Golsa
Oslo
Galleri Golsa was established in 2015 by Tuva Trondsdatter Trønsdal and Gard Eiklid. The gallery is located in Oslo.
The program is influenced by the young directors' vision to introduce emerging contemporary art into the Norwegian consciousness. With this in mind, the gallery does not only aim to present international artists to a Norwegian audience, but also to support and promote Norwegian artists internationally. Importantly, the gallery wants to educate, be present and welcome a broader audience to experience art.
Featured artists
Yves Scherer
Yves Scherer (b.1987) is a Swiss artist based in New York City. Scherer’s practice has long been centered around combining personal narratives with fan fiction to explore the relationship between the private and the public. Working with various media - from sculpture, photography, and painting to installations and collages containing everything from paparazzi images to tatami mats, Scherer creates immersive environments that offer the viewer an often romantic lens or perspective on the self, relationships and the everyday, presenting an iconography of symbols that complement and repel each other at the same time.
Through his painting, Scherer explores the power of minute parts of human experience and the profound impact these tiny moments can have on our lives. Large horizontal swaths of muddled green, orange, and yellow, are sparsely separated by lone sets of flowers, each work representative of the elusiveness of recollection.
Scherer holds an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art London. Recent exhibitions of Scherer’s work include: “Yves Scherer,” Tennis Elbow at The Journal Gallery, New York (2023), “Provence,” M. LeBlanc, Chicago (2023), “New York Minute,” Golsa, Oslo (2023), “Family Time,” Guido Baudach, Berlin (2021), “By Your Side,” Cassina Projects, NY (2021), “Leaves of Grass,” Golsa, Oslo (2020), “Candids,” Kunsthaus Grenchen, Grenchen (2020), and “Sunset,” Kunstverein Wiesen, Wiesen (2019).
Yves Scherer, Artist in his studio. Courtesy of the gallery and the artist
Yves Scherer, portrait. Courtesy of the gallery and the artist
Yves Scherer, 'Sunshine' (2024). Courtesy of the gallery and the artist
Yves Scherer, 'Imagine' (2024). Courtesy of the gallery and the artist
Marius Steiger
Marius Steiger (*1999, Bern) is a London-based Swiss artist. His work explores questions of identity, authenticity, artificiality, consumerism and consumption and humans relationship with modern technology. He creates works that combine real narratives with fiction in an austere yet romantic visual language, ironically questioning striving for perfection. The overall aesthetic conveys the digital world by referencing the screen through the illumination of the motifs and the physicality of the surface.
Steiger holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London, and a degree in Visual Communications from the Schule für Gestaltung SfGBB, Biel. Recent exhibitions of Steiger's work include: "Marius Steiger," Belvedere, Zurich (2024); Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger, Norway (2024); Solo presentation with Blue Velvet at Artissima, Turin (2023); "Sun shines, Money falls," Blue Velvet, Zurich (2023); "Lust for Life," Incubator, London (2022); "Burning Land," Labs Contemporary, Bologna, Italy, with Alessio Barchitta (2022); "Free as a bird," La Placette, Lausanne, Switzerland (2022).
Marius Steiger, Artist in his studio. Courtesy of the gallery and the artist
Marius Steiger, 'Million Dollar Girl' (2023). Courtesy of the gallery and the artist
Marius Steiger, 'Mushroom XVII' (2023). Courtesy of the gallery and the artist
Marius Steiger, portrait. Courtesy of the gallery and the artist
Linn Pedersen
Linn Pedersen (b.1982) is a Norwegian artist working with analog photography, cyanotype, and sculptural installation. Her works portray abandoned landscapes and constructions, human figures, and out-of-style consumer goods, combining documentarist and poetic approaches. Much of her work doesn’t immediately come across as documentarist due to her experimentation with the technical and chemical aspects of the photographic process. Instead, her work holds a painterly notion where materiality and emotional projection hold primacy.
Pedersen holds an MFA from Central Saint Martins College in London and a BA from UIB Faculty of Fine Art, Bergen. Her recent shows include “50 Shades of Black” at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo (2024); "Dagbrudd" at Golsa, Oslo (2023), "Omland" at Golsa, Oslo
Linn Pedersen. Courtesy of the gallery and the artist
Linn Pedersen, 'Newtons Vugge' (2023). Courtesy of the gallery and the artist
Linn Pedersen, 'Eneboer' (2023). Courtesy of the gallery and the artist
Evelina Hägglund
Hägglund’s practice is concerned with language, or rather, the lack of it. In the attempt to silence words and render language mute, Hägglund draws us closer to the physical experience through her employment of metal, paint, concrete, canvas, clay and graphite. She describes her work as “making all the lines come together”, so that what once was representation – symbols, images, letters – becomes material.
Understanding language as merely a substitute for the real, Hägglund attempts to shatter the human desire for semantics and, instead, allows for an encounter with the world through material, abstract experience. In her own words: “I discovered that I cannot say an object, I can only speak around it. Both as a teenager and later in my twenties I lived between, and in and out of several countries, continents, cultures and languages. In fact I still do. Moving around, existing, and breathing different modalities of how the world is implied through language.”
Pedersen holds an MFA from Central Saint Martins College in London and a BA from UIB Faculty of Fine Art, Bergen. Her recent shows include “50 Shades of Black” at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo (2024); "Dagbrudd" at Golsa, Oslo (2023), "Omland" at Golsa, Oslo
Evelina Hägglund. Courtesy of the gallery and the artist
Evelina Hägglund, 'Birth in the Shadow of Civilisation' (2023). Courtesy of the gallery and the artist
