Eirik Senje
(He/him)
Address: Trafo Kunstnerhus, Hovinveien 1, 0576 Oslo
Floor: 1
Room number: 1013
The studio is open Saturday 26 April from 12-17
My work is practice based. The practice is the interplay of ideas, language, images and form.
Painting / sculpture / drawing / installation
Eirik Senje, from the exhibition utstilliingen Towns, Tables, Rats, Seats, Cats, Castles, Dogs, Trees, Birds, Streams, 2022 Galleri K, Oslo, installation view, photograph: Øystein Thorvaldsen
Eirik Senje, Concern 3, 84x139, acrylic, plaster, plaster composite, 2018-2019, installasjonsbilde fra "Ensemble Humain", WIELS CAC Project Room, Brussels
Photo: GRAYSC
Eirik Senje, Noumenal Receptacle, 7x11, plaster, 2020, from the exhibition "The Wealth of Nations", Galleri K, Oslo
Foto: Øystein Thorvaldsen
Installation view from the exhibition "Other Humans", 2018, Galleri K, Oslo
Photo: Øystein Thorvaldsen
CV
Eirik Senje
Education
2010-2012
Master Fine Art, Oslo National Academy of Fine Art
*autumn 2011, AVU, Prague
2007-2010
Bachelor Fine Art, Oslo National Academy of Fine Art
2005-2007
Solo exhibitions
2022 Towns, Tables, Rats, Seats, Cats, Castles, Dogs, Trees, Birds, Streams,
Galleri K, Oslo
2020 The Wealth of Nations, Galleri K, Oslo
2020 Ensemble Humain, WIELS Contemporary Art Center Project Room, Brussels
2018 Other Humans, Galleri K, Oslo
2018 Evidence, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo
2016 Conjecture, 1857 / Paramount Ranch
2015 Sentiment, Trafo Kunsthall, Asker
2015 Everything Else, Noplace, Oslo
2014 Permanent Vacancy, One Night Only, Oslo
2014 One-person Show and Reclining Inclination, Tidens Krav, Oslo
2012 Your Strangely Familiar Customs are Alien to Us, Please Consider Revealing the Secret of Their Significance, Holodeck, Oslo
2011 (…) finally we will have the personal freedom needed to produce thorough descriptions for all the things we feel should ought to have them, Premiss, Bergen
Biennials
2019 Momentum Biennial 10 – The Emotional Exhibition, Moss
2017 2017 Norwegian Sculpture Biennial, Oslo
2016 2016 Drawing Biennial, Oslo
Group exhibitions
2023 Listen to the Voice of Nature, NBF (Norwegian Sculptor’s Society), Oslo
2023 Hushold, Wergelandshaugen, Eidsvoll
2022 Oslo – You Won’t Believe It, Mathilde Carbel (curator)
2021 Hvitsten Salon, Hvitsten
2020 A Collective Chaosmos, Kunsthall Oslo
2019 Hvitsten Salon, Hvitsten
2018 Celluloid Brushes, Etablissement d’en face, Brussels
2017 Oslo Museum of Contemporary art, Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo
2017 Painting or Not, Kaviar Factory, Henningsvær
2016 Skumringssoner, Seljord Kunstforening, Seljord
2016 Maleriets letthet, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo
2015 Walk Like a Giant, QB Gallery, Oslo
2015 Winter Studio /Hansplassen, KUBE Museum of Art, Ålesund (curated by Andreas Siqueland / Elida Linge)
2014 Summer Slumber Super Salon, Demon’s Mouth, Oslo
2014 En kollektiv kraftanstrengelse for tapte saker, Podium, Oslo (curated by Ottar Karlsen / Ida Følling)
2014 The National Autumn Exhibition #126, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
2014 Wuthering Heights II, Norsk Billedhoggerforening, Oslo (curated by Sara Christensen / Merete Dille)
2013 Le Flair de L’Air, James-Simon-Park/ISI, Berlin (curated by Marcus Weber / Gunter Reski)
2011 Christian Sublime Tony and Friends, One Night Only, Oslo (curated by Christian Tony Norum)
2010 -Akademi;, Oslo National Academy of Fine Art, Oslo (curated by Dag Erik Elgin)
2010 ONO vs UKS, One Night Only, Oslo (curated by Muhammed Fadlabi)
2009 You Know These Days, Painted by Umbrellas, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo (curated by Gunter Reski)
2009 Album #2 plus exhibition, 0047, Oslo, (curated by Elise Storsveen & Eline Mugaas)
Exhibition projects / curating
2016 A Collective Psychogeographical Guide to Oslo, (exhibition project with Ida Følling / Ottar Karlsen)
2014-2015
Kazachenko’s Apartment (exhibition space, with Roderick Hietbrink / Maarten Sleeuwits / Nora Turato / Nicholas Riis)
2011 Malmøgata Fine Arts Project Space, Oslo (project / exhibition space)
2008-
2010 One Night Only, Oslo (exhibition space, with Muhammed Fadlabi)
Writing / publication
2021 Bonart Magazine – Malart, contribution
2021 Steinar Haga Kristensens Ultraidentifikasjonspaviljong, brukerveiledning (Trondheim Kunstmuseum)
2020 Letters to Process (Anne Vigeland), contribution
2017-
2018 Periode Brune, an Essay on Steinar Haga Kristensen’s Brown Period, (1646, CAC-Passerelle, Kunstnerforbundet, BOZAR)
2018, Ideelle problem (Mari Slaattelid, Teknisk Industri), essay (Maleriet som bevissthet og handlingsrom)
2014 The Fundamental Part of Any Act, Mousse Magazine #45, kunstnerisk bidrag, med Steinar Haga Kristensen og Valentinas Klimašauskas
2013 Utflukt Vinterkortnummer 2013 “Antiform” (Ingrid Kvamme Fredriksen og Ragnhild Aamås), kunstnerisk bidrag
2013 The Happy Fainting of Painting (Gunter Reski, Marcus Weber), kunstnerisk bidrag
Residencies
2019 WIELS Residency Programme, Brussels
Grants etc.
2022 BKH work stipend, 3 years
2022 Ingrid Lindbäck Langaard’s foundation, work stipend
2021 Statens Kunstnerstipend, work stipend, 1 year
2018 Statens Kunstnerstipend, work stipend, 3 years
2016 Statens Kunstnerstipend for yngre og nyetablerte, work stipend, 2 years
Collections
2024 The City of Oslo Art Collections
2022 The City of Oslo Art Collections
2020 The National Museum of Norway
2017 Christen Sveaas Art Collection