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Scoundrel Days
June 16 – September 1, 2018
Stian Ådlandsvik, Are Blytt, Per-Oskar Leu - Scoundrel Days
Stian Ådlandsvik, Are Blytt, Per-Oskar Leu
Scoundrel Days
June 16 – September 1, 2018
Installation view
Stian Ådlandsvik, Are Blytt, Per-Oskar Leu - Scoundrel Days
Stian Ådlandsvik
A changing of his name is sufficient for the speculator who finds himself in difficulties, 2015
Steel railing reworked by unknown cars attempting to park, electrolytically chromed
85 x 185 x 14 cm
EUR 5.500

                                The above mentioned prices include VAT
Stian Ådlandsvik, Are Blytt, Per-Oskar Leu - Scoundrel Days
Per-Oskar Leu
New Labor, 2018
Charvet Place Vendôme silk necktie and GDR workers flag mounted on plywood in oak frame, vintage
postcards in archival polyester sleeves
85,2 x 129,2 cm
EUR 6.500

                             The above mentioned prices include VAT
Stian Ådlandsvik, Are Blytt, Per-Oskar Leu - Scoundrel Days
Stian Ådlandsvik, Are Blytt, Per-Oskar Leu
Scoundrel Days
June 16 – September 1, 2018
Installation view
Stian Ådlandsvik, Are Blytt, Per-Oskar Leu - Scoundrel Days
Stian Ådlandsvik
Bruised Features #2, 2017
Partially flattened I-beam
187 x 34 x 10,9 cm
EUR 4.500

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Stian Ådlandsvik, Are Blytt, Per-Oskar Leu - Scoundrel Days
Stian Ådlandsvik, Are Blytt, Per-Oskar Leu
Scoundrel Days
June 16 – September 1, 2018
Installation view
Stian Ådlandsvik, Are Blytt, Per-Oskar Leu - Scoundrel Days
Are Blytt
Untitled (Figure), 2018 // Untitled (Hands), 2018
Acrylic paint on Belgian linen, archival print on self-adhesive textile paper, aluminum frame
100 x 200 cm // 200 x 100 cm
Installation view
Stian Ådlandsvik, Are Blytt, Per-Oskar Leu - Scoundrel Days
Are Blytt
Detail of Untitled (Figure), 2018
Acrylic paint on Belgian linen, archival print on self-adhesive textile paper, aluminum frame
100 x 200 cm
EUR 6.800

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Stian Ådlandsvik, Are Blytt, Per-Oskar Leu - Scoundrel Days
Are Blytt
Untitled (Hands), 2018
Oil and acrylic paint on Belgian linen, archival print on self-adhesive textile paper, aluminum frame
200 x 100 cm
EUR 6.800

                               The above mentioned prices include VAT
Are Blytt
Detail of Untitled (Hands), 2018
Oil and acrylic paint on Belgian linen, archival print on self-adhesive textile paper, aluminum frame
200 x 100 cm
EUR 6.800

                               The above mentioned prices include VAT
Stian Ådlandsvik, Are Blytt, Per-Oskar Leu
Scoundrel Days
June 16 – September 1, 2018
Installation view
Stian Ådlandsvik
Bruised Features #3, 2017
Partially flattened I-beam
171 x 31 x 15,2 cm
EUR 4.500

                             The above mentioned prices include VAT
Per-Oskar Leu
Red Trout, 2018
Antique Legras glass carafe, Charvet Place Vendôme silk necktie, fishing hook, wooden shelf
65 x 78 x 28 cm
EUR 6.000

                              The above mentioned prices include VAT
Per-Oskar Leu
Red Trout, 2018
Antique Legras glass carafe, Charvet Place Vendôme silk necktie, fishing hook, wooden shelf
65 x 78 x 28 cm
EUR 6.000

                              The above mentioned prices include VAT
Stian Ådlandsvik
Portrait of Leibniz, after Pierre Savart, 2017
Cape of Leibniz interpreted as a car-cover by a tailor in Leipzig, incised to replicate a car-cover in Oslo,
frame, ink-jet print mounted on dibond
180 x 150 and 80 x 120 cm (Diptych)
EUR 14.000
Stian Ådlandsvik
Detail of Portrait of Leibniz, after Pierre Savart, 2017
Cape of Leibniz interpreted as a car-cover by a tailor in Leipzig, incised to replicate a car-cover in Oslo,
frame, ink-jet print mounted on dibond
180 x 150 and 80 x 120 cm (Diptych)
EUR 14.000

                                The above mentioned prices include VAT
Stian Ådlandsvik, Are Blytt, Per-Oskar Leu
Scoundrel Days
June 16 – September 1, 2018
Installation view

                             The above mentioned prices include VAT
Stian Ådlandsvik, Are Blytt, Per-Oskar Leu
Scoundrel Days
June 16 – September 1, 2018
Installation view

                             The above mentioned prices include VAT
Stian Ådlandsvik
Bruised Features #1, 2017
Partially flattened I-beam
173 x 32 x 10,5 cm
EUR 4.500

                             The above mentioned prices include VAT
Stian Ådlandsvik
Detail of Bruised Features #1, 2017
Partially flattened I-beam
173 x 32 x 10,5 cm
EUR 4.500

                              The above mentioned prices include VAT
Are Blytt
Untitled (Nelson), 2018
Oil and acrylic paint on Belgian linen, archival print on self-adhesive textile paper, aluminum frame
100 x 200 cm
EUR 6.800

                               The above mentioned prices include VAT
Are Blytt
Detail of Untitled (Nelson), 2018
Oil and acrylic paint on Belgian linen, archival print on self-adhesive textile paper, aluminum frame
100 x 200 cm
EUR 6.800

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Per-Oskar Leu
Bonjour, Monsieur Charvet (1888) // (1890) // (1991), 2018
Digital UV Print on plywood in oak frame, Charvet Place Vendôme silk necktie, handwritten letter
signed by Édouard Charvet in archival polyester sleeve
58,2 x 49,7 cm (each)
Installation view

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Per-Oskar Leu
Bonjour, Monsieur Charvet (1991), 2018
Digital UV Print on plywood in oak frame, Charvet Place Vendôme silk necktie, handwritten letter
signed by Édouard Charvet in archival polyester sleeve
58,2 x 49,7 cm (each)
EUR 5.000

                              The above mentioned prices include VAT
Are Blytt
Untitled (Pigeon), 2018
Oil and acrylic paint on Belgian linen, archival print on self-adhesive textile paper, aluminum frame
100 x 200 cm
EUR 6.800

                               The above mentioned prices include VAT
Are Blytt
Detail of Untitled (Pigeon), 2018
Oil and acrylic paint on Belgian linen, archival print on self-adhesive textile paper, aluminum frame
100 x 200 cm
EUR 6.800

                               The above mentioned prices include VAT
Stian Ådlandsvik, Are Blytt, Per-Oskar Leu
Scoundrel Days. An exhibition initiated by Arne Austrheim
Exhibition from June 15 to September 1, 2018

We are pleased to announce the inauguration of Scoundrel Days, an exhibition with the three
Norwegian artists Stian Ådlandsvik, Are Blytt and Per-Oskar Leu, that was initiated by the
Norwegian collector Arne Austrheim. Installations, sculptures and paintings will be shown;
what all the works have in common is the involvement of their specific materiality, with a
coexistence of abstraction and social topics, for example the history of socialism.

Scoundrel Days is the title oft the second album of the Norwegian band A-ha. The artists of
our exhibition feel, that this album is better than the more famous album Hunting High and
Low, because it sounds darker and more mature. Ådlandsvik, Blytt and Leu are fans of A-ha,
like a big part of Germany (at least the Germans used to be). Scoundrel Days is not just a fit-
ting description of the current political situation of our world but also a concept, which is wide
enough to serve as a shield for their three different artistic positions. Even though they have
nothing to do with rogueship or the like. The fact that they are three reflecting and reflective
positions suggests that they are unscrupulous in the sense that they cultivate positions that
are questioning or even negating clearness.

By Stian Ådlandsvik (Bergen, 1981) we show four sculptures and one wall piece, which
consists of one photograph and a piece of cloth placed in a big white frame. The series Bruised
Features #1–3 are life-sized sculptures that stand upright in the room, associating figures.
Ådlandsvik hammered the I-beams flat in one end where one can imagine the head on a hu-
man body. Apart from the violent fantasy it is also simply a de-functionalization produced
by Ådlandsvik: the I-beams, which normally have a constructive function, turn into autono-
mous objects, which are estranged from their original purpose. The work with the long title A
changing of his name is sufficient for the speculator who finds himself in difficulties acts simi-
lar. What‘s up with the change of the name, which is sufficient for the speculator who finds
himself in difficulties? Just the different use of the title, that is not explaining anymore but
non-distinctive, is a reflection of the strategy of the artist. For this piece of art he had others
doing the work for him on a street paneling that was obviously in the way of Oslo‘s drivers.
With this, a collective work was created that was transferred from „junk“ into a „valuable
piece of art“ by being chromium-plated. Transfer is also the keyword for the work Portrait of
Leibniz, after Pierre Savart. Here a detail of an etching (a portrait of Leibniz by Savart) is con-
verted by Ådlandsvik: in the print a piece of cloth of the philosopher‘s coat overlaps the frame
and thus exists in two areas. This overlapping of areas is mirrored by the artwork through
elements that partly come from the streets and partly have been made by the artist‘s order
(the cloth). Ådlandsvik mixes everything up with this: the depicting photography, the actual
and framed cloth (serving as a relief), and again the cloth that covers the photograph, similar
to a car cover with a tear covering a car on the streets in Oslo (and like this the associative
cycle in the mind of the artist was started).

By Are Blytt (Bergen, 1981) we show a group of four paintings that were created in the
Wiels, Brussels, where he was an artist in residence during the last months. Three landscape
formats and one portrait format, each 100 x 200 cm / 200 x 100 cm, painted in oil and acrylic
on Belgian linen, each collaged with a pigment print on paper. The areas painted in light sha-
des of grey and pink make one associate them with clouds, fog or smoke or make one think of
spills of highly dissolved watercolor on paper.
Abstract shapes, which first and foremost look elegant and ethereal and under no circum-
stance transport additional information. However, Blytt collaged a pigment print of a pho-
tography into every piece of art: of a pigeon, hardly recognizable as such, or of the view of a
man‘s back with hands that seem to give us signs, or of a black man sitting at a table in a bar,
and also of a probably naked man hiding behind a curtain. And these pictures in the picture
may suggest possible approaches to the solution for a clear understanding of the works but
then let them drain away. They are stumbling blocks for our perception. A painting cannot be
(and should not be) only the portrayal of its painting process but be entitled to argue further.
The Norwegian critic Erlend Hammer writes on Blytt‘s paintings, that „the medium is no
longer the message, but rather a vessel, a transportation device through which all manner of
information keeps flowing“. The pure elegance of the painting is been questioned by this.

The works by Per-Oskar Leu (Oslo, 1980) refer to the French revolution, or rather to its
decadent, capitalistically painful aftermaths towards the end of the 19th century. He is going
to show: three reproductions of the self-portrait of Courbet L‘homme à la pipe (1848, the year
of the revolution), printed on plywood, combined with Édouard Charvet‘s ties and autographs
(handwritten letters); an assemblage on wood, consisting of postcards (photographs of the
Paris Commune), a Charvet silk-tie, a worker‘s flag, a glass carafe of the 19th century in the
shape of the Colonne Vendôme in combination with a Charvet-silk-tie. Courbet, a sympathizer
of the Paris Commune, had proposed to pull down the Colonne Vendôme. He was punished
for that but was able to flee into Swiss exile. And: At the Place Vendôme the store of Édouard
Charvet is placed since 1877, the most elegant shirt and tie manufacturer in France. Leu‘s
pieces of art are amongst other things understandable as complex and critical reflections of
the fact that capitalism has beaten socialism with it‘s fashion. The revolution failed, to put in
another way, Charvet‘s silk-ties won.

We‘d like to thank Arne Austrheim especially for introducing us to the three artists and to
pursue the idea of an exhibition with young Norwegian artists in Cologne.

For further information and/or images, please contact the gallery.
Stian Ådlandsvik, Are Blytt, Per-Oskar Leu
Scoundrel Days. Eine Ausstellung initiiert durch Arne Austrheim
Ausstellung vom 16. Juni bis 1. September 2018

Wir freuen uns, am 15. Juni 2018 um 19 Uhr mit Scoundrel Days eine Ausstellung mit den
drei norwegischen Künstlern Stian Ådlandsvik, Are Blytt und Per-Oskar Leu zu eröffnen, die
dankenswerterweise der ebenfalls norwegische Sammler Arne Austrheim initiiert hat. Wir
zeigen Installationen, Skulpturen und Gemälde; allen Werken gemeinsam ist die Auseinan-
dersetzung mit der spezifischen Materialität der Arbeiten, mit Abstraktion und gleichzeitig
mit gesellschaftlichen Themen – wie zum Beispiel der Geschichte des Sozialismus.

Scoundrel Days (deutsch: Schurkentage) ist der Titel des zweiten Albums des norwegischen
Pop-Trios A-ha. Es ist, so findet das Künstlertrio unserer Ausstellung, besser als das berühm-
tere Album Hunting High and Low, weil es von einem dunkleren, reiferen Sound geprägt ist.
Ådlandsvik, Blytt und Leu sind Anhänger von A-ha, so wie auch große Teile des deutschen
Publikums (es jedenfalls mal waren). Und „Schurkentage“ sei nicht nur eine relativ gut pas-
sende Beschreibung der gegenwärtigen politischen Situation unserer Welt, sondern es sei
auch ein Begriff, der weit genug sei, als Schirm für drei ganz verschiedene künstlerische Posi-
tionen zu dienen. Die allerdings haben mit Schurkenhaftigkeit oder ähnlichem nichts zu tun.
Allerdings sind es drei jeweils sehr reflektierte und reflektierende Positionen und insofern
könnte man sagen, daß es in gewisser Hinsicht skrupellose Positionen sind, denen die Vorstel-
lung von eindeutiger Klarheit abgeht, die vielmehr diese Klarheit in Frage stellen.

Von Stian Ådlandsvik (Bergen, 1981) stellen wir vier Skulpturen und eine Wandarbeit,
die aus einer Fotografie und einem in einem großen weißen Rahmen platzierten Stück Stoff
besteht, aus. Die drei Bruised Features #1–3 sind ca. lebensgroße Skulpturen, Figuren asso-
ziierend, die aufrecht im Raum stehen. Ådlandsvik hat für sie H-Stahlträger an einem Ende
mit einem Hammer platt geschlagen, ungefähr dort, wo man sich bei einem Menschen den
Kopf vorstellt. Abgesehen von dieser gewaltvollen Phantasie ist es aber auch einfach eine De-
Funktionalisierung, die Ådlandsvik hier wirksam werden läßt: die Stahlträger, die normaler-
weise einen konstruktiven Zweck haben, werden zu autonomen, ihrem ursprünglichen Zweck
entfremdeten Objekten. Ähnlich verhält es sich bei der Arbeit mit dem langatmigen Titel A
changing of his name is sufficient for the speculator who finds himself in difficulties. Was hat
es mit der Namensänderung, die dem in Schwierigkeiten befindlichen Spekulanten genügt,
auf sich? Genau die Umnutzung eines Titels, der eben nicht mehr erklärend, sondern ver-
unklärend ist, ist eine Spiegelung der Strategie des Künstlers. Er hat für diese Arbeit Ander
sich abarbeiten lassen an einer Straßensperre, die den Autofahrern Oslos offensichtlich im
Weg war. So entstand eine kollektive Arbeit, die nur noch mit ihrer Verchromung vom Status
„Schrott“ in einen neuen Status „wertvolles Kunstobjekt“ transferiert werden mußte. Transfer
ist auch das Stichwort für die Arbeit Portrait of Leibniz, after Pierre Savart. Hier überträgt
Ådlandsvik ein Detail aus einem Stich (ein Leibniz-Portrait von Savart), nämlich ein über den
abgebildeten Rahmen hinausragendes Stück Stoff vom Mantel des Philosophen, auf Elemen-
te, die zum Teil wiederum von der Straße kommen, zum Teil in seinem Auftrag geschneidert
wurden. Ådlandsvik bringt damit alles durcheinander: die abbildende Fotografie, den tatsäch-
lichen und gerahmten und als Relief dienenden Stoff und wiederum den Stoff, der das Foto
bedeckt, so wie eine Autoschutzhülle mit Riß ein Auto im Straßenraum Oslos bedeckte (und so
den assoziativen Kreislauf im Kopf des Künstlers anstieß).
Von Are Blytt (Bergen, 1981) zeigen wir eine Gruppe von vier Gemälden, die in den letz-
ten Monaten im Wiels in Brüssel, wo er ein Residenzstipendium hatte, entstanden sind. Es
sind drei Querformate und ein Hochformat, jeweils 100 x 200 cm, resp. 200 x 100 cm, gemalt
in Öl und Acryl auf belgischem Leinen, jeweils collagiert mit einem Pigmentdruck auf Pa-
pier. Die in zartesten Grau- und Rosatönen gemalten Zonen lassen uns Wolken, Nebel- oder
Rauchschwaden assoziieren oder an Schüttungen hochaufgelöster Aquarellfarbe auf Papier
denken. Abstrakte Formen, die zunächst einmal vor allem elegant und ätherisch wirken und
keinesfalls weitere Inhalte transportieren. Allerdings collagierte Blytt in jede Arbeit einen
Pigmentdruck einer Fotografie: mal von einer Taube, als solche kaum zu erkennen, mal von
einer männlichen Rückenansicht mit Händen, die uns ein Zeichen zu geben scheinen, mal von
einem Schwarzen, an einem Kneipentisch sitzend, und schließlich auch von einem vermut-
lich nackten Mann, hinter einem Vorhang versteckt. Und diese Bilder im Bild, die mögliche
Lösungsansätze für ein klareres Verständnis der Arbeiten suggerieren, aber dann diese wie-
derum ins Leere laufen lassen, diese Bilder im Bild sind Stolpersteine für unsere Wahrneh-
mung. Ein Gemälde kann nicht (soll nicht) allein die Verkörperung seines Malprozesses sein,
sondern den Anspruch haben, darüber hinaus zu weisen. Es ist, wie der norwegische Kritiker
Erlend Hammer schreibt, bei Blytt so, daß nicht mehr das Medium allein die Botschaft ist,
sondern vielmehr ist das Gemälde ein Gefäß, das uns eine Vielzahl interpretativer und infor-
mativer (im zeichentheoretischen Sinne) Möglichkeiten bietet. Die Eleganz der Malerei wird
dadurch gebrochen.

Die Werke von Per-Oskar Leu (Oslo, 1980) beziehen sich auf die französische Revolution,
bzw. ihre dekadenten, kapitalistischen Nachwehen im ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert. Er wird
zeigen: drei Reproduktionen des Courbet-Selbstportraits L‘homme à la pipe (1848, das Jahr
der Revolution), auf Holz gedruckt, kombiniert mit Krawatten von Édouard Charvet und
Autographen (handgeschriebene Briefe) Charvets; eine Assemblage auf Holz, bestehend aus
Postkarten, die Fotografien der Pariser Kommune zeigen, einer Charvet-Seidenkrawatte, ei-
ner Arbeiterflagge, eine Karaffe aus dem 19. Jahrhundert in der Form der Siegessäule auf der
Place Vendôme, wiederum in Kombination mit einer Charvet-Krawatte. Courbet, ein Sympa-
thisant der Pariser Kommune, hatte dazu angeregt, die Siegessäule auf der Place Vendôme
niederzureißen. Er wurde dafür bestraft, konnte jedoch ins Schweizer Exil entkommen. Und:
An der Place Vendôme sitzt seit 1877 das Geschäft Édouard Charvets, des elegantesten Hem-
den- und Krawattenherstellers in Frankreich. Leus Werke sind entsprechend unter anderem
als komplexe und kritische Reflektion der Tatsache zu lesen, daß der Kapitalismus den So-
zialismus geschlagen hat, mit seiner Mode. Die Revolution war gescheitert, es siegten, wenn
man so will, die Krawatten Charvets.

Wir danken Arne Austrheim ganz besonders dafür, daß er uns mit den drei Künstlern be-
kannt gemacht hat und die Idee einer Ausstellung junger norwegischer Künstler in Köln
nachhaltig verfolgt hat.

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Stian Ådlandsvik

		            Lives and works in Oslo
1981		        Born in Bergen, Norway
2003–2006     National Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo
2005		        Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg (Prof. Eran Schaerf)
2001–2003     Rogaland School of Art, Stavanger

Residencies

2018   URRA, Tigre
2013   FLACC, Genk
2012   Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier, Amsterdam
2011   Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, OCA (Office for Contemporary Art Norway)
2010   W17, Oslo
       Air Bergen, Bergen
2008   Platform China, Beijing, OCA (Office for Contemporary Art Norway)

Selected solo shows

2018   Hå Gamle Prestegård, Hå
2017   Negative Growth, Galleri K, Oslo
       Bruised features, Z Gallery Art, Vancouver
       Copernicus (with Lutz-Rainer Müller), Norwegian Sculptors Society, Oslo
2016   Goblin Treasure, Noplace, Oslo
2015   Société Anonyme, Galleri K, Oslo
       Unholy Matrimony (with Lutz-Rainer Müller), FLACC, Genk
2014   Breaking out of prison with a safety pin, Galleri Gann, Sandnes
2013   Silk & Sour (with Lutz-Rainer Müller), MELK, Oslo
2012   Abstract simplicity of need, Entree, Bergen
       Greasy Lace, Waxy Pith, Brussels
       Take these hands, MK gallery, Milton Keynes
       The cyclical behaviour of equlibrium, Østfold Kunstnersenter, Fredrikstad
2011   Echo, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
       Hinterland/Bakomland (with Lutz-Rainer Müller), public performance, Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo
2010   Hell is Chrome, Gallery Erik Steen, Oslo
       Still life with modern guilt (with Lutz-Rainer Müller), MOT international, London
       You Only tell me you love me when you’re drunk (with Lutz-Rainer Müller), Hordaland Arts
       Centre, Bergen
       Still life with hyena, lotus and cave (with Lutz-Rainer Müller), W17, Oslo
2008   Vehiculare, Gallery Erik Steen, Oslo
       If it won’t fly, try using it as a reducing machine (with Lutz-Rainer Müller), Galerie
       HfbK; Elektrohaus; Trottoir; St.Pauli Kunstverein, Hamburg
2007   Stream Day, Young Artists Society, Oslo
2006   HAMC jubilee (with Frode Markhus & Lutz-Rainer Müller), The National Museum, Oslo
       ...and then it suddenly inverted, Galleri Gann, Sandnes
       In, Reversed, Out, Avav123, Hamburg
       sketches for the meantime (with Lutz-Rainer Müller), Fotogalleriet, Oslo
2005   It’s Not Unlike Being on the Top of a Snowcovered Mountain, Galleri 21:24, Oslo
2004   Deluxe Emergency Equipment, Galleri 21:24, Oslo
Selected group shows

2018   NOMADIC MOUNTAINS (a Survey on High Altitude Mental Architecture), Schunck, Heerlen
       Copernicus (with Lutz-Rainer Müller), Trondheim kunstmuseum, Trondheim
2017   Season Gallery, Seattle
2016   SYZYGY (with Lutz-Rainer Müller), Objectiv magazine, Oslo
       Drawing biennale 2016: The sketch: A collective psycogeographical guide to Oslo, Oslo
2014   PIEROGI XX: Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Pierogi, New York
       New Arrangements, Galleria Rajatila, Tampere
       Restate, Art:I:Curate, London
2013   Örebro open art, Örebro
       Performa 13, New York
       5 kunstenere, Galleri K, Oslo
2012   Not even light can escape, A und V, Leipzig
       So near the garden but still miles away, 1/9Unosunove, Rome
       Diamonds are forever, Galleri Erik Steen, Oslo
       Grounded, bb15, Linz Stadt mit Vollausstattung (with Lutz-Rainer Müller & Pepper + Woll),
       Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund
2011   Reminds me of tomorrow, Skalitzer140, Berlin
       Precarious Interchange, Waxy Pith, Brussels
       Unfolding: Processes, Grimmuseum, Berlin
       Acting on a tip, Grünerløkka Kunsthall, Oslo
2010   Babelsk, Bergen Art Museum, Bergen
       Reflected in a drop of oil, Galleri Niklas Belenius, Stockholm
       The drawing biennale, Moss
       Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo
       Unfinished Business, Waterside Project Space, London
2009   Tempo Skien, Telemarks Kunstnersenter, Skien
       Dark matter, Peder Balke Center, Toten Barentz Triennale, Oslo, Tromsø, Rovaniemi, Helsinki,
       Murmansk, Moscow
       SnowballEditions2008, Lautom Contemporary, Oslo
2008   New works, Galleri Erik Steen, Oslo
       Platform China, Beijing
       Lights On, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Moderen Art, Oslo
2007   Be One, Get Three, Cluster Galerie, Berlin
       Obergeschoss Dritter Finger Rechts, Ballhaus Ost, Berlin
2006   Take Off, Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo
2004   Vestlandet i verden, Vestlandsutstillingen (touring exhibition)

Public commissions (with Lutz-Rainer Müller)

2019   Polarsirkelen High school, Mo I Rana (upcoming)
2018   Greifswald University Hospital, Greifswald (upcoming)
       Heimdal High school, Heimdal (upcoming)
2017   Tolkewitz High school, Dresden
2016   Ullerntunet carecentre, Oslo
       Oslo Red Coss, Oslo
2015   University of Tromsø, Tromsø
       Granstangen primary school, Oslo
2014   Bergen university college, Bergen
Stein mit Vollausstattung, Dortmund City Children and youth psychiatric clinic, Jessheim
2013   Hadeland High school, Gran

Selected institutional and public collections

Astrup Fearnley Foundation
Bergen Art Museum, Bergen
Nomas Fundation, Rome
Wintershall, Stavanger
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Are Blytt

		            Lives and works in Oslo and Brussels
1981		        Born in Bergen, Norway
2003–2008     Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Trondheim
2001–2002     Bergen School of Art, Bergen

Residencies

2018   WIELS Residency Programme for emerging artists, Brussels
       CCA Studio Program, Kunsthalle CCA Andratx, Mallorca
2017   Circolo Scandinavo, Rome
2015   Circolo Scandinavo, Rome
       CCA Studio Program, Kunsthalle CCA Andratx, Majorca
2011   Circolo Scandinavo, Rome
2008   The Scandinavia – Japan Sasakawa Foundation, Tokyo

Selected public awards

2014   Jackson Pollock & Lee Krasner Foundation, New York
2014   Forsberg & Aulies Painters Award, Oslo

Selected solo shows

2017   Galleri K, Oslo
2015   Kunsthalle CCA Andratx, Mallorca
2014   Trafo Kunsthall Project Room, Asker
2013   Noplace, Oslo
2012   Kunsternes Hus – W17, Oslo
       Trafo Kunsthall Project Room, Asker
2011   The Agency Gallery, London
2009   The Agency Gallery, London

Selected group shows

2018   Kunsthalle CCA Andratx, Mallorca
       Philipp von Rosen Galerie, Cologne
2015   QB Gallery, Oslo
Kunsthalle CCA Andratx, Mallorca
2014 Kunsthall Stavanger w/ Entrée, Stavanger
     Performa 13 w/ Entrée, New York
     The National Annual Autumn Exhibition, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
2013 Platform Stockholm, Stockholm
     Galleri K, Oslo
     Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen
2012 The National Annual Autumn Exhibition, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
     Art Gwangju w/ The Agency Gallery, Gwangju
     The Agency Gallery, London
     Norwegian Drawing Biennale 2012, Oslo
2011 KOBE Biennale 2011, Kobe
     The Agency Gallery, London

Selected institutional and public collections

Arts Council Norway
Jack Helgesen Family Collection
Kunsthalle CCA Andratx Collection, Mallorca
Sørlandet Art Museum
Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium Collection
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Per-Oskar Leu

		           Lives and works in Oslo
1980		       born in Oslo, Norway
2012–2013    Whitney Independent Study Program, New York
2008–2009    Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule, Frankfurt/Main
2006		       Glasgow School of Art, Department of Environmental Art, Glasgow
2002–2006    National Academy of Fine Art, Oslo

Solo shows

2017   Before the War, 1/9 unosunove, Rome
2014   c/o – An Alternate Correspondence (with Benjamin Tiven), 1/9 unosunove, Rome
       (T)reason and Emotion, Volt, Bergen
2012   The Suitcase of Mr. O.F., 1/9 unosunove, Rome
       Crisis and Critique, Triple Canopy, New York
       The English: Are They Human?, London Metropolitan University, London
2011   Dortmund Bodega, Oslo
2010   Vox Clamantis in Deserto, 1/9 unosunove, Rome
       Part Thirteen, Vanish, Frankfurt am Main
       BFF, Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmö
       Ideal Setting (with Frederik Værslev), Ping-Pong Gallery, Malmö
2009   XXXIII, Lothringer 13 Städtische Kunsthalle, Munich
       Ascension, Landings Project Space, Vestfossen
2008   Like a Dog!, UKS, Oslo
2007   Americka, Torpedo, Oslo
2006   At the Crossroads, The Montgomery Sculpture Trust, London
2005   THREE TO GET READY – The Second Skin, Bastard,
2004   Closure, Galleri 21:24, Oslo

Group shows and projects

2018   Vitamin D is for Don’t Give Up (with Halvor Rønning), Destiny’s Atelier, Oslo
2017   Segunda Vez seminar (with Halvor Rønning), Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim
2016   Freux Follets, BBB centre d’art, Toulouse
       FEED, Kunst Vardo, Oslo
2015   I skuggan av kriget, Malmö Kunstmuseum, Malmö
2014   Vi lever på en stjerne, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden
       In These Great Times, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
       EVA International Biennial, Limerick
       Répétition Générale, 1/9 unosunove, Rome
2013   Global Revolt: Cinematic Ammunition, Anthology Film Archives, New York
       The Limits of My Language Means the Limits of My World, Platform, Stockholm
       Whitney IPS Studio Exhibition, {Temp}, New York
       Wanna be a masterpiece, ISCP, New York
2012   When it Stops Dripping from the Ceiling, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
       Library of INCA, Institute for Neo Connotative Action, Detroit
       how to make a delicious tea, Art Metropole, Toronto
2011   Pica Pica, Entrée, Bergen
       Wordperfect 1.0, NoPlace, Oslo
2010   Tracks, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö
       Timing, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
       Who Cares, Redux, Appartement, Berlin
       ourtv series2, SWG3, Glasgow
2009   ...On Guyton, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt/Main
       First View, Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmö
       Snowball Editions, Lautom Contemporary, Oslo
       Kunstnerboken, Tegnerforbundet, Oslo
       Art Recipe, Podium, Oslo
2008   Reality Effects, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden
       Botnik Space Off, Botnik Studios, Gerlesborg
       “Rykk tilbake til start!”, 0047, Oslo
       High Come Down, Smia, Kristiansand
2007   I Would Eat That, 70 Eddy St, Providence
2006   Bokaktig, Fotogalleriet, Oslo
       10x, Galleri Seilduken, Oslo
       Avgangsutstillingen, Stenersenmuséet, Oslo
2004   Vækerø skulpturhage, Oslo
2003   Let’s Get Physical, Altin Turk Showroom, Oslo
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