“This exhibition is a prompt. This exhibition is a map. This exhibition is a conflict, a chorus.”
100 YEARS OF CONVIVIALITY celebrates that on 28 October 1921, a group of artists met in a bar in Oslo and founded a social club that would change the fabric that upholds artistic life in Norway – and which continues to mend and weave that fabric, so it never wears thin.
The exhibition features three kinds of works. There are loans from museums and collections across Norway, which tell us about the history of a group of artists organizing and working together, sometimes through animosity and disagreement. There are new commissions that actively converse with the past in material dialogue with those that came before. And there are works that dreamily explore our shared present and possible futures.
Artists
Per Inge Bjørlo (1952), Erik Brandt (1897–1947), Marianne Brandt (1893 – 1983), Marte Eknæs (1978), Finn Faaborg (1902–1995), Yngvild Fagerheim (1942), Brit Fuglevaag (1939), Else Hagen (1914–2010), Marius Heyerdahl (1938–1979), Åsa Jungnelius (1975), Iver Iversen Jåks (1932–2007), Christine Sun Kim (1980), Linda Lamignan, Lars Laumann (1975), Per Jonas Lindström (1955), Elise Macmillan (1988), Elina Waage Mikalsen & Magnus Holmen (1992/1991), Mo Maja Moesgaard & Anne Louise Fink (1980/1984), Ahmet Ögüt (1981), Clevon Pran (1946–1997), Elsebet Rahlff (1940), Aase Texmon Rygh (1925–2019), John Savio (1902–1938), Tai Shani (1976), Signe Munch Siebke (1884–1945), Kjartan Slettemark (1932–2008), Håkon Stenstadvold (1912–1977), Willibald Storn (1936), The Alternative School of Economics (establ. in 2012) and Silje Figenschou Thoresen (1978).
