Olav Christopher Jenssen

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Olav Christopher Jenssen
1954 born in Sortland In Vesterålen, Norway, Norway
Lives in Berlin, Germany
Education

1976 - 1979
Arts and Crafts School, Oslo, Norway
1980 - 1981
Art Academy, Oslo, Norway

Solo Exhibitions

2013 Journal - works on paper 1979-2012, Henie Onstad Art Center, Høvikodden, Norway
2013 Panorama Second Generation / The Letharia Paintings, Galleri Riis Oslo, Norway
2013 Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø, Norway
2012 Enigma, Marta Herford Museum, Germany
2012 Panorama/Second Generation, Galleri Riis, Stockholm, Sweden
2012 The Letharia Paintings, Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden
2012 The Protagonist, Varberg Konsthall, Sweden
2012 Monogram, Galleri Ismene, Trondheim, Norway
2012 The Living Room, Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway
2012 A Selection of Late Grenadine Paintings, CONRADS, Düsseldorf (1992/1998/2004)
2011 The Protagonist/New York Edition,Tracy Williams Ltd., New York
2010-11 The Protagonist, Västerås Konstmuseum, Sweden
2010 The Protagonist, Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway
2009 Panorama, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark
2008 Zeitweise, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
2004 Translation, Tracy Williams Ltd, New York
2003 Time Paintings, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
2002 Moderation - A Section from the Empty Drawing Room, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, Sweden
2000 The Empty Drawing Room, Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany
2000 Palindrome, Bergens Kunstforening, Norway
1997 Vongole, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
1997 Radio, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany
1997 Biographie, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
1996 Once, La Salle Blanche, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France
1994 Drawings 1986-1993, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
1994 Since We All Came from the Same Place, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
1994 Bilder 1990-1994, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
1992 Neue Bilder, Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
1992 Lack of Memory, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
1992 Bilder, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany
1992 Lack of Memory, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
1990 Nye malerier, Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway
1989 Pale Afternoons, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden
1985 Demoralisert Landskap, Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway
1979 Galleriet, Oslo, Norway

Group Exhibitions

2012 "Schöntrauer, E105, Berlin, Germany"
2009 Vorspiel/Nachspiel, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway
2008 Drawing a Tension, Deutsche Bank/Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
2001 Impulser, H.M. Dronning Sonjas Private Kunstsamling, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
1996 Nuevas Abstracciones, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Palacio de Velázquez, Madrid, Spain
1995 Das Abenteuer der Malerei, Kunstverein für Rheinlande, Düsseldorf and Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
1992 Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany
1991 ransparencia Azul, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Collections

Museum of Modern Art, New York
The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Oslo, Norway
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
Rogaland Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, Norway
The Art Museum of Northern Norway
Karin & Jules Schyls Donation, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
Malmö Museum, Sweden
Göteborg Kunstmuseum, Sweden
Esbjerg Museum of Art, Denmark
Horsens Kunstmuseum, Denmark
The Henna and Pertti Niemistö Art Foundation, Ars Fennica, Tavastehus Kunstmuseum, Finland
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
Berliner Bank Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany
Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt, Germany
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany
Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Staatliche Museen Kassel – Neue Galerie, Germany
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France
Fonds National d ́Art Contemporain, Puteaux, France
Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
City Bank Art Collection, New York, USA
British Museum, London, England
Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes, Paris, France
Collection Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
FRAC Auvergne, France

Links

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