Bjarne Melgaard, My Trip 2023 at Outernet Arts, London, 2023. Image courtesy of Outernet Arts and Acute Art
Bjarne Melgaard, My Trip 2023 at Outernet Arts, London, 2023. Image courtesy of Outernet Arts and Acute Art
Bjarne Melgaard, My Trip 2023 at Outernet Arts, London, 2023. Image courtesy of Outernet Arts and Acute Art
Bjarne Melgaard, My Trip 2023 at Outernet Arts, London, 2023. Image courtesy of Outernet Arts and Acute Art
Bjarne Melgaard, My Trip 2023 at Outernet Arts, London, 2023. Image courtesy of Outernet Arts and Acute Art
Bjarne Melgaard, My Trip, 2019, virtual reality. Courtesy of Bjarne Melgaard and Acute Art
Bjarne Melgaard, My Trip, 2019, virtual reality. Courtesy of Bjarne Melgaard and Acute Art
Bjarne Melgaard, My Trip, 2019, virtual reality. Courtesy of Bjarne Melgaard and Acute Art
Bjarne Melgaard, My Trip, 2019, virtual reality. Courtesy of Bjarne Melgaard and Acute Art
Bjarne Melgaard, My Trip, 2019, virtual reality. Courtesy of Bjarne Melgaard and Acute Art
Bjarne Melgaard, My Trip, 2019, virtual reality. Courtesy of Bjarne Melgaard and Acute Art
Born in Sydney to Norwegian parents, Melgaard was raised in Oslo and studied there at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts, moving to the Netherlands in 1991 to complete his studies at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, and the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht. The artist lived and worked in New York for a decade, before returning to Oslo in 2017. He represented Norway at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011) and has also participated in the Lyon Biennale (2000 and 2013) and the Whitney Biennial (2014). His work was the subject of a mid-career retrospective at the Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo (2010), followed by Melgaard + Munch – The End Of It All Has Already Happened at the Munch Museum, Oslo (2015), which placed his work in direct dialogue with that of Edvard Munch. In 2019, he created his first virtual reality work, My Trip, with Acute Art, which was shown at the Julia Stoschek Foundation in Berlin. A major retrospective at the Munch Museum, Oslo in 2023 will be the first comprehensive survey of Melgaard's career at a public institution in his homeland.