Collective exhibition at Astrup Fearnley museum

Space Making is an exhibition addressing depth and spatiality in painting. It features the work of eight artists, who span generations and bridge contemporary positions with historical context.

Space Making - a collective exhibition with abstract paintings

Hanne Borchgrevink, Robert Burnier, Miyoko Ito, Atta Kwami, Julia Rommel, Gerda Scheepers, Vivian Suter and Vegard Vindenes

The modernist notion of painting as a medium of flatness and two-dimensionality has always also implied its ability to create a sense of space and depth. The artists presented here employ the language of painting as a vehicle for spatial construction: on canvas, in architecture, and as a conceptual tool.

Several distinct approaches emerge in and amongst these works: an emphasis on the physical space of the exhibition or the physicality of the painted object itself; the use of painterly techniques to construct depth—both as an abstraction and as tangible, physical spatiality; and space as metaphor—investigating how the painted surface can hold psychological or metaphysical depth through form and figuration.

Other artists in the exhibition depict architectural-like objects within a visual field, often serving as catalysts to imagine a world.

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