Espen Kvålsvoll
(He/him)
Address: OD30, Ole Deviks vei 30, 0666 Oslo
Floor: 3
The studio is open Sunday 19 April from 12-17
My practice deals with painting and drawing. The paintings are constructed from different references from my daily life, fantasy, popular culture, and art history. By using colour intensification and materiality, I make pictures and depictions of landscapes permeated by a magical realism. Where the daily and familiar meets fiction, the fantastical and unknown.
Painting & drawing
My Little Melancholy 1 & 2 (Series) Espen Kvålsvoll, Acrylic and oil on linen, 140x135 & 160x120cm, 2025, K-U-K, Photographer; Tor Simen Ulstein
Kurtise, Espen Kvålsvoll, Acrylic and oil on linen, 260x190cm, 2022, Trondhjem Kunstforening, Photographer; Tor Simen Ulstein.
The Gardener, Espen Kvålsvoll, Pigment, acrylic and oil on jute cloth, 155x140cm, 2023, Galleri Brandstrup, Photographer; Tor Simen Ulstein
Selfportrait with barn gnomes (left) & Reunion (right) (dyptyk/series)
Pigment, acrylic and oil on jute, 160x155cm & 160x155cm, 2024, BGE Contemporary
In my studio
At my studio, visitors will be able to see my working environment, where I have the materials and tools necessary to create my paintings. There will also be both older and newer works on display, as well as works in progress. I will also be present myself and happy to answer questions.
Planned projects and exhibitions
2027/28 Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo, NO (Solo)
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Espen Kvålsvoll born 1992 Trondheim, lives and works in Oslo.
Education
- 2017 – 2019 MFA, The Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo, NO
- 2014 – 2017 BFA, The Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo, NO
- 2012 – 2014 Einar Granum Kunstfagskole, Oslo, No
Solo Exhibitions
- 2025 My Little Melancholy, K-U-K Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst, Trondheim, NO
- 2024 Deux Cheavaux, BGE Contemporary, Stavanger, NO
- 2023 Conspirators, Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo, NO
- 2023 Kurtise, Trondhjem Kunstforening, Trondheim, NO
- 2021 Moon Please Tonight, Galleri Brandstrup (Satelitt room), Oslo, NO
- 2020 Studio Reports, Kunsthall Oslo, NO
- 2020 Scent Hound, Van Etten, Oslo, NO
- 2016 Wrapping Remnants, In collaboration with Eva Rosa Hollup, NoPlace, Oslo, NO
Group Exhibitions
- 2024 Kristiansand Kunsthall, Kristiansand, NO
- 2022 Juleutstillingen, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, NO
- 2022, Chart Art Fair, Copenhagen, DK
- 2022, Idun Baltzersen, Espen Kvålsvoll, Ada Nilsen, Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo, NO
- 2021 Nitja Center for Contemporary Art, Oslo, NO
- 2020 Autumn exhibition, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
- 2020 Toast, Løvens Hule, Oslo, NO
- 2020 Young Invited, Landsforeningen Norske Malere, Oslo, NO
- 2019 Papp symposium, Bruunshab Gamle Papfabrik, Viborg, DK
- 2019 Plural Plur, Master Graduation exhibition, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
- 2018 What Do We Believie in? Oslo Domkirke, Oslo, NO
- 2018 Gruppeutstilling Munchs Gamle Atelier, Munchs atelier Ekely, Oslo, NO
- 2018 “59°54’41”N 10°45’28”E2017, Akademirommet, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
- 2017 Lets talk about what we don’t know, Louis Dany, Oslo, NO
- 2017 Towards a Point of Entry – Hvad er et Ornament?, in collaboration with Thomas Bremerstent and Anna Sofie Mathiasen, Akademirommet, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
- 2017 Bachelor Avgangsutstilling, Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo, NO
- 2015 Liv og Urd med venner, One night only, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
- 2015 Trøndelags Utstillingen, Trondheim Center for Contemporary Art, Trondheim, NO
- 2014 Basketball, Volleyball, Tennisball, Golfball. Akademirommet, Oslo, NO
Grants
- 2024 Working grant 2 years, Kulturdirektoratet
- 2023 Working grant, BKV 1 year
- 2021 Working grant for younger/newly established artists 2 years, Kulturdirektoratet
- 2020 Working grant for younger/newly established artists 1 year, Kulturdirektoratet
- 2019 Atelier Grant Kunstnernes Hus, FKDS
- 2019 Diverse grant for newly educated artists, Kulturdirektoratet