Jan Kjetil Bjoerheim

I see my art ptractice as an interdisciplinary exercise; that contains many different disciplines. These can manifest themselves through organisational, curatorial, performative or object-based treatments. I have a growing desire to expand my field of action, which arises out of an exsistensial wondering and sociological engagment.

Sometimes it feels purposefull to use text, sometimes action or materials. Recently I have used materials and found that they have developed my curiosity and given new and challenging contradictions between a refined aesthetic finish and the experience of a psychological exposure.

We all have our wonderings, places we burn, and the places we fizzle out. The belief that meetings, people and power create meaning and that life is great. Then it is over again, the concepts dies out, some fundamental perversion awakes. It's like I lack the ability to preserve the pleasure, the greatness. It is in this space I work, in these cabinets I am looking. Sometimes I have genius by the tail, other times I see only walls. I am a collection of contradictions, power, lust, and a burning desire to be something.

2000-2003 BA Fine Art & Contemporary Critical Studies, Goldsmiths College University of London

1998-2000 Foundation in Art & Design, Rogaland Art College

2017 Guildhall Art Gallery (off Gresham Street)
London EC2V 5AE
2017 Four Domes Pavilion, Museum of Contemporary Art, The National Museum in Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland from 19th February to 14th May 2017.
2015 - 2017 Touring group exhibition: Nature Morte: contemporary artists reinvigorate the still-life tradition.
Hå gamle prestegard, Norway; Konsthallen- Bohusläns museum, Sweden; Belgium.
2013 Group show, Galleri G, Sandnes
2012 Galleri Sult
2011 Bryne Kunstforening (solo show), 27. november 2011 – 06. januar
2011 Tou Scene, Tou Camp, june 2011
2008/09 The Gift & The Message, Space Station 65, London (solo show)
2008 Golden Rain in collaboration with Michael Petry, part of Stavanger 2008, On The Edge.
2008 Do Something Different, Barbican, London
2007 "Hard Work", Netverk-utstilling på Det Gamle Billett Kontoret, Brusand. 2-23 Desember.
2006 CARMA Contemporary Art, Music and Dance, Tou Scene, 20.-23. April, Fine Art Project
2005 50/50 Sandnes Kunstforening, Text installation, Å Samle