“Kaare Ruud’s sculptures bring to mind Scandinavian log cabins, though in his works pencils are used to form walls, and each meticulously stacked pencil bears the marks of the nervous habit of being chewed. Pushing boundaries through materials, Ruud’s uncanny habitats, with walls of chewed “logs” and corners of sharp graphite, appear abandoned in an oddly familiar way. …With a profound sensitivity to materiality, the works of La Tour du Pin and Ruud, intricately supported by everyday objects, evoke both strangeness and familiarity, inviting contemplation on the interplay between exteriority and interiority, memory and decay, the present and the past..”...
Liste Art Basel, Basel (CH)
Docu.: Thomas Lannes & ...







SOLO & DUO SHOWS
2027
Upcoming – Vigelandsmuseet, Oslo (NO)
Upcoming – Hulias Cantina, Civita d’Antino (IT)
2026
good resident – w/ Kier Cooke Sandvik – Galleri 69, Oslo (NO)
2025
Paris Internationale – Fair – Femtensesse, Paris (FR)
Business doing pleasure with you – Femtensesse, Oslo (NO)
weather forever – Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen (NO)
2024
Ørnulf Bast: Where are my dreams stored? – Hulias, Oslo (NO)
Liste Art Basel – /w Clemence de la tour de Pin – Fair – Femtensesse, Paris (FR)
2023
This page is blank on purpose – Stormen Kunst/Dájdda, Bodø (NO)
Funding emotions – w/ Magnus Fredrik Claussen – CANTINA, Aarhus (DK)
hvit kirke grav kaffe duk – Samlingen, Nesodden (NO)
Marbles – w/ Julie Falk – Public Support, Vestfossen (NO)
2022
(@) – Galleri Nef, Stockholm (SE)
Retningen høner sparker – Heerz Tooya, Veliko Tarnovo (BG)
Simpathy: LANDLYST– SOL, Nexø (DK)
Out of love – Hulias, Oslo (NO)
2021
days weeks years (ode till den apatiska) – Galleri Toll, Stockholm (SE)
Album/Volum – Norsk Billedhoggerforening, Oslo (NO)
Dressing room – w/ Camilla Edström Ödemark – Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (NO)
2020
Feeding the unicorn – Breadbox contemporary, Oslo (NO)
Feistmuggjen – Norsk Billedhoggerforening, Oslo (NO)
2019
Summoning: Bird. Improvised Scandinavian noir bedtime story – Løvens hule, Oslo (NO)
2018
Excavating a living room – Low standards, Oslo (NO)
2017
A body without organs – Galleri Fisk, Bergen (NO)












GROUP SHOWS
2026
Upcoming – Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (NO)
Upcoming – Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (NO)
Upcoming – Ikke vær redd. En utstilling om døden – Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo (NO)
Iter subterraneum – Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (NO)
2025
Minnenes palass – Trolldays & Trollnights, Oslo (NO)
Now that we know each other – Snails, Oslo (NO)
Shelved – Suvatne & Erakovic, Basel (CH)
Nordic noir – SIC, Helsinki (FI)
2024
Hello world – Possibly sometime tomorrow, Paris (FR)
fluene får øye på oss i det høye gresset – Femtensesse, Oslo (NO)
pleasure pavillion – New garden galerie, Paris (FR)
Porte Condamnée – Cité internationale des artes, Paris (FR)
2023
Dizzy spell – MELK, Oslo (NO)
Et sted mellom fjellene og himmelen – Hulias Cantina, Civita d’Antino (IT)
The language of flowers – Hermetiske Skygger, Oslo (NO)
2022
Tales we tell – QB Gallery, Oslo (NO)
2021
Paper planes – STANDARD, Oslo (NO)
Constant growth – QB Gallery, Oslo (NO)
NECTAR – Inter.pblc, Copenhagen (DK)
2020
Subsisting – Hulias, Oslo (NO)
Den siste festen – QB Gallery, Oslo (NO)
Avgangsutstillingen – Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (NO)
Vestlandsutstillingen – Travelling group show (NO)
2019
Close to cancellation – Seilduken, Oslo (NO)
BEHEMOTH – akademirommet, Oslo (NO)
2018
Master splash – Seilduken, Oslo (NO)
Got it for cheap – Galleri Golsa, Oslo (NO)
2017
After school special – Bergen kunsthall/Landmark, Bergen (NO)
Høstutstillingen – Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (NO)








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