The presentation looks at shifts in contemporary culture, where design reflects changing ideas around competition and performance. Through projects, stories, data, and biomedical research, the exhibition considers how these fields inform current understandings of the sporting body and its environments.

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The exhibition considers how New York informed Noguchi’s thinking and materials, while also tracing his efforts to shape public space through projects for communal use, several of which faced resistance from city leadership, including Robert Moses. Organized on the 40th anniversary of The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, the presentation also reflects on the museum as a lasting contribution to the city.

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Curated by Philip Larratt-Smith in collaboration with The Easton Foundation, the exhibition places the gouaches alongside sculptures from across Bourgeois’ career that engage related formal and thematic concerns. It marks her first solo presentation in Mid Norway and is accompanied by a publication with new scholarly writing.

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The installation comprises thirty-eight large-scale canvases created in dialogue with the hall’s war-scarred interior, marked by damage from the 1943 bombing. The Sala delle Cariatidi carries a layered exhibition history, including the presentation of Guernica in 1953, and continues to serve as a charged setting for contemporary artistic interventions.

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Models, sketches, photographs, films, and installations trace design thinking from research through occupation, emphasizing spatial continuity between structure and context. Display elements made from reused transport crates echo a cyclical approach to making, where building, environment, and human presence are understood as interconnected parts of a shared milieu.

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Active since the 1960s, Benglis is known for expressive forms that test the limits of material and gesture, while Giacometti’s elongated figures reshaped approaches to the human body in twentieth-century sculpture. The exhibition situates their works in proximity to explore shared concerns around form, presence, and physical experience.

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A handmade audio environment by Devon Turnbull occupies the first floor, while a choir installation by teenage engineering appears alongside objects ranging from sound technologies to graphic materials tied to music culture. Together these elements trace shifting relationships between sound, technology, and listening within a New York context.

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The exhibition presents her practice through a chronological and thematic lens, tracing early encounters with Italian art, an engagement with Renaissance imagery, Celtic and post-Victorian references, and involvement with surrealist circles in France. Her work brings human and animal forms into dialogue and reflects a lifelong pursuit of transformation, self-knowledge, and symbolic meaning.

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Emerging into public attention during the 1990s, Emin became closely associated with debates around authorship, exposure, and the place of autobiography in art. The presentation situates her recent paintings within a longer trajectory, showing how personal history, memory, and emotion continue to inform her work over time.

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Drawing on perspectives that challenge the Western divide between the natural and the artificial — including pan-Asian philosophies like Shintoism, which sees spirit in all things — the exhibition moves fluidly between avatars, doppelgängers, and seductive machines. Inspired in part by Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘The Nightingale,’ it reflects on what might be lost when the mechanical stands in for the soulful.

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