CURATING & COLLABS
EDITING & WRITING


COLLAB
Island Eye Island Ear, Lofoten 2024
Included in Lofoten International Art Festival 2024

North Norwegian Art Centre
20.09–20.10.24

In 2023, a cross-continental collaboration was launched between partners in Japan, the USA, Sweden, and Denmark under the title Island Eye Island Ear, Lofoten 2024. The project was developed in close dialogue with Kjersti Solbakken, curator of the Lofoten International Art Festival – LIAF 2024.

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Mimi Gross & Inger Johanne Grytting
On Art and Friendship

North Norwegian Art Centre
03.06–03.09.23

At first glance, the artistic practices of Inger Johanne Grytting (b. 1949, Svolvær) and Mimi Gross (b. 1940, New York) appear to stand in contrast. Grytting’s minimalist drawings and paintings are marked by subtle color and meditative repetition, while Gross’s work bursts with expressive color, figuration, and dynamic depictions of people and landscapes. Yet beneath these surface differences lies a deep artistic kinship—rooted in a decades-long friendship and shared creative community in New York.

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Noa Eshkol

Rules Theory & Passion


Yael Bartana, Sharon Lockhart and Omer Krieger

Oslo Kunstforening
27.08–07.11.21

Norrköping Art Museum

26.03–02.10.22

In 2021 and 2022, Oslo Kunstforening, Norrköping Art Museum, and Jewish Culture in Sweden came together to present a retrospective exhibition of dancer, choreographer, artist, teacher, and researcher Noa Eshkol (1924–2007). 

The exhibition was developed in close collaboration with neugerriemschneider gallery in Berlin—representing both Eshkol and Lockhart—and The Noa Eshkol Foundation for Movement Notation in Holon, Israel.

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Ursula Reuter Christiansen
Jeg er mine billeder—mine billeder er mig

Kristiansand Kunsthall
23.10–30.12.21

Oslo Kunstforening
29.01–27.03.22

Ursula Reuter Christiansen is a sculptor and painter primarily active in Denmark. A prominent figure in the feminist movement of the 1970s, her work remains deeply rooted in political engagement. The female figure is central to her practice, whether expressed through painting, poetry, film, or sculpture.

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Bouchra Khalili
The Nordic Chapter

Oslo kunstforening and Fotogalleriet
13.08–27.09.20
Fotogalleriet, Oslo Kunstforening and TrAP are pleased to present a multi-site program of the internationally renowned artist Bouchra Khalili, the result of a collaboration spanning several years. The Nordic Chapter is Khalili’s first solo exhibition in Norway.

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The Past is Present

Sri Ananda Acharya, Kari Christensen, Devayani Krishna, Kanwal Krishna, Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam, Rune Schytte

Mumbai Art Room, India

10.10–21.12.19

The Past is Present is a montage where historical and contemporary narratives interconnect within the exhibition space. The exhibition presents personal narratives that when placed next to one another create a storyline. The Himalayas are a mutual ground in all narratives.

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Rona Yefman
The Strongest Girl in the World

Oslo Kunstforening
24.05–06.10.19

The Strongest Girl in the World is the first Scandinavian solo exhibition of artist Rona Yefman. She works in photography, video and performance exploring identity through a range of human encounters and experiences. The exhibition juxtaposes work from two of Yefman’s iconic series from the last decades.

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Martin White & Matthew Berka
Is this OK?

Oslo Kunstforening
15.02–31.03.19

Artistic labour is usually dislocated from the exhibition format, and is therefore also dislocated from the public. Cultural labour on an institutional level, that is the labour of the people working at institutions, is similarly dislocated and invisible from the public's view. Is this OK? relocates multiple levels of artistic labour into the exhibition format.

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COLLAB
Beirut, Beyrut, Bayrut, Beyrouth, Beyrout


Mounira Al Solh, Monira Al Qadiri, Ziad Antar, Ali Cherri, Ahmad Ghossein, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Lamia Joreige, Mazen Kerbaj, Stéphanie Saadé, Lucien Samaha, Helle Siljeholm, Suha Traboulsi, Raed Yassin and Akram Zaatari.

Oslo Kunstforening

15.03–10.06.18

Ystads konstmuseum,
08.09.18–09.01.19

Listasafn Íslands, Iceland

08.02–31.03.19

In the exhibition Beirut, Beyrut, Beyrouth, Beyrout, the North meets the Middle East. The exhibition highlights and queries a socio-politically complex society and its history, with sharpness, gravity, heartache and humour. The title points to the cultural diversity that Lebanon, and the Middle East as a whole, represent—marked by long traditions of being a multicultural and multilingual region.

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The Blue Hour


Martin Gustavsson, Gavin Jantjes, Toril Johannessen, Tori Wrånes, Ayodeji Adewale Tunmise, Sanusi Taofik Ayomide and Tone Kittelsen

Guest curator Dak’Art Biennale 2018

03.05–02.06.18

In 2018, chief curator Simon Njami of the 13th Dak’Art Biennale invited five guest curators—Marianne Hultman, Marisol Rodríguez, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Alya Sebti, and Cosmin Costinas—to contribute exhibitions to the Biennale of Contemporary African Art in Dakar, Senegal. 

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Anawana Haloba
Conversations with Stitched-up Lips


Oslo Kunstforening
23.08–30.09.18

Anawana Haloba's work explores communities' contingency within historical, cultural and architectural contexts. She is currently a Phd Fellow through the Artistic Research Fellowship Programme (PKU) at the Department of Fine Art, University of Bergen. Her research, titled Subtle Encounters, looks at women's roles in independence movements and decolonialization in Africa and the Caribbean. The exhibition Conversations with Stitched-up Lips constitutes a component in Haloba’s research.

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Gavin Jantjes
The Exogenic Series (Aqua)

Oslo Kunstforening
05.10–05.11.17
In Oslo as well as abroad, Gavin Jantjes is known to most as the former senior curator for international art at the National Museum in Oslo. His love for painting made him curate An Appetite for Painting, his final exhibition for the National Museum in 2014. The research undertaken for this exhibition paved the way for his return to the studio and the daily practice of painting.

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Ukichiro Nakaya
Letters Sent from Heaven

Oslo Kunstforening
26.08–24.09.17

a•form
Fujiko Nakaya, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Min Tanaka, Shiro Takatani

In 2017, Hultman initiated a collaboration between Oslo Kunstforening and Statsbygg, the National Museum, Ultima, Dansens Hus, Ekebergparken, and the Biodynamic Association with Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya. A series of interconnected works and events were presented during August and September, centered around the exhibition “Letters Sent from Heaven,” featuring experimental Japanese physicist Ukichiro Nakaya’s photographs of snow crystals and electrostatic discharges.

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Camille Norment
DRAWING and SCULPTURE

Oslo Kunstforening
04.05–25.06.17
Camille Norment's oeuvre moves in the borderland between visual arts, sound and music. She often tackles various social phenomena such as cases of sonic and social dissonance, and the power of sound over body, mind and society.

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Lina Selander
Repeat After Me

Oslo Kunstforening

19.10–26.02.17
Lina Selander is one of Sweden's most groundbreaking moving image artists. Her films and installations are often based on historical breakpoints—a liminal space in which a system or a physical space has collapsed and something new is taking shape; the transition from analogue image making to digital, the collapse of political or economic systems. Each work consists of a pictorial world woven from a mix of historical and fictional observations.

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Sandra Mujinga
Real Friends

Oslo Kunstforening
14.10–13.11.16
The self-image, which we constantly shape and redefine, has been a reoccurring theme for Mujinga. The new series of video and photographic works in Real Friends, addresses the performative aspect of self-representation, in addition to the isolation it can inspire.

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Eline McGeorge
As Spaces Fold, Companions Meet

Oslo Kunstforening
21.01–21.02.16 
As Spaces Fold explores the science fiction-inspired concept of folded space, which enables fictional and real characters to meet across time and space. The exhibition brought together works by Eline McGeorge from the period 2003–2015.

Eline McGeorge’s works range from the completely abstract to the highly concrete and documentary. Democratic and environmental issues, as well as feminist heritage and science fiction, are all part of McGeorge’s thematic scope. Through drawing, animation, collages, weaving, and artist books, these themes are brought together.

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Magnus Wallin
Seven Monochromes and a Smiley

Oslo Kunstforening
25.08–25.09.16
Seven Monochromes and a Smiley is a series of object based works in which the human body is not only represented but included in a fragmented, anatomical manner. Blood powder constitutes the main material in the monochromatic series Are you in pain... Not anymore, while Whiteboard and Smiley are comprised of bone and skeleton.

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COLLAB
Nordic Delights

Dejan Antonijević, Nermin Duraković, Michelle Eistrup, Behzad Farazollahi, Anawana Haloba, Sasha Huber, Henrik Lund Jørgensen, Jane Jin Kaisen, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Bita Razavi, Bella Rune, Adolfo Vera, Nita Vera, Carla Zaccagnini.

Oslo Kunstforening
22.04–12.06.16
In 2016, Oslo Kunstforening was one of the initiators of the group exhibition “Nordic Delights,” produced in collaboration with Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen and the Finnish Museum of Photography. In addition to Denmark, Finland, and Norway, the exhibition was also shown in Sweden at Kalmar Art Museum.

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Inger Johanne Grytting
Nye arbeider

Oslo Kunstforening
10.03–10.04.16


The line is the main component in Inger Grytting’s drawings and paintings. Drawn with pencil or brush it often follows a column format pattern; each work begins in the upper left corner, proceeds down and resumes in the next column.

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Allen Grubesic
Random Exhibition Title

Oslo Kunstforening
24.05–21.09.14 

Humor and a playful approach mixed with a darker side are ever present in Allen Grubesic’s works. Inspired by the absurdities of everyday life and popular culture his sculptures, silk-screens, photographs, and objects present interpretations of a twisted world.

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Judy Chicago
Deflowered

Oslo Kunstforening
25.05–30.06.13
Chicago is widely celebrated for her groundbreaking collaborative installations that explore the historical and cultural roles of women. A trailblazer in contemporary art, she played a vital role in challenging the male-dominated art world by introducing bold, female-centered perspectives. Her influence continues to resonate with artists across generations.

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Uriel Orlow & Céline Condorelli
Terrain Vague | Persistent Images

Oslo Kunstforening
15.03–22.04.12

In Terrain Vague | Persistent Images works by Uriel Orlow and Céline Condorelli are in dialogue with each other in a multi-part installation. The exhibition explores blind spots, unexpected epilogues and disappearances in the history of twentieth century Egypt. A series of installations engage with the constitutive movements and stoppages affecting time and space: forced or arrested movements of people, the stopped flow of capital, political movements, removal of statues (and regimes) and migrating species.

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Moataz Nasr
Hidden Landscape

Akershus Fortress
28.06–26.08.12

Oslo Kunstforening in collaboration with the foundation Akershus festning for Art and Culture (SAKK) presented Hidden Landscape, the first solo exhibition by Egyptian artist Moataz Nasr in Norway. The exhibition presented installations, sculptures and video in different locations around the fortress area, in- and outdoors, bellow as well as above ground. 

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Akram Zaatari
Composition for Two Wings

Kunstnernes Hus 
04.11.11–22.01.12

CAC Vilnius
20.04–20.05.12

Curators Marianne Hultman and Mats Stjernstedt

Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari (b. 1966 in Saida) examines the cultural and geo political condition of post-war Lebanon, a contemporary landscape marked by urban tensions, cultural mobility and territorial conflicts. With an archeologist’s eye Akram Zaatari examines layers of human experiences combining his material into larger bodies of work.

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Carl Michael von Hausswolff & Thomas Nordanstad

Oslo Kunstforening
18.08–25.09.11

Over the last decade Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Thomas Nordanstad have been collaborating on a series of films documenting post-industrial locations, communities that once were seen as shining examples of man's development. Today these same sites appear as ghost towns, exploited and drained of their resources. 

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Ignas Krunglevičius
Attribution

Oslo Kunstforening
15.01–20.02.11 In his works Krunglevicius uses documentary material from transcripts of group therapy sessions and police interrogations, and psychiatric interview manuals. In the exhibition interrogation and therapy methods are presented side by side, aiming to either lead to a confession in the suspect's case, or to discover hidden or forgotten memories explaining a specific behavior pattern in a patient. 

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Stop Making Sense

David Adika, Scandar Copti & Rabih Boukhary, Hanna Farah-Kufr Birim, Jumana Manna, Hila Lulu Lin, Nira Pereg, Roee Rosen, Dafna Shalom.

Oslo Kunstforening
19.03–25.04.10 
The purpose of the exhibition is to highlight the complex cultural identities, artistic heritage, and sociopolitical orientations that engage contemporary artists in Israel today. The participating artists present various approaches to exploring their own backgrounds, histories, and identities—what it means to be active in a region that is geographically peripheral yet simultaneously a media and political center, where some identify with the West (white) and others with the East (black). 

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Marti Følstad
Everything Merges With The Night

Oslo Kunstforening 
11.11–19.12.10 

Drawing on the concepts of slow motion and repetition, Følstad explores the space between actions in her video works. In the exhibition’s title piece, she uses high-speed photography for the first time, successfully visualizing simple actions in minute detail. Here, the camera’s gaze takes center stage—its ability to capture information and details beyond the control of the performative act.

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Toril Johannessen
Variable Stars & in Search of Iceland Spar

Oslo Kunstforening
17.01–08.02.09 

At the beginning of the 20th century, the perceived size of the universe increased dramatically. A large-scale project to photograph and map the entire night sky was underway at the Harvard College Observatory, where cataloguing and mathematical calculations were carried out by a group of women known as The Harvard Computers. The amount of astronomical data processed at the observatory was enormous, and women were considered precise and inexpensive labor for the task. Although they did not hold the status of scientific staff, several of them developed theories based on the work they did.

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Maputo: A Tale of One City

Berry Bickle (MZ/ZW), Angela Ferreira (PT/MZ), Pompílio Hilário Gemuce (MZ), Rafael Mouzinho (MZ), Emeka Okereke (NG), Lourenço Dinis Pinto (MZ), Mauro Pinto (MZ)

Oslo Kunstforening & Intercultural Museum
20.02.09 — 05.04.09 

Maputo: A Tale of One City begins in the vibrant port city of Maputo, Mozambique. The exhibition features seven artists working across drawing, painting, film/video, and installation, each offering unique perspectives on urban life. Their works delve into themes such as social policy, economics, daily routines, and psychological landscapes—set against a backdrop where modern construction rises alongside remnants of colonial architecture, and the port serves as a gateway for new cultural influences.

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Hariton Pushwagner
Hello Everybody

Oslo Kunstforening
08.05–01.06.08 

During the 1970s, Pushwagner collaborated with author Axel Jensen. They created comics together, but Pushwagner wanted to experiment with the potential of transforming comic language from mass-produced kitsch into an artistic form of expression. This led to works such as the silkscreen series A Day in the Life of Family Man, which was first exhibited in Stockholm in the spring of 1980—initially at Stockholm University and later that spring at the ABF House (Arbetarnas Bildningsförbund) on Sveavägen. The exhibition was taken down shortly after the opening, as the images were misunderstood and thought to mock the working class.

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Rock’n’ Roll Vol. I

Kenneth Anger, Charles Atlas, Ernst Billgren, Eric Boman, Nathalie Djurberg, Richard Dumas, Dan Graham, Charlotte Gyllenhammar, Richard Hamilton, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Siri Hermansen, Hans Isaksson, Allen Jones, Richard Kern, Anna Kleberg, Gunilla Klingberg, Noah Lyon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Bjarne Melgaard, Marilyn Minter, Are Mokkelbost, Jockum Nordström, Tony Oursler, Jack Pierson, Robert Rauschenberg, Mick Rock, Torbjørn Rødland, Ricky Swallow, Keiichi Tanaami, Andy Warhol, Charlie White

Norrköping Art Museum
27.01–13.05.07
A Boundary-Crossing Encounter Between Art and Rock Music. Since the early 1960s, the experimental art scene and rock music have continuously influenced one another, with pioneering figures like Andy Warhol and Kenneth Anger leading the way.

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Teknologi för livet: Om Experiments in Art & Technology

Robert Breer, John Cage, Öyvind Fahlström, Hans Haacke, Fujiko Nakaya, Robert Rauschenberg, Jean Tinguely, Andy Warhol, Robert Whitman, Barbro Östlihn et al.

Norrköping Art Museum
12.09–07.11.04

Curator Marianne Hultman in collaboration with Julie Martin

This exhibition focuses on that early meeting between art, technology, and new media. It includes works by Robert Breer, Hans Haacke, Robert Rauschenberg, Jean Tinguely, Robert Whitman, Andy Warhol, Barbro Östlihn, among others. 

Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya was presented to a Swedish audience for the first time with a fog sculpture in the museum’s sculpture park. Films about E.A.T. were shown alongside presentations of contributions by John Cage, Öyvind Fahlström, and Robert Rauschenberg to 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering. 

Around fifty photographic panels telling the story of E.A.T. from 1960 to 2001 were be displayed together with objects, catalogues, posters, and more.

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Jacob Dahlgren
Pendang

Norrköpings konstmuseum
21.03–05.23.04



In connection with the exhibition The Imaginary and the Concrete at Norrköping Art Museum, Jacob Dahlgren presented his work I, the world, things, life for the first time as part of the accompanying exhibition Pendang.

Since the works debut, Dahlgren has created several versions of the piece, including one for the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2007.

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Noa Eshkol: Rules, Theory & Passion

Published by Judisk kultur i Sverige 2022
ISBN 978-91-9879-000-9From dance, notation systems and collaborative processes to her large-scale wall carpets made from offcuts and rags. ”Rules, Theory & Passion” surveys Noa Eshkol's life and work.

Editors: Lizzie Oved Scheja, Marianne Hultman, Helena Scragg, Helena Persson
Essay by Marianne Hutlaman, Helena Scragg
Conversations with Yael Bartana, Sharon Lockhart and Omer Krieger by Camilla Larsson, Sara Arrhenius
Preface by Lizzie Oved Scheja, Marianne Hultman, Helena Persson
Language: English and Swedish
Design: Waters Löwenhielm

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Sparebankstiftelsen DNBs stipendutstilling
Oslo Kunstforening 2008–2021

Published by OK BOOK 2022
ISBN 978-82-7531-012-3Since 2008, Oslo Kunstforening has hosted the annual grant exhibition with support from Sparebankstiftelsen DNB. Previous grant recipients include: Anne Haugsgjerd (2021), Berivan Erdogan, Hanni Kamaly and Kjetil Skøien (2020), Germain Ngoma (2019), Eirik Sæther (2018), Emilija Škarnulytė (2017), Tor Børresen (2016), Andrea Bakketun og Christian Tony Norum (2015), Ingrid Lønningdal (2014), Sandra Mujinga (2013), Marie Buskov (2012), Kaia Hugin (2011), Ann Cathrin November Høibo (2010), Ignas Krunglevičius (2009) and Ellisif Hals og Susanne Skeide (2008). 

Editor: Marianne Hultman
Essay by: Arve Rød
Preface by: Anders Bjørnsen, Marianne Hultman, Jury 2021: Behzad Farazollahi, Randi Grov Berger, Marianne Hultman, Mike Sperlinger, Elise Storsveen
Language: Norwegian
Design: Research and Development, Stockholm

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Letters Sent from Heaven
Frozen and Vaporized Water: Ukichiro Nakaya and Fujiko Nakaya’s Science and Art

Published by OK BOOK 2022
ISBN: 978-82-7531-011-6
"Snow crystals are letters sent from heaven"
—Ukichiro Nakaya

Letters Sent from Heaven is based on a traveling exhibition about the Japanese experimental physicist Ukichiro Nakaya (1900–1962). The traveling exhibition featured photographs of snow crystals, electrostatic discharges, and films, which were shown in 2016 and 2017 at Riga Art Space, KTH R1 Energy Stage in Stockholm, and Oslo Kunstforening. The exhibition was accompanied by a program of workshops, lectures, and seminars. When the exhibition came to Oslo, a series of interconnected works and events were produced around the city, featuring Fujiko Nakaya, artist and daughter of Ukichiro Nakaya, composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, dancer and choreographer Min Tanaka, and artist Shiro Takatani.

Editors: Jonatan Habib Engqvist, Marianne Hultman
Contributors: Peder Anker, Ann-Marie Duguet, Jonatan Habib Engqvist, Marianne Hultman, Viktors Kravčenko, Kenjiro Okazaki, Reiko Setsuda, Sverker Sörlin, Martin White
Proofreadnng: Liam Sprod
Language: English
Design: Research and Development

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Eline McGeorge
As Spaces Fold, Companions Meet

Published by OK BOOK 2020
ISBN 978-82-7531-010-9
In As Spaces Fold, Companions Meet folds are a visual and thematic motif. The exhibition also refers to a science fiction inspired interpretation of folded space, which allows fictional and actual characters to meet and be cast into new constellations across time and space. Alienation and hybridisation are recurring traits of the characters populating these works.

Eline McGeorge’s work spans abstraction, concrete references and documentary. Democratic problems, environmental issues, feminist legacy and science fic- tion comprise McGeorge’s oeuvre. These themes are brought together through drawing; animation; collage; weaving and artist books; and a particular interest in folds; pixels and weaving. This exhibition brought together works from the period 2003–2015.

Editor and writer: Marianne Hultman
Photo: Christina Leithe Hansen
Translation: Sunniva Vik
Proofreading: Ingrid Vold Bjørkamo, Lona Hansen, Martin White
Language: English and Norwegian
Design: Research and Development

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Gavin Jantjes
The Exogenic Series (Aqua)

Published by OK BOOK 2020
ISBN 978-82-7531-011-6
In Oslo as well as abroad, Gavin Jantjes is known to most as the former senior curator for international art at the National Museum in Oslo or the former artistic director of Henie Onstad Kunstsenter. Jantjes has been a key opinion former and contributor to the contemporary art scene in Norway. His love for painting made him curate An Appetite for Painting, his final exhibition for the National Museum in 2014. The research undertaken for this exhibition paved the way for his return to the studio and the daily practice of painting.

Painting is rapidly returning to the arenas of cultural discourse and exhibition practice. It is timely that non-figurative painting can once again occupy public attention not through its references or depictions, but through our sensory reading of a painted surface. The works function as catalysts for ideas and reminiscences about place, the environment and the broad array of things formed on the surface of the earth.

Editor: Marianne Hultman and Martin White
Texts by Marianne Hultman, Paul Regrette, Gavin Jantjes
Language: English and Norwegian
Design: Research and Development
Photo: Christina Leithe Hansen


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Kunsthallene i Norge
Nanna Løkka

Published by OK BOOK 2018
ISBN 978-82-7531-006-2In what ways will the new museum infrastructure, currently being built in Oslo, change the city’s cultural scene? Will funding from the City of Oslo be (re)directed towards overhead and operational costs for these institutions at the expense of small and medium-sized art institutions? Large-scale institutions will certainly increase the visibility of contemporary art in Oslo, but will they contribute to nurturing a thriving art scene in the city? An art plan for the City of Oslo is currently in the making, and should ensure that the conditions for art production are safeguarded and that the small to medium-sized institutions are supported in order to provide ambitious and critical contemporary art for the city’s inhabitants. Over the last few years, several art organizations in Oslo have come together as part of Curator Jour Fixe to ensure that the artist’s role and place within this rapidly developing city are secured through access to studios, workshops, and spaces for public display.

Editor: Marianne Hultman
Writer: Nanna Løkka, Telemarksforsking
Proofreadning: Ingrid Vold Bjørkamo
Language: Norwegian
Design: Research and Development

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I skvis
Om mellomsjiktet i kunstbyen Oslo

Published by OK BOOK 2018
ISBN 978-82-7531-006-5In what ways will the new museum infrastructure, currently being built in Oslo, change the city’s cultural scene? Will funding from the City of Oslo be (re)directed towards overhead and operational costs for these institutions at the expense of small and medium-sized art institutions? Large-scale institutions will certainly increase the visibility of contemporary art in Oslo, but will they contribute to nurturing a thriving art scene in the city? An art plan for the City of Oslo is currently in the making, and should ensure that the conditions for art production are safeguarded and that the small to medium-sized institutions are supported in order to provide ambitious and critical contemporary art for the city’s inhabitants. Over the last few years, several art organizations in Oslo have come together as part of Curator Jour Fixe to ensure that the artist’s role and place within this rapidly developing city are secured through access to studios, workshops, and spaces for public display.

Editor: Marianne Hultman
Writers: Emil Flatø, Monica Holmen, Ruben Steinum, Runa Carlsen
Language: Norwegian
Design: Research and Development

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Agencies of Art - A report on the situation of small and medium-sized art centers in Denmark, Norway and Sweden

Published by OK BOOK 2018
ISBN 978-82-7531-004-8Art is always changing, and institutions should be able to adapt to the conditions of artistic production. We believe that the small or midsize art centre plays an important role in its capacity to adapt and transform according to what artists are doing, while also providing stability and continuity. Thus, these institutions play a central part in what has been termed the ‘ecology’ of contemporary art. Since this crucial stability and continuity is challenged by current political decisions, this report is a timely tool for reflecting on the possible agency of art and its institutions

The symposium The Agencies of Art and this report both received support from Nordic Culture Point and Arts Council Norway. The report is published with the support from The Relief Fund for Visual Artists (Bildende Kunstneres Hjelpefond).

Editor: Madeline Coleman
Contributors: Jonatan Habib Engqvist, Nina Möntmann
Coordination: Hanna Nordell, Tensta konsthall
Photo: Jan Khür
Language: English
Design: Research and Development

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Stop Making Sense

Published by Oslo Kunstforening 2010
ISBN 978-82-7531-010-9

The exhibition Stop Making Sense presents nine artists who live and work in Israel and who all have backgrounds from Europe, the Maghreb, the Middle East and Palestine (Israel before 1948).

Participating artists: David Adika, Scandar Copti, Rabih Boukhary, Hanna Farah-Kufr Birim, Jumana Manna, Hila Lulu Lin, Nira Pereg, Roee Rosen, Dafna Shalom.

Editor: Marianne Hultman
Contributors: Tal Ben Zvi, Simon Njami, Ella Shohat, Irit Rogoff and Marianne Hultman
Language: English, Norwegian , French, Hebrew
Design: Research and Development

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Teknologi för livet: 
Om Experiments in Art and Technology

Published by Schultz Förlag AB 2004
ISBN 978-91-8737-039-7Along with 20th-century Paris, 1960s New York was the most important art scene of the 20th century. The boundaries between art forms dissolved and collaboration arose between artists, dancers, poets, composers and filmmakers. The interest in taking part in and exploiting the new technical innovations became a movement and in the middle of this vortex was the Swedish electronics engineer Billy Klüver. More and more artists became interested in taking part in the new technology and the organization Experiments in Art and Technology was formed to help mediate the contact between technology, industry and art. In the book we meet Billy Klüver in his own words and in texts by a number of Swedish and foreign artists and art historians.

Editor and writer: Barbro Schultz Lundestam
Contributors: Marianne Hultman, Billy Klüver, Julie Martin
Language: Swedish
Design: REALA

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