Finn Adrian Jorkjen (b. 1990, Arendal) is a visual artist who works with performance, text, and video. He cuts, stages, remembers, moves, and composes different situations together. His is work is curious about our relationship with mass media, questions about identity, and is driven by big time ambivalent feelings. Jorkjen is a graduate of the Oslo Academy of the Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Trondheim, NTNU. He is also a member of the performance duo "Koppen & Jorkjen".
Finn Adrian Jorkjen (b. 1990 Arendal, Norway)
jafish@gmail.com - finnadrianjorkjen.no - @finn.jorkjen
Membership: NBK, UKS, PAO
Education
2018 - 2020 MFA, Oslo National Academy of Fine Art KHIO
2012 - 2015 BFA, Kunstakademiet i Trondheim NTNU
2010 - 2012 Einar Granum Kunstfagskole, painting deparment
2009 - 2010 Trøndertun Folkehøgskole, art
Planned
09.2022 TBA, Kunstnernes Hus
09.2022 DKS-LAB, Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Arendal
09.2022 Performance Art Stavanger, Tou Scene, Stavanger
12.2022 Koppen & Jorkjen, Helsinki
Solo/Duo Exhibitions
2022 Cuckoo 4ever, Koppen & Jorkjen, Kolbotn Garasje Galleri, Kolbotn
2021 Soft Awakening, Koppen & Jorkjen, Heimdal Kunstforening
2019 Koppen & Jorkjen: The Easter Special, Akademirommet/Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
2019 Soft Awakening, Koppen & Jorkjen, Galleri Kladden, Oslo
2014 #1, Koppen & Jorkjen, Galleri KIT, Trondheim
Performances
2022 Habitat 2022, Agder Kunstsenter, Kristiansand curator: Joachim Aagaard Friis
2022 Cuckoo 4ever, Koppen & Jorkjen, Kolbotn Garasje Galleri, Kolbotn
2021 Rosendal Teater, curated by Mellem___Rummet, Trondheim
2021 Sørlandsutstillingen 2021, Arendal Kunstforening & Kragerø Kunstforening
2021 Kunsthuset Kabuso, bit-teatergarasjen, Koppen & Jorkjen (with Henrik Koppen), Øystese
2021 Dressing Room (with Kaare Ruud & Camilla Edström Ödemark) Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
2021 Ravnedansfestivalen 2021, Kristiansand
2021 Soft Awakening, Koppen & Jorkjen for Facebook Live
2020 @dreams_n_memes curated by Ingeborg Wie Henriksen, performance for Instagram Live
2020 Performance Art Oslo x Collective Oslo, performance for public space, Oslo
2020 Hatch 2020, Agder Kunstsenter, Kristiansand
2020 The Suitors, Momentum Biennial 10, Moss
2020 Finissage with Finn, Breadbox Contemporary, Oslo
2018 Feminine Tripper Festival, with Henrik Koppen, Oslo
2017 PAB Open 2017, with Henrik Koppen, Bergen
2016 Hatch 2016, ARTendal, Arendal
2015 ++, Black Box Theater, Koppen & Jorkjen (with Henrik Koppen), Oslo
2015 Bachelorustilling 2015, Kulturbunker Dora, Trondheim
2015 In Search of the Miraculous, punktet, with Joakim Holm Toreg, Trondheim
2014 Open Academy, Galleri KIT, Trondheim
2014 Art, Anarchy and Apostasy, Trondheim Kunstmuseum Gråmølna, Trondheim
2014 #1, with Henrik Koppen, Galleri KIT, Trondheim
2013 I Invite You Into My Room, curated by Anne Cecilie Lie, Galleri KIT, Trondheim
2013 Live Arts Night, Galleri KIT, Trondheim
2013 Blunkfestival, Galleri Blunk, Trondheim
2012 Whatever the Windmill Tells You (to Do), Galleri Vekta, Osl
Group exhibitions
2021 Sørlandsutstillingen 2021, Arendal Kunstforening & Kragerø Kunstforening
2020 Hatch 2020, Agder Kunstsenter, Kristiansand
2020 Avgangsutstillingen 2020, Kunstnernes hus, Oslo
2019 Close to Cancelation, Galleri Seilduken, Oslo
2018 Why We Can’t Have Nice Things :(, Galleri Seilduken, Oslo
2017 Hatch 10 år, Ekserserhuset, Kristiansand
2017 Radio Space, with Henrik Koppen, Borealis Festival, Bergen
2016 Hatch 2016, ARTendal, Arendal
2016 HYDRA, Ekserserhuset, with Iben Krogsgaard, Joakim Toreg, Sindre Hustveit, Kristiansand
2015 Bachelorustilling 2015, Kulturbunker Dora, Trondheim
2014 To Travel to the Center of Space, facilitated by Prinz-Gholam, Galleri KIT, Trondheim
2013 POP UP ARKIV #1” with Mari Sanden, Joakim Toreg, Sara Guldmyr, Galleri KIT, Trondheim
2013 KUNO 20 Lost in Space, curated by Gregor Taul, Konstfack, Stockholm
Screening
2015 ♀ DON'T THEY KNOW...? ♀, Landmark, with Henrik Koppen, Bergen
2015 If On a Winter’s Night a Room, curated by Apichaya Wanthiang, A-Works, Bergen
Other
2022 Performer for Kiyoshi Yamamoto, LNM, Oslo
2022 Performer for Regine Stensæth Josefsen, Nasjonalmuseet
2022 Performer for Hanan Benammar, “Antiphony”, Nasjonalmuseet
2022 Performer for Damla Kilickiran, “Twine an image that is yet to be”, Bergen Kunsthall
2022 Voice actor for Anna Sofie Mathiasen, “Pigen på anatomikammeret”
2022 Performer for Zhana Ivanova, Astrup Fearnley Museum
2021 Performer for Gideonsson/Londre, PAO Festival 2021
2021 Technician for Andreas Siqueland, Kristiansand Kunsthall
2019 Performer for Carole Douillard, osloBIENNALEN FIRST EDITION “The Viewers”
2018 Performer for Vilde Løwenborg Blom, PAO Festival 2018
2017 Performer for CONVOI EXCEPTIONNEL: Den 4. Morgen, Bora Bora, Denmark
2014-2015Linjoreningen, experimental spatial drawing club
2014-2015 Dancer in Danselabratoriet, dance company
2013 Performer for Antoine Davenne, BABEL, Trondhem: “That Said”
2012-2014 Co-running Galleri Blunk
Grants
2022 Prosjektstøtte, Kulturrådet
2022 1 årig arbeidsstipend, BKV
2022 Etableringsstipend, Oslo Kommune
2020 Fondet for Kunst- og Designstudenter
2020 Diversestipend for nyutdannede kunstnere, Kulturrådet
2010 Drømmestipendet Norsk kulturskoleråd & Norsk Tipping