Astrup Fearnley Museet is a privately owned museum, which presents temporary exhibitions of international art. First opened in 1993, the museum has since established itself as an important institution for presentation of contemporary art.
After over 18 years in Dronningensgtate 4, the museum closed its doors 31 December 2011. The Astrup Fearnley Museet reopens 29 September 2012 at Tjuvholmen in Oslo, in a new museum building designed by world-renowned architect Renzo Piano.
The museum is launched with “To be with art is all we ask”, an exhibition of selected works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection by some of the world’s most innovative contemporary artists.
The Astrup Fearnley Collection has a history that dates back to the 1960s and has always concentrated on individual works and artists, rather than on movements or historical periods. Its distinctive focus is on acquiring major pieces of contemporary art that push the boundaries of the artistic canon.
This exceptional collection does not aspire to present an encyclopaedic overview of international contemporary art. Instead, it is an agglomeration of works by artists who occupy key positions in the field, either because they have created visual languages, objects and images of great originality and quality, or because they have reinvented significant aspects of cultural production. This means that certain artists have an outstanding presence in the collection, and are presented in depth, showing the development and the coherence of their work. Over the last decade, the Museum has concentrated intensively on American contemporary artists, and younger artists like Paul Chan, Frank Benson, Nate Lowman, and Dan Colen, to name just a few. More recently, the focus has been on works by important European, Brazilian, Japanese, Chinese, and Indian contemporary artists. The museum’s aim is to collect and present these major works by international contemporary artists in illuminating depth, but also in dialog with the Norwegian art scene, and to have a real presence both in the city of Oslo and in the international art world.
The Astrup Fearnley Museum - The Norway Post
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