Beatrice Guttormsen

(She/her)
Address: Romsås senter 1, 0970 Oslo
Floor: 3
Room number: 301
The studio is open Saturday 26 April from 12-17

I uses woodcarving as a method of remembering things that have happened, and is based mainly on personal sources, such as my own texts, diaries, memories and photographs. I’m interested in the physical traces that actions and presence create, and how life leaves its mark on us both physically and mentally, in the same way as carving something into wood. Everything in my process makes an impression: How hard I have cut that day, how deep the mark became, the way I moves my body over the wooden boards. The repetitive, slow act of carving becomes a form of meditation and an exercise in remembering.

Printmaking, installation, drawing, performance

https://www.beatriceguttormsen.com
Contact the artist through Atelie.art

Im writing a text on the wall - stream of consciousness, during a night.

"How to capture a moment", Beatrice Guttormsen. Performance, 8 hours, 2019 Black Box at the event, Waiting for the sun Photo: Jonas Mailand

Photo of a woodcut, 7 meter long. Taken inside a living room full of furniture. The woodcut is on textile, covering almost all the room and the furniture.

Apartment 420- fragments of a memory, Beatrice Guttormsen Woodcut on textile, 716x244cm, 2020 In apartment 420 Photo: Beatrice Guttormsen

Foto of woodcut on paper, henging from the 2. floor in the house I lived in while making the piece. View to Vinjevann.

Drømmeverden, Beatrice Guttormsen, woodcut 240x160 cm, studiofoto/testprint, fotograf: Beatrice Guttormsen

Artist book made of wodcuts, printed on both sides in black and white. Of all my former homes, carved out from my memory.

Minnefragmenter 1973-2023, artist book, woodcut, 72 pages, 50x40 cm, 2023. Galleri Briskeby, fotograf: Beatrice Guttormsen.

In my studio

I work with woodcuts, coming to me, I will show you how to carv and handprint small woodcuts. Will also show my bigger works and tell how I work. Will have something to bite and eat.

Planned projects and exhibitions

Group show at Leveld Kunstnartun, May 2025
Solo exhibition at Telemark kunstsenter, opening 08. November 2025.
Group show at Gamle Munch, November 2025

CV

Education
2018-2020 MFA Medium- and Material Based Art, Oslo National Academy of the Arts
2019 Exchange at MKE – The University of Fine Art Hungary, 2. Semester
2015-2018 BFA Medium- and Material Based Art, Oslo National Academy of the Arts
2010-2013 Foundation studies, Nydalen art school

Solo exhibitions
2025 Telemark kunstsenter (upcoming)
2024 Galleri Briskeby
2022 Trykkeriet, Bergen
2017 Galleri Fisk, Bergen
2017 Galleri Seilduken, Oslo
2015 Galleri H12, Oslo
2014 Galleri Odonata, Oslo

Selected group exhibitions – Current and previous exhibitions
2025 Leveld kunstnartun (upcoming)
2024 Sørlandsutstillingen
2023 Østlandsutstillingen
2023 Blaker biennalen
2023 Hjem, Haugesund billedgalleri
2022 Print Matters, Polen
2021 Krafttak for kunsten, Haugalandmuseet
2021 Deichman Bjørvika
2021 Trafo Kunsthall, Asker
2020 Tynset Internasjonale Filmfestival
2020 Kunsthall Grenland
2020 Print Matters, Ålgården, Borås Sweden
2019 Print Matters, Grafiska Sällskapet, Stockholm Sweden
2019 Waiting for the Sun, Black Box, Oslo
2019 Jyväskylä International Print Triennial, Jyväskylä Taidemuseo, Finland
2019 SOG, Tveten gård, Oslo
2019 HiT (Haugesund International festival for artistic relief printing), Haugesund billedgalleri
2019 Kunstplass contemporary Oslo
2018 Frekvens vol. 2 -aftermath, Wald, Porsgrunn
2018 MissRead, Berlin
2018 Frekvens vol. 2, Norske Grafikere
2017 BOOKI, Galleria SKALA, X-Print, Poland
2017 R. K. Burt Gallery, London
2017 Høstutstillingen 2017, (the National Annual Autumn Exhibition), Oslo
2017 Tegnerforbundet, Oslo
2017 Biblioteksgalleriet at Kolben, Oppegård kunstforening

Recidency
2022 Trykkeriet i Bergen

Memberships
Norske Grafikere / Norwegian Printmakers (Board memeber 2020-2022)
Norske billedkunstnere (NBK)/The Assosiation of Norwegian Visual Artist
UKS

Nominations
2020 Nominee QSPA Inspirational Award (Kjell Nupen Memorial Grant)

Grants
2024 Project support, Regionale prosjektmidler, (KIN)
2024 Project support, Billedkunstnernes vederlagsfond (BKV)
2024 Project support Telemark fylkeskommune
2024 One year grant, Norwegian Visual Artists Fund (BKV)
2023 Project support, Kulturrådet
2023 Prosject support, Norske Grafikers fond
2023 One year grant, Norwegian Visual Artists Fund (BKV)
2021 Project support (BKV)
2020 Project support for recently graduated artists, Kulturrådet
2020 SKS – Covid 19, Kulturrådet 2020
2020 The Fund for Art and Design Students (FKDS)
2020 Miscellaneous grant for recently graduated artists, Kulturrådet

Public art
2021 Agder fagskole

Collections
Norsk Forening for Grafisk Kunst, Kunst på arbeidsplassen , Agder fylkeskommune, Haugalandmuseet, Oslo kommunes kunstsamling