Kjetil Skøien (Sparebankstiftelsen DNB's Grant Exhibition Part I)

Kjetil Skøien (b. 1952, Oslo) is a former biodynamic farmer, dancer and theatre director who has directed more than 30 experimental theatre works in Norway and abroad. He has also directed Japanese Noh theatre and Butoh dance theatre and studied under Japanese dancer Kazuo Ohno. In 1994 Skøien collaborated with Black Box Theatre to produce ‘Dance of Life’, a Butoh performance by Min Tanaka for the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics. 

Skøien was educated at the Norwegian Academy of Fine Arts. He was one of the earliest Norwegian artists to work with video. Skøien also works with performance, photography, painting, collage, text, theatre direction, and choreography.

He has exhibited and directed performances in Kunstbanken, Hamar (2019), The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, Oslo + Ultimafestivalen (2019), Kunsthall Trondheim + PAO performance festival, Oslo (2018), Minimalen Kortfilmfestival, Trondheim (2017). Skøien has had solo exhibitions at Kunstnernes Hus, Stenersenmuseet. He exhibited at Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen; ICA, London; Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna; Contemporary Art Museum, Oslo; Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter; Norsk Skulpturbiennale; Høstutstilling; Preus Foto Museum; Malmö konsthall; and Living Art Museum, Reykjavik. Skøien has work in the collections of the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Norway, Cultural Council Norway, and Statens Konstråd, Sweden. 

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