Visitors 2010

Anders Smebye's work involves satire, regressions and misreadings to comment on cultural decay and decadence. Oddities and deities are scrutinized, often ending up as dysfunctional representations with a discharged symbolism. His main focus has recently been on text, textile and sculpture. Smebye is educated at Chelsea College of Art, London; Universität der Kunste, Berlin and the Royal Academy of Art, Oslo, where he graduated in 2004. He has in the last years made himself noticed through his work with the projectspace Bastard, and as the curator of 'Provins - Ulf Aminde and Bruno Nagel' at UKS, 'Robert Smithson' at Fotogalleriet (co-curated with Lina Viste Grønli), and 'Monumento Mori' at Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo. Recent solo exhibitions include 'Devolution', UKS, Oslo; 'Devolutionaries', Tät, Berlin, Germany and 'The White on the Summit Is Not Snow, but Volcanic Ash or Dust', Landings Projectspace, Vestfossen, Norway. Group exhibitions include 'Excavations', Sure Shore, Malibu State Beach, California, USA; 'Exfiltration I - XII', Snowball Editions, Market, Stockholm, Sweden; 'The Agony and the Exstacy' (with Martin Skauen), GrimMuseum, Berlin, Germany; 'Strips and Steel', Office of Contemporary Anarchy, Podium, Oslo and 'Fulgura Frango', Høvikodden Live, (with Nils Bech), Henie Onstad, Oslo. He is currently working on a project, Mission Creep, for NoInput Books (ed. James Hoff).