Anna Sofie Mathiasen
(She/her)
Address: Startblokka, Østre Aker vei 90, 0569 Oslo
Floor: Bygning 6, 2 etasje
Room number: Navn på døren / name on door
The studio is open Saturday 27 April from 12-17
Anna Sofie Mathiasen (b. 1995, Copenhagen, DK) lives and works in Oslo.
She works across several media, including collage, installation, photography, video and animation, with drawing and text as a foundation. In the animations, she combines hand-drawn and found image material, often from various archives, both public and personal, which reflect her montage-based practice. Two important aspects of her practice are the autobiographical and the use of informative and educational tools inspired by, among others, stop-motion films for children and adults.
Mathiasen has previously exhibited at Galleri K (Oslo, NO), O – Overgaden (CPH, DK), Guttormsgaard’s archive (Blaker, NO), Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo, NO), Kunsthall Oslo (NO) and Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (Valencia, ES).
Drawing, video, stop-motion, installation, collage, sculpture
Installation view, Folly, Solo exhibition, Anna Sofie Mathiasen, 2023, O - Overgaden, Copenhagen, DK, Foto: David Stjernholm
Uden titel (Folly for Dan), Anna Sofie Mathiasen, Pavillon (wood, structural paint), 2023, O - Overgaden, Copenhagen, DK, Foto: David Stjernholm
Uden titel (Utsikt over Verkensvannet, Dikemark) & Uden titel (Bed), drawings, 130x210cm & Ø100cm, Anna Sofie Mathiasen, 2023, O - Overgaden, Copenhagen, DK, Foto: David Stjernholm
Uden titel (Bo), drawing, 130x210cm, Anna Sofie Mathiasen, 2023, O - Overgaden, Copenhagen, DK, Foto: David Stjernholm
In my studio
Exhibition together with Arisa Purkpong.
Planned projects and exhibitions
2024 Book, Pigen i ilden, new edition of Genia Katz Rajchmann’s poetry collection, with new illustrations, in collaboration with Johanne Edvarda B. Slaatta, Torpedo Press, NO
2024 Solo exhibition, Nitja center for contemporary art, Lillestrøm, NO
2024 Solo exhibition, Pachinko, Oslo, NO
2024 Solo exhibition/ traveling exhibition at Kunstvisitten, at 14 different institutions for mental health and rehabilitation in Akershus, NO
2025 Residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR (through the Ingrid Lindbäck Langaard Foundation)
2025 Solo exhibition, Kunstbanken center for contemporary art, (Bankhvelvet), Hamar, NO
CV
Education
2018 – 2020 MFA Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo, NO
2015 – 2018 BFA Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo, NO
2014 – 2015 Vera – Skole for Kunst og Design, København, DK
Solo exhibitions
2023/ 2024 Folly, O – Overgaden, København, DK
2023 Pigen i ilden, Galleri K, Oslo, NO
2022 Pigen paa Anatomikammeret, BO (Billedkunstnere i Oslo), Oslo, NO
2022 Markering af Sainte Marguerites dag, Femidomen, Nesodden, NO
2021 360, Soloudstilling på Kunsthall Oslo as a part of Studio reports, Oslo, NO
2021 Her Radiance, Studio 17, Stavanger, NO
2021 Nytt och gammalt, Guttormsgaards Arkiv, Blaker, NO
2021 Onion Skin, Destinys Atelier, Oslo, NO
2021 Campaigning, billboard show, Feiertag, Kassel, DE
2019 Tele-, Sol, Nexø, DK
2018 Vi mødes i mørket og giver hånd, RAM Galleri, Oslo, NO
Selected group exhibitions, publications and screenings
2023 Kviskebok, book project and exhibition, Tegnetriennalen 2023, Deichman, Oslo, NO
2023 Open Creation and Its Enemies: Asger Jorn in Situation på Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, ES
2023 Kunstner kuraterer kunstner # 1 MESH – Greg Pope & Arissa Purkpong Trafo, Viken, NO (as curator)
2023 Konst i Hudiksvall, film program, Hudiksvall, SE
2023 The Art of Mirrors, curated by Greg Pope, Atelier Nord, Oslo, NO
2022 Juleutstillingen, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, NO
2022 Duo exhibition with Melanie Kitti, Elephant Kunsthall, Lillehammer, NO
2022 Text and edition for Praksis Presents Issue 6 – Medium to Well Done, PRAKSIS, Oslo/ Online https://www.praksisoslo.org/presents
2022 Duo exhibition with Niels Munk Plum, Springbrættet, Copenhagen, DK
2021 Benefit Art Sale, charity exhibition, Union, Copenhagen, DK
2021 10/10 charity exhibition for Afghanistan (as organizer and participant), 10/10, Oslo, NO
2021 Chart book fair (Kunsthall Oslos booth), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
2021 Open studio (FKDS studie program), Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
2021 Duo exhibition with Emilie Birkeland as a part of the FKDS studio program, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
2020 14,8×21 2020 (as organizer and participant), charity exhibition initiated and curated in collaboration with Beatrice Alexanian, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen, DK
2020 Wormhole issue 2 (as coeditor for Oslo and participant), art newspaper based in Düsseldorf, issue 2 had coeditors in charge of contributions from Oslo, Athens, Warsaw, Tbilisi, London, Stockholm and Düsseldorf
2020 MFA graduation exhibition, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
2020 Toast, duo exhibition with Espen Kvålsvoll, Løvens Hule (https://www.loevenshule.gallery), Online
2019/2020 Arkivets Arabesk, curated by Ellef Prestsæter as a part of Tegnetriennalen 2019), Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
2019 The Suitors, (one day event/ exhibition during Momentum biennalen 2019), F15, Moss (NO)
2018 The Image of Things, Guttormsgaards Arkiv, Blaker, NO
2018 Skumringsfortelling/ Portico/ Menneskeapparat/ Udgravning, (screening program), Kunstnernes Hus Kino, Oslo, NO
2017/ 2015 14,8×21, charity exhibition initiated and curated in collaboration with Beatrice Alexanian, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, NO
2017 Towards a Point of Entry – Hvad er et Ornament?, in collaboration with Thomas Bremerstent and Espen Kvålsvoll, Akademirommet, Oslo, NO
2016 Drawing for Freedom, Akershus Kunstsenter, Lillestrøm, NO
2016 SLOHAGENHALLAH, Institute Français / Goethe Institute, Ramallah, PS
2014 VI TAGER INTET ANSVAR. Udstillingsstedet Q, København, DK
Residencies
2023 INTRO, O – Overgaden, Copenhagen, DK
2018 The Collective Subject of History, residency developed and hosted by PRAKSIS in collaboration with Elvira Dyangani Ose and Guttormsgaards Arkiv, Blaker, NO
Selected grants and stipends
- 2022 2 year working grant for artists, Kulturdirektoratet
- 2022 1 year working grant newly established artists, Kulturdirektoratet
- 2021 1 year working grant newly established artists, Kulturdirektoratet
- 2020 Covid19 stipend, Kulturdirektoratet
- 2020 Fonden for kunst-og designstudenter (FKDS) –Studio grant at Kunstnernes Hus
- 2020 Stipend for newly graduated artists, Kulturdirektoratet
Selected press
21 December, Stian Gabrielsen, Kunstkritikk, December 2021
Samlingens myke makt, Stian Gabrielsen, Kunstkritikk, June 2021
Takk, mamma, Eirik Zeiner-Henriksen, Kunstkritikk, March 2021
Arbeidslinjen, Stian Gabrielsen, Kunstkritikk, August 2020
Ekstraordinær kommunikasjon, Mona Gjessing, Billedkunst nr 3, 2018 (Printed publication)