2009–2012
Norwegian Wood was one of the main Stavanger2008 projects. Stavanger is one of Europe’s largest wooden house cities, and Norwegian Wood was to further develop this tradition by building 14 innovative projects in forward-looking and environmentally friendly wood architecture.
The exhibition Norwegian Wood – a laboratory sought to explain and answer why and how to build environmentally friendly and innovative in wood, as well as to reflect Norwegian Wood’s character as experiment and laboratory.
After being put on show in the Stavanger Art Association in November– December 2008 , the exhibition went on tour to various museums and galleries throughout Norway between 2007–2010.
The exhibition showed the process behind the projects through film, posters, photos, drawings, samples, models, sound and smell. In addition, the audience could delve into the background material and obtain information on environmentally friendly wood architecture.
Using roofs, floors and walls, the exhibition was designed as an abstract forest landscape; a laboratory divided into four levels – both visually and in terms of content. It consisted of a flexible system that served both as exhibition modules and transport crates.
The exhibition was produced by:
NAL I ECOBOX, Norwegian Wood, the
municipality of Stavanger in cooperation with the National Museum, Norway.
Curator: Anne Marit Lunde
Project Manager, Norwegian Wood, touring exhibition: Helga Gravermoen
Exhibition Designer: happyspace
Tour:
The National Museum – Architecture: 27 February–19 April
Trondhjems kunstforening: 3 September–13 October 2009
Kunsthuset Kabuso, Øystese, Hardanger: 20 February–9 April 2010
Bymuseet i Bergen, Bryggens Museum: 17 April–12 June 2010
Fredriksvern Verft, Stavern: 26 June–19 September 2010
Kristiansand Kunsthall: 22 January– 6 March 2011
Risør Kunstpark: March–April 2011
Kunstmuseet Kube, Ålesund: 14 May–28 August 2011
Galleri Bodøgård, Bodø and Helgeland Museum: September–November 2011
Lørenskog Hus: January/February 2012
On the occasion of the project Norwegian Wood and the exhibition, the magazine Arkitektur N 07/2008 published a catalogue in both Norwegian and English.
Selected reviews:
https://www.smp.no/kultur/article338703.ece?service=mobile
https://www.austagderblad.no/kultur/arkitektutstilling-til-risor/s/1-39-5521500