Asbjørn HOLLERUD

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Born in 1976. Graduated with MA in Art from Bergen National Art Academy in 2007.

Recent 5 main activities(personal exhibitions, group exhibitions, concerts) are 
Graphica Creativa Triennal, Jyvaskyla, Finland, 2012 (group)
BGO1, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway, 2010 - 2011 (group)
Grafiska Sallskapet, Swedish Printmakers gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (2010) (solo)
Trykkeriet Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway 2010 (group)
Ung Samtidsgrafikk, Norwegian Printmakers Gallery, Oslo, Norway 2009 (group)

Travel grant, Bergen city, 2012
Project support grant, Bergen city, 2010
Art and New Technologies, Norwegian Arts Council, 2010, 2009, 2008
Work Scholarship, Vederlagsfondet, 2009, 2005
General support grant, The Norwegian government artist grant, 2011, 2008
Exhibition support for emerging artists,,Norwegian Artists, 2008

About works / performance

Hollerud explores his own identity of having grown up in Japan and Norway, Japan´s strong identity as a mass production society, and printmaking as a mass production medium. These three aspects of his work often result in big room installations. An already flat popular culture is stretched out again to create a spatial installation using different kinds of materials and mediums. Hollerud takes a closer look at what happens to our own experience when the visual imagery takes control of the whole room and surrounds the audience rather than be limited to small images with a comfortable physical distance.

When You Hunger Number One  2008, Silkscreen prints on pleixiglass, 200 lightbulbs, 6 speakers, mirrors, variable size

When You Hunger Number One  2008, Silkscreen prints on pleixiglass, 200 lightbulbs, 6 speakers, mirrors, variable size

Prime Time  2010, Silkscreen prints on plexiglass, two light boxes. Total size 0,5 m wide, 1 m long, 1,5 m tall

Re-Exposed  2010, Silkscreen prints on stainless steel plates, 0,5 m wide x 0,5 m length, 0,8 m tall

Late into that Night and All the Following Nights  2011, Digital print, 1,2 m wide x 1,8 m tall