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Thao Nguyen Phan, First Rain, Brise Soleil, 2021 – 2022. Courtesy of Thao Nguyen Phan and Galerie Zink. Film still © Thao Nguyen Phan.

Between Rivers | Press preview 17 October 2024

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.

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, «Oh shining star testify», (2016–19)

Astrup Fearnley Collection: New Acquisitions 2023

Every year the Astrup Fearnley Collection grows through the acquisition of new works, which expand upon existing positions and incorporate new practices. In 2023, 29 works by 22 artists were added.

Leonard Rickhard, Between Construction and Collapse

Leonard Rickhard, Between Construction and Collapse

Leonard Rickhard
Between Construction and Collapse
26 January – 19 May 2024

Astrup Fearnley Museet’s first exhibition of 2024 is devoted to the painter Leonard Rickhard. Over a long artistic career, Rickhard cultivated a distinctive, easily recognizable style—a visual signature that is all its own within recent Norwegian art history. For the public, and for a younger generation of art

Installation view, Børre Sæthre, My Private Sky, Astrup Fearnley Museet, 2001. © Børre Sæthre. Photo: Tore H. Røyneland.

Before Tomorrow - Astrup Fearnley Museet 30 Years | Opening 22 June

Exhibition period: 22 June - 8 October 2023


Astrup Fearnley Museet is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary in 2023. To mark this significant milestone, the museum is undertaking an extensive exhibition titled Before Tomorrow featuring works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, which will fill the museum’s two buildings designed by Renzo Piano.
With more than 100 works on display, Be

Rachel Harrison, Venus, 2021 (detail). Courtesy the artist, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, and Greene Naftali, New York. Photo: Evan Bedford

Rachel Harrison: Sitting in a Room | Opening 30 September

Exhibition period: 30.09.2022–12.02.2023
On September 30, the Astrup Fearnley Museet will open an exhibition by American artist Rachel Harrison, her largest in Scandinavia to date. Spanning mediums that include sculpture, drawing, photography, and painting, Sitting in a Room has an emphasis on recent practice.
Harrison’s nimble, layered method of artmaking escapes easy categorization. Abstra

Sissel Tolaas, AirREborn BelowAbove, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2007, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022. Exhibition view, Sissel Tolaas RE________ at Astrup Fearnley Museet. © Astrup Fearnley Museet, 2021. Photo: Christian Øen.

Sissel Tolaas: RE_________, 2022, at ICA Philadelphia

First major US exhibition of work by interdisciplinary Norwegian-born artist Sissel Tolaas opens at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the University of Pennsylvania on September 16.
This exhibition is organized by Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo and curated by Solveig Øvstebø, Executive Director and Chief Curator. The presentation in Philadelphia has been specially configured for the IC

Synnøve Anker Aurdal | Opening 21 May

Synnøve Anker Aurdal | Opening 21 May

Exhibition period: 21.05.–04.09.2022

This year’s summer exhibition is devoted to Synnøve Anker Aurdal (1908–2000), one of Norway’s foremost textile artists. The presentation features works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection alongside key pieces loaned from other collections in Norway, a number of which have rarely or never before been shown in public. Together, these works illustrate the f

Nora Adwan – Sang i et fremmed land

Nora Adwan – Sang i et fremmed land

Nora Adwan – Sang i et fremmed land opening Saturday, 23 April at 14:00
Exhibition period: 23 April – 7 August 2022
As part of the exhibition program 2022, Nora Adwan has been invited to produce a commissioned work especially for the Astrup Fearnley Museet. Adwan works with sculpture, film, sound, and technology. In her works she draws on different geographical contexts and her own, personal

INFORMATION (Today)

INFORMATION (Today)

Like it or not, we are surrounded. There is no escape from the incessant flow of information that drives this twenty-first-century, data-based capitalism. Encrypted networks, digital currencies, artificial intelligence, data harvesting, algorithmic biases, sentient machines: these are just some of its effects. The proliferation of information, and data’s nebulous modes of circulating now fundament

The Astrup Fearnley Museet presents its exhibition program for 2022

The Astrup Fearnley Museet presents its exhibition program for 2022

Welcome to a new year at the museum! The program ranges from a thematic group exhibition to a retrospective presentation and new productions. In 2022 the spaces at the institution will be used in different ways, and we have, among others, invited a young artist to develop a temporary installation in our permanent collection building. Furthermore, we will launch a series of lectures in the fall, wh

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