01/10/2025
Coming up at the Oslo Gamle Munch Museum, opening 16 October.
It is with great pleasure that an artwork from 1985 will be presented in this historic art museum.
Dawn and Night, a diptych from the Sleeping Beauty series, shifts the focus from outer beauty to the inner vision of femininity. With closed eyes—resting in sleep or dream—the figures invite a celebration of introspection and self-discovery, where a quiet presence transforms into radiant potential. Painted in 1985, at the beginning of Pia Myrvold’s artistic journey, the series asserts a generative creative force, portraying woman as a bearer of light and a catalyst for dynamic experience.
EMPWRNG VOICES Art Festival 2025, curated by Annicken Dedekam Råge.
Also on the 16 October, a soloshow by Pia Myrvold opens i Galleri A, Vibesgate 12, Oslo, under the theme
"Painting in Code: Dialogues Between Tradition and Digital Innovation"
This title conveys the fusion of classical painting techniques with the conceptual and technological aspects of creative coding and digital art. It highlights the dialogue between the tactile, physical act of painting and the virtual, algorithmic processes that redefine contemporary art practices. It also nods to the interdisciplinary nature of the work, bridging past and future artistic languages.
Several exhibition texts by Pia Myrvold discuss the concept of code as art, often emphasizing the fusion of digital technology and traditional media. Notably:
Her groundbreaking exhibition series "Art Avatar," debuted at Centre Pompidou in Paris (2014-2015) and followed by "ART AVATAR 2.0" at Vitenfabrikken Science Museum in Norway (2017), explores interactive digital forms, including the use of facial recognition and body language to enable audience interaction with digital shapes. These exhibitions emphasize the integration of digital codes and interactive systems as artistic media.
The solo show "FLOW" (Venice 2011) features immersive installations using 3D animation and digital mapping tools creating virtual landscapes described as “the inside of a painting while it is being painted.” The project deals with animation tools and non-linear forms of information as new artistic languages or codes. The exhibition text discusses art and language as connected systems of coding and decoding reality.
"Female Interfaces" (2004) at Centre Pompidou presented interactive garments activating digital projections, again blending physical action and digital creative codes through clothing interfaces.
Myrvold’s interdisciplinary projects like "Internet Softwear" and "Cybercouture" incorporate digital platforms and coding systems embedded in fashion, reflecting on digital infrastructures as part of artistic expression.
These exhibition texts highlight her long-term engagement with code as a creative medium crossing digital, performative, and visual arts. Her writings and catalog essays often articulate coding as both concept and tool in contemporary art practice.
