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Espen Dietrichson

Espen Dietrichson (born 1976, Stavanger, Norway)

 

Educated at Oslo Drawing and Painting School from 1998 to 2000 and later State Academy of Fine Arts from 2000 to 2004. Represented by Galleri Haaken, Oslo

 

Selected solo exhibitions:

2024: Nightsculpture, Galleri Haaken

2023: A New Assembly, Galleri Haaken

2022: Sound drifts in the haze, Galleri Haaken

2020: Horizontal Doubt, Galleri Haaken

2019: Sketches of Doubt and Models of Light, L’Artothèque Espaces D’Art Contemporain Caen, France

2019: Echoes in the Diagram, Haugar Vestfold Art Museum, Tønsberg

2018: The Third Place, Galleri Haaken, Oslo

2016: Duophonic Sounds from Singular Rooms, Galleri F15, Moss

2015: Kristiansand Kunsthall, Kristiansand

2015: Wide Open, Galleri Haaken, Oslo

2014: The Fog, Galleri Gann, Sandnes

2014: Seven Years Later, Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Arendal

2014: Walls, Cities, Darkness, Forest, Night, Galleri Haaken, Oslo

2013: Variations on a Dark City, Breadfield Gallery, Malmø

2013: Monotonous Expectations, Kunstbanken Kunsthall, Hamar

2012: One of Many Unusual Moments, Galerie Roger Tator, Lyon, Frankrike

2012: Preparations for an Endless Repetition, Gallery Melk, Oslo

2011: Doubts in Time and Space, Hå Gamle Prestegaard, Nærbø

2010: Transparent Pavillions and Imaginary Objects, Circulationssentralen, Malmø

2010: Second Construction, Galerie Susan Nielsen, Paris, Frankrike

2009: Birds, Galleri Trafo, Asker

2008: Sketches for a Mechanical Sunrise, Unge Kunstneres Samfund, Oslo

2007: Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Arendal

2007: Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo

2006: Abstract Models - False Projects, Galleri Van Bau, Vestfossen

 

Selected group shows:

2020: Kunstnermøte, South Norway Art Museum, in dialogue with the Nicolay Tangen Collection

2018: Contemporary Chaos, kuratert av Demetrio Paparoni, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratori­um, Vestfossen

2015: Tech4change, Statoil kunstsamling, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen

2015: Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, 20 years anniversary exhibition, Kristiansand

2014: Reconstructions, Belfast Exposed, Belfast, Northern Ireland

2014: Word Bites Picture, Design Matters, Los Angeles, USA

2014: Polyfoni, Galleri Thomas Wallner, Malmø, Sweden

2013: Word Bites Picture, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, USA

2013: Performa 13, New York, USA

2012: Graphic Triennale, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland

2011: Norsk skulpturbiennale, Vigelandsmuseet, Oslo

2011: Statens Høstutstilling, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo

2010: MomentumDesign, Moss Gamle Bryggeri, Moss

2010: Sommerutstillingen ved Seljord Kunstforening, Seljord

2010: Ghost, Gallery R-O-M, Oslo

2008: Figurations, produsert av Norsk Billedhuggerforening Oslo

2006: Norsk skulpturbiennale, Vigelandsmuseet, Oslo

2006: Scandinavian Spastic, Sjokoladefabriken, Oslo

2006: Prosjektrommet, Galleri F15, Moss

2005: 10 år - 10 kunstnere, Sørlandets Art Museum, Kristiansand

2005: Fra Kaos til Kosmos, Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Arendal

Collections:

2022: British Museum

2021: Bomuldsfabriken Art Collection

2019: Ministry of foreign affairs, Norway

2019: Haugar Art Museum

2018: Ministry of Education and Research, Norway

2016: Bank of Norway

2014: Sørlandets Art Museum, Norway

2014: Equinor Art Collection

2012: Jyvaskyla Kunstmuseum, Finland

 

Selected commissions:

2020: War Sailor Memorial, Moss Harbour

2019: Porsgrunn Church (altarpiece), in collaboration with Marie Buskov

2019: Norwegian Air Ambulance, Drøbak

2016: Fagerli school, Larvik

2016: Nordland Hospital, Bodø

2015: Våler Church, Våler

2012: Sam Eyde Videregående skole, Arendal

 

Grants:

2016: 10 year working grant, Norwegian State Grants for the Arts

2016: Ingrid Lindbäck Langgård’s stiftelse

2015: Vederlagsfondet, one year

2014: One year working grant, Norwegian State Grants for the Arts

2013: Vederlagsfondet, one year

2012: Vederlagsfondet, two years

2012: Ingrid Lindbäck Langgård’s stiftelse

2011: Vederlagsfondet, one year

2011: Anne and Jakob Weidemann’s stiftelse