Ole Hagen works in sculpture, moving image, drawing, performance, poetry and sound. His work is in search of a sculptural image that can capture metaphysical yearning, the conditioning as well as the collapse of the subject. Theatrical tableaux set up for the camera, collages or objects all present comical bodies, the clumsiness of mind-body dualism in a conscious universe as well as the poetic promise of animism; that all things hold a life and a riddle of their own. Mental and physical space overlap in this world where the symbol is a paradox rather than a representation.

 

Educated at Goldsmiths (PhD), Chelsea College of Art and Design (MA) and the National Academy of Fine Art, Oslo, Ole Hagen currently lives and works in Brighton. His work has included curation such as Multiverse (Danielle Arnaud Gallery 2009) and Multiverse Expanded (Akershus Kunstsenter 2011), collaboration such as All There Was, fig2 (ICA, London, 2015), Return of the Nullifiers (Standpoint Gallery, London 2016) and Universal Crepitation (Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London 2020), solo exhibitions  Holography for Beginners (the Horse Hospital, London 2010), On Having No Head (Oslo Prosjektrom 2017), Orbitology (Hanmi Gallery Seoul 2018) and Black Sun (Dorset Place Gallery 2025). His work was awarded the BKH Art Photography Prize 2014, (Fotogalleriet, Oslo).

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