Henie Onstad Kunstsenter

The Henie Onstad Kunstsenter at Høvikodden is an arena for national and international art with a changing exhibition program and a collection consisting of more than 8000 works.

The museum is situated on a peninsula, 15 minutes outside of Oslo. It opened its doors for the first time in 1968 and is located on Høvikodden, surrounded by the fjord, beaches and a sculpture park. (2025)

Publications

• Per Hovdenakk, Susanne Rajka, Øivind Storm Bjerke, Henie-Onstad Art Centre, 1968–1993, Høvikodden: Henie-Onstad Art Centre, 1994. (English)
  • Henie-Onstad kunstsenter, 1968–1993, Grøndahl & Dreyer, 1994, 88 pp. [1] (Norwegian)
• Høvikodden live 1968-2007: Henie Onstad Kunstsenter som tverrkunstnerisk arena, ed. Caroline M. Ugelstad, Høvikodden: Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, 2007, 264 pp. [2] (Norwegian)/(English)
• Karin Hellandsjø, The Henie Onstad Art Centre: The Art of Tomorrow Today: The Collection, Torino: Skira, 2008, 240 pp. [3]
• Lars Mørch Finborud, Mot det totale museum; Henie Onstad kunstsenter og tidsbasert kunst 1961-2011, Oslo: Forlaget, 2012, 305 pp. [4] [5] [6] (Norwegian)
• Tominga Hope O'Donnell, "A Thousand Years of New Art: Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in the 1970s", in Musealisierung mittelalterlicher Kunst Anlässe, Ansätze, Anspruche, eds. Wolfgang Brückle, Pierre Alain Mariaux and Daniela Mondini, Deutsche Kunstverlag, 2015, pp 235-249. (English)

Links

• Website
• Modernism Machine, exhibition about HOK, 2012, [7] [8]
• Store Norske Leksikon
• Wikipedia