Michael Rahbek Rasmussen
(He/him)
Address: Østre Aker vei 90, 0596 Oslo
Floor: 1.etg
Room number: Bygg 4
The studio is open Saturday 26 April from 12-17
My artistic practice explores material and immaterial traces of time, memory, and energy. Through sculpture, installation, video, painting, and reliefs, I work with processes where materials such as ceramics, concrete, pigments, and acrylic engage in a dialogue with erosion, heat, and transformation. I am interested in how these processes can reflect human experience and collective memory, often inspired by theories of remembrance and archiving. My work exists at the intersection of the sensory and the conceptual, where tactility and visual narratives open up new ways of understanding what we leave behind.
Maleri, relief, sculpture, instalation
Protective Measures for the Fragile and Necessary, 2025.
Acrylic, chalk, charcoal, and PVA on canvas, mounted in a frame of XPS foam, polyurethane glue.
257 × 214 × 18 cm.
Documentation in the studio.
Armor, 2024.
Aerated concrete, ceramic, steel, aluminium, computer screen and components, video, water, plant seeds(rccinus communis), acrylic paint and glue.
110x350x350cm (Dimensions variable)
Documentation from Vestfold artcenter (Østlandsutstillingen)
Tulips for Algernon (2022)
Ayatgali Tuleubek & Michael Rahbek Rasmussen
Marble, steel, aluminum, wood, tulips, various data components, screen, graphics cards.
250 × 270 × 110 cm, Documentation from the MUNCH Triennial.
U.T. (Weathering) 2025.
Rabbit skin glue, acrylic, charcoal, and fiberglass on canvas.
80 × 50 cm, Documentation from the studio.
In my studio
In my studio, you will encounter a blend of the finished and the unfinished, the revealed and the concealed. Some paintings face outward, while others stand with their backs to the room, stacked like silent archives. Sculptures and reliefs rest on the floor or are carefully wrapped, awaiting new spaces. Traces of process—pigment dust, imprints, remnants of previous layers—form an invisible map of the work’s creation. The studio is a curated version of itself, a liminal space where materials, ideas, and memories gather, dissolve, and transform.
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Michael Rahbek Rasmussen
Born 1984, Denmark
Lives and works in Oslo, Norway
Education
2009–2012 The Oslo National Academy of the Arts (Statens Kunstakademi), Oslo
2009 Kunsthøjskolen på Ærø, Denmark
2006–2008 Århus Kunsthøjskole, Denmark
Grants & Scholarships
2024 BKV 1-year work grant
2023 BKV 1-year work grant
2022 Norwegian State Artist Grant (Statens arbeidsstipend), 1-year
2021 BKV 1-year work grant
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Groundbreaking Computational Methods for Generating Heat and Value, with Ayatgali Tuleubek, She Will Artspace, Ski
2018 Refleks/Landskap, Tegn Artspace, Jyderup (DK)
2014 Excreascence, Kampen Visningsrom, Oslo
2013 At betrakte, at betrakte, Virus exhibition space, Skovsnogen, Kibæk (DK)
2012 Portrait with Condensation and R. Communis, One Night Only, Oslo
2011 Kondens, Project Room P0, Oslo
Group Exhibitions
2024 Geitmyra Parsellhager, Oslo (ongoing project)
2024 Østlandsutstillingen
2022 The Machine is Us, Munch Triennale, MUNCH, Oslo
2021 Delux, She Will Artspace, Ski
2014 What a Wonderful World, Nes (DK)
2013 Human, Situation, Station, Hotel Proforma, Copenhagen (DK)
2013 Kunsten at samle kunst, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen
2013 Variations of a Week, Noplace, Oslo
2012 Bachelor Degree Show, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
2011 No Jury, No Prices, Gallery Seilduken, Oslo
2011 KE 11, Den Frie Center for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen (DK)
2011 MFAPS, MFAPS, Oslo
2011 Confit D’Art et Condensé, semiKolon Gallery, Paris
2010 MMX, Gallery Van Bau, Vestfossen
2010 Real Presence, N1, Belgrade (SRB)
2010 Spontaneous, Gallery Knegt, Oslo
2010 Sellout, UKS, Oslo
2010 This House Got a Lot of Walls, But Only Very Few Mean Anything to You, private home, Oslo