Magnus Tomt
(He/him)
Address: Møllergata 34C, 0179 Oslo
Floor: 2
Room number: C1
The studio is open Sunday 28 April from 12-17
Magnus Tomt (1994, Våler) lives and works in Oslo. He works with painting, images and objects in the aftermath of post-conceptual and appropriation-based practices, with a main focus on abstraction and readymades. How paintings, images and objects exist visually and theoretically in a market economic system today, where history, meaning and intention are increasingly being erased, are central questions in Tomt’s practice.
The aesthetic motivation behind the neo-geo movement has also largely influenced his practice, where reductive strategies are emphasized, and questions related to sincerity, contradiction and economy within art production today are in focus. Creating a critical dialogue around abstraction as a surface, an image, and its indefinite form in a post-digital world today is considered a main focus within his practice.
Painting, print, sculpture, appropriation, readymades, post-conceptual
Magnus Tomt, 'Untitled Hot Drop 1', oil on tarp, 41 x 33 x 2,2 cm, 2023
Magnus Tomt, 'Cocaine Abstraction 3', vinyl print on stretcher bars, 190 x 120 x 2,2 cm, 2021
Magnus Tomt, 'Untitled', sticker and oil on tarp, 41 x 33 x 2,2 cm, 2023
Magnus Tomt, 'Help I've Od'd On Philosophy!', vinyl print on stretcher bars, 150 x 100 x 2,2 cm, 2021
CV
EDUCATION
2018-2021 BFA Contemporary Art, Tromsø Academy of Art, Tromsø, Norway
2020 Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden
2017-2018 Prosjektskolen, Oslo, Norway
2014-2017 BA Philosophy, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
SOLO/DUO EXHIBITIONS
2021 I’m Reading Very Quickly To Find Out How The Story Ends (w. Jamie Oldham), BILGECO Warehouse, 198.185.159.144
2019 Snakes & Cucumbers (w. Jamie Oldham), Galleri Fisk, Bergen, Norway
2018 A Plank, A Hook & A Box (w. Ossian Söderqvist), Galleri Snerk, Tromsø, Norway
GROUP EXHIBTIONS
2023 KP23, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
2021 MABA Degree show 2021, Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø, Norway
2019 Åpen Kunsthall, Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo, Norway
2019 Earthly Delights Etc., Small Projects, Tromsø, Norway
2019 Sharing is Caring: Outcomes from residency 14, PRAKSIS Oslo, Oslo, Norway
2019 Just A Pink Phonecase, Tromsø Academy of Art, Tromsø, Norway
2019 Semi-Permanent Public Art Commission, School of Business and Economics, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
2019 The 73. North Norwegian Art Exhibition (Nordnorsken), annual juried touring exhibition, Nordland, Troms and Finnmark, Norway
2018 I Did It My Way //// Semester Exhibition, Tromsø Academy of Art, Tromsø, Norway
2018 Culture Night, Tromsø Academy of Art, Tromsø, Norway
RESIDENCIES
2019 Now that’s what I call an artist’s residency! by PRAKSIS Oslo, developed with Rachel Withers, Oslo, Norway
INTERVIEWS
2021 MABA Degree show 2021, interview with Hakapik.no:
https://www.hakapik.no/home/2021/7/6/avgang-troms-2021-magnus-tomt
MEMBERSHIPS
The Association of Norwegian Visual Artists (NBK)
The National Association of Painters (LNM)