Anders Tomren (born 1965) is a Norwegian artist who has studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, and is remembered for his minimalist sculptures and constructions resembling furniture. Since the late 1990s, Tomren has also worked with video.
Tomren was the Norwegian representative at the Venice Biennial of 1991 and has held solo exhibitions in private galleries, in addition to Oslo Kunsthall, the Oslo Museum of Contemporary Art and Bergen Kunsthall, among other venues.
At Galerie Anhava, Tomren presents a video that was filmed in an empty flat in Berlin. The work is projected on four separate walls, and the viewer is presented with four doors, three of which seem to lead nowhere, while the fourth one opens onto a balcony. The doors open and close of "their own accord" due to the draughts in the apartment. The atmosphere is strange, mysterious. What is going on here? What makes things happen in general? In visual terms, the work is extremely reduced, as is typical of Tomren. Its beauty does not emerge from decoration but from an understanding of the structures of the everyday, the beauty of proportion, and from the strong impact created by whiteness, light and gradual movement.
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