ANINE AASEN AT KABUSO
Curated by Kiosken
EXHIBITION
01.11.2025 - 01.12.2025
at Kabuso, Øystese
Kiosken was invited by Kabuso to activate the black wall in the foyer, a space that plays a social role within the art space. The foyer is connected to the café, where people sit to enjoy something to eat, meet friends, or take time after visiting an exhibition. It is where events take place—a space of constant movement and gathering.
For this opportunity, Kiosken invited long-time collaborator and artist Anine Aasen. Through her paintings, Anine has developed a language of her own. By juxtaposing everyday objects, she creates scenarios that challenge our logical way of looking—yet place us in familiar settings such as a dinner table, a kitchen, a window—and offer new narratives. Anine's choice of bold colours, textures, and elements speaks to a collective memory that is both familiar and new.
Inspired by Virginia Woolf's The Waves, Aasen revisits ideas and transforms them into new ones. She exists in a constant dialogue and state of experimentation, where details blend into more abstract forms, allowing viewers to play with their own imagination and storytelling.
As visitors move from the café, through the foyer, and into the shop and gallery spaces, they are met with vibrant colours that sometimes echo traditional patterns from this very region, found in old homes or objects. This dynamic, and social environment becomes the backdrop for Aasen's work—a fitting context for paintings that invite thought, reflection, and conversation. Or perhaps, they simply offer a new perspective to continue their day.
Anine Aasen (b. 1992, Nesodden) is a visual artist based in Bergen who works primarily with painting. Her practice is characterized by a free and playful approach to colour and composition, combined with detailed and pattern-based elements drawn from everyday objects, interiors, textiles, and visual references. Through a painterly method inspired by collage, Aasen places these various motifs side by side in the same painting and explores how contrasts and juxtapositions can generate new narratives. References to other artists, including Henri Matisse and Henriette Grahnert, play an active role in her work and contribute to a continuous dialogue between the historical and the contemporary. Aasen studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig and the Art Academy in Bergen (KMD), where she completed her master's degree in 2024. She has exhibited at, among other places, LNM in Oslo, and is represented by Høyersten Contemporary.
The exhibition is kindly supported by Bergen Kommune, Vestland Fylkeskommune, and Norsk Kulturrådet.
