In the exhibitions PANSOCIALDEVELOPMENTCENTRAL & PARASOCIALAWAKENINGAPPARATUS, Haga Kristensen explores ideas around similarity, difference, and repetition through a series of doubled works. The artist has previously worked extensively with paired works and doubling as an artistic method, which takes on a new dimension at Kunstnernes Hus, with works created for the paralleled architecture. The exhibitions include a wide range of artistic expressions: paintings, etchings, textiles, photography, ceramics, utilitarian objects, mosaics, video, computer games, and musical theatre.

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Steinar Haga Kristensen (b. 1980, Oslo) often grounds his work in a traditional approach to painting and sculpture, which he then embeds within distorted environments or propositions that displace established perspectives in the viewer. His practice is characterized by a repetition and perversion of his own artistic activity and motifs, forming the basis for new expressions across media and themes. Haga Kristensen was educated at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna and the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, where his graduation project (MA) took the form of a retrospective exhibition and the launch of a complete Catalogue raisonné. In 2021, he received the prestigious Lorck Schive Art Prize for contemporary art.