Bjørn Venø is an Arthemist that works with photography, video, performance art, writing, drawing and music.
Ideas of energy, failure, identity, gender and metaphysics are explored by using free association, intuition and attributes of the fool.
Venø received his MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art in 2012
Exhibitions and performances include Announcements, Storetveit Church, Bergen NO (2021), Arthemist Vorticity, Sensory Landscape, Atlanta, US (2019), Breaking Myth, Museo d'Aumale, Palermo IT (2018), Public Screens, Stavanger NO (2017), Vestlands Utstilingen NO (2014), Live Action 9, Gothenburg SE (2014), Guangzhou LIVE, YouYou Contemporary Art Centre, Guangzhou CN (2013), The Rudin Prize, Norton Museum, West Palm Beach US (2012)
Solo projects at Tender Pixel, London UK (2013), Fotogalleriet, Malmö SE (2009) and Nettie Horn, London UK (2009)
Work in museums archives The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, US and Museum Palazzo Riso, Palermo IT
Member of Performance Art Bergen and Biletkunstnarane i Sogn og Fjordane, BKSF
Other projects include running the rural arts organisation Venø Gård KUNST, Stad NO (2015 and ongoing), hosted Performance KUNST at 368 PONCE, Atlanta US (2016), running the web page www.kunstspace.com (2016 and ongoing) and created the music albums ‘Enslaved By Freedom’ 2017, ‘Augmented Manipulation’ 2018 and 'Arthemy' 2019 under the name BX