Kristin Tinsa Sæterdal
(She/her)
Address: Vestre gravlund, Sørkedalsveien 64, 0369 Oslo
Floor: 1
Room number: 106
The studio is open Sunday 28 April from 12-17
I make tapestries by hand or by digital-loom, with motifs inspired by sci-fi scenography and popular culture. My works are commenting on different aspects of society today, and has titles like Space Debris, Screentime, Controllroom, Surveillance. Recently some of my projects are about garbage, like The series Discarded and The Dump.
Sæterdal was born in 1963 in Trondheim, and qualified from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design in 1989. She has studied at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts and Completed two years of Tapestry at the Oslo University College.
Her career as a textile artist started in 2004 when she was selected to take part in Norway’s Annual Autumn Exhibition. She has had a number of solo exhibitions, and has participated in many juried group shows around the globe. Sæterdal has done commissions for public art, and her work is in the collection of the National museum.
Textile, Tapestry, Digitalweave
Discarded, a series og small Tapestries made in 2023 by Kristin Tinsa Sæterdal
The Dump I, a large tapestry with the theme of Garbage. Made in 2021 by Kristin Tina Sæterdal
The Red Jacket, 180x155, Tapestry made in 2021 by Kristin Tina Sæterdal
In the collection og The National museum.
0100110010, Digital weaving by Kristin Tinsa Sæterdal, 70x150cm, from 2023
https://www.youtube.com/@kristinsterdal2286
In my studio
I do hand weaving on an old large tapestry loom
Planned projects and exhibitions
Tendenser 2024, Gallery F15
CV
short CV/Resume:
Education:
Oslo University College, Tapestry two-year unit, 2002-04
Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Khib 1989-90 (Guest student) Architectural Association Sch. Of Architecture, London 1986-87 Oslo School of Architecture Diploma 1989
Solo exhibitions:
2023 Skiens Art Association, Skien
2022 Kunstplass Contemporary Art, Oslo
2020 Østfold Art Center
2018 Kunstbanken, Hedmark Art Center
2017 Gallery Format, Oslo
2017 Haugesund Art Association
2016 Gallleri BOA Oslo, NO
2016 Trondhjems Art Association, Trondheim, NO 2016 Nyfossum Blaafargeverket, NO
Awards/Residencies:
2023 Artist in Recidency, Dalsåsen Art Center, Dale, Sunnfjord
2019 10-year Arbeidsstipend, Government grants Norwegian state 2018 Haystack Mountain School of Craft, maine USA
2016 Artist in Recidency, Søndre Green gård Norwegian Textile Artists 2015 Nominated for The Cordiz Trust Prize for Tapestry, Scotland.
Collections/Comissions:
2021 Collected by National museum og Art, Design & Architecture 2017 Collected by Banc of Norway
2017 Collected by National museum og Art, Design & Architecture 2016 Commission Sandesundsveien primary school, Sarpsborg 2015 Commission Søndeled primary school, Risør
2014 Purchase for Norwegian State Defence at Jørstadmoen, KORO 2013 Purchase for Hammer secondary School
2012 Purchase for Osterøy high school
2011 Collected by Nordenfjeldske Craft Museum
2008 Commission Trivselshagen kulturhus, Gloppen kommune 2008 Collected by Statistics Norway
2007 Collected by The Ministry of Foreign Affairs Norway
Group exhibitions:
2022 Norwegian Associaton for Arts and Crafts, Annual exhibition 2022 2021 Norwegian Associaton for Arts and Crafts, Annual exhibition 2021 2021-13,-11,-04 Norwegian State Annual Fall Exhibition 2021, Høstutstillingen 2021 Gallery villvin Risør,
2021 Artapestry 6, Silkeborg bad, Denmark, Rønneby kunsthall Swedwn 2020 Mendable, HoF, Moss, Norwegian Associaton for Arts and Crafts
Theme exhibition
2019 Fiberart international USA
2019 THREAD Penrith Cumbria, UK 2018 World Tapestry ATB 12
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