Visual Arts

Ten Norwegian artists are paired up with ten New Yorkers in this group show curated by David Gibson. The opening reception is held Friday, the 1st of March between 6 and 8 PM. The exhibition is held at the NOoSPHERE Arts gallery located on the Lower East side of Manhattan and will be on view March 1 - 31. Read more

Norwegian artist Heidi Fosli is exhibiting for the first time in the U.S. The exhibition is held between March 8. and April 2. by the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery. The gallery is located in Chelsea on Manhattan. Read more

EAT is an ongoing interactive performance by Kurt Johannessen, presented by NOoSPHERE Arts on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The artist Kurt Johannessen is a pioneer in the field of Norwegian performance art. There will be an opening reception Friday, Feb 9, 6‐8pm. Read more

The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) presents MUNCH | WARHOL and the Multiple Image, an exhibition featuring two of the 20th century’s most prolific and inventive printmakers. Curated by Dr. Patricia Berman and Pari Stave, the exhibition will be on view April 27 through July 27, 2013 at Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America. Read more

On Feb 4, NOoSPHERE Arts on the Lower East Side of Manhattan will have been up and running for two full years. The gallery wishes to celebrate its second birthday with a silent auction to raise funds to continue doing what they do. With a special focus on Norway, their scope is international: NOoSPHERE connects artists from elsewhere with the NYC art scene. The event will be opened Zenia... Read more

NOHO Gallery presents an exhibition with 12 paintings by the landscape painter Dag Hol. He is known for the light and the elaborate details in his works. He works in a classical figurative style and regards himself as independent of the current fashion trends of the modern art life, though he sees himself as a modern artist but mostly seeking a timeless expression. He focuses on the handcraft o... Read more

NOoSPHERE Arts presents Neverending Story featuring visual artists Kari Steihaug and Tina Jonsbu. Neverending Story is conceived as a second chapter to Steihaug’s and Jonsbu’s two‐person show at the Trøndelag Center for Contemporary Art in Trondheim, Norway, in 2006. Meditative and unobtrusive, the works of both artists embody the concept of “the time it takes” to manufacture an object; the... Read more

If you want it you can get it for the rest of your life. (Truth is what works.), curated by ISCP resident Erlend Hammer, presents a selection of works from artists that have a "studio-based practice"- there is little film, video or performance and the works all represent a kind of artistic knowledge that develops intuitively over time, and to some extent is willfully incommunicable. Read more

Our architecture is formed by our biology. From the circular patterned ceiling and floor of the Pantheon, Wright’s Guggenheim Museum, the organic forms of Gaudi’s Casa Mila, Jean Nouvel’s design for the perforated dome of the Louvre in Abu Dhabi; examples of the ways that architecture reflects our biological and cellular structure. Systems of proportion related to the human body date back to... Read more

NOoSPHERE Arts invites audience to come by their gallery on the Thanksgiving weekend for a varied selection of work in different forms, from artists Arianne Foks and Michael Alan. Read more

On Friday, November 9, Michael Alan will bring his legendary Living Installation – a staple of the NYC underground art and music scene for years – to ABC No Rio on the LES. A special 8-hour show, NYC Family Misfit Healing is a total immersive environment, a happening where spectators can get lost in the creation, hang out, draw, write, and come and go as they please while Alan and his team... Read more

Beginning November 9, 2012, Luxembourg & Dayan will open the door to A New Novel by New York-based Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard. This is an exhibition that coincides with publication of the artist’s latest novel, his first ever to be published commercially in English. Working closely with a group of leading designers and craftspeople, Melgaard is transforming the gallery’s Upper East Side... Read more

SculptureCenter presents the group exhibition A Disagreeable Object. Taking its title from Alberto Giacometti's surrealist sculptures, this building-wide exhibition explores themes of desire and repulsion, the familiar and the unfamiliar. The surrealist object was situated at a remove from its status as an artwork; it operated in direct response to, and simultaneously influenced, social and... Read more

The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Fall Open Studios is a three-day exhibition of international contemporary art. The 36 artists, art collectives and curators from 24 countries currently in residence at ISCP present work in their studios. Among these are three Norwegians. Artists Tonje Bøe Birkeland, Ann Cathrin November Høibo and curator Erlend Hammer. Read more

Trygve Lie Gallery is pleased to present the Group Exhibition "Vest Going West". The exhibition will be on display from November 6th through December 31st 2012. The opening reception will be held on Tuesday 2012, 6-8pm. Read more

Edvard Munch’s iconic The Scream (1895), among the most celebrated and recognized images in art history, will be on view at The Museum of Modern Art for a period of six months. Of the four versions of The Scream made by Munch between 1893 and 1910, this pastel-on-board from 1895 is the only one remaining in private hands; the three other versions are in the collections of museums in Norway. The... Read more

Established by visual artist Elisabeth Ramfjord in 1998, Galleri Ramfjord now ranks among the most dynamic and engaging exhibition venues in Oslo. To mark its 14th anniversary this summer, the gallery hosted an open call for a juried exhibit to be shown on both sides of the pond. Read more

On Leif Eriksson Day, Tuesday October 9th 2012, the Scandinavian East Coast Museum will be launching its most recent addition to their Virtual Museum. Read more

The great Norwegian artist Edvard Munch created some of the most visually interesting and psychologically powerful images in the entire history of art. This exhibition, at The North Carolina Museum of Art, examines the major themes in Munch’s art as expressed in graphic media. Read more

NOoSPHERE Arts, an artist‐run, nonprofit exhibition and performance venue on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, is excited to open the new gallery season with I Thought We Were the Same Person, a collaborative multimedia production partially created on site by Agnes Nedregard, Moray Hillary and Torgrim Wahl Sund. Read more