BJØRN-SIGURD TUFTA Born 1956 in Askøy, Norway – Lives and works in Skåne, Sweden EDUCATION
1978-79
Bergens Kunsthåndverkskole
1979-82/1984-85
Vestlandets Kunstakademi
1983-84
Finlands konstakademi, Helsingfors
1988-89
Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, artist in residence
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2009 Kunstnerforbundet, Field favourable for birds 2007
”don’t leave”, Galleri Bouhlou, Bergen
2005 Tufta pinx, 1985-2005 Retrospective, Henie Onstad kunstsenter 2004 Ithaka-Ithaka, Galleri Bouhlou, Bergen 2003 Galleri Sølvberget, Stavanger 2002 ”Night Divides Day”, Festspillutstillingen, Bergen Kunsthall 1999 ”Tidevann,” Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo 1997 ”Porta Sacra”, Galleri K, Oslo 1993 ”Malerier”, Galleri K, Oslo 1991 Galleri Langegaarden, Bergen 1990 ”Klimatische Partitur”, Galleri K, Oslo 1989 ”Klimatische Partitur”, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, Aalesund kunstforening og Bergen kunstforening 1987 Galleri Garmer, Gothenburg 1986 Kystlandskap, Galleri Wang, Oslo 1983 Strilegalleriet Askøy kunstlag
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2015 Sommeråpnet, Haugesund billedgalleri Summershow, Gallery Opdahl, Stavanger 2013 Wet, Wild and Beautiful, Kode, Bergen 2012 Her Majesty The Queen Sonja’s collection, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
2011 Figures and Narratives, Norwegian Contemporary Art , The Astrup Fearnley Collection at Sogn Art Center, Lærdalsøyri ”Surrounding Bacon and Warhol”, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo 2009 Rotating Views #2, Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo Nature, Aalesund Kunstforening “Pieces of energy”, StatoilHydro Art Collection, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter Nachspiel / Vorspiel (After party / Pre party), Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium 2008 “Fields of energy” StatoilHydro Art Collection, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter ”Obscura. Fra maleri til videokunst, SKMU, Kristiansand 2007 Profiler i maleriet, Bergen Kunstmuseum 2005 Contemporary landscapes from the collections of Her Majesty Queen Sonja of Norway, Scandinavia House, New York. Impulses, Her Majesty the Queen Sonja’s Art Collecton, Henie Onstad kunstsenter 2002 The Painting Never Dries, reflections over paintings in the Astrup Fearnley Collection 2001 Norwegian Painting 1945-2000, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo 1999 100 landskap 100 år. Lillehammer Art Museum Tore Holm’s Collection; Trondhjem kunstforening, Bergen kunstforening, Palau Reial Barcelona, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo From J. C. Dahl to Tufta, Kode, Bergen 1998 Grosse kunstausstellung, Düsseldorf Kunstforum Berlin, Galleri K Stockholm Artfair, Galleri K 1996 Stevnemøter, Norges romantiske tradisjon, Oslo Kunstforening, 1995 Orientation, 4 th international Istanbul Biennnale, curated by René Block Sten Stenersen Jr’s collection, Göteborg konsthall and Stenersenmuseet 1993 Og vestenfor måne, Astrup Fearnley museet, Oslo Winterland exhibition, exhibition before the XVII Olympic Wintergames at Lillehammer, shown in Atlanta, Tokyo, Barcelona 1992 Holdepunkter, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo 1991 Meer Offen, Museum of Contemporary Art, Militärhistoriches Museum Dresden, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Threshold 2, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo 1990 New Scandinavian Painting, City Gallery, New York 1989 Northern Horizons, Gallery 369, Edinburgh 1988 The Green Darkness, The Nordic Art Centre, Helsinki 8 from Norway, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter Borealis, Malmö Konsthall Gränsfall, The Gothenburg Museum of Art og Galleri F-15 1987 Norealis,10 künstler aus Norwegen, DAAD Galerie, Berlin 1986 Seascape, Nordens hus, Reykjavik, med O. Strømme og S. Gudmundsson UKS spring exhibition, Bergens kunstforening Åpning Hordaland kunstnersentrum 1985 Another Landscape; The Nordic Arts Centre, Helsinki 1983,-90
The National Annual Autumn Exhibitions, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
1980, -86
Vestlandsutstillingen,
SELECTED COLLECTIONS The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo The National Museum of Art, Achitecture and Design, Oslo Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo Bergen Billedgalleri, Kode, Bergen Art Council of Norway The Gothenburg Museum of Art Malmö Art Museum SKMU Sørlandets Kunstmuseum Statoil Hydro Telenorsamlingen Christen Sveaas’ Art Collection Haugesund billedgalleri Lillehammer Art Museum
Riksgalleriet Schyls donation - Malmö konsthall Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden Her Majest Queen Sonja’s Art Collection Storebrand Art Collection Sten Stenersen jr’s Art Collection Terragruppen
SELECTED COMMISSIONS 2010 Nordic choice art and design, Clarion collection 1999 BKK, Bergen 1999 Telenor, Bergen 1988 Stavanger kulturhus, Sølvberget Stavanger 1987 Statoil Gullfaks A platform
BIBLIOGRAFI Marcel Duchamp, The Museum of Modern Art and Philadelphia Museum of Art, ed. Anne D´Harnoncourt og Kynaston McShine, New York, 1973. Danto, Arthur C., After the End of Art, Contemporary Art and the Pale of History, The A.W. Mellon lectures in fine arts, 1995, The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Bollingen series XXXV, 44, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Yersey, 1997. Henie Onstad kunstsenter, Prismanytt, februar – mai 1988. Storr, Robert, Gerhard Richter, Doubt an Belief in Painting, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2003. Festspillutstillingen 2002, night divides day – Bjørn-Sigurd Tufta, tekst: Danbolt, Gunnar, Bergens kunstforening – Bergen kunsthall. Bjørn-Sigurd Tufta, Klimatische Partitur, tekst: Per Hovdenakk, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 1989. Bjørn-Sigurd Tufta, Tekst: Jon-Ove Steihaug, Galleri K, Oslo 1993. Bjørn-Sigurd Tufta, Porta Sacra, Tekst: Jon Fosse, Galleri K og Bergens kunstforening, Oslo 1997. Norges Malerkunst, bind 2. Vårt eget århundre, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag A/S, Oslo, 1993.
Hans-Jacob Brun: ”Bjørn-Sigurd Tufta: Galleri K, Oslo 24.mars - 29.april 1990”, i Terskel, nr.2. Oslo: Museet for samtidskunst. Hans-Jacob Brun: ”I den beste hensikt – et perspektiv på norsk etterkrigskunst”, i Terskel, nr.1, 1990, Oslo: Museet for samtidskunst. Borealis, 26. oktober til 10.desember 1986, daadgalerie, Berlin, Tekst: Per Hovdenakk og René Block. Soulages, Peintures Récents, Mit einem Beitrag von Lóránd Hegyi unde Alfred Pacquement, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, 25.oktober – 1. dezember 1991. Øyvind Storm Bjerke, ”Maleri i Norge”, artikkel skrevet i anledning LNMs tredveårsjubileum, høsten 1998, Oslo Artforum International, The mourning after, panel diskusjon med blant annet Arthur C. Danto, 3/1/2003
