Material Shifts is a major international group exhibition that looks at sculpture as an act of translation. Traditionally, the notion of sculpture recalls a stable object rendered in a robust material: something frozen in time and space. Still, sculptural practices have always also retained a notion of “material shifts”: from mold to cast, from idea to physical realization.
Astrup Fearnley MuseetSaturday 12 September 13:00Sunday 13 September 13:00
The event takes place in the exhibition of Beatriz González
Playback machines are wound up, and unstable apparitions of light and sound emerge in this new performance by Icaro Zorbar presented in collaboration with Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival.
Every recording begins with the promise that something might
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Beatriz González12 June – 11 October 2026
Art says things that history cannot– Beatriz González
Astrup Fearnley Museet presents a retrospective of Beatriz González (1932–2026). Known as la maestra of Colombian art, González was one of the most important and influential Latin A
Press preview on Thursday 5 of February at 12:00–14:00Grammars of LightCerith Wyn Evans, Ann Lislegaard, P. Staff6 February – 10 May 2026
Grammars of Light brings together the practices of three artists that transform the spaces of Astrup Fearnley Museet with immersive installations. Cerith Wyn Evans, Ann Lislegaard, and P. Staff manipulate artificial light—technologies such as digital projecto
This landmark exhibition offers an expansive view of Bacher’s provocative, genre-defying oeuvre, spanning five decades of uncompromising art with an unsettling mix of affect and sentiment, humor, pop-cultural touchstones, and unflinching examinations of sexuality, violence, political paranoia, and cosmic metaphysics.
Space Making is an exhibition addressing depth and spatiality in painting. It features the work of eight artists, who span generations and bridge contemporary positions with historical context.
Between Rivers brings together the practices of contemporary artists who respond to the place of rivers in our lives at a moment when they are being profoundly reshaped by human activity.
