CURRICULUM VITAE
Bjarte Bjørkum
Født 24.06.1967
Education
2017-2019 UiB's intermediate management programme
2000 Skrivekunstakademiet in
Hordaland, course in children's and youth literature
1994-1997 Academy of Photography, Konstfack,
Stockholm
1994 Summer course in Icelandic,
Háskóla Íslands, Reykjavík
1993 Art history intermediate
subject
1991 English major
1990 Nordic languages intermediate
subject
Solo
Exhibitions
2026 Gallery Langegården TBA
2025 Galleri Surnadal Billag A/S.
Group
exhibitions
2024 Knipsu Fight Cage V – The
look. Knipsu, Bergen
2023 Winter Presentation,
Høyersten Contemporary
2018 100 Norwegian Photographers
(book and online)
2015 National Art Exhibition
2012 Collection, Valla scen,
Stockholm.
2007 National Art Exhibition
2006 Via Ibsen, Galleri Gathe,
Bergen
2005 Traces
in landscape, Tyssøy, under the auspices of Bjorøy and Tyssøy cultural
association.
2004 National Art Exhibition
2003 Interaction between
differences, Horda Museum.
2003 Summer exhibition, Kvam art
group.
2003 National Art Exhibition,
Sandefjord art association
2002 ArtSwap, Bergen - Krakow
2002 National Art Exhibition
2001 The Westland Exhibition
2000 FORM 2000, the designers'
autumn exhibition
1995 Photography Center Uppsala
Public
decorations / Purchases
2024
Bergen municipality
2005
Great Norwegian
Spitsbergen Mining Company
2003
Søreide nursing home
Public
decorating competitions
2007 Participant in a closed
competition for the University of Environmental and Biotechnology at Ås.
2004 Participant in a closed
competition for the Råstølen residential area under the auspices of Bergen
tomteselskap.
Publications
2022 The big farting competition,
audiobook. Read by Kai Remlov. Gyldendal Children and youth
2015 Appaling Manners, Rita Marhaug
and Traci Kelly (photograph and text)
2014 Dat stuorra buoskungilvu,
Davvi Girji
2008 Moose in sunset, Gyldendal
Children and young people
2007 The big farting competition,
Gyldendal Children and young people
2001 Alexander and the giant,
children's book, Gyldendal Tiden
2000 The treasure on Snow Robbers’
Island, children's book, Gyldendal Tiden
1999 The man who painted pedestrian
crossings, children's book, Gyldendal Tiden
Literary
translations English to Norwegian
2010 Jasper
Jones, novel by Craig Silvey, Cappelen Damm.
2008 Genesis, novel by Bernard Beckett,
Cappelen Damm.
2006 Framed, novel by Frank Cottrell
Boyce, Damm
2005 How I Live Now, novel by Meg
Rossoff, Damm
2004 Millions, novel by Frank Cottrell
Boyce, Damm
Scholarships and grants
2004 The Norwegian government's
material grant for authors of children's and youth literature
2002 The government's
one-year work grant for younger writers
2001 Svalbard
scholarship for writers
