Steinar Haga Kristensen (b. 1980, Oslo) works with a wide range of media and formats, including painting, sculpture, video, and performance. Kristensen often composes expansive and complex installations made up of a number of individual works, usually with a restricted set of themes. His practice is characterized by the repetitive reuse of his own artistic activity and motifs as a basis for new repetitions, across media and themes.

Kristensen’s artistic practice operates within an anarchistic expression that challenges traditional ideas of art, form, and meaning. A “self-excavating” approach encompasses his entire body of work. Kristensen both challenges traditional artistic methods and formats, and explores the multifaceted relationship between viewer and artwork.

Steinar Haga Kristensen received his education at the Oslo Academy of Art and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In 2021, Haga Kristensen was awarded the prestigious contemporary art prize, the Lorck Schive Art Prize. He has created site-specific works for Oslo City Hall, Atelier A, and the new Faculty of Law building at Tullinløkka in Oslo.

Haga Kristensen has exhibited at La Loge, Centre for Fine Arts - Bozar, and WIELS Contemporary Art Center in Brussels, Belgium; Witte de With in Rotterdam, Netherlands; Museum for Contemporary Art, KODE, in Bergen; Den Frie in Copenhagen, Denmark; and Trondheim Art Museum. He has had solo exhibitions at Centre for Contemporary Art FUTURA in Prague, Czech Republic; Passerelle in Brest, France; CAC (Centre for Contemporary Art) in Vilnius, Lithuania; Kunsthal Aarhus in Denmark; Établissement d'en face in Brussels; and at Kunsthall Oslo and UKS in Oslo.

The exhibition is supported by the Directorate for Culture, the Ingrid Lindbäck Langaard Foundation, the Visual Artists’ Remuneration Fund, the Irma Salo Jæger Institute, and the Bergen Center for Electronic Art.