Anders Sletvold Moe
The Bærtling Scholarship 2024
Anders Sletvold Moe (b. 1978) holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Malmö Art Academy (2001-06) and previously studied at the Rogaland School of Art in Stavanger, Norway. He lives and works in Oslo and Kristiansand, Norway.
Anders Sletvold Moe is awarded the Bærtling Scholarship for his dedicated work in renewing and deepening the concretist art tradition. Sletvold Moe often works with a limited number of visual elements in distinct geometric shapes and bold colors that interact across the surface. Sometimes, these elements shape the painting itself, similar to the “shaped canvas” work by many American minimalists. In these pieces, the paintings also emerge as objects that interact with other works, thus occupying the entire room in a cohesive composition. In other pieces, Sletvold Moe focuses more on the internal dynamics of the canvas, where long, wedge-shaped areas cut across the canvas.
These dynamic fields share significant similarities with how Olle Bærtling worked with diagonal and triangular compositions, aiming to stretch both into the pictorial space and outward into the room. Bærtling was also drawn to the 1960s “hard edge” painting, which has strong resemblances to Anders Sletvold Moe’s art.
The two artists are also united by a deep interest in spatial dynamics, where Bærtling viewed his artworks as parts of a larger, conceivable reality—a space. Anders Sletvold Moe sometimes takes this a step further by painting sections of the exhibition space in the same shades as his displayed works, providing a concrete example of how Bærtling’s visions are carried forward by a younger generation.