Yngve Holen

Yngve Holen, born in 1982 in Braunschweig, Germany, lives and works between Oslo and Berlin. He lived and studied architecture from 2001-2006 at Die Angewandte in Vienna. Thereafter, he studied sculpture at Städelschule in Frankfurt. His artistic practice emerges from the cyberpunk movements of the early 80s and evolves through the Post-Internet era in a direction that reinterprets the themes of postmodern sculpture. His path has led him to a bewildering bipolarism from which his strategy of appropriation of everyday objects unfolds, a strategy characterized by humour.

His recent solo exhibitions include: Galerie Neu, Berlin (2023), Spazio Maiocchi, Milan (2022), Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt (2021), Modern Art, London (2019), and Kunsthall Stavanger (2019). In Sweden, he had a solo exhibition at Johan Berggren Gallery in Malmö (2011), and has participated in the group exhibitions "Reassembly" at Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm (2021) and "Life. Within Such Limits" at Carl Kostyal, Stockholm (2015). Holen has been awarded the verbeck Prize (2020), Robert Jacobsen Prize (2017); and ars viva (2014/15).