ASLE NILSEN
MARSELISGT. 27
0551 OSLO
Mobil: +47 90 41 36 55 // E-mail: nilsen.asle[at]gmail.com // Org#: 989 558 013
CV
Born: 04 03 1958
Heggedal, Asker.
Visual artist. Live and work in Oslo
Main profession: Painting.
Also working in the following media: installations, sculpture, sound-art, video,
live-art/performance.
Founder -with Lisbet Bodd, of the artist-group Verdensteatret, Oslo. ( www.verdensteatret.com)
EDUCATION
1980 - 84 Academy of Fine Art, Oslo.
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ARTISTIC WORKS:
2023
In three days, in a month, in twenty years, we will have the sun in our pockets. Kunstnerforbundet Oslo. Exhibition of paintings
A - Z. Performance / extended cinema. Kunstnernes Hus. Oslo
Trust me tomorrow. Performance/installation. Black Box Theatre. Oslo
2022
Enter ghost, exit ghost, re-enter ghost. Performative installation, Lydgalleriet. Bergen, Norway
Enter ghost, exit ghost, re-enter ghost. Performative installation, Nitja Kunstnersenter. Lillestrøm, Norway.
Trust me tomorrow. Performance/installation. Atalante Göteborg, Sweden.
2021
Trust me tomorrow, Festival Musica, Strasbourg France
Trust me tomorrow, Rosendal Teater, Trondheim Norway
2020
Looking at the Other Mushrooms. Solo exhibition of Paintings. Noplace, Oslo.
Trust me tomorrow. Live performance/concert/installation with Verdensteatret. Black Box Theatre, Oslo. Ultima Festival of contemporary Music.
2019
Touring live performance/concert HANNAH with Verdensteatret:
Sonic Acts, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
Wexner Center for the Arts. Columbus, Ohio State University. USA.
Fusebox Festival. Austin, Texas. USA.
Homo Novus Festival. Riga Latvia.
Cryptic´s Sonica Festival. Glasgow, UK.
Le Nouveau Theatre de Montreuil. Paris, France.
Festival Musica. Strasbourg, France.
Rimi/Imir. Stavanger, Norway.
2018
Presentation of artistic works at VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research.
2017
New Paintings. Gallery Heer, Oslo
Premiere for live performance HANNAH. Henie Onstad Art Center, Oslo. Ultima Festival of contemporary Music.
2016
Broen over Gjørme / Bridge over Mud, Brooklyn Academy of Music. (BAM) New York, USA
Broen over Gjørme / Bridge over Mud, On the Boards. Seattle, USA
Broen over Gjørme / Bridge over Mud Stamsund Internasjonale Teater. Lofoten, Norway
2015
Exhibition of Paintings:
Tilsynekomster og forsvinninger, Kampen Visningsrom, Oslo, Norway
Broen over Gjørme / Bridge over Mud, National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia (part of The 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art) **
2014
Broen over Gjørme / Bridge over Mud, Henie Onstad Art Center, Oslo, Norway
(part of Ultima festival of Contemporary Music)
National 5-years working grant. NBK. (visual art)
2013
Exhibition of Paintings:
Sound of Mu. Oslo
Exhibition of Paintings:
BONTELABO, Bergen
2012
And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing
Festival EXIT
Creteil, Paris. Maison des Arts Créteil (march 2012)
Exhibition+ Live performance
And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing
FESTIVALVIA
Maubeuge, France. (March – April 2012)
Exhibition (titled "Low Tech")
2011
Utstilling av installasjonen FORTELLERORKESTERET.
Palais des beaux Arts. (BOZAR). Brussels, Belgium.
Installation /live performance. And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing
Festival Mois Multi, Quebec, Canada
Installation /live performance. And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing
EMPAC, Troy. USA.
Installation /live performance. And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing
Future Perfect / Co-presented with DTW and PS 122, New York City.
Installation /live performance. And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing
FABBRICA EUROPA, Florence, Italy
Installation: FORTELLERORKESTERET (The Telling Orchestra).
PQ11. Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space
Prague, Czech Republic
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2010
Installation: “And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing”
(Exhibition of electromechanical installation )
Shanghai Biennale 2010.
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Installation: “Telling Orchestras and Funeral Machines”
(Exhibition of 2 electro-mechanical installations)
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangchou, China.
Installation /live performance: “And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing”
Theater der Welt, 2010.
Venue: PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany.
Installation /live performance: “And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing”
(Live performance/concert-version)
Ultima festival of Contemporary Music
Venue: Black Box Theatre, Oslo, Norway
Installation /live performance: “And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing”
(Live performance/concert-version)
Avant Art Festival 2010
Venue: Impart Arts Center. Wroclaw, Poland.
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2009
Solo exhibition of paintings. Galleri TRAFO (Kunsthallen) Asker, Norway.
“LOUDER”(Performance/concert/Installation
Presented at Intercity Festival, Florence Italy.
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2008
“FORTELLERORKESTERET” /“The Telling Orchestra”. (Electro-mechanical installation)
Exhibited at “SYNTHETIC TIMES – NEW MEDIA ART CHINA 2008”.
Presented by the National Art Museum of China, (NAMOC) Beijing June/july -08.
“FORTELLERORKESTERET” /“The Telling Orchestra”. (Electro-mechanical installation)
Exhibited at DORA, Trondheim. (2008)
“LOUDER” (Performance/concert/installation)
Presentations in 2008:
Bergen Festspillene.
DORA,Trondheim
Philadelphia Arts Festival, USA
PS 122 New York City, USA
EMPAC (Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center, NY.) USA
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2007
National 2-years working grant. NBK. (visual art)
National 1-year working grant. (scenography)
“LOUDER” (Performance/concert/installation)
First presenation 05 October -07. Black Box Theatre, Oslo, Norway
Exhibition of installation works at KUNSTNERNES HUS, Oslo, Norway. Oct-Dec.-07:
“FORTELLERORKESTERET” (“The Telling Orchestra”)
+ “LOUDER ROOM”
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2006
“CONCERT FOR GREENLAND” (performance/concert/installation)
“steirischer herbst festival ”, Graz, Austria.
De Singel, Antwerpen, Belgium.
TRAFO House of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary.
“FORTELLERORKESTERET” (“The Telling Orchestra”)
Exhibited at Kunsthaus Graz, Austria.
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2005
“FORTELLERORKESTERET” (“The Telling Orchestra”)
Exhibited: “THOU”, Stavanger, Norway
“CONCERT FOR GREENLAND” (performance/concert/installation)
“Ultima International Festival of Contemporary Music”, Black Box, Oslo, Norway.
“DETOX” BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway.
AvantGarden, Trondheim, Norway.
Kulturhuset Stockholm, Sweden.
The Norwegian Opera (Performing at seminar on Space-related art) Oslo, Norway.
Stamsund International Theatre festival, Lofoten.
“International Theatre festival Divadelna” Nitra. Slovakia.
USA:
PS 122, New York City, USA
Awarded the Bessie Award 2006 in the category: New Media/installation
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2004
Exhibition of paintings. Black Box, Oslo
National 3-years working grant. (visual art)
Grant from Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond. (visual art)
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2003
“MANDALA” (performance/installation)
BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway
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2001-2003
“TSALAL” (performance/concert/installation)
Shown: The Annual Exhibition for Visual Art, Oslo, Norway
Black Box Theatre, Oslo, Norway
AvantGarden, Trondheim, Norway
European Digital Stage Art Festival, Århus, Denmark
"ULTIMA" Festival for Contemporary Music, Oslo, Norway
Haugesund Theatre, Haugesund, Norway
"MAGMA" Festival for New Nordic Music, Berlin, Germany
“Autunnale New Music Festval” , BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway
“Center for Cultural Decontamination”, Beograd, Serbia
Museum of Contemporary Art, Reykjavik, Island
2003 Awarded “The Telenor Cultural Prize 2003” for use of new technology in art)
2002 Exhibition Sandefjord Kunstforening (Paintings)
2002 Grant from NBK (paintings)
2001 Exhibition Galleri KunKunst, Oslo(Paintings)
2001 Exhibition, The National Annual Exhibition, Oslo. (Paintings)
2001 Exhibition Galleri Heer, Oslo(paintings)
2000
Exhibition, Norwegian Pictures. Galleri Brandstrup(Paintings)
"RÉGLA" (Performance, installation)
Black Box Theatre, Oslo, Norway
Museum for Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway
AvantGarden, Trondheim, Norway
Savoy Theatre Helsinki, Finland
Kulturhuset Stockholm, Sweden
"The RÉGLA-room" (installation)
Interactive installation at "Oslo Open" Oslo, Norway