A. K. Dolven
A K Dolven is a Norwegian artist. She works across painting, film, sound, sculpture and interventions in public space.
She lives in Kvalnes, Norway.
Life and work
Dolven was born and grew up in Oslo but left early to Lofoten, and then on to France in 1972 to study art at École des Beaux-Arts in Aix-en-Provence, and then École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She went on to study at the National Academy of the Arts in Oslo.She lived between Berlin and Lofoten from 1987 to 1997 after receiving the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs grant to Künstlerhaus Bethanien. From 1997 to 2017, she worked between London and her home in Lofoten; in 2005 she established her Atelier Kvalnes, the base for her international practice. Dolven's photo and video work often shows motifs from this and other places north of the Arctic Circle. She has received media attention for her public sculpture projects and was the initiator of the outdoor sculpture project Artscape Nordland.
She was awarded the German Fred-Thieler Prize in 2000 and the Swedish Prince Eugen Medal in 2005.
Selected solo exhibitions
hitting a mountain with snow on my left and right shoulder, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Norwayahead, Svalbard Kunsthalle, Longyearbyen, Norway
please return, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK
when I discovered the end I wanted to live really long, Kunsthall 44 Moen –Rene Block, Moen, Denmark
the day the sky became my ground, Sörlandets Kunstmuseum, Norway
looking for balance, Platform China, Beijing, China
what can I do for you, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway
DA2 Domus Artium, Salamanca, Spain
moving mountain, CAC Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania; AroS, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark; Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
from last winter, Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
South London Gallery, London, UK
headlights, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
stairs, Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Germany
Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
Fred-Thieler Prize, Berlinische Galerie Berlin, Germany
Video Gallery, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Selected group exhibitions
I Hear Your Dream: Contemporary Art from Norway. OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, China.
The Quebec City Biennial: Small Between the Stars, Large Against the Sky, Québec, Canada
The Thailand Biennale: Edge of the Wonderland, Krabi, Thailand
Dreamers Awake, White Cube, London
this is a political , Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway
The Shadow Never Lies, 21st Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Art/Nature, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Germany
PLAY, Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Desire Lines, ACCA The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Guangzhou Triennial 2012, Guangzhou, China
New Nordic – Architecture & Identity, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Vidéo & Après, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
There is No Road, Laboral Centro de Arte, Gijon, Spain
Pain, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Melancholie, Genie und wahnsinn in der Kunst, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Berlin/North, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
46664 –1 Minute of Art to Aids, Green Point Stadium, Cape Town, South Africa
Hollywood Revisited, Aarhus Kunstmueum, Aarhus, Denmark.
Norden, Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria
The 6th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Strangers in the Arctic, AGO, Ontario, Canada
JETZ BERLIN, Malmö Art Hall, Sweden
Borealis, DAAD Galerie, Berlin
Selected public artworks
Untuned Bell, Honnørbrygga, Oslo, Norway.40 voices, Rankweil, Austria
Tours voices, CCC, Tours, France
I found I found, Stormen Cultural Quarter, Bodø, Norway
Out of Tune, Folkestone, UK
The Finnish Untuned Bell, Ekenäs, Finland