Nicole Eisenman – Giant Without a Body

Nicole Eisenman – Giant Without a Body
at the Astrup Fernley Museet in Oslo, Norway
05/28/2021—08/29/2021

Astrup Fearnley Museet’s exhibition programme for 2021 begins with a major presentation of the work of American artist Nicole Eisenman. Eisenman’s largest solo exhibition in Europe to date, Giant Without a Body delves deeply into the artist’s practice from 2006 to the present and includes a number of new paintings and sculptures created over the last year.

Progress Real and Imagined” by Nicole Eisenman, 2006

Video (3:09): the film series, “Let’s Talk Art”, offers short introductions to exhibition, Nicole Eisenman – Giant Without a Body at the Astrup Fearnley Museet in Norway.

The painting “Progress Real and Imagined” from 2006 is one of the oldest works in Nicole Eisenman’s current Astrup Fearnley Museet exhibition, “Giant Without a Body”. It consists of a monumental diptych, with one panel portraying the artist working in her studio and the other depicting an epic allegory of childbirth.

Procession by Nicole Eisenman, 2019

Video (3:31): the film series, “Let’s Talk Art”, offers short introductions to exhibition, Nicole Eisenman – Giant Without a Body at the Astrup Fearnley Museet in Norway. “Let’s Talk Art” about Procession, a new sculptural installation.

About the Artist

“Nicole Eisenman lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her works have featured in solo and group exhibitions at institutions such as MoMa, SFMOMA, New Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, Kunsthalle Zürich and Ludwig Museum in Cologne. In 2019, she participated in both the Venice Biennale and the Whitney Biennal. Eisenman was selected as a MacArthur Fellow in 2015 and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2018″. – Astrup Fearnley Museet

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