"The Will of the Material: Margrethe Aanestad on her new commission for Scandinavia House"- a conversation with Heather Jones in CAS - Contemporary Art Stavanger.
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Scandinavia House in New York, Stavanger-based artist Margrethe Aanestad was invited to create a new sculpture for the exhibition A Time for Everything: 25 Years of Contemporary Art. The resulting work, titled Afterlight – In Wake of Time, is Aanestad’s largest sculpture to date and stands along artworks by other Scandinavian artists such as Torbjørn Rødland, Irene Nordli, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Cecilia Edefalk, Britta Marakatt-Labba, Jeppe Hein and Jan Groth, among many others. Read on to discover how the artist approached this new commission. Published on Oct 22. 2025. Click here to read the full interview.
