Please join us for the opening of Letters Sent from Heaven, Saturday August 26 between 1-3pm.

The gallery is open between 12-4pm.

Oslo Kunstforening has the pleasure of presenting a cycle of inter-connected works and events in collaboration with Statsbygg and the National Museum, Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, Dansens Hus and Ekebergparken.

The center of this cycle is «Letters Sent from Heaven», a unique exhibition of Japanese experimental physicist Ukichiro Nakaya's (1900-1962) photographs of snow crystals and electrostatic discharges. His daughter, Fujiko Nakaya, will be present at the opening.

The photographs included in the exhibition were taken by Ukichiro Nakaya and his colleagues in the 1920s and 1930s. Nakaya's research began with investigations of the sparks that occurred during electrostatic discharge. When he later discovered the complexity of the snow crystals he became so impressed by their beauty that he changed the direction of his research. As a result of this, in 1936 he developed the world's first synthetic snow crystal.

A version of this exhibition has recently been shown at KTH ENERGISCENEN c/o R1, as part of the program of Dome of Visions and at Riga Art Space, Latvia.

This collaboration was initiated by Oslo Kunstforening and developed together with Ultima, Statsbygg, the National Museum, Dansens Hus and Ekebergparken. The curator behind the project is Marianne Hultman, artistic director at Oslo Kunstforening.

The collaboration is made under the auspices of Oslo Art Walk, a city development project with the aim of highlighting the contemporary art institutions located between Ekeberg and Tjuvholmen.