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Montreal, 1967: in celebration of the Canadian Centennial, a world’s fair representing sixty-two nations not only blessed the city with a metro system, but also with some related architectural leftovers.
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Born in 1968 in Trondheim, Norway, Knut Åsdam lives and works in Oslo. Åsdam uses a wide range of media, including photography, installation and sound. His practice explores modernist architecture’s physical and psychological impact on its users. Within Åsdam's work, humanity is reduced to a ghostly presence, belittled by the oppressive grandeur of brutal buildings and capitalist spaces. It is often pushed out of the photographic frame, as if altogether erased from the Megalopolis. Viewers re-enact this disappearance within Åsdam’s installations, where they are trapped: defenseless prey lost in the meanders of a mental labyrinth.
Knut Åsdam has recently presented solo exhibitions at Sørlandets Art Museum, Kristiansand (2009), the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2007), Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern art, Oslo (2006), FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon (2006) and Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland (2005). His work has also been shown as part of “Summertime; or, Close-ups on Places We’ve (Never) Been” at the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco (2009), Manifesta 7, Trento – Alto Adige, Italy (2008), “Into me/out of me” at MOMA/P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center, New York (2006), The 2004 Busan Biennial, South Korea as well as the 8th Istanbul Biennial (2003). Knut Asdam has represented Norway in the 48th Venice Biennale (1999) and the Melbourne International Biennial (1999).
Knut Åsdam is represented by Gasser & Grünert, New York, Galerie Serge le Borgne, Paris and Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
