23.6.26 - Catherine Opie ‘Mountains Don’t Know Their Names’ at PoMo, Trondheim
Opening this week, Mountains Don’t Know Their Names brings together a new body of work by Catherine Opie developed during a three-week road trip through the Norwegian winter landscape in 2024.
The exhibition will present 53 photographs from the series Norwegian Mountains, in which the artist explores and challenges the traditions of landscape photography, shifting between the documentary and the personal, the monumental and the intimate.
The photographs will be shown alongside 30 ceramic mountain sculptures, created before and after Opie’s journey through Norway, with many of the works developed during her residency at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado.
The exhibition will also feature two new site‑specific video installations by artist and Emmy‑winning filmmaker Kate Kunath, who accompanied Opie on her travels, offering a poetic, humorous and intimate look at Opie’s working process.
Produced by PoMo in close collaboration with the artist, this will be Catherine Opie’s first major solo exhibition in Central Norway.
PoMo is Trondheim’s new museum for modern and contemporary art, which opened in February 2025.
Catherine Opie
Mountains Don’t Know Their Names
25 June 2026–3 January 2027
PoMo
Dronningens gate 10
7011 Trondheim
Norway Further information
The exhibition will present 53 photographs from the series Norwegian Mountains, in which the artist explores and challenges the traditions of landscape photography, shifting between the documentary and the personal, the monumental and the intimate.
The photographs will be shown alongside 30 ceramic mountain sculptures, created before and after Opie’s journey through Norway, with many of the works developed during her residency at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado.
The exhibition will also feature two new site‑specific video installations by artist and Emmy‑winning filmmaker Kate Kunath, who accompanied Opie on her travels, offering a poetic, humorous and intimate look at Opie’s working process.
Produced by PoMo in close collaboration with the artist, this will be Catherine Opie’s first major solo exhibition in Central Norway.
PoMo is Trondheim’s new museum for modern and contemporary art, which opened in February 2025.
Catherine Opie
Mountains Don’t Know Their Names
25 June 2026–3 January 2027
PoMo
Dronningens gate 10
7011 Trondheim
Norway Further information