Cathrine Alice Liberg

(She/her)
Address: Hasleveien 38, 0571 Oslo
Floor: 4
The studio is open Saturday 26 April from 12-17

Liberg works with traditional graphic techniques such as lithography, etching, copper engraving and mezzotint. In her work, she often refers to everyday visual objects such as studio photographs, old maps, book illustrations and charts. By processing and translating these through her own graphic work, she seeks to create new meanings and connotations. Referring to her own Norwegian-Singaporean family background, themes of migration and historical trade routes have long formed the basis of Liberg’s practice. She is particularly interested in the loss of memory and cultural understanding that occurs between generations as a result of migration and diaspora, and how personal family histories can represent fragments of larger global narratives of trade, colonialism and women’s roles.

Printmaking, mezzotint, lithography, aquatint, etching, drawing

www.cathrineliberg.com

White gallery room with framed prints on the walls. One wall is painted in strong turquoise, and on it hangs a large picture in an oak frame measuring approx. 150 x 220 cm. The image is a copper engraving, with black lines on white paper. It depicts a map of the Arctic.

Cathrine Alice Liberg, from the solo exhibition "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" at Kunstverket Galleri in Oslo, 2024. Photo: Trond A. Isaksen

Full length figure of a woman in a traditional sarong kebaya sitting on a chair with a black background. Beside her is a small table with an orchid. Her face is blurred.

Cathrine Alice Liberg, "The Sarong Kebaya" from the series "Imaginary Photographs of my Great-Grandmother", photogravure on Somerset Satin White 300 gsm, 34 x 44 cm (paper), 18 x 25 cm (print), 2019.

Modern interpretation of a Renaissance map of the Arctic. Executed as a line etching with modern and old-fashioned ships, as well as sea monsters, walruses and polar bears.

Cathrine Alice Liberg, "Circulus Arcticus", etching on Somerset Satin White 405 gsm, 76 x 98 cm (paper), 50 x 70 cm (print).

A series of three white and blue portraits. The images show three female silhouettes created from a cyanotype photoprint of lace.

"Some Cross the Great Ocean Never to Return", cyanotype, 100 x 70 cm, 2020. Commissioned work for the ship REV Ocean. Exhibited at Bomuldsfabriken in Arendal, 2021.

In my studio

In my studio you will see hand-printed original prints, as well as several of the printing matrixes and tools that I use. You will also see my current work in progress – a large mezzotint plate measuring almost two metres.

Planned projects and exhibitions

Nov-Dec 2025: Group exhibition at the Old Munch Museum, Tøyen
Summer 2026: Group exhibition at the Peder Balke-center, Østre Toten

CV

1988. Norwegian-Singaporean artist and printmaker based in Oslo.

EDUCATION

2017-2019: MFA Medium- and Material Based Art, Oslo National Academy of the Arts
2014-2017: BFA Medium- and Material Based Art, Oslo National Academy of the Arts
2012-2014: Diploma in Visual Arts, Nordic Institute of Stage and Studio (NISS), Oslo
2009-2012: BA History of Art with Material Studies, University College London (UCL)

EXHIBITIONS

Solo exhibitions

2025 Northing Space, Bergen (February). Duo exhibition with Hammer Chen.
2024 Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Verdensteatret), Kunstverket, Oslo
2024 Familiealbum, Arkivet, Tou Trykk, Stavanger
2022 Family Portraits, Glaskasten Druckstock, Chemnitz, Germany
2021 The Ghosts We Chase We Never Catch, Norske Grafikere, Oslo
2020 Why I Stay, Northing Space, Bergen

Selected group exhibitions

2025 Formation 4+4, Vedholmen Galleri, Bergen (08.03-06.04)
2024 Trykk i sanntid 05: KARBONPULS, Galleri Nord-Norge, Harstad
2024 Turbulens, Norske Grafikere
2023 Blakerbiennalen: TRYKK HER, Gutttormsgårds arkiv, Viken
2022 1st International Triennial of Portrait in Knin, Croatia (Winner of The City of Knin Award)
2022 International Biennial Print Exhibit: 2022 R.O.C., Taichung, Taiwan
2022 Blikk på metall, Peder Balke-senteret, Østre Toten
2021 Guttorm inviterer: Impulser for å holde motet oppe, Guttormsgaards arkiv, Blaker gml. meieri
2021 As far as my Eye can Sea – The Expedition Exhibition, Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Arendal
2020 Pop-up Show, Blaker Gamle Meieri, Lillestrøm (w/ Erika Reed and Suzannah Rehell Øistad)
2020 2nd International Triennial of Graphic Arts Livno, Bosnia-Hercegovina
2020 FETT PlanTRYKK, Hå Gamle Prestegård, Stavanger
2020 Print Matters, Ålgården, Borås, Sweden
2019 Print Matters, Grafiska Sällskapet, Stockholm, Sweden
2019 KoMASK Masters Salon Printmaking, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
2019 Graphica Creativa 2019 – “Hereafter” (15th International Print Triennial), Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland
2019 Sticks and Stones, Konstlitografiska Museet, Tidaholm, Sweden
2019 Statens Kunstutstilling, Høstutstillingen,, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
2019 MFA Graduate Show: A Better Past is Still Possible, Oslo National Academy of the Arts
2019 7th Guanlan International Print Biennial, China Printmaking Museum, Shenzhen
2019 A Lick and a Promise, Kunstplass Contemporary Art [Oslo]
2018 Sit on a Stone Rather Than a Pillow, Oslo National Academy of the Arts
2018 Original COPY, Galleri Seilduken, Oslo
2018 Frekvens vol. 2, Norske Grafikere, Oslo (hosted by Krausekollektivet)
2017 Paper Trails, Robert Burt Gallery, London
2017 Dronning Sonja KunstStall, Oslo
2017 BFA Graduate Show, Oslo National Academy of the Arts
2017 Unge grafikere (Young Printmakers), Oppegård kunstforening, Kolbotn
2015 ER, Galleri Seilduken, Oslo (with Embla Øverbye)
2015 Frekvens, Podium, Oslo (hosted by Krausekollektivet)
2012 Norwegian Contemporary, Frameless Gallery, London

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

2022 The City of Knin Award, 1st International Triennial of Portrait, Knin Museum, Croatia
2022 Nominee Queen Sonja Print Award
2020 Nominee QSPA Inspirational Award
2019 2nd Place Printmaking Today State of the Art Student Award
2019 Winner KoMASK European Masters Printmaking Award 2019
2019 Winner Norske Grafikeres Fonds Printmaking Award at Høstutstillingen
2017 Nominee QSPA Inspirational Award (Kjell Nupen Memorial Grant)

GRANTS

2024 Prosjektstøtte for kunstnere i etablering, Kulturrådet
2023 Treårig arbeidsstipend, Billedkunstnernes vederlagsfond (BKV)
2022 Prosjektstøtte, Norske Grafikeres Fond
2021 Ettårig stipend, Billedkunstnernes vederlagsfond (BKV)
2021 Prosjektstøtte for kunstnere i etablering, Kulturrådet
2020 Diversestipend, Kulturrådet
2019 Prosjektstøtte, Norske Grafikeres Fond (w/ Suzannah Rehell Øistad og Erika Reed)
2019 Diversestipend for nyutdannede kunstnere, Kulturrådet
2018 BKH Kunststudentstipend

RESIDENCIES

2024: ARTICA Svalbard, Longyearbyen (Funded residency, nominated through QSPA)
2022: Printmaking residency, Glaskasten Druckstock (Klub Solitaer), Chemnitz, Germany. Funded by i-Portunus.
2019-2020: Artist in Residence and workshop assistant, Department of Printmaking and Drawing, Oslo National Academy of the Arts
2019: Summer printmaking residency, Litografiska Akademin, Tidaholm, Sweden