2010

Grand National / Art from Britain

Grand National is the most extensive exhibition of works by British artists to be held in Norway in over a decade. It takes as its starting point the contemporary position of artists located in an internationally bound artworld in which ties to nation and national heritage a...
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2009

Nachspiel / Vorspiel

“Nachspiel / Vorspiel” (After party / Pre party) was a group show where Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium presented works by the last ten festival artists exhibiting at Bergen International Festival, one of Norway’s biggest cultural events every year. Each of these ten artists t...
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2008

Every Body Counts

Excerpt from the catalog text of Morten E. Petteresen, Chairman of the Board at Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium: “The title of the exhibition, “Every Body Counts”, hihlights two important themes: The human body in art, and the question of who art is for. The human body has be...
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2007

Oh my God!

Excerpt from curator Göran Greens text for the catalogue: “Oh my God… Oh my God!…” the woman exclaimed as she saw the huge Boeing plane crash into the World Trade Center on 9/11. Faced with the terrible and nightmare-like events she was witnessing, the woman invoked God...
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2006

Connecting People

For the exhibition “Connecting people” Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium collaborated with Kiasma, Finland’s national museum for contemporary art in Helsinki.   ...
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2005

Reunion

Excerpt of Göran Greens text for the catalogue: “In the 1990s, the art world exploded – in terms of both geographic reach and with the number of artistic techniques. The major art metropolises, with New York at the forefront, lost their dominance. Art went global. There was...
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