The future shapes the past

October 10 – November 23, 2014

Exhibition locations:
The National Gallery, Universitetsgata 13
Tegnerforbundet , Rådhusgata 17
Kunsthall Oslo, Trelastgata 17
Oslo Art Association, Rådhusgata 19
Anatomy Building, Rådhusgata 19, Christiania Square
QB Gallery, Tordenskioldsgate 5
Grei Café, Skippergata 3

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Participating artists
A Kassen: Danish artist group consisting of Christian Bretton-Meyer, born 1976, Morten Steen Hebsgaard born 1977, Søren Petersen, born 1977 and Tommy Petersen, born 1975. They live and work in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Viggo Andersen, born 1948 in Sandnessjøen. Lives and works in Degerfors, Sweden.
Louis Bevalét, French draftsman and illustrator who participated in the LaRecherche expedition, 1838-1840.
Ida Ekblad, born 1980 in Oslo. Lives and works in Oslo.
Serina Erfjord, born 1982 in Stavanger. Lives and works in Oslo.
Berit Marie Friestad, born 1949 in Jæren. Lives and works in Kviteseid, Telemark.
Guttorm Guttormsgaard, born 1938 in Oslo. Lives and works in Blaker, Akershus.
Wade Guyton, born 1972 in Indiana, USA. Lives and works in New York, USA.
Hanne Grieg Hermansen, born 1984 in Oslo. Lives and works in Oslo.
Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk, born 1958 in Horten. Lives and works in Oslo.
Sture Johannesson, born 1935 in Sweden. Lives and works in Malmö, Sweden.
Irma Salo Jæger, born 1928 in Finland. Lives and works in Oslo.
Silke Otto-Knapp, born 1970 in Osnabrück, Germany. Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA.
Kitty Kraus, born 1976 in Heidelberg, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Anders Dahl Monsen, born 1980 in Oslo. Lives and works in Oslo.
Ronak Moshtaghi, born 1987 in Tehran, Iran. Lives and works in Oslo.
Punish (Ewan Imrie, born 1972 and Robert Johnston, born 1974), lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland.
Robert Rauschenberg, born 1925 in Texas, USA. Died 2008, Captiva Island, Florida, USA.
Selbu money/ Court Museum in Trondheim. Hand-drawn banknotes made in the 1950s by a farm worker from Trøndelag. Name unknown.
Christian Skagen, born 1973 in Stokmarknes. Lives and works in Vesterålen.
Roman Signer, born 1938 in Appenzell, Switzerland. Lives and works in St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Fredrik Værslev was born in Moss in 1979. He lives and works in Drøbak.
Emma Wright, born 1979 in Oslo. Lives and works in Oslo.
Richard Wright, born 1960 in London. Lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Kunsthall Oslo and Tegnerforbundet are pleased to welcome you to the Drawing Biennial 2014 - The Future Shapes the Past.

It takes place at seven different exhibition venues in central Oslo and opens on Friday 10 October. This year's Drawing Biennale is the 7th in a row and a curatorial collaboration between Kunsthall Oslo and Terje Nicolaisen, as representative of the board of the Norwegian Artists' Association. The theme of the biennale is drawing after modernism – or "how the future shapes the past". A curatorial guiding star for the exhibition is Robert Rauschenberg's Erased de Kooning Drawing from 1953. We are very proud to have entered into a collaboration with the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to show this, which is one of the most controversial, iconic works of the post-war period.

The main focus of the biennial is on contemporary works and on how drawing is still a central part of the interaction between idea and practice in an era of many new, technological forms of expression. The immediacy of the drawing medium and the short path between thought and line mean that drawing is always relevant. Based on this, we have wanted to look at how the present helps shape the past and how we constantly reassess and see our own time in light of what has been.

A free exhibition newspaper will be created that will be available at all exhibition locations with artist biographies and descriptions of works, in Norwegian and English.
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Program for the opening of the Drawing Biennial 2014, Friday, October 10:

At 4:00 PM
Erased de Kooning Drawing
Robert Rauschenberg
The National Gallery, Universitetsgata 13.
Welcome by Nils Ohlsen, Director of the Department of Early and Modern Art, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, and Will Bradley, Artistic Director, Kunsthall Oslo. Introduction to Erased de Kooning Drawing by Gary Garrels, Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Richard Wright
QB Gallery, Tordenskioldsgate 5.
The artist will be present. Serving.

At 7:00 PM
Official opening of the Drawing Biennial 2014
Tegnerforbundet , City Hall Street 17.

7:00 PM–9:00 PM
The Action of Shadows
Louis Bevalét, Hanne Grieg Hermansen, Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk, Sture Johannesson, Irma Salo Jæger, Silke Otto-Knapp, Anders Dahl Monsen, Ronak Moshtaghi, Punish (Ewan Imrie and Robert Johnston), Roman Signer. Works from the Guttorm Guttormsgaard collection.
Tegnerforbundet , Rådhusgata 17. The artists will be present. Catering.

7:00 PM–9:00 PM
A Kassen Carnegie Art Award 2014
A Checkout
8:00 PM: Welcome by Marianne Hultman, general manager
Oslo Art Association. Rådhusgata 19. The artists will be present. Catering.

7:00 PM–9:00 PM
Viggo Andersen, Serina Erfjord, Christian Skagen and works from the Norwegian Court Museum's collection .
The Anatomy Building, Rådhusgata 19, Christiania Square.
The artists will be present. Serving.

8:00 PM–10:00 PM
Nothing That Could Not Be Changed
Berit Marie Friestad, Wade Guyton, Kitty Kraus, Fredrik Værslev, EmmaWright.
Kunsthall Oslo, Trelastgata 17.
The artists will be present. Serving.

10:00 PM–Late
Work selected by Ida Ekblad .
Grei Café, Skippergata 3.

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The Drawing Biennial 2014 is supported by the Arts Council of Norway and the City of Oslo.
Richard Wright's work is supported by the City of Oslo.