Bård Breivik

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Klosterenga Sculpture Park, Oslo
Installation Gulating by Bård Breivik in Flolid near Gulen , 2004

Bård Breivik (born November 23, 1948 in Bergen , † January 10, 2016 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian sculptor . In 1971 he co-founded the artist group LYN.

Life

He was the son of the graphic artist and painter Thomas Breivik (1923-1999) and his first wife Sissel Søyland (* 1927). From 1967 to 1969 Bård Breivik attended the ceramics department of the Bergen School of Arts and Crafts and then the local Vestlandets Art Academy, where he was a student of the sculptor Hugo Watne . From 1970 to 1971 he studied at the St. Martin School of Art in London with Anthony Caro . At this time he began to turn to conceptual art , influenced, among other things, by his contacts with English and American artists. In 1971 he and other artists founded the group LYN, of which he belonged until 1981. Another member of the artist group was Gerhard Stoltz, with whom Breivik created several installations. In 1974 he had his first solo exhibition at Galleri 1 in Bergen. In the same year he took on a teaching position at the Western Norwegian Art Academy in Bergen, which he held until 1979. From 1982 to 1985 he was a professor at the Art Academy in Stockholm . In the 1980s, Breivik's artistic work increasingly focused on cultural traditions such as wooden boat building or quarry stone architecture. His object art combines simplicity with technical precision, the past with high technology. Breivik often worked with industrial companies.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Vigelandsmuseum, Oslo (2014)
  • KODE, Bergen (2014)
  • Inside Out Art Center, Beijing (2012)
  • Galleri Riis (2012)
  • Galleri Andersson / Sandström, Umeå (2010)
  • Galleri Anhava, Helsinki (2009)
  • "Referat 76-08" Sørlandets Art Museum, Kristiansand (2008)
  • Galleri Bouhlou, Bergen (2007)
  • Bomuldsfabriken, Arendal (2007)
  • Sculptures Hus, Stockholm (2006)
  • Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo (2006)
  • "Vortex - works in progress" National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo (2006)
  • Galleri Riis, Oslo (2005)
  • Galleri Anhava, Helsinki (2004)
  • Galleri Riis & Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo (2003)
  • The Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen (2000)
  • "Man Man Lai" Bomuldsfabriken Arendal (1999)
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo (1998)
  • Malmö Art Museum (1996)
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo (1994)
  • German van Eck, New York (1992)
  • Lillehammer Art Museum (1992)
  • Galleri Artek, Helsinki (1992)
  • Citadel, Oslo (1990)
  • German van Eck Gallery, New York (1990)
  • Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago (1990)
  • Galleri Artek, Helsinki (1989)
  • Galleri Riis, Oslo (1989)
  • Art Museum in Bergen (1988)
  • Edward Thordens Galleri, Gothenburg (1988)
  • German van Eck Gallery, New York (1988)
  • «Granite» Belfort Frankrike (1988)
  • Gallery Artek, Helsinki (1986)
  • German van Eck Gallery, New York (1986)
  • Galleri Nordenhake, Malmö (1985)
  • Galeri Nemo, Eckernförde (1983)
  • Galleri Aronowitsch, Stockholm (1982)
  • Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York (1982)
  • "Fiber" Henie-Onstad Art Center, Oslo (1981)
  • Trondhjems Art Museum (1981)
  • Galleri Sculptor, Helsinki (1981)
  • Galleri Wallner, Malmö (1979)
  • Galleri Dobloug, Oslo (1979)
  • Galleri 1, Bergen (1974)

Public collections

  • Third Beijing Art Biennale (2008)
  • Blickachsen IV, Bad Homburg vd Höhe (2005)
  • Rikshospitalet, Oslo (1997)
  • La Hora del Norte, Madrid (1995)
  • Juxtaposition, Charlottenborg, København (1993)
  • São Paulo Biennale (1991)
  • Wanås Castle (1990)
  • Socrates Sculpture Garden, New York (1990)
  • Artscape Nordland, Narvik (1990)
  • Dörrie Priess Gallery, Hamburg (1990)
  • "Northlands" MOMA, Oxford Trinity College, Dublin (1990)
  • "Meeting in the North" Oslo (1989)
  • Forum, Hamburg (1989)
  • "3 Contemporary Norwegian Artists" Centro Culturale Arte Contemporaneo Mexico (1988)
  • "Scandinavia Today" Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo (1987)
  • «Norealis» DAAD Gallery, Berlin (1987)
  • "Scandinavia Today" Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo (1987)
  • «La Biennale di Venezia» - (1986)
  • "Nordanad" Musée des Arts Decoratifs- Paris & Malmö Konsthall (1986)
  • "Sculpture Unbound", New York (1986)
  • "Art in Norway Today", London (1985)
  • «Art in Norway Today» New Gallery Aachen (1985)
  • "Borealis 2: The Nordic Biennial" Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter Høvikodden (1985)
  • "ARS '83" Atheneums Art Museum, Helsinki (1983)
  • "Sleeping Beauty: Scandinavian Art Now" Guggenheim Museum, New York (1982–1983)
  • «Norwegian Art Today» Kunsthalle zu Kiel (1981)
  • "Shelter" Liljevalchs Art Museum, Stockholm (1977)

literature

BÅRD BREIVIK - SCULPTURE, I'd Love the Key to the Master Lock (Vol. 1) Score for a Longer Conversation (Vol. 2)

Web links

Commons : Bård Breivik  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Atle Andersson: Bård Breivik er død . Bergens Tidende , January 10, 2016 (Norwegian).
  2. ^ Thomas Fechner-Smarsly: Breivik, Bård. In: General Artist Lexicon. Volume 14, 1996, p. 93.
personal data
SURNAME Breivik, Bård
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergen , Norway
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 2016
Place of death Oslo