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Selected projects since 2006:

A House for Shadow and Light
Sverre Fehn's Villa Norrköping. Curatorial contribution to
'House of Norway', Museum Angewandte Kunst,
Frankfurt/Main, Germany, Oct. 2019 - Jan. 2020

Museum Forum der Völker
Conceptual redevelopment study and implementation.
Ethnological collection of the Franciscan Order, Werl, Germany
2017-19

Et sted å være / A place to be. Contemporary Norwegian Architecture 2011-16
Exhibition. National Museum - Architecture, Oslo
June - Nov. 2017

Det norske glasshuset / The Norwegian Glasshouse
Exhibition. National Museum - Architecture, Oslo
Jan - August 2017

Casa de Vidro. Lina Bo Bardi in dialogue with Sverre Fehn
Exhibition. National Museum - Architecture, Oslo
Jan - May 2017

Our Place / ExRotaprint Berlin
- Urban Activism as Artistic Practice
Exhibition. 0047, Oslo, May - August 2014

Høyblokka revisited - Ideas and Visions
Open call & exhibition. 0047, Oslo, March - May 2014

Artists interventions for new metro stations, Vienna
Permanent installation. KÖR & Wiener Linien, 2010-2013

Space Light Architecture /
2. Biennial for International Light Art
Concept. Ruhr / Dortmund, Germany, 2011-12

We are all Astronauts -
Universe Richard Buckminster Fuller
reflected in contemporary art
Exhibition. MARTa Herford, Germany, June - September 2011

Transatlantische Impulse - 15 Jahre Villa Aurora
Exhibition. Akademie der Künste Berlin
December 2010 – January 2011

Megastructure Reloaded
Exhibition. European Art Projects, Berlin
September – November 2008

German Pavilion at EXPO 2008 Zaragoza
Concept. Cooperation of European Art Projects
and enia architects, 2008

MODEM - Space for Contemporary Music and Arts
Cultural redevelopment study for a former power station in Berlin Mitte, Berlin, 2007 - 2008

Ideal City - Invisible Cities
Exhibition. European Art Projects, Zamość, Poland, June - August 2006 and Potsdam, Germany, September - October 2006

Museum Forum der Völker -
Völkerkundemuseum der Franziskaner

Conceptual redevelopment study 2017-18
Implementation phase #1 2018-19
Werl, Westphalia, Germany

The Museum Forum der Voelker was founded 1913 as a missionary museum of the Franciscan Order and moved in 1962 into new premises in Werl, North Rhine-Westphalia. Since, it developed from a colonial institution towards a modern ethnological museum.

The Franciscan Order is planning to vacate its convent in Werl and, as a result, also sign off the museum. However, the fraternity generously offered to donate the museum and its collection, if a public body would take over responsibility. The redevelopment study aims to provide both a concept and a strategy to safeguard the future of the museum under the umbrella of a new foundation based on public-private partnership.

At this point, corporations active in the region are gathering funds and setting up a foundation in cooperation with the city of Werl. Thus, the Museum Forum der Voelker is on verge to enter a new stage in its history, at once carefully restructuring the collection and open it up for new forms of dialogue, embracing as well contemporary art and architecture.

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