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NORWAY / Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museum
by Modem – Posted February 02 2013
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The new Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo, located in Tjuvholmen, was opened by Queen Sonja of Norway in the presence of its creator, the Italian architect Renzo Piano.

The new Astrup Fearnley Museum designed by Renzo Piano, with an area of 7000m2 and a cost of 95 million has lightness and brightness as whiched for by the architect.
The museum hosts an important collection including works by major artists such as Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Matthew Barney, Maurizio Cattelan or Anselm Kiefer.
New pieces have been continuously aded over 30 years thanks to a foundation created by the owner of the descendants of Thomas Fearnley.

Its director, Gunnar Kvaran, currently showing a selection of the Norwegian private collection, the biggest names in international art of the past thirty years.

Exposition To be with art is all we ask

Astrup Fearnley
Strandpromenaden 2,0252 Oslo

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