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.
2025
Up the Alley, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg, Danmark
2023
Urban Fragments, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg, Danmark
’10 års jubilæum | Out in the Open’, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg, Danmark
Anders Gjennestad, Galerie Mathgoth, Paris
2022
Anders Gjennestad, ‘Flow’, Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Tyskland
2020
Anders Gjennestad, ‘Allies’, Vertical Gallery, Chicago, USA
Anders Gjennestad, Galerie Wolfsen, Aalborg, Danmark
2019
Anders Gjennestad, ‘Nubes’, Zone Contemporaine, Bern, Schweiz
Anders Gjennestad, ‘Parallax’, Galerie Mathgoth, Paris, Frankrig
2018
Anders Gjennestad, ‘Gravity’, Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Tyskland
2017
Group Show, ‘Urban Eye’, Galerie Wolfsen, Aalborg, Danmark
2016
Group Show, ‘Welcome Back’, Colab Gallery, Weil Am Rhein, Tyskland
Anders Gjennestad, ‘Enter Title Here’, Galerie Mathgoth, Paris, Frankrig
2015
Anders Gjennestad, Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Tyskland
2014
Anders Gjennestad, ‘Flux’, Galerie Mathgoth, Paris, Frankrig
Anders Gjennestad, ‘Tracks’, Galerie Wolfsen, Aalborg, Danmark
2013
Anders Gjennestad, ‘Tall Tales’, Artendal, Arendal, Norge
Anders Gjennestad, ‘Platform’, Galleri A, Oslo, Norge
2012
Anders Gjennestad, Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Tyskland
Group Show, ‘Public Provocations III’, Colab Gallery, Weil Am Rhein, Tyskland
2011
Anders Gjennestad, ‘Noe Har Hendt’, Galleri Kjeldaas, Oslo, Norge
2010
Anders Gjennestad, Josef Fischnaller, Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Tyskland
2009
Anders Gjennestad, ‘Lost & Found’, Galleri Kjeldaas, Oslo, Norge
2008
Group Show, ‘Inn I Galleri’, Galleri Kjeldaas, Oslo, Norge
2006
Group Show, ‘A-Laget’, Galleri A, Oslo, Norge
SELECTED PROJECTS
2022
‘Curieuse Nocturne’ – Live Performance, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, Frankrig
2021
‘Artwalk Festival’, Patras, Grækenland
2019
‘Nuart Aberdeen’, Aberdeen, Skotland
2017
‘Splash & Burn’ – Awarness Campaign, Bukit Lawang, Indonesien
2016
‘Arturb – Artistas Unidos Em Residencia’, Lagos, Portugal
2015
‘Pow!Wow!’, Hawaii, USA
2014
‘Nuart’, Stavanger, Norge
‘Memorie Urbane’, Gaeta, Italien
2013
‘Nuart’, Stavanger, Norge
2011
‘Stop, Look & Listen’, Drammen, Norge
2010
‘The Test Of Time’, Arte Hotel Luise, Berlin, Tyskland
2009
‘Kunst Te Havs’, Træna, Norge
‘Nisjelandet’, Bylarm, Oslo, Norge
2007
‘Levende Vegger’, Bylarm, Trondheim, Norge
