Art

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 paintingLinda 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.

Cathrine Alice Liberg

Some Cross the Great Ocean Never to Retrun (Fong Lai Chin), 2020, Cynotype

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

Espen Dietrichson

Fredrick Arnøy

Eva Rosa Hollup
b. 1991, Oslo  

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

LELLO//ARNELL

Madelen Isa Lindberg

Marius Martinusen

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

Ottar Karlson

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

Christine Istad,
b. 1963, Molde

Bertil Greging
b.1957, Oslo

Stein Fjelldal
b.1983, Lørnskog

Per Stian Monsås
b.1990, Trondheim

Mirjam Raen Thomassen
b. 1982, Osterøy

Ellen Grieg

Fredrik Raddum
b.1973, Sarpsborg

Ingri Haraldsen
b 1982, Alstahaug

Ann Iren Buan
b.1984, Stjørdal

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