c u r r i c u l u m v i t a e
Tone Myskja (b. 1961) – lives and works in Oslo and in Fall, Søndre Land municipality
Per Kvibergs gate 24 b – 0478 Oslo – mob: +47-97125538
tone.my@online.no – https://www.tonemyskja.com – https://www.madstun.com
EDUCATION:
1985-87 Oslo National Academy of the Arts – Costume design
1989-91 Oslo National Academy of the Arts – Sculpture
EXTERNAL STUDIES:
1988-89 Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten – Antwerpen, Belgia – sculpture
1991-93 The Slade School of Fine Art – London, UK – mixed media
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS:
2027 Duo exhibition with Esther Maria Bjørneboe in Moss Kunstforening
2027 Pure colours! Concrete-constructive art in Norway since 1970. Lillehammer Art Museum
2028 Pure colours! Concrete-constructive art in Norway since 1970. Museum für konkrette Kunst in Ingoldstadt/Germany
SOLO/ DUO EXHIBITIONS:
2025 - Biter som Faller /Dwell - Sandefjord Kunstforening
2024 - Havet Innafor/Biter som Faller - video/sound installations - Hå Gamle Prestegard
2022 - Havet Innafor - Solo exhibition Kunstnerforbundet, Overlyssalen - sound design Jon Balke
2021 - VIA - Video-sound installation, MRK art center, sound design Jon Balke Festival artist Molde International Jazz Festival
2019 - Biter som faller - Solo exhibition Østfold Kunstnersenter.
2019 - VIA - Video-sound installation, Lillehammer Art Museum. In connection with the exhibition Have we met before? – The collection through 200 years.
2018 - Dwell, video installation, Oppland Art Center. Sound design Jon Balke
2015 - The Still Point of the Turning World, Kunstbanken Hedmark.
2014 - The Still Point of the Turning World, Trafo Kunsthall, Asker
2008 - The Well that Whispers at Night - new production, Henie Onstad Art Center, Høvikodden. Video installation in collaboration with Mobile Homes, Zoe Christiansen/Sven Erga.
2007 - The Well that Whispers at Night - video installation in collaboration with Mobile Homes, Zoe Christiansen/Sven Erga. Aarhus, Denmark
2006 - Stages and storeys – video installation, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Sound design, Jon Balke
2006 - The Red Shoes - video installation in collaboration with Mobile Homes, Zoe Christiansen/Sven Erga. Children's Art Museum in Odense. H.C Andersen anniversary
2004 - Sammenfall – Gallery Sverdrup UIO, video installation inspired by Jon Fosse´s writing, in connection with the Jon Fosse seminar at UiO, Sound design Jon Balke
2003 - Ascending – descending – Gallery MGM, Oslo, Sound Jon Balke
2002 - Night Gallery – Outdoor video projection, Agder Kunstnersenter/Sørlandets Kunstmuseum
2002 - Kokong – The Artists' Center in Oppland
2000 - Oase – Blendverk – Akershus Kunstnersenter, Video stills and video, Sound Jon Balke
1998 - DAL-DALE – Leeds City Art Gallery, digital photographs, Sound Jon Balke
1997 - NING – Video project, Rogaland Kunstnersenter, Stavanger
1997 - NING - AJAR – F-15, Jeløya, Moss
1996 - NING – Trøndelag Kunstnersenter, , video installation and drawings
1996 - White Out – Galleri RAM, video installation, sound Jon Balke
1995 - Sjikt – Galleri Riis, video installation
1994 - Still Point – Herslebsgate 10, video installation
1994 - There are no fixed points in space - UKS, video installation
1994 - Still Point and There are no fixed points in space – 152(c) Brick Lane, London U.K.
PROJECTS AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2026 - Different Trains - Video til konsert, Præstø Kammermusikkfestival
2026 - Open Video XVIII, Contemporary Art Center/CCA, Warszawa, Polen
2025 - Promotion of Norwegian arts and culture in Türkiye and Azerbaijan 2025 UNITE ArtSpace, Ankara, Turkey. Collaboration with the Video Art Archive.
2025 - Open video XVII, Brynseng Kunsthall, Oslo and Spitsbergen Artists Center, Longyearbyen
2025 - Stier oss imellom, Kunstsalen Hovedøya Oslo
2024 - EIBAMY - Live video for concert, Bjarte Eike / Jon Balke / Tone Myskja, Riksscenen, Oslo
2023 - Christmas exhibition Kunstnerforbundet
2023 - Bedrock - responsible for sculptural costumes for stage art, premiere May 13 - Rosendal Teater, Trondheim
2023 - Querini Opera Arsenale Venice October 2023 - Costume design
2023 - Open Video XVII with film program and artwork at Kunstrum Fyn, Denmark
2022 - Christmas exhibition in Kunstnerforbundet and Oppland Kunstsenter
2022 - Open Video XIII, Group exhibition, Store Gilhus Gård, Lier
2022 - I become what is collected - group exhibition - FUGE, Gjøvik October 2022
2022 - Farvann - Video for the performance Farvann - Queendom - Vega Scene 5 - 8 March
2021 - Live video for concert, Double Bass Orchestra - Ellen Andrea Wang, Victoria Jazzscene
2021 - Live video for concert, Bjarte Eike /Jon Balke, Friscena, Gjøvik Kulturhus
2021 - Live video for opening concert, Double Bass Orchestra EAWang, Bjørnsonhuset, Molde
2021 - Live video for closing concert, Molde Cathedral, EAWang, Hanna Paulsberg with choir
2021 - Supernova - Video for Raa-produksjoner's theatre performance in Planetariet, Trondheim.
2020 - Live video for concert, Oslo Jazzfestival - with Ellen Andrea Wang and Jon Balke.
2020 - Nothing to note, Video-sound installation at the Peder Balke Center, Toten, in connection performance Fattigfolk by Elin Tinholt. 2020 - Different Trains - Video for concert.
2020 - Different Trains - Video for concert. Performed by the string quartet Quartetto Testosterone. Interpuls festival, Kuturkirken Jakob
2019 - Beauty box, Group exhibition with Arkivet, Vestfold Kunstsenter.
2019 - OPEN VIDEO X, group exhibition at Tenthaus Oslo 26.April
2019 - Video/visuals for solo piano concert Jon Balke, Festival de Música Visual de Lanzarote 2019
2018 - Dwell – extended, Visual concert, Lillehammer Kunstmuseum. Music – Sissel Vera Pettersen / Jon Balke, live video – Tone Myskja
2018 - Open Video IX, group exhibition Galleri Dikemark
2018 - Different Trains, Video for concert, Heensåsen church, Valdres Summer Symphony
2018 - Querini Opera, Voice, Video set design and costume design
2018 - Alfabet - video and stills, Galleri Semmingsen, Group exhibition, Collaboration with Zoe Christiansen, Sven Erga and Hilde Malme
2018 - Beauty Box, group exhibition. THHTC, Athens Art and Jewelry Week
2018 - Open Video VIII, Atelier Nord ANX, Oslo
2018 - Ice event, Live video for concert, Fall/Madstun, ice sculpture “FRAGILE”, Peder Istad.
2017 - Nordic Salong, Helsingborg Kunstforening
2017 - I want to hear the sea, Video for performance, National Theatre, Oslo. Director: Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk
2017 - Opplandsutstillinga 2017, Oppland Kunstsenter, «The Still Point of The Turning World II»
2017 - Open Video VIII, group exhibition, Atelier Nord ANX, Oslo
2017 - Retrospective: Film & Video Art in Norway, 1990-2000, Minimalen Kortfilmfestival, Trheim
2017 - Skybak Ensemble, Brita Skybak, Live Roggen, Tone Myskja live video for concert in exhibition – Vanntårnet, Nesodden Kunstforening
2017 - ARTSCAPE NORWAY Jaroslav Fragner Gallery, group exhibition Galleri ROM, Oslo
2016 - ARTSCAPE NORWAY Jaroslav Fragner Gallery in Prague. Group exhibition.
2016 - Cross Correnti – group exhibition, Røst – “The Still Point of The Turning World”
2016 - Different Trains, Video for Steve Reich with Oslo Camerata ensemble, Ultima festival.
2016 - The sky is a closed room, Video for the performance with Skybak Ensemble (Brita Skybak, Tone Myskja, Ingebjørg Loe Bjørnstad, Mai Elise Solberg) Scenehuset Oslo
2015 - Different Trains, (Steve Reich) Video for performance – tour with Oslo Camerata string quartet in Hedmark, and concert in Oslo
2015 - Skybak Ensemble- Brita Skybak, Live Roggen, Sidiki Kamara, Tone Myskja video – Vanntårnet, Nesodden Kunstforening
2014 - Querini Opera – Voice, video for scenography and costume design
2014 - Visual concert, Brita Skybak Ensemble: Live Maria Roggen-Sidiki Camara- Tone Myskja, Cafeteateret Oslo, April-14 and Litteraturhuset Oslo, November-14
2013 - Nautofon – Brita Skybak/Tone Myskja video based on Brita Skybak's paintings/drawings
2013 - Cross Correnti – Live Video for concert Sissel Vera Pettersen and Jon Balke
2013 - Form against background, group exhibition ATOPIA, Oslo
2013 - Future Built 2013 – Live Video performance for concert with JØKLEBA (Per Jørgensen, Audun Kleive, Jon Balke), Bærum Kulturhus
2013 - LautLeben, TOU scene Stavanger. Sidsel Endresen, composer Rolf Wallin, video Tone Myskja
2012 - Stages and storeys - newly cut version of the video work from 2006 projection for the launch of the National Library's launch of bokhylla.no
2012 - Querini, an Opera on Røst. Video and costume design
2012 - Alphabet, Gallery Svae, Gjøvik, Tone Myskja/Zoe Christiansen/Sven Erga/Hilde Malme
2011 - Section – furnishing a self – video at KORT, Short Film Festival at KINOKINO, Sandnes
2010 - See and Listen, group exhibition KINOKINO, Sandnes Kunstforening
2010 - LIVE* - Live video for the performance Wee – Francesco Scavetta, Beirut and St. Petersburg
2009 - LIVE* - Live video for the performance Wee – Francesco Scavetta, Vancouver, Canada
2008 - The Party - quotes from the members of the Norwegian Dramatists' Association are the basis for the video made in connection with the 70th anniversary of the Norwegian Dramatists' Association. Litteraturhuset, Oslo
2008 - Streif - A video work made in connection with the project “A Modern Cultural Monument” in Groruddalen. Sound design Jon Balke – Oslo University College.
2008 - Alfabet - concert and exhibition at the National Library, Oslo, Collaboration with Zoe Christiansen, Sven Erga and Hilde Malme. In addition, Bjørn Andor Drage,
Sidsel Endresen, Jon Balke, Tanja Orning, 7 opera singers and 7 actors participated.
2008 - LautLeben - video for concert, a collaboration project with Rolf Wallin and Sidsel Endresen, THT, Chicago
2007 - LautLeben - video for concert, a collaboration project with Rolf Wallin and Sidsel Endresen, Zipper Hall, Los Angeles and Parkteateret stage, Rolf Wallin festival.
2007 - AVE – VIDEO EXCHANGE FESTIVAL – LANDMARK - video group exhibition
2006 - LautLeben - video concert, Ultima/contempmusic festival, Rolf Wallin and Sidsel Endresen
2006 - VEE-II – NORWYDEO II - Norwegian video art festival held at Laznia, Center for Contemporary Art, in Gdansk, Poland.
2005 - Beta 2.0, - Event, video - group exhibition BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen
2004 - Natten – Video screening for concert composition by Kjell Flem, Oslo Solo Choir, Oslo
2004 - Woman-stone-red, re-editing of video material from the performance Subject of Icons, sound Tone Gellein, Femmina film festival, Trondheim
2003 - ZERO – Video in collaboration with F.Scavetta for the dance performance, F.Scavetta, Wee company, premiere in Rome
2003 - Ascending – descending – Crac Alsace, Alsace, France, video screening
2003 - Ascending-Descending - video shown during Re:motion, TOU stage, 16-18oct. Stavanger
2002 - Video for concert - TOU Ny Musikk, Stavanger Fartein Valen jubileet
2002 - LIVE* - Solo dance/video, F.Scavetta – T.Myskja, premiere in Sandnes, October Dance Bergen, Ultima Oslo, Trondheim
2002 - Livingrooms - Video projections for Sidsel Endresen's work Night Jazz in Bergen
2002 - Tegnebiennalen - exhibition F-15, Moss
2002 - Fartein Valen jubilee - Group exhibition Stavanger Kunstforening.
2001 - Subject of icons – falling and flying – Video triptych performance, Tone Gellein, Paulus Kirke, Oslo
2001 - Live* – Video mix live and edited for F. Scavetta solo dance performance, La Biennale di Venezia
2001 - Thought and drawn art – as sound art – Video for the New Music project on Blue,
2001 - Nordiska Akvarellmuseet – Group exhibition, Skärhamn, Sweden
2000 - A sudden, unexpected faint – Video film and Scenography, Scavetta/Kipperberg Dance and performance Group tours in Italy, France, Norway
2000 - Point Break – Videotek, group exhibition Bergen Kunstforening
2000 - Opening exhibition - Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, Sweden
2000 - Tendenser – group exhibition Galleri JMS, Oslo
1998 - Continental Drift – group exhibition Fruitmarked Gallery, Edinburgh
1998 - Dark Field – group exhibition The Boilerhouse, London U.K.
1998 - Momentum - Nordic festival for modern art, Moss
1997 - Cross references - group exhibition Ethnographic Museum, Oslo, Tour Norwegian National Exhibitions
1997 - Screens, group exhibition Trondhjems Kunstforening
1995 - DIXI - a presentation of 34 young Norwegian artists, Langesgt. Oslo
1993 - Two Thousand Square Feet, group exhibition, Whitfield str, London
1993 - The Border - collaborative project, Oslo, Stockholm, London, Enkehuset Gallery, Stockholm, Pelin Gallery, Helsinki, Finland, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
1991 - Orality's Image - Mevlana Gallery, Oslo
1989 - 225 Years of Sculpture - Hessenhuis, Antwerp, Belgium
PUBLIC ART COMMISIONS:
2021 - NAUS - line, color, dot, circle, decoration Nord-Aurdal junior high school.
2016 - The Writing on the Wall, - new Youth House in Hov, Søndre Land. Responsible artist in collaboration with young people from the youth club.
2015 - NING - Thora Storm Upper Secondary School, Trondheim
2011 - Composite - Department of Informatics – UIO, Oslo
2009 - Diary – Random Archive - Home Front Museum Akershus Fortress
2001 - Akerselva Nursing Home
REPRESENTED:
Lillehammer Art Museum
The National Library
Nordic Watercolor Museum
Norwegian Arts Council
Art in the Workplace Collection
PROFESSIONAL COMMITTEE PARTICIPATION:
Member of the Supervisory Board, BKI 2023 - 28
Board member OKIOR, 2023 - 28
Member of the Election Committee NBF, 2019 - 23
Board member Lillehammer Art Museum, 2013 – 18
Member of the jury for project grants BKO,
Member of the jury Fund for Sound and Image - Arts and Culture Norway,
Member of the jury Østlandsutstillingen,
Member of the jury National Scholarship Committee Norwegian Visual Artists 2000 – 01 and 2011
Reference group Norwegian Arts Council,
Examiner master's degree students at Bergen National Academy of the Arts, 2005
Admission jury at the Norwegian Academy of Fine Arts - 2004
GRANTS:
State artist/senior scholarship 2017 -
State guaranteed income 2007 - 2017
Artist's scholarship, BKV/BKH 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2004, 2007
State work grant 1999 - 2004
Culture Council publication support, 2022
Culture Council exhibition support 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2006, 2014, 2022, 2024
BKH exhibition support 2019 - 2022 - 2024
BKV project support 2021 - 2024
Regional project funds 2018 - 2019 - 2022
OTHER ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES:
Producer and organizer for www.madstun.com projects 2006 - 2020
Various design assignments, websites and costume design
Cultural heritage project in Grorudalen, collaboration with Oslo Municipality, Planning and Building Agency, Oslo University College, NIKU; project teaching at 4 schools, 7th grade and video documentary afterwards.
Video courses;
Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo University College, various secondary schools in Akershus in connection with Pilotgalleriet and Nordic Black Express
Have also had several introductory courses in video, Statens håndverk-og kunstindustri skole, been a guest teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Trondheim and the Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen.
1986 - 91 Part-time employee at Galleri Wang
1992 - Part-time employee Matt´s Gallery London
1994 - 98 Part-time employee at Galleri Riis
PRESS:
2024 - Eurydice turns and disappears, Trond Borgen July 2, Stavanger Aftenblad
2023 - Unresolved Stockfish Opera, Aksel Tollåli, October 27, scenekunst.no
2022 - Inndok, Jon Balke / Madstun , Musikk Innlandet
2021 - Varsam og vakker, Amund Grimstad, Klassekampen, 23.mars
2021 - This was another opening concert for the history books, Børge Sved 21.july, Adresseavisen2018 - Skarvens Røyst, Dag og Tid, Hilde Vesaas, 17.august
2018 - Almost too good to be true, 2.august, Rune Slyngstad, Avisa Nordland
2018 - Five artists follow a track, 4.july, Klassekampen, Tommy Olsson Galleri Semmingsen,
2017 - Dagningen, Opplandsutstillingen
2016 - Adresseavisen, About Decoration NING, Gustav Borgersen
2016 - Oppland Arbeiderblad, Decoration The writing on the wall
2010 - 2018 - Oppland Arbeiderblad, various reviews Madstun projects
2012 - 2014 - Avisa Nordland, various reviews Querini Opera
2008 - 2010 - Various reviews LautLeben,
2007 - Safari, Cultural program NRK, Visualization of sound/Music
2006 - Various reviews Stages and Storeys, Kunstnernes Hus, Line Ulekleiv (Morgenbladet), Harald Floor (Dagbladet), Kjetil Røed (visual arts)
2003 - Ephemeral Movements Camilla Eeg, by catalog text
2002 - What is drawing? Anne Schäffer, Visual Arts Criticism
2002 - Art in the Darkness of Night Terje Eriksen, Fædrelandsvennen
2002 - Uneven, concert criticism Sidsel Endresen, commissioned work, Nattjazz, Terje Mosnes
2001 - Restless Woman in Wiesesgate Jan Johnsgaard, Dagningen
2001 - Raisat, Italian TV, documentary of the performance “LIVE*” Venice Biennale,
2001 - NU introducing, Lars Bang Larsen,
2001 - Miscellaneous reviews A sudden, unexpected faint, video for the performance Wee
1998 - The Flux of Moments, Continental Drift catalog, Anne Karin Jortveit,
1998 - Current Art in an old warehouse, Lotte Sandberg, Aftenposten 27.may.
1997 - Cross currents Aftenposten, Nov.97, Wenche Volle
1997 - Teknisk Ukeblad, Oct.16,97, Sigurd Aarvig Stavanger
1997 - Urinal with lady, Stavanger Aftenblad, Aug.27. Trond Borgen
1997 - Vårt Land, May 12. Yvonne Hjerting
1997 - Samspill og solo, Dagbladet May 15, Harald Flor
1997 - A door ajar, Aftenposten May 5, Lotte Sandberg
1996 - Three difficult rooms, Adresseavisa, P. Christiansen Nov.
1996 - White Noise, Morgenbladet 23.feb, J.Strømodden
1996 - Three Artists, Three Landscapes, NRK TV
1996 - Video as Painting or Vice Versa Aftenposten 22.february, Ina Blom
1995 - Paradoxes with Video Morgenbladet 21.april, J.Strømodden