{"id":6457,"date":"2025-08-01T15:14:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T15:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/en\/?post_type=exhibition&#038;p=6457"},"modified":"2025-08-01T15:14:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T15:14:03","slug":"lights-on-norsk-samtidskunst","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/en\/exhibitions\/lights-on-norsk-samtidskunst\/","title":{"rendered":"LIGHTS ON &#8211; Norsk samtidskunst"},"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\">LIGHTS ON &#8211; Norsk samtidskunst<\/h1>\n\n<span class=\"aligncenter wp-block-afm-block-post-dates\">12. Jan. 2008 &#8211; 23. Mar. 2008<\/span>\n\n<figure class=\"alignwide wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/lights-on.webp\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/lights-on.webp 2000w, https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/lights-on-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/lights-on-1024x682.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/lights-on-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/lights-on-1536x1024.webp 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\">After Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art first directed its attention towards up and coming American artists, through the exhibition \u2018Uncertain States of America\u2019 (2005), and this last autumn devoted an exhibition to some of the youngest Chinese contemporary artists, the time has come to look at things closer to home and to put together&hellip; <\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>(scroll down for programme)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through the last decade we have witnessed a steadily increasing globalization of contemporary art. Artists throughout the world focus on research problems with similar contents, forms and artistic languages, even if not exactly the same. Norwegian artists are acknowledged as being part of a larger artistic milieu \u2013 a milieu in which they, with increasing enthusiasm, have become more visible and active participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Young Norwegian contemporary artists, most with an impressive academic education, seem more concerned with object-based rather than process-oriented art. Most work from post-conceptual premises and realize their artistic ideas through sculptures, architecture\/installations, videos, sound works, photographs and paintings. Most artists in this exhibition work with a narrative pictorial language, often including text references and pictograms firmly rooted in everyday memories and popular culture. Some reflect over the appropriation of pictures, objects and art-historical references, others focus on perception and the physicality of objects. Another tendency is to explore the metaphysical and mystical realm. Yet in spite of the copious variety and forms of expression, in almost all the artist one finds a critical closeness to society and a will to create meaningful, socially relevant art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Participating artists are: Jesper Alv\u00e6r\/Isabela Grosseov\u00e1, Thora Dolven Balke, Siri Berqvam, Kyrre Bj\u00f8rk\u00e5s\/Rune Andreassen, Ole Martin Lund B\u00f8, Bj\u00f8rn B\u00e5sen, Jan Christensen, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Ida Ekblad, Jan Hakon Erichsen, Matias Faldbakken, Jan Freuchen, Ivan Galuzin, Anna Sigmond Gudmundsdottir, Ane Mette Hol, H\u00e5vard Homstvedt, Lars Kjemphol\/Espen Henningsen, Maren Juell Kristensen, Hj\u00f8rdis Kur\u00e5s, Ingvild Langg\u00e5rd, J\u00f8rgen Craig Lello\/Tobias Arnell, Trine Lise Nedreaas, Martin Skauen, Eirin St\u00f8en, Stian \u00c5dlandsvik and \u00d8ystein Aasan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aiming to arrange a dynamic exhibition concept the museum has invited young curators to create \u2018exhibitions within the exhibition\u2019. From this starting point, we have reserved one central exhibition room in the museum and called it \u2018the Guest Room\u2019. It will be devoted to temporary exhibitions under the aegis of artist-driven, non-commercial galleries. Throughout the exhibition period we will present exhibitions by Bastard (based in Oslo) curator: Anders Smebye (12 Jan. \u2013 27 Jan.); Blunk (based in Trondheim) curators: Lina Berglund, Kristoffer Henriksson, Freia Uta Beer and Aylin Soyer Tangen (31 Jan. \u2013 10 Feb.); Rakett (based in Bergen) curators: \u00c5se L\u00f8vgren and Karolin Tampere (14 Feb. \u2013 2 March); and Rekord (based in Oslo) curators: Thora Dolven Balke, Ingvild Langg\u00e5rd and Eirin St\u00f8en (6 March \u2013 23 March). These galleries have a \u2018carte blanche\u2019 to present what they see as the most interesting and significant contemporary Norwegian art. In this way the exhibition will extend beyond the curator\u2019s initial intentions, and will, for short periods, add surprising glimpses into Norwegian contemporary art that were not initially planned as part of the exhibition.<br><br><strong>Exhibitions in &#8216;guest room&#8217;<\/strong><br><br><strong>Bastard<\/strong>&nbsp;presented the exhibition &#8216;Monumento Mori&#8217; (12 Jan.-27 Jan.), which dealt with monumental changes; death, regeneration and metamorphosis. Participating artists are: Marte Johnslien, Lina Viste Gr\u00f8nli, Anders Smebye, Lars Laumann, Jan B\u00fcnning and Simon R\u00fchle.&nbsp;<br><br><strong>Blunk<\/strong>&nbsp;presents the exhibition &#8216;What there is and what you see&#8217; (31 Jan &#8211; 10 Feb). Participating artists: Kjersti Foyn, Kristofer Henriksson, Christina Reenberg Jensen, Lars Skjelbreia and Lisa St\u00e5lspets. Curators: Lina Berglund, Kristofer Henriksson, Uta Freia&nbsp;Beer og Aylin&nbsp;Soyer Tangen.<br><br><strong>Rakett<\/strong>&nbsp;presents &#8216;Investigation of a Model of Influence \u2013 including use of subversive strategies and attempts of aesthetic practice and experience&#8217;<br>(14 Feb &#8211; 2 March) Paricipating: Espen Sommer Eide &amp; Arne Skaug Olsen, Michael Baers, Geir Tore Holm &amp; S\u00f8ssa J\u00f8rgensen, Linus Elmes, Magdalena Ziolkowska, Kristin T\u00e5rnesvik, Matt Packer, Ron Sluik, Maaretta Jaukkuri, Tal Ben Zvi, Tone Hansen, Yvette Brackman, Matei Bejenaru and Insert Name Here (Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen and Jenny Yurshansky) and Camila Marambio. Curated by \u00c5se L\u00f8vgren&nbsp;and Karolin Tampere. Scroll down for programme details.<br><br><strong>Rekord<\/strong>&nbsp;presents the exhibition &#8216;Pineapple, or knife? Iceberg, or volcano?&#8217; (6 March-23 March)&nbsp;Participating artists:&nbsp;Kjersti Andvig, Kristian \u00d8verland Dahl, Trine Falch &amp; Ingvild Holm, Marianne Hurum, Anette Stav Johannessen, Are Mokkelbost, Linn Anita Pedersen, Christina Peel, Kristian Skylstad &amp; Vilde Skylstad, Ulf Styren, Jorunn Myklebust Syversen, Monica Winther&nbsp;and Tori Wr\u00e5nes. Curators: Thora Dolven Balke, Ingvild Langg\u00e5rd&nbsp;and Eirin St\u00f8en.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on an idea of presenting \u2018the Norwegian art world\u2019 in a larger context, we have also included a book project in the exhibition. The book shop&nbsp;<strong>\u2018One for the Books\u2019<\/strong>, curated by the artist Marte Johnslien, will present and sell \u2018artist books\u2019 and other Norwegian and international books. The selection is both by and about Norwegian contemporary artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A catalogue is being published, which presents the exhibition through texts and pictures. These include \u2018artist statements\u2019 and articles written by young Norwegian artists, curators and critics: Power Ekroth, Erlend Hammer, Trude Iversen, Kjetil R\u00f8ed, Leif Magne Tangen and Line Ulekleiv. In addition to these authors, we present a general overview of \u2018how young Norwegian artists survive\u2019: Ingrid Pettersen elucidates the intricacies of stipends, aid schemes and subsidies in relation to young Norwegian contemporary artists, and Ida Sannes Hansen presents an overview of Norwegian contemporary art and the commercial galleries involved in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The museum is arranging a series of lectures and panel discussions addressing the relation between the newer Norwegian contemporary art and \u2018the global artworld\u2019, \u2018the new critics\u2019, \u2018private collectors\u2019, \u2018the National Museum for Art, Architecture and Design\u2019 and \u2018the alternative art space\u2019:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Programme in \u2019Hj\u00f8rnerommet\u2019<\/strong><br>(all events in Norwegian unless otherwise announced)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday 12 January<br>2 pm: Exhibition opening: LIGHTS ON \u2013 norsk samtidskunst<br>2 pm: Exhibition opening in the \u2018guest room\u2019:<br>Gallery BASTARD \u2013 Monumento Mori<br><br>Thursday 17 January<br>6 pm: Panel discussion:<br>The private art collector and contemporary art<br>Panel:<br>Erling Kagge \u2013 art collector<br>Rolf Hoff \u2013 art collector<br>Moderator: Gunnar B. Kvaran \u2013 director Astrup Fearnley Museum<br><br>Thursday 24 January<br>6 pm: Panel discussion:<br>Norwegian art in a global context &#8211; on the internationalization of Norwegian contemporary art<br>Panel:<br>Power Ekroth \u2013 curator and critic<br>Knut \u00c5sdam \u2013 artist<br>Anne Szefer Karlsen \u2013 artist and curator<br>\u00d8ystein Aasan \u2013 artist<br>Moderator: Hanne Beate Ueland \u2013 curator, Astrup Fearnley Museum<br><br>Thursday 31 January<br>5 pm: Exhibition opening in the \u2018guest room\u2019:<br>Gallery BLUNK: &#8220;What there is and what you see&#8221;<br><br>6 pm: Eivind Furnesvik, Director STANDARD (Oslo):<br>&#8220;Home Is Where You&#8217;re Happy \u2013 on the Purposes, Secrets and Headaches of a private gallery&#8221;<br><br>Thursday 7 February<br>6 pm: Panel discussion:<br>Art outside the white cube \u2013 on the role of the alternative artist space<br>Panel:<br>Erlend Hammer \u2013 curator and writer<br>Anders Smebye \u2013 artist and curator<br>Annette Kierulf \u2013 artist and curator<br>Hj\u00f8rdis Kur\u00e5s \u2013 artist and curator<br>Moderator: Hanne Beate Ueland \u2013 curator, Astrup Fearnley Museum<br><br>Sunday 10 Februrary<br>2 pm: Performance by Kristofer Henriksson:<br><br>Thursday 14 February<br>5 pm: Opening of art project in the \u2018guest room\u2019:<br>RAKETT: \u201cInvestigation of a Model of Influence \u2013 including use of subversive strategies and attempts of aesthetic practice and experience\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday 21 February<br>6 pm: Marta Kuzma, Director, OCA:<br>The Consciousness Projection &#8211; &#8220;Internationalized Art Community&#8221; as a Compound of Social Processes, Experiences, and Curiosity<br>The lecture will be held in English<br><br>Thursday 28 February<br>6 pm: Marianne Zamecznik, Managing Director Projekt 0047 and curator:<br>&#8220;Mysticism and Romanticism within Norwegian contemporary art&#8221;<br><br>Thurday 6 March<br>5 pm: Exhibition opening in the \u2019guest room\u2019:<br>5:30pm: Performance<br>Gallery REKORD: &#8220;Pineapple, or Knife? Iceberg, or Volcano?&#8221;<br><br>6:15 pm: Panel discussion:<br>On the function of art criticism<br>Panel:<br>Ina Blom \u2013 associate professor, University of Oslo, Art History Department<br>Trond Borgen \u2013 art critic, Stavanger Aftenblad<br>Jan Christensen \u2013 artist and curator<br>Jon-Ove Steihaug \u2013 art critic, Kulturnytt NRK<br>Moderator: K\u00e5re Bulie \u2013 art commentator, Dagbladet<br><br><strong>RAKETT &#8211; programme:<\/strong><br><br>Friday 15 February at 1pm<br>What are politics, and what is the political function of art?<br>Espen Sommer Eide and Arne Skaug Olsen<br><br>French philosopher Jacques Ranci\u00e8re has tried to establish a new relation between aesthetics and politics through investigating the two by introducing the concept of \u2018the distribution of the sensible\u2019. Ranci\u00e8re uses this to reveal a shared aspect of the sphere of politics and the sphere of aesthetics. As an attempt to answer the questions posed above, Espen Sommer Eide and Arne Skaug Olsen invite the public to a collective reading of Ranci\u00e8res definition of the distribution of the sensible.<br><br>\u2018&#8230; the distribution of the sensible [is] the system of self-evident facts of sense perception that simultaneously discloses the existence of something in common and the delimitations that define the respective parts and positions within it.\u2019<br><br>Arne Skaug Olsen is a visual artist, director of Flaggfabrikken and editor at Ctrl+Z Publishing House. Espen Sommer Eide is a musician and philosopher. As part of the musical projects Alog and Phonophani, he has released several albums on the record label Rune Grammofon.<br>If you want to take part, please send an email to&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:rakettpost@gmail.com\">rakettpost@gmail.com<\/a>&nbsp;before 15 February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday 16 February at 1pm<br>Who is Gerd Stern and what does he know about Michael Asher?<br>Michael Baers<br><br>How does institutional critique attempt to resituate the viewer\u2019s perception of the institution and the art object? What limits are encountered when attempts are made to redefine the nature of something as concrete and structurally opaque as a museum, or as conceptually entrenched as normative definitions of \u2018art\u2019? More to the point, what is the lost psychedelic component of institutional critique? Michael Baers seeks to address these and other questions in a talk show with special guests and entertainment, psychedelic musings and, of course, an incisive interrogation of the nature and function of the museum and critical art practice. While preferring to let the connection between psychedelia and critical practice remain obscure for the moment, as a foretaste of the afternoon\u2019s agenda, Baers introduces Timothy Leary\u2019s concepts \u2018set\u2019 (as in \u2018mindset\u2019 or attitude) and \u2018setting\u2019 (ambience, d\u00e9cor, and music, particularly), the therapist\u2019s principal tools in guiding the psychedelic experience. Museums also make use of set and setting in order to ideologically orient visitors in relation to art and its institutions. One might propose institutional critique as instituting a counter-setting, which then, hopefully, induces a counter-set. Come re-program your mind and the museum.<br><br>Michael Baers is an American artist based in Berlin who commonly works with publications and comics. He is currently collaborating with the Dutch publication Fucking Good Art on a comic about LSD and Switzerland for their upcoming \u2018Swiss Issue\u2019.<br><br>The event will be held in English.<br><br>Sunday 17 February at 1pm<br>Social Model, Open workshop<br>S\u00f8ssa J\u00f8rgensen and Geir Tore Holm<br><br>This is an open workshop that practically investigates how contemporary art can function in relation to society and on its own terms. Why is art so important?<br><br>Geir Tore Holm (b.Troms\u00f8, 1966) and S\u00f8ssa J\u00f8rgensen (b. Oslo, 1968) live and work in Oslo, Gildesk\u00e5l and Troms\u00f8. They studied at the Art Academy in Trondheim (1995) and their individual artistic practices include video, performance and installations. The two have also curated, written about art and been art teachers. With Kamin Lertchaiprasert and Rirkrit Tiravanija, they started S\u00f8rfinnset skole\/the Nord Land in 2003. J\u00f8rgensen has explored sound art since the mid 1990s through her collaborative project Ballongmagasinet. Holm has been project leader for the newly established Art Academy in Troms\u00f8. 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