MELK is excited to present I’m finally over the moon, Viktor Fordell’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition opens on Friday, May 15, with a reception at Elisenbergveien 7 from 18.00–20.00.
Opening hours:
May 16–May 31, 2026
Thursday–Sunday
12.00–16.00
Image:
Living room 1, droplets (detail)
Archival pigment print, 100 x 210 cm
Some works from the current exhibition at MELK titled Stilbon by Marius Engh.
This is the last weekend to catch the show.
Please DM or email us for any enquiries about the works.
Marius Engh (b. 1974) lives and works in Oslo. His works have been exhibited at Musée d’Art, Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; Kunsthalle Bern, Bern;
Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster; Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz, Tenerife; Preus Museum, Horten; Drammens Museum, Drammen; Power Station of Art, Shanghai, and to be found in collections like: The National Museum of Art, Oslo; Astrup Fearnley Collection, Oslo; KORO- Public Art Norway, Oslo; KODE Museums, Bergen; Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger; Telenor Corporate Collection, Oslo;The City of Oslo Art Collection; JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, New York; Deka Bank, Frankfurt am Main; Fondazione Mora Grecco, Naples.
We’re entering the last weekend of the joint solo exhibitions by Marius Engh and Thyra Dragseth.
The catalogues can be downloaded directly from our website.
MELK is open 12-16
Thursday to Sunday
Images:
Thyra Dragseth
Index I, Galley
2026
30 x 40 cm
Archival inkjet print mounted on aluminium,
archival tape, Kaiser Negative Filing Sheets
Edition of 5 + 1 AP
&
Index IV, Mudcake
2026
30 x 40 cm
Archival inkjet print mounted on aluminium,
archival tape, Kaiser Negative Filing Sheets
Edition of 5 + 1 AP
Is your mother still your mother after you fall asleep? By Thyra Dragseth is currently on view at MELK
In her works, the documenting properties of photography are both enhanced and repressed. What we see is the result of a transparent, manipulative process: negatives cut, taped, scratched, exposed and enlarged. Moments and subjects from distant times and point of views, forced together in a twisted narrative, balance on the edge between confession and concealment. Several of the found images reveal scenes from a ship where Dragseth’s grandfather worked as a ship’s mechanic, and where his wife (Dragseth’s grandmother) went along two times. They left their two little boys at home for several years, to earn money and experience the world, each other, and life at sea. As a retold story it is difficult to grasp. As developed pictures, however, it is possible to approach some sort of understanding, if not outright identification.
MELK is open 12-16 Thursday to Sunday
Catalogues can be downloaded directly from our website. Link in bio.
@thyradragseth #contemporaryphotography
Stilbon by Marius Engh now on view at MELK.
Marius Engh is a visual artist working with sculpture in its extended field. He is interested in art history and in how its semiotics can be studied through rereading and speculation. He composes his work with materials drawn from hands-on experiences of places, which serve as significant components of his research into the human spirit and condition embedded in artefacts. Recently, for this exhibition, he has been traveling highways and hiking mountain tops in search of antiquities in Greece, Italy and France. The exhibition is also an intermezzo and meditation on an upcoming wandering from Prague to Paris, which is partly a conclusion and revisit to his «Bohemia» project, which started in the historical mining town Jáchymov, Czech Republic, in 2018
Exhibition catalogues can be downloaded directly by link in bio or you can email or DM us.
MELK is open 12-16 Thursday to Sunday
Currently on view at MELK are two solo exhibitions by Marius Engh and Thyra Dragseth, titled Stilbon and Is your mother still your mother after you fall asleep?
The gallery is open Thursday–Sunday, 12.00–16.00
📍 Elisenbergveien 7
What a gathering 💎🙌🏻🥂
Thank you all that came to the opening of the joint solo exhibitions by Thyra Dragseth and Marius Engh 🤍 🤍
The catalogues can now be downloaded directly from our website. Link in bio.
@thyradragseth #mariusengh
MELK is proud to present two new exhibitions by Marius Engh and Thyra Dragseth titled Stilbon and Is your mother still your mother after you fall asleep?
Bringing together the sculptural investigations of Marius Engh and the photographic excavations of Thyra Dragseth, these two exhibitions unfold as a dialogue between material memory and lived experience, between what is unearthed and what is remembered. Across distinct practices, both artists engage in acts of retrieval of histories, images, and traces approaching the past not as something fixed, but as something continuously reconfigured through movement, manipulation, and reflection.
We hope to see you at Elisenbergveien 7 from 18.00–20.00 on Friday, April 10 🥂
List of works available on request.
Image:
Spider (2026)
Thyra Dragseth
170 x 106
In ABSOLUTE FAILURE, Olafsson presents new works spanning silver gelatin prints, giclée prints, and digitally printed textiles. The works emerge through processes where chance and control meet: some images appear through film glitches, while others develop through physical manipulation in the darkroom. Moving between abstraction and figuration, the exhibition reflects on moments of decision and deviation—suggesting how the systems and expectations that structure everyday life can shift when a different path is taken.
Victor Olafsson (b. 1992, Oslo) is a Norwegian artist working across visual and spatial practices. His work examines the unseen structures that shape how we move, act, and perceive the world in everyday life. Drawing from architecture, sound, and ordinary environments, he considers how systems are formed, followed, and occasionally disrupted and how these systems influence personal experience.
He has recently exhibited at Vasli Souza (NO), Tommy Simoens Gallery (BE), SECONDroom (BE), Melk x Høyersten (NO) among others. Alongside his artistic practice, Olafsson continues to develop Pteron Studio (founded in 2022), an open platform working across art, design, and fashion. The studio extends his interest in staging and experimentation, allowing ideas tested in the studio to move into spatial and constructed environments.
MELK IS OPEN THROUGHOUT THE EASTER 🐣
Thu-Sun 12-16
You can download the catalogue and for all previous exhibitions directly from our website.
In TOPOEMAS, Anne K Senstad presents a new body of photo-collage works that revisit the spatial and poetic ideas of Mexican writer Octavio Paz and his experimental book of poems, TOPOEMAS. Drawing from stills extracted from her video trilogy Chiasm of Lament I, II, III (2025) and the large-scale light sculpture series Elements (2018–), Senstad distills fragments of image and space into layered compositions where line, form, and trace converge. Through collage and reconstruction, photography becomes both material and method, translating ideas of spatial poetry, time, and perception into visual form.
She has exhibited widely internationally since the 1990’s in museums, galleries, institutions, and festivals. Biennales include 55th and 56th Venice Biennale (respectively 2013 and 2015), Bruges Art and Architecture Triennale, and Prospect, New Orleans Biennial.
Her work is represented in private, corporate, and institutional collections. She is a member of The Film-makers Cooperative New York, ARS New York, Norske Billedkunstnere, Oslo. In 2025 she founded Temporal Spaces, an artist organized nomadic gallery and curatorial collective in New York.
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MELK is open through the Easter 🐣
ABSOLUTE FAILURE by Victor Olafsson and TOPOEMAS by Anne Katrine Senstad opens tomorrow at MELK.
We hope to see you at Elisenbergveien 7 from 18.00–20.00
DM or email us for the catalogue
