Tribology, 2019-20, at the exhibition Rites of Passage
The National Museum of Art Norway, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo 2021
Image credit Ina Wesenberg / Nasjonalmuseet
Installation view from No Moon LA, Los Angeles 2021
The Itch - 150x112 cm, archival pigment print - 2020-21
Installation view from No Moon LA, Los Angeles 2021
Anima - 150x112 cm, archival pigment print - 2020-21
Installation view from No Moon LA, Los Angeles 2021
Installation view from Breathing, Together
OSL contemporary, Oslo 2020
Pickle - 150x112 cm, archival pigment print - 2018-19
The Nostalgic - 150x112 cm, archival pigment print - 2018-19
The Accelerationist - 150x112 cm, archival pigment print - 2018-19
Installation view from Breathing, Together, OSL contemporary, Oslo 2020
Installation view from Breathing, Together
OSL contemporary, Oslo 2020
Installation view from Breathing, Together
OSL contemporary, Oslo 2020
Installation view from Breathing, Together
OSL contemporary, Oslo 2020
Grid and Gesture - 150x112 cm, archival pigment print - 2019
Installation view from Pointed Consciousness, QB gallery, Oslo 2019
Installation view of If, Then, Because, Since and So
Sørlandets Kunstmuseum 2018-19
Installation view of If, Then, Because, Since and So
Sørlandets Kunstmuseum 2018-19
Installation view of If, Then, Because, Since and So
OSL contemporary, Oslo 2017
If, Then, Because, Since and So
Hassla Books 2017, ISBN 978-1-940881-19-5
Hot Mix - 150x100 cm archival pigment print - 2016-17
Installation view from UCLA Broad Art Center, Los Angeles 2017
Dog Days - 150x100 cm c-print - 2016
Installation view from Gallery Artists OSL contemporary, Oslo 2016
Installation view of Syzygy from Young Lions, Preus Museum 2017
Syzygy - 150 x 100 cm archival pigment print - 2015-16
Installation view from Syzygy at Louise Dany / UKS, Oslo 2016
Frank Augustus' Desires - 150 x 100 cm archival pigment print - 2016
Installation view from Syzygy at Louise Dany / UKS, Oslo 2016
MAR - Cornerkiosk press 2016
ISBN 978-82-998640-9-1
Wind Study (Los Angeles) #1 #2 #3 - 150x100 cm each c-print - 2015
Installation view Distant Shadow, Three Shadows Art Centre, Xiamen 2015
Outboard Swaddle - 150x100 cm each, c-print - 2014 - 15
Installation view from Sakte Bilder, Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, 2016
Installation view from Bivouacked - with Tiril Hasselknippe
OSL contemporary, Oslo 2015
Outboard Swaddle #11 - 101x151,5 cm c-print - 2014-15
Installation view Bivouacked, OSL contemporary, Oslo 2015
Outboard Swaddle #10 - 125x175 cm c-print - 2014
Installation view Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia 2014
Outboard Swaddle (Studies from Venice)
Installation view Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Palazzetto Tito, Venezia 2014
Grapnel Grapple - Cornerkiosk press 2014
ISBN 978-82-998640-3-9
Cropping the Ocean - Cornerkiosk press 2014
ISBN 978-82-998640-5-3
94 Pictures as Black Square, 124x124cm Silver Gelatin print, 2011-2012
Installation view MoDERNISM MACHINE, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo 2012
Installation view MoDERNISM MACHINE, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo 2012
With: Bare, Baumeister, Beuys, Boyle, Dubuffet, Elgin, Estève, Friedman, Gris, Hartung, Kippenberger, Klein, Léger, van der Linde, Matisse, Mignard, Mojord Jahnsen, Ono, Opsahl, Picasso, Soulages, de Staël, Texmon Rygh and Villon
Entering a Site of Production - Henie Onstad Kunstsenter 2012 - ISBN 978-82-8294-008-5
Hose Study (Buenos Aires), 88 x 120 cm c-print - 2009
Installation view, book launch at MELK, Oslo 2011
Hose Variations - Cornerkiosk press 2011 - ISBN 978-82-998640-0-8
VISUAL ARTIST,
founder of MELK and Cornerkiosk press
Born 1985 in Poznan, Poland
Lives in Los Angeles, California and Oslo, Norway
INQUIRIES:
Studio: hello@bjarnebare.com
Acquisitions: OSL contemporary, Oslo, Norway
EDUCATION:
2015/2017 - MFA UCLA Los Angeles
2010/2013 - BFA Academy of Fine Art Oslo
SOLO SHOWS:
2021:
The Itch. No Moon LA, Los Angeles, California
2020:
Breathing, Together. OSL contemporary, Oslo, Norway
2017:
If, Then, Because, Since and So. OSL contemporary, Oslo, Norway
2015:
Bivouacked. OSL contemporary, Oslo, Norway - with Tiril Hasselknippe
The Pineappleweed. Kunstparken, Risør, Norway
2014:
Outboard Swaddle. Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Palazzetto Tito, Venice, Italy
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:
2021:
Rites of Passage, Kunstnernes Hus / Norway's National Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway
As far as my Eye can Sea, Bomuldsfabrikken Kunsthall, Arendal, Norway
2020:
Let's Talk About Images 2.1.0, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway
THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME, OSL contemporary, Oslo
2019:
Pointed Consciousness, QB Gallery, Oslo - curated by Behzad Farazollahi
2018:
If, Then, Because, Since and So (excerpt), Sparebanken Sør Art Award, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway
ANNEX, at M+B gallery, Los Angeles - curated by Jay Ezra
Belt Friction, Kopeikin Gallery, Los angeles - curated by Arden Surdam
2017:
The Young Lions, Preus Museum, Horten, Norway
MFA thesis exhibition, UCLA Broad Art Center, Los Angeles - with Jackie Rines, Kate Spencer Stewart and Veronica Gelbaum
2016:
Syzygy / Roaming, Louise Dany / UKS, Oslo, Norway
Sakte bilder, Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Lillehammer, Norway
Gallery artists, OSL contemporary, Oslo, Norway
2015:
Distant shadow, Jimei X Arles, Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, China - curated by Thora Dolven Balke
Hatch, Agder Kunstsenter, Kristiansand, Norway
2014:
Publish / Curate, TJ Boulting, London, UK
2014Frames: Projecting International Photography. CCA, Glasgow, UK
2013:
13/18, Oslo Academy of Fine Art - BFA degree show. Oslo, Norway
2012:
MoDERNISM MACHINE, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
Voies-Off. Arles, France. La Photographie du Nord en 3 actes. Hosted by the Finnish Museum of Photography
2011:
Nofound to New Documents, Viktor Wynd Fine Art, London, UK
2009:
Fotografia Nouvelle, Palito, Bombon, Helado, miaumiau, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2008:
Høstutstillingen, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
2007:
Art4Aid, Gallery Zuiderkerk. Amsterdam, Netherlands
PRINTED MATTER:
Conversations on Photography, Fotogalleriet Oslo
Kehrer Verlag 2021
ISBN 978-3-96900-008-3
Why Photography? (editor)
Skira editore 2020
ISBN 978-88-572-4266-8
Insights 2: Wienerberger Contemporary Photography Collection
Kehrer Verlag 2019
ISBN 978-3- 86828-937-4
If, Then, Because, Since and So
artist book
Hassla Books 2017
ISBN 978-1-940881-19-5
Un'apparizione di superfici
Apm Edizioni 2017 - edited by Luca Panaro
ISBN 978-88-891099-6-0
GR-09022017
SKREID Publishing 2017
ISBN 978-82-690710-0-9
Sakte Bilder: Samtidsfotografi
Lillehammer Kunstmuseum 2016
ISBN 978-82-935020-1-2
MAR
artist book
Cornerkiosk press 2016
ISBN 978-82-998640-9-1
New Scandinavian Photography (editor)
Black Dog Publishing 2015
ISBN 978-1-910433-09-6
Cropping the Ocean
artist book
Cornerkiosk press 2014
ISBN 978-82-998640-5-3
Grapnel Grapple
artist book
Cornerkiosk press 2014
ISBN 978-82-998640-3-9
Entering a Site of Production - MoDERNISM MACHINE
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter 2012
ISBN 978-82-8294-008-5
Hose Variations, Studies from Los Angeles and elsewhere
artist book
Cornerkiosk press 2011
ISBN 978-82-998640-0-8
Shaping Time
The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School Press 2011
ISBN 978-83-878704-0-9
NOTABLE COLLECTIONS:
The National Museum of Norway
Kistefos Museum
Preus Museum
The Ekard Collection
REV Ocean
Wienerberger Contemporary Photography Collection
CURATORIAL WORK:
2009 and ongoing:
Curatorial work for MELK through numerous solo and group exhibitions featuring contemporary Scandinavian photography across Europe, including publications.
2014:
green apples / blue sky - Morten Andenæs. Paris November 2014 in collaboration between MELK, Fotogalleriet and Objektiv.
2011:
Scandinavian Forest aka. MILKSHAKE #2. Groupshow with 11 emerging Scandinavian photographers at Akerhus Kunstsenter.
2010:
DARK CURRENTS aka. MILKSHAKE #1. At Fotogalleriet, Oslo.
2009:
EAST WEST FUSION 'Norske Blikk på Japan' Utvalgte fotografier, with Mikkel McAlinden, Morten Andersen, Christine Istad, Mattias Josefsson, Kjetil Skøien, Jan Walaker and Mette Tronvoll. Hole Artcenter, Oslo
OTHER:
Co-founder and director of MELK since 2009
Founder of Cornerkiosk press since 2011
Teaching assistant at UCLA Art Department for Catherine Opie, Chelsea Mosher and James Welling 2015 - 2017
Member of Unge Kunstneres Samfund (UKS) and NBK
Editorial advisor at Objektiv 2010 - 2015
Board member FKD - Fund for Art and Design Students in Oslo 2012 - 2015
Nominator for Plat(t)form 2013,15, Fotomuseum Winterthur
Nominator for Foam Paul Huf Award 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021 Foam Museum
Jury member - Østlandsutstillingen 2013
NEWSLETTER:
CURATORIAL WORK
Why Photography? (editor)
Skira editore 2020 ISBN 978-88-572-4266-8
Why Photography? (editor)
Skira editore 2020 ISBN 978-88-572-4266-8<
E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection, 2019
Sequence, layout and design
New Scandinavian Photography (editor)
Black Dog Publishing 2015 ISBN 978-1-910433-09-6
Curatorial work for Formuesforvaltning, Oslo
Exhibition titled 'Dybdeflater', 2020
With Linn Pedersen, Thora Dolven Balke, Hannah Whitaker,
Louis Heilbronn, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Bjarne Bare
Curatorial work for MELK
Mårten Lange at Fotogalleriet Oslo 2010
Curatorial work for MELK
Linn Pedersen at MELK Oslo 2013
Curatorial work for MELK
Booth at Unseen Amsterdam 2013
Curatorial work for MELK
Morten Andenæs and Ivan Galuzin at MELK Oslo 2014
Curatorial work for MELK
Lina Scheynius at MELK Oslo 2014
East West Fusion
Mikkel McAlinden at Hole Artcenter 2009
Curatorial work for MELK
Emil Salto at MELK Oslo 2012
Curatorial work for MELK
Morten Andenæs in Paris 2014
Curatorial work for MELK
Nicholas Gottlund at MELK Oslo 2015
Curatorial work for MELK
Nicolai Howalt & Trine Søndergaard at Akershus Kunstsenter 2010
