Gro Folkan

GRO FOLKAN –born 15.08. 1949

CURRICULUM VITAE

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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2022 Galleri Helviktangen, 06.06 – 08.08
2021-22 A pavillion, Artebinaria, Firenze
Virtuell exhibitions, Curated Maddalena Grazzini
2021 Gallery Unlock,3D,Virutual Space, International
Curatorial Project,curated by S.Carrozzi
2020 MyMicroGallery, Milano, Curated Stefania Carrozzini, Italia
2019 Gallery Artifact, Curated, New York
2017 Gallery Nord, Tromso, Norway
2017 Moss Art Gallery, Moss Norway
2014 Gallery Vanntårnet, Nesodden – by Oslo
2011 Gallery Brevik, Tromso
2010 Gallery Sult ,Stavanger
2010 Gallery Tonne ,Oslo
2008 Gallery Brevik,Tromso
2006 Gallery Brevik,Tromso
2001 Gallery Embla, Tromso
2001 Gallery Albin Upp, Oslo
1998 Tromso Museum
1993 Tromso Kunstforening,Tromso
1990 Hammerlunds Kunsthandel, Oslo
1987 Gallery Cassandra, Drøbak
1985 Tromso Kunstforening, Tromso
1984 Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo
1983 Tromso Kunstforening
1982 Gallery Tanum, Oslo
1979 Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
1977 Gallery 71, Tromso
1977 Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
1975 Bergen Kunstforening, Bergen
1973 Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
1971 Kunstnerforbundet, (Artists´ Association) Oslo
1967 Club 7, Oslo

PUBLIC PURCHASES
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Norwegian National Gallery
Norwegian State Gallery
Norwegian Culture Council
Central Bank of Norway
Oslo Public Schools Art Collection
Oslo City Art Collection
University of Tromsoe
North Norway Art Museum
Norwegian Contemporary Art Museum
County of Troms
University hospital of North-Norway

EDUCATION
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1967- 69 Norwegian Central Art School,
painting and graphics
1969 – 73 Art Academy of Norway, painting and graphics

JOINT EXHIBITION
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2023 New York, MONTSERRAT CONTEMPORARY ART,

ART OF PRESENCE
Shaping the Future through Creativity

2023 Venice , NATURE SPEAKS TO US
Stefania Carrozzini Gallery

2023 Paris , NATURE SPEAKS TO US
Espace Sylvia Rielle 10, Place des Voges
Curated by Stefania Carrozzini

2023 Milano, Abbondanza/Abundance MyMicroGallery

2022 Contemporary Art Station, ‘Madrid Station Exhibition’

2022 ’ZONES OF IMMATERIAL SENSITIVITY’
MyMicroGallery
Curated by Stefania Carrozzini, Milano

2021 RESPIRO , Camden Gallery ,London
Curated by Stefania Carrozzini

2021 ’ZONES OF IMMATERIAL SENSITIVITY’
Santa Eufemia Gallery in Venezia
Curated by Stefania Carrozzini

2021 ’Summer virtual Art Fair’, Contemporary Art Station

2021 ’Respiro’ International Curatorial Project
MyMicroGallery, Milano

2020 Santa Eufemia Gallery, ‘RESPIRO’ International Curatorial Project, 18/11 – 11/12, Venezia

2020 Artebinaria, Artinside Gallery, Art in Augumented reality, Firenze, Italia

2019 Artebinaria, Artinside Gallery,Art in Augumented reality, Firenze, Italia

https://www.grofolkan.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/ArtinsideGallery-instagram-grofolkan.mov

2016 Invited: Contemporary Paintings, Brick Lane, London

2014 Summer Expo, Gallery Vulkan, Oslo
2000 North Norwegian contemporary art,
travelling exhibition
1996 Norwegian Pictures 96, Brandstrup, Oslo City Hall
1995 Norwegian Pictures 95, Brandstrup, Oslo City Hall
1990 Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsoe
1980 Fredrikstad Kunstforening
1977 Gallery F 15, Moss
1976 Female artists, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
1975 ”Norwegian today”, Hässelby castle,
Stocholm, Sweden
1974 ”Norwegian Grafics today” Travelling exhibition,
Germany two years
1972 Liljevalks Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
1969 UKS Spring Exhibition, participated 4 times since
1968 Nordic Exhibition, Hässelby castle,
Stockholm, Sweden
1968 The June Exhibition,
Kunstnerforbundet (Artists Association), Oslo
1967 Debutants from Norwegian State Exhibition,
Oslo Kunstforening
1967 Debut Statens Høstutstilling
(Norwegian State Autumn Exhibition)
(Participated eight times since)

PREMIE

1976 1. Premie, Oslo Kommunes skolekonkurranse

PROJECTS

1977 ”Conditions of life” Rehabilition of Rodeløkka, in Oslo,
exhibition Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo

1975 ”Park 62” (artist group) Rehabilitation of
Asker city center

1975 Scenography, Høvikodden ballet, Oslo

1975 ”Park 62” exhibition,
”Can Tøyen Public Baths become
everyman´s garden of Eden?
City of Oslo Information Center
and the Munch museum

Decorations
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1998 Saga Petroleum, supply ship, Oslo
1989 Kroken nursing home, Tromsoe
1988 Porsangermoen, army camp, Lakselv, North Norway
1985 Telecom Building, Finnsnes
1985 Sparebank Nord, Tromsoe
1983 Grindbakken school, Oslo
1978 Rommen school, Oslo

SCHOLARSHIPS

1996 County of Troms, project support
1995 Project support, Oslo
1986 Lorch Shive´s working scholarship
1982 County of Troms, working scholarship
1975 State of Norway, 3 year working scholarship
1973 City of Bærum working scholarship
1969 General Consul Røwde´s memorial scholarship
1968 ”The three percent” working scholarship

BOOKS

2020 Invited: Book: ‘TOP 10 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS’, published in London
ISBN-13:9789189685437
https://www.mastersoftoday.com/eBooks/Top-10-ContempArtists-2020-V2_eBook.htm
https://www.mastersoftoday.com/mot/Top-10-ContempArtists-V2_mobil/mobile/html5forpc.html

2020 Invited: The Guggenheim Museum issue of World of Art Magazine

2020 Invitert: Contemporary Art Station,
‘Art Collector’s choice’ utgitt i Japan og London

2019 Invited: ‘International Contemporary Masters XIII’.
Sponsored artists, Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A

2019 Invited: ‘Spotlight Contemporary Art Magazine’
issue’ -12

2018 Invited: ’36 ARTISTS TO FOLLOW’ – Collector’s Edition
10 pages, published in London

2019 Invited: CreativPaper issue 15
https://issuu.com/creativpaper/docs/creativpaper-issue-15

2019 Invited: CreativPaper issue 12, published in London

2018 Invited: ’36 ARTISTS TO FOLLOW’ – Collector’s Edition
10 pages, published in London

2017 Invited: World Wide Art Books,
Current Masters (volume 11)
in the series: International Contemporary Masters,
Current Masters (volume 2 and 11).
World Wide Art Books, Santa Barbara,
California, USA

2016 Invited: World Wide Art Books.
Current Masters Volume I, 8 artists release , November 2016

PRESENTATION ON THE INTERNET
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2020 Invited: Artebinaria, ArtinsideGallery,
Agumented reality, Firenze

2019 – 2020 Invited: online portifolio
http://arterynyc.com/2019/02/13/gro-folkan/ (New York)

2019 Invited online
http://arterynyc.com/ (New York)

2019 Invited: Artebinaria, ArtinsideGallery,
Art in Augmented reality, Firenze
https://www.grofolkan.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/ArtinsideGallery-instagram-grofolkan.mov

POSITIONS OF TRUST
1986 Guest teacher, State Art and Craft School,
Oslo, Norway
1976 National Autumn Exhibition, member of the jury,
Oslo, Norway
1975 Culture Conucil Purchasing Committee,
3 years, Norway

The images in between

Our culture is to a marked degree defined in literary categories, words, numbers. Everything has a name. But that is not the reality. Reality is coherent, and also includes that which is between the categories, between the named objects. To explore that which is between – with my method- is my project.

Reality may be comprehended as a language addressing us. The elements of this language,”the words” are other than our everyday words, and include also what is between the words, between the categories, our categories. What is a tree ? The stem, of course, the branches, twigs and leaves, the roots- but what about the life-supporting fungi and microbes between the finest roothairs? What about the oxygen close to the leaves? What about the bird´s nest? What about the bird´s song early in the morning when the sun rises and the rays stroke the top of the tree? What about the shadow below?

Many of us remember the famous Haiku poem about the flower falling from a branch of a tree, and suddenly rising again, going upwards. Is it a butterfly? Pulled into the moment between the flower and the butterfly, we suddenly get access to a part of reality we did not know before. Look at a landscape, or a field with straws. Consider the wealth of significance and content between the named categories.

I think of my pictures as gates, entrances to the language between. I have experienced that when I manage to be in these gates, a new state of mind arises, a new contact – because I also am nature. And then it can happen that a wild bird sits down by me , or a raven comes down and says something.

My pictures are gates, instruments.The real pictures ,the images are not the pictures on my canvases, but the images coming into being in the mind of the onlooker.I have spent a lot of time travelling and learning , being in other settings, in New York, Southwest, The Four Corners, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Berlin, Japan, China, and have sought out expressive , unspoiled Nature, particularly in North Norway.

To accomplish what I am trying to, I must create ”air” between the layers of my paintings, there must be space and breath between them. I have worked many years to develop a technique allowing this, to try to create a weightlessnes as in the Haiku poem mentioned above, disturbing our set categories, opening the gates.

I often use oxidized metals to add colour and substance and to facilitate the layer underneath to shine through. I use gold, white, red, green gold, silver, brass, copper, aluminium, paladium, platinum. I also use interference colours when suitable. The colours change from red to green etc. when the observer moves relative to the picture. Interference colours suit the metals very well. Some of these effects are difficult to display in digital media.