Norway Contemporary art
Olav Christopher Jenssen is a Norwegian artist. Jenssen is considered one of the most acclaimed contemporary Norwegian artists, with a significant international career. He has for years lived and worked in Berlin. From 1996 to 2003 he was professor of painting at the Hochschule Fine Arts in Hamburg, and since 2007, he is professor of painting at the Hochschule Fine Arts in Braunschweig. In 1992, he was selected to exhibit at the prestigious exhibition documenta in Kassel, Germany. He was festival exhibitor in Bergen in 2000, perhaps considered to be the most prestigious solo show in Norway for a Norwegian artist. His series of paintings; "Lack of Memory" (1992) was named one the 12 most important Norwegian artworks, by Morgenbladet.
Magnus Thoren is a Swedish artist living and working in Oslo, Norway and Berlin.
Thorén is an artist of great stylistic diversity, he combines many different techniques in a uniquely inventive modern painting. He switches easily between figurative, abstract and monochrome compositions. Thoren's enormous gray monochrome works are impressive illustrations of how to create high-level energy using almost only one color.
