Welcome to Netta Peltola, Senior Visual Designer at KVORNING per November 1, 2018.

KVORNING wins international competition about turnkey exhibition for The Whaling Museum in Sandefjord; Europe’s only museum of whales and whaling.

Museum Director Dag I. Børresen, The Whaling Museum, says –

KVORNING was chosen as exhibition designer due to the company’s broad experience within turnkey exhibitions. Experience, competences and understanding of the museum needs combined with an attractive concept were important criteria that were met during the tender competition. The Whaling Museum looks forward to co-operating with KVORNING on this new and exciting exhibition.

The Whaling Museum is part of the organisation Vestfoldmuseene IKS.

A warm welcome to Marie Engelhardt Sjögreen, who is the new intern at KVORNING in the period October – January 2019. The internship spans Marie’s seventh semester at the Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark.

KVORNING is invited to create a concept for the 3rd Biennale of Museum Design, St Petersburg, Russia, on Nov 9-Dec 19, 2018.

KVORNING’s vision for ‘The Dutch House. Dreams of Peter the Great’ at the world famous Peterhof State Museum-Reserve is to tell the story of Peter the Great. How he picked inspiration on ship building, architecture and city planning from Holland. The concept brings not only the precious artefacts from the summer castle Mon Plaisir into the unique White Hall at the main palace. It also recreates fragments of the interior and together with lighting design and projections it creates the dreamy scene.

In 2014, KVORNING also participated in the Biennale working on the exhibition at the Museum of the City Sculpture.

KVORNING wins in invited competition exhibition concept about one of Norway’s foremost landscape painters, the romanticist painter Hans Gude (1825-1903), for Sorenskrivergården in Nes in Hallingdal.

Welcome to Luna Berlev, assistant at KVORNING as per September 2018.

KVORNING is the winner in an invited ideas competition for a permanent new exhibition about the global energy and climate challenge for the Norwegian Petroleum Museum in Stavanger.

KVORNING’s winning proposal will be developed and elaborated in close dialogue with the Norwegian Petroleum Museum, thereby guaranteeing both the museum and its partners wide-ranging influence over the concept, content and form of the exhibition.

“We’re pleased to once again be set to collaborate with KVORNING on the realization of a very exciting and important exhibition at the Norwegian Petroleum Museum. KVORNING’s concept has been chosen because, in an incredibly effective way, it takes the exhibition space as its basis and shows how it can be used in its own right to convey the message of the exhibition. We’re looking forward to a close and fruitful collaboration and are confident that together we will arrive at a thought-provoking and interesting exhibition about the greatest challenge of our age: the energy and climate problem, with the architecture in the space, the exhibition design and the content together telling the story,” explains Head of Exhibition and Communication at the Norwegian Petroleum Museum, Anja W. Fremo.

Message conveyed by the space

The shape of the exhibition space forms a natural, opinion-generating component of the facilitation process. A circular exhibition with a central luminous element – an artistically stylized sun, globe or something completely different—that remains to be seen from the dialogue that emerges—immediately grabs the attention of visitors young and old, highlighting the importance of adopting a reflective approach to the energy and climate issue.

Now’s the time!

A mixture of analog and digital media gives people of all ages the low-down on fossil energy and renewable energy. Sustainability is a ’must’, but can it meet our needs, we wonder?

Dilemmas

Interactive stations are being considered as an introduction to various forms of energy in a number of Norwegian cities, e.g. an interactive station about electricity, which is generated cheaply by Norway’s many hydroelectric power stations. There are many challenges associated with switching to green energy, but at the same time also many dilemmas.

The exhibition (120 sq.m) opens in April 2019 and was won in an invited international competition.

About the Norwegian Petroleum Museum

The Norwegian Petroleum Museum in Stavanger, Norway, communicates the history of Norwegian oil in architects Lunde & Løvseth’s iconic setting. Since the museum opened in 1999, the Petroleum Museum has consolidated its position as the country’s key arena for research, documentation and facilitation of the contemporary history of Norway as an oil nation. The museum has some 100,000 visitors a year.