Stein Rønning

Stein Rønning (b. 1953) in Askim, Norway, received his artistic education from The Trondheim Academy of Fine Art and Vestlandets Kunstakademi in Bergen. After several decades of teaching and holding professorships at Oslo National Academy of the Arts and Bergen Academy of Arts and Design, Rønning has exhibited regularly in recent years, as well as publishing a series of smaller publications and two monographs. In his work he pursues an interest in combining painting, photography and object. His photographic prints seem to camouflage as painted surfaces and the finely tuned nuances among the works themselves command a heightened sense of attention in the viewer, as well as a calibration of the exhibition space. Rønning employs a similar complex and conceptual approach to his long-standing and meandering series of sculptures in various materials as plaster and cellulose coated with pigments and polymers, as well as patinated cast bronze.

• Lives and works in Oslo, Norway

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EDUCATION

1. 1978-79Vestlandets Kunstakademi, Bergen, Norway
2. 1975-78Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Trondheim, Norway

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1. 2022Epicurean allegory, Galleri Riis, Oslo
2. 2021dis - tribute, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen
3. 2019limited sight / limited lack, Market Art Fair, Stockholm
4. 201940 Pictures, Galleri Riis, Oslo
5. 2017Speil, Galleri Riis, Oslo
6. 2016Tracing the score II, Galleri Riis, Oslo
7. 2014esplaceant (unfinished business), Galleri Riis, Oslo
8. 2014Hierlieu, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
9. 2013Méange, Kristiansand Kunsthall, Kristiansand, Norway
10. 2012Austiére, Galleri Riis, Oslo
11. 2009Sett, Galleri Riis, Oslo
12. 2009Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Arendal, Norway
13. 2008Trondhjems Kunstforening, Trondheim, Norway
14. 1995Prosjekthallen, Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Trondheim
15. 1995Galleri Riis, Oslo
16. 1993Trondhjems Kunstforening, Trondheim
17. 1987Bergen Kunstforening, Bergen
18. 1987Høymagasinet, Akershus Festning / Care of Galleri Riis, Oslo
19. 1980Galleri 1, Bergen

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1. 2016Unflatten, Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger
2. 2015Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
3. 2014Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø, Norway
4. 2012Carnegie Art Award, Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, Copenhagen
5. 2011Gallery D.O.R., Brussels
6. 2011Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø, Norway
7. 2001Rogaland Kunstmuseum, with Jan Groth, Kjell Bjørgeengen and Heidi Skjerve, Stavanger, Norway
8. 1995Gallerie Nächst St. Stephan with Iza Gentzken, Meuser and Willi Kopf, Wien, Austria
9. 1990Ti fra Norden, with Kristjan Gudmundsson, Jan Groth, Fredrik Wretman a.o., The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
10. 1989Møte i Nord, with Barry Flanegan, Bill Woodrow, Imi Knoebel, Ulrich Rückriem, a.o., Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS