Vilhelm Christensen
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Vilhelm Christensen (b. 1984) is an interdisciplinary artist working across spatial disciplines and mediums through a site-specific approach. He is concerned with how places, spaces and materials carry memories and stories, which can live on through transformations, reinterpretations and repurposing. In institutional and public spaces, his interest lies in uncovering forgotten or hidden values and memories. Several of his works investigate the infrastructures, conditions and history of institutions – where he explores the exhibition as work and form. Through a site-specific explorative process, he creates temporal situations in the physical context he works with. This can take form as alterations of the space, staging, interventions, displacements, “archaeological” gestures, installations, residue and sculptures of found material.  

In 2023 Christensen presented the solo exhibition I Was Moved at the former Munch Museum, an initiative questioning the afterlife and value of abandoned inventory and spaces from the institutional move. Other recent or upcoming exhibitions include Oslo Kunstforening (2024), House of Foundation (2025), KORO – Public Art Norway (2026), and UKS – Young Artists' Society (2027).

Christensen has also exhibited individually and collectively at institutions such as Henie Onstad Art Center, The National Museum Norway, Oslo Pilot/OsloBiennalen, Oslo Architecture Triennale, 0047, and Kunsthall Oslo. He is represented in the collections of the National Museum in Norway, International Library of Fashion Resarch (ILFR), and FILMFORM – The Art Film and Video Archive, Stockholm. In 2014 he was awarded the Anders Jahre Prize for Young Artists. He has been teaching and lecturing at schools such as Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Meiji University in Tokyo, and Oslo School of Architecture.

Previously, Christensen has worked in Rem Koolhaas’ architecture and research studio OMA/AMO in Rotterdam and was co-founder of the architectural practice Superunion Architects from 2011 to 2016, that worked between research, exhibition making, installations, public spaces, and buildings.

Christensen holds a Master of Fine Arts from Malmö Art Academy, as well as postmaster studies in art and public space at Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. He also holds a Master of Architecture from Oslo School of Architecture, as well as studies at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles.





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