SKOG welcomes to an exhibition with Endre Aalrust and Ruben Eikebø with Kjell Korsmo, Amalie Skarpeid and Taavi Rekkaro as guest artists. SKOG presents two exhibition rooms, main room (Skog - forest) and our project room (Hav - ocean). Vernissage on the 12 November at 6 p.m.

1. Apple and Pairs [sic] by Endre Aalrust

Endre Aalrust shows small, intimate paintings that all relate to the number two in the form of couples, doubles and pairs. A painting of two shrivelled dates, each resting on its own grease-glistening slice of bacon - a tapas in the making - is titled Double Date. In A Couple of Bears, we witness an intimate moment between two elderly bearded daddies who are just as absorbed in each other's robust bodies as they are in a TikTok reel on a phone hidden by their bulky torsos. In his still lifes, genre paintings and landscapes, the duality exists not only in the motifs, but also in the way Aalrust approaches painting itself. His art is simultaneously comical and sentimental. Easily likeable colours and simple figuration invite the viewer in, yet the painted men turn their backs on us, asking us to keep our distance. Two is company, three is a crowd.

A Pair of Bears by Endre Aalrust

Endre Aalrust (b. 1973, Hamar, Norway) is a Norwegian artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. He studied History of Ideas, Sociology, and Art History at the University of Oslo (1992-1997) before pursuing Art at the National Academy of the Arts in Bergen and Central St. Martins (1998-2002). Recent solo shows include LonelyFans, Kristiansand Kunsthall, (2026), Suckers, Gallery Gudmundsdottir, Berlin, (2026), Looking Back, QB Gallery, Oslo, (2025), From Behind, K.U.K, Trondheim, (2024), Soft Core, Sandy Brown, Berlin (2024) and Don’t Look Back, LNM, Oslo (2023). Aalrust's work is acquired by the National Museum of Norway, Equinor Art Programme, By Art Matters, Hangzhou, NTNU, Trondheim, Oslo Kommunes Kunstsamling, Innlandet Fylkeskommune and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein.

2. Water and Sands by Ruben Eikebø

Ruben Eikebø paints the moment a picture starts to slip. Figures stand at the edge of water, half there and half gone. A fallen tree cuts across a green pond. A striped shirt blurs into the trees behind it. A face dissolves into a field of yellow, as if seen through heat or memory.

Eikebø works between figuration and abstraction. The figurative parts come from the world he watches: people, landscapes, the steady stream of images in today’s media. The abstract parts move the other way, inward. Dragged paint, drips and scratched lines become a way of looking into himself. Each canvas holds both at once. Clear observation meets intuition, and outer reflection meets inner feeling.

Like Stones In the Pond by Ruben Eikebø

Water and sand share that double nature. Both hold an image for a moment and then let it go. A stone breaks the surface of a pond and the rings spread. Wind moves across a dune and the shape is gone. In Eikebø’s paintings the image behaves the same way. It forms, ripples and drifts, and what’s left is the trace.

Ruben Eikebø (b. 1988, Ålesund) completed his MFA at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (KMD), University of Bergen, in 2018. He has taken part in numerous group exhibitions, including at Bomuldsfabrikken Kunsthall, Høstutstillingen (the Norwegian Autumn Exhibition), Unge inviterte 2018 at LNM, and KHÅK Kunsthall. He has had solo exhibitions at Kristiansund Kunstforening and Visningsrommet USF in Bergen. Ruben Eikebø lives and works in Bergen

3.Latent by Kjell Korsmo, Amalie Skarpeid and Taavi Rekkaro

Some things are there before we can see them. In the darkroom, an image waits on the paper until it’s developed. Under the skin, the body holds what it doesn’t show. After someone leaves, their absence stays in the room.

Latent brings together three artists who work in that hidden layer. Kjell Korsmo’s darkroom prints and photographs make the process of an image appearing visible. Amalie Skarpeid paints the body with quiet precision, then lets it split open or quietly go wrong. Taavi Rekkaro moves between photography, painting and installation to trace what remains once meaning has gone.

Together they ask what lies beneath the surface, and what it takes to bring it to light.

Groms 1-3 by Kjell Korsmo

By Taavi Rekkaro

By Amalie Skarpeid