November 7–28, 2025

The exhibition Three Perspectives brings together three Norwegian artists who each, in their own way, explore how light, form, and material can express human experience. Through photography and ceramics, three distinctive perspectives are presented on how reality can be perceived, interpreted, and transformed – a meeting of precision, narrative, and materiality.

Dag Knudsen works at the intersection of technology and aesthetics. His photographic universe is built around experiments with light, symmetry, and repetition. Through series such as Symmetricat, Symmetrizoo, and Symmetricity , Knudsen creates images that unite the scientific and the sensory. Symmetry becomes a tool for investigating how the brain reacts to pattern, rhythm, and balance – and how small deviations can evoke unease or fascination.

Ole Marius Jørgensen introduces the language of film into photography. With a background in film studies and a deep fascination for 1980s popular culture, he creates meticulously staged motifs characterized by theatrical lighting and vibrant color use. The series Vignettes of a Salesman depicts alienation and the passage of time, while Space Travels and Finding the Red delve into memories, myths, and identity. Jørgensen constructs visual narratives that balance between dream and reality – like stills from films that were never made.

Johanne Birkeland (Jossolini) represents the material and sensory dimension of the exhibition. As a Norwegian ceramist and artist, she works with both porcelain and stoneware in her workshops in Hvasser and Oslo. She combines traditional craft techniques with an exploratory approach to the properties of clay – from the fragile and transparent to the rough and rustic. In her works, a subtle tension arises between control and serendipity, between the nature of the material and the artist's hand.

Together, Three Perspectives represents three different views on contemporary art in Norway: the technically precise, the narrative, and the material. The exhibition is an invitation to reflect on how artists today relate to both tradition and experimentation – and how different expressions can meet in a shared space of light, structure, and narrative.