Erlend Grytbakk Wold
(He/him)
Address: Brynseng Kunstnerforbund, Østensjøveien 12, 0661 Oslo
Floor: 4.
Room number: 4
The studio is open Sunday 19 April from 12-17
Through painting and sculpture I explore the idea of history as a ruin – a landscape of fragments and traces that we can read and interpret, but where we ourselves must fill in the gaps to create a coherent image of the past. From the ruins of the present, we can create the future.
painting and sculpture
Shadow Armor +1, Erlend Grytbakk Wold, aluminium, LED-light og electrical cord, 240 x 15 x 15 cm, detail, "Arcadia", Salgshallen, Oslo. Photo: Tove Sivertsen
Falsk Vår, 2023, Watercolor on canvas, canvas, 60 x 50 cm, from the exhibition Behandling, 2023, Golsa.
Tivoli, 2021, polyester lacing and aluminium, Gautesete Skole, Stavanger Kommune, 2021, photo: Erik Sæter Jørgensen
"Festning", Erlend Grytbakk Wold, Watercolor on canvas, canvas, embroidery, 180 x 140 cm, 2025, "Hannah Ryggen Triennale" K-U-K, Trondheim. Photo: Susann Jamtøy
"Festning", Erlend Grytbakk Wold, Watercolor on canvas, canvas, embroidery, 180 x 140 cm, 2025, "Hannah Ryggen Triennale" K-U-K, Trondheim. Photo: Susann Jamtøy
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Erlend Grytbakk Wold holds a BFA from Oslo Academy of the Arts (2011), an MFA from Malmö Art Academy, Sweden (2014). His latest solo exhibitions include “Arcadia”, Salgshallen, Oslo (2025), “Behandling,” Golsa, Oslo (2023), “Light Fall Day Break,” Golsa (2019), “Until the Light Takes Us,” Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo (2018), “Till the Last Light Fades,” Trøndelag Senter for Samtidskunst, Trondheim (2017), and “Remain in Light,” LNM, Oslo (2016). A selection of previous group exhibitions include Hannah Ryggen Triennale 2025, K-U-K, Trondheim (2025), The Norwegian Sculpture Triennial, Norwegian Sculptor Society (2021), “DeLux,” She Will Artspace (2021), “Staycation,” Barbé-Urbain Gallery, Gent, Belgia (2020), “Plus 1,” Galleri Golsa (2020), “Reflections in Transition,” Barbé-Urbain Gallery, Gent, Belgia (2019).
His work is in the collection of municipality of Oslo, The Art Museum of Nord-Trøndelag, Equinor Artprogramme, Kunst på Arbeidsplassen, the municipality of Stavanger and the municipality of Stange.