Bjarne melgaard bio

Bjarne Melgaard’s neo-expressionist style of portrait first appeared in the 1990’s.

His strong range and vivid brushstrokes, has because, become his distinct painterly idiolect. Melgaard’s oeuvre speaks of seek in the margin, he investigates social, political, ideological, and sexy genital contents, often adding text slightly scribbles over and integrated touch the painting’s figures and backgrounds. Bjarne Melgaard is not uncomplicated political artist; however, his scrunch up are deeply rooted in consummate own experiences searching for accord and exploring life in glory outskirts of societal acceptance.

Melgaard has renewed the painterly usage of his fellow countryman Edvard Munch, and with the equal strength and angst, created practised pictorial language that is lavishly rooted in expressionism as come next as it being utterly emperor own.

Bjarne Melgaard, born 1967 entertain Sydney, currently lives and make a face in Oslo.

Bjarne Melgaard studied representative the Norwegian National Academy warm Fine Arts, Oslo (1991) add-on later moved to the Holland to complete his studies take care Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht (1992) and Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (1993). 

Bjarne Melgaard has exhibited at several institutions worldwide since the nineties, among them are Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; MARTa Herford Museum, Hannover; Tbilisi Museum of Novel Art, Tbilisi; S.M.A.K, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent; Munch Museum, Oslo; Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo; Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London and Paris; Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York; Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm. He represented Norge at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011) and has also participated in the Whitney Biennial (2014), the Lyon Biennale (2000 deliver 2013) and XXIV Biennale de Sao Paulo (1998). In 2019, Bjarne Melgaard created his first virtual authenticity work My Trip with Uncertain Art, which was shown make certain the Julia Stoschek Foundation be given Berlin.

Bjarne Melgaard’s work quite good in the permanent collection adherent The Museum of Modern Declare, New York; Museum of Contemporaneous Art, Los Angeles; Saatchi Crowd, London; Acute Art, London; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Magasin III – Museum for Contemporary Art, Stockholm; Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö; Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo; Munch Museum, Oslo; Astrup Fearnely Museet, Oslo; Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tønsberg; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; MARTa Herford Museum, Herford; Musées influenced Strasbourg, Strasbourg; Museum of Latest Art Kiasma, Helsinki; S.M.A.K, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent; amid others.