True to tradition, Kunstnerforbundet welcomes you to the Christmas Exhibition and fills the gallery’s two floors with art. Visitors can find both newly produced works of art and old treasures from around two hundred artists. The exhibition provides a unique opportunity to experience a wide range of artistic expression and artistry. Keep reading …
“Taking the pulse of contemporary crafts in Norway. The Annual Crafts Exhibition is the largest annual display of Norwegian contemporary crafts. Anyone working with materials-based art in Norway can apply to take part, and this year saw 762 artists with over 2000 works seek entry to the exhibition. The final presentation consists 63 works by 56 artists.” Keep reading (NOR/ENG)…
“Taking the collection of the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź as a departure point, the exhibition engages historical and contemporary artists in dialogue on textiles, work, action and effort over time …” Keep reading (ENG)
“Filling the gallery to the brim with art works and tradition. Visitors can find both newly produced works of art and old treasures from over a hundred artists …” Keep reading (NOR)
One of the most significant international biennials for textile and fibre art: Contextile – Contemporary Textile Art Biennial, has for its 10th anniversary selected Norway as its Invited Country. In collaboration with Norwegian Textile Artists (NTK), Contextile is organising a Norwegian Textile Art exhibition as part of the biennial’s 2022 edition in Guimarães, Portugal. (Text from Norwegian Crafts) Keep reading …
Still from the video work “Sorting it Out” Anne Knutsen/ Karen Kviltu Lidal 2009. Foto: Courtesy of the artists
Lidal’s exhibition at Kunstnerforbundet consists of a series of sculptures in the form of wooden frames with and without hand-woven coverlets, åkler, placed around the space. Keep reading …
The exhibition is kindly supported by Arts Council Norway, The Bergesen Foundation, and Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond (Norwegian Visual Artists’ Fund).
My Architecture, Karen Kviltu Lidal 2022. Photo: Thomas Tveter, Kunstnerforbundet
Saturday the 18th of June, Lofoten kulturhus The symposium will weave together the themes in the Norwegian Association for Arts and Crafts (NK) Theme Exhibition 2022: “The Hands that Unravel the Sweater” and NK Nord-Norge’s exhibition “I kjølvannet”.” Here you will hear from both artists and other professionals about how material-based art can be an important way to express social and political engagement. Lidal will participate in a conversation with curator Anne Klontz and local artist/sheep farmer Ragnhild Lie (the conversation will be held in English).
Curator Anne Klontz has selected 10 artists and collectives for the Theme Exhibition 2022. With the title «The Hands That Unravel the Sweater», the exhibition will be on display at the North Norwegian Art Center in Svolvær from June 18th–August 14th. Keep reading …
Monika Mørck, ‘Svartsaum’, and Karen Kviltu Lidal ‘Closed Open (Striated)’, The Annual Craft Exhibiton 2021, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum Photo — Alf-Georg Dannevig (Dannevig Foto AS)
Norwegian Crafts and Sørlandets Kunstmuseum invite you to a conversation between the artists Karen Lidal (NO), Monika Mørck (NO) moderated by artist/curator and director of the Stockholm-based gallery Fiberspace, Marcia Harvey Isaksson (SE).
Starting from the artists’ own practice, the conversation will revolve around the panel’s interest in craft practices, knowledge passed on from generation to generation and from place to place, making from a female perspective, space, and body. Keep reading … Sunday 28 November 2021, 2 PM (CET) Sørlandets Kunstmuseum: Skippergata 24 B,4611 Kristiansand, Norway Facebook event here
The conversation will be video recorded and published online after the event.
Opening at Sørlandet Kunstmuseum Kristiansand on Sat Oct 2nd 1400
2.10 – 28.11.2021 Sørlandets Kunstmuseum Norske Kunsthåndverkeres Årsutstilling er den største årlige mønstringen av norsk samtids- kunsthåndverk. Årsutstillingen har åpen innsendingsrett og juryeres av NKs nasjonale jury, med mål om å ta pulsen på dagens materialbaserte kunst. keep reading … (Norwegian)
Curator, writer and philosopher Zofia Cielatkowska has written this poetic and philosophical essay. Read it on norwegiancrafts.no
“- Karen Kviltu Lidal’s works are not really objects, but rather unfinished entities open to engaging in processes and performative gestures. She moves freely between art forms such as weaving, installation and video documentation, but textiles prevail as her basic point of reference in both the metaphorical and literal sense. This means textiles remain crucial, especially in relation to public space. Exploring and measuring a city with a piece of fabric, which is soft, means the fabric can bend and take on irregular shapes that enable different possibilities and outcomes. This is much different than measuring space with a conventional ruler that simplifies everything into straight lines. And Lidal loves to measure and examine borders.” Keep reading …
“A Genuine Place” is featured among many other beautiful and interesting art works in “The Printmaking Ideas Book”. Out now in museum shops and art book stores. www.octopusbooks.co.uk
The book is published on Ilex Press, and the editors are Frances Stanfield and Lucy McGeown.
Alfa Gallery is pleased to present Onyx, an exhibition tracing the persistent presence of the color black in art. Featuring works by an international group of artists, the exhibition explores blackness as a highly evocative and animating force in various approaches to abstract art.
The exhibition runs from Dec 6th, 2018 until March 7th, 2019