Born in Norway (1980), Anders Gjennestad’ artistic topic is the kinetic energy of people and the laws of gravity. His impactful works first popped up in the early 2000s.

Referencing his own photographs of people in motion, Gjennestad explores the fragmentation of narratives and frozen moments, complementing them with tactile textures of worn walls and materials, using spray paint and meticulous multi-layer stencils.

Black and white figures run on outdoor walls and on canvases, and recycled materials, dragging long shadows. A perspective game that disorients our gaze, accustomed to wandering between empty and predictable inputs.
Gjennestad’ photorealistic images with depth and complex details, live lives parallel to ours, ignoring us from their perpendicular world. They interact with their space, shared with us from an alternative perspective, and one cannot help wondering what the world is like from their point of view.
His works reminiscence how as a child, lying on the sofa with the head hanging, fixating the roof of the room, the doors, the paintings, the chandelier, trying to walk with fantasy in a reality made of reversed physical laws and words said backwards.
Gjennestad’ theme creates subjects that seem to inhabit an alternative universe, where there are no familiar laws of physics, giving each character a unique ability to interact with space and the viewer.

Anders Gjennestad has exhibited and carried out projects internationally. He lives and works in Berlin.


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2023
Urban Fragments, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg, Denmark
'10 years anniversary, Out in the Open', KIRK Gallery, Aalborg, Denmark
Anders Gjennestad, Galerie Mathgoth, Paris

2022
Anders Gjennestad, 'Flow', Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Germany

2020
Anders Gjennestad, 'Allies', Vertical Gallery, Chicago, USA
Anders Gjennestad, Galerie Wolfsen, Aalborg, Denmark

2019
Anders Gjennestad, 'Nubes', Zone Contemporaine, Bern, Switzerland
Anders Gjennestad, 'Parallax', Galerie Mathgoth, Paris, France

2018
Anders Gjennestad, 'Gravity', Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Germany

2017
Group Show, 'Urban Eye', Galerie Wolfsen, Aalborg, Denmark

2016
Group Show, 'Welcome Back', Colab Gallery, Weil Am Rhein, Germany
Anders Gjennestad, 'Enter Title Here', Galerie Mathgoth, Paris, France

2015
Anders Gjennestad, Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Germany

2014
Anders Gjennestad, 'Flux', Galerie Mathgoth, Paris, France
Anders Gjennestad, 'Tracks', Galerie Wolfsen, Aalborg, Denmark

2013
Anders Gjennestad, 'Tall Tales', Artendal, Arendal, Norway
Anders Gjennestad, 'Platform', Galleri A, Oslo, Norway

2012
Anders Gjennestad, Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Germany
Group Show, 'Public Provocations III', Colab Gallery, Weil Am Rhein, Germany

2011
Anders Gjennestad, 'Noe Har Hendt', Galleri Kjeldaas, Oslo, Norway

2010
Anders Gjennestad, Josef Fischnaller, Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Germany

2009
Anders Gjennestad, 'Lost & Found', Galleri Kjeldaas, Oslo, Norway

2008
Group Show, 'Inn I Galleri', Galleri Kjeldaas, Oslo, Norway

2006
Group Show, 'A-Laget', Galleri A, Oslo, Norway



SELECTED PROJECTS

2022
'Curieuse Nocturne' - Live Performance, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France

2021
'Artwalk Festival', Patras, Greece

2019
'Nuart Aberdeen', Aberdeen, Scotland

2017
'Splash & Burn' - Awarness Campaign, Bukit Lawang, Indonesia

2016
'Arturb - Artistas Unidos Em Residencia', Lagos, Portugal

2015
'Pow!Wow!', Hawaii, USA

2014
'Nuart', Stavanger, Norway
'Memorie Urbane', Gaeta, Italy

2013
'Nuart', Stavanger, Norway

2011
'Stop, Look & Listen', Drammen, Norway

2010
'The Test Of Time', Arte Hotel Luise, Berlin, Germany

2009
'Kunst Te Havs', Træna, Norway
'Nisjelandet', Bylarm, Oslo, Norway

2007
'Levende Vegger', Bylarm, Trondheim, Norway