Mia Van Veen
(She/her)
Address: Trosterudvillaen, Dr. Dedichens vei 28, 0675 Oslo Oslo
Floor: 2
Room number: Innerst ved kjøkkenet
The studio is open Saturday 26 April from 12-17
Mia Van Veen (b.1986) holds an MFA from Iceland Academy of the Arts, and a BFA from Emily Carr University in Vancouver. Van Veen’s practice is primarily sculptural, relating to painting wall reliefs and appropriation through the use of different metals – from steel and copper to aluminum and titanium. With the use of heat, mechanical drills and melted tin, she investigates the qualities and possibilities of mark making in both the intuitive and traditional matter. Her new series of two dimensional works operate as cultural hybrids between sculpture and painting. These works reference the tradition of Norwegian rosemaling, a style of decorative painting which emerged in the eighteenth century parallel to other ornamental movements such as Rococo in France.
Approaching craft from a contemporary perspective, Van Veen experiments with material approaches to ornament:
brushes and oil on wood are exchanged for melted tin on copper and steel. Treating metal like paint, Van Veen
explores different welding techniques to mimic the pressure of a paintbrush in gestures of undulating thickness. Unlike the perfectly clean lines of rosemaling brushwork, her metal renditions are surprisingly human: they reveal palpable evidence of the artist’s hand commanding welding machines to do more than solder or join allowing the imperfections and inconsistencies to become a kind of performative adornment.
Recent exhibitions include Silver lines, ISCA Gallery (NO) 2022, Hulias IT, group show, 2023 (IT) Lounge for new people, Hulias, Oslo, 2022 (NO), Foodbank fundraiser, Trapp Projects, Vancouver, 2022 (CA), Tombac, Sagene Kunstsmie, Oslo, 2022 (NO), External rotation, ISCA Gallery, Oslo, 2022 (NO), Obsolete solar system, Gallery Memphis, Oslo, 2021 (NO), Fasciae, Jane/KOSA, Oslo, 2020 (NO) A fruitbowl three ways, Yac Tac, Vancouver, 2020 (CA), Beyond human impulses, Mengi, Reykjavik, 2019 (IS) In 2018 she was an artist-in residence at the Banff Centre, Alberta with a grant from the Canadian Arts Council. Recent publications include article in Canadian Art Magazine with a text by Yasmin Nurming-Por, and 2021 book Fasciae by Jane/ KOSA. Van Veen currently lives and works in Oslo.
Metal Sculpture
Planned projects and exhibitions
Bestinn, Oslo (NO)
Hulias residency/utstilling, Juni 2024 (NO)
ISCA Gallery Oslo (NO)
Two seven two Gallery, Toronto (CA)
CV
MIA VAN VEEN
Mia Van Veen (b. Oslo, Norway) is an Norwegian/Dutch artist with an interest in Metal.
Her artwork has been included in solo and group exhibitions internationally.
veenmia@gmail.com
+4746882102
SOLO AND DUO SHOWS
2025 Upcoming – Two seven two gallery w/Patrik Cruz, Curated by Yasmin Nurming-Por,Toronto, CA
2024 Upcoming – ISCA Gallery, Oslo, NO
2024 Upcoming – Hulias IT w/Lene Baadsvig Ørmen, NO
2024 Bestinn, Oslo
2023 Four elements, Herhusid, Siglufjordur, IS
2022 Untitled Art Fair w/ISCA Gallery w/Ida Madsen and Mads Andreas Andreassen Miami, US
2022 Silver lines, ISCA Gallery, curated by Laetitia Queyranne, Text by Yasmin Nurming-Por, Oslo, NO
2021 Tombac w/Anne Guro Larsmon, Text by Patrick Andersson. Oslo, NO
2021 External rotation ISCA gallery, Text by Anne Guro Larsmon, Oslo, NO
2020 Fasciae Jane/K.O.S.A, Curated by Sara R.Yazdani, Vera and Sverre Wyller, Oslo, NO
2017 Contained in the filter of an Absence, Sunset Terrace, Vancouver, CA
2017 MA grad show, Gerðarsafn museum, Kopavogur, Reykjavik, IS
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2023 Ace of pentacles Group show w/Liv Ertzeid, Camilla Løv, Tron Meyer, ISCA Gallery, Oslo, NO
2023 Weapons of urgency, 1300 Gallery, w/ Rebekka Johansdottir, Silja Magg and Korkimon. Curated by Ymir Gronvold. Reykjavik, IS
2023 Mellom fjellene og himmelen/Tra le montagne e il cielo, Hulias Cantina, w/Ada Nilsen, Jørn Aagaard, Kristian Engelsen, Aksel ree, Øyvind Bast Lie, Hedda Hodan, Kåre Ruud, Isak Wisløff, Joar Nedberg, Martin Espeland, Kristoffer Zeiner, Lars Nordby, Curated by Hulias, Civita d´ Antonio, IT
2023 The language of flowers Hermetiske skygger, w/various artists, Curated by Marius Engh. Oslo, NO
2022 Lounge for new people Group show, w/Kim Wawer, Joar Nedberg, Kristoffer Karlsen, Hulias Gallery, Curated by HULIAS, Oslo, NO
2021 Obsolete solar system, Memphis Gallery,w/Sara Stiansen, Oda Iselin, Maria Helena, Oslo NO
2020 Bring your own chair, w/ Ally Higgins, Emma Senft, Andrew Taggart and Chloe Lewis, Curated by Nick Howe, Montreal, QB, CA
2019 Villa Bazar, Norwegian sculptor association, w/various artists, Oslo, NO
2019 Pointed consciousness, w/Jakob Landvik, Bjarne Bare, Christian Tunge, Marthe Elise Stramrud, Nina Torp, Kamilla Langeland, Sveinn Fannar Johannsson, Magne Lyngvær, Lea Stuedahl, Sara Abraham, Katharina Barbosa, Verena Winkelmann, Tim Høibjerg, Einar Fuglem, Thyra Dragseth, QB Gallery, Curated by Behzad Farazollahi, Oslo, NO
2019 A fruit bowl-three ways, Yac-Tac Gallery, w/ Tara Dwesldorf, Emily Chou. Curated by Janice Cheung, Vancouver, CA
2018 (h)ours, Banff Centre, w/ Karen Azoulay and Luca Castiglioni. Curated by Jason Brown Alberta, CA
2018 Smooth muscle, w/Sophie Parker, Kc Tidemand, Whitehaus Gallery, Oakland, US.
2017 Beyond human impulses, Mengi,performance w/Gudrun Tara Sveinsdottir, Curated by
Katrin Inga Johnsdottir, Reykjavik, IS
2016 The world belongs to everyone, not just a few, NYLO, w/ Juli Fonda and Florence Lam, Curated by Elin Hansdottir, Reykjavik, IS
2015 Contested and inverted; Considering Heterotopias, Concourse Gallery, w/Emily Chou Curated by Temporary investments, Vancouver, CA
2015 The show, Concourse gallery, w/various artists, Curated by Patrik Andersson, Vancouver, CA
2014 Vancouver 3000, Skylight Gallery, Curated by Graham Landin, Vancouver , CA
2013 Jomfrulandsutstillingen, w/various artists, Kragerø, NO
2013 R.E.B.E.A.T.I.T, Atelierhof Krauzberg, w/various artists, Curated by Alessandro Vitalli, Berlin, GER
GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2023 Herhusid residency, one month residency, Siglufjordur, IS
2022 BKV Artist grant one year,NO
2021 Project support/grant, Exhibition at Smia Sagene, Norwegian Arts Council,NO
2021 BKV artist grant,NO
2021 Project support/grant, Exhibition at ISCA, Norwegian Arts Council,NO
2020 BKV artist grant, one year, NO
2019 Air joya residency/grant, ESP
2018 Banff center Artist residency/ grant, Banff, Alberta , Two months residency supported by Canada arts council,CA
2018 Project Grant – Canada Council For the Arts,CA
PUBLICATIONS/TALKS
2023 Artist book / ISCA Gallery,NO
2023 Artist talk at Herhusid residency, Siglufjordur, IS
2020 Artist talk w/Sara S.Yazdani and Malin Graesse, Krutthuset/K.O.S.A, Oslo, NO
2020 Exhibition publication, Fasciae, text by Sara S. Yazdani. Published by K.O.S.A, NO
2018 Art news online public talk /artist talk, Canadian art. Part of Artist talks at the Banff centre
2018 Canadian Art magazine, hardcopy article; Spotlight, Fall issue, text by Yasmin Nurming- Por,CA
2017 Beyond human impulses, booklet, performance collection by Mengi Gallery, IS
EDUCATION
2017 MFA, Visual Arts – Iceland academy of Arts, Reykjavik, Iceland
2015 BFA, Visual Arts – Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada
Member of Uks, Nbk, Nbf