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VI, VII

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VI, VII

An international gallery of contemporary art based in Oslo.

Represented Artists:

Mikael Brkic
Than Hussein Clark
Benjamin Crotty
Eliza Douglas
Eloise Hawser
Tobias Kaspar
Rob Kulisek
Lars Laumann
David Lieske
Kulisek / Lieske
Eva LeWitt
The Estate of Ervin Løffler
Landon Metz
Jorunn Hancke Øgstad
Jochen Schmith
Amy Yao
Mark van Yetter

16/04/2026

miart, Milan

Works by David Lieske and Bethan Lloyd Worthington
Presented by Corvi-Mora, London
Booth C06
April 17-19, 2026

Visit in Milan this week to see works by artists David Lieske and Bethan Lloyd Worthington. Booth C06.

Images courtesy of the artist and Corvi-Mora, London

26/03/2026

VI, VII is delighted to announce the representation of Trude Viken, an artist whose work is grounded in a lifelong commitment to painting. Born in the remote coastal village of Lødingen, Norway, in 1969, Viken’s work is an intimate exploration of interior “weather” and a decades-long inquiry into the unstable nature of identity.

Largely self-taught, Viken’s work gained attention in 2018 through American artist Richard Prince, an early advocate who introduced her to New York representation and an international audience. Rejecting formal resolution and visual polish, her work insists on imperfection and the unpredictable rhythms of memory and lived experience. Having experienced social and cultural hierarchies between Northern and Southern Norwegians, she uses painting to confront the trauma of enduring stereotypes. This context has informed a practice finely attuned to the ways bodies are read, classified, and socially positioned.

Across her artworks, the face remains a site of negotiation—between pride and shame, resilience and fracture, visibility and refusal. Viken’s figures do not perform coherence; they appear defiant, exhausted, desirous, or undone—fields of emotional negotiation rather than fixed identities. In a world shaped by frictionless images and algorithmic self-presentation, her work insists on material density and emotional candor as forms of opposition. The gesture counters the algorithm; the wound interrupts the spectacle.

Using figuration as a political tool, Viken channels a personal history of marginalization, bodily care, and psychic endurance into a meditation on how identities can be constructed and reclaimed within a hyper-mediated world.

Notable exhibitions include: Midnight Theater & Faces and Traces, Fortnight Institute; Hunters in the Snow, 303 Gallery; Person(a), Venus Over Manhattan—all in New York; Inside Out, Belenius, Stockholm; Night Eyes, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway; and INSIDE OUT, KaviarFactory, Henningsvær, Norway where her works are currently on view. In May, her work will be featured at the art fair Independent New York.

📷 Mimsy Møller

12/12/2025

Bjarne Melgaard
Untitled, 2025
Mixed media installation with mannequin, cardboard, assorted products, funerary candles, LED tealights and Oribe scented candles.
Dimensions variable

Thank you
📷: Jeton Kaçaniku

12/12/2025

Images from our event at Promenaden earlier this month. It’s not often that one gets to enjoy open flames and bales of hay in Oslo so centrally, this close to Karl Johan. Thank you to everyone who joined us to mark the unveiling of Bjarne Melgaard’s window project ‘The Pleasure Principal’ and the reactivation of his solo exhibition ’Midnight Ride (Oribe Paintings)’ through the introduction of a new installation.

Kudos to the team for putting together this event! (We loved , the men’s choir!)

📷: Jeton Kaçaniku

11/12/2025

Bjarne Melgaard
‘The Pleasure Principle’ On view at Promenaden / Steen & Strøm (corner of Prinsens gate & Nedre Slottsgate)
Through January 3, 2026

Steen & Strøm is the city of Oslo’s oldest department store and its much anticipated holiday window displays are a much anticipated annual tradition, exciting visitors young and old. This year, Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard was invited to create a display under the theme of “childhood dreams.”

For this, Melgaard revisits his own early dream of being in a band, re-envisioned here as a band called “The Pleasure Principal.” As a youngster the artist dreamed of loud guitars, flashing lights and a world where nothing followed the rules. His imagination was wild, messy and electric—filled with music, energy and the thrill of total freedom.

His window presentation captures the spirit of his dream through dark hues, gritty beauty and fearless sense of expression. Drawing from his memory of experiments at playtime, each figure is styled by the artist in hand-dyed and hand-painted fabrics, with hair cut, coloured and shaped in playful, untamed styles. Melgaard’s universe invites you to feel the volume, embrace the chaos and let your imagination play louder.

“The Pleasure Principal” Concept & Artwork: Bjarne Melgaard
Producer: Esperanza Rosales for VI, VII
Commissioner: Streen & Strøm Styling, Hair & Make-up: Bjarne Melgaard
Leather couture for band members: Ingrid Bredholt
Art Handling & Production Assistance: Kevin Birkeland and Per Antonsen Guttormsgaard
3D Printing & Kinetic Stage Fabrication: Alf Petter Mossevig / Brokkr

Thank you: Kaia Kongsli, David Wilkinson, Annette Lund, Lo**ta Suvcane, Dina Marlene Størdal, Margrethe Nyvang Tandberg.

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10/10/2025

Bjarne Melgaard
Midnight Ride (Oribe Paintings)
Nedre Slotts gate 8
On view by appointment through November 28th.

Known for crystalline experiments that engage the tensions between art as deeply personal and political expression, and art as luxury commodity — Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard’s work can be read as a simultaneous embrace-and critique-of capitalism and consumption delivered through complex, layered, and provocative aesthetics.

Throughout his multi-disciplinary practice, Melgaard has engaged in forward-thinking collaborations across beauty and fashion and his exhibitions are often total environments where beauty, art, and commodities conceptually intersect, collide, and coexist.  
For Midnight Ride (Oribe Paintings), Melgaard turns to an unexpected material to make his artworks: critically acclaimed luxury brand Oribe’s shampoo and conditioners.  
Praised by beauty experts for high-performance formulas promising salon-quality results Oribe’s brand ethos is to transform everyday haircare routines into luxurious rituals that emphasize beauty and indulgence, much as art can be said to do for many.

In a full room installation exploding with colour—and Oribe’s distinctive scent profile, Melgaard uses 22 liters of the company’s gel-like and purple pigmented “Bright Blonde Shampoo,” to create 50 new paintings, drawings and sculptural installations made with, and also dripping with beauty products.

In this setting, Melgaard’s works are free to playfully recast the dynamics between luxury and art, blurring the expected boundaries through irony and excess, as well as an aesthetic reframing of luxury codes through various gestures both critical and indulgent.

The exhibition is on view by appointment through November 28th.

Photos by

03/10/2025

Artforum’s Theo Belci on Bjarne Melgaard’s latest mixed-media sculpture in Vienna’s city-wide festival Curated By.

‘Untitled,’ 2025 by Bjarne Melgaard is a heaped pile of the artist’s beauty product and cosmetic trash mixed with medications — a piece Belci calls ‘a melancholic self-portrait’ and ‘notable’ ‘moment of harmony’ within the annual festival Curated By. Exhibited in a joint exhibition spread between City Galerie Wien and Layr, alongside three historic works from ‘Free from Content,’ (Melgaard’s 1997 solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum) — Belci writes that Bjarne Melgaard’s latest work ‘captures a profound sense of longing drawn from the remote mosaic of our pasts and the debris that we carry onward against our will.’

Read the entire article at Artforum.com.

View the work through October 18th.

‘Telepathy Curating presents: Teases and Synthesis; Empty Threats, Vienna Love and Anxiety Reality Paradoxes’
curated by Kristoffer Cezinando Karlsen and Josef Strau
City Galerie (Weihburggasse 21) and Layr (Singerstraße 27) Vienna, Austria
September 9 – October 18, 2025

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03/10/2025

For our 2025 exhibition with Eliza Douglas, Norwegian artist and designer Ingrid Bredholt was inspired to amplify the gritty rawness of a vacant commercial unit at Promenaden, Oslo’s luxury district. Using large sheets of black plastic, Bredholt, who has had her own fashion line (the now extant Mardou&Dean) and is the mind behind Oslo’s concept store, bar and exhibition space Sorgenfri, dressed the space from floor to ceiling in material designed to clear plantlife from large swaths of land. This architectural treatment and site-specific installation which spanned two floors, formed a backdrop for Eliza’s show. VI, VII has collaborated with Bredholt on our interiors since she handpicked the marble floor, for our Bjørvika location, rescuing and reworking white marble from building waste to create a gorgeous floor that channeled a light-filled room plan by .

Pictured:
Ingrid Bredholt
Chiaroscuro Sunblock, 2025
Plastic w**d barrier
Variable dimensions / 190sqm

Photos by .nicolai

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02/10/2025

Eliza Douglas
Nedre Slotts gate 8
0153 Oslo
28.03.2025-12.09.2025

The project space ‘Nedre Slottsgate 8’ is a two-floor unit formerly occupied by Balenciaga at Promenaden: a luxury shopping district in Oslo’s historic city centre.

Since March, VI, VII has curated an experimental program of activity at this location, repurposing the former store into a private showroom, and offering an intimate, behind the scenes view onto the typically concealed and now partially exposed underlying structure of the building it connects to: Steen & Strøm, Oslo’s oldest department store.

Behind this intentionally unmarked storefront lay a semi-secret exhibition of exceptional works by Eliza Douglas. The paintings were installed over a site-specific installation by Ingrid Bredholt, the Norwegian artist and designer behind the concept store, Sorgenfri. Inspired to enhance the raw and unpolished “luxury brand has left the building” aspects of the space, Bredholt dressed the architecture in large sheets of black plastic—a material normally used clear large areas of greenery and plant life.

Invisible from street view, the lower level of the space featured an intimate series of watercolour portraits by Douglas, a rare chance to see a medium lesser used by the artist.

Thank you to everyone who visited exhibition, and our wonderful and inspiring hosts, Promenaden & Steen & Strøm.

Thank you Annette Lund, David Wilkinson, Tine Slaatten, Kaia Kongsli and the entire team at Promenaden including Lo**ta Suvcane and Margrethe Nyvang Tandberg, Balenciaga, Don Aretino, Florence Bonnefous , Air de Paris, Louise Hessling, Victor Nicolai, Ethan Floro, Christian Tunge, Léo Pflimlin, our friends at Porsche, Olga Stausberg, Mina Krafft, Rebecca Wingquist and Maria Aasen of Patriksson Group.

Stay tuned for our next and final project at the space!

📷 by Christian Tunge

30/09/2025

‘My Trip’ (2019) by Bjarne Melgaard enters the collection of the Buffalo AKG Museum in New York. Congratulations Bjarne!

First presented at the Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin in collaboration with Acute Art and curator Daniel Birnbaum, the virtual reality / VR work “My Trip” takes the viewer on a journey to the farthest reaches of the dark web. Melgaard compares the experience to taking Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a naturally occurring drug, which is produced by a gland in the brain. DMT is considered the strongest hallucinogenic chemical substance and is found in almost every living organism on earth.

Featuring characters that have recurred in the artist’s practice for over 25 years, including ‘Lightbulb Man’ and ‘Octo,’ in addition to new mutants and personalities created in collaboration with Acute Art, ‘My Trip’ is a strikingly stimulating visualization of the illusions of a DMT experience. Beginning with the idea of su***de as an existential question, new psychedelia, and the loss of the self within a DMT trip, this work asks questions regarding life and how we choose to live it, exploring the abyss of the technological underground, the endless information consumed every day and the feeling of apathy and dullness that this technology consequently produces.

Thank you .birnbaum

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26/09/2025

Bjarne Melgaard in ‘Telepathy Curating presents: Teases and Synthesis; Empty Threats, Vienna Love and Anxiety Reality Paradoxes’
with Bogdan Ablozhnyy, Altroy, Mariia Andreeva, Ruth Angel Edwards, Ethan Assouline, Fabienne Audéoud, Perfect Blue, Merlin Carpenter, Juliet Carpenter, Nicolas Ceccaldi, Olivia Coeln, Courtesy, Keren Cytter, Albert Dietrich, Michaela Eichwald, Chloe Elgie, Elin, Marius Engh, Balearic Eric, Hélène Fauquet, Marie Yaël Fidesser, Zoë Field, Genoveva Filipovic, Stina Fors, Nik Geene, Evan Jose & Simon Glaser, Julia Haller, Hannah Hansel (Flower Crime), Katharina Hölzl, Christian Ingemann, Kristoffer Karlsen, Gretchen Lawrence, Paul Levack, Mel E. Logan, Mathieu Malouf, Chloée Maugile, Jonathan Meese, Birgit Megerle, Bjarne Melgaard, Tomás Nervi, Laurids Oder, Marysia Paruzel, Evelyn Plaschg, Philipp Quehenberger, Isak Ree, Public Reptile, SALARY, Anne Schmidt, Sydney Schrader, Nora Schultz, Calle Segelberg, Heji Shin, Nino Stelzl, Josef Strau, Superskin, Dominik Szereday, Eirik Sæther, Stefan Tcherepnin, Octavian Trauttmansdorff, Universal Studio, Bernadette Van-Huy, Wounder, Oren Yehoshua (DJ Yeriho), Morag Keil & Bedros Yeretzian, Nina Zeljkovic, Julia Znoj, Roger van Voorhees, Leonard van Vuuren
 curated by Kristoffer Cezinando Karlsen and Josef Strau across two venues:
City Galerie (Weihburggasse 21) and Layr (Singerstraße 27) Vienna, Austria
Part of the city-wide festival ‘Curated by’
September 9 – October 18, 2025

In this deftly curated exhibition, Melgaard presents three mixed media drawings from ‘Free From Content’ his 1997 Stedelijk Museum exhibition, alongside a new sculpture, constructed from assorted materials.

Pictured
Slide 1: Exhibition views including three mixed media drawings by Melgaard from 1997.
Slide 2-4: Bjarne Melgaard, Untitled, 2025, Mixed media, Dimensions variable (Full work and details)

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04/09/2025

Jorunn Hancke Øgstad’s work enters the prestigious collection of Moderna Museum - the sixth public-facing collection in Scandinavia to acquire the artist’s work. Congratulations Jorunn!

Jorunn Hancke Øgstad
Untitled, 2024
Textile dye, acrylic and resin on canvas
140 × 100 cm (55 ⅛ × 39 ⅜ inches)

Images courtesy of the artist and Moderna Museum, Stockholm
📷 Tobias Fischer

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Onsdag	11:00 - 17:00
Torsdag	11:00 - 17:00
Fredag	11:00 - 17:00
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