Modern Art

Born in Sarpsborg, Norway, 1986
Lives and works in Oslo, Norway

Solo Exhibitions
2025

Sprengel Museum

Hanover, Germany (forthcoming)

2024

Bonniers Konsthall

Stockholm, Sweden, travelling to Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway (forthcoming)

All is broken in the night

Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany

2023

Fear of Fear

Galerie Nordenhake, Mexico City, Mexico

Things I saw at night

Modern Art, London

2022

I've been here for days

Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

How fast shall we sing

Mécanique Générale, Arles Les Rencontres De La Photographie, Arles, France

Closed up like a fist

Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York, NY, USA

How fast shall we sing

Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden

I have seen a million pictures of my face and still I have no idea

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

2021

How did you feel when you come out of the wilderness

Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway

Frida Orupabo

Museo Afro Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil

2020

12 Self-Portraits

Gavin Brown's Enterprise, Rome, Italy

Hours After

Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa

KOENIG2 by_robbygreif

Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria

2019

A house is a house

Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany

the mouth and the truth

Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany

2018

Two-Thirds Pleasure

Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden

Cables to Rage

Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions
2024

Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, USA (forthcoming)

2023

Talking Bodies – Körperbilder im Plakat

Museum für Gestaltung Zurich, Switzerland

Her Voice - Echoes of Chantal Akerman

Photography Museum Antwerp, Belgium

Modern Art

Paris, France

Stranger in the Village

Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland

The Rose

Lumber Room, Portland, OR, USA

Unruly Bodies

Goldsmiths CCA, London

I See the Face of Things to Come

PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin, Ireland

An Unlimited Idea of the North, curated by Ivo Bonacorsi

Le Nouveau Printemps, Festival de Créatiton Contemporaine, Toulouse, France

Black Venus

Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, USA

Down North, Contemporary Art in the Arctic

Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden

The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2023

The Photographers’ Gallery, London, travelling to Muzeum Fotografii w Krakowie, Krakow, Poland

Frida Orupabo, Mawande Ka Zenzile, Simphiwe Ndzube, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi

Kiang Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong, China

FLIGHT

Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden

Chrysalis: The Butterfly Dream

Centre d’art Contemporain Genève, Geneva, Switzerland

European Month of Photography: Rethinking Identity: Je est un autre

MNHA Musée national d’histoire et d’art, Luxembourg

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Humlebaek, Denmark

Before Tomorrow

Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway

Tracing Fragments

Gerðarsafn, Kópavogur Art Museum, Iceland

2022

Ghostscript

Modern Art, London

Pattern Recognition. Revisiting the Municipal Collection Erlangen

Kunstpalais, Erlangen, Germany

Okayama Art Summit: Do we dream under the same sky

Okayama, Japan

Changes

mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria

The Animal Within - Creatures in (and outside) the mumok Collection

Mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria

Women and Change

Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark

North Atlantic Triennial: Down North

Portland Museum of Art, Portland, USA, travelling to: Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland; Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden

Future Generation Art Prize

Venice, Italy

Where do I begin

Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

Customs

A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa

Afterimage

MAXXI Museum, L’Aquila, Italy

Currency: 8th Triennial of Photography

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

Hannah Ryggen Triennial: Anti-Monument

Trondheim and Ørland, Norway

ARS22: Living Encounters

Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland

2021

Works on Paper

Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

Maternar

University Museum Contemporary Art, Mexico City, Mexico

How to Make A Country

FRAC, Poitou-Charentes, Linazay, France

My Whole Body Changed Into Something Else

Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa

Jack Davison, Omer Fast, Frida Orupabo

Deichtorhallen, Internationale Kunst und Fotografie, Hamburg, Germany

Not Without Joy

Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic

MOMENTUM biennale: HOUSE OF COMMONS

Moss, Norway

A boundless idea of North

Munch Studio, Ekely, Norway

Mother!

Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany, travelled to: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark

Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo

Mexico City, Mexico

Though it’s dark, still I sing

34a Bienal São Paulo, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Dear Truth

Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden

Future Generation Art Prize

Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine

2020

We Fight to Build a Free World, curated by Jonathan Horowitz

Jewish Museum, New York, NY, USA

Infinite Identities / Photography in the Age of Sharing

Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Summer Exhibition 2020

Royal Academy of Arts, London

Resistant Faces

Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany

What is the present?

Museum für Gegenwartkunst, Siegen, Germany

Dynamic Spaces

Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

2019

Medicine for a Nightmare, with Arthur Jafa

Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway

Rock My Soul, curated by Isaac Julien

Victoria Miro, London

May You Live in Interesting Times, curated by Ralph Rugoff

58th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

Sell it with Flowers

The Museum of Art and History of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

2018

Niepodległe: Women, Independence and National Discourse

Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland

Putting Out

Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY, USA

2017

Arthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions

Serpentine Gallery, London, travelled to: Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin, Germany; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; OGR, Turin, Italy

Selected Collections

21C Hotel Museum

Louisville, KY, USA

A4 Arts Foundation

Cape Town, South Africa

Alexander Tutsek-Foundation

Munich, Germany

Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art

Oslo, Norway

Dean Collection

Englewood, NJ, USA

Fotomuseum Winterthur

Winterthur, Switzerland

Foundation ARCO

Madrid, Spain

Göteborgs Konstmuseum

Gothenburg, Sweden

Guggenheim Museum

New York, NY, USA

Jumex Museum

Mexico City, Mexico

Kadist Foundation

Paris, France

KIASMA

Helsinki, Finland

Kistefos Collection

Jevnaker, Norway

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Humlebaek, Denmark

Marieuse Hessel Collection

Annandale-On-Hudson, NY, USA

Moderna Museet

Stockholm, Sweden

Mumok - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien

Vienna, Austria

Museum Ludwig

Cologne, Germany

Museum Rietberg

Zürich, Switzerland

Nasjonalmuseet

Oslo, Norway

Perez Art Museum

Miami, FL, USA

Scheryn Collection

Cape Town, South Africa

Studio Museum in Harlem

New York, NY, USA

Tate

London

Turku Art Museum

Turku, Finland

Verbund Collection

Vienna, Austria