Previous exhibitions
Over the Rainbow
28.5.2022—08.01.2023
Queer Culture Year 2022
What kind of exhibition can we imagine that Marie Høeg and Bolette Berg themselves would have appreciated?
The Photographer
Focus on the roles and practices of Norwegian photographers from 1940 until the present
Slow Color Photography
An exploration of the remarkable and rare Lippmann-plates
Outdoor exhibition: Knut Egil Wang - Standstill
1.6 - 30.10.2021
Outdoor exhibition: My Sanctuary
16.6 - 15.10 2021
TIME, PLACE, ROOM
Utstillingen gir oss et innblikk i en virkelighet de færreste av oss kjenner til. Gjennom bilder og tekstfragmenter gir innsatte ved fem ulike fengsler i Norge oss et bilde av hvordan det er å være et menneske som lever i frihetsberøvelse.
Outdoor exhibition: Iconic images
13.6.2020 - 30.5.2021
Welcome to an outdoor exhibition that you can experience strolling around beautiful Karljohansvern!
Outdoor exhibition: The Workshop PLACE Bastøy Prison
25.6. - 4.10.2020 When confined in prison, how do people experience the term “place”? Explore pictures and texts created by inmates during a workshop held in Bastøy p...
Morten Krogvold
Hvis du ber noen nevne en norsk fotograf de kjenner til, er sannsynligheten stor for at de nevner Morten Krogvold. 40 år etter debututstillingen på Preus fotomuseum er han tilbake i Horten.
Portrait of our time
The portrait is everywhere, and part of a greater visual culture! The new Portrait Of Our Time exhibition at Preus Museum will present a selection of portraits from the last 15 years. It will be a showcase of how one of the oldest photographic genres is still very much alive and exploratory.
Edward S. Curtis: The Man, The Myth, The Legend
Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) was a hugely prolific photographer who in 1900 set out to document the traditional lives of American indigenous people. His work was rediscovered in the 1970s and is now synonymous with photographing American indigenous.
The world in 3D
Remembrance of Swings Past
Footprints in the sand. A really special place behind a rock. The hollow space beneath a table. A creaky swing. What is it that five-year-olds will remember from their life in the early childhood centre?
Wartime
In a period of war and conflict, several female photographers were active in the public sphere. The exhibition offers new unknown images from some that were forgotten.
Lee Miller
07.04. - 08.09.2019
The muse of the surrealists, model, war correspondent, fashion photographer - Lee Miller's life and work is like taken from a movie
Rune Eraker
23.09.2018 - 17.03.2019
What does the impact of climate change look like? Who feels the results of our exploitation of the planet we all live on?
Edward Burtynsky
23.09.2018 - 17.03.2019
Since the beginning of his thirty-years career, Edward Burtynsky has always centered his objective in the effects of human intervention on nature.
Lola Álvarez Bravo
18.03.2018 - 02.09.2018
Lola Álvarez Bravo took advantage of a wind of artistic freedom to unfold after the revolution in 1910 to -20 in Mexico.
Alinka Echeverría
18.03.2018 - 02.09.2018
The project shows devout Mexican pilgrims carrying their personal image of the Virgin of Guadalupe on the anniversary of her apparition in 1531.
Bending the Frame
How can images make a difference? Can photography tell us something new or something different about the world we live in?