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It’s been a joy to host A K Dolven in Bristol this week. Working with staff and students, she has been exploring connections between her archive and the University of Bristol’s Cultural Collections, with workshops in the Theatre Collection and Arts Complex.

A K has been commissioned to deliver a live performance for our public realm, bringing communities together through a project that celebrates the value of archives, shared histories and collective experience.

More information to come shortly.

Saturday October 10th - save the date! taken in Bristol, United Kingdom by @akdolven

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Habt ihr schon einmal einen 400 Millionen Jahre alten Marmorstein gesehen?

Genau einen solchen hat die norwegische Künstlerin A K Dolven für ihre Ausstellung four hundred million years of sunrise from the dark von den Lofoten nach Berlin gebracht.
In der St. Matthäus-Kirche entfalten ihre Arbeiten eine besondere Kraft. Zwischen Stille und Widerhall, Gegenwart und geologischer Zeit laden sie dazu ein, innezuhalten und genauer hinzuhören.

Gerade in einer Zeit, in der Debatten oft lauter und schneller werden, erinnern uns Dolvens Werke daran, dass Zuhören ebenso wichtig ist wie Sprechen!
Die Königlich Norwegischel Botschaft freut sich, diese außergewöhnliche Ausstellung zu unterstützen.

St. Matthäus-Kirche, Berlin
18. September 2026 - 31. Januar 2027

#AKDolven #ContemporaryArt #NorwegianArt #ArtExhibition #NordicCulture taken in St.-Matthäus-Kirche by @akdolven

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Install of A K Dolven’s upcoming solo exhibition «Old Sunrise From the Dark» at St. Matthew’s Church situated in Berlin’s Kulturforum 🔥 Opening 17 September 2026, and on view until 7 February 2027 🔥

@akdolven @stiftung_st.matthaeus taken in Kulturforum by @akdolven

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four hundred million years of sunrise from the dark

arriving in Berlin

you are very welcome to the opening at @stiftung_st.matthaeus

7 pm - 17 September 2026 @oca_norway @norwegenindeutschland taken in St.-Matthäus-Kirche by @akdolven

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In memory of His Majesty 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗱 𝗩 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘄𝗮𝘆.

Today, A.K. Dolven’s Untuned Bell
sounds in his honour.

Honnørbrygga, Oslo taken in Honnørbryggen by @akdolven

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The 16th Gwangju Biennale is now open to the public until 15 November 2026.

A K Dolven has been selected as part of this year’s edition of the biennale in South Korea, titled ‘You Must Change Your Life’.

Located at the Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall, Dolven is presenting her 16mm film projection work ‘amazon’ (2005), large oil painting ‘hitting a mountain (just before and straight after)’ (2022), and the ongoing series ‘one day more’ (2019–)

The biennale is curated by Ho Tzu Nyen as Artistic Director, alongside curators Che Kyongfa, Park Gahee, and Brian Kuan Wood.

More info via @gwangjubiennale

@akdolven #akdolven #gwangjubiennale #oslcontemporary taken in Gwangju Biennale - 광주비엔날레 by @akdolven

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A K Dolven will be part of the upcoming 16th Gwangju Biennale titled ‘You Must Change Your Life’, opening this week in the city of Gwangju in South Korea.

Founded in 1995, it is considered to be one of the first major international art biennale in Asia, associated with the city’s pivotal democratisation movement in 1980.

The artistic director for this edition is Ho Tzu Nyen alongside curators Che Kyongfa, Park Gahee, and Brian Kuan Wood.

The duration of the biennale is 05.09 – 15.11.2026.

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“Inspired by the final line of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem Archaic Torso of Apollo, the 16th Gwangju Biennale explores how new capacities and forms of life emerge through artistic practice.
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A central proposition of this Biennale is that change is sustained through practice. But in order to be generative, any practice must be sustainable enough to repeat across multiple scales of life. Repetition is what shapes how we perceive, how we relate, and how we live. As such living models of persistence and experimentation, artistic practices appear here as cumulative techniques through which individuals and communities embody their experiences of transformation.”

– Gwangju Biennale

More info via @gwangjubiennale

Images:

1. ‘amazon’ 2005 16mm film 1:34 min 
2. ‘hitting a mountain’ (just before and straight after) 2022 Oil on aluminium 250 x 375 cm

3. ‘one day more’
2019– Oil and pencil on aluminium 21 x 30 cm

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@akdolven #akdolven #gwangjubiennale oslcontemporary taken in Gwangju Biennale - 광주비엔날레 by @akdolven

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@gwangjubiennale
@oca_norway

so happy! taken in Gwangju Biennale - 광주비엔날레 by @akdolven

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it could happen to you, 2001
snow in my bedroom, 2018

@chart_artfair
@galleribobjerggaard taken in CHART by @akdolven

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CAS *Consultancy is working with internationally acclaimed Norwegian artist A K Dolven (@akdolven) to develop and deliver a live, collaborative performance with musician Stian Westerhus and dancer Tale Dolven for the University of Bristol. The performance will take place in Bristol on Saturday 10 October 2026!

Event and booking details to follow.

As part of celebrations marking the 150th anniversary of University College Bristol, Dolven’s performance will feature students and staff as well as members of the wider community, and will respond to the University’s Cultural Collections, networks and spaces. In the lead-up to the event, she is engaging with the University’s Changemakers exhibition and working directly with the participants who will form part of the performance.

Dolven’s practice involves a variety of media: painting, photography, performance, installation, film and sound. Interpersonal relations and interactions are central to her practice, and many of her performance-based works involve collaborations with other people. Recurring themes in her production are the representation of natural forces and their resonance with human sensibilities.

Images:
A K Dolven photographed in her studio in Oslo.
A K Dolven A Other Teenager, 2016 by @akdolven

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This Sunday

We welcome you to an artist talk with Niklas Zaborowski and AK Dolven.

The two artists will explore storytelling as a way of processing experience, memory and perspective. Moving between photography, video, sculpture and metal, the conversation will consider how different media can carry, transform and distort fragments of lived experience.

Taking Zaborowski’s debut exhibition Jeg vil ikke lenger ta på himmelen as a point of departure, Dolven will reflect on his approach to process, materiality and transformation, and on the ways in which experience can leave traces in both the body and the work.

Despite being at different stages of their careers, their practices meet in an interest in the image as something more than representation, a field where memory, material and perception can be continuously rewritten.

Following the conversation, there will be an opportunity to meet the artists and continue the conversation further.

Sunday, 16 August 2026
15:00–16:00
Tjuvholmen Allé 23

We’re looking forward to welcoming you.

Photo: Magnus Gulliksen / Subjekt

About AK Dolven:

A K Dolven lives and works in Oslo and Lofoten, Norway. Dolven’s practice involves a variety of media; painting, photography, performance, installation, film and sound. Recurring themes in her production are the representation of natural forces and their resonance with human sensibilities. Her work alternates between the monumental and the minimal, the universal and the intimate. Interpersonal relations and interactions are central to her practice, and many of her performance-based works involve collaborations with other people.

Photo: Magnus Gulliksen/ Subjekt

About Niklas Zaborowski:

Niklas Zaborowski (b. 2003) is a first year student at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHIO). His practice moves between photography, video, text and experimental processes on metal. With a background in the music industry as a photographer and creative director, Zaborowski has developed a distinctive approach to image making, transforming fragments and compositions towards the abstract and rhythmic. His work includes video design for the National Museum and directing a short film for MU by @akdolven

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Scary feeling when the landscape turned grey - solar eclipse Kvalnes today 8:30 pm by @akdolven

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