Steinar Haga Kristensen, Gift, 2011. Performance with two antelope horns, dead magpie infant, a 'vidjespenning', piece of a broken bowl, a wedge and a worn out shoe sole. Courtesy of the artist.
Steinar Haga Kristensen (b.1980, in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Brussels, Belgium) studied at the National Academy of Art, Oslo, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien and at Sydney College of Art. Haga Kristensen’s work seeks to unveil the positive lingual potentiality inherent in an exuberant modernity. By perverting contemporary superfluity and redundancy on a poetic and satiric quest to localise today’s heroic embodiments, he stages theatricalised spectatorship and manneristic sculptural repetition. He is also one of the founding members of the artist group D.O.R. whose most recent works include the ongoing performance, Gallery D.O.R. in Brussels. Haga Kristensen has been engaged in artistic production at Etablissement d'en face projects, Brussels, Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo, Gallery Rod Bianco, Oslo, The Danish Pavilion at the 54th International Art Biennial in Venice, Witte de With in Rotterdam, Dortmund Bodega in Oslo, Gallery Niklas Belenius in Stockholm, Museum of Contemporary Artin Roskilde, and UKS in Oslo, Landmark Bergen Kunsthall in Bergen and Gallery D.O.R. in Brussels. He currently lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
