The exhibitions was by Elmgreen and Dragset, called « Biography«. The architect Renzo Piano is to design the new museum which will open 29 September 2012, and will consist of two buildings housing the museum’s permanent collection as well as temporary exhibitions. The museum holds the extensive Astrup Fearnley Collection, which includes works by artists such as Matthew Barney, Paul Chan, Trisha Donnelly, Ida Ekblad, Matias Faldbakken, Robert Gober, Flix Gonzlez-Torres, Rachel Harrison, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Glenn Ligon, Bjarne Melgaard. In 2012 the museum moved to two new buildings by Renzo Piano. Founded in 1993, the Astrup Fearnley Museet is one of Scandinavias most notable museums for contemporary art. The museum created a stir in the international art world in 2002 when it purchased the American artist Jeff Koons’s monumental sculpture in gilt porcelain of the pop star Michael Jackson with Bubbles, his favorite chimpanzee, for USD 5.1m. The collections main focus is the American appropriation artists from the 1980s, but it is currently developing towards the international contemporary art scene, with artists like Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Matthew Barney, Tom Sachs, Doug Aitken, Olafur Eliasson, and Cai Guo-Qiang. Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art collaborates with international institutions, and produces exhibitions that travels Worldwide.
with artists like Doug Aitken, Matthew Barney, Olafur Eliasson, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Douglas Gordon, Cai Guo-Qiang. The museum gives 6-7 temporary exhibitions each year. Matthew Barney, (born March 25, 1967, San Francisco, California, U.S.), American sculptor and video artist whose five-part Cremaster film cycle was praised for its inventiveness. After opening the Astrup Fearnley Museet in 1993 in Oslo, descendants of the famous Norwegian 19th Century romantic landscape painter Thomas Fearnley (1802. The collection’s main focus is the American appropriation artists from the 1980s, but it is currently developing towards the international contemporary art scene, with artists like Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Matthew Barney, Tom Sachs, Doug Aitken, Olafur Eliasson and Cai Guo-Qiang. It was founded and opened to the public in 1993. The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art is a privately owned Contemporary Art gallery in Oslo in Norway.
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