Olav Christopher Jenssen
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Olav Christopher Jenssen, Another Pale Afternoon / The Post-Rubicon Paintings No. 03, 2021
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Olav Christopher Jenssen, Another Pale Afternoon / The Post-Rubicon Paintings No. 11, 2021
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Olav Christopher Jenssen, Another Pale Afternoon / The Post-Rubicon Paintings No. 09, 2021
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Solo exhibitions
Group exhibitions
Biography & CV
Olav Christopher Jenssen (b. 1954 in Sortland, Norway) lives and works between Berlin, Germany and Lya, Sweden. Jenssen studied at the National Arts and Crafts School in Oslo (1976-79) and at the National Academy of the Arts in Oslo, Norway (1980-81). He was a Professor at Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg (1996-2006) and a professor at Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig (2007-2023).
Recent major solo exhibitions include Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway (2019); Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany (2019); Kunstmuseum Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany (2016); Kunstmuseum MARTA Herford, Herford, Germany (2013); Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland (2010); Kunstmuseum Brandts, Odense, Denmark (2009) and Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany (2003). Jenssen participated in documenta 9 in 1992.
The artist is represented in several prominent public collections worldwide, including the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK) in Denmark; Kiasma in Finland, Musée national d’Art moderne Centre Pompidou in France; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kunstmuseum Bonn, MARTA-Herford, Neue Galerie Kassel, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Saarbrücken Museum in Germany; Astrup Fearnley Museum, Norway North-Norwegian Museum and The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Norway; Malmö Konstmuseum and Moderna Museet in Sweden and MoMA in the USA.
Selected solo exhibitions
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2023
Imperfectum, Ravinen Kulturhus, Båstad, Sweden
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2022
Fusuma, Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norge
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2021
Another Pale Afternoon / The Post-Rubicon Paintings, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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2020
The Rubicon Paintings, Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany
A Lucid Dream, Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway -
2019
INDEX – Works on Paper, Kunstverein Villa Wessel, Iserlohn, Germany
Olav Christopher Jenssen – Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnly Museet, Oslo, Norway
Olav Christopher Jenssen, Galleri Arnstedt, Östra Karup, Sweden
Rubicon / The Rubicon Paintings, The Ezra Sculptures and The Inventarium Drawings, Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway -
2017
Journal, Haus am Waldsee im Bikini Berlin, Berlin, Germany
The Pale Afternoon, Kunstverein Wolfenbüttel e.V., Wolfenbüttel, Germany
TRANSMONTANE, Thomas Rehbein Galerie:Koeln, Cologne, Germany
The Expedition, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Malerei, Zeichnung , Schloss Detmold, Lippische Gesellschaft für Kunst, Detmold, Germany -
2016
Denne uforklarlege stille , Galleri Riis Temporary, Oslo, Norway
Colibri in Hardanger, Hadanger og Voss Museum, Utne, Norway
The Expedition, Kunsthall Svalbard, Svalbard Museum, Longyearbyen, Norway
Isotherme, Lillehammer Art Museum, Lillehammer, Norway
Prints, Verein für Original-Radierung, München, Germany
The Arborist – Recent paintings, sculpture, works on paper, Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway -
2015
Lack of Memory / Résumé, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
TALPA, Galerie der HBK Braunschweig, Germany
Slik Livet Er, Edvard Munch videregående skole, Oslo, Norway
Colibri, Galleri Riis, Stockholm, Sweden
