Kunsthall Dikemark

Oslo

Over the past decade, Kunsthall Dikemark (formerly Trafo Kunsthall) has published catalogues and printed materials alongside exhibitions, in collaboration with Dikemark Psychiatric Hospital Museum and Trastad Samlinger. This work contributes to ongoing efforts to challenge stigma surrounding art and mental health.

The publications bring together artists, writers, and researchers, offering perspectives that place the works within artistic, historical, and social contexts.

Through these publications, Kunsthall Dikemark seeks to preserve, share, and expand knowledge of diverse artistic practices and Dikemark’s cultural history.

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Publications

Rekreasjon (2024)

ISBN–9788269158137

Catalogue for the exhibition Rekreasjon, featuring works by Per Inge Bjørlo, Ingrid Torvund, Jonas Mailand, Bukett!, and outsider art from the Dikemark collection. Texts written by Gaute Brochmann, Line Ulekleiv, Atle Håland, Maria Knutzen, Anne Siv Falkenberg Pedersen, and Ella Jahr Nygård

KRØSUS (2021)

The artist known as ‘Krøsus’ spent his entire adult life as a patient at Dikemark Psychiatric Hospital. Much about him remains unknown, though he was likely born around 1900 and may have arrived at Dikemark in the late 1930s. Between 1940 and his death in the 1980s, he is believed to have produced around 80 artworks, along with a substantial body of written work, all preserved at the Dikemark Psychiatric Hospital Museum. Texts written by Anne Siv Falkenberg Pedersen and Tore Gude.

Heinrich Nikes (2023)

ISBN–978-82-691581-1-3

Heinrich Nikes was a trained engraver and a skilled violinist. From 1917 to 1931, he was a patient at Dikemark Psychiatric Hospital, during which time he created around 100 artworks. Many of his pastel, charcoal, and pencil drawings remain in excellent condition, alongside a number of watercolour paintings. Texts written by Katja van Etten Jarem, Maria Knutzen, Kjell Martin Moksnes, Nils Anker and Anne Siv Falkenberg Pedersen.

Svanene fra Lazaurusdalen (2019)

ISBN–978-82-691581-0-6

Catalogue published alongside Trafo Kunsthall’s exhibition The Swans of Lazarus Valley – Norwegian Outsider Art. The exhibition is a collaboration between Trafo Kunsthall, Dikemark Psychiatric Hospital Museum, and Sør-Troms Museum.

What is my story? (2023)

ISBN–978-82-691581-2-0

The catalogue presents a meeting between two artists who have created extraordinary works with needle and thread: Marie Moen Schjelderup’s historic embroideries from the Dikemark Psychiatric Hospital Museum collection, and Wenche Nilsen’s contemporary textile artworks from the National Centre for Outsider Art at Trastad Collections/Sør-Troms Museum. The catalogue was produced to accompany the exhibition What Is My Story, a collaboration between Trafo Kunsthall, Dikemark Psychiatric Hospital Museum, and Trastad Collections.