FRAMED exhibition opens at Lillehammer Art Museum
American urban photography from 1907 to 2012
Snøhetta revisits Lillehammer Art Museum, one of our earliest cultural projects, with the FRAMED exhibition—a visual journey through the American metropolis.
FRAMED offers a comprehensive view of 20th-century American street photography and invites visitors to explore the vibrant cities of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco. The collection, spanning from 1907 to 2012, showcases revolutionary perspectives from American photographers, capturing the essence of urban life during a period of rapid change.
The works are owned by Sparebankstiftelsen DNB, an independent Savings Bank Foundation, and the collection is now part of the permanent deposits at the Lillehammer Art Museum and Drammens Museum. The exhibition is a large collaboration between the Lillehammer Art Museum, Drammens Museum, Sparebankstiftelsen DNB, the curators Øivind Storm Bjerke, Svein Olav Hoff and Åsmund Thorkildsen, and Snøhetta's team of architects, graphic- and digital designers.
The exhibition feels like a full-circle moment, as FRAMED is precisely the ambitious, large-scale exhibition for which the museum’s space was conceived. The ample gallery space with the high ceiling adds to the visitor experience, and allows us to spread out and claim the whole space by combining several disciplines including art, architecture, graphic and digital design. Snøhetta’s museum design was intended to host large exhibitions that would challenge, inspire, and engage audiences on a grand scale—both in size and typology—making FRAMED a perfect realization of that original intent”, says Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, Snøhetta Founding Partner.
The exhibition opened on 19 October 2024 and is shown until 20 April 2025.
Read the full press release here.