13th February – 11th April:

SIDSEL HANUM

Ceramics. Retrospective

Sidsel Hanum’s (b.1955) ceramic figures occupy an important place in Norwegian art history. Early on, Hanum chose to work with porcelain, and she has explored the material for several decades. Her artistic approach has continuously evolved: she throws, cuts, builds, burns and is constantly trying out new glazing. She remains loyal, however, to basic forms -- in the span between circle and oval unique interpretations emerge featuring both practical and delicate objects. Hanum received her training in the ceramics department at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (1976 – 1981), and has regularly displayed her works in Norway and abroad. The exhibition at Lillehammer Art Museum is Hanum’s first individual museum exhibition. The exhibition is retrospective, and presents items borrowed from public and private owners, as well as new works. For the first time, Hanum experiments creating large-scale artworks.

A book will be published in connection with the exhibition featuring texts by Professor Louise Mazanti and curator Cecilie Skeide. 

10th April – 6th June:

TORE HANSEN – Deep in the forest

Sculpture, painting and paper-related works

The motifs Tore Hansen (b.1949) uses in his art are quite similar in theme, whether he is painting, making sculpture, carving woodcut or drawing. As an artist he often depicts pristine nature, forest settings and the king of the forest, the moose. In a simple, almost naive way he also portrays man and the everyday man’s relationship to nature. Male figures are common in Hansen’s works, and these figures are often portrayed on their way toward some goal; and they operate in a sparsely populated, almost pre-industrial society where the means of travel are spark, skis and on foot. Nature becomes pantheistic; trees and forest assume human characteristics. There is also humour in Tore Hansen’s art, such as his angels riding bicycles – and not least of all trees bowing low toward each other as if in silent conversation.

A book will be published in connection with the exhibition featuring texts by the Norwegian author Kjartan Fløgstad.

5th June – 3rd October:

ERIK WERENSKIOLD and his artistic circle,

CÉZANNE’S CHALLENGE

The artists Erik Werenskiold, Oluf Wold Torne and Thorvald Erichsen discovered Cèzanne’s art in 1908 in Paris. Werenskiold believed that Cèzanne was the greatest artist since Rembrandt, and that he was ”…a genuine painter, whose art worked by way of major artistic qualities, without any irrelevant additions.” The fascination was the angular, geometric nature of Cezanne’s art.

The exhibition reflects the influence Cèzanne had on Erik Werenskiold and his circle of artists, which included talents such as Oluf Wold Torne, Thorvald Erichsen, August Jacobsen, Lars Jorde, Kristen Holbø, Axel Revold, Henrik Sørensen and Jean Heiberg.

The exhibition is organised by Lillehammer Art Museum in collaboration with Professor Marit Werenskiold and Professor Øyvind Storm Bjerke.

18th September – 9th January:

Beach of love.

EDVARD MUNCH AND ÅSGÅRDSTRAND

Edvard Munch’s (1863-1944) art will forever be associated with Åsgårdstrand. He arrived in the picturesque, small village along the Oslo fjord for the first time in 1885, and from 1889 to 1905 this is where he would paint some of his most famous works. The themes in the artworks revolve around love’s labyrinthine paths, not least of all the twists and turns of jealousy and loneliness portrayed in works such as ”Melancholy”, ”Dance of life”, ”Ash”, and ”The lonely ones”.  In 1897 he purchased a house in Åsgårdstrand, where he painted regularly up until 1937.

The exhibition consists of Munch’s most famous works from Åsgårdstrand. There are 34 pieces, 14 of which are rather large-scale paintings. There are also drawings and graphic art.

The artworks presented in ”Beach of love – Edvard Munch and Åsgårdstrand” are all on loan from the Munch Museum. The exhibition is a collaborative effort between the Munch Museum, the Haugar Vestfold Art Museum and the Lillehammer Art Museum.

The 150th anniversary of the birth of Edvard Munch is in 2013. This exhibition is the first stage of the planned celebrations, and will be shown exclusively in Tønsberg and in Lillehammer.

18th September – 9th January:

EDVARD MUNCH by ANDY WARHOL

Concurrently with the exhibition Beach of love, the Lillehammer Art Museum will host an exhibition featuring the American pop artist Andy Warhol: Edvard Munch by Andy Warhol. The exhibition focuses on one of the many areas that Munch has influenced other artists with his art. Warhol borrowed themes from a select few historical artists and made his own versions. From Munch he borrowed several themes that now are presented both as painting and as Warhol’s typical silk screen variations.

30th October – 30th January:

PATRICK HUSE – PRESERVING MEMORY

Painting, drawing, photo, video and installations

For years the artist Patrick Huse (b.1948) has worked at the crossroads between anthropology and art. In the exhibition Preserving Memory, he revitalises his past, and visualises and politicizes events and impressions from his own history. For Huse, it is not a matter of engendering a structural change of art as a means of expression. His art is an answer to the complicated question of whether or not conceptual art can become a tradition in itself. Huse’s artistic practice is evolving more and more in the direction of a conceptually processed artistic expression.

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