Pathfinder #18700 Oslo – Blindern
April 25, 2018
Ekebergparken is pleased to announce the permanent installation of Fujiko Nakaya’s Pathfinder #18700 Oslo – Blindern.
Fujiko Nakaya's fog sculpture was unveiled April 25, 2018. The public can experience the fog disseminating within the forest, enveloping the landscape.
The title of the work (Pathfinder # 18700 Oslo – Blindern) indicates the international code of the nearest weather station. The fog reacts to local weather conditions and cannot be controlled or formed into specific shapes.
"I see my fog sculptures as negative sculpture. The atmosphere is the mould, and the shape is carved by the wind."
–Fujiko Nakaya (2018)
Fujiko Nakaya (born 1933) created her first public fog sculpture at the World Fair Expo '70 for the Pepsi Pavilion in Osaka, Japan, in collaboration with the artist collective Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.). Since then Nakaya has exhibited her fog and cloud sculptures at major art venues all over the world, including the Guggenheim in Bilbao, San Francisco Exploratorium and Tate Modern in London.
The fog installation was first on view in Ekebergparken in 2017 as a temporary work, part of a collaboration initiated by Oslo Kunstforening and developed together with Ultima, Statsbygg, the National Museum, Dansens Hus and Ekebergparken.
Viewing times for Pathfinder # 18700 Oslo – Blindern can be found on the Ekebergparken's website.
About Ekebergparken
Founded in 2011 and officially opened in 2013, Ekebergparken is a 63-acre public sculpture and national heritage park located on the hillside of Ekeberg in Oslo, Norway. The public park is a result of a public-private collaboration between C. Ludens Ringnes Foundation and Oslo Municipality. The initiative came from real estate mogul and philanthropist Christian Ringnes and is financed by the C. Ludens Ringnes Foundation, directed by Ina Johannesen.
The park’s permanent art collection, which will reach 40 sculptures by the end of 2018, has been carefully selected by an Art Committee. In addition to its extensive international art collection, Ekebergparken aims to be an arena for collaborative, temporary art projects. In 2015 and 2016 the contemporary music festival Ultima arranged light and musical events in the park. Several musical compositions have been performed both inside James Turrell’s Ganzfeld/Skyspace and in Dan Graham’s Ekeberg Pavilion. Ekebergparken has also had the pleasure of hosting the performance festival Soppen, which was a collaboration with Oslo Pilot and the artist duo Trollkrem.
