To develop exhibition programming that includes borrowed works from outside of the collection, Director of the Astrup Fearnley Museet Gunnar Kvaran often travels around the world to conduct studio visits. Later this month, Dan Colen will take the stage until Koons comes in and then Frank Benson closes the year. In January, Sherman inaugurated this series, followed by Prince and Nate Lowman, whose exhibition is currently on view.
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Figurative sculptures by the likes of Duane Hanson and Maurizio Cattelan can currently be seen at the Met Breuer in New York in its groundbreaking exhibition “Like Life: Sculpture, Color and the Body (1300–Now),” while the Museet in Oslo is holding a series of miniature exhibitions featuring the collection’s most prominent artists in celebration of its 25th anniversary this year. The collection is now showcased within the Museet as well as in traveling exhibitions around the world. Since then, the Astrup Fearnley Collection has purchased more than twelve additional works by Hirst, including Adam and Eve Exposed (2004), New Religion – The Fate of Man (2005) and Eulogy (2008). When the Tate and Centre Pompidou both rejected Damien Hirst’s Mother and Child (Divided) (1993), Astrup took a collection-defining risk and acquired the controversial piece, which comprises the carcasses of a calf and cow, both split down the middle and suspended in formaldehyde. Since then, the museum has gained worldwide notoriety, even though it had been founded nearly ten years earlier, in 1993, with an impressive array of contemporary art that pushes boundaries within the art historical cannon.įounder Hans Rasmus Astrup began collecting French artists as a hobby in the 1960s but soon his aspirations grew and interests shifted toward German expressionism, including Anselm Kiefer, and eventually to the Young British Artists. Six months later, the acquisition was revealed to belong to the privately owned Astrup Fearnley Museet. In 2001, a mysterious buyer made headlines for anonymously purchasing Jeff Koons’ Michael Jackson and Bubbles for a record-setting 4 million GPB.
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