Art on REV Ocean
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REV Ocean has more than 180 pieces of custom artwork onboard.
Created by 62 amazing artists from all over Norway.
1. Arendal, Norway, June – September 2021
Location: Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall
2. Oslo, Norway, June 2023
Location: Duer Gallery
REV Ocean is a 182m research and expedition vessel with an extensive collection of art including paintings, prints, photography, textile, sculpture, and sound and video installations.
The collection features 180 works of art from 62 artists:
– 32 female
– 30 male
– 13 artists with immigrant background
– 3 artists with Sami heritage
The art is commissioned exclusively for the vessel and is linked to REV Ocean’s science focus on climate change, plastic pollution and unsustainable fishing.
The goal is also to promote ‘young Norwegian’ artists.
‘Young’ is not necessarily defined by age, but by the trajectory of the artist’s practice.
‘Norwegian’ is defined simply as those who are based in, or work in, Norway.
The collection represents the diverse contemporary art scene in Norway.
The hope is to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration between art and science.
The art program for REV Ocean is continually evolving.
If you have any questions regarding the art, please contact:
Lawrence Hislop
lawrence@revocean.org
Linda Soh Trengereid
b. 1984, Sotra
Media: Drawing and painting
Linda has an MA-degree in Fine Art from the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design in Bergen. Her artworks explore myriad in different motifs and balance between the figurative and the abstract.
Christian Houge
B.1972, Oslo
Lin Wang
b. 1985, China
Media: Sculpture (porselen)
Lin Wang is a visual artist, who primarily works with porcelain installation, and performance involved different media. Lin is currently based in Bergen and Porsgrunn. Her artworks are conceptual and have references to the marine history between the east and west.
Photo: Lin Wang
Anne Karin Furunes
b.1961, Ørland
Broslo
Jonny Aaseth b.1985 and Nikolai Gyllenhammar b.1984
Microplastic Fantastic, 2019, mixed media 
Pink Blogger, 2019, neon lights and mixed media 
Ove Kvavik
b.1985, Kristiansand
Media: Photo
As a conceptual artist, Ove questions the construction of personal and institutional identity. His works challenge viewers perspective on history, by reconstruction of familiars images. Ove works both as a professional artist and as a photographer at the Munch Museum.
Photo: Ove Kvavik
Julie Ebbing
b. 1985, Bangsund
Media: Printmaking
Julie works with woodcuts and portraits of both historical and contemporary personalities. She has a strong signature, and her expression carries references to both traditional technique and contemporary discussions.
Randi Nygård
b.1977, Bergen
Media: Conceptual and sculpture
About:
Aiming to create both wonder and enthusiasm for the natural environment, she highlights how humans have a profound impact on but also deep affiliation with nature. Based on interdisciplinary information about relations in the world, Nygård’s work is made up of different layers put together as poetic models of the environment.
Matias Kiil
b. 1995, Stavanger
Media: Conceptual art and sculpture
Matias is an active MA student at the art academy in Oslo. He works in between research and exploration of material and the written and visual language. His artworks are build up by layers of joy and knowledge.
Ruben Eikebø
b. 1988, Ålesund
Media: Painting
Graduated in Spring 2018 from the art academy in Bergen. His visual language is expressive and intimate, painting on mirrors.
Photo: Silje M Engja Sigurdsen
Bjarne Bare
Guttestreker
Hanne Grieg Hermansen
Henrik Kleppe Worm-Müller
b. 1981, Oslo
Media: Painting
Henrik Kleppe is a modern romanticist, and his close relationship with nature and its complexity are always present in his artworks. He balances photorealism and faded memories of places and people, and with that, his works open up for many interpretations.
Photo: Henrik Kleppe Worm-Müller
Johan Söderström
Jo Gorospe
Charlotte Thiis-Evensen
KC Tidemand
Lars Morell
Ragna Misvær Grønstad
b.1984, Bodø
Øystein Tømmerås
Sara Korshøj Christensen
Solveig Settemsdal
b. 1984, Kristiansund
Media: Video
Solveig is a multi-disciplinary artist working across mediums including sculpture, video, photography, drawing and sound. Her practice studies the fluidity and transience of materials, and how ideas and objects transform over time.
Photo: Solveig Settemsdal
Gard Aukrust
b.1985, Gudbrandsdalen
Media: Photo
About:
Gard graduated with MA from Art Acadamy in Trondheim 2018. His humble but strong artistic expression shines through in his black and white photography. By capturing and highlighting moments in everyday life, Gard offers us to reflect on daily visual poetry.
Photo: Gard Aukrust
b. 1982, Hammerfest
Media: Drawing
With nature as inspiration you will find studies of wind, sea and mountains in Ottars artistic practice. In a variety from lifelike landscape to neo-abstraction charcoal drawings, his expression remands poetic and vital. Ottar often spends a long time at his family cabin in North of Norway, where he can be with nature and find inspiration for his work.
Photo: Inger Fure Grøtting
Javier Barrios
b. 1979, Mexico/Norway
Film Location: Vestfossen
Media: Installation
Javier Barrios is a Norwegian-Mexican artist living and working in Oslo. He gets inspiration from science fiction, future visions, technology and architecture, and his artistic expression can be described as a visualisation of a landscape between utopia and reality.
Photo:: Carmen Figueroa
Toril Johannsessen
b.1978
NL/Trondheim/Harstad
Fredrik Raddum
b.1973, Sarpsborg
Ingri Haraldsen
b 1982, Alstahaug
Ann Iren Buan
b.1984, Stjørdal
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