NEW VISIONS: THE HENIE ONSTAD TRIENNIAL

THE HENIE ONSTAD TRIENNIAL FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AND NEW MEDIA

It is the first major international presentation of its kind in Norway and fills all three gallery spaces of the ground floor at the museum.

The exhibition foregrounds practices that acknowledge the fluctuating and networked condition of contemporary photography and society more generally, while also articulating a keen sensitivity towards the history of photography and art. Abstraction, digital and manual collage, new configurations of still life and the human body are key tendencies. The works on view are produced within the last three years and several are exhibited for the first time.

The title New Visions, refers to the program for a New Vision developed by László Moholy-Nagy in the interwar period, and that greatly impacted experimental photography throughout the 20th-century.

Artists : Morten Andenæs, Viktoria Binschtok, Lucas Blalock, Lucile Boiron, Asger Carlsen, Louisa Clement, Sara Cwynar, Ingrid Eggen, Roe Ethridge, Victoria Fu, Espen Gleditsch, Andrea Grützner, Annette Kelm, Nico Krijno, Owen Kydd, B. Ingrid Olson, Linn Pedersen, Matt Rich, Erin M. Riley, Maya Rochat, Johan Rosenmunthe, Torbjørn Rødland, Viviane Sassen, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Timur Si-Qin, Wolfgang Tillmans, Sara VanDerBeek, Hannah Whitaker, Carmen Winant, Letha Wilson and Daisuke Yokota.

The first editon is curated by Susanne Østby Sæther in collaboration with Behzad Farazollahi and Christian Tunge from the artist-run gallery Melk in Oslo.

In conjunction with the exhibition, a volume titled Why Photography? is published by Skira Editore.