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GRO FOLKAN
Lives and works in Tromsoe and Oslo, Norway
https://www.grofolkan.no

Gro Folkan was born in Oslo, Norway and she lives between The theme of her recent exhibitions is ’Female Runes’.
Oslo and Tromsoe. She studied Art at the National Art ’My pictures are instruments, like runes, used for thousand
Academy in Oslo. She has had 32 solo exhibitions of her of years by Northern peoples to invoke hidden aspects
paintings in leading galleries in Norway and abroad and has of reality. In our time the runes will not be the same as
also taken part in numerous joint exhibitions. thousand years ago, but in a different language, and with
Her works have been purchased by the Norwegian different types. That is what I am looking for.
National Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo, The real pictures, the images are not the lines and colors on
the National Bank of Norway, Art collections , national my canvases, but the images coming into being in the mind
universities, institutions, and national offices. of the onlooker’.

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