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Olav Christopher Jenssen    (Norwegian, 1954)




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Biography
1954 Born in Sortland in Vesterålen, Norway
1976 - 1979 Arts and Crafts School, Oslo, Norway
1980 - 1981 Art Academy, Oslo, Norway
1981 - 1982 Studies in New York
1982 - 1983 Studies in Berlin
1996 Professor in Painting at Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg
Lives and works in Berlin and Lya, Sweden

Exhibitions
2008 At times, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
2006 “Olav Christopher Jenssen”, Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway/ Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo)
2006 “Appendix: Third Section of The Empty Drawing Room,” Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York (solo)
2006 “About Painting”, Kunstenaarsinitiatief Paraplufabriek, Netherlands
2006 “Silent Inside: Mark Francis, Bernard Frize, Olav Christopher Jenssen, Imi Knoebel,” Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland
2005 Traces Everywhere, Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York
2005 Hunch and Flail, Artists Space, New York
2004 Translation, Tracy Williams Ltd, New York
2003 Some Secrets some Thinking Bells some Late Palindromes some Time Paintings some Brown Paintings, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2003 Time paintings, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
2002 Moderation- A Section from the Empty Drawing Room, Nordiska
2002 I am your best Friend, A series of 50 monotypes, Niels Borch Jensen Verlag und Dryck, Berlin, Germany
2001 Late Palindromes and some Brown Paintings, Horsens Kunstmuseum, Denmark
2001 The Empty Drawing Room, Drawings, Sønderjyllands Kunstmuseum, Denmark
2000 The Empty Drawing Room, Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
2000 Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany; Sønderjyllands Kunstmuseum, Tønder, Denmark
2000 Palindrome, Bergens Kunstforening, Bergen, Norway
2000 Post Palindrome, Arnstedt&Kullgren, Östra Karup, Sweden
2000 Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tønsberg,Norway
1999 Ten Days in May, Elisabeth Kaufman, Basel, Switzerland
1999 Innocence, Galerie Laage-Salomon, (Peintures récentes), Paris, France
1999 Ca. 25 tegninger, Rælingen Kunstforening, Sandbekkstua, Norway
1998 Territorium, Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
1998 Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athen, Greece
1997 Vongole, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
1997 Estimation, Staatliche Museen Kassel – Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany
1997 Radio, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
1997 Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
1996 Once, La Salle Blanche, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France
1996 Linguaphone, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden
1996 Andamios Interiores, 5. Literaturbegegnung, Schwalenberg, Germany
1995 Neue Arbeiten, Dörrie*Priess, Hamburg, Germany
1995 Love Letter Headings for Brontë Sisters, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany
1995 Von Zeit zu Zeit, Städtische Galerie, Nordhorn, Germany
1995 Repetition, Galerie Artek, Helsinki, Finland
1995 Galleri 29, Växjö, Sweden
1995 Fra tid til annen, Traum einer Kindheit, Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway
1995 Sleeping Poets, Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway
1995 Love Letter Headings for Brontë Sisters, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Oslo, Norway
1994 Drawings 1986-1993, Tallinn Art Hall,Tallinn, Estonia
1994 Norræna húsid, Reykjavik, Iceland
1994 Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens, Denmark
1994 Daniel Fusban Kunsthandel, München, Germany
1994 Die graphischen Mappenwerke, Dörrie*Priess, Hamburg, Germany
1994 Kunstverein Elsterpark, Leipzig, Germany
1994 Small mans impression, Sandnes Kunstforening, Sandnes, Norway
1994 Gilbert Brownstone, Paris, France
1994 Estimation, Gilbert Brownstone & Cie & Tracy Williams, Paris, France
1994 Since We All Came from the Same Place, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
1993 Birds of Passage, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden
1993 Teckningar 1986-1993, Nordiskt Konstcentrum, Sveaborg/Helsinki, Finland
1993 Staatliche Museen Kassel-Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany
1993 Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
1993 Malerei, DAAD-Galerie, Berlin, Germany
1992 Neue Bilder, Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
1992 Lack of Memory, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
1992 Tegninger og malerier, Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway
1992 Lack of Memory, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
1991 Once from the Garden, Dörrie*Priess, Hamburg, Germany
1991 Galerie Artek, Helsinki, Finland
1990 Nye malerier, Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway
1990 Dedikasjon, Galleri Eklund, Umeå, Sweden
1990 Drawings for Knut Hamsun´s ”Sult”, Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter/Oslo, Norway
1989 Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden
1989 Pale Afternoons, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden
1989 Small Talk in Sweden, Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway
1988 Galerie Artek, Helsinki, Finland
1988 Dörrie*Priess, Hamburg, Germany
1987 1987 Galleri 16 (Lars Bohman), Stockholm, Sweden
1987 100 Tegninger, Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway
1987 Galleri Tempo, Stockholm, Sweden
1985 Galleri F-15, Moss, Norway
1985 Demoralisert Landskap, Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway
1984 Galleri Cassandra, Drøbak, Norway
1983 Hammarlunds Kunsthandel, Oslo, Norway
1981 Galleri J.M.S., Oslo, Norway
1980 Galleri I, Bergen, Norway
1979 Galleriet, Oslo, Norway
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