Anne-Karin Furunes
Anne-Karin Furunes, Calving Glacier VI, Kronebreen, Svalbard, 2022, acrylic paint and perforation on canvas, 240 x 404 cm, not available
Anne-Karin Furunes, Calving Glacier XII, Kronebreen, Svalbard, 2023, arcylic on canvas, perforated, 200 x 295 cm
Anne-Karin Furunes, Landscape I, 2021, acrylic on canvas, perforated 240 x 360 cm

Anne-Karin Furunes

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Anne-Karin Furunes (b. 1961, Ørlandet) lives and works in Stjørdal. She is educated at Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts, Trondheim Academy of Fine Art and at the architect program at NTNU. She has worked as a professor at Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, NTNU since 2000.

Furunes has been active in both the Norwegian and international art scene since the 1990s. She has had several solo exhibitions at galleries such as Galleri K (Oslo), Ryan Lee Gallery (New York), Galerie Anhava (Helsinki) and Tornabuoni Arte (Firenze), and at museums like the National Nordic Museum in Seattle (2025), Vigeland Musem in Oslo (2024), National Museum of Decorative arts and Design in Trondheim (2021) and Museo Fortuny in Venice (2014).

Furunes is represented in prominent collections worldwide including the National Museum of Norway, Moderna Museet (Stockholm), KIASMA (Helsingfors), Hämeenlinna Art Museum (Hämeenlinna), Espoo Museum of Modern Art (Espoo), Aine Art Museum (Tornio), Museum of Art and Design (New York), the National Museum of China (Beijing, after receiving a price during the Beijing biennale in 2005), Trondheim Art Museum, Christen Sveaas’ Art Foundation, AKO Art Foundation and Equinor. Both private and public commissions of her work have been realized at Nationaltheatret train station (1999), Wergeland’s House in Eidsvoll (2005), San Servolo in Venice (2024), Festplassen in Bergen (2025) and Sophies Minde in Oslo (2025). Furunes was one of five nominees for the art price Ars Fennica in 2021.



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