The Merz artist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) is regarded today as one of the most influential and innovative artists in the field of experimental art during the twentieth century. From his roots in Dadaism, he was to make his mark on Surrealism and, later, on artists belonging to groups and movements such as Nouveau Rèalisme and Fluxus during the nineteen-sixties and seventies. Today, there is a renewed interest in his work, not least among young artists.

This video-program provides an international showcase for the work of some of the most exciting young artists working with film and video today. Several international institutions have collaborated on selecting one, leading video artist from each of their countries respectively.

Declare a state of emergency, open the gate wide or investigate the potential of upside-down strategies! The exhibition Going to Market plays on the different meanings of the word "market" and how the global cultural industry affects the art world to a whole other extent than before.

What is Norwegian documentary photography today? Rather than offer an unambiguous answer to this question, the exhibition “Norwegian documentary photography” presents a broad range of contemporary photographers and their independent projects. When viewed together, these allow new interpretations of established documentary genres, showing the role of documentary photography in today’s expanded visual culture.

The Henie Onstad Art Centre's collection currently consists of over 4000 works. The collection has developed out of what we call the core collection, which originally sprung from donations from Sonja Henie and Niels Onstad.

"HØVIKODDEN LIVE 2009: To be Heard is to be Seen" will be an investigation into the power of the voice as a performative element in music and as a visual component of pictorial art. The exhibition seeks to integrate music, performance and visual arts by means of a number of events of limited duration, such as audiocinema, concerts and performance art in the exhibition room, in addition to static works of art. In so doing, it aims to shed light on the function of the concept "live" in the art institution of today.

The Henie Onstad Art Centre’s collection, which has grown from the collection originally donated to the Art Centre by Sonja Henie and Niels Onstad, now comprises over 4000 works covering most of the 20th century and representing a diversity of artistic idioms and techniques. The works selected for this exhibition exemplify the trends inherent in the donators’ core collection.

This exhibition focuses on Groth as an artist, his contemporaries and his sources of inspiration; an exhibition that highlights the tendencies of the period spanning Groth's career and kindred spirits across boundaries of time and place.

"Movement" is a key concept when it comes to the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely (1925-1991). For the very first time in Norway, an exhibition devoted entirely to his works is being held at the Henie Onstad Art Centre. Early on in his career, Tinguely began experimenting with engines and electrical devices. This retrospective exhibition presents radio sculptures, apparatus you can cycle on, kinetic reliefs, machines that eject balls into the air and a number of "social events", involving self-destructing, mechanical sculptures that go up in smoke and fireworks.

A major, retrospective exhibition of Bleken's charcoal drawings. Works by Håkon Bleken were last shown at the Henie Onstad Art Centre 34 years ago in 1974, an exhibition that also featured his charcoal drawings. This time, works from the early 1960s up until 2009 are on display, and Bleken has created a series of new drawings especially for the occasion.