Marius Presterud
Address: Maridalsveien 20, 0178 Oslo
Floor: Bakkeplan
Room number: Se forklaring
The studio is open Saturday 18 April from 12-17
MARIUS PRESTERUD is a Norwegian artist working between Berlin and Oslo. His interdisciplinary practice spans performance, poetry, sculpture, and ecological intervention, often rooted in dark ecology and deep adaptation.
Presterud has toured extensively as a poet, and performed and exhibited at established institutions including Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (2016), Galleri F15 (2016), Kunstnernes Hus (2018) and the Association of Norwegian Sculptors (2023) in Norway; and Hamburger Bahnhof (2017) and Exgirlfriend Gallery (2021), in Germany, as well as Gallery Oblong (2025), in Denmark.
During the period 2014–2019, he ran the artistic practice Oslo Apiary & Aviary, which he describes as a ‘dark-ecological service provider’, operating among other places from the rooftop of The Artists House (Kunstnernes Hus), in down-town Oslo. He also collaborated with the international artist collective Futurefarmers (USA/BE) on the experimental commons project ‘Losæter’ in Bjørvika.
Sculpture, poetry, performance, ecoventions
GOTH BEEKEEPING (2022)
Marius Presterud
Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst, Trondheim
For Ecophilia, the Meta.Morf Biennale 2022
May-Aug 2022
Descr: Video installation. Ritual-hygienic cleansing of Oslo Apiary & Aviary’s beeyard (2014-2019),
at Losæter, downtown Oslo. Video shown through mourning veil.
Performance by Marius Presterud & Mikkel Dagestad. Camera and editing by Lene Johansen.
Length: 01:06/looped
HIBERNACULUM (Bat-) #7
Marius Presterud
For SMOKE BREATHER
Norsk Billedhuggerforening, Oslo
May-July, 2023
Descr: Ecovention
Mat: Clay, beeswax, wood
Dim: Ca 40x25x12cm
Tech: Burnt clay, linden-oiled upcycled wood.
https://vimeo.com/906992065
In my studio
Come for the drift
Viens pour la dérive
Ven por la deriva
来参与漂移
बहाव के लिए आओتعال من أجل الانجراف
CV
Showings:
2025
SOFT ASSEMBLY, Gallery Oblong, Copenhagen
OUTPHASING, Podium, Oslo
MOTH WALK (MØLLGANG), Oslo Flaneur Festival 2025, Oslo
2024
CONVICTIONS, Countdown Grabowsee, Berlin
2023
REST RELIEF, Kiosken Studio, Bergen
RØYKPUSTER (SMOKE BREATHER), Norsk Billedhuggerforening, Oslo
2022
Ecophilia, Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst, Trondheim, for Biennalen Meta.Morf
2021
WETLANDS, Exgirlfriend Gallery, Berlin
2020
INCUBATION HIGHWAY, Marius Presterud, Monika Grabuschnigg, Andreas Ervik.
Cosmo Carl – Platform Parasite, online
2020
MIRROR, MIRROR DOWN THE HALL, Monika Grabuschnigg in collab. w. Marius Presterud. For Fluc Wanne, Kunstsalon in fluc, Wie Gesselschaft Farbe vërandert, Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria
2019
MAN FALLS – A WAKE, Khartoum Art Center, Oslo
MAN FALLS – PREPARATIONS FOR A WAKE, for Lose Ties, Exgirlfriend Gallery, Berlin
TRACING THE FJORD (Redoux), Bærum Kuntshall, Bærum
TANNENBAUM ZU ‘WUNDERBAUM’, a collab with Scent Club Berlin, VZOR Artspace, Berlin
2018
WAX BATONG, for Pluss Pluss at Black Box Theater, curated by Karen Nikgol, Oslo
WORK RELIEF /// LØNN, National Art Exhibition (Høstutstillingen), Oslo
CHA-CHANGE!, TOP interdisciplinary projectspace, Berlin
ANTI-FREEZE, collab. W. Nataliia Korotkova Spriten Kunsthall, Skien
PEARL BORN, Exgirlfriend Gallery, Berlin
DEATH CAFÉ, for Futurefarmers Full Moon Gathering (SF), Losæter/Oslo
2017
PEARL DIVING – Part 1, Gallery Field of Dreams, Oslo
TRACING THE FJORD, for Retten til Byen, Losæter/Oslo
NORTHERN BUMBLING, Losæter Bakehouse, Oslo, Losæter/Oslo
Ditto, Slakthusatelierna, Stockholm
Ditto, The Nordic House, Reykjavik
COMMON PROSPECTS, for Futurefarmers Full Moon Gathering (SF), Losæter/Oslo
2016
SMOKER SEANSE, for TO BEE OR NOT TO BE, Gallery F15, Moss
TOP-BAR HIVES, for TO BEE OR NOT TO BE, Gallery F15, Moss
OSLO AVIARY with OSLO APIARY, for Futurefarmers (SF), Losæter, Oslo
TRACING THE FJORD, collab. w. Future Farmers (SF), Henie Onstad Kunstsenter,
Oslo-Bærum
Untitled (‘THE SHEPHERD’), for Futurefarmers (SF) INTO THE GROUND AND UP
(IN)TO THE SKY, Losæter/Oslo
PEARL DIVING – Part 1, Journal of Somaestethics, Vol. 2, Nos. 1 and 2
2015
IF THESE WALLS COULD WALK, WHERE WOULD THEY STRAY, collab. w. Klara
Pousette, Losæter/Oslo
NEIGHBORHOOD BATCH, Mølleren Sylvia, Oslo
SANKE GULL, collab. w. Andreas Ervik for (SANKE), Oslo
CITY MEADOW, TRANSFORMER#5, collab. w. Vigdis Storsveen & ROM for kunst og Arkitektur, Oslo
2014
FOYER WORK, collab. w. Victoria Günzler, One Night Only Gallery, Oslo
2011
HOW TO D.I.Y. with Bourgeois Stallion, Malmøgata Fine-Art Project Space, Oslo