© Johanne Hestvold. Photo: © Hinda Fahre
OR_•GO
- Date 2025
- Unveiled 2025
- Material Concrete, found glassfiber
- Type Temporary
- Winner of Sculpture Point:Ekebergparken
- Dimensions 200 x 300 x 110
Photo: © Kristina A. Kvåle /Ekebergparken
Johanne Hestvold
(b. Bergen, Norway, 1988)
Johanne Hestvold is a Norwegian artist based in Oslo and the first winner of the sculpture competition, Sculpturepoint: Ekebergparken! She studied art at the Academy of Art in Bergen and has also studied at the Art Academy in Malmö and Kuvataideakamedia in Helsinki. In recent years she has remarked herself as an up-and-coming artist within the three-dimensional field in Norway, and her work has been exhibited at institutions such as the Astrup Fearnley Museum, the National Museum, Bergen Kunsthall, the Vigeland Museum and Kunstnernes Hus. Her practice unites formal and material explorations with a focused view on art's placement in the world. Our partners Logo til Talent Norge, Billedhoggerforeningen, Sparebankstiftelsen
OR_•GO is a monumental and abstract sculpture in which two large volumes meet and cross each other. Cutting through each other in the asymmetrical shape of an X, an origo. In the tension that appears because of this intersection, a new whole emerges. Oscillating between the monumental and the ambiguous, the sculpture withholds more than it reveals. The recognizable elements of the sculpture are processed and abstracted – almost surrealistically so, leaving room for interpretation.
The sculpture is the largest commissioned project for Hestvold to date, and the first sculpture to be revealed in the Sculpture point: Ekebergparken series. It was unveiled the 5th of June 2025 by the Mayor of Oslo during Ekebergparken's season opening. The work will be exhibited in the park for one year, until the summer of 2026.
Read more about the competition
The unveiling June 5th 2025
Guided tours
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