Cover photo by Nina Djærff

Magne is on the cover of the latest issue of Norwegian art magazine Kunst (#1/2025), with an 8-page interview inside.

The interview includes details about two upcoming solo exhibtions that will open in May:

In early May he will exhibit a series of 49 monoprints at The National Arts Club in New York. This will be a new, alternative version of the Esper Lucat series he presented a few years ago.

On 22 May he will open a large solo exhibition at the Fineart gallery in Oslo, which will focus on his production over the last two years, during which he’s transitioned from one period into another:

“So there will be two somewhat different tonalities to it. But I hope to present the exhibition in a uniform way, with an atmosphere in the room that people will remember.”

The exhibition will include monoprints from a new series called Before Memory, in addition to paintings, jars and ceramic sculptures. The Kunst interview includes a number of pictures of new monoprints and monotypes, with titles such as “Look how far we haven’t come”, “Everything magnefied”, “This is us without me” and “So much for the dry bones”.

Magne is also working on a new commission in collaboration with a biolab, where polypores will be grown to eventually form letters in a big atrium in Oslo.

“The wonderful thing about working with music, visual art and sculptures is that it inspires me. It’s what I want to return to all the time. Much of it is physically demanding. Huge formats and heavy clay. But I enjoy it”, Magne tells Kunst with a smile.

“It’s also been a privilege that the audience have embraced so much of what I have created. I am humbled by that. I probably would have been doing this anyway. But without the response from the audience it wouldn’t have been possible to do it on this kind of level and scope.”

Magne was also on the cover of Aftenposten’s Saturday magazine last weekend, with a 4-page interview inside, in connection with Ørjan Nilsson’s new book Livslinjer and the upcoming exhibitions.