“I wake up in the morning to try and make something worthwhile that wasn’t there the day before, and to learn something from the materials I choose to work with.”
magne furuholmen
magne furuholmen (born 1962) is a renowned Norwegian visual artist, musician / composer and poet. Furuholmen started his professional visual practice in 1989, and works within a wide range of mediums, with printmaking and sculpture as core parts of his extensive oevre. Furuholmen’s subject matter draws inspiration from from literature and language, often with self-written text and autobiographical elements present, as well as references to historical events and art history. Latin and the English language are central components. With a strong and poetic visual language, the artist works in a balance of fields of color and sharp lines, with juxtaposed words and statements handwritten or in characteristic stylized fonts. He often makes series of works, always centred around a clear conceptual starting point. Magne Furuholmen has exhibited widely internationally, and his work is represented in institutions and private collections around the world. Furuholmen holds a Honorary Doctorate in Fine arts (D.F.A.) at the University of Agder, and was made Knight of the 1st order of St. Olav by King Harald of Norway for service to mankind.
CURRICULUM VITAE MAGNE FURUHOLMEN
Solo shows:
2022
Esper Lucat – Kunstverket, Oslo Norway
Aizuri-E – Hadeland Glassverk, Norway
2021
Völuspa, Alnes, Norway
Extra Super Plus, KHÅK, Norway
Monolog, The Norwegian Festival of Literature
Sum, fueraam, fiam, semper idem, The Petter Dass Festival, Norway
2020
Breathe Gently, Kunstgalleriet Norway Ornament, Soli Brug, Norway
2019
Ignis, Telemarksgalleriet, NiA, Norway
For all Beginnings there is an End, Rana Museum, Norway
Texture, with HM Queen Sonja, Salteriet, Nusfjord, Norway
2018
Sorgenfrei, Trafo Kunsthall, Norway
Icon,
TM51, Norway
Icon, Haugesund billedgalleri (Official Film-festival artist), Norway
Stigma, Ismene, Norway
Sorgenfrei, Galleri Jennestad, Norway
Stigma, Bærum kunstforening, Norway
2017
The Summer Exhibition, Galleri Guddal, Norway
The Summer Exhibition, Tranøy Galleri, Norway
Spina, Kunstgalleriet, Stavanger Norway
Texture, Galerie Møller Witt, with HM Queen Sonja, Århus, Denmark
2016
Texture, with HM Queen Sonja, Stolper, London UK
Texture, with HM Queen Sonja, Bergen, Norway
Marginalia, with Lars Saabye Christensen, Norwegian Printmakers’ Association 2015
Peeling a Glass Onion, Dovecot, Edinburgh
2015
Peeling a Glass Onion, Dovecot Edinburgh
2014
Self Portraits, Kunstverket, Oslo
2013
Norwegian Wood, Paul Stolper, London UK
2012
Bouquet, Trafo Kunsthall, Norway
Retrospective, Blaafarveverket, Norway
2011
Echo, Stolper + Friends, Oslo
2009
Alpha Beta, Paul Stolper, London, UK
Camera, Galleri Trafo, Norway
2008
Anticlimax, Studio Opdahl, Norway
Climax, The Nobel Peace Center, Oslo Norway
Paintings & monotypes, The Norwegian Forest Museum
2007
Scrabble, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Norway
Monologues, Paul Stolper, London, UK
2006
Building Ruins, The Norwegian Printmakers’ Association, Oslo
Morceaux Choisis, Timothy Everest, London, UK
2004
Payne’s Gray, Edinburgh Fine Printmakers, UK
Payne’s Gray, Paul Stolper, London, UK
Payne’s Gray, The Henie Onstad Art Center, Norway
2003
Foci, Lillehammer Art Museum, Norway
Foci, Museum of Contemporary Glass Art, Denmark
Resonance, Christian Dam, Copenhagen, Denmark
2001
Pincette, Kunstverket, Norway
1999
New Works, Norwegian Printmakers Association, Norway
1998
Y Project, The Central Academy Museum, Beijing
1997
In Concert, Galleri Brandstrup, Norway
Blue Note Boulevards, w Henning Kramer Dahl, The Henie Onstad Art Centre, Norway
1996
The Y Project, City Hall, Hong Kong
1995
Kutt, The Henie Onstad Art Centre, Norway
Selected Group shows
2020
London Original Print Fair
2018
VW Contemporary, Greenwich Connecticut, USA
2017
Large Formats – Wise Hands, Clay Museum of Ceramic Art, Denmark
Akershus Literary Festival, Norway
Trykk, Risør Kunstpark, Norway
Blues in Art, Telemarksgalleriet, Norway
2016
The Art of Storytelling, MAC Niteroi, Brazil
2015
Five Centuries of Woodcuts, The National Museum of Norway
QSPA prints, Scandinavian House, New York
2014
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK
2011
Under Stor Press, Dunkers, Helsingborg, Sweden
2010
The Term “Reality”, Paul Stolper, London, UK
2009
Coriander Plus, curated By Sir Peter Blake, UK Pairs, Paul Stolper, London, UK
Blake/Furuholmen/Kørner, Galleri Trafo, Norway Print Basel, Switzerland
Hove Festival Art, Norway
2006
Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai, China
MTV 25 Years, ICA, London, UK
Danger Global Warming, Blacksmoke / Greenpeace, UK
2005
New Graphics, Karlshamn Konsthall, Sweden
2004
Gap Hanoi, The Goethe Institute, Vietnam Apex, Academy of Fine Arts, Vietnam
2003
The B&W Xmas Show, Hot Rod, Norway
New Nordic Light, St. Petersburg, Russia World
Ceramics, Oslo, Norway
The Henie Onstad Collection 30 years, Norway
2002
Xmas Calendar Oslo Central Station, Norway
1999
Crossover 99, Gallery F15, Norway Norwegian Graphics Union, Oslo, Norway
1998
La Salle, The Art Academy, Singapore
Norwegian Images 10 Yrs, Oslo City Hall, Norway
To Art Be Thou Burnt, The Ceramics Museum, Midelfart, Denmark
1997
2nd Biennale of Book Art, Martin, The Slovak Republic
Excudit, Vikingsberg Konstmuseum, Sweden
1996
The State Autumn Exhibition, Oslo, Norway Myriorama, w Henning Kramer Dahl, Norwegian Printmakers’ Association
1994
Art For Freedom, The Henie Onstad Art Centre, Norway
Works represented
Collection British Museum, London UK The Norwegian State Archives
The Norwegian Culture Council Kistefos Museum, Norway
The City of Bergen, Norway
Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
The College of Fine Arts, Shanghai, China
The Henie Onstad Art Centre, Norway
Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Norway
Statsbygg, Berlin, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Glass Art, Copenhagen
Grafikens Hus, Sweden
Oslo Municipal Collection
Asker Municipal Collection
Bodø Municipal Collection
Haugesund Municipal Collection
Sandefjord Municipal Collection
Tvedestrand Municipal Collection
Høyenhall Skole, Norway
Worldview International Foundation
Kunst på arbeidsplassen, Norway
Private collections
The Queen Sonja Collection The Aker Collection
The Hydro collection, Norway Ernst & Young, Norway
The Warner Building, Berlin
Skjerven Group, Berlin
Collection of Mr. Kjell Inge Røkke Collection of Mr. Jan Petter Collier
Collection of Dr. Ted Vassiliev
Collection of Mr. Øyvind Eriksen Collection of mr Per Gunnar Rasmussen Collection of The Dalai Lama
Accenture, Norway
Norwegian Shipowners Association, Norway
Artist books represented
Bibliothèque National De France Kupferstichkabinett
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Museum Für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden
National Gallery of Australia
Research Library Hirshorn Museum, USA
The Smithsonian, Washington DC, USA
Selected Commissions
Askekall – Public commission, Heggedal, Asker 2022
Rook Takes Bishop, Public commission, Middelfart, Denmark 2018
Imprints, ceramic sculpture-park, Fornebu, Norway 2016
Varner building, Norway 2015
Arise Sunk Loot, Aker Solutions, Norway 2013
Bouquet, Norway 2012
Code One, Aglaia, Palma 2012
Umsteiger, Berlin, 2010
Climax, The Nobel Peace-Center, Oslo Norway, 2007
Resonance, The City of Bergen, Norway 2003
Pincette, Official Norwegian Postage Stamp, 2001
Bibliography
Tommerup Keramiske Værksted 30 år vol. I & II, 2018
Imprints (Monograph), Press Publishing 2017
QSPA 5 – Queen Sonja Print Award 5 years, Press Publishing 2016
The Art of Storytelling, MAC Niteroi, Brazil 2016
Choreography of Sound – Between Abstraction and Narration, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2015
Apparatjik World (Monograph) Metamerge UN-Ltd, UK 2015
In Transit (Monograph) Forlaget Press 2013
I Wish This Was a Song, Norwegian Museum of Contemporary Art,
2012
Some Book, Burg Giebichenstein Hochschule, Germany 2012
Illustration in Norwegian books, 2012
Landscape & Room – The Queen Sonja collection, 2012
Apparatjik – Not a Hair Dryer, Neue National Galerie, Berlin 2011
ArtMag, Deutsche Bank Magazine, 2011
Alphabets, Black Dog Publishing, UK, 2010
This Is The Way We See It, Erich Weiss, 2009
Monologues, 2007
Gap Hanoi, OCA, 2006
Paul Stolper Editions, 2005
Norwegian Artist Yearbook, 2005
Art In The Statoil Collection, 2004
Payne’s Gray, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004 (Artist Book)
Stjerneskutt, Forlaget Press, 2004 (Artist Book)
Stjerneskudt, Nansensgades Antikvariat, 2004 (Artist Book)
Foci, Lillehammer Art Museum, 2004
Lerkrukker & Glasmosaik, Liebeskind, Denmark, 2002
Blue Note Boulevards, Grøndahl Dreyer, 1997 (Artist Book)
Kutt, Henie Onstad Art Center, Edition Bløndal, 1995
Various
Knight of the 1st class St. Olav’s Order
Queen Sonja Print Award, Board Member since 2014
Honorary Doctorate degree (D.F.A.) Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Agder 2017
The Bergen International Festival, (Chair of the Board) 2015 – 2019
The Rev Ocean Art Program (Artistic director)
The Norwegian Printmakers’ Association (Chair of the Board)
Gutenberg Academie, Mainz, Honorary mentor 2015
MAC Niteroi, Brazil, Sculpture workshop 2015
Nordic Salon, Dunkers Helsingborg, (jury-member) 2014
Elmgreen & Dragset, Too late to be Ordinary (remix) 2014
Norwegian State Autumn Exhibition, 1st prize for Best Graphic Work 1996
The College of Fine Arts, Shanghai, guest-professor 1996
State grant, Norway 1996
China 5000 Years, Guro Dahl installation, The Henie Onstad Art Center (sound) 1995
Electra, Henie Onstad Art Center, (initiator and sound- installation) 1994
Meltdown, Olympic Winter Games (performance w Nils Petter Molvær) 1994
Founder / member of cross-disciplinary artist- collective Apparatjik since 2008
Apparatjik performances
The Sound of Szczecin, Music.Design.Form, Poland 2018
Day of The Dead, Bergen International Festival, Norway 2016
Xmas Xtravaganza, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo 2014
The Sound of Music Fosnavåg, with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Norway 2014
Apparatjik@SMK, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen 2013
Thinking Inside The Box, The Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo 2012
Everybody is on Stage, Roskilde Festival, Denmark 2012
The Apparatjik Light Space Modulator, Installation, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin 2011
We Are Here, Strelka Institute, Moscow 2011
We Are Here, Steierischer Herbst, Graz 2011
We Are Here, The Serpentine Gallery, London 2010
We are here, Club Transmediale, Berlin 2010
Apparatjik installations
Everybody is a composer, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Norway 2014
The Sound of Silence, Tjuvholmen Sculpture park, Oslo 2012
Everybody is a Pixel, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin 2011
Rudolph The Chrome Nosed Reindeer, Dunkers, Helsingborg 2011
Alle Komponerer, The National Museum of Norway / Go with the Flø, Norway 2010
Apparatjik workshops & lectures
The Choreography of Sound, ZKM, Karlsruhe 2013
We Are Here to: Give You A Lecture!, Burg Gibichenstein, Germany 2012
We Are Here, Strelka Insitute, Moscow 2011
Globe Art Café, Frankfurt 2011
Pupparatjik, The Faculty of Fine Arts / NTNU, Trondheim 2010
CV as musician / composer / performer
Selected music awards
BMI Outstanding Achievement Award, UK 2013
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, US 2012
Spelemann Lifetime Achievement Award, Norway 2010
Q Inspiration Award, UK 2009
BMI Outstanding Achievement Award, UK 2009
BMI Outstanding Achievement Award, UK 2007
The Edvard Grieg Award, Norway 1998
Ti kniver i hjertet, Silver Bear Winner Berlin Film Festival 1994
BMI Outstanding Achievement Award, UK 1991
4 Spelemann awards, Norway 1986
Grammy Nomination Best New Artist, USA 1986
8 MTV Awards, USA 1986
A-ha discography
True North 2022
Summer Solstice MTV unplugged 2017
Cast in Steel 2015
Foot of the Mountain 2009
Analogue 2005
Lifelines 2002
Minor Earth Major Sky 2001
Memorial Beach 1993
East of the Sun, West of the Moon 1990
The Living Daylights, 007 James Bond (Title song) 1989
Stay On These Roads 1988
Scoundrel Days 1987
Hunting High & Low 1985
Apparatjik discography
Square Peg in a Round Hole, MetaMerge UN-Ltd 2012
Footsteps for Mies, Neue National Galerie, Berlin 2011
Bolshevik Box, MetaMerge UN-Ltd 2010
We Are Here, MetaMerge UN-Ltd 2010
Magne Furuholmen Discography (artist & producer)
White Xmas Lies, (Drabant) 2018
Word Symphony, Limited edition vinyl (Passionfruit) 2010
A Dot of Black in the Blue of Your Bliss (Passionfruit) 2008
Past Perfect Future Tense (Passionfruit) 2004
Payne’s Grey, Limited edition vinyl (Passionfruit) 2004
Hermetic (Rune Gramophone) 1998
Hotel Oslo (BMG) 1996
Featuring on (composer / producer):
Undo my heart, Tini (VoxWatch music) 2014
Winter days, Martin Halla (Universal) 2013
ER by Nils Petter Molvær 2005
Indian Ocean, Cat Stevens (as musician) 2004
Archivalia Vol. 1, The Henie Onstad Art Center (producer) 1996
Film (composer / score)
Yesterday / Beatles 2014
Thor Heyerdahl – In search of Paradise 2007
Dragonflies / Øyenstikker 2001
Bloody Angels / 1364 Høtten 1998
Hope to die / Ti kniver i hjertet 1994