Atle Østrem

Atle Østrem (1980) is an artist from Stavanger, Norway. He now lives and works in Oslo. Atle has been painting graffiti since the mid 90s, and has been doing artwork on canvas since 2000.

Atle is very fascinated by the contrast between ugliness and beauty, and likes to explore and work in the “beauglyful” zone that takes place when you combine the two.

His strong iconic existential characters are both playful and dark, childlike and thought provoking,.They inhabit an interior world and capture those often fleeting elements of daily life and emotion, that once we shine a spotlight on them, have the power to truly show us what it means to be human.

Atle Østrem does not consider himself a street artist, nor a fine artist, but something in between. Something beauglyful.

Exhibitions, Solo
2016 – Faux Pas, NOK galleri, Bodø, Norway
2016 – Bronco, Galleri Koll, Stavanger, Norway
2015 – Since 1980, Popop gallery, Oslo, Norway
2015 – Suprimitive, Exhibit No. 9, Asbury Park. NJ, USA
2014 – Home Free, Galleri Koll, Stavanger, Norway
2014 – Patterns, Kunstplass 5, Oslo, Norway
2014 – The truth with a twist, Exhibit No.9 , Asbury Park, NJ, USA
2013 – Everything must go , Galleri Koll, Stavanger, Norway
2012 – Chasing Rainbows , Reed Projects Gallery, Stavanger, Norway
2011 – Nothing`s changed, everything`s the same, still painting them same old faces, Galleri Koll, Norway
2009 – Beauglyful, Nice/Nice gallery – Hannover, Germany
2007 – A, Vestlandsgalleriet Galleri Koll – Stavanger, Norway
2006 – Pretty ugly, Sting – Stavanger, Norway
2004 – Hip hOpera – Tou Scene, Stavanger Norway

Selected groupshows
2016 – Dirty Art Vol 3, Blank Space Gallery, Oslo Norway
2015 – Bryne Kunstforening, Bryne, Norway
2014 – Norwegian Wastelands, POPOP, Oslo , Norway
2014 – Street art. Bærum Kunstforening, Sandvika, Norway
2014 – Upcycle, Galleri Sult, Stavanger, Norway
2015 – Dirty Art Vol 2, Blank Space Gallery, Oslo Norway
2013 – A-laget: UTVALG JULEN – Galleri A/A minor, Oslo, Norway
2013 – Lo & Be...