Oslo's most influential contemporary-art museum resides in an arresting, silvered-wood building designed by Renzo Piano, with a sail-like glass roof that feels both maritime and at one with the Oslofjord landscape. The collection is rich in American work from the '80s (artists such as Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince are well represented), but boundary-pushing pieces by other key artists such as Sigmar Polke and Anselm Kiefer reflect a broad collecting brief.
The most famous piece in the collection remains the stratospherically expensive, gilded ceramic sculpture Michael Jackson and Bubbles by Koons, and there are also large, challenging works by Damien Hirst. However, pieces in the collection are not all on permanent display. Exhibitions are regularly refreshed to bring well-known works together with pieces never before exhibited, prompting visitors to approach the artworks from a new perspective.
