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Nybruket Gallery

Nybruket Gallery is located in one of the old factory buildings of Kistefos Træsliberi Ltd. The industrial heritage has been preserved and creates a great setting for art. Changing exhibitions are shown here, based on works from Christen Sveaas' Art Foundation and Christen Sveaas' Art Collection.

This years exhibitions:

Kathleen Ryan

Kistefos is pleased to present the first major museum survey by American sculptor Kathleen Ryan. Following its debut at Hamburger Kunsthalle in 2024, the exhibition is now on view at Kistefos, where it opened on 4 May 2025. Spanning the first decade of Ryan’s practice, the exhibition features twenty-five sculptures and is presented across two of Kistefos’ unique exhibition venues: Nybruket Gallery and the industrial-era Wood Pulp Mill.

Springbrett - Ring of Fire

This year’s exhibition is Ring of Fire curated by Liv Brissach. The exhibition takes the formal elements of the tectonic phenomenon The Pacific Ring of Fire as its starting point – the fire and the circle – to platform artistic investigations of fire and destruction, and their relationship to cyclicality today.

The exhibition includes work from Christen Sveaas Art Foundation by Olafur Eliasson, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Robin Rhode, as well as new commissions and loans by artists Nikhil Vettukattil, Elina Waage Mikalsen and Lesia Vasylchenko.

Springbrett in collaboration with Christen Sveaas Art Foundation supports young curatorial talent and is generously supported by Sparebankstiftelsen DNB.

Previous exhibitions have featured some of the most relevant artists of our time such as Marina Abramovic, Wilhelm Sasnal, Louise Bourgeois, Ai Weiwei, and Jeppe Hein.