OSL contemporary
Opening Hours
Tue – Fri 12 – 17
Sat 12 – 15
Sunday and Monday by appointment
Contact
Tel: +47 23 27 06 76
Fax: +47 22 44 22 78
Enquiries
info(a)oslcontemporary.com
Opening Hours
Tue – Fri 12 – 17
Sat 12 – 15
Sunday and Monday by appointment
Contact
Tel: +47 23 27 06 76
Fax: +47 22 44 22 78
Enquiries
info(a)oslcontemporary.com
OSL contemporary is pleased to present the exhibition Infinite signature, with new works by Vibeke Tandberg. Infinite signature is comprised of works incorporating recycled materials sourced from Tandberg’s practice; both actual and metaphorical remnants from the artist’s studio, which here take on new forms in surprising and dramatic constellations.
Nye malerier av Callum Innes
OSL contemporary is proud to present the exhibition Alger, featuring works by the French artist Marie Bovo. The show comprises 15 photographs from her latest series, produced within a limited time period in November 2013; all within the same central corner apartment in the Algerian capital; all recording the same single motif of an open balcony door mediating between the indoor and outdoor spaces within the camera frame. Each exposure appears immersed in visual silence; proportions and …
17.10 – 15. 11 | Opening 16.10 | 19:00 – 21:00
17.10 – 15. 11 | Opening 16.10 | 19:00 – 21:00
OSL contemporary har gleden av å presentere utstillingen Evening Drawings I Abendzeichnungen, med nye arbeider av Dag Erik Elgin. Galleriet viser 38 malerier, utført i olje på lerret i en tofarget palett. Hvert av disse gjengir konturene enten fra en tegning eller av utvalgte detaljer i historiske verk. Med Evening Drawings (archive1996-2000) og Evening Drawings (archive 2000 – ) vises også Elgins tegninger for første gang sammen med maleriene.
Sgt. Welsh: In this world a man himself is nothing. And there ain’t no world but this one.
Private Witt: You’re wrong there. I seen another world. Sometimes I think it was just my imagination.
Sgt. Welsh: Well, then you’ve seen things I never will.
(The Thin Red Line, Terrence Mallick, 1998)
OSL contemporary is proud to present our first exhibition with the
sculptor Jone Kvie. The gallery is showing works from the period 2011
- 2013, including the freestanding, monumental piece Stellar Core
(2011), and two new works in bronze, Star Cluster I and Star Cluster
II. It is the first time the works are exhibited in Norway.
OSL contemporary har gleden av å presentere gruppeutstillingen “motlys”, kuratert av Randi Thommessen. Galleriet viser verk av de norske kunstnerne Marthe Elise Stramrud, Toril Johannessen, Sofie Berntsen og Tor Børresen, svenske Johan Thurfjell, britiske Chris Cornish og indiske Dayanita Singh.
Dag Erik Elgin The Balance of Painters 30.08 – 6.10 2012 | Opening Thursday, August 30, 2012 | 19:00 – 21:00 For English, please scroll down OSL contemporary har gleden av å invitere til utstillingen The Balance of Painters, med nye arbeider av Dag Erik Elgin. Utstillingen består av 50 malerier á 40×30 cm, utført i olje på lerret. Hvert bilde viser fire tall i en vertikal rad, malt gjennom sjablonger på en bakgrunn i varierende pastell- og gråtoner. The Balance of Painters viderefører Elgins …
A Matter of Words 26 April – 9 June 2012 | Opening Thursday 26.04.2012 | 19:00 – 21:00 A K Dolven, Albrecht Dürer, Dag Erik Elgin, Ed Ruscha, Felix Gonzalez-Torres & Christopher Wool, Kristian Skylstad, On Kawara, Rémy Zaugg and Vibeke Tandberg Publications by Laurence Sterne and Kazimir Malevich Intervention by Hannah Mjølsnes For English, please scroll down OSL contemporary har gleden av å invitere til utstillingen A Matter of Words, kuratert av Dag Erik Elgin i samarbeid med galleriet. …
Press release Sofie Berntsen | Pasteller 19.01 – 25.02.2012 | Opening Thursday 19.01.2012 | 19:00 – 21:00 For English, please scroll down Rational judgements lead to rational judgements. Irrational judgements lead to new experience. – Sol Lewitt Sofie Berntsens nye arbeider i utstillingen Pasteller tar en overraskende dreining bort fra den kjølige elegansen og “linjalperfeksjonen” vi har lært å kjenne gjennom utstillinger fra midten av 2000-tallet, så som Environment for expanded awareness på …
Jaded Inept Kristian Skylstad Opening: Friday 24.11.11 at 8pm To be or not to be. That’s not really a question. Jean-Luc Godard Book launch by Michalis Gennarakis SOLILOQUY and other poems Bas Jan Ader sailing off to sea was simply a retraction. That was what all the crying was about: reconnecting with the ocean on a phenomenological level – salt water and salty tears. He wasn’t sad. The ocean was just pulling him back in. Off shore Ader metamorphosed into a billion bacteria that was sweeped off …
Press release Issa Salliander Til Our Shadows Cease to Meet 3 March – 16 April 2011 Opening Thursday 3 March 2011 from 6 to 8 pm Galleri MGM Haxthausensgate 3 N-0263 Oslo Tel: +47 23 27 06 76 www.gallerimgm.com Galleri MGM has the pleasure of introducing Issa Salliander’s first solo exhibition in the gallery. Titled Til Our Shadows Cease to Meet, the exhibition explores the drama and humour found in the battle of good versus evil, and the conflict between life and death. Through the calculated …
A K Dolven change my way of seeing Part II: Galleri MGM, February 10, 2011 – February 26, 2011 Opening Thursday February 10, 7 – 9 pm A K Dolven’s new show at MGM is an open process, which investigates the psycho-aesthetic effects of passing time and changing points of view on the apparatus of perception. This artistic interest is mirrored in the dramaturgy of the show itself: Two weeks after the initial opening 20 January, Dolven will this week present her artistic take on the relativity of …
Galleri MGM presenterer sin tredje separatutstilling ’resilience’ med Vanessa Baird. Utstillingen består av en serie på 23 nye store akvareller i høydeformat. I denne utstillingen retter Vanessa Baird blikket innover mot det hverdagslige. For Baird handler det om ”å brøle under bordet”. Vi blir møtt av gjenkjennelige historier fra rundt kjøkkenbordet og idet vi går inn i detaljene finner vi elementer og situasjoner fra dagliglivet. Baird er kjent for sine naivistiske og burleske akvareller. Med …
Only visions completely undefined by the current reality constitute our first steps to liberation. -John Zerzan Galleri MGM har gleden av å invitere til åpning av Martin Skauens andre separatutstiling Bold Peek Point. Utstillingen består av video, skulptur og flere nye tegninger. Utstillingen tar utgangspunkt i videoen Kukanka som er en 10 minutter lang avfilmet tegning. Verket er tidligere vist på The 3rd Moscow Biennale i 2010. Skauen anvender en særegen teknikk hvor han filmer tegninger med …