Kari Steihaug
(She/her)
Address: Lavetthuset, Hovedøya, 0150 Oslo
The studio is open Sunday 27 April from 12-17
I work with installations and found objects, with time and perishability, history and crafts as central themes. My starting point is textiles related to everyday life, both what remained incomplete and what has been in someone’s life for a long time, used and worn. Textiles as sensuality and carriers of memory, a place to explore the relationship between remembrance and expectation, the collective and the private, and the fragile and the substantial. I am interested to highlighten political and poetic aspects of textiles that have been in our lives for a long time.
Textile, Installation
A garden of dreams, installation, Tron Talks 2023 Alvdal.
Planned projects and exhibitions
2025 Here My voice, RWA Gallery, Bristol
2025 Sjätte sinnet, Köping church
CV
Kari Steihaug was educated at the National College of Art and Design (SHKS) in Oslo and Bergen, as well as Manchester Metropolitan University. In 1997 she made her debut at the Annual Autumn Exhibition in Oslo and has since exhibited extensively in Norway and abroad. She has had solo exhibitions at Dropsfabrikken in Trondheim, Henie Onstad Art Center in Bærum, KODE in Bergen, Soft Galleri and Kunstnerforbundet in Oslo and Luleå Konsthall, among others, and participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Lillehammer Art Museum, Bomuldsfabriken (Arendal), Haugar kunstmuseum (Tønsberg), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen), Museum Angewandte Kunst (Frankfurt), VII Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art (Uruguay), the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati (Ohio), and at the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin. In addition, she has received commissions from KORO – Public Art Norway, for the Kongsvinger Library, and more. Steihaug was engaged from 2011–14 as adjunct professor in textile art at HDK-Valand Academy of art and design in Gothenburg. Since 2006 she has received the national guaranteed income grant for artists. Her works have been included in collections, such as the National Museum in Oslo, KODE in Bergen, Lillehammer Art Museum, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum in Kristiansand, Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum in Tromsø, the National Museum of Decorative Arts in Trondheim and the City of Oslo Art Collection. Steihaug is portrayed in the NRK series «Kunsten å leve» In 2011 she published the book: Archive: The unfinished ones. In 2022 she published Monografi on Arnoldsche Art Publishers. www.karisteihaug.no