Peder Lund
Oslo
After a more than twenty-year period of art dealership, Peder Lund’s extensive work with institutions and collectors in Norway and Scandinavia has enabled him to foster lasting relationships between his clients and internationally acclaimed artists.
In November 2009, the decision was made to establish an exhibition program intending to broaden the dialogue with the Norwegian and Scandinavian public and enhance Oslo’s position in the global art consciousness, while keeping a close relationship with internationally acclaimed institutions and collectors.
Located at the seafront of Oslo, Norway, the gallery’s exhibition program reflects our longtime focus on internationally esteemed artists working within modern and contemporary art. The exhibitions are planned and executed in direct collaboration with the artists, artist estates, and their primary galleries. Recent exhibitions at Peder Lund have featured work by Catherine Opie, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Irwin, Ed Ruscha, Wolfgang Tillmans, Sadamasa Motonaga, Ida Ekblad, and Isa Genzken.
The artists chosen for the exhibitions have been widely shown in museum and gallery contexts, and the exhibition program reflects a comprehensive and varied outlook to the tendencies of the international art community.
Featured artists
Ida Ekblad
Ida Ekblad (b. 1980, Norway) is one of the most recognized contemporary Norwegian artists
working today, with an artistic practice comprising a variety of mediums such as painting, sculpture, performance, filmmaking, and poetry. Art historically, Ekblad's oeuvre is often linked to the ideas and gestures of movements such as CoBrA, Situationism, and Abstract Expressionism. Her style is signified by a genre-crossing approach and incorporates, for example, the aesthetics of graffiti, manga culture, arts and crafts, old master paintings, deviant art, and meme culture.
Her most recent paintings comprise lively compositions, with unfolding patterns, shapes, and
colors. In these works, Ekblad makes use of multiple, thick layers in the highest quality oil paint. This technique gives the paintings an almost sculptural quality, and makes the colors not only extremely varied, but saturated and shiny, almost juicy. Besides her most recent solo show at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo in 2021, Ekblad’s work has been presented at a variety of institutions in solo exhibitions, among them Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland and Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico ( 2019), Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany (2018), and Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (2017). She also participated in the Venice Biennale in 2011 and 2017.
Ida Ekblad, Artist in her Studio. Photo Jaqueline Landvik.
Ida Ekblad, Artist in her Studio. Photo Jaqueline Landvik.
Franz West
The late Viennese artist Franz West (1947-2012) is considered one of the most influential artists of the past 50 years. From the early stages of his career in the 1970s – centered around sculpture but also encompassing drawing and collage – to the introduction of his Paßstücke (Adaptives or Fitting Pieces) in the 1980s, he redefined art as something to be used and communicated. Over the following years, West produced a significant body of work, including sculptures made of plaster and papier-mâché, furniture, collages, and large-scale sculptures for public spaces.
The forms in West’s sculptures, whether the early plaster, wood, and metal works or the more recent welded aluminum sculptures, appear to exist somewhere between the biological, bodily, and the peculiarly random. This ambiguity imparts a tension to the works, enriching their emotional range and potential for interpretation.
Franz West has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, with a major survey opening at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 2018 before traveling to Tate Modern in London in 2019. His works are included in several significant institutional collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Museum Ludwig in Cologne, and MUMOK (Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig) in Vienna.
Franz West, Pictured in 2009. Photo Markus Roessle.
Daidō Moriyama
Daidō Moriyama (b. 1938, Osaka) is one of the foremost proxies of the dominant tradition within Japanese photography of the postwar era - subjective documentary photography. Moriyama’s works reflect the postwar clashes between Japanese and western culture, and the break with traditional values, further enhanced by his photo appropriations of popular media, erotic scenes and consumer fetishism. Through his photography, Moriyama offers social commentary on various issues, including consumerism, globalization, and cultural identity. His images often highlight the contradictions and complexities of modern society, prompting viewers to question prevailing norms and values. Among Moriyama’s most important exhibitions is the 1974 exhibition “New Japanese Photography” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the great retrospective “Daido Moriyama: Stray Dog” at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1999), and “Daido Moriyama” at Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris (2003).
