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Jury member Åsmund Thorkildsen, Director, Drammen
Museum of Art, Culture and History, Oslo.
Åsmund Thorkildsen was born in Drammen, Norway
in 1954. He received a Master of Arts degree in art
history from Oslo University in 1983. Thorkildsen has
been an art critic for Drammens Tidene/Buskeruds Blad
since 1985 and also served as an art critic for Morgenbladet
in 1986 and 1987. Thorkildsen has taught modern art
and art theory at Oslo University and at the Colleges
of Art in Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim since 1987. During
the period 1988-99 he held the position of director
of Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, where he was responsible
for a large number of exhibitions.
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From October 1999 until February 2001 he
was director of Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst
in Oslo. On 1 February 2001 he took up his post as director
of Drammens Museum, Drammen. Åsmund Thorkildsen
served as the curator for the Olympics Collection '94
in Lillehammer
(1992-94) and also for the 1996 graduate exhibition at
the National Academy in Oslo. In early 1998, Thorkildsen
was appointed professor in art theory at the National
College for Arts and Crafts. Thorkildsen has served on
the juries of several Norwegian art institutions and has
contributed articles to numerous books, journals and catalogues. |
