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Åtte finalister klare i konkurransen om nytt museumsbygg på Kistefos

Høsten 2024 inviterte Stiftelsen Kistefos-Museet 28 nøye utvalgte arkitektkontorer til prekvalifisering om å utforme et nytt museumsbygg. Nå står åtte finalister igjen i konkurransen om å forme Kistefos’ fremtid. Det nye museumsbygget, planlagt åpnet i 2031, vil bli et permanent hjem for den betydelige kunstsamlingen bygget opp av Christen Sveaas.
Kistefos er i dag en av Europas ledende kunst-

Christina Quarles, «Bless Tha Nightn’gale», 2019. Courtesy of the artist and Christen Sveaas Art Collection.

Kistefos presents 2025 programme

In 2025, Kistefos will present an exhibition programme with works by three internationally renowned contemporary artists: Christina Quarles, Kathleen Ryan and Nairy Baghramian. Through the theme ‘The Corporeal and Intersectionality’, this year's programme invites an in-depth reflection on the body as both physical form and cultural symbol, while offering visually striking artistic experiences.

Christina Quarles, «Bless Tha Nightn’gale», 2019. Tilhører Christen Sveaas’ Kunststiftelse.

Kistefos presenterer årets program for 2025

Kistefos' utstillingsprogram presenterer verk av tre internasjonalt anerkjente samtidskunstnere: Christina Quarles, Kathleen Ryan og Nairy Baghramian. Gjennom temaet «Det kroppslige og interseksjonalitet» inviterer årets program til en dyptpløyende refleksjon over kroppen som både fysisk form og kulturelt symbol, samtidig som det tilbyr visuelt slående kunstneriske opplevelser.

Hurvin Anderson: Salon Paintings on display in The Twist, Kistefos Museum, Norway. Photo: Vegard Kleven

Hurvin Anderson: Salon Paintings opened at Kistefos Museum

Kistefos is delighted to announce the first solo exhibition in Norway of paintings and drawings by acclaimed British artist Hurvin Anderson. Salon Paintings surveys Anderson’s celebrated Barbershop Series, from the earliest Barbershop paintings and related Studio Drawings he made in 2006, through to new paintings on view for the first time with which the series culminates.

 Photo: Hurvin Anderson, Afrosheen, 2009. Courtesy the artist and Christen Sveaas’ Art Collection. All Rights Reserved, DACS_Artimage 2023.

Hurvin Anderson: Salon Paintings opening at Kistefos Museum 04 May–13 October 2024

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.

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

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. The «Springboard» project offers young curators and artworld professionals valuable museum experience at an international level.

En kulturdestinasjon med en twist!

Kistefos er unik kulturdestinasjon, beliggende i vakre omgivelser på Jevnaker. Kistefos er bygd på det tidligere fabrikkområdet til Kistefos Træsliperi AS og består i dag av en imponerende skulpturpark med 52 skulpturer, to kunstgallerier med skiftende utstillinger, samt et industrimuseum. Det nye signaturbygget The Twist har høstet en rekke priser og nominasjoner for sitt spektakulære design.

Kistefos Museum

Samsmoveien
3520 JEVNAKER
Norge