Rosanna Vibe
(She/her)
Address: Romsli Vev og Fargeri, Villa Romsli, Odvar Solbergs Vei 83, 0973 Oslo
Floor: En trapp/ heis ned og rett frem
The studio is open Saturday 27 April from 12-17
My work explores how the tools and materials in a weaving practice affect and change the body, and how the body adapts to these in turn. I make woven work, and sometimes performative weaving constructions, that examine how the boundaries between body, textiles, tools and color pigments flow into each other. Weaving is arguably a form of organic growth, and a life-sustaining extension and evolution of the body, without which we would never have been able to survive. Our mutual dependence with the textile is the ground out of which I develop my artistic projects.
Textile, Weaving
Negotiation of Forces. Rosanna Vibe. Performative installation (modified loom components, woven silk bands dyed with beetroot pigment). Variable dimensions. 2022. Detail.
Negotiation of Forces. Rosanna Vibe. Performative installation (modified loom components, woven silk bands dyed with beetroot pigment). Variable dimensions. 2022. Overview of installation, Oslo Academy of the Arts. Photo: Kristina Hernandez
Work in progress, weaving based on biological data from infant sleep patterns. Produced during Kasuri research stay at the Kawashima Textile School in Kyoto, Japan, 2023. Silk ikat weaving.
Wool band, dyed with beetroot. Woven on backstrap loom. 2022.
Planned projects and exhibitions
2025: Nesodden Kunstforening, Sandefjord Kunstforening
CV
Education: BFA and MFA from The Oslo National Academy of Art (Medium- and material based art, 2015/2022), and MFA from Tokyo University of the Arts (Global Art Practice, 2018). Awarded 3-year working grant from the Norwegian Cultural Council for newly established artists, as well as funding and a subsidised studio through Oslo municipality. Awarded the Ataka prize, and Salon de Printemps award for thesis work from the Tokyo University, as well as research funds from the Sasakawa foundation. Participant in several group shows and residencies both in Norway and Japan.