PERSONAL STRUCTURES
20 April - 24 November 2024BEYOND BOUNDARIES
VENICE ART BIENNIAL 2024
Palazzo Mora
Strada Nova, Cannaregio #3659
30121 Venice
JUBILEUMSUTSTILLING 2
28 September – 6 October 2024GALLERI 69
Grünerløkka Lufthavn
Toftes gate 69
0552 Oslo
ØSTLANDSUTSTILLINGEN 2024
24 August - 29 September 2024VESTFOLD KUNSTSENTER
Øvre Langgate 71A
3110 Tønsberg
PER HESS/KJELL VARVIN
04 April - 28 April 2024BUER GALLERY
Hoffsveien 40 B, Inngang A
0275 Oslo
FROM LIGHT TO MATTER
5 April – 25 April 2024
SKOG ART SPACE
Schweigaards gate 94
0656 Oslo
ØSTLANDSUTSTILLINGEN 2024
16 March - 12 May 2024KUNSTBANKEN
CENTER OF CONTEMPORY ART
Parkgata 21
2302 Hamar
OSLO OPEN 2024
27 April 2024TRAFO KUNSTNERHUS
Atelier 2035
Hovinveien 1
0496 Oslo
KONSTELLASJONER (Noël).
30 November - 22 December 2023Group exhibition.
BUER GALLERY
Hoffsveien 40 B, Inngang A
0275 Oslo
“In the light of neon” – exhibition of a Norwegian artist in Tbilisi
“The only way to avoid war is to be creative, existential and cultural and change the world through art.” Sophie Denima: Sova News
In the National Gallery of Georgia. Dmitry Shevardnadze opened an exhibition of the Norwegian artist Per Hess. The exhibition features neon tubes assembled into various shapes. Each one hides a special meaning. Politics, philosophy, ecology, love – things that you can talk about forever, but Hess uses neon light instead of words, and darkness instead of paper. This is how a small room in the National Gallery turned into a library of statements by a Norwegian visual artist.
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KONGSBERGSEMINARET 2022
27. August 2022. 10.00 - 16.00Sølvsalen, Krona, Kongsberg, map.
Host: Tone Østerdal.
NEONMEDITATIONS 7
10. June 2022Gallery Sagene Kunstsmie, map.
Performance: Risto Holopainen/Per Hess.
At the opening of the exhibition
Die Verwandlung by Nina Bang and Ingebjørg Une Hagen.
10.06 – 26.06
OSLO OPEN 2022
23. April 2022During this year’s Oslo Open, Per Hess / Nina Bang opens her studio in Trafo Kunstnerhus, room 2035 for the public. Meet the artists, see what they’re working on now and ask what you want to know about their art.
Statens Høstutstilling
12. September - 17. October 2021Everything that shakes our security seems provocative. Contemporary art is often such an unexpected encounter. Unknown content, unknown forms of expression, new techniques and materials put our convictions and our experience of art to the test. Høstutstillingen is challenging. It amazes and delights, irritates and excites.
Link: https://www.hostutstillingen.no/
Link: Art / APOCALYPSE I-II-III-IV.
Kunzt.no / Interview Per Hess #244
28. August 2021Per Hess settles with the Kongsberg Group’s weapons production and Norway as a nation of peace.
Where there is light, there is also darkness. Per Hess has for many years worked with light and neon light, but now at Kongsberg Kunstforening takes a juicy settlement with some of the darkest things that exist: war, weapons, murder. And a look at his own background as born and raised in Kongsberg, the whole of Norway’s coat of arms.
ARTIST TALK.
22. August 2021Kongsberg Kunstforening
Hilde Honerud/Per Hess
A conversation with the artist Per Hess about his background, his upbringing on Kongsberg, his relationship with the city’s advanced weapons industry and the work on the exhibition Silver Mind
KONGSBERG SEMINAR 2021
21. August 2021The Silver Auditorium Krona
Per Hess / Kongsberg Kunstforening
High Technology and Humanity
Lectures: Thorbjørn Jagland / Jon Hovland Honerud / Hilde Honerud / Linda Bournane Engelberth / Bernt Hagtvet. Speaker: Tone Østerdal
The KONGSBERG seminar focuses on art and is an open informative seminar project with the goal of promoting engaged conversation about the traces of today’s worldwide technology industry including mass production of digital weapons in a local community as Kongsberg. High technology and humanity are highly topical issues today in a rapidly changing world. Artificial intelligence, biotechnology, algorithms and Big Data are major challenges that give us a future we do not know. Can art be a tool for identity, meaning and understanding in a future where man as subject is challenged?
NEONMEDITATIONS 6
8. July 2021Kongsberg Kunstforening
Performance Risto Holopainen/Per Hess
Link: Art / Silver Mind
Kongsberg kunstforening
12. June - 22. August 2021Silver Mind
The extensive, site-specific exhibition Silver Mind shows neon works, paintings, performances, daguerreotypes and graphic works. Here, Kongsberg’s history is linked to a local / national / global perspective. A both industrial and cultural history that spans almost 400 years, from early mining with the extraction of silver, to the contemporary high-tech and globalized industry that also includes the highly topical debate topic Norwegian weapons production.
Link: Art / Silver Mind
P2 Kulturstripa
15. April 2021Oslo Open
With Nina Bang. Interview in our studio by Guri Skeie about Oslo Open and the situation for artists in Oslo.
Link: https://radio.nrk.no/serie/kulturstripa/MKAK04007521
Time period 38 min. – 49 min.
Kunzt.no / Interview Per Hess #63
22. November 2017Join the studio of Per Hess, one of Norway’s foremost artists and one of the few artists in the world who work with neon lights.
Link: https://www.kunzt.no/post/per-hess-forelsket-seg-i-neonlys