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Olav Christopher Jenssen is a Norwegian Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1954. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Astrup Fearnley Museet have featured Olav Christopher Jenssen's work in the past.Olav Christopher Jenssen's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 9 USD to 38,948 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2005 the record price for this artist at auction is 38,948 USD for Ritual (Biographie), sold at Blomqvist in 2013. In the past 12 months, his artworks have averaged 1,087 USD.Olav Christopher Jenssen has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Kunstkritikk in February 2024.
Stockholm galleries and Danish 鈥檋ygge鈥 will set the tone at Market Art Fair. Fewer Norwegians present as the fair will open on Norway鈥檚 Constitution Day 17 May.
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..These are reminiscent of jade in colour, but contrary to gemstone tradition where a perfect surface hides an imperfect core, the exteriors of Jenssen's objects are precursory, almost unfinished...
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..There is a continuous shifting in the paintings between references to nature's organic and crystalline morphology and more open and non-referential abstractions...
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..Installation art arose through, among other things, the historical avant-garde's anti-aesthetic artistic vision early in the twentieth century...
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..The latter works, which are painted with acrylic, pastel, and graphite on Alu-Dibond plates primed with gesso, are all directly inspired by Jenssen's experiences and impressions in the Arctic...
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