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UTDANNELSE / EDUCATION
1970-71  Textile School of Craft, Tromsø, Norway
1972-74  National Academy of Art and Design, Oslo, Norway
1974-75  State College of Forming, tapestry, Oslo, Norway
1976-81  Vestlandets Art Academy, Bergen, Norway
1981-82  Art Academy in Stockholm, Sweden

 

SEPARATUTSTILLINGER / SOLO SHOWS (SELECTION)
2016  Our Inner Beasts, Galleri Christinegaard, Bergen, Norway
2015  Ink meets Paper, Galleri Christinegaard, Bergen, Norway
2013  Kristian's House, Museum for Northern People, Norway
2013  Blindsight, Obrestad Fyr, Norway
2012  Catch the Moment, Kunstbanken - Hedmark Art Center, Hamar, Norway
2009  The redeyed dogs  Bødø Kunstforening, Bødø, Norway
2008  Left Overs  Berg Museum Kragerø, summer show, Norway
2008  Catch Eyes  Pickled Art Center, Beijing, China
2003  Bricoleurenes Messe, Lillehammer Art Museum, Norway
1999  Who can say no to three good wishes? - Festival artist, Bergen Art Hall, Norway
1998  Fullmoon in August, summer show KIO, Lillehammer, Norway
1998  Nomadic Travelling, summer show, Tromsø Kunstforening, Norway
1998  Modell, Galleri III, Oslo, Norway
1997  White Trash, Galleri Otto Plonk, Bergen, Norway
1997  Kaptein Hvile. Prosess Norsk Kunstbruk, Flå, summer show, Norway
1996  White Trash, Studio 1, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
1996  Here-There, Studio 227, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
1993  Tokt, Goethe Institute Oslo, Norway
1991  Moratorium, Føreløbig stopp, Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, Norway
1991  Magnetic soil, BWA, Lublin, Poland
1990  Tranquillitatis, BSMI gymnastikksal, Festival artist, Harstad, Norway
1989  Den flerkantede reise / The Polygonal Journey, Art Space Momokan, Kyoto, Japan
1988  White memories, Galleri Sølvberget, Stavanger, Norway
1988  Namadis, Bergens Kunstforening, Art hall, Norway
1987  Metro and Aero, Gallery Wang, Oslo, Norway
1987  Metro and Aero, The Art Hall / Brands Klëdefabrik, Odense, Denmark
1986  Panorama, Cafe Opera, Bergen, Norway
1985  Metro, Tromsø Kunstforening, Kirkenes Kunstforening, Norway
1985  Metro, PS1, NewYork, USA
1984  Scarecrows, Bergen Art Centre, Norway
1984  From: Performance - To: Exhibition, Galleri Lubbens, Molde, Norway
1982  227 Threads, Kanal 2, Copenhagen, Denmark
1982  Supert Marked, Bergens Kunstforening, Norway
1981  Rituale und Spiele, Rituals and Plays, Gallery NEMO, Kiel, Germany
1980  Fnatter, Galleri 1, Bergen, Norway
1980  Scrarecows, Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, Norwayy
1980  Tromsø Kunstforening, Norway
1979  Textile / Sculpture, UKS, Oslo, Norway

 

GRUPPEUTSTILLINGER / GROUP SHOWS (SELECTION)
2016  SILENT REVOLT, NORWEGIAN PROCESS ART + CONCEPTIONAL ART OF THE '70s + '80s, National Museum of Norway, Oslo
2014  1814-2014: Red, White and Blue - Norwegian Constitution, American Inspiration, National Constitution Center, Norway, Galleri at Norway House, Minneapolis, USA
2013  The book, Kristian's House, leased at the Riddu Riddufestival
2013  Munch by Others, Haugar Art Museum, Tønsberg, Norway
2013  Public Art Screens, Stavanger, Norway
2012  Das Verortete Verlangen 3, Alte Feuerwache, Berlin, Germany
2009  Nachspiel / Vorspiel, Vestfossen Art Laboratory, Norway
2009  Performative Photography, Preus Museum, Horten, Norway
2009  AntArtica, Haugar Art Museum, Tønsberg, Norway
2008 - 2010  Homage til Iver Joks, traveling show through Norway, Sweden, Finland
2008  Norwegian images, Gallery Bradstrup, Oslo town hall, Oslo, Norway
2008  Position East, figurations, Oslo, Norway
2007  North-Norwegian, art exhbition, traveling in Northern Norway
2007  Dump, National Museum, Oslo, Norway
2006 - 2007  POST NORA Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2005  North Norwegian, art exhbition, traveling in Northern Norway
2001  Subrosa, Charlottenborg Art Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark; Sodertalje Art Hall, Sweden + Amos Anderson Artmuseum, Helsinki, Finland
2001  Norwegian images 2001, Gallery Brandstrup in Oslo town hall, Oslo, Norway
2001  Bergens Kunstforening, Bergen, Norway
2001  Trans-art, Trondheim, Norway
2000  Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo, Norway
2000  The Glass millenium, Gallery Sølvberget Stavanger, Norway
2000  Norwegian images 2000, Gallery Brandstrup in Oslo town hall, Norway
2000  Plus-minus, traveling show Bodø, Rovaniemi, Karasjok, Svolvær + Luleå; Norway + Sweden
2000  To build a collection, Museum of Comtemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
1999  Norgespakken, Gallery 111, Oslo, Norway
1999  Nye innkjøp, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
1998  Exile Art, Tromsø byrom, Norway
1997  Northern light festival,Tromsø Cultural House, Norway
1997  The provocative picture, Galleri F 15, Jeløy, Norway
1997  22 artists from Oslo, America House, Gøteborg, Sweden
1997  Norwegian Profiles, Museum Folkwang, Essen; Kunsthalle Rostock; Germany
1997  null en, norsk kunstrom, CD
1996  Lofoten Art Festival, Svolvær, Norway
1996  Gjest Billedhuggerforeningsjubileum, Henie-Onstad Art Centre + Bergens Kunstforening, Norway
1996  Dark time exhibition, Tromsø Kunstforening, Norway
1995  Artscape Nordland, Øksnes kommune, After Images, permanent work, Norway
1995  Arkipel, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
1994  Norge midt i verden, Høvikodden Art Centre, Norway
1994  North Norway on North Norwegian, North Norwegian Art Museum,Tromsø, Norway
1994/95  Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil
1994/95  MAM, Museum of Modern Art, skulpture park- Outdoor-Indoor, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1991  Over Grensene, Galleri F15, Jeløya, Norway
1991  Norwegian Images, Oslo, Norway
1989  Skala 1, Roma, Enter this way, Italy
1989  Biura Wystow Artystycznych, Lublin, Poland
1988  Galleri F15, Moss
1987  Foreningen Norden, Copenhagen, Denmark
1987  Galleri Garmer, Gøteborg, Sweden
1987  Gjest, Heimdalsutstillingen, Jordtegn, Norway
1986  Gjest Sørlandsutstillinga Metro, Kristiansand, Norway
1986  Statens Høstutstilling, Oslo, Norway
1986  North, Odense, Denmark
1986  Stealing Diamonds, Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
1986  Norealis, Daad Gallerie, Berlin, Germany
1985  Lasser galleri, New York, USA
1985  Clocktower, New York, USA
1985  Galleri Now, New York, USA
1983  Scandinavia Today, traveling show, USA
1982  Art from top of Europe, traveling show, Scandinavia
1982  Kunst aus Bergen, Malmø, Sweden
1982  Scandinavia Today, traveling show, USA
1981  7 tilfeldige fra Bergen, traveling show, Bergen, Oslo, Kristiansand, Trondhjem, Norway
1980  Accent in Northern Art, Helsinki, Finland
1980  Skulptur Underveis, Oslo, Bergen + Trondheim, Norway
1979  Nordisk Tekstiltriennale, traveling, Norway, Iceland, Sweden and Finland
1979  Statens Høstutstilling, Oslo, Norway

 

INNKJ0PT / COLLECTIONS
Norsk Kulturråd, -84, -82, Bergen Billedgalleri, -84, Museum of Contemporary Art, -86, Heine - Onstad Art Centre Høvikodden, -84, -90, North Norwegian Art Museum, -91, Norsk Kulturråd, -97, University in Tromsø and Troms fylkeskommune, -97, North Norwegian Art Museum, -98, Stortinget, -99, Museum of Contemporary Art, -99, Dronning Sonja, -99, North Norwegian Art Museum, -2001, Kunst på arbeidsplassen, -2004, Esterprisen- Ungdommens revypris i Tromsø - 2006-7-8-9 and private collections

 

PUBLIC WORK
2016  Human Figures, Nordland Hospital, Bodø, Norway; collaboration with Bo Bisgaard
2010  Space Fantasies,  Rosenberg School Trondheim, Norway, collaboration with Bo Bisgaard
2008  Column, Arctic Culture House in Hammerfest, Norway, collaboration with Bo Bisgaard
2005  Outdoor ornaments of the new Hologaland Theatre, Tromsø, collaboration with Bo Bisgaard
2005  Dry fish wrack - the skulpture ELSE near Tromsø airport, Norway
2002  Albino, sculpture, College Trondheim, Norway
2002 - 2004  Halden High School, collaboration with Bo Bisgaard
2001  Janus, sculpture, Police Station in Kirkenes, Norway
1997  The Painted Dogs, sculpture, Amos, Canada
1995  Art Project Nordland, After Images, Øksnes and Myre, Norway
1980  Nordnestunet, Bergen, Norway

 

PROSJEKTER / PROJECTS (SELECTION)
2008  Rørboden, Kragerø torg, Philosophy Festival, Norway
2008  SEN - ongoing project
2003 The deer Tower, Art.Site, Saupstad Trondheim, Norway
2003  All places forever, Lillehammer torg, Rørboden, Norway
2001  Mine, Folldal gruver, Norway
1997  Overgang, international symposium for art in nature, Skjåk – Stryn, Norway
1997  3e Symposium en arts visuel, Painted dogs, permanent work, Amos, Canada
1994  AXIS MUNDI PEREGRINO for VINTER OL. This project wasn’t reprocessed due to financial reasons
1991  Feltarbeid, Bragdøya, Far to Bremen, Norway
1987  Nature / Art - Art / Nature, Lillehammer; Chateau mobile, Norway
1983  The deployment of scarecrows outside Mandal, Norway
1982  International Wintersnowsymposium, Geilo, Norway

 

FORESTILLINGER, PERFORMANCER / PERFORMANCES (SELECTION)
2010  BACARDY OG COLA  Dramatic House Oslo, Norway
2008  Jeg fant det du forlot (I found what you left), with Cecilie Løveid, Dramatikkens Hus, Oslo
2008  Jeg håper jeg kan få filosofene til å se, Filosofifestivalen Kragerø
2007  BACARDY OG COLA, tekst og performance pågående prosjekt med Det Åpne Teatret
2006  ORANGE workshop med egen tekst, Det Åpne Teater, Oslo
1994  "LUZ" workshop Officina Cultural de Andrade, Sao Paolo
1991  "Far from Bremen", Bragdøya
1991  "Ekspedisjon", Århus Festival week, Denmark
1991  "Magneto Land", Lublin, Poland
1990  "Foreløbig stans", Heine-Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, Norway
1989  "The Polygonal Journey", Tromsø, som over
1988  "The Polygonal Journey", Kyoto Japan, Art Space Momokan/Winter Cities.konsept/regi i samarbeide m. Willie Flindt
1984  "Namadis", produsert av Bergen s Kunstforening og Bergen Internasjonale Teaterfestival
1982  "Fra: forestilling til: utstilling", Molde og Bergen
1979  "Vi vil det skal vare evig", Heine-Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, Norway
1979  "Ei fortelling om Kvitebjørn", Bergen, Norway

 

SCENOGRAPHY / COSTUMES / LAYOUT
2016  "LØPERJENTEN (RECONSTRUCTED)", set and costume design, collaboration with Carte Blanche Dance Company and the National Theatre Bergen
2016  "Stilleben / Still Life", scenography for the film by Chris Erichsen
2003  "Uncle - in Underground House", Cultural House, Guovdageaidnu, Norway
2003  "Internateti" collaboration with Bo Bisgaard, Baivas Sami Theather
2001  "Bricoleurenes Messe", Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Norway
1990  "Kajakkvinnen"Sampo teater i samarbeide med Baivas S.T. Premiære festspillene i Harstad
1990  "Anna Rogløy"ved Synne Skauen, Festspillene i Harstad
1986  "Sezuan" B. Brecht, Isprosjekt Kautokeino, Baivas S.T./Hålogaland t./Sampo/Studioteater
1983  "Balansedame" av C. Løveid, Den Nationale Scene Bergen,Småscenen
1983  "Vinteren rivnar", av Cecilie Løveid, Det Norske Teater, Scene 2

 

REISE OG STUDIEOPPHOLD / TRAVEL AND STUDY PLACES (SELECTION)
2006, 2007  Beijing, China
1994, 2004, 2005  Sao Paulo, Brazil
1999  Kyoto, Japan
1995 - 1996  Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
1988  Cite International des artes, Paris, France
1984 - 1985  P.S.1, New York, USA

 

SCHOLARSHIPS (SELECTION)
1999  guaranteed minimum income
1998  Compensation Fund grant
1997  Compensation Fund grant
1994/95/96  State 3-year grant
1989/90/91  Compensation Fund grant
1985/86/87  State 3-year grant
1982  Conrad Mohrs legat
1980  Government travel grant

 

1999-2003: elected to the board of Chairman / director of Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo / curatorial work as director for Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo. Realized several major exhibitions in this four-year period plus in the intermedial space.