholm August 21st, 2023 
Journal Lagan Laholm August 21st, 2023 
Journal Lagan Laholm August 22nd, 2023 
Journal Berlin Oct 25th, 2023 
Journal Berlin Oct 25th, 2023 
Journal Berlin 17 Jan, 2024 
Journal Berlin 17 Jan, 2024 
Begleiter No 47, 2023 – 2024 
Begleiter No 08, 2023 – 2024 


Liza Lacroix  
isnt my audience what are you doing to me, 2024 


Klara Lidén 
Verdebelvedere, 2024  
Verdebelvedere Exit, 2024 


Cato Løland 
Mouth II, 2024  
Mouth III, 2024  


Josiane M.H. Pozi 
mummas drawing, 2024  
me in bed, 2024 
three judges, 2024 


Leonard Rickhard  
Uten tittel skisser til modellflybygger, 1980 – 2023 


Julia Rommel  
Crafters Choice, 2024 


Mohammed Sami 
Yesterday on Shelves, 2023 


Cauleen Smith  
The Deep West Assembly, 2024  
The Limits of Hospitality, 2023  
Swallowtail Seven Never Surrenders, 2023 
we must become a menace to our enemies
, 2022 
your rock my volcano, 2022  
we have gone as far as we can together, 2022


Silje Figenschou Thoresen
( Fra serien Et stille og beskyttet farvand, de overliggende lag gik uforstyrret hen over den, 2024
Fra serien Et stille og beskyttet farvand, de overliggende lag gik uforstyrret hen over den, 2024
Fra serien Et stille og beskyttet farvand, de overliggende lag gik uforstyrret hen over den, 2024


Wolfgang Tillmans
Domenico Planet, 1992  


Kara Walker
A Burial at the Artists Country Estate, 2022 



Lawrence Weiner
LONG AGO FAR AWAY, 2018