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“Nicolaisen seems to have an inbuilt need to provoke and confront those around him with his works and his views on the social rules by which we live our daily lives. ... we can clearly see a kind of political statement in this: someone or something is exposed, and it is not Nicolaisen or the onlooker, but the very structure of which we are all part.”
(Exerpt from Per Teljer, Gipsyartist or whatever...).
"Through his series of works, Terje Nicolaisen relates to an artistic expression or tradition for a limited period of time, and then moves on to a seemingly completely different expression for his next series of works. This activity is characterised both by a will to become engaged and pulled along by the attractions and events of the landscape (here the artworld and different artistic strategies), and by a desire to retain the outsider's ability for distanced observation.
In many respects Terje Nicolaisen's artistic practice thereby constitutes a dérive (or a series of dérives), where the concrete city is exchanged for the artworld. ...Movement and experimentation seems in Nicolaisen's work to form the basis for a methodology that stands in contrast to the linear development of a personal project that constitutes the norm in art."
(Exerpt from Gardar Eide Einarsson, The Derivé in Terje Nicolaisen's Practice).
Terje Nicolaisen trained at the Art Academies in Bergen (1997) and Trondheim (1996).
He has exhibited extensively in Norway and to some extent abroad, among shows and institutions:
Museo de Pasatiempo licensed enlargement, Kunsthall Oslo, 2010
Artist Statemnets, Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø 2010
Tegnebiennalen 2010, Momentum Kunsthall, 2010, Moss
Books, Texts and other works on paper, Galleri Riis,2008, Oslo,
Salon, Kunstraum D21, Leipzig, 2007;
Bokaktig, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, 2006;
The Drawing Biennal, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, 2006;
Stilleben/Rakett, Projekt 0047, Berlin, Germany, 2005;
Tegneklubben, Bergen Kunsthall/No.5, Bergen, 2005;
Momentum – International Festival for Contemporary Art, Moss, 2004;
Art to the People, Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo), Bergen Kunsthall (Bergen), Tromsø Kunstforening (Tromsø), Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall (Arendal), 2003-2004;
Maniege Center for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, Russia, ROHTO, 2003;
Straight on Medicine Art (with Markus Renvall), Art in Nordland, 2003;
The Sculpture Biennial 2003, Vestfold Haugar Kunstmuseum, Tønsberg, 2003;
The Sculpture Biennial 2001, Lillehammer Kunstmuseum (Lillehammer), Stenersen Museum (Oslo);
Galeria U Jezuitûw, Poznan, Poland, 2000;
HEART/Helsinki Environmental Art Project (with Pekka Nevalainen), 2000; and
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, 1998.
Nicolaisen has an upcoming solo shows at:
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvik 2011
Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo in 2011
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