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13 January 2022 14:46

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

25 June 2021 10:58

INFORMATION (Today) opens today at Kunsthalle Basel

The exhibition is produced by Kunsthalle Basel in collaboration with the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, where it will be on view from January 27 – May 1, 2022.

Encrypted networks, digital currencies, artificial intelligence, data harvesting, algorithmic biases, sentient machines—all are products of twenty-first-century data-based capitalism. The proliferation of information, and data’s nebu

26 May 2021 13:45

Astrup Fearnley Museet reopens with Nicole Eisenman – Giant Without a Body

The Astrup Fearnley Museet is delighted to announce that it will reopen on Friday 28 May. Originally scheduled to open in February 2021, Nicole Eisenman – Giant Without a Body has been extended through August 29, and we are thrilled to welcome visitors again throughout the summer.
Giant Without a Body is a major presentation of the work of Nicole Eisenman and her largest solo exhibition in Euro

15 April 2021 15:22

Nicole Eisenman – Giant Without a Body is extended until August 29

We are very pleased to announce that the exhibition period of Nicole Eisenman – Giant Without a Body has been extended from the original closing date May 23, and will now be on view to August 29.
The opening of the exhibition was originally scheduled for February 5, but it was postponed due to the Norwegian authorities’ coronavirus measures. It is therefore gratifying that we are able to keep t

19 November 2020 14:32

EXHIBITION PROGRAMME 2021

It is with pleasure that we announce Astrup Fearnley Museet’s exhibition programme for the full 2021. This is also the first year with director and chief curator Solveig Øvstebø in charge of the museum’s programme.
“In planning the exhibitions, I have considered the museum’s history and institutional position, which in recent years has had one foot firmly planted in the American contemporary ar

5 December 2019 13:13

Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo, Norway hires Solveig Øvstebø as Executive Director

Founded in 1993, the Astrup Fearnley Museet is one of Scandinavia´s most notable museums for contemporary art. The museum holds the extensive Astrup Fearnley Collection, which includes significant works by artists such as Matthew Barney, Paul Chan, Trisha Donnelly, Ida Ekblad, Matias Faldbakken, Félix González-Torres, Rachel Harrison, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Glenn Ligon, Bjarne Melgaard, Julie M