Season 2024’s main exhibition Salon Paintings by Hurvin Anderson in The Twist. Photo: Maria Sandvik.

Pressemelding - 18. desember 2023 08:00

Announcing next years program at Kistefos!

Kistefos is delighted to announce a new season opening on May 4th, 2024. British artist Hurvin Anderson is this year's artist in The Twist with the critically acclaimed Salon Paintings exhibition. Italian artist Tatiana Trouvé is this year's sculptor with a new work from the artist’s Guardians series to be unveiled in the Wood Pulp Mill. The «Springboard» project offers young curators and artworld professionals valuable museum experience at an international level. The seasons program will be tied together by the themes community, belonging and sense of a place.

Exhibitions and artistic program 2024

Hurvin Anderson

Salon Paintings

4th May – 13th October

The Twist

Kistefos is delighted to announce the first solo exhibition in Norway of paintings and drawings by acclaimed British artist Hurvin Anderson. The exhibition focuses on Anderson’s celebrated Barbershop series as a lens through which to understand Anderson’s wider practice and unique sense of history, memory and place.

Hurvin Anderson is a British painter of Jamaican descent, born to parents of the Windrush generation who arrived in Britain from the Caribbean from the late 1940s to the mid1960s. Anderson was educated at Wimbledon School of Art, and The Royal College of Art, London, and accolades include a nomination for the Turner Prize in 2017. Within his paintings Anderson explores the intersections of place, identity, community, and culture. With depictions of human landscapes bearing the traces of his origins, his works navigate states of mind reflective of intertwined histories, and the complexities of cross-culturalism.

Hurvin Anderson: Salon Paintings is part of a European tour in collaboration with The Hepworth Wakefield and Hastings Contemporary in the UK, where the exhibition has garnered 5-star reviews from The Telegraph and Guardian newspapers.

Tatiana Trouvé

Unveiling 4th May

Wood Pulp Mill

Kistefos will present a new, site-specific sculpture from Tatiana Trouvé in the historic Wood Pulp Mill. The sculpture is part of Trouvé's Guardians series, depicting selected objects placed on a chair. Each Guardian symbolizes a fictional person, or rather a phantom, who guards different places and life forms. Guardians are protectors of ideas that can be linked to political, ecological, anthropological and historical challenges. They bring life to stories and knowledge that may have been marginalized, but above all, they protect other works of art, and are made to exist in interaction and dialogue with them. This sculpture is conceived with Kistefos in mind, both the fauna and animal life of the site, its’ industrial history and the people who have shaped it.

Trouvé was born in 1968 in Italy and lives in Paris. In 2007 she was awarded the Marcel Duchamp Prize, France's most prestigious prize in contemporary art. She has had solo exhibitions at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Villa Medici, Rome; MAMCO, Geneva; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg and Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin. She is represented by Gagosian.

«Springboard»

Nybruket 2nd Floor

«Springboard» is a three-year project where young curators are invited to develop an exhibition concept in collaboration with Kistefos Museum. The exhibitions will be shown in Nybruket Gallery during seasons 2024 - 2026. Through an Open Call, young curators will be invited to submit their exhibition concept based on works from the collection of Christen Sveaas' Art Foundation. The curators will be selected by a jury of art professionals.

The exhibitions will form the basis for an exciting and dynamic education program, which aims to attract and engage a young museum audience. The goal with the “Springbrett” project is to raise the competence of young and early career curators and artists, whilst offering valuable museum experience at an international level. The project has received a grant of NOK 3 million from the Sparebank DNB Foundation.

Christen Sveaas’ Art Foundation

Nybruket Gallery

Nybruket Gallery will present an exhibition based on works from the Christen Sveaas Art Foundation. The Foundation was established by Christen Sveaas in October 2019. The goal of the foundation is to manage, protect, convey and lend artworks from the foundation’s collection to increase interest in modern and contemporary art.

Around 800 artworks were donated to the foundation from Christen Sveaas’ private collection on 24 May 2020. The donation was marked by the exhibition Come Out! at the Kistefos Museum. Additional donations in recent years have increased the foundation’s total number of works to 856.

Increasing access to the collection for a wider audience is an important goal for the foundation. To achieve this, the Foundation collaborates closely with Norwegian and international institutions on temporary exhibitions, long-term loans and collection displays. Reproducing the works in exhibition catalogues and creating new text material are important parts of this work and help keep the works alive and relevant for new generations.

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Kistefos was established in 1996 by Norwegian businessman and art collector Christen Sveaas on the former site of his grandfather’s pulp mill. Today, Kistefos offers world-class architecture, industrial history, art exhibitions, and an expansive sculpture park in scenic surroundings. Every year, Kistefos presents new art exhibitions by highly recognized national and international artists in its two galleries, The Twist and Nybruket Gallery. The Twist has won several prizes for its cutting-edge design and is a gallery, a bridge, and a sculpture, all in one.