{"id":6445,"date":"2025-08-01T14:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T14:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/en\/?post_type=exhibition&#038;p=6445"},"modified":"2025-08-01T14:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T14:51:11","slug":"knut-asdam-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/en\/exhibitions\/knut-asdam-retrospective\/","title":{"rendered":"Knut \u00c5sdam &#8211; Retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull has-neutral-50-background-color has-background-dim is-style-hero\"><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\"><span class=\"wp-block-afm-label medium aligncenter wp-block-afm-block-post-type has-text-color has-neutral-1000-color\">Exhibition<\/span>\n\n<h1 class=\"has-text-align-center aligncenter wp-block-post-title has-text-color has-neutral-1000-color\">Knut \u00c5sdam &#8211; Retrospective<\/h1>\n\n<span class=\"aligncenter wp-block-afm-block-post-dates\">06. May. 2006 &#8211; 03. Sep. 2006<\/span>\n\n<figure class=\"alignwide wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1316\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/ypl3ovfp.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/ypl3ovfp.png 2000w, https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/ypl3ovfp-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/ypl3ovfp-1024x674.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/ypl3ovfp-768x505.png 768w, https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/ypl3ovfp-1536x1011.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<div class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-excerpt has-text-color has-neutral-1000-color\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Knut \u00c5sdam (b 1968) is one of Norway&#8217;s most internationally distinguished young artists. He uses film, video, photography, text, sound and architecture to probe the borders between subject and setting.\u00a0 <\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Life in the contemporary urban scene is one of the recurring themes in \u00c5sdam&#8217;s experimental work which seeks to exhume the subconscious layers of city life and their affect on people&#8217;s individual personality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00c5sdam has been showing his work internationally for more than a decade, among other things representing Norway at the 1999 Venice Biennial. This exhibition will be showing a selection of his major works, including the 1993 video \u2018Come to Your Own&#8217; and his latest film, \u2018Blissed&#8217; (2005). \u00c5sdam uses an extensive array of references to everything from architecture to philosophy, politics to club culture, sexuality and desire to construct experimental situations that allow a critical examination of the social fabric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knut \u00c5sdam (b 1968) is one of Norway&#8217;s most internationally distinguished young artists. 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