Siv Bugge Vatne
(She/her)
Address: Romsås senter 1, Romsås senter 1, 0970 Oslo
Floor: 6
Room number: ?
The studio is open Saturday 26 April from 12-17
Siv Bugge Vatne works with installations of sculptures and drawings inspired by contradictory directions, such as Mono-ha and outsider art. Her wood and stone sculptures are made with grinders, chisels and pneumatic tools. Since 2018 her work has involved studies of a 600 years old mystery called the Voynich manuscript. The manuscript contains unique botanical drawings and a coded text in an unknown language. It is a background for her interest in exploring materials and words in her installations.
Siv Bugge Vatne is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Molde (1975), at the north-west coast of Norway. She is educated at Oslo National Academy of the Arts and Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam). Her works are represented in collections like KUBE, Punkt Ø and the Swedish Art Council, and have been exhibited at galleries such Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Nils Aas Kunstverksted, Kunstnerforbundet, the National Museum of Art, and Dimensions Variable (Miami).
Sculpture, drawing, installation, wood, stone
In my studio
In my studio you can see my work with sculptures and installations of wood and stone, in addition to drawings.
Planned projects and exhibitions
At the moment I work with new works for exhibitions and a stone sculpture to Tankeplass 2, at the northern Pilgrim path.
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Siv Bugge Vatne
Born 1975, Molde
https://sivbuggevatne.com
Membership
Norwegian Sculptors Society
Norwegian Visual Artists Association
Education
2017 Artist in residence, National academy of the Arts, sculpture
1996-2001 National School of Art and Design, Oslo
1999 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
1995-1996 Bergen Art School
Solo and duo exhibitions
2024 Sandefjord Kunstforening. Krystallklart lys: Med Margrethe Aanestad
2023 Dimensions Variable, Miami. Krystallklart lys. Med Margrethe Aanestad
2022 Nils Aas Kunstverksted: Humming
2020 Skiens Kunstforening: Humming
2018 Møre og Romsdal Kunstsenter: Humming
2016 Oslo Utmark: Now I am Forest
2015 TM51, Oslo: In Possession of Emotions and a Rational Soul
2012 Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger: An Endless Searching for Substance
2009 Galleri 54, Gothenburg, Sweden: The Broken Sea
2008 Sound of Mu, Oslo: Humble Heap
2007 Impromptu, Oslo: Hints for beginning observers #2
Group and adjudicated exhibitions
2024 Friends + ONE, Kabelgata 1, Oslo
2024 Skissernas skulpturpark, Öland. Relations.
2023 Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium. Nesten voksen
2022 The National Museum, Oslo: I call it art
2022 Kunstmuseet KUBE og Jugendstilsenteret: Dyrebare tilskudd
2021 Hovedøya Kunstsal: Årstider der jeg er. Curator Helga Marie Nordby
2021 Møre og Romsdal kunstsenter: SJÅ. Curators Bergquist / Færøy
2020 Bærum Kunsthall, invited guest at Flowers From Svalbard by Ulla Schildt
2019 Kunstnerforbundet, Show me your garden. Curator Kari Skippervold
2019 Podium, Oslo, Romantic Rocks. Curators Javier Barrios / Monica Holmen
2018 Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Truckene suser frem og tilbake
2018 UNTITLED, San Francisco, Prosjektrom Normanns
2016 The Drawing Biennale, Oslo: EKPGO
2013 TM51 Gallery, Oslo: To Be Announced
2013 Art Center of Møre og Romsdal: Forandring Forteller
2013 Norwegian Forest Museum: Forandring Forteller
2012 North Norwegian Art Center: Naturescape
2011 BOA Gallery, Oslo: Naturescape
2010 Lørenskog Kunstforening: Naturescape
2009 Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo: Høstutstillingen. Adjudicated national exhibition
2009 Stavanger Kunsthall, Vestlandsutstillingen: Adjudicated regional exhibition
2008 The Kanalmuseum, Ørje Brug, Norway
2008 Akershus Art Center, Lillestrøm, Norway.
2008 Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo: Høstutstillingen. Adjudicated national exhibition
2008 Østlandsutstillingen: Adjudicated regional exhibition. Norway / Germany
2007 Tegnerforbundet, Oslo: Adjudicated exhibition
2007 Kube Art Museum: Identity – art in Møre og Romsdal through 5000 years.
2005 Molde Kunstforening: Hints for beginning observers.
2004 Henie Onstad Art Center: Mikropia with Torine Helland.
2004 Lithuanian Artist Association, Kaunas: Right and Wrong Sides. Adjudicated
2004 Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo: Høstutstillingen. Adjudicated national exhibition
2003 Blunk Galleri, Trondheim: A living room escape with Torine Helland.
2003 Impromptu, Oslo: A living room escape with Torine Helland.
Performance
2005-2009 Migrating Birds. Performance by Ane Lan at Avantgarden (Trondheim), Black Box (Oslo), Body Navigation (St. Peterburg), BiT (Bergen), Gender Bender (Bologna), CreaMi (Milano), La Biennale de Venezia.
Public commissions and collections
2023 Offentlig oppdrag, Furuseth Hageby: Humming
2023 Offentlig oppdrag, Hundorp: Forflytning
2022 Stangaland primary school, public commission
2021 KUBE Art Museum, public collection
2020 Landmannstorget Skien, public commission
2020 Idrettens Hus, Molde, public commission
2019 Horten high school, public commission
2016 University of Stavanger, KORO public commission
2013 Aalesund University College, KORO public commission
2012 Punkt Ø, collection
2011 Austevoll VGS / Maritime Fagskule, public commission
2010 Bestum primary school, public commission. Printed glass
2010 Punkt Ø, collection
2010 Moss city- and industry museum, commission
2009 National Arts Council Sweeden, public collection
2008 Oslo Municipaty Art Collection
2003 Arts Council Norway / KUBE Art Museum
Grants
2024-2033, 2021-2023, 2009, 2006-2007: Arts Council Norway, working grant
2020, 2019, 2017-2018, 2016, 2015, 2013-2014, 2012, 2011, 2005: BKV working grant
2020, 2019, 2017, 2014, 2004: BKV project support
2021, 2019, 2017: Arts Council Norway,project support
2017, 2012, 2011, 2004: Arts Council Norway, exhibition grant
2004: Arts Council Norway, Debutantstøtte
2003 Arts Council Norway: Establishing grant
Prices
2010 Nomination to the Golden Rucksack
2008 Diploma. Oslo municipal price for outstanding og innovative projects.
2002 Price winner at Nuuk International Snow Sculpture Festival
Texts
2023 “Crystal Clear Light” Invites Deep Contemplation at Dimensions Variable. Miami New Times.
2022 Jeg kaller det kunst. Utstillingskatalog Nasjonalmuseet.
2022 Materialenes særpreg. Kunstkritikk, Leif Henrik Hoøen, artscene.no
2021 Cracking the Voynich cipher
2020 A philosophical approach to nature and the senses. Tiril Flom, Kunsthåndverk
2020 SJÅ, publication curated by Johan Urban Bergquist og Yngvild Færøy
2019 Vis meg din hage, catalogue, curator Kari Skippervold
2019 Vi er stedene, catalogue, Vestlandsutstillingen, kurator Marte Danielsen Jølbo
2018 Truckene suser frem og tilbake, catalogue, curator Kari Skippervold
2016 A bridge between magical worlds by Hilde Sørstrøm
2016 About Punctuations by Maria Kjær Themsen
2016 To be without thinking by Maria Kjær Themsen
2015 Faceless Artist # 2 presents Siv Bugge Vatne by Anders Nygård
2013 Siv Bugge Vatne at Aalesund University College, Ruth Hege Halstensen
2012 An Endless Searching of Substance, Trond Borgen, Stavanger Aftenblad
2011 Naturescape: Utstillingskatalog
2010 Art in Oslo: Review by Kjetil Røed
2009 Review of The Broken Sea by Sara Arvidson, konsten.net
2009 Siv Bugge Vatne: Catalog 2003-2008
2007 Hints for Beginning Observers by Janicke Iversen
2004 Mikropia: Exhibition catalog by Henie Onstad Art Center