Patrik Entian (b. 1966 in Karlstad, Sweden) lives and works

in Drammen (Oslo, Norway), and studied at Trondheim Academy of Fine Art 1996–2001. Painting was always his chosen medium, with a particularly keen interest in landscape painting. Entian’s work is as concerned with existing images from the constant stream of imagery surrounding us on a daily basis, as it is with imagery of the world presented to us by history, and therefore living inside of us all.

Over the past 15 years Entian’s work has primarily been a mixture of solo and group exhibitions taking place in Norway and abroad, and public art commissions. He has held solo exhibitions in Leipzig, Berlin, Bergen Kunsthall No 5, and Trondheim Art Museum, as well as creating commissioned work for the Universities of Oslo and Bergen, St Olav’s University Hospital in Trondheim, and Skagerak Energi AS. Between

2007 and 2011 he did a research fellowship at Bergen National Academy of the Arts, where he immersed himself in his painting work with his project Looking for Painting.

Since 2014 Entian also work in the art collaboration -& Co. together with artist Aleksi Wildhagen. In an ever on going mixture of plen-air painting, drawing, photographing, writing, filming and performance they explore their surroundings of

commonplaces with careful obsevations.