The Collection

On the ground floor of Haugar Art Museum, highlights from the collection are on view. The works are rotated regularly to give our audience access to different artists, tendencies and themes in the collection. The exhibition includes works that have been in the museum's collection for a long time, recent acquisitions and deposits.

For the first time in Norway, Bananas (1984-85) is on view, a large painting made as a collaboration between Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. The vibrant canvas combines the pop-artist Andy Warhol’s screen-printed logo of General Electric and $4.99 discount price, with Basquiat’s colour fields and expressive lines. To bananas balance the composition, as Basquiat’s good-humored parody of one of the older artist’s signature motifs. The work is deposited at Haugar Art Museum by the Savings Bank Foundation DNB.

In line with Haugar's profile and the focus of our collection, the presentation consists of contemporary art, alongside examples of older works, mainly from the post-war period. Older artworks do not make up a large part of the collection. Accordingly, the exhibition is not built around art-historical periods but emphasizes formal and thematic points of contact between individual works, series of works and oeuvre.