Astrup Fearnley Modern Art Museum is a private modern and contemporary art museum located in Oslo, Norway. The museum is housed in a building designed by Renzo Piano.
It was founded and opened to the public in 1993. The centerpiece of the collection hosted is the American artists of the 1980s, but is currently developing towards the international contemporary art scene, with artists such as Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Matthew Barney, Tom Sachs, Doug Aitken, Olafur Eliasson and Cai Guo-Qiang.
The museum offers 6-7 temporary exhibitions every year. Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art collaborates with international institutions and produces traveling exhibits around the world. In 2012 the museum moved to two new buildings designed by Renzo Piano in Tjuvholmen.
Astrup Fearnley Museet's exhibition program for 2021 begins with a major presentation of the work of American artist Nicole Eisenman. Eisenman's largest solo exhibition in Europe to date, Giant Without a Body delves into the artist's practice from 2006 to the present and includes a number of new paintings and sculptures created over the past year.
Since the 1990s, Nicole Eisenman (born 1965) has carved out a place for herself as a central figure in American painting, with a distinctive style that shifts between abstraction and figurative representations of social environments. It makes use of historical art references, playfully invigorating elements of the Renaissance, Baroque and Social Realism, as well as German Expressionism, linking them to the present in an extremely cunning and distinctive language.
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art
Address: Strandpromenaden 2, 0252
Phone: +47 22 93 60 60
Site:
https://www.afmuseet.no/en/home/Location inserted by
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