Andrea Scholze (b. 1988) presents her works in Room 12 at the Vigeland Museum, where she invites us into a world peopled by ceramic figures resembling humans. The group sculpture Sensing existence concerns our internal emotional lives and the reactions that can surface between us. The creatures give rise to existential reflections around our perceptions of ourselves as part of nature, and how this experience has evolved since the beginning of time.

The exhibition is on view through the 17th of September 2023.

Andrea Scholze (b. 1988, Oslo) is educated at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (BFA, 2011, MFA, 2016).

Scholze works sculpturally and on installation pieces, primarily using ceramics. Her works are roughly modelled with an expressive, often bleak look. She creates scenographic installations of often dystopian landscapes where her individual sculptures of human-like species often looking more like trolls, golems or yetis, channel emotions and tell stories. She is interested in how both animals and humas exist together in today’s society and themes such as loneliness, existentialism and belonging are apparent in many of her sculptures.

Scholze’s talent has been recognized by the Norwegian establishment and her work has been acquired by the KODE museums in Bergen, the National Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Trondheim, The Equinor Art Programme and KORO (Art in Public, Norway).