Sverre Bjertnaes: Silent Conditions

The first-ever UK exhibition from the much-celebrated Norwegian artist Sverre Bjertnæs. In recent years, Bjertnæs has become one of the country’s most renowned painters, the result of much publicised, high profile exhibitions in the US and critically regarded installations of his work at The Armory New York in both 2017 and 2016. Silent Conditions includes collaborations with internationally celebrated artist Bjarne Melgaard; as well as collaborations with artists Christer Glein and writer Arne Lygre.

Bjertnæs continues developing an overarching grand-narrative though his work, in which each exhibition functions as a kind of gesamtkunstwerk – an art that makes use of multiple forms to deliver a message. Bjertnæs claims he has “grown more and more interested in the narrative that consists between different pieces in a show”, as well as between each show itself. Silent Conditions transforms the gallery space into a Wunderkammer-like collection of works – including video, sculpture, furniture, and paintings.