2024
May 2 - June 16
We are presenting a solo exhibition at
Skiens Kunstforening in Skien, Norway, co-produced by
Sølvåren Ibsen formidlingssenter.
January 26
We are presenting a public lecture at
Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, Norway, as part of the
Agenda Seminar, a collaboration between Kunstnernes Hus and the
Oslo Academy of the Arts (KHiO).
23/24
November 10 - February 18
We have work in the exhibition Postkartenkilometer: Artist Postcards in Europe from 1960 to today at Kupferstich-Kabinett in Dresden, Germany.
2023
October 7 - December 30
A selection of our artists’ books is included in the library component of "Carried by hand, surrounding body" at Kunsthuset Kabuso in Øystese, Norway.
July 3 - 7
We are artists-in-residence at Centre Sagamie in Alma, Quebec, Canada.
April 24 - 28
We are guest artists in the Fine Art Department at the Icelandic University of the Arts in Reykjavik, Iceland.
April 14 - 16
We are exhibitors at the Bergen Art Book Fair, Norway.
2022
October 20 - 30
We have a work in the exhibition WOODOOOW at Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts in Poznań, Poland.
September 3 - October 30
We have created a workl for the front window of Entrée, Bergen that unfolds in four parts alongside the gallery's fall exhibition program.
August 4 - 28
We are presenting a solo exhibition at Bærum kunsthall in Fornebu, Norway.
2021
November 18 - December 12
We have a work in the exhibition Risografi i Norge at Grafill in Oslo.
June 25 - December 31
We have created two MOLAF shelving units for the exhibition Art and Life on Paper at Jugendstilsenteret (The National Centre for Art Nouveau) in Ålesund, Norway. Our latest MOLAF publication is also on view.
June 25
We are presenting an artist talk at Jugendstilsenteret in Ålesund at 12.00.
June 5 - August 20
The 22nd iteration of our ongoing project The Museum of Longing and Failure (MOLAF) is on view at Pamflett in Bergen, Norway, featuring new works by Åsil Bøthun, Marit Følstad, Micah Lexier, and Juan Ortiz-Apuy.
May 3 - 26
We are artists-in-residence at Pamflett in Bergen, Norway, producing a new publication as part of our ongoing project The Museum of Longing and Failure.
Co-published by MOLAF and Pamflett, the book will be launched at Kunstbokmessen B*stard in Lillehammer and at BABF in Bergen.
February 26 - April 11
We are presenting a solo exhibition of forty-five new Lewis & Taggart sculptures at Gyldenpris Kunsthall in Bergen, Norway. Each day throughout the exhibition, we will post one work from the series at @gyldenpris_kunsthall.
2020
October 10 - December 12
We have a work in Unfolding Questions, Codes, and Contours at Tromsø Kunstforening in Tromsø, Norway. The exhibition is curated by Randi Grov Berger.
March 1 -
Claridge, Montreal has acquired a new, site-specific installment of The Museum of Longing and Failure for permanent display within their collection.
February 28 - March 28
We have a new work in Bring your own Chair: A show of artist-made tables at Family Exhibiitons in Montreal, Canada. The exhibition is curated by Nick Howe.
February 1 - March 23
We are artists-in-residence in the Banff Centre Leighton Studios in Alberta, Canada as recipients of a CALQ Artists and Writers Award.
2019
November 22
We are guest speakers within the public programme of the Printing Plant Art Book Fair in Amsterdam, NL, in a seminar organized by Nina Holland of Little Steidl.
August - October
We are guest teachers at KMD in Bergen, Norway.
October 2
We are presenting a book launch and reading of our new publication at Hordaland Kunstsenter in Bergen, Norway on Wed. Oct. 2 at 19.00.
September 20 – 22
We are participating in Friends with Books: Art Book Fair Berlin at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, Germany.
September 9
Our new publication, A small and not ostentatious chamber with whose decorations no fault can be found is now available. The latest in a series of artist books created within the framework of our ongoing project The Museum of Longing and Failure, this new edition is co-published by The Rooms, NL.
June
Our ongoing project The Museum of Longing and Failure is profiled in the summer issue of Visual Arts News, Halifax.
May 27 – 29
We are visiting artists at the Grenfell Campus Master of Fine Arts program at Memorial University in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada.
May 9
We are presenting a reading from the MOLAF's forthcoming publication, "A small and not ostentatious chamber with whose decorations no fault can be found," on
Thursday, May 9 at 17:30 at The Darling Foundry in Montreal, Canada.
April 17 – 27
We have a work in Maison Modèle; a benefit exhibition for Centre Clark in Montreal, Canada.
February 28 – May 12
We are pleased to present Installment No. 21 of The Museum of Longing and Failure at The Darling Foundry in Montreal, Canada.
February 10
We are presenting an artist talk at The Rooms in St. John's, NL, Canada.
February 9 – April 28
We are pleased to present the exhibition "MOLAF XX," the twentieth iteration of The Museum of Longing and Failure, at The Rooms in St. John's, NL, Canada. Featuring new works by Ane Graff, Terence Koh, Marius Moldvær, Kama Sokolnicka, and Lasse Årikstad.
2018
December
Review of our exhibition Sculpture from the Block in CIRCULAIRE 132 (Issue No. 211, p.1)
November 3
Jérôme Delgado has published a review of our exhibition Sculpture from the Block in Le Devoir.
October 27
We are presenting an artist talk at Centre Clark in Montreal, Canada.
October 25 – December 1
Sculpture from the Block: Solo exhibition
at Centre
Clark in Montreal, Canada. Exhibition text by Mark Mann.
Spring / Summer
Three new MOLAF lamps are on view in the bookshop of Hordaland Kunstsenter in Bergen, Norway.
May 12 – July 1
For Orienteering, a group exhibition of public artworks in Bergen, Norway produced by Entrée, Tag Team and Palmera galleries, we have created three audio soundscapes to accompany the walks between the galleries, composed using in-situ recordings and samples from 7-inch vinyl records collected en route.
April 7 – 29
We are pleased to present the nineteenth installment of The Museum of Longing and Failure across two venues in Bergen, Norway:
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Visningsrommet USF:
April 7th – 15th
Featuring new works by Salwa Aleryani, Sif Ankergård, Roula Partheniou, Jasmine Reimer, and Ilija Wyller.
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Hordaland Kunstsenter:
April 13th – 29th
Featuring three new lamps produced in response to sculptures in the MOLAF's permanent collection.
April 25
Three of our books are featured in Artexte on Tap 4: Self-Publishing, a discussion on artist books at Artexte, Montreal, on Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at 5:30 pm.
April 9
We are presenting a talk on The Museum of Longing and Failure at The Bergen Academy of Art and Design on Monday, April 9th at 7pm.
2017
October 11
Two of our drawings have been acquired by Koro, Norway for permanent installation in the Faculty of Arts, Music and Design at the University of Bergen.
June 15 – 18
We are participating in the Toronto Art Book Fair with The Museum of Longing and Failure.
June 2016 – July 2017
Over the course of a one-year period, we are presenting a series of new works entitled Compositions for three and more triangles within the triangular glass cabinet at the main entrance of Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo.
April 22
We have a work in Centre A's 18th Anniversary Gala & Art Auction in Vancouver, Canada.
February 9 – 19
We have been invited by the Norwegian collective Gruppe 11 to contribute to the formation of Then one thing led to another, a group exhibition at Nordic Anthology,
a new project space at Fotogalleriet, Oslo.
2016
December
We are among the contributing artists/writers to The Imaginary Reader, a new publication by Volt, Bergen.
December 12
MOLAF Incarnations, our latest publication, is featured in Vice's What to Buy at Berlin's Friendliest Art Book Fair.
December 9 – 11
We are pleased to present the eighteenth installment of The Museum of Longing and Failure, with new works by Geoffrey Booras (US), Jan Freuchen (NO), Bjørn-Henrik Lybeck (NO), And Juuso Noronkoski (FI). Installment No. 18 takes place at the 2016 Friends with Books art book fair at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. As part of the event, we are launching the MOLAF's second published work, MOLAF Incarnations, and presenting an installation entitled MOLAF Approximations No. 1-50.
December 3
We are guest speakers at Backroom Discussion: The Flexible Artwork, a one-day seminar at TENT, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
November 30
We are presenting a reading-performance as part of Perpetual Invention: Searching For Institutional Practice at Hordaland Kunstsenter in Bergen, Norway.
October 30
Lewis & Taggart: The Essence of Form: Article by Eva Kaczor in ARTberlin.
October 6 – 30
We are pleased to present the seventeenth installment of The Museum of Longing and Failure, with new works by: Vanessa Brown (CA), Ingrid Furre and Olof Nimar (NO/SE), Johanne Hestvold & Gaute Tenold Aase (NO), and Jade Yumang (CA). Installment No. 17 is held at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Summer
On the Museum of Longing and Failure: Interview by Matea Kulić, published in the summer online edition of The Capilano Review, Vancouver.
Summer
Lewis & Taggart - Collective Forms: Interview by Monica Holmen in KUNSTforum, Oslo.
June 28 – 29
The Institute for Endotic Research: Formation Centre, Berlin hosts The Museum of Longing and Failure for two evenings of words, images, sounds, and conversation.
March
We are one of the 25 artists/collectives contributing to Issue No. 7 of Vector Artists Journal, New York City.
February
Lewis & Taggart: Austerity and Absurdity: Interview by Jade Yumang in ArtFile Magazine, New York City.
February
Our work "Terminal Object No. 44" (2013) is now in the permanent collection of the Davis Lisboa Mini-Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, Spain.
2015
November 15. 2015 – November 15. 2016
We are the 2015/16 grantees of the Canada Council International Artist Residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Germany.
October 16 – 18
We are pleased to present the sixteenth installment of The Museum of Longing and Failure, with new works by Nadia Belerique (CA), Jacob Gleeson (CA), Josefine Lyche (NO), and Dillan Marsh (UK/NO). Installment No. 16 takes place at the 4th Annual Vancouver Art/Book Fair, in conjunction with the launch of the MOLAF's first published work, MOLAF Variations.
August 13 – September 13
A line in spite of itself: Solo exhibition at Tegnerforbundet (The Drawing Centre), Oslo, Norway.
July 3 – 26
We are pleased to present the fifteenth installment of The Museum of Longing and Failure, with new works by Niki Boghossian (CA), Erik Larsson (SE), Luke Parnell (CA), and Sverre Strandberg (NO). Installment No. 15 is held at the MOLAF Archive at USF Verftet: No. 143 (on the quay) in Bergen, Norway.
June 11 – July 12
which is a way of saying: a word was removed: Group exhibition at Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway
May 9 – June 28
Wish you were here?: Group exhibition at MAC Birmingham, UK.
May 15 – June 28
The Museum of Longing and Failure launches a new installment and archive at USF Verftet: No. 143 (on the quay) in Bergen, Norway. Installment No. 14 features new works by Grayson Cox (US), Cato Løland (NO), Mercedes Mühleisen (NO), and Erica Stocking & Christian Kliegel (CA).
April 24 – May 24
Black Holes and other painted objects: Solo exhibition at Entrée, Bergen, Norway.
May 24
Music for Black Holes: Performance at Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway.
May 20
Highlights from NADA Art Fair 2015: Purple Diary, New York City.
May 14 – 17
Entrée presents works by Bjørn Mortensen, Lewis & Taggart, Steinar Haga Kristensen, Vilde Salhus Røed, Heidi Bjørgan, Azar Alsharif, and Linda Sormin at the New York NADA Art Fair.
March 12 – April 25
Paperwork: Solo exhibition at Syntax, Lisbon, Portugal.
2014
October 4 – 26
For its thirteenth installment, The Museum of Longing and Failure presents a collection of postcard editions in the group exhibition Failure in Amfissa, Greece, at the site of the old Hospital Amfissa.
September 25 – 28
A selection of our books are featured by the Hordaland Art Centre Bookshop at The New York Art Book Fair.
September 11 – 28
A Nice Pair: Solo exhibition at Entrée's satellite space at ISCP, New York City.
September 11 – 14
A selection of our books are included in the Art Book Weekend at Demon's Mouth, Oslo, Norway.
July 6 – August 15
We are participating in The Universe and Other Systems with Shary Boyle; a thematic residency program at The Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada.
June 6 – 22
We are pleased to present the twelfth installment of The Museum of Longing and Failure, with new works by aiPotu (NO), Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens (CA), Bjørn Mortensen (NO), Camilla Skibrek (NO), and Ron Tran & Sylvain Sailly (CA). Installment No. 12 takes place at RAKE Visningsrom in Trondheim, Norway.
May 9
White horses black birds: Solo exhibition at Grünerløkka Kunsthall, Oslo, Norway.
February 7 – March 9
Cold Current: Group exhibition at Spazio Gerra, Circolo degli Artisti, Flag no Flags, and Officina delle Arti, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
2013
December 12 – 16
Pulp Variations: Solo exhibition at Kunstverein Leipzig, Germany.
December
Three of our works are featured in The Sculptural Photography by the Plantation Journal, London.
November 30 – December 22
Set-ups: Group exhibition at Platform Stockholm, Sweden.
November 21 – 24
We are guest artists at On collectivity and collaboration in art, a symposium produced by Volt, Bergen.
November 20 – December 20
A Movement of Pigs and Bricks: Temporary public work at the University of Bergen Library of Humanities, produced by Volt, Bergen.
November 1 – 24
Flag NYC: Group exhibition in the Performa Biennial, New York City. Catalogue here.
October 11 – 20
Five on the double: Solo exhibition at Small Projects, Tromsø, Norway.
September 19 – November 14
We are pleased to present the eleventh installment of The Museum of Longing and Failure, with new works by Steven Brekelmans (CA), Hannah Heilmann (DK), Antje Majewski & Olivier Guesselé Garai (DE/FR), and Arianne Olthaar (NL). Installment No. 11 is held at Kolonnadenstr. 20 in Leipzig, Germany.
September 1 – December 31
We are artists-in-residence at Künstlerresidenz BLUMEN in Leipzig, Germany.
August 16 – 18
Refresh yourself; the worst is yet to come: Solo exhibition at NoPlace, Oslo, Norway.
May 3 – 11
Terminus: Off-site installation and book launch at Hotel Grand Terminus in Bergen, Norway. Produced by Tag Team Studio Gallery.
March 15 – April 15
Grand Show: The Museum of Longing and Failure is featured in an installation by Ginancarlo Norese at Microgallery in Tirana, Albania.
2012
December 2012
We have a work in "An Epitaph for the World we are Leaving Behind," a publication by Percival Space, Oslo.
December 17 – 21
We have been invited to select an arrangement of drawings for the exhibition RICHARD TUTTLE - SLIDE, an exhibition at KODE, Bergen, Norway, produced by Bergen Kunsthall.
November 16 – December 27
For its tenth installment, The Museum of Longing and Failure takes up temporary residence at Cricoteka, Kraków, Poland, in the former atelier of Tadeusz Kantor, with works by Shayne Ehman (CA), Pedro Gomez-Egana (CO/NO), Brandon Labelle (US/DE), Karen Nikgol (NO), Wojtek Szaszor & Joanna Klass (PL).
November 16
We are guest speakers at The Museum as Artistic Practice, a seminar at The National Museum in Kraków, Poland.
October 14
Museum of the Golden Nail: Book launch at L/R, Suldal, Norway.
October 11 – 13
We are guest speakers at Re-place, a seminar at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Norway.
September 14 – 28
For its ninth installment, The Museum of Longing and Failure relocates to the Bank of British North America in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada, and features new works by Ian Campbell (CA), Michael Doerksen (CA), Caroline and Annette Kierulf (NO), and Corrina Thornton (UK/NO).
September 5 – October 2
We are guest artists at the The Klondike Institute of Art and Culture in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada.
September
Lewis & Taggart: Interview by Måg Magazine, Oslo.
August 26
The Unfinished Reconstruction of Ujazdowski Castle: Book launch at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland.
May 27 – August 26
The Unfinished Reconstruction of Ujazdowski Castle: Solo exhibition in the Castle Museum of the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Poland.
March 23 – April 29
Flagg: Group exhibition in public space in Bergen, Norway. Produced by Entrée.
April
Lewis & Taggart: Micro-Museum Potential: Interview by Paulina Jeziorek in Notes # 75 published by the Bec Zmiana Foundation, Warsaw, Poland. Interview (in Polish) here. English translation here.
March 15 - June 15
We are guest artists in the A-I-R Laboratory program at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Poland.
March 9
The Museum of Longing and Failure makes a one-night appearance in the Manhattan penthouse of the Norwegian Consul General for an event held in conjunction with The Armory Show.
February 26 - March 9
We are pleased to present the eighth installment of The Museum of Longing and Failure, with new works by Katie Bethune-Leamen (CA), The Icelandic Love Corporation (IS), Kurt Johannessen (NO), and The Ministry Of Transport And Communications (NO). Installment No. 8 appears at 107 East 2nd Street, New York City; the site of Claes Oldenburg's 1961 installation "The Store."