Recent Acquisitions at Astrup Fearnley Museet

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
