Elin Mack
(She/her)
Address: Sagene Kunstsmie, Drøbakgata 1, 0463 0463
Floor: 1
Room number: 112
The studio is open Sunday 28 April from 12-17
Elin works with ceramics and visual arts. She has a background as a ceramicist with a diploma from SHKS, and as a graphic designer with an MA from KhiO. She is a member of Norwegian Artists (NBK) and Norwegian Craftsmen (NK).
Elin works with ceramics, calligraphy, collage, photography and installations. She participates in or has her own exhibitions annually. The feminist installation work “Prosject Subject” has been shown in several places in Norway and in England, and is featured in Aftenposten, Dagbladet and Dagens Næringsliv’s magazine D2.
Through Elin’s artistry is a fascination for and use of signs. It can be in the form of calligraphic works, collages based on demolished posters, or photographs of grapitti on street walls. She is looking for subtle narratives lying beneath the surface, and writing and letters serves as important conceptual foundations. In addition to the written word, in the form of poems, myths and stories, she is concerned with the associations letters or words evoke. Elin is also interested in the process of writing in itself, and that calligraphy and compositions, inspired by handwriting, can tell stories in abstract form. Now that handwriting is disappearing from culture, this is seen as increasingly relevant.
calligraphy, painting, ceramics, collage
Prosjekt Subjekt, Elin Mack, bodyprint on textile, Seljord Kunstforening 2023
Porcelain and stoneware, Elin Mack, 2023, Sandøsund galleri, Hvasser
Paper and porcelain, Elin Mack, 2022, Galleri Sagene Kunstsmie
https://vimeo.com/260853566
In my studio
I will show parts of the installation “Project Subject”
I will be working with clay in my studio, so that the public can watch a bit of this process.
Planned projects and exhibitions
I am working on an exhibition with calligraphy, paperwork and porcelain which focuses on tactility and the material.
CV
UTSTILLINGER / EXHIBITIONS
2023 Seljord Kunstforening
2023 Galleri Sagene Kunstsmie
2022 Sandøsund galleri, Hvasser
2021 Galleri Sagene Kunstsmie
2019 Mimosa House, London
2019 Galleri Kit, Trondheim (Juryert)
2018 Separatutstilling Sagene Kunstsmie galleri, Oslo
2018 Kunstforeningen Verdens Ende
2017 Galleri De3Rom, Gamle Fornebu
2017 HardingART, Utne, Hardanger
2016 Separatutstilling, Galleri Laszka, Oslo
2016 Separatutstilling, Galleri Il Vero, Oslo
2016 “La Poesia Visiva in Europa” Italia
2016 “Mirages” XX1V Brazilian Congress of Poetry” Brasil
2015 Separatutstilling, Cyan galleri, Oslo
2015 Galleri BOA gruppeutstilling
2015 Galleri Asbjørn, Kongsvinger
2014 Galleri Ramfjord
2014 Galleriverkstedet, Oslo
2013 Separatutstilling, Galleri POINT, Oslo
2013 Bærum Kunsthåndverk Jubileumsutstilling, Sandvika
2012 Galleri A, Oslo
2011 Separatutstilling, Smia galleri, Oslo
1988 Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, jubileum, Kulturmønstring
1986 Sandefjord Kunstforening
1985 Separatutstilling, Keramikk, Bærum Kunsthåndverk, Slependen
1984 Asker Kunstforening
1983 Separatutstilling, Keramikk, Galleri Skallum, Bærum
1982 Galleri Trekanten, Sandvika
1981 Oslo Kunstforening
RESIDENS
2016: Hangar, Lisboa, Portugal
PRESENTERT I BØKER / BOOKS
2016 “Visual Poetry in Europe”, Imago Mundi, Italia
2015 “Collage Annual 2015”, Collage Collective Co, Australia
.2014 “Cést-mon-dada” Elin Mack, Redfoxpress, Irland,
2013 Assemblage-box, Redfoxpress, Irland
TILSKUDD / GRANTS
Tilskudd til utstilling BKH, 2023
Aktivitetstilskudd fra Bildende Kunstneres Hjelpefond fra 2019
Grafills reisestipend 2009
Grafills prosjektstipend 2002
Statens etableringsstipend (1983)
Kulturrådets utstyrsstøtte (1985)
INNKJØP / ASSIGNMENTS
Brooklyn Hotel, New York, USA
Hotel Radisson Blue, Minneapolis, USA
Sheraton Hotel, (The Presidential suite) Denver, USA
MEDLEMSKAP / MEMBERSHIPS
Norske Bildende Kunstnere NBK,
Billedkunstnere Oslo Akershus BOA,
The International Society of Assemblage and Collage Artists
UTDANNING / EDUCATION
1990: Master, Grafisk design, Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO)
1986 -1989 BA, Grafisk design, Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO)
1973 – 1976 Diplom (BA) Keramikk, SHKS, Oslo National Academy of the Arts
1972 – 1973 Keramikk, Myndlista og Handidaskoli, Reykjavik, Island (Håndtverksfag – Fagskole/svennebrev)
1971 – 1972 Einar Granum Kunstskole
1970 – 1971 Tegne- maleskole, Chantry school of Art, England (Kunst – Videregående skole)